Archived Conversation: Albert Cole and Gary Epps

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Transcript

 * ALBERT COLE: we're doing a post-apoc LARP
 * ALBERT COLE: join us, it'll be fun
 * GARRY EPPS: so, what, you meet up and pretend you're like nuclear holocaust mutants or something?
 * ALBERT COLE: among other things, sure
 * ALBERT COLE: and it's not so much "pretend" as "reenact"
 * GARRY EPPS: uh huh
 * ALBERT COLE: we alrady [sic] have this new storyline planned out
 * ALBERT COLE: we leave the safety of Bunker 101 for the first time since nuclear war erupted across the globe
 * ALBERT COLE: we need to find a hydroprocessor before all the bunker dwellers run out of fresh water
 * GARY EPPS: ok...
 * GARY EPPS: listen, no offense but I don't think playing dress-up and running around the badlands with a plastic pistol is really for me
 * GARY EPPS: like I don't want to be rude but...yeah
 * ALBERT COLE: dude its nova, like a ton of fun actually
 * ALBERT COLE: I'm serious
 * ALBERT COLE: like braindance is just a regurgitation, it's always the same story that you have to follow
 * ALBERT COLE: but here we get to make the story as we go along
 * GARY EPPS: so that's why LARP is a billion-eurodollar industry too...
 * ALBERT COLE: very funny
 * ALBERT COLE: but man, you get to be the actor, become the hero
 * GARY EPPS: actors get paid
 * ALBERT COLE: at least try it once
 * ALBERT COLE: I know you'll get hooked
 * GARY EPPS: I'm skeptical
 * GARY EPPS: will Tony be there?
 * ALBERT COLE: yep
 * GARY EPPS: alright fine, I'll go. I need to talk to him anyway
 * GARY EPPS: you take any real guns out there with all your toys?
 * ALBERT COLE: Preem! and yeah, some but we never really get em out
 * GARRY [sic] EPPS: cuz I mean, it IS the badlands
 * GARRY [sic] EPPS: scary shit happens out there
 * ALBERT COLE: Gary, just relax and try and let yourself enjoy it, ok?

Trivia
The entire conversation contains several references to the Fallout series. Bunker 101 is Vault 101, the scenario and hydroprocessor is a reference to Fallout's story and the water chip. Albert Cole and Gary Epps are also both references to a pre-made character in Fallout, and the GURPs system that was the original gameplay system before the SPECIAL system.