Scene 1 · Gnarly’s Workshop – Front CounterCold open, Thursday, 9:05 AM. Kevin the alligator still lives on the waiting bench. AoC reads the bank's letter: after the Kraken fine, the shop's account is down to seventy cents,…Scene 2 · Gnarly’s Workshop – The Cog Factory RigThe Cog Factory Rig, 9:30 AM. Gnarly shows p61, THE IMAGE MENU: a menu made entirely of pictures, every screen a web page shot by a browser and cut into game textures, with a real…Scene 3 · Gnarly’s Workshop – The Back RoomThe Back Room, 10:15 AM. The whiteboard reads RENT LATE and BANK 70 CENTS. Pux pitches THE BLACK ROOM: forty dollars to be locked in the windowless back room with the lights off, a…Scene 4 · Gnarly’s PadGnarly's Pad, Thursday, 8:00 PM. Homework on the flatscreen: SM Sith Lord played Gnarly's kraken (p59) and sent notes, and five more builds came of them: laser eyes, red when it is…Scene 5 · Gnarly’s Workshop – The Back RoomTHE BLACK ROOM, Friday, 9:00 AM, the test run. Black garbage bags are taped over the alley door, and Jezz's menu board (black_room) stands in front of the whiteboard with a window…Scene 6 · Gnarly’s Workshop – The Cog Factory RigThe rig, Friday, 1:30 PM. Behind Gnarly's desk the garage bay is now the arena: a ring of plywood on the oil-stained floor around a kiddie pool full of drain crabs. Pux needs Gnarl…Scene 7 · Gnarly’s Workshop – The Back RoomTHE BLACK ROOM, Friday, 1:35 PM. Since nine it has had eleven customers: four warranties, two mystery boxes and a man who bought a microwave to get out, seven hundred and twelve do…Scene 8 · Gnarly’s Workshop – The Cog Factory RigThe arena in the garage bay, Friday, 1:50 PM. AoC holds up the score screen, a cardboard S: VICTORY, four crabs, nine seconds, no damage, a perfect round, the same as the stormtroo…
