![]() As they set up to leave, Conway is sitting at his table talking with a few skeletal figures, seen with the flashlight. Johnny sets out to collect tips while Cyrano plays. Johnny talks to Cyrano, who is struggling for cash but doesn't want his audience to know it. Patch offers a seemingly endless list of drinks, but they decline. She missed the lady she was supposed to meet up with for bike parts. (WARNING: It is possible to completely miss this next part if the player does not talk to Patch at the bar when Johnny and Junebug are sitting near him, and instead talks to them a second time at the dock.) Patch, the bartender, talks to Junebug for a bit. Next to him is Dawn, his wife, who says he worries too much and to not listen to him. A man named Sonny complains to Shannon about environmental threats and how woeful it all is. ![]() Conway has a drink and talks about how his past is taking over and surrounding him. Mary Ann says the Hard Times shipment never arrived for their celebration. They are all celebrating a big milestone, but nobody knows what it is. Bohm, Metzstein, and Luis drink and chat nearby. He says Lula broke off from the group to do some packing. Rick, from the Bureau, is relaxing on the shore with a drink. She is late to meeting a woman for bike parts. Junebug tells Shannon their musician friend Cyrano, wizard of the lap steel guitar, is playing at the bar tonight. (The player chooses as Shannon to stay aboard and repair the VCR or go to the Rum Colony bar.) As the boat continues on its journey, Will recounts what most likely happened at the gas station the musicians probably talked to the attendant for a while and looked for food that wasn't found in nature. Will offers a selection of old maps to Ezra to choose from if he is interested. Will asks Ezra for more info to update the map for accuracy since things often end up shifting on the river. Conway tells him maps are probably needed for boats, but he doesn't use them, just landmarks and directions. She is concerned about the placement of one of her landmarks which seems to be in the wrong place, so she sends Ezra to the map room to talk to Will about it. She relies heavily on sight and lights since compasses don't work well on the Echo. If the player chooses to stay on board: Ezra makes some observations from the captain's chair and Cate talks to him about the floating gas station, what the dials and gauges on the dashboard mean, and her home-brewed kombucha. He tells the story of how he was lost adrift on the Echo without a lantern for a very long time and almost starved to death, but on the last apple he had there was a newborn insect that turned out to be a lightning bug and he survived by its tiny light! "GLORYITISGOODTOBEAMONGFRIENDS!" He asks Junebug for help with his online dating profile. He met his now ex-wife Greta while he was working in textiles, but she left him for unknown reasons. She is greeted by a man, Norm, who mistakes her for a woman named Loretta who he met online and had planned to meet at the gas station. Maybe he wants Ezra to join them permanently? She wishes he would confide in her more. Junebug considers why Johnny may be feeling preoccupied. Cate never remembers him, but he says it's okay. Junebug talks to the gas station attendant and he tells her he has some cool crystals for sale and goes on to tell her he used to be wealthy and living in Cleveland Ohio until he ran out of money and took up his current job. She looks forward to the mushrooms that it'll bring and says her dog Valkyrie helps find them. She talks to Junebug about the roaming storm upstairs and possible flooding and damages. (The player chooses as Ezra to either stay on the boat at the gas station, or go with Johnny and Junebug.)Ĭate says they stop at the floating gas station every night, but it drifts about on the Echo, so it isn't always in the same spot. He has a conversation with Shannon about his drinking. Conway grabs a beer from the fridge with his new skeletal right arm, after being sober for 15 months. Johnny sends Ezra out with his tape recorder to collect all kinds of sounds to use for their musical performance. Johnny and Junebug hang out inside with fellow musician and traveler from Lithuania, Clara. Cate tells Shannon they have some weird tapes in the VCR room of a woman talking, but you can't hear her, and there is a strange hum. ![]() He tells Shannon that he was a teacher at the university, but had been demoted to odd jobs and ended up helping out his friend and captain of the ferry, Cate. He has a brief conversation with Junebug about the river. Act IV opens to the scene of Will, the handyman of the Mucky Mammoth ferry, struggling with a manual for mechanical mammoth repair.
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