The ice chest still isn't defrosted, so I looked up how long it takes to defrost. Turns out that's just not a thing that's ever going to happen. I put a point into physical instrument, changed my clothes, and got it up to a 42% chance and just save-scummed it. It took 8 tries to hit a 42% chance. I feel dirty, but I gave the game a chance, and it just straight up lied about the whole defrosting thing so fuck it.
Took it to Soona. She can't hear anything, so I ask for the headphones. I reason out that we need a better speaker system and offer to bring the clubbies in to help. She reluctantly agrees. I tell them about it and they say to come back in a few hours after they've moved all their shit in. Perfect time to advance the story!
Ran into Ruby's deathtrap. Before I even get a real choice, she eats through all 3 of my HP and the game's like "hey uh you have those health items you can use". I didn't realize those were available during a conversation. Glad it didn't just flat out kill me. I ended up using like 5 healing items over the course of the conversation.
I get her to turn it down once and then begin grilling her about everything that happened in town. After a bit, she nudges the intensity down just a little more. I clear out all options then go for a 92% chance to break the device. It works, but she goes to put her gun in her own mouth. I immediately go for the red 58% chance to talk her down. That works, too, but she's still deathly afraid of me, due to my ties to La Puta Madre. I tell her to get out of here and she obliges. Phew, disaster averted.
Given everything that's happened, I really need to talk to Klaasje and those two officers that "rolled into town" with me, ASAP.
....... But first I head to the church and see how everything's going with everyone there. Andre lets me name the club. I choose Disco Elysium before even looking at the other choices. It's obviously the canon choice. I talk Egg Head into plugging Soona's machine into the speakers. Then we let it rip. Which turns out to be a terrible idea because it unleashes absolute hell onto the church. Walls start crumbling, glass starts breaking, and it takes unplugging the entire thing to keep it from reverberating everywhere. At last, Soona knows what happened and goes to message everyone on the team what happened all those years ago.
Now it's really time for me to head back to the Whirling and question everyone I can find. Maybe call up HQ and ask them how corrupt I really am, but as of now, I'm currently against the idea. I'll probably only go through that as a last resort.
