THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS - Ep 2: Candy Carrier Chaos!

0:00 [peppy electronic music plays]♪♪ [voices echoing throughout] [Caine]:

0:13 Welcome to the Amazing Digital Circus!

0:15 [Jax]: Pomni.

0:16 [Caine]: Pomni.

0:17 [Ragatha]: Pomni.

0:17 [Jax]: Pomni.

0:18 [Ragatha]: Pomni...

0:19 [Caine]: Pomni!

0:19 [Ragatha]: Pomni!

0:20 [Jax]: Pomni.

0:21 [Caine]: Pomni!

0:22 [Ragatha]: Pomni!

0:30 -Hello?

0:34 [heartbeat thudding] [dark, ugly music plays]♪♪ [screams] No!

0:44 No!

0:45 No!

0:45 [stammers] Caine!

0:46 Somebody, help me!

0:48 Please!

0:54 [shrieks] No!

0:56 No!

0:57 [Caine]: [laughs] Looks like our new friend's already abstracted.

1:01 -[chuckles] Well, I guess we're not all cut out for it.

1:03 -I don't even remember her name, honestly.

1:20 [doorbell rings] [yelps] [wailing] [groans] Huh?

1:30 -Hey, Pomni.

1:32 How'd you sleep?

1:33 Are you still sleeping?

1:35 I'll let you get back to it, if you are.

1:39 There she is.

1:40 Hope you're doin' all right.

1:41 I know yesterday was a bit of a doozy.

1:44 -"A doozy." -Oh, and don't worry about

1:48 the whole "abandoning me for the exit" thing.

1:50 It's perfectly understandable what you were going through at the time,

1:53 and there's no hard feelings.

1:55 [laughs] Yer all good.

1:59 -Huh?

2:01 -Uh, well, let's forget about all that.

2:04 Caine's got a new adventure today, and judging by what he's been teasing,

2:08 it seems like it's gonna be a fun one.

2:11 -Today's adventure is...

2:15 That's right!

2:17 The Candy Canyon Kingdom's been robbed

2:19 of their most valuable resource— maple syrup!

2:23 It's up to you to bring the rotten

2:25 bandits who stole it to sweet, buttery justice!

2:28 -An entire kingdom of candy?

2:29 Sounds sticky.

2:31 -Very sticky, indeed.

2:33 -Sounds [BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!].

2:39 -Bubble, you can't say that.

2:40 [Zooble]: Mmmmmmmmmmm, nope.

2:42 -Zooble, wait!

2:43 I-I'm testing out a new AI in this one!

2:45 It should be 57 times more immersive!

2:48 Ooh, a new AI.

2:49 You don't want to mess with the new AI, Zoobie?

2:52 [Zooble]: Uh, yeah, no.

2:57 -Whoa, sounds fun.

2:58 What do you think, Pomni?

3:00 -So, our entire existence here...

3:04 is just LARPing?

3:07 -W-Well, uh— -Why are you all just standing there?!

3:09 The— The Canyon— C-Canyon Candy Kingdom needs you now!

3:19 Hmm?

3:19 -Nah, thanks.

3:20 I'm trying to quit.

3:21 [majestic music plays]♪♪ [cheers and applause]♪♪ -Wow,

3:58 Kinger, check out this castle.

4:00 It's amazing!

4:01 [Kinger]: They've even got little candy bugs here.

4:03 It's so beautiful.

4:04 -Yeah, this place is great!

4:06 -LOOK!!!

4:06 It's the princess!!

4:08 -[whimpers] [trumpet fanfare plays] -Ah,

4:11 you must be the brave knights sent to us by God...

4:15 to help us with our recent catastrophe.

4:17 -That's us, ma'am.

4:18 Your kingdom's awesome, by the way.

4:20 Love the vibe.

4:21 -[giggles] I like you already.

4:23 -Look, Pomni.

4:24 We're already friends with the princess.

4:26 -I'm not a child.

4:27 You don't have to hype me up.

4:28 -I assume you've been informed of your mission.

4:31 The bandits that robbed us used a modded syrup tanker,

4:34 so we figured the best way to go head-to-head with them

4:36 is to give you a war rig of your own.

4:38 [truck engine rumbling] -Aagh!

4:41 -Ooh, violence.

4:43 -What time period is this supposed to be, again?

4:46 -Here's the key back into the kingdom for when you've secured the goods.

4:49 I trust you not to let it fall into the wrong hands?

4:51 -You can count on me, Your Highness.

4:53 -Oh, please.

4:54 Call me Loo.

4:55 -[chuckles] Will do, Loo.

4:57 -I call shotgun.

5:00 [goofy, distorted warble] Oh, God, is that the horn?

5:02 [groans] That sucks.

5:04 Gangle, you drive.

5:08 -Farewell, good knights.

5:10 I have every faith in you!

5:12 [truck engine revs]♪♪ [truck horn warbles]♪♪ [insects

5:28 chirping] [all with Australian accents] -D'you think

5:32 your mum's gonna pull through if we get all this back to the village?

5:34 -I'm sure she will.

5:35 This much syrup would save hundreds of people.

5:37 -We won't know for sure until we get back to the village.

5:40 She's a fighter, though.

5:41 She taught me everything I know.

5:46 Oy!

5:46 Don't get too comfy, lads.

5:48 Looks like they've sent someone after us.

5:57 -All right, Gangle, when we catch up to 'em, I'll jump over, crawl inside,

6:01 and shoot 'em repeatedly until they're unrecognizable.

6:04 -I feel like that violates some kind of convention.

6:06 -You're violating my ears with your clap-back.

6:09 Get driving, driver!

6:10 -So, Pomni, I'm sure there's some way you could help out here.

6:14 Maybe when we catch up to them, we could— -We could be assertive.

6:17 Like this!

6:17 -Hey!

6:18 -[screams] -Jax!

6:22 -[groaning] -Ah, that's perfect!

6:26 Just hold that pose.

6:27 I gotta get something.

6:28 -Jax, you [BOINK!] -You know,

6:32 I swear there was some kind of bazooka back here, but...

6:34 [scoffs] ...I'm having such trouble finding it.

6:37 [Kinger]: Pomni, take this!

6:39 -Egh...

6:39 -Here it is.

6:40 All right, Pomni, you just stay like that, and I'll cross over you.

6:44 -Are you kidding me?!

6:46 Ow!

6:48 -Nice going, Pomni— now I have no bridge.

6:51 -Ah-hah!

6:52 Gotcha!

6:54 [bang!] [air whistling] Me arms aren't long enou— Whoa!

7:00 [brass hit!] -This lot's trouble.

7:05 Let's see how their rig does on those rocks around there.

7:08 -Me arms aren't short enough to shift the gear.

7:15 [rapid brass hits!] -Ooh, now we're cookin'!

7:21 Hey!

7:21 Ribbons!

7:21 Up and at 'em!

7:22 -I don't think we— -Aren't you supposed to be submissive and agreeable?

7:26 Move it!

7:28 -[wailing]♪♪ -Oh, these fellas just don't know when to quit, do they?

7:37 [rapid brass hits!] Hey!

7:38 Quit muckin' about and get back up here!

7:41 -Oh, yeah.

7:42 Right.

7:43 -[groans] Everyone all right?

7:45 [Kinger]: Can you repeat the question?

7:46 I couldn't hear you over the knives.

7:48 -Hey, Gangle.

7:49 You should ram into 'em.

7:51 -What?

7:51 -You should NOT ram them!

7:52 Pomni's still on board!

7:54 [crash!] -Do it.

7:55 It'll be epic.

7:56 [Ragatha]: Why are there so many knives back here?!

7:58 -Do it, or I'll tell Ragatha about the figurine thing.

8:01 -Guh!

8:01 [laughs nervously]♪♪ -Are you guys trying to [BOINK!] kill me?!

8:09 -These guys are whack jobs!

8:11 Let's give them some of this.

8:14 -Aww, no more ramming?

8:16 Guess I HAVE to tell Ragatha about the thing now.

8:18 [Gangle]: What?!

8:20 -Oh.

8:20 You're still up here.

8:21 -Guuuuuuys?

8:22 [Kinger]: Pomni, take this!

8:26 -Uh, hey, Kinger, is that rope attached to anything?

8:30 -Uhhhh.

8:31 I don't know.

8:32 Let me check.

8:34 [clang!] -[grunts]♪♪ -W-W-What?

8:49 Wha?

8:50 -I blame YOU for this.

8:51 [SPLORCH!] [tires squealing] -[screams]

9:00 -[grunts] AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

9:08 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH— Oog!

9:11 Ack!

9:12 [grunts] [wailing] OHHHH, NO!!!

9:15 [hollering] [grunts] [groans] [grunts softly] [voice echoing] Lads?

9:28 [mutters softly] Hello?

9:34 [eerie ambient music plays] Anyone?

9:38 [breathing shakily throughout]♪♪ Huh?

10:14 Uh...

10:20 [gasps] [breathing heavily]♪♪ -Guh!

10:44 [wails] [grunts] -[gasps] -[groans] Huh?

10:51 -Where are we?

10:53 W-What's all this?

10:56 -I-I don't know.

10:59 W-We're somewhere under the map, I think.

11:02 -"Map"?

11:06 Why aren't you or any of your crew up here?

11:10 -I-I'm not sure.

11:12 Be— Because we're not, uh, NPCs?

11:16 -"NPCs"?

11:17 What are you on about?

11:21 What are you people?

11:26 What am I?

11:32 Where's Mum?

11:33 -Y-You have a mom?

11:35 -Shouldn't she be here with everyone else?

11:38 [shakily] I can't even remember her face.

11:41 Did she ever have a face?

11:42 Was anything ever real?

11:44 -Okay, w-w-wait.

11:44 Don't— Don't think about that.

11:46 I-I-I think there...

11:49 must be a way to launch ourselves back up.

11:52 Right?

11:53 -[hyperventilating]♪♪ -I want you to tell me exactly what I am.

12:08 [fudge splorching] [whimsical music plays]♪♪ -[groans] Is everybody okay?

12:17 -No...

12:18 -Oh, man.

12:19 Poor Pomni.

12:21 I hope she's all right.

12:22 -"Poor Pomni"?

12:23 How about "poor us"?

12:25 We're one tanker away from being Augustus Glooped!

12:30 -[groaning] Oh, what's that?

12:33 Do my eyes deceive me?

12:36 A delicious gift from within the kingdom gates?

12:40 Don't mind if I do.

12:42 -Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy!

12:44 We're not food!

12:44 We're not candy!

12:45 We're none of that!

12:46 You don't want to eat us!

12:47 -Wh— You're not candy?

12:50 How am I expected to eat something that's not made of candy?

12:54 I'm sorry.

12:56 [Kinger]: Pomni always seems to miss the big, gloopy monsters.

12:59 -Who are you, anyway?

13:01 -I am the Fudge.

13:04 I used to live within the kingdom walls,

13:07 but I was banished by that rotten princess

13:10 after I ate too many of the delicious townfolk.

13:15 Oh, they were so delicious.

13:17 Sometimes I can hear them...

13:20 calling to me.

13:21 [townsfolk screaming] -Oh, God.

13:24 That just sounds like murder.

13:26 -Is it really murder if it's delicious?

13:29 Answer me that.

13:30 -You make a great point.

13:32 -Uh, no, bad point!

13:33 -Why don't you leave this to me before

13:35 I start thinking your hair looks like licorice?

13:37 -Jax!

13:38 [Kinger]: Oh, wow, it kind of does.

13:40 -Stop!

13:41 -Well, Mr.

13:41 Fudge, you seem like an upstanding guy with real noble goals.

13:45 -Oh, I'm not.

13:47 If you knew what I did in my free time— Oh, you'd be SICKENED!

13:51 -[clears throat] As I was saying.

13:53 I happen to know a way into the kingdom walls...

13:56 if you'd be willing to help us out in return.

13:58 -Hey, when did you— -Shut up, licorice hair.

14:00 [Kinger]: Here, hide it with this.

14:02 -Oh, you must be some kind of master of unlocking things,

14:06 come to free me from my outdoor prison.

14:09 -That's me.

14:10 All we need you to do is help us bring some dirty bandits to justice.

14:14 [air rushing] -AUGH— -I saw the reaper wink at me...

14:22 -Wait, w-w-what just happened?

14:33 [lollipop stick creaking] -Uhh...

14:40 y-you wanna try helping out at all?

14:43 [laughs nervously] Or are you still...

14:52 Hey.

14:53 You okay?

14:56 -No.

14:58 -You wanna talk about it?

15:01 -What is there to talk about?

15:04 -I don't just want to leave you here.

15:06 -Why not?

15:09 I don't matter in the slightest.

15:11 I'm nothing.

15:13 My life, my memories...

15:15 ...my friends...

15:17 It's all fake.

15:24 -This may seem weird, but...

15:27 I think I know the feeling.

15:31 Well, m-maybe not...

15:33 the e-exact feeling, but...

15:37 Feeling like you're nothing is...

15:39 kind of normal.

15:40 I mean, people even feel like that in the world I came from.

15:46 But...

15:48 Y-you still care about your buddies up there, don't you?

15:52 I'm sure they still care about you.

15:55 -What does it matter?

15:57 What do we have when you people leave?

16:00 We're just obstacles...

16:03 created to be defeated and forgotten.

16:06 -Well...

16:09 You don't have to be.

16:12 The— The circus— th— the place I'm from?

16:16 Well, I— I'm originally from somewhere else.

16:20 But...

16:22 If it has to be my home...

16:25 ...Maybe it can be yours, too.

16:27 The people there are...

16:30 interesting...

16:30 at the very least.

16:33 Maybe you...

16:36 [sighs] ...Could be somebody real there.

16:42 -Why are you trying to cheer me up?

16:45 How does this benefit you at all?

16:49 -I guess I just don't want you to feel like you're nothing.

16:54 I don't want anybody to feel like that.

16:57 -But I'm not even a real person.

17:00 Would I even belong?

17:02 -I'm sure you wouldn't belong any less than me.

17:05 [chuckles] And...

17:07 I could use a friend.

17:09 -"A friend." You're a strange little character.

17:15 Suppose I could give it a try.

17:19 All I ask is that we don't tell the lads about this.

17:22 They're a couple of bright-eyed yobbos,

17:24 and I don't want to drag 'em down with me.

17:26 -[chuckles] Yeah, that makes sense.

17:28 What's your name, by the way?

17:31 -Gummigoo.

17:32 -Wow, that's...

17:33 just about as dumb as my name.

17:35 -What'd you have in mind in terms of getting us out of here?

17:38 -[stammers] I don't know.

17:41 M-M-Maybe some kind of glitch with the truck's collisions?

17:45 I'm not really sure how we could...

17:49 All right, I'm just throwing stuff at the wall here.

17:53 If this doesn't work, we could try something else.

17:55 -You're the expert here.

17:56 -[laughs nervously] I'm really not.

17:58 But let's see how it goes.

18:00 [engine turns over] [blocks thudding] I just realized,

18:04 this might be a little vio— [KABOOM!!] [trippy music plays]♪♪ -Gotta say,

18:45 this is a lot more anti-climactic than I was hoping it'd be.

18:49 -What were you hoping for?

18:51 -You know, like, one big, final battle.

18:54 Bloodshed.

18:55 Death.

18:55 Chaos!

18:56 Whatever.

18:57 -Are you sure they disappeared?

18:59 It wasn't that they fell off, or something?

19:02 -[stammers] I can't say for sure, but, uh— Yes, definitely.

19:05 -It's not like the boss to vanish with a clown.

19:07 Very unusual.

19:08 -Well, that's...

19:10 concerning.

19:11 [Kinger]: [muffled] Well, if worst comes to worst,

19:13 we could always ask Caine to find her.

19:16 -I'm more worried she's having another horrible experience.

19:19 She still seems really upset about what happened yesterday.

19:22 I don't think she really likes me that much.

19:25 [Kinger]: It's a lot for anybody to go through.

19:27 Don't take it too personally.

19:28 I remember how long it took for you to adjust.

19:31 -O-Oh.

19:32 Yeah.

19:32 I'm surprised you remember that.

19:36 [Kinger]: [normal voice] Remember what?

19:38 [muffled explosion] -Do you guys have a second truck that flies?

19:44 -Yeah.

19:44 Oh, wait— No, we don't.

19:46 No, not at all.

19:47 [air rushing] -[groans] Down I go.

19:55 [upbeat music plays] -[laughs] Couldn't keep it in, could— [rattles lips] -Uh,

20:07 what's all this stuff?

20:09 -Pomni!

20:09 Are you okay?

20:11 W-What happened?

20:12 -Yeah, I'm fine.

20:14 I, uh— I made a new friend.

20:17 -Boss!

20:18 Where have you been?

20:19 We got fudged.

20:20 -You don't wanna know.

20:22 Good to see you, lads.

20:27 -Why are there two bad-guy trucks?

20:35 [Kinger]: This one's full of syrup, too.

20:38 -Oh, yeah.

20:38 Suppose it is.

20:40 Well, uh, you don't suppose my mates here could,

20:41 uh, take this one back to the village, could they?

20:44 -I guess.

20:45 Since there's two of them, there'd be no real harm.

20:50 -I'm so unbelievably disappointed right now.

20:53 -Well, maybe there'll be blood, death, and violence in the next adventure.

20:57 -Ha-ha-ha-ha.

20:58 How wholesome.

20:59 -O-O-Oh, yeah.

21:00 Uh, this is Gummigoo.

21:03 He's gonna come back to the circus with us.

21:06 -Oh!

21:06 Uh, i-is that allowed?

21:09 -His reality was kind of...

21:12 completely shattered?

21:14 I feel like it was the least I could offer him.

21:17 Opposed to just leaving him behind.

21:20 -[chuckles] Hey.

21:21 That's good of you, Pomni.

21:23 -UGH!

21:23 Let's take this DUMB truck to the DUMB kingdom, I guess!

21:27 [cheers and applause] -Thanks to you brave knights,

21:31 our kingdom will once again thrive.

21:34 I'm sure it was no easy task.

21:36 -You have no idea.

21:39 -Farewell, brave knights.

21:41 Have fun executing that bandit fella!

21:43 -Yes.

21:44 That is what we're doing.

21:47 [distant explosion booms] -Oh, hey!

21:50 Maybe I didn't leave the gate unlocked for nothing after all.

21:53 [approaching rumbling] -Uh, what?

21:54 I-I thought he was dead!

21:55 You still did that?!

21:56 -Okay, wait.

21:57 [The Fudge]: [chuckling] -Y-You did what, now?

21:58 -Well, love to help you again sometime!

22:00 Bye!

22:00 [The Fudge]: [laughing] [distant townsfolk screaming] -Welcome back,

22:04 my little hard-shelled hamburgers!

22:07 -So, this is the circus, huh?

22:09 I could get used to this.

22:10 -Oop!

22:10 Looks like one of these guys made it through.

22:12 -Wait, wha— Blagh!

22:15 -W-W-Wait, wha--?

22:17 -I know you guys love your NPCs,

22:20 but if I start losing track of who's a human and who's an NPC, who knows...

22:24 what could happen...

22:30 -[laughing manically] -Welp, I'm gonna go drink water!

22:38 It's been a while since I've done that.

22:40 [swoosh!] [Zooble]: Sheesh, I thought he'd never leave.

22:46 -I'm really sorry about that, Pomni.

22:48 At least you tried.

22:50 You know, he might be back in a future adventure.

22:52 I know Caine sometimes likes to reuse NPCs.

23:00 [Zooble]: Got everything ready.

23:02 -Hey...

23:03 You at least wanna join us for Kaufmo's funeral?

23:08 We like to have a little funeral service to remember the people who abstract.

23:13 This one just got pushed around a bit with your arrival and everything.

23:17 [Kinger]: It's the least we can do to honor their memory.

23:19 [pensive, melancholy music plays]♪♪ -Oh, man.

23:32 I always think I'm prepared for these things,

23:34 but then you set up the picture and, well...

23:37 I'm already breaking.

23:42 [no audible dialogue throughout]♪♪ [upbeat,

24:27 jazzy music plays]♪♪ ~CAPTIONED BY FOULWEATHER STUDIOS~♪♪