And if yoooou can believe it, it's Thursday once again! Which means a new instalment of Firebreak Auxiliary Safety Training demonstration...
Remedy is back with their fourth Surviving The Workplace video, this time looking at FBC: Firebreak's Job, Ground Control. In the mission, Firebreakers are tasked with extracting highly radioactive pearls from Astral Leeches. These pearls will need to be collected from different areas from the Black Rock Quarry before being packed away inside a rocket and safely deposited.
For today's video, Jerry takes players through the dangers of befriending the pearls and the importance of showers.
Surviving the Workplace is a new six-part video series published on the Remedy YouTube channel. Centred around their latest launch, FBC: Firebreak, the series is hosted by the Operations bureaucrat Jerry Standish, whose training session takes the form of puppets. It's like a less intense Threshold Kids. You can catch up on the series, HERE.
Watch the full video below or on the Remedy YouTube channel, HERE. Plus scroll down for a transcript of the video!
Surviving the Workplace | Hot Fix (FBC: Firebreak) Transcript
(A board with a piece of paper dangles from a set of two wires. The paper reads, “Surviving the Workplace and You, #201 Glow to the Shower Already!”)
Jerry Standish: In today's Firebreak Auxiliary Safety Training, we'll be taking a tentative step into the wild world of glow. A radiation like condition that isn't actually radiation! For reasons that have been... severely redacted in our briefing paper work.
Jerry Standish: But first, three F.A.S.T. facts about Glow! F.A.S.T. fact one! Glow emanates from spheroid masses of Black Rock sand, condensed by secretions within an astral leech. Eurgh. F.A.S.T. fact two! Glow passes freely and easily between people, Hiss and objects. F.A.S.T. fact three... oh-
(Curtains are drawn suddenly)
Jerry Standish: What are you doing?
Alex: I thought we were done.
Jerry Standish: Literally every time it's three...
Alex: Yeah, but that was-
Jerry Standish: It was two. It was two. Okay, I'll say it! You'll hear me say it!
(Jerry sighs as the curtains open again.)
Jerry Standish: F.A.S.T. fact three! The first symptom for most people infected with glow is death. It may or may not get worse from there. That part is also classified. Okay. Nooooow, let's head to the Black Rock Quarry, where a certain crew of Firebreakers is about to come face to face with a key jobsite safety decision.
(The curtains close and reopen to a different scene. Three Firebreakers are surrounded with black balloons as they take on a cardboard cutout of The Hiss.)
Alex #1: Whoa, I've sure been holding this leech pearl a long time. I should probably put it down and take a shower before continuing to transport it to the rocket, where we will shoot it into space. Don't you think, Alex?
Alex #2: Boy howdy, Alex. It's a bit more work, but like Jerry always says, 'better safe than sorry'.
(The curtains close as there's a triumphant sound.)
Jerry Standish: Haha, you're right, Alex. That is what I always say. Now let's watch what could happen, had a different Firebreaker been in charge.
(The curtains close and reopen to a different scene. One of the Firebreakers is holding one of the black balls, with the other two backing away from him.)
Dave: Oh, I feel sort of energy from this thing. Like, maybe it's my chi or something.
Alex #1: Wow. Dave, I don't know what that means, but I do know you've been holding that pearl a long time.You need to drop it.
Dave: Not yet. I'm too close to opening the seventh chakra.
(A radiating glow appears around Dave.)
Alex #2: Errr Dave, you're going to want to stay over there.
Dave: Embrace me, like I have embraced my inner self. Come, let us join in spirituality.
(Dave gurgles and falls out of shot as the curtains close. Jerry is back when they reopen.)
Jerry Standish: You know a better way to improve yourself? A decontamination shower. So remember, everyone, when...
(A sign appears reading, “The Bureau shall not be held liable for any life insurance claims, personal injury claims, or related liabilities arising from or associated with conduct classified as “being a Dave” as defined by applicable Bureau standards and guidelines.”)
Jerry Standish: When a jobsite danger calls: be an Alex, not a Dave.
