Villain Underground #47

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We're a more serious-toned podcast and we'd appreciate you checking us out on your favorite podcatcher, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or you could find us on Twitter, we're at Arklight Podcast. Hello and welcome to another episode of Villains Underground. We are returning after a short absence. I am your Game Mustard Happy Puke and with me today we have William DeFoe.

Hey guys, it's really great to be back on. It feels like I exactly one year since we've done this. Helles and Brie. Wait, am I cheese?

Is that what that means? Yeah, sure. Uh, some other famous Cody. There are no famous Cody.

And Philip DeFranco. Philip DeFranco. Dang. It's the only one I could think about the top of my head.

Philip, see me think of another famous... Oh, it would have been a good one. We both loved heroin. He loved it too much.

Are there any famous Cody's? Cody Rhodes. Cody Rhodes. Cody Rhodes.

That's it. Gotcha. Gotcha. Cover my friend.

I didn't get that goo because I don't know the names of famous people. Do you not know Allison Brie? She's in Glow. She's very good at it.

She is. Very good show. Talk about wrestling. Alright, so this is a real play, Fate-based podcast.

This is a jumping on point for new listeners. So welcome if you're a new listener. We will refer back to some old stuff lightly, but we're going to try to make it as easy as possible for you to jump on. And if you're interested in what happened in the past, head on back and listen to that.

But this is supposed to be welcoming. So just we're going to jump right into the action. We're going to open our story opens up on City Hall in the mayor's office. The door is swing wide and in walks.

Margaret Bertross walks into her office very smoothly and cleanly. She's wearing a nice little dress and whatnot. Like long black hair. And she walks over to her desk.

Is there somebody sitting in her desk? She'll be very upset. No, no, no. Do you have your trusty bodyguard with you?

Yes. I wave in my trusty bodyguard. Did I? So did I is average height.

She's got a lot of black hair. She's wearing a blue bodysuit and lose Zora mask. And she has all kinds of bandoliers all over her body with guns and ammo and a fricking RPG strapped across her back. She just walks in and...

In the mayor's office you have this? Yeah. Okay. I'm never unarmed, Alex.

What an RP. Okay. Go ahead. No, fine.

And she just walks in and stands in the back corner where she's not really in view of anyone who's looking at Margaret, but she can still watch the entire room. There is an intern. The intern has a folder and she runs up to Margaret and she says, Ms. Mayor, we just need to do your signature on a couple of things here.

And she holds out some papers. Is that Margaret's going to take them? Is it anything vitally important or does it something I need to review in my office? It's just a bureaucratic nonsense.

It's just like park permits and shit like that. Okay. If it's just park permits and stuff, I think. Margaret will kind of look over it very quickly.

She reads very fast and she goes and signs it at the bottom. Thank you very much. And then she closes the folders and runs out and closes the door behind her. And Margaret and did I are alone in the mayor's office.

Did I? Would you be a dear to lock the door, please? Yeah, sure. Whatever.

I'll get up and lock the door. As soon as she locks the door, Margaret is going to lean over her desk and her skin is going to turn red and her hair is going to kind of like spike out a little bit and her outfit is going to transform into that of like a little suit dress into a bikers jacket, some like fishnets, like a little short leather skirt. She's just going to have a flop over on the desk. That is more unbearable than I can even imagine.

Yeah, it looks pretty stifling. It is. This is a lot more freeing. Margaret's so goody-goody.

I like you better this way. I appreciate it. I like being free, but Margaret has more clout at least. Yeah, sure.

Have you heard anything from your little pals that shoot them up buddies that you have? The shoot them up buddies. The generals, you know. Oh, let's just say that I'm handling it.

You know I can help you at any point in time. Like... This is my project. Stay out of it.

All right, so we're going to zoom over to Silicon Archers. Silicon Archers, where are you? I think I'm making my way towards the mayor's office currently. Okay, you're making your way downtown walking fast.

Stasis Pass? And yeah, it's faces pass, yeah. Alright, so... Why did that turn into the next one to happen?

Can somebody have the music we talented please? Splice that song with the pick? Sure, it's the thing already. Give us an idea of what Silicon Archers is like.

Silicon Arters is about six foot tall. Quaffted hair very elegantly, you know, sort of a modern sentiment to it. And there's a bit of a link to him in his limbs. They're a little bit longer than they sort of fit his torso.

But that's all sort of imagined because he can shrink in and manipulate his body sort of at will. He's got a jingle jingle in his pocket too. Okay, all right. Got a jingle jingle jingle in his pocket.

And are you around the mayor's office often? For certain occasions I am. I'm seeing around City Hall every once in a while, but it's not a mainstay of where Silicon Archers is. Okay.

So you're walking up towards the mayor's office. Some people kind of, they nod you as you pass. No one is fearful or upset that you're there and you shake your way. Pushing your finger guns back.

Oh, okay. I don't feel that. I don't feel that. Okay.

So very good to see you. You're like, hey, you make it to the door of the mayor's office. I slip under it using my special powers, so I don't have to keep a more than physical form or less. So I turn into a puddle and kind of slither under the door.

Did I miss you? Silicon Archers comes sliding under the door. Do you have to come in that way? There's a way to open a door without being a complete puddle, Silicon Archers.

Yeah, but it's a little bit more fun this way. Plus nobody stops me. I mean, it does really, really good job getting into tight places. So good to see you, honey.

And I go in for it. Nope. I definitely will be across the desk and sort of pulls you in closer, kind of like making sure your head extends ever so slightly. I'm going to unlock the door, walk outside and close it behind me.

My hand goes to stop the door from opening. No, let me out. I need to get back into Margaret if you're going to leave. I'm just going to slip out the door while you tour me, and gross kissy faces at each other.

Fine. I'm sorry, Snookums. She's being a prude. Oh, fine.

Always running her fun, Dada. I don't care what you do as long as I don't have to see it. It's just love. I mean, like, I mean, hanging out.

No, I don't want to see it. Nothing to do with it. Can I leave? Can I just stand outside the door?

Fine. There's a knock on the door. Hold. One second, please.

And she's going to kind of like drop her guys and go back into Margaret. Open the door once, nisties is back in Margaret's skin. It's a young intern, and she says, hey, the council is about ready to meet. Yes.

Do you have the agenda for today? Oh, I do, indeed. I printed it. I print you off triple kit.

And she hands you three papers at all, so the exact same shit. I'm going to kind of like gently pat her cheek. As I take the triple, as I take two of the three triple kits. And I say, keep one for yourself and make sure you take extensive notes for me.

You always do a great job. The intern follows you or if you're heading that way to the council room. Did I? And so can I just, are you going to the council room as well or are you doing something else?

I'll go to the council room. Honey, I have to get ready for the speech tonight, but just let me know whenever you're finished and we'll meet up before. Oh, actually, do me a favor. Also, when you get home, I have two dresses picked out.

Can you go ahead and choose from either one of them for me? Be it here. You always have a better style than I do. I'll remember those words for later.

And I kiss her on the cheek as I go. We zoom away from the mayor's office. We zoom to a top purchase where a man with a laptop looks as a disrepair. He walks up to the nerd crew bar and who is there at the nerd crew bar to help this man with his Wi-Fi?

There is a large, looks like a large gorilla except for it's made out of metal. It seems like they took the largest nerd crew uniform shirt that they could and stretched it over this huge mechanical beast. And so it's torn in places and it's just barely holding on. They've actually taken some duct tape and wrapped it around in places so that it stays on him.

And as the man approaches the counter, he's going to say, welcome to nerd crew. I'm here to install, set up, protect, support or repair your purchase for you. Yeah. Have you been working here since early this summer?

Oh, okay. Guess I just never caught you. Yeah. So he starts pointing stuff out like he's having trouble installing windows on his new machine.

Just one moment. And then the gorilla man types his password and asks to identify himself and he's going to type in that his name is RoboNobo. He walks into the system and scrolls down to computers and tablets and he clicks on it. Okay.

All right. So you proceed to help this man with his simple computer issue? How good of a job do you do? Like are you trying to do your best work?

Yes. So Robo is very proud of his job. He's a good employee. So he's going to try to do his best work to repair this man's technology issue with his advanced computer brain.

Okay. No, no, no, you're fine. Thank you. So install.

It's just install something. Oh, yeah. Okay. So it's not windows is doors.

So doors 10 install doors 10 on this guy's computer is snazzy is better than doors eight and nobody bought doors nine. So what else do you do for your rest of your day there at work? I go to the install day where I work with my partner Jeff to install car IO and then I'll occasionally make patrols around the store asking people if they need assistance. Unless you do anything specific your day is pretty bland.

It's a beefy, yucker employee at the top purchase. All right. I remember still working there. I guess we will go back to Miss deeds and Miss Bairchoss's skin.

You are at the council meeting and the council has all gathered except for one council member could make it to this meeting. So they are not there. Of course. Jerry's always late.

Did we already use Jerry? He's Jerry. That's Jerry. Nope.

There's no Jerry on the city council. I have party written down. So it's not here. Greg Schmitz that motherfucker.

Okay. So we have this meeting. Just even care about the public. Okay.

Come down. All right. So yeah, the other because there are five city council members to and you're one of them. So there's four aside from you because you're the head of city council and only three of them are there today.

There is formerly known as Frosty cop. It's now Frosty council member. He is on the city council as well as a man named Dallas Duncan and a girl named Sue Shuri. Sorry.

He said Frosty council on the council. Yes. Douglas is a council. Nice.

So it's not as I'll tell you. It's actually him like as Frosty cop. Yeah. But I mean, he doesn't really have a secretity.

Okay. That's fine. But like his nickname was Frosty cop and now that he's a councilman, his name is Frosty councilman. And he still goes out fights crime with his ice gun at night.

So that way he's on the city. Now he's self-scramed with his ice pin. Yeah. He often gives me the cold shoulder.

Yeah. You've only been mayor for a very short time, but during that short time, it seems like Frosty councilman is usually diametrically opposed to everything you propose. He's a hard vote to win over. It's unfortunate.

So this city council meeting is basically like a town hall where people, and there's a few things to preside over. It's mostly like zoning issues and whatnot. But then there's like a bunch of people at the end, like citizens get up and they kind of give their qualms and yell about shit. Kind of one after another.

It's kind of the dregs of being the mayor. This is kind of like the boring shit you kind of have to do. Look, stepping stones. Let's do this.

All right. So that goes on for a number of hours talking about zoning issues and stuff and almost everything you say Frosty cop has like, yeah, but kind of thing going on. Simple fucking man, spoiler and Jesus. Duncan seems to be on your side most of the time.

He seems to be down for what you got. Sushi Rishi's back and forth. And right now, dregs is not there. So that goes on that idea.

You're just sitting there body guarding right with an RPG on your right. I'm just like standing in the corner with my arms crossed. Okay. All right.

This is incredibly dull to you. I'm asleep on my feet, basically. All right. Okay.

So look at artists. What are you doing during the city council meeting? I am back at the site on the name for it. What called the high rise?

I'm back at the high rise. And as Miss Deeds has asked me to do, I'm going to get her a dress. Okay. So I'm going to go in through the top purchase entrance and walk into the very back and go up to the elevators that take us up to the top level.

So you're going to be back here. Robo, it's me. Can you tell? What's going on?

So the artists. Oh, sorry. I have to make sure that people don't come in to use the freight elevator. Oh, it's fine.

That's fine. I appreciate it. You're doing a very good job as a bodyguard for this location. Location guard body.

What do you prefer? I'm just trying to get it for the month. The top purchase. Do you want me to talk to your talk to your manager?

Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Oh, yeah, that would be great. Which one? Which one are they again?

And he's going to point to a scrawny, apparently just out of high school dude that's got some acne on his face. I'll transform into basically just transform my appearance into just a normal person and change my clothes with it and I'll kind of pick something up on the shelf as I walk up towards the walk up to the manager. Excuse me, sir. Hi, how can I help you today?

Yeah, I just want to say that that employee over there helped me find the most perfect laptop that I need. Are you talking about Nader or Robonobo? Well, the large monkey, I didn't catch his name. That's Robonobo.

He's all right. Yeah. He's been working here this summer. Is that all you want to just tell me that he helps you?

We have comment cards up at the front. I thought it was very important. I actually wanted to speak to you in person. We pride ourselves on the good service we have here.

I'll say you got a customer for life. If you keep Robonobo employed here, Robonobo is incorrect. Yeah, perfect. Thanks for the input, sir.

I hope you have a wonderful day. You too. All right. All right.

So drop the laptop. I was carrying and walk back to the freight elevator and transform this around. No, I turn a corner. I like how we're changing things up, but we're still doing the same old shit.

What kind of difference? The destination is the same. The path to get there is different. All right.

As you go up the freight elevator, Robo, your boss, Paul, comes up to you. He's like, hey, Robo, I just got a customer that was super satisfied with your help. Oh, I'm always here to help. He puts his hand on your shoulders.

He's like, you know, I was like you once. Okay. Starting out with my first job. You were a giant robotic.

No, it's not what I mean. I mean, you know, I remember being a front line employee. You just keep working up. You'll be a manager someday too.

You know, like when I'm regional manager, you can be a store manager. You know, that's just kind of how it goes. You keep working hard and you'll get here someday. Well, I really appreciate that Paul.

Keep working hard. You do a great job, Robo. Thanks. I'm glad I had the chance on you.

A lot of people were saying, you know, don't hire robot monkeys. And I was like, I was like, I don't have the chance. I know it's against the law. You could discriminate against me just because I'm a robot.

I know what I'm. If anything, I can fly into the rules and regulations. Oh, shit. And you know, all of that shit.

I would never discriminate. I'm glad I took a chance on you, bud. Well, thanks, Paul. Do you mind if I skip my lunch today?

Just to save the company, somebody? You know, that'd be I'm glad you look it out for the bottom line. I just want to make sure that our customers are happy. I'll be too.

I'm going to get back on the floor now. Good job, buddy. You know, your review is coming up in about a week and I think there's some good stuff coming in your future, buddy. Oh, boy.

And Robo and Emo will kind of let us cut a lot. Okay. Just like the idea of a seven-year-old giving some praise to a giant robot girl. God, if somebody could draw that, I will frame it for fuck's sake.

Oh, my God. This is the good on you, Ukraine. We are back on our call. Oh, my God.

All right. Well, you cope with the freight elevator to your penthouse suite. Describe this what your the top of this skyscraper looks like. It is surrounding the outside, all glass, but of course, tinted.

So people can't really see in. You can only see out. And as we arrive on Miss Deeds floor, it opens up and it's a very luxurious apartment building with kind of like a recessed floor where there's couches around there and there's nice little gas fireplace in the center that doesn't really need ventilation. It's free and open there.

A lot of open spaces. The kitchen is magnificent granite countertops, glorious cabin tree and actually like a nice kitchen island with a stove in the center. But of course, Miss Deeds doesn't cook for herself. There's never anything out of place.

You know, it's all brought in by your personal chef. I would assume she doesn't allow me to eat with her. If you're painting a real like gas-lighty relationship. I go ahead.

Go ahead. I'll go into the bedroom and open up the one drawer I have, take out a change of clothes or like under shirts and stuff like that. And I'll realize that I don't need actual clothes and I just morph into a tuxedo outside. And then I will look on the bed and see the two dresses that have been picked out for me to choose from one.

Okay. What colors are they, Miss Deeds? There's definitely ones that get deep, like a red, like a crepe, like a burgundy or something. But then the other ones like maybe like a lighter blue, kind of like open at the top.

I don't know, dresses really well. There's like a belt next to it. There's like a blue one with a yellow belt to it. No.

It's okay. It's okay. It's a black belt. It's a black belt.

Or white. There's a white one. Okay. It's a blue and white.

I just like, I was like, no. That's not what clothes look like. We're transcending, okay? I go with a burgundy dress.

I grab that. But then I will secretly fold, well, not secretly. There's nobody else here. I will also neatly fold up the blue one and sort of morph it into myself just in case she doesn't like it.

Put it like in a pocket more or less. All right. A flesh pocket. Do you do anything else while you're there up there in the penthouse?

No, I don't. I'll make my way back. I'm running a little bit late, in fact. Roll a notice.

Yes, sir. Plus three. As you're walking back towards the door, you notice like on the far end of like the big open living area, there's a number of petals where you keep like. Like keepsakes and whatnots under glass.

And there's one. There's one there that it seems to have either moved or just arrived or you'd like, it seems like you don't remember it being there. It's kind of out of place. It just kind of catches your eye like, what is that?

Hmm. I would like to go over and check it out. All right. You head over to check it out and you do notice that it is a statue of a three headed dragon snake sitting on one of your pedestals.

Is this the same statue at that I've seen previously? Yeah. It's been a long time. But like every couple months, it kind of appears again.

It seems to have been appearing a little more frequently and yeah, it just kind of showed up again. Perfect. I grab it and bring it with me. Okay.

So then where are you going from there? Going back down through the elevator and then going to head out back to City Hall where there's going to be a big speech. Okay. So head back down to City Hall.

You go back through Good Purchase or what was it called? Top Purchase. Top Purchase. You go back down through Top Purchase because the high rise that you're in the bottom floor is apparently a top purchase.

Do you do anything in Top Purchase when you go through again? I take a notice of how many employees. Actually, I do want to go to Robo. Yeah.

Hey, Robo, do you have closing shift tonight? Well, I get off in a few here. I'm not closing up. Is your manager closing?

I looked at the schedule today. I went off of yesterday and I'm usually working the morning shift. I'm going to go early. Yeah.

Could you text me, let me know if your manager is closing or not? Or who is closing? In fact. Okay.

Thanks. You're going to look at the schedule. Yeah. Okay, look at the schedule.

It is indeed Paul that is closing. Perfect. Okay. I will turn around and then immediately text Silicon Artist, Paul is closing.

I gave him a thumbs up emoji back. Robo looks up at him and does the thumbs up IRL. It's my house. You give him that thumbs up.

So where are you going now? So the kind of artists. I'd like to hop in my favorite ride share vehicle and make my way back to the city hall. All right.

So you are making your way back to city hall. The city council meeting is still going pretty strong. It's kind of starting to die down a little bit now. So people complaining about like this park is never cleaned and then like frosty councilman is like, well, I'll make sure that you know, that our parks recreation department gets more funding.

We'll try to get it done. There's a bit of discussion about like discretionary funds and blah blah blah. And that kind of happens for a while. But then it starts to die down.

That I in order to stay awake has just been imagining ways to murder a frothy. All right. Okay. She's on 587 right now.

It's very satisfying. Frosty. Does not like you guys even though you've been kind of exonerated by the public mostly he doesn't know what was her name Maggie Margaret. Bear trust.

Margaret Bear trust. He doesn't know her very well but by association with that I he does not care for you. All right. So the city council meeting is over and everyone's kind of dispersing and Silicon artists get there.

You are getting out of your shift. Robo because you're getting because your ship is about done. Where do you go? I'm going to go to where the speech was being held because my good friends so kind of artists have told me he had a thing.

Okay. So everyone's kind of or you guys are heading in that direction. So what do you do after the city council meeting and this deeds. I kind of want to go over to Frosty cop.

See if I can like pull him aside maybe talk to him a little bit about he seemed to have issue about the plaque that was that was dirty or at least something that was going on there. Park. Yeah. Yeah.

The park. Just pull him aside. You seem to have some interest in the park being clean maybe that me and you and maybe some of the other council members can maybe make it a public event. Maybe we can have a thing there.

And then afterwards of course it would get as big as they do get dirty then maybe we can have some of my help come over and help you clean up there. We can make an event of it. If you want to write up a fish proposal see where the funding is coming from pass through city council and if it's something that I agree with then I may vote. Yeah.

I kind of want to like this Margaret's again you know touches arm kind of on the side. I'm just kind of look at what he touched me looks at you like looks at your hand touching him kind of like cross side. I'm just trying to figure out what exactly you desire you know out of this. I know that you've joined the council to be a more productive member of society and try to help out people on a kind of a higher level and can I can I use empathy to create the aspect I know what you desire.

You try. Yeah. That is a plus three. You get the sense from Frosty got that he's a very truth and justice kind of dude.

So like clean streets happy people reduced in crime that kind of shit. Okay. Just kind of you know what the park is emptying clean you know people have a place to go and you know enjoy the wild enjoy the wilderness have a brush of breath of fresh air and we can get you know things back on track to the way that things should be and clean up the streets a little bit. We clean the parks and people go there rather than you know doing what teens do in the streets.

Yes. I mean getting teens off the streets is ideal. So what's your proposal? I just I want a better connection between the two of us.

I know that you've you have a previous job in the city and it's something to help us all out especially where well I know that you and Knox had some issues and you and the rest of the people that I'm associated with had some issues. I just want to make a connection here not you just constantly opposing me. I want to make sure that we're on the same page at least. Look if you do things that I agree with I won't pose you.

It's not a matter that you put it forward it's a matter of what you put forward. So if you put something in front of me that I genuinely agree with I'll be on your side and I wait for that day and I will be as pleased to punch to be on your side once it's something that I can get behind. Well then I hope that I can see you there at any event that we create to help clean up the park. I guess the park could be a good start.

And she'll nod and she'll kind of pat on the shoulder again and start walking away. Okay. He walks off in the opposite direction. So like everything's gathering around what exactly is this speech thing what's going on.

So this is a fundraiser for the fundraiser. I guess I should say this is today we are allowing Lapis Harbor to be a. Basically a free city for those afflicted by the destruction at Opal Point to come join the city and live among us. As a as a you know we basically give them citizenship more or less into our city.

So kind of like refugee services for people displaced by a big tragedy. Exactly. Yes. Hello and welcome everyone.

Today we are here on the anniversary of the destruction of Opal Points. The world will forever be shaped by this terrible tragedy. We gather to honor those lives lost. Parents, children, young, old, rich, poor.

All taken away in a matter of seconds. And as we laid those loved ones to rest in the light of a new day. True intentions were shown. The so called heroes from Amberville that brought a team of children into a war zone.

Elected to save their powers over the lives of 450,000 individuals. In that same light. It's shown upon an unexpected group. The so called villain underground.

Which I'm proud to call myself a member of. We are given a chance to show our true colors as protectors. We are bastions of the people working with the government at times to take down ruthless mega-corps. Breaking up slave trade rings and stopping international incidences of a war.

We identified the threat to Orion early. The church was a mere front. We discovered that here in our own backyard, Lapis Harbor. I know the incident.

Seems like an act of thievery and mayhem. But the intel gathered that day allowed us to define the base at Opal Points. This outward appearance of Villinery pained us every day. If only we could have told you how much we were going to help you in the future.

My team worked tirelessly that day to stop Orion and Massacre. We left one task to both groups of heroes. Putting out most of the responsibility of stopping the major threat of Orion on ourselves. Several missiles fell as we did some fearsome battle with Massacre and subsequently Orion.

And at Orion's defeat, we did everything in our power to ensure the safety as many people as possible. Including our foe Massacre. What did the heroes do? They ran.

They ran off by themselves. So I ask you in this new day, in this new light. Supporting Margaret Fairtrass. Your mayor.

In opening up Lapis Harbor to those displaced by this destruction. Allow me in welcoming our mayor, Margaret Fairtrass. The crowd erupts. Yay!

You persist your inseal. Hallelujah! Thank you. Thank you very much.

I want to give my personal thanks to Silicon artist. Or as I like to call him, My Snookums. Or see you for the common man. I've just become new upon the scene.

It's a delight learning about these things every day. I'm learning so much more about Knox or Barrett's background. He was an interesting boy for sure. I'm never really quite sure what he was trying to do or what he was planning.

Getting these people together. These people who have been tortured have been just turned down by society at a whole. Taking care of this robotic monkey. There are so many things undiscovered about Knox.

But when I was approached by the people that he left behind, Alpha Trost Industries, after his untimely demise. Because of testing out a new prototype for the company. I didn't realize that I had family in the world like this. Undiscovered family.

That I have found a new. Not by blood but by purpose. We accept these people from Opplepoint because they are too like us. They are family.

They just need a place to call a home. And I'm glad that I can be here with people that you call villains. That is where I found home. In the chaos.

I am hoping that we can turn loud as harbor into a safe harbor. For anyone else who is experiencing this. We can turn things around so people don't feel gahudz or meadows. People like the heroes don't manipulate others into thinking that just because we have flaws that we are wrong.

Please help us in creating a new portion of labor's harbor to harbor those from this destruction. Thank you. Everybody, yay! What's clapping?

That's kind of your rally. You got a rally that. You can go around and talk to individuals. I definitely do start dropping hints about a new event that's going to happen at the park that Frosty Gahp is going to be at.

Just kind of putting out there that he's going to be there. Everybody is moving and hobnobbing at this kind of open event. I have something I need to take care of back at Top Purchase. If you don't mind, sweetie, I gotta make sure I get there right at closing.

I know you're a busy boy. I know. Just make sure you keep your nose clean and she sort of boops you on the nose. By the way, that dress looks absolutely lovely.

That's because a lovely person picked it out for me. Just kind of kiss him on the cheek. And I make my way through the crowd to the street and hop in a car on the way back to Top Purchase right at closing time. All right, roll notice.

Plus four. As you walk out of the crowd, you're heading towards the street. You're headed towards the street where you're, I don't know what's another word for Uber, your mega. So your mega is there on the street waiting for you.

And you see there's a relatively large motorcycle standing next to it is a large robot with a biker vest on. And as he sees you walking out of the crowd, he like watches you a little bit. Then he hops on his bike and drives away. The motorcycle's really loud.

It drives away. Then you get in your mega. Unless you're taking Villanuber, you're taking Villanuber, you're taking mega. No, I'm on mega.

I'm on mega. I'm on a long road. I'm on a long road. They revoked my access to Villanuber.

Right. Okay. So you're heading back to that. Everybody else is just hobnobbing there.

Missy is hobnobbing. I think Dad I would not want to get dressed up because that's like no. She's too school for sure. There's nowhere to hide a gun in a cocktail dress.

So she's just like up on a perch watching everything through a scope and has an earpiece in so she can hear it too. Okay. Robbo, are you just at the event? Yeah.

Robbo's wandering around using his Wi-Fi access to airdrop memes onto people's phones. He's also helping out a lot though and like passing out eight kits and welcome packets. You're doing that. All right.

So Missy, are you just having to have people talking to people dropping hints and shit? I think after a while any appropriate amount of time, any high class lady doesn't stay up in the entire event. She leaves a little early kind of notified that I kind of go out the sneak out the back and hop on a motorcycle kind of making sure that I'm not inside of anybody else, change back into Missy's and I want to pick up Dad I and I want to go to a shooting range because I need to know how to shoot. So, so I don't know.

So you make it back to top purchases, getting around closing time and playing a little out of the figure's closing time. One last cup. He's like he's pulled down the weird metal gate thing halfway so you can get out but you can't get in and he's like tidying up stuff and closing out drawers. Perfect.

I want to wait and sort of the I want to disguise myself as a actually you know what? I'm just gonna knock on the door straight up in my tuxedo and whatnot. Okay. He walks up over to you like he steps on the thing and walks the door and walks the bottom lock like cracks up his leg.

Hello sir. How can I help you? We're closing up. Hi, I'm Steven.

I'm with the mayor's office. I had a quick request for you. Me? I'm just a manager here at the top purchase.

Of course, you're Paul, right? Yeah. Yeah, of course. You have an employee working for your name, Barobanobu, right?

Oh, yeah. I do. Yep. Perfect.

I'm going to make employee of the month. I don't know. What do you mean if it's based on his merit? I mean, he's really good, but I mean, I haven't even done that yet.

Look, it could be based on whatever he wants as long as the top category is Robanobu. This comes from the mayor? Not the mayor. The mayor's office.

I can't. I don't understand. Why is the mayor's office concerned? And whose employee of the month at a top purchase?

It will all be revealed later. And I want you to trust me on this one. I can make things happen for you. I guess so.

I guess so. I'll tell you what, Paul. I'll see what end of the month is in about four days, right? Yeah.

Yeah. And you named the employee of the month at the first of the next month, correct? Yeah, usually I wait until like the last days of the month and I tally up some numbers. It's based on a weird algorithm.

Yeah. Fantastic. I'm going to come in here in five days. And if I don't look on that board and see Robanobu as employee of the month, we're going to be having another late night conversation.

Okay, Steve. I hope I don't let you down. I guess. I'm sure you won't fall.

Okay. Okay. He's like slowly starts closing the door and locks it. Oh, hold on.