Episode 12

• Recorded 10/23/22 and 10/30/22

• Video numbers #17 and #18 in the playlist

• Characters (mainly): Sho, 1gor, Miku, Johnathan, "Jerma"/Drip Aigis/Nyarlathotep, Yu, Four, lots of small appearances like Ryoji, Cloud Strife, and Nahobino/California Girl #2.

• Important details: Introduces Nyarlathotep, there's a bit revealed concerning 1gor + Nyarlathotep as well as the concept of Counterparts.

• Misc. Information: Technically two separate entries/sessions but they're similar and short enough to be blended together into one. California Girls.

10/23/22 (#17) 9:50 CUT OFF SHORT due to one of the guys being way too tired to continue, prob will be picked back up at a later date - WE’RE BACK ON THE TRAIN BAYBEEE! Miku’s continuing to supervise Sho and 1gor. Sho mentions he’s been here before but that conversations cut off when Johnathan Blorbo just waltzes in. Everyone’s confused about his presence, but accepts it pretty quickly. Miku and Sho talk about how stupid Johnahtan’s name is (since Sho named him) while 1gor tries to break the window using a sign, only to break the sign instead. Miku tries to convince 1gor to stop trying to escape since y'know.. moving train but also a lot of the windows are unbreakable. 1gor ignores her and starts to explore around the train with Miku and Sho, Sho desperately trying to get 1gor to let him break a sign for once while Miku’s like “guyss stopp I have to pay for this :(((“ At some point Sho starts getting audio hallucinations of some weird ass squeaking sound, but it’s soon brushed off (it continues to happen though and no we legit had no idea where it was coming from, no one else but Axel was hearing it). 1gor goes to use a briefcase to break shit while Miku continues to try to stop him while Sho tries to ask Johnathan Blorbo about why he’s on the train, though he doesn’t get a clear answer (due to getting distracted by the weird ass noise). They continue exploring and make it to the Bowling Room, where the whole bit seen in #9 continues. Sho continues to be frustrated with Miku not seeing what’s goin on, at some point Miku compares Sho and 1gor both to looking like a bowling pin (Sho bc red hair and 1gor bc his hair shape generally looks like a bowling pin head).

They eventually head out and into the pool area, Miku and Sho fighting a bit as they do. Jonathan sits down, fully submerged in the water, and when Sho questions it he clarifies he can breathe. Miku seconds it, saying that the water has so much oxygen in it that anyone can just. Breathe in it. They all take a few moments to sit submerged in the water. Miku mentions the history of the train- having been a project to see if there was a way to physically connect each sub-dimension of the hhgregg dimension, though it didn’t work out so it was scrapped and turned into its own sub-dimension. They go into the next room and 1gor finally successfully breaks a window, Miku trying to hold him and Sho back from jumping out. 1gor gets out but comments that there’s a rope just outside, and climbs it to the roof of the train, Sho following soon after. Miku and Johnathan stay in the room and talk a bit about how “yeah they’re always like this.” At some point Johnathan goes to the back of the train, meets up with 1gor, and Sho falls off the roof of the train. He manages to keep track with the train somewhat and the two pull him up. The three talk for a bit, Sho bringing up the question of why the train is like this. 1gor just sees it as some fucked up thing happened so now everything’s like this, Sho thinks it’s like an infinite space or a small space infinitely repeating on itself. Jonathan doesn’t give an answer, saying he’s not one of the “higher ups.”

At some point there’s an explosion in front of them, drawing Sho’s gaze up towards the roof of the train where “Jerma” stands. Sho recognizes him and is just really confused, but once “Jerma” starts to back up, he and 1gor go after him while Johnathan stays behind. The two interrogate “Jerma” about whether or not he’s really Jerma. 1gor comments he’s very untrustworthy about “Jerma,” and Sho agrees, saying something feels super off about him. The two start to attack him, though he remains neutral and unphased by the attacking, and when asked by Sho if he’s one of the gods here he just answers “Somewhat.” 1gor tries to get Sho to leave it, but Sho ignores him until “Jerma” shoots him off the train and continues walking. 1gor continues to act very off about “Jerma,” citing the strange familiarity of his face to him. Sho starts to attack him again but 1gor gets him to stop, continuing to interrogate “Jerma” about whether or not he knows him, though “Jerma” continues to give vague cryptic answers. At some point “Jerma” successfully leaves, 1gor commenting that his arm (the marked one) (the playermodel doesn’t have it but if you look at P2:EP Tatsuya he has a weird branding on his arm from Nyarlathotep) felt really weird around “Jerma,” wanting to strangle him.

Miku catches up to them and the two fill her in on the whole “Jerma” interaction. She says that it just sort of sounds like Jerma, though only having talked to him a few times. Sho tries to weed out an explanation, asking if Jerma was sent here, but Miku doesn’t really know but doesn’t think he was teleported here. 1gor fills Sho in about how his arm was cursed by Nyarlathotep, but asks Miku about why she seemed to recognize the name when stated. She brings up that she explained how Nyarlathotep is besties with Hhgregg, making 1gor a bit frustrated, saying he wants to kill him. He continues talking about his relations to Nyarlathotep, saying that he haunts him. Miku brings up the topic about her being teleported to Hhgregg (surprising Sho a bit) and compares a possible difference of “hhgregg” Nyarlathotep to the “original” Nyarlothep, saying that the Teddie she knew wasn’t an eldritch horror god of terror, rather that he was just a horndog and more optimistic. Sho brings up the possibility that it’s the same with Jerma and Nyarlathotep, saying that those two could just have a connection in hhgregg but not act the same as 1gor knew, though 1gor disagrees and states he felt the same hatred as he did for the Nyarlathotep “he knows.” Sho continues trying to figure out the whole “counterpart” business and how it relates to Jerma while 1gor brings up the whole “alternate universe” possibility, comparing it to what Nyarlathotep did. *[ends here due to CG bein ohhh so eepy /nm /lh so we cut it off and decided to pick it back up later]

10/30/22 (#18) 1:00:00 (IGNORE THE FACT IT STARTS SO LATE WE JUST KEPT FUCKING AROUND) (this is really short too) - WE STILL ON THE TRAIN! Sho wakes up from just being blacked out and walks into the little tiled dining car from yesterday and sees Miku. They converse a bit. 1gor shows up and Miku makes the two of them burgers :-) Mcyaois is brought up and the whole fucking-a-burger-in-the-bathroom tradition that goes on there has to be explained to 1gor :-(. Jonathan blorbo enters and just kinda hangs out, Cloud Strife exists for a few moments only to be shot immediately by Miku. Cloud kinda disgusts Sho and makes Miku distrustworthy because he’s polygonal. Four appears outside the window, both Miku and 1gor calling them a bird, Sho yelling at 1gor that it’s not a bird only to turn around and see Ryoji there. Miku shoots both Four and Ryoji and Sho TRIES to get her to stop shooting everyone but she shoots him like three times, saying its just one of those days. They see a rat, Miku shoots it, 1gor starting to agree with Sho saying for her to stop only for him to get shot too. She eventually says she’s going to try to take a nap to get this to stop and leaves.

After a bit Yu shows up and Sho introduces him to 1gor. Sho sees the Vague Green Outline of a Polygonal Man outside and when checking, sees that it's “Jerma.” He gets 1gor’s attention while Yu shoots Four a bit. The two try to kill Jerma but he just kinda vaguely leads them to the back of the train then disappears. 1gor kills Four and throws them off the back of the train as a supposed sacrifice to get “Jerma” to never come back and since he doesn’t, they think it works. For good measure they try to track Four down again to sacrifice again but they successfully flee. 1gor throws a barrel off the back of the train and compares it to the “gorilla that throws barrels and mario dies” game, refusing that the gorilla is called Donkey Kong. The two begin to wander the train a bit before making it to the disco room, where Drip Aigis is bustin’ it DOWN. Sho tries to ask her who she is but she answers vaguely in the same way “Jerma” did. Yu and Four also show up and just kinda hang out THUMBS UP!

Drip Aigis continues to dance and Sho brings up the fact there’s just an Italian flag on the wall, and she answers with “hhgregg’s italian.” Sho continues to press her about who exactly she is and what her deal is because he’s getting a “vibe” from her that he doesn’t like, but she continues to not answer. Sho insults her dancing a bit and says she sucks and when she comes back with “YOU’RE GAY!” He states she doesn’t know him and when she says she sort of does, he asks her to prove it. Sho then hears a voice in his head go “I’m in your thoughts :-)” which REALLY freaks him out. He tries to ask Four and Yu if either of them heard that voice but both of them shake their heads. Sho continues to demand answers but he never really gets them. 1gor shows back up (CG was having problems with the Aigis model showing as an error ): ) and Sho explains what just happened to him, and 1gor chooses to believe Sho since he said it used to happen to him, to which Drip Aigis just kinda goes “oh I’m sure it did” (..... WINK!). Sho sits down to take a breather from all this and 1gor talks to Yu a bit how he’s a bit familiar while Yu squeezes his hog at him. Eventually 1gor goes to nap and Sho, unsuccessfully, presses Aigis for more answers. Nahobino shows up as soon as Aigis mentions something about California and girls and starts emitting California Gurls. Nahobino, Drip Aigis, and Yu all bust it down to California Gurls. The former two make fun of Sho for not knowing what California looks like and how he should travel more often. Nahobino confirms he is, indeed, a certified California Gurl. Sho eventually leaves to go to sleep, is harassed a bit by Nahobino and Aigis bc they wouldn’t leave him alone, but he eventually gets to sleep in a bathtub.