Locket Raunch

July 18th 2021

## Characters (In Order)

* Tommy Coolatta
* Mr. Helpful
* Chip
* Celeste
* Vodkowski
* Jack Daniel
* Meredith
* Nonbinary Vortigaunt
* VOX
* Willie Boe Job
* Every YouTuber
* Cowboy

The episode opens with Mr. Helpful, Chip, and Tommy watching the "Jello-O harden," the same spot as last episode and Tommy still has the HL2 weapons. Celeste wakes up at this time and then Tommy turns a VALVe and spots Jack Daniel. Jack is hammering away at the concrete wall opposite Tommy with a shovel and after some coaxing, jumps onto the middle pipe that the turn wheel was moving. After some traveling, a Giant Baby named Meredith holding a gun decorated with red and orange appears in front of Tommy and Jack. Meredith repeats "You killed my brudder!" over and over, prompting Tommy to apologize and Meredith voices his hatred toward Tommy. Mr. Helpful then uses his "Never Fear-dar(TM)", which scares the Giant Baby away. Jack mistakenly refers to Tommy as Gordon Freeman and EBB activates during this to help correct Jack. Then Celeste claims to have met EBB in the past before but it seems like EBB doesn't remember meeting Celeste at all. After some more traveling, a vortigaunt teleports into a chair and starts speaking in its native tongue. Tommy starts speaking back and the both of them have a back and forth. Jack and the AIs are confused what language the Nonbinary Vortigaunt is speaking despite Tommy explaining and the vortigaunt mentions they use they/them pronouns but no one seems to realize. While the Nonbinary Vortigaunt goes off to fight some soldiers, Jack expresses his discomfort with crossing the treacherous pile of boxes Tommy and the vortigaunt have been jumping on and goes off to find his own way out.

### Act II

Tommy tries to find a way forward while Chip shares the fact that they can't read except for the word "Danger!" VOX soon says its first line: "ELEVATOR OPEN," prompting Tommy to find a way to turn on the elevator power. VOX then talks about the elevator a lot while Tommy fixes the jammed generator. Once it's fixed, Chip mentions how the last elevator was dusty and then asks what EBB thinks but EBB is deactivated. Chip starts panicking and Celeste helps Chip calm down, assuring them that no one's leaving Chip. Tommy returns from the generator part and Willie teleports Tommy back to where the Giant Baby was before. Willie Boe Job introduces himself and informs Tommy that Billy Boe Job has died but Billy's forklift was given to Tommy in his will. Tommy rides the legendary forklift through the rail system and meets a toll gate and a youtuber. The youtuber announces he's doing the "Walter White Challenge," which is supposedly making drugs, most likely meth. The youtuber hypes up the challenge to fill the video runtime, and then stops to focus his attention to Tommy. Chip asks what drugs are, so Tommy tries to explain but then the youtuber suddenly says: "Be sure to like and Subscribe, motherFUCKER." The youtuber slaps Tommy and asks if Tommy's going to subscribe. Tommy asks for his channel name and the channeler creepily says "All of them." Tommy asks if he is Markiplier and Every YouTuber responds with "Where do you think the E came from?". Tommy thinks that means his name is the entire alphabet and since Tommy passed the vibe check, Every Youtuber raises the toll gate. Tommy will subscribe to E.

### Act III

Tommy drives the forklift into a pit but the lower floor is unfortunately flooded, meaning the forklift cannot go any farther. Chip and Mr. Helpful rag on Tommy for breaking the forklift. After some walking on foot, Tommy kills an Extendo Tongue and Mr. Helpful explains that Tommy can "French-kiss the extendo tongue for fourty extra... Good Boy Points!" Tommy soon after meets a Cowboy and Mr. Helpful, Tommy, and the Cowboy all agree that the Cowboy is in fact a Cowboy. Tommy announces he is "Safety Tommy" who approves everything; Safety Tommy approves of cowboys. There's a fork in the rail system and VOX says "RIGHT." The Cowboy goes left and VOX disagrees. Tommy decides to follow VOX's advice and goes right and Mr. Helpful tries to convince Tommy to turn back. Tommy throws 3 grenades, yelling that whatever is on the right path cannot stop him. Tommy returns to his cowboy friend and finds a pit full of electrified water; Tommy then fixes this problem quickly. Tommy finds 2 Extendo Tongues and asks Mr. Helpful how many Good Boy Points himself has since Tommy would do anything for them. Mr. Helpful tells Tommy to kill the Cowboy for 3 GBP and after a lot of shotgun shells and one revolver round, the Cowboy is dead.

### Act IV

While Tommy is fighting soldiers, he wonders why there is a lack of people and Chip is sure that they were bad people. EBB activated sometime recently because they chime in with the possibility that they were just victims. Vodkowski and Chip welcome EBB and Chip is utterly ecstatic that EBB is back. Tommy and the others share the fact that Tommy killed a man for Good Boy Points and Mr. Helpful announces that Tommy has 2 Good Boy Points. EBB asks where Tommy is and Tommy shares that he is on his way to launch a rocket to stop the alien invasion. It is unknown how Tommy knows that is what the rocket is for. Now that EBB is back, Chip feels safe leaving the suit to sleep and says goodbye. VOX is excited about the rocket and announces "ROCKET. ROCKET LAUNCH... LAUNCH." Tommy soon fights more of the military and soon after, VOX is still excited about the rocket. EBB notes this and Tommy asks to confirm VOX's name. The announcement system introduces itself as VOX. During this introduction, Tommy has broken into the rocket control room and activates the rocket. The window shutters slowly open and the rocket begins its launching stages, then disappears into the night sky. Tommy asks what VOX would do if they could leave Black Mesa and it responds with "GO HOME", and hinting that Earth is not home and that the rocket is to let them go home. It is unclear if VOX was in the rocket.

The video ends with a message from the HEV suit saying: "Attention! Connection With HECU, Marines... Established. Warning! Interference From Foreign Biohazard Detected. HEV Entering Lockdown." Lockdown is said as if the HEV suit is powering off. 2 beeps sound and then the HEV suit says: "Lockdown Overridden. Have A Very Safe Day."

PS: Tommy says something about the rocket and the alien invasion but Star doesn't remember if Tommy is saying it's good or bad that the rocket has launched.

## Trivia

* Jack Daniel has not jumped in 15 years.
* In the original take of Jack Daniel jumping to Tommy on the pipe, Jack jumped into Tommy, sending Tommy launching into the void below.
* According to Daniel, the medkits inject Bug Juice.
* The Giant Baby name being Meredith was decided by Fiber.
* The rest of the cast didn't realize the Vortigaunt said they/them so they were misgendered unfortunately.
* The words available for the TTS used for VOX couldn't say much about the elevator so that's why VOX is saying "ELEVATOR OPEN", "ELEVATOR CLOSED"
* Fiber makes some references to Breaking Bad throughout the rest of the series.
	+ Star chimes in with "What do the numbers mean?" in this episode.
	+ Fiber's reference to Breaking Bad in this episode is the "Walter White Challenge."
* Tommy compares the Cowboy to Joshua, since Joshua loves cowboys. Add this to the HLVRAI reference counter./hj
* The rocket control room is shown on this website's background image with the window shutter fully open on the right and the Wikipedia logo on the left, displaying the satellites in orbit around Wikipedia.
* The HEV suit voice is Fiber using a voice filter to sound like the HEV suit.
* The Paper Mario joke is not funny as agreed upon by everyone in the cast.

## Music Tracks

* 0:00 Half Life 2 - Hazardous Environments
* 0:43 Undertale - Waterfall
* 2:19 Half Life 2 Episode 1 - Eine Kleiner Elevatormuzik
* 3:20 Half Life - Jungle Drums
* 4:12 Portal 2 - Love as a Construct
* 7:37 Black Mesa - Catalyst
* 10:09 Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney - Guard's Elegy
* 10:25 Half Life 2 Episode 2 - Vortal Kombat
* 10:48 Deus Ex - NYC Streets
* 12:52 Paper Mario - Shy Guy Riot
* 13:19 Half Life 2 - Suppression Field
* 13:47 Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney - Wandering Detective From the Wild West
* 16:23 Deus Ex Human Revolution - Icarus
* 17:47 Half Life - Electric Guitar Ambience
* 19:31 Half Life - Diabolical Adrenaline Guitar
* 20:15 Portal 2 - You Saved Science!
* 21:13 Half Life 2 Episode 1 - Decay Mode