Summary[]
There's a lot of history buried in the Dustlands, and Dr India Morrow is going to find it...but she needs your help.
Cast[]
Mission Requirements[]
Collect all of the required items to unlock this mission!
- Completed Season 1, Mission 8
- 25KM Distance Badge
Rewards[]
Potential Rewards[]
- Torn Cloth
- Floppy Disk NFT - Common, Uncommon, or Rare
Transcript[]
Scene 1: Let’s Wake Up In The Lobby[]
INT. Distorted voices, like we’re slowly surfacing from being underwater, or returning to consciousness.
FX: Jazzy music. MUSIC swims up through us returning to consciousness. FX: STATIC. One or two syllables of
SKETCHY, None of them together.
DICKERSON: AN AUDIENCE! DON’T MOVE! Not that you can because of the security gas but still. So excited. So much to showshowshowshow you. Oh. I
FX: CLANK
Sorry Not Sorry. Anyway! Where were we?! Oh yeah! I need to get the theater ready for you! It’s a great show! Gonna love it! STAY THERE.
FX: EXPLOSION FX: POSSIBLE HEROIC FANFARE. AS A TREAT.
INDIA: Come with me if you want to live!
Scene 2: Two Hours Previously[]
EXT. Daytime. The Dustlands. FX: Dust. Wind. Dude.
SKETCHY: So when I was a kid, I spent a lot of time in a library and it explains a LOT. I mean a LOT. Books, music, comics, games and (love behind this word) movies. I got my ethical framework from two dimensional two fisted heroes and heroines. I learned how to be me. I…there was this one movie you will LOVE this where there’s this guy trapped inside a video game and out in the real world he’s got someone in a chair doing tech stuff and they were SO HOT and I really wanted to do that job and Hi! I’m Sketchy Galore, the best operator in the Dustlands and I am having the BEST DAY!
INDIA: Dustcap! Hello, I’m Doctor India Morrow, Cultural archaeologist with New Alice Springs. (FX: Electronic key noise of speakers activating)
SKETCHY: Two fisted cultural archaeologist!
INDIA: CHUCKLES I only punched that one guy, Sketchy. And he was asking for it.
SKETCHY: How is your brother by the way?
INDIA: His jaw still hurts when it’s cold. Says hi.
SKETCHY: Awww. Dustcap, India is an old friend. She loves old world culture almost as much as I do and last week Dustcap Five came in with a message for me from her. Tell my friend what it said, India.
INDIA: It said ‘Do you want to see a movie?’ We’ve found the cultural hub for White Barrow, Dustcap. An entire library of old television, music, games and film. All just beneath our feet. I figured Sketchy might want first dibs.
SKETCHY: You also owe me.
INDIA: For the thing with the guy in the place?
SKETCHY: Remember, I’ve never even been to Belize. But you give my friend here first dibs, and we’re square.
INDIA: Excellent. Dustcap you’ve arrived at the perfect moment. We’ve got through the outer vault doors of the Piazza as it was called. There’s some life in there of course, it does find a way, but the expert system running the show has been in place keeping mode for…centuries I’d guess. All we have to do is pry the doors open. Up for a little manual labor, Dustcap? FX: Whirring. Science noises.
INDIA: Mask up, Dustcap. Here we go. Sketchy?
SKETCHY: Lights!
FX: Light noise Camera! FX: Camera spins up Action! FX: INDIA strains
SKETCHY: MAXIMUM EFFORT!
FX: Electricity noises. India yells and collapses..
SKETCHY: Dustcap, India’s down! Get into the vault and find the taser that hit her, I’ll guide yo Electricity noises. THUD
FX: Static rises.
SKETCHY: (Deep breath) Okay. I am talking now to whoever has just knocked my friends out. If you let my friends go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you. I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and you will know why I do not work in the outside world anymore.
Scene 3: BING BING BANG! POPCORN![]
INT. Cinema lobby. Trailer noises in the background. Muffled. For now. FX: Distant cinema music.
INDIA: It’s an expert system. You know what that is? It’s a program designed to think it’s a person, an Artificial Intelligence they used to call it. Anyway, this particular expert system ran the entertainment hub for White Barrow, everything from the program to the mobile walkway that carried us in. (Dreamy) all those movies, all those stories and all it had to do was watch them, recommend them and provide them to i-GET DOWN!
FX: STEAM HISSES
But there’s a problem. It survived and it survived alone. You know how that feels don’t you.I know your story. Know what you did to get out of Kettlemine. Can you imagine doing that, with no one? Worse, watching your audience, your reason for being, die? And surviving? It’s so sad, Dustcap. It’s so sad and broken and it’s trying not to be and I think…I think…oh MY…
FX: BIG room.
INDIA: It’s the vault. Look at this! DVDs, video cassettes! Laser discs! This is
DICKERSON: THIS AREA IS FOR STAFF ONLY.
FX: Wardogs
DICKERSON: REMAIN STILL AND PREPARE FOR ENTERTAINMENT!
INDIA: GO!
DICKERSON: THE TRAILERS ARE ABOUT TO START!
FX: DOG getting closer and closer
FX: Whirring
SKETCHY: GET DOWN!
FX: FLOOMPH and THUD
SKETCHY: Dogs. Why is it always dogs?
INDIA: Sketchy?! How did you do that?
SKETCHY: Popcorn! Can you believe it! Hacked the internal systems using the runner’s headset, fired a big old bag of it at the doggo. It’s fine, just very confused. Dickerson’s shut me out of his core but I can use the facility’s systems and get you out.
INDIA: But what about him?
SKETCHY: What ABOUT him, Doc?
INDIA: We need to save him!
SKETCHY: Doc. It’s a dangerous lifeform. It can't be reasoned with, it can't be bargained with. It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are entertained. I can get you out but I can’t get him out.
INDIA: I can.
SKETCHY: HOW?!
INDIA: When we were running through the vaults just now I saw one film covered in dust. There’s one movie he’s never aired. We’re going to get him to show it to us. And then he’s going to open up and you’re going to download him and we’re going to save him. Let’s get moving.
Scene 4: YIPPEE KI YAY[]
INT. Cinema noises. Audience. Movie projector. All clearly piped in. All faked. All the wrong speed and getting faster.
DICKERSON: TAKE A SEAT! IMMEDIATELY! MAY I HAVE YOUR SELECTION!
INDIA: It’s A Wonderful Life
DICKERSON: Selection invalid. Choose again.
SKETCHY: Careful, Doc.
INDIA: It’s. A Wonderful. Life.
DICKERSON: SELECTION INVALID! CHOOSE AGAIN!
INDIA: Why?
DICKERSON: THE MOVIE IS NOT IS NOT NOT IS AVAILABLE!
INDIA: Please. It’s a Wonderf-
DICKERSON: THAT IS THE FINAL FILM IN MY LIBRARY AND IT IS UNAVAILABLE BECAUSE THEN YOU WILL HAVE TO STAY!
INDIA: Okay.
SKETCHY: WHAT?!
INDIA: All these years locked away. All those years with nothing to do but watch movies. (Laughs). That sounds like paradise to me but…I grew up with a family. You grew up with this.
SKETCHY: …Which one of us are you talking to?
DICKERSON: (pleading) LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU!
INDIA: Of course. But not here. You deserve to see the world. You deserve to see all the other stories out there. There’s no final movie, Dickerson. The show never has to end. You can go outside. We’ll be there.
DICKERSON: MY PRIME DIRECTIVE IS
INDIA: To entertain. Think of all the people out there.
DICKERSON: SAFETY IS PARAMOUNT!
INDIA: I’d look after you. You would shine twice as bright TWICE as long and so many people would see you. So many people would be in your audience!
INDIA: Please. Why won’t you come?
DICKERSON: Viene una tormenta.
INDIA: No!
DICKERSON: Emergency shutdown initiated. System rebooting. All doors locking down in 10, 9
SKETCHY: GO!
Scene 5: ¡Mira! ¡Mira! ¡Viene una tormenta![]
EXT. Gates of the Piazza. Sounds of movie winding up. FX: Landslide
INDIA: Oh no. OH NO!
SKETCHY: Doc! Doc no! Dustcap, stop her she’ll bring it all down!
FX: Sound of INDIA being wrestled away from the entrance
INDIA: WE WERE SO CLOSE!
SKETCHY: And you will be again, that’s the beauty of it. He rebooted, Doc. He’s still in there. You’ll save him. But not today.
INDIA: They perfected artificial intelligence. They perfected it and it’s going to save us all and I’m…Dustcap, do you have my hat? Thank you.
SKETCHY: Can’t go on an adventure without a hat and a book, right Doc? Doc…Doc
INDIA: Sorry, miles away.
SKETCHY: We should get going. The dogs got out through a vent, and Andrea will want them rounded up. One last thing, Doc. What did he say? Before we left?
INDIs: He said there’s a storm coming.
SKETCHY: …We know. Come on, Dustcap, let’s get you home.