NT 027 - DRG: The Story of Karl

hey everyone welcome welcome to

non-topical so we're just let

everybody know we're going to

try

to change things up a little

bit not in terms of like being

more random with topics or

whatever

we're just going to hit record

and walk and try not to talk

about the fact that this is a

podcast

and just talk about whatever

comes to mind which is kind of

the original inspiration now

thank hit for pointing that out

to me is that over time it's

become more of a podcast and

less of a

walking around and just

chatting while we're walking

type of thing so that's what we

're going

to try to do we're going to try

to just throw the mics on

whenever we're walking driving

whatever

and whatever comes of it comes

of it so yeah in in your

eternal words sir what you want

to talk about

you know i'm going to take your

cue i'm feeling i'm feeling

this vibe and given how close

this episode

will be releasing to a certain

game release i can't help but

want to take you up on your

offer

so sometimes when kit and i are

walking we tell stories as you

know we make movies we make

movies we tell

stories and there was one that

we told that wasn't recorded

because we didn't have to quote

unquote record

which again brings me to the

point of we're just going to

wear the microphones more often

while we're walking because

then some of the most best

conversations the most bestest

conversations

the most bestest the most best

est con oh don't walk on the new

grass walk around anyway the

most bestest

conversations sometimes get

missed so what is the title of

the new game that's coming out

because i keep

forgetting because it's just

the progalactic rogue core the

cores have gone rogue well that

's that's

that's the line from the

trailer the core has gone rogue

the core has gone rogue roll

credits roll credits yes indeed

so anyway because in in

celebration shall we say of

rogue core coming out kit

before we recorded was like

well you know we already told

this story while we were

walking so it'd be but i i

think i don't remember all the

fine details of it so i think i

remember a bit because we were

gonna do a sequel to it but

when we were

honest that we we didn't record

the first one yeah so we're

gonna do the second draft of of

this

but first of all before we

continue i i do have to say

that once again the the holly

wood deal

and video game licensing deal

now comes into play so uh what

's the company behind drg or

deep rock

ghost ship games and coffee

stain publishing okay so ghost

ship and coffee stain and any

other major hollywood studios

here's the deal

we're we're gonna throw our

idea out there if you like it

and want to use it

you you gotta pay us a certain

fixed fee plus five percent of

the gross not the net not your

creative accounting that makes

it seem like the money the

movie makes no money even if

you do this as a web series net

flix series

doesn't matter we get five

percent of whatever you get

paid period plus uh

this is a hot property

yeah

what do you think start fifty

thousand and yeah fifty

thousand for the story

we present to you ladies and

gentlemen deep rock galactic

the story of carl yes that's

right we

all know about carl but we don

't really know what his story is

and why it is that he's uh come

into

why it is that he has such

prestige and renown in the

world of the dwarves now for

those who

haven't played deep rock gal

actic or drg as we call it it is

a game that essentially

combines

dwarves mining a space rock

with starship troopers so they

get attacked by bugs and have

to wreck the

bugs and there is i don't know

who what his name is but there

's a guy that's like in command

mission control mission control

he's not really in command he

still has to report to

management

but he sends down their resupp

ly pods and hacking pods and all

sorts of stuff in the drop so

mission

control is this guy that for

the most part tries to keep a

lid on things like in the game

if you kick

barrels around if you tap on

the glass for specimen

containers you know if you ping

gold too much if

you ping gold too much if you

dance for too long if you drink

too much beer you know he he's

there to

kind of rein you in and to act

annoyed and so what we do is we

start off we start off with

mission control guy you know

being annoyed with something

and people walk by his office

and they're like oh you know

what a crotchety old son of a

bitch you know what a what a

jerk you know

we can't stand him you know

what a guy in mission control

he really has a cozy job yeah

he has a cozy

job but what a blowhard like he

's never been out in the

trenches and so we walk in in

first person view

and we sit down in his office

and he turns and he says you

know i hear how they talk about

me

i hear what they think but they

they don't know the real story

they don't realize that i

played a critical role in this

epic campaign one that will go

down in history

or went down in history of

dwarfdom and one that made a

name for the greatest dwarf

among us

ah see among us

and of course the rest of the

movie is going to play back as

a flashback with maybe some

additional

flash forwards to go back to

the storytelling some

additional narration from good

old mission control

good old mission control and if

possible so i i see this as

being a an animated feature

that uses the original

character models but just up

rest you know we have to i mean

you might even

want to keep it as the good old

drg style just with better

lighting more stylized lighting

yeah well

but also the animation has to

be a little bit better because

like the movements of the mouth

yeah and

and everything so we might have

to up rest things a little bit

like let's just elevate it a

bit i mean i know road core has

uh is a bit more up rest so

maybe a similar style for that

so it all started when i was a

young recruit

lonely green beard lonely green

beard and drg was putting

together one of its you know

first explorations on now are

we gonna i forgot hoxys four ho

xys four and he's will we say he

's what a scout no i think carl

would be a scout carl would be

a scout so engineer

uh didn't we he looks kind of

like gunner okay so we'll make

him a gunner he gets assigned

to you know carl's team and car

l's obviously the leader he uh

he has experience this company

is fairly

new but he's been with it since

the beginning since the

beginning and he's kind of

built a bit of a name of

himself not the legendary

status that he will later have

but he's a good leader he's not

overly strict but

you know these guys are on

their first drop and they're

getting ready to drop down to

hoxys

and obviously the new guys are

nervous yep and so

he kind of not an entire drill

sergeant type approach i would

say you don't want him to be

too gruff but you want

to be both reassuring and at

the same time like all right

boys let's get out there and

show them our

medal you know or whatever you

know yeah so they're on their

first mission and uh they land

and you have

the kind of spooky planet

atmosphere going on and maybe

you have them find some like

gold and minerals like

oh man this is sweet and then

at that point in time there was

no real mission control the way

there is

now there's nobody monitoring

you could automatically like

request drop pods and stuff

yeah but you're

pretty much on your own it's

the wild west you initially

have them exploring and being

creeped out

don't really do any jump scares

or anything no bugs yet no bugs

they're probably in the upper

layers of

boxes maybe maybe have a loot

bug like yeah that's the jump

scare and in the game the loot

bugs are

like these giant tick looking

things they're very friendly

they're very friendly they'll

let you pet them

and they eat minerals eat

minerals and then when you

shoot them they explode and the

minerals explode

everywhere out of their guts it

'd be really funny if there if

there was just a random bit of

comedy

with one of them trying to pull

them and roll away from a loot

bug maybe yeah that would be

great you

know you have a moment it's

like hey that gold's mod and

the loot bugs just like trying

to munch it down

hey come on just let him have

it there's plenty more where

that came from you know so now

we cut away from

the mission because the mission

isn't the entire thing of

course not and i'm trying to

remember so

we cut to rival company yeah

rival tech that's the name of

the company well i mean they're

just referred

to as the rivals we don't

really know what they're called

so we we cut to rival corp or

whatever their

name is we maybe they'll be

given a name at another time

but they're talking about hey

you know this

young upstart company drg is

moving in on our turf and it's

like well no like they they

kind of been

doing their own thing like we

we weren't even there look did

i stutter i said they're moving

in on our turf

this is unacceptable and i

think it's a scenario where the

rival company doesn't even

necessarily

realize what's going on down

there yeah so i mean because

when you see them in the game

they're just

they're just prospecting they

they just collect data yeah so

they're they're data mining

yeah

that's what they do they're

data mining so they're doing

their data mining thing but

they're not happy

with drg going down and

actually starting to get

minerals when they've barely

you know started doing

the reconnaissance they're

going to maybe you know send

down a little surprise for drg

to stumble across

in the deeper or upper regions

of hoxus yeah and maybe or

maybe not this equipment might

get corrupted by

some influence later on that

they weren't anticipating

perhaps they'll lose control

over it oh no so it's

going to be a new thing then

well sort of but i mean that's

that's a known phenomena that's

happened i

mean there's there's plenty of

times right now i'm saying like

a new robot yeah the rival yes

so

there'll be new some new

investigative robot or some

defensive robot yeah probably

that initially is

there just to kind of scare drg

but we won't run into that

until later so meanwhile we cut

back to the

dwarves and they're they're

doing their mining thing you

know and they're wandering

around and

and one guy you know takes off

a little bit on his own and car

l tries to warn hey don't go too

far off

the beaten track yeah but like

there's this loose dirt here we

could we could explore further

this is

the furthest that any team has

ever gone i do like the sound

of that but let's just be

cautious eh so

driller drills through the dirt

and they go in probably like a

primitive version of the new of

the

titanium drills yeah we have to

obviously we can't have it be

the og hasn't even invested in

moderate

equipment yet yeah no they're

still in the development phases

they don't even know if they

want to go to

hawks yeah i want to say like

they drill into a nest well no

no that would be too quick what

we want to

do is have them drill into an

area that is just like a cave

that has like a ton of like

amazing minerals or something

like they

accidentally drilled into a ge

ode or something and like they

get to the end of dirt patch

and the drill is like oh i'm

hitting some hard stuff now and

carl's like well can you push

through oh i i could push

through anything you know pure

hubris yep

so they they drill into this ge

ode and they get in and it's

just gorgeous absolutely they

're like oh wow

would it be gold yeah let's let

's do we want to go with gold or

more kite i i thought the mark

height was

going to be the end one because

they don't they don't find out

about the more kite shields

until later

well or liquid more kite maybe

we have the liquid more kite at

the end like that that's like

really

where the big battle takes

place big oil maybe it's a

giant well of more kite yeah

and that's where

the well gets set on fire at

some point we'll get there yeah

it's giving too far ahead yeah

and that's

probably how things go wrong

but it could just could just be

like yeah i guess it could just

be like a small

little thing of market yeah i

mean it doesn't take much like

once you set an oil well on

fire things go

wrong really quick yeah same

more than the geode like can't

be the whole geode because

those things are

massive right but you know so

so they're sitting in there

marveling at whatever is in

these geodes

they're just taken aback about

like the gold or whatever and

then nitro geode maybe yeah but

and

more kite probably and then

okay one of them the beauty

music starts to slowly drop off

and turn ominous

one of the doors is like hey do

you guys hear something and

they all kind of stop and carl

being

the most experienced and being

the scout of course he he moves

up towards like another

entrance in the geode

listening and he's sitting

there for a minute and you want

to hold on that shot of him

just sitting

there slowly working looking

around the corner and then bam

grunt jumps right out

fall back fall back and that's

when they get their first taste

of the real glifids the real

one

the dwarves get in their first

real battle i mean carl's seen

action before but these newbies

really haven't so carl is kind

of directing them as they go

like okay you engineer i need i

need

i need platforms here here and

here and put down one of those

damn sentry guns

you driller where's your flamet

hrower now so he's really

directing them around and they

get through

the first wave of enemies that

they're gonna run into probably

just like some grunts and swarm

ers yes

made punched up a bit to make

them feel more threatening

right they're they're still the

weaklings right

but in the process somebody

throws a grenade or something

and it collapses the entrance

they came from

so they have no choice but to

go into the direction of where

the enemies came from do they

have they

probably have a molly with them

yeah yeah i forgot we we have

to have molly in there somehow

yeah and we

have to use some of the quint

essential lines like get over

here you lazy mule or yeah just

take your time

old lady i'll be here all day

yeah or whatever you know so

you got to pull some of the

lines from the

game and shoehorn them in

because because the mules did

exist beforehand right right

because betsy

existed beforehand i mean keep

in mind they talked about

having real mules so maybe they

i don't think

it would be that far back

because they said my my

grandfather oh okay all right

that's fine they're

not they're not that old well i

do think maybe at some point

like molly gets disabled and

they they have

a moment i don't know when that

will be in the story not now so

they take a deep breath the

audience

takes a deep breath they have

an ominous moment like well

mates looks like there's only

one way to go

so they go into the the the

dark cave and we fade to black

we cut back to actual drg

headquarters headquarters

headquarters yeah management

whatever it's not mission

control but it's like the

corporate

they still get telemetry off of

yeah and so they're looking

like hey team seven we've lost

their signal

and then and and then they also

see like sir there's something

else well what is it there

appears to be

an atmospheric disturbance

coming from you know over here

it looks like something's

entering the planet's

atmosphere oh no it's heading

right for team seven oh boy can

anybody contact them no sir

they're

completely cut off how long

would it take us to get a

rescue mission down there too

long yeah or something

to that effect like we have to

have it so that it's look a

little bit campy is fine yeah

they don't have

space rig 17 up there yet yeah

no they just have their their

one command ship far out and

just in the system

maybe for funzi you know this

would be a nice little cameo uh

or homage maybe like we have a

piece of

space junk that's rotating

around the planet that's in the

shape of a dog bone for those

of you that

don't know that's mystery

science theater 3000 you have

the little reference when you

're doing a shot of hoxies

so the dwarves are now starting

to go into the darker tunnel

and they're throwing flares

along the way now

because of the time shifting of

this that does not necessarily

mean that the thing that's

coming through

the atmosphere is also

happening at the same time as

them going into this cave yeah

it'll happen in the

near future for them but you

have to kind of set up a uh

tension tension you have to set

up that this

is going to happen and so

meanwhile they're going into

this cave for channel and they

're starting to find

some better minerals like first

of all we we have to have them

find some top tier beer

ingredients yeah like oh my

gosh

look at these starch nuts

it's been like years since

anybody's seen any of these do

you know what kind of brews we

can make with these

next level lloyd is gonna love

us

and so they're gathering this

yep and what they don't realize

is there's a cave leech oh no

right

above the meatball love the

meatball right above him there

's a cave leech carl's like i i

look i know this

is excited but we need to watch

and uh the it could just be

anyone hear that hissing sound

and then yep

and so like the gunner gets

captured so mission control guy

gets captured not

and he's being whipped around

it's like comedic like it's

like ah

they're trying to shoot and

they're like be careful you don

't want to hit him and it's like

and it has that moment where

like it the thing whips him

towards the camera and then you

do that slow

motion like like that's the one

time when i think that would be

appropriate

and then carl being the level

head one quick freeze grenade

or cryo grenade

and and then all the tentacles

shatter all that well we got to

keep the comedy here yeah all

the

tentacles freeze and he's like

oh thanks mate and then you

hear yeah okay

all right so they've conquered

this they've gotten these

starch nuts and then they hear

so so this is a

much less serious movie then

right we we want it to be

serious when it needs to be

yeah i i think the

sequel would be more serious

like it has to in my opinion it

has to have moments of comedy i

'm not

saying to make the whole thing

comedy but these are dwarves

that are in difficult

circumstances so

they're gonna make jokes they

're gonna do things to keep the

pressure off of them because in

high

pressure situations what you do

in reality to ease the tension

of those situations you tell

jokes you goof

around even though it's serious

you still goof around it's like

soldiers in war don't just sit

there and be like oh it's all g

ung-ho all the time like they're

telling jokes in the foxholes

when

they're nervous they're doing

all sorts of things when they

're nervous yeah so that's

really what

has to continue but you don't

need to do all the time yeah so

i think like one or two funny

scenes and

obviously some jokes here or

there perfectly fine so they

get past the the cave leech

somebody else sees

a glowy thing up on the ceiling

they're like is that another

one oh no that that's just a bu

bonacle

well not a bubonacle those

weaken the roof a bit but we're

not going to worry about that

for now

we need to worry about getting

out of here and so they think

they've gotten through like a

big encounter

they're going away all of a

sudden you hear like a a kind

of gurgling like noise

or something i i don't know

what is the how would you

describe the the noise of the

the green butts

uh but wait the praetorians

like like for when they shoot

no just like when they're

approaching

uh they kind of have like a

bubbly growl i would say okay

so they're like you know like a

low ground

you know we're glad we survived

that and then you hear that you

hear that that that that that

noise that the praetorian makes

yeah and carl's like oh like

and and probably a bit of stom

ping

yep because it's pretty big so

it busts through the wall it

starts you know wreaking havoc

they're once again like

completely in an ambush

situation somebody's trying to

like pickaxe the front

of it and gets knocked across

the cave it it grabs onto the

pickaxe and then it flings them

off of it

yeah that type of thing so they

're an epic battle like somebody

like their armor gets spit on

and they

notice that it's starting to

dissolve they got to take off

the armor quickly you know but

they they

still have like their breathing

apparatus underneath it but now

they're not armored yeah once

again i think

it should be the mission

control guy that that happens

to because that'll set up like

why he gets

injured later on i mean you can

't have him always be the

helpless one that's he has to

do with

something cool that's true

maybe he he like takes the lost

armor damage but then he's the

one that

power attacks it in in the back

he's the scout he has a shotgun

no carl's the scout what carl's

the scout

carl's the scout that's right

okay so then what weapon uh i

mean he has the bulldog so

which is like a

four there's there's a thing

for it that looks like a revol

ver so you could have

that framework for a similar

one where like you see it spin

and he only has one bullet left

or something

yeah we could we could do that

but let's so it gets to the

point where like you have one

guy who was

trying to axe the thing he's

been thrown even like carl is

down is about to get attacked

and

during the battle you know carl

's yelling somebody get behind

it somebody get behind it and

nobody's

able to get back there like the

thing is using its giant like

legs to just like knock people

left and

right shield itself it's shield

ing itself and finally like

right as it's about to munch on

carl

our friend from mission control

takes out his weapon dives

behind it and just manages to

get that one perfect shot

right on the bugs ass

and you see the bug like kind

of like do that like animated

like

boom and like just explodes and

of course the guts get all over

everybody yeah yeah they're

just like

oh this is not what i signed up

for today

you know or something i don't

know there's got to be some

kind of funny like not even

funny but just

like some throwaway line yeah

at that point you know they

start getting their stuff back

to all right

guys how are we doing on ammo i

don't know we're running a bit

low i've got this much left

this other

guy's got that much left uh

drill like takes off his pack

and shows his two his two like

fuel containers

still a flamethrower yep so

they're all running low at this

point but the the the praet

orian breaking

through the wall or the ceiling

has opened up a communication

channel back to base so what

happens

now is you have home base is

like finally uh you know team

seven team seven can you hear

us now like

or like you cut back to home

base sir we're getting telemet

ry again quick reach out to them

yeah let them know so like

maybe you know we have to have

a throwaway shot later or

sometime earlier where that

thing

crashes okay so thing crashes

into the surface burrows down

which thing the the thing that

enemy corp has said

yes but the rival tech thing

rival tech thing so i think

that it's best that team seven

not be aware

of rival tech thing yeah like

they didn't hear it coming but

we have to have a throwaway

shot of it

like hitting the area and then

sitting there starting to move

around it's dark at first and

then like

the orange lights start to

light up so wait the orange

lights light up it starts

moving around and then

you kind of pull the camera

back and there's some like

infector or whatever they're

called uh the charge

suckers the rock box can only

affect the living things but

the charge suckers like are for

machinery they

they stop electricity so you so

you pull back and you show like

the charge suckers looking over

like so

initially it seems like rival

tech they got this under

control it's their bad guy that

we're going to be

facing but then you pull back

and you show the charge sucker

serves you know charge suckers

yeah grunt

groaning or whatever over

looking it yeah all right so

that happens maybe that happens

after they they see the

incoming atmospheric

disturbance or maybe it happens

sometime like during another

downtime yeah

but the point is is that now

team seven is back into

communication with home base

and they're like team seven you

need to ascend immediately you

need to ascend immediately

you've got to get out of there

well why what what do you mean

we got to get out of here like

what's

going on we don't we're not

sure but we think rival tech

sent down something that is an

unpleasant

surprise for you guys you have

to start getting out of there

they're like all right carl's

like all right copy copy base

moving up yeah yeah and so they

're moving up and i think that

we have to have them have

one more big bug encounter that

they think is like the last

thing they'll have to face

before they get

to the surface this is not a

bulk detonator surely not no

but this has to be a moment of

like downtime we

have to have a moment to

breathe we've had two big

battles we know that something

's coming for them yeah

so this is where like they

start walking and you know carl

walks up next to mission

control guy who has

yet to have a name and it's

just like hey i never got to

thank you for what you did back

there

yeah i i you know i did it in a

panic man like i just heard you

yelling to get behind it and i

couldn't even barely do it you

know you did good you did good

green beard you did good so

like carl

personally thanks so carl what

you know how why why are you

like you've been through all

sorts of stuff

like you're almost like you're

almost like a legend why how

how do you keep going it's like

well it's like

my dad always said and you know

have some kind of statement of

like his from his dead father

or something

like give carl some heart you

know yeah and mission control

guy like adds some levity he's

like huh

really i i joined for the cheap

beer you know and they both

have a good laugh about it you

know and then

they they get to like this big

chamber and it's like oh well

boys like they can see light at

the

end of the chamber yeah looks

looks like this is it yeah it

looks like we're gonna make it

and then

who do we want the dumb one to

be i don't want mission control

to be the dumb one but who's

like

who should we make the overly

curious one that that is going

to get them in trouble which

guy i mean

driller's like the big dumb

brute guy okay but engineer

would be like the more

intellect one that

would probably be more curious

so they're walking and as they

're walking the engineer

starts to hear like what sounds

like a distant heartbeat

it's like hey do you guys hear

that hear what oh i hear

something let's check it out no

no and

carl's like no man we don't

really have no we have a duty

to the company

it's you know this could be

this could be huge so they're

they're hearing this heartbeat

and they're

hearing like a pulsing and th

robbing as they're getting

closer and this is where

in the distance they see the

blue puffs of flame yeah so

they're seeing like this moork

ite well they're

like oh my god it's liquid mo

orkite i've heard rumors of this

stuff but we've never been able

to find it

we're rich

and i've heard it can fuel

entire civilizations for years

now meanwhile meanwhile though

engineer is like

no guys that's not it look at

this and there's this big red f

leshy orb

oh no he's like hey guys i

wonder what this is and carl's

like no get away from that don

't and he just lays a hand on it

boom

and what is this called uh the

the cocoon or the egg the big

glyphid egg when it hatches

what what's

the enemy called uh the dreadn

ought dreadnought so dreadnought

hatches you know yeah and i don

't know

which dreadnought we'll

probably go with the easiest

one just to make it simple

basic dreadnought we'll just

do a basic dreadnought and so

once again epic battle ensues

but carl uh during this battle

he gets a little bit wounded

like so like he gets bit on the

leg or something like it's

still

attached and whatnot but like

he's limping along some of the

other guys get like i think the

driller

get rightfully gets killed in

the initial explosion yeah like

well the driller or the

engineer sorry

the engineer yeah the engineer

gets killed in the initial

explosion which serves him

right

you know like ah and then they

they shout his name you know

whatever his name is and carl's

like

he's gone let's move so like

they have to find a way to deal

with the dreadnought and we're

going to go

off script with the dreadnought

because normally with dreadn

oughts like you have to shoot

them or you

have to we're gonna collapse

the cave on it we're gonna and

this is by the way not when the

moorkite

well gets caught on fire yeah

not so so like they're

initially trying to distract it

to move like so

they come up with this plan in

the heat of battle they're like

oh you know we've got a uh carl

what

do we do i've never faced one

of these before wait i've got

it all right here's what we

gotta do look

up there so we gotta lure it

over there okay all right how

do we do that wait you you

could have

like some barnacles

establishing that it's already

loose there we go we do a call

back nice so um so

they're all trying to distract

in the process carl gets

injured um they're all getting

like scrapped

scraped up and stuff but they

managed to get the thing over

there they they fire everything

they have

or almost everything they have

up at the ceiling it collapses

and kills the thing they're

like ah

and they're now trapped neck

like they still have the path

out but they're right next to

liquid

moorkite well now yeah so it's

puff puff puffing you know it's

doing its puff puff puffing

thing yep and

they barely have a moment to

breathe and they're sitting

there and they start to hear a

thumping noise

that almost seems like rhythm

ically connected to the moorkite

but it really isn't and maybe

like

some drilling sounds that are

much quieter some some drilling

sounds some thumping and they

're just like

what the hell is that this is

the rival tech thing that has

kind of come through the wall

now initially the rifle tech

thing is just meant for reconna

issance it has some lasers and

stuff for

drilling but it's not meant to

be like a weapon yeah and so

what happens is so the rival

tech thing breaks

through and gets a video feed

now you cut back to rival tech

and you're like sir we've

spotted them

and look at this we've spotted

this what is that it's liquid

moorkite they discovered liquid

moorkite

oh my gosh we're we're gonna

make millions off of this or or

it would be the opposite where

they have

the monopoly over the the all

the liquid moorkite on other

planets oh and they're gonna be

ruined we're

gonna be ruined if they take

advantage of this you know

whatever it is and then all of

a sudden like a red

warning light starts flashing

sir well what is it oh i'm

losing control of the of the

thing what do you mean

you're losing control i mean

something else is taking it

over well what could possibly

be taken over and

then you just hear you know

some kind of noise and so then

you cut to the thing and it's

light changes

from like orange to like red or

green to red and it just has

like a bunch of the charge suck

ers all over it

and carl looks up and like it's

just like guys this this this

is a whole nother ball game

yeah or

something like yeah like like

like they notice like it's just

green it's just looking around

all of a

sudden the light starts flick

ering then they notice the

charge suckers on it like

this is not gonna be good so we

get into the final battle they

there's only three dwarves now

they're

out of ammo like there's

clearly like the only thing

that could really be done to

defeat this thing

would be for some brave dwarf

to jump up on top of this thing

and nail the charge suckers but

the so

so they're all making a run for

it trying to cover each other

and mission control guy is like

i've got a clean approach i'm

gonna go for it he's like no

you need to stay behind no i'm

going for

we need to get out of here so

he runs he jumps up he nails

one of the charge suckers

knocks it off he gets thrown no

and that's when you see like he

lands in such a way

that he breaks his leg oh

like his leg like goes like

sideways at the knee it's like

yep he's like ah you know guys

i can't get up

leave me and now meanwhile the

the rival tech thing at this

point you know it's a little

bit stunned

so it's like guys just leave me

behind get out while you can

and carl's like i may have lost

a few mates

but i've never left a man

behind never leave a dwarf i've

never left a dwarf behind never

so carl runs out you

know blasts another charge

sucker off the thing you know

he's fighting like crazy he

makes it out there

and you know basically like he

's rescuing i think both dwarves

like one both of the dwarves

are like

pinned down like the the dr

iller ran or no the driller the

engineer no not driller it

would the driller

ran to help mission control guy

they're both pinned down by

this thing that's shooting

lasers at them

the lasers are going to drill

through the rock anytime now

you know driller made a bunker

for mission

control yeah so they're pinned

down and uh driller has managed

to get like a splint like he's

managed to

like snap the leg back into

position and splint it which of

course it's like ah

and carl makes it over to them

yeah then yeah maybe driller

should have died because i feel

like

engineer would know how to make

a splint maybe i don't know

whatever it doesn't matter this

is a rough

out one yeah so so they're

pinned down carl manages to

make it over to them and this

is where like

our our gunner guy is like uh i

've got two bullets left how

about you what do you got not

much and so

carl's like well mates there's

only one thing left to do then

and they're like carl what are

you doing

what any good leader does i'm

gonna save your lives and so

carl runs over he like knocks

another one of

the charge suckers off you know

it looks like he's about to

make it to the last one when

all of a sudden

a laser that they didn't see

flips over like it's one of

those rotational like things so

it just looks

like a normal panel on the

thing yeah but it rotates right

when he's in front of it right

as

he's about to strike the last

one right through the chest he

just stands there for a minute

you know

slow motion and he realizes he

's hit you know yeah and then he

kind of smiles like satisfied

like this

is how i knew i was gonna go

and he falls over the two dwar

ves and he falls into the liquid

war cut yeah he

falls into the well he falls

near the well not in it oh but

he's clearly dead and so they

're like no

and you know especially mission

control guy because they had

that bonding moment

mission control guy never knew

his father yes so fine so dr

iller you know mission like so

the big like

taken over thing is like going

over to the body of carl

thinking that it's going to you

know mutilate

it or destroy it fully in case

he's still alive yeah and gun

ner slash mission control guy

stumbles up on one leg and and

you know driller's like what

the hell do you think you're

doing

what are you doing and he looks

down at him and says with

conviction for carl and he

turns and he gets

his last two shot he aims

directly at the moorkite well

takes the two shots the moork

ite well explodes in

a ball of flame the the it

completely obliterates not just

the the energy sucker or

whatever you call it yeah

but the entire machine

apparatus yep and then they

pass out and fade to black

yeah you you see the drop pod

coming down and then this yeah

you see the drop pod coming

down

that fades to black and then

you cut to the you cut back i

don't think we have to cut back

to the

hospital or anything you cut

back to the beginning of the

story so you cut back to

the current mission control

current mission control and he

's like you know i i lost

mission clearance

that day i could never go out

and fight again because of me

leg but i'll be damned if i see

anything

happen like that again on my

watch there's a reason why i

fought for mission control

there's a reason why i

fought to be in this position

and that the entire reason is

for carl and you see like this

little tear

like to honor the memory and

the legacy of carl and you see

like this tear trickle down and

we like

at that point kind of fade out

and then maybe at the end maybe

at the end you show like

the you know rock box thing as

a teaser or something

oh and all this will actually

become reality but but just to

let everybody know i mean this

is a

conversation that kit and i had

a while ago and i'm pretty sure

that we've remained true to the

original story maybe enhanced

it a little bit we changed up

the the ending a bit but i i

think it

still works really well yeah

obviously rival tech loses out

because their entire thing got

destroyed

ndrg has access to the planet

yep they have all the more kite

wells now and from the data

they've got

well and maybe that's part of

that closing spell from the

data we got we were able to map

out how to

find additional more kite wells

and yeah we've slowly been able

to expand our operations but i

'll be damned

if anything will ever happen

like happened that day all of

this my entire career is

dedicated to carl

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this is a rough outline rough

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