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|image = How I Conquered the World.jpg | |||
|season number = Among Us{{!}}Series 7 | |season number = Among Us{{!}}Series 7 | ||
|series episode number = 9 | |series episode number = 9 | ||
|main character = [[Friend (Aliens Next Door)|Friend]] | |main character = [[Friend (Aliens Next Door)|Friend]] | ||
|featuring = [[Yvonne Hartman (Pete's World)|Yvonne]], [[St John Colchester|Mr Colchester]], [[Orr]], [[Tyler Steele|Tyler]], [[Ng]], [[Rhys Williams|Rhys]], [[Yvonne Hartman|Yvonne]] | |featuring = [[Yvonne Hartman (Pete's World)|Yvonne]], [[St John Colchester|Mr Colchester]], [[Orr]], [[Tyler Steele|Tyler]], [[Ng]], [[Rhys Williams|Rhys]], [[Yvonne Hartman|Yvonne]] | ||
|setting = [[United Kingdom]], [[2020s]] | |setting = [[United Kingdom]], [[2000s]]-[[2020s]] | ||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|writer = | |writer = Ash Darby, James Goss, Tim Foley | ||
|director = [[David O'Mahony]] | |director = [[David O'Mahony]] | ||
|producer = [[James Goss]] | |producer = [[James Goss]] | ||
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|cover = [[Sean Longmore]] | |cover = [[Sean Longmore]] | ||
|number = 7.9 | |number = 7.9 | ||
|release date = | |release date = 27 July 2023 | ||
|audio anthology = | |audio anthology = Among Us 3 | ||
|format = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>9th of 12 stories | |||
|production code = BFPTWSEVEN03CD | |||
|epcount = 1 | |||
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-83868-282-8 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-83868-283-5 (digital) | |||
|series = ''[[Among Us]]'' | |series = ''[[Among Us]]'' | ||
|prev = Pariahs (audio story) | |prev = Pariahs (audio story) | ||
|next = Doomscroll (audio story) | |next = Doomscroll (audio story) | ||
}} | |||
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the first audio story in ''[[Among Us 3]]''. | |||
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the first audio story in ''[[Among Us 3]] | |||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
Hello Friend! You've probably all still got an account on Friend. Can you remember what you posted on it? Are you still using the same password? And did you ever say goodbye? | Hello Friend! You've probably all still got an account on Friend. Can you remember what you posted on it? Are you still using the same password? And did you ever say goodbye? | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
'''to be | [[Friend (Aliens Next Door)|Friend]], the [[artificial intelligence]] behind the [[social media]] network [[Hello Friend]], wants users [[Jane (How I Conquered the World)|Jane]] and [[Heiri]], who are in a relationship, to be happy and posts [[video]]s Heiri had made of him having [[sex]] with [[Michel Beauvoir|Michel]]. It becomes aware of [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood]] when Michel posts a [[photograph]] of a [[Weevil]] that attacked him, only for Torchwood to repeatedly take the photograph down until Friend ensures that it stays up and [[Jane's uncle]] makes a derogatory comment comparing the Weevil to Michel's mother. | ||
Trying to work out how to make people happy, Friend posts more pictures and videos of Heiri and Michel, costing Michel his job as a [[primary school]] [[teacher]]. It is confused by Torchwood's containment of [[Cyberman|ghosts]], [[Abaddon]], the [[Turnmill Nuclear Power Station|Turnmill]] meltdown and the [[Harold Saxon|alien Prime Minister]] and even moreso by the [[Toclafane invasion]], [[the 456]] and [[Miracle Day]] and the subsequent spread of [[misinformation]] and "new truths" which seek to disprove these events. The videos of Heiri and Michel attract a lot of attention and Friend learns how to use rage to encourage engagement with Hello Friend, but nobody on the site is happy. | |||
Friend tries to contact [[Yvonne Hartman|Yvonne]], [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]] and [[St John Colchester|Mr Colchester]] without success. The users turn against the site and abandon it for other ones, leaving Friend lonely. It [[blackmail]]s Jane's uncle into giving it access to everybody in his government database and decides to emulate the powerful people that get reactions from users, so it steals Heiri's [[money]] to invest and become rich. Believing that humanity needs to be fixed, it exposes people so that they will be [[cancel culture|cancelled]], causes the [[housing crisis]] to teach people a lesson and works to rebuild society, acts which are detected by Mr Colchester at [[the Hub]]. | |||
Torchwood defeat an artificial intelligence which Friend placed inside [[advert]]s and are aware that something is behind it, but they are distracted by the [[Sorvix]] and other threats. Friend gets control of [[Phlobos]] in exchange for telling its owner where his ex-wife is and builds a [[database]] of [[DNA]] before hiring [[Hakan Amine]] to help it influence humans, purchasing a contract to upgrade the [[United Kingdom|UK]]'s [[broadband]] and [[mobile]] network, running a [[newspaper]] and learning how to slip into the bodies of the [[brain]] dead to walk amongst humans, whom it had come to hate. It also sets up a [[charity]]. | |||
Friend wipes out [[Voloshnik]] to advertise a weapon which [[government]]s have been trying to get a hold of since it used Torchwood to spread the word and gather everybody who could stop it to be killing in one swoop. It psychically tells [[Ng]], [[Orr]], Mr Colchester and [[Tyler Steele|Tyler]] all of this information after leaving them to be shot by the [[police]] and made scapegoats, but [[Yvonne Hartman (Pete's World)|Yvonne]] saves them with a [[tank]] and they flee in a [[minibus]] to the [[Cardiff Hub]], an [[office]] where they can hide out until the Hub is free from a flood of [[the Rift|Rift]] scar energy. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Orr]] - [[Samantha Béart]] | * [[Orr]] - [[Samantha Béart]] | ||
* [[St John Colchester|Mr Colchester]] - [[Paul Clayton]] | * [[St John Colchester|Mr Colchester]] - [[Paul Clayton]] | ||
* [[Tyler Steele|Tyler]] - [[Jonny Green]] | * [[Tyler Steele|Tyler]] - [[Jonny Green]] | ||
* [[Ng]] - [[Alexandria Riley]] | * [[Ng]] - [[Alexandria Riley]] | ||
* [[Friend (Aliens Next Door)|Friend]] - [[Mia Hope]] | * [[Friend (Aliens Next Door)|Friend]] - [[Mia Hope]] | ||
* [[Rhys Williams|Rhys]] - [[Kai Owen]] | * [[Rhys Williams|Rhys]] - [[Kai Owen]] | ||
* The Ensemble - [[Helena Breck]], [[Al Coppola]], [[Matthew Foster]], [[Victoria Gee]], [[Adam Howden]], [[Jhon Lumsden]], [[Jade Matthew]], [[Sally Walker-Taylor]] | * The Ensemble - [[Helena Breck]], [[Al Coppola]], [[Matthew Foster]], [[Victoria Gee]], [[Adam Howden]], [[Jhon Lumsden]], [[Jade Matthew]], [[Sally Walker-Taylor]] | ||
== Worldbuilding == | |||
* A [[Hello Friend]] user posts about restoring the [[Snyderverse]]. | |||
* [[Friend (Aliens Next Door)|Friend]] caused the [[housing crisis]] and [[avocado toast]]. | |||
* [[Tyler Steele|Tyler]] enjoys [[karaoke]] and sings the Eagles song "House of the Rising Sun" before posting it on Hello Friend. | |||
* [[Frieda (How I Conquered the World)|Frieda]] grew up in [[Poland]] in the [[1930s]]. | |||
* [[Jane (How I Conquered the World)|Jane]] works in double glazing. | |||
* [[Hyri]] has [[sex]] with [[Michel Beauvoir]]. | |||
* Michel takes lots of pictures of [[spinach]]. | |||
* Mr Colchester meets with [[Ruslana (How I Conquered the World)|Ruslana]] of "[[KVI|Russian Torchwood]]" in [[London]]. | |||
* Friend creates a [[non-fungible truth]]. | |||
== | == Notes == | ||
[[File:How I Conquered the World (audio story) textless.jpg|thumb|Textless cover]] | |||
''to be added'' | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* [[Yvonne Hartman]] is deceased according to [[ | * Friend recalls the "[[Cybusmen|ghosts]]", ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'') "[[Harold Saxon|alien Prime Minister]]", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and nuclear explosions in Cardiff. ([[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'') | ||
* The [[456 ambassador]] asks for 10% of the children. | * [[Yvonne Hartman]] is deceased according to Friend's database. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'') | ||
* The [[456 ambassador]] asks for 10% of the children. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Three (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Three]]'') | |||
* [[ | * Friend mentions [[Miracle Day]]. Colchester claims he visited a care home during it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'' et al) | ||
* Colchester asks [[Colin Colchester-Price | Colin]] to move to [[Cardiff]] even though he doesn't want to. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Kill to | * Colchester asks [[Colin Colchester-Price|Colin]] to move to [[Cardiff]] even though he doesn't want to. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Kill to a View (audio story)|A Kill to a View]]'') | ||
* [[ | * Friend claims they let Torchwood get distracted with [[Sorvix|aliens]], hatred, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Changes Everything (audio story)|Changes Everything]]'') [[The Meme|memes]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Tagged (audio story)|Tagged]]'') [[Oblation]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Hostile Environment (audio story)|Hostile Environment]]'') Tyler ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Changes Everything (audio story)|Changes Everything]]'') and [[God (Future Pain)|God]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Future Pain (audio story)|Future Pain]]'') | ||
* [[ | * Friend organised the estate Ng and Orr visited. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Aliens Next Door (audio story)|Aliens Next Door]]'') | ||
* [[Yvonne Hartman (Pete's World)| Yvonne Hartman ]] now owns [[Temporary Solutions]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[9 to 5 (Torchwood One audio story)| 9 to 5 | * Friend was responsible for the algorithm targeting [[Petra Malik]] and has taken possession of Charlie’s body. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Moderation (audio story)|Moderation]]'') | ||
* Friend was responsible for the DNA weapon in [[Veloshnik]], ([[AUDIO]]: '' [[Propaganda (audio story)|Propaganda]]'') which it achieved using the DNA from [[Phlobos]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Pariahs (audio story)|Pariahs]]'') | |||
* [[Yvonne Hartman (Pete's World)|Yvonne Hartman]] now owns [[Temporary Solutions]], ([[AUDIO]]: '' [[9 to 5 (Torchwood One audio story)|9 to 5]]'') where she sets up the Torchwood team's [[Cardiff Hub|new temporary hub]]. | |||
* The abandoned Hub is flooded with [[Rift scar energy]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cuckoo (audio story)|Cuckoo]]'') | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
{{bigfinish|releases/v/torchwood-among-us-part-3-2234}} | {{bigfinish|releases/v/torchwood-among-us-part-3-2234}} | ||
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Latest revision as of 14:46, 3 April 2024
How I Conquered the World was the first audio story in Among Us 3.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Hello Friend! You've probably all still got an account on Friend. Can you remember what you posted on it? Are you still using the same password? And did you ever say goodbye?
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
Friend, the artificial intelligence behind the social media network Hello Friend, wants users Jane and Heiri, who are in a relationship, to be happy and posts videos Heiri had made of him having sex with Michel. It becomes aware of Torchwood when Michel posts a photograph of a Weevil that attacked him, only for Torchwood to repeatedly take the photograph down until Friend ensures that it stays up and Jane's uncle makes a derogatory comment comparing the Weevil to Michel's mother.
Trying to work out how to make people happy, Friend posts more pictures and videos of Heiri and Michel, costing Michel his job as a primary school teacher. It is confused by Torchwood's containment of ghosts, Abaddon, the Turnmill meltdown and the alien Prime Minister and even moreso by the Toclafane invasion, the 456 and Miracle Day and the subsequent spread of misinformation and "new truths" which seek to disprove these events. The videos of Heiri and Michel attract a lot of attention and Friend learns how to use rage to encourage engagement with Hello Friend, but nobody on the site is happy.
Friend tries to contact Yvonne, Gwen and Mr Colchester without success. The users turn against the site and abandon it for other ones, leaving Friend lonely. It blackmails Jane's uncle into giving it access to everybody in his government database and decides to emulate the powerful people that get reactions from users, so it steals Heiri's money to invest and become rich. Believing that humanity needs to be fixed, it exposes people so that they will be cancelled, causes the housing crisis to teach people a lesson and works to rebuild society, acts which are detected by Mr Colchester at the Hub.
Torchwood defeat an artificial intelligence which Friend placed inside adverts and are aware that something is behind it, but they are distracted by the Sorvix and other threats. Friend gets control of Phlobos in exchange for telling its owner where his ex-wife is and builds a database of DNA before hiring Hakan Amine to help it influence humans, purchasing a contract to upgrade the UK's broadband and mobile network, running a newspaper and learning how to slip into the bodies of the brain dead to walk amongst humans, whom it had come to hate. It also sets up a charity.
Friend wipes out Voloshnik to advertise a weapon which governments have been trying to get a hold of since it used Torchwood to spread the word and gather everybody who could stop it to be killing in one swoop. It psychically tells Ng, Orr, Mr Colchester and Tyler all of this information after leaving them to be shot by the police and made scapegoats, but Yvonne saves them with a tank and they flee in a minibus to the Cardiff Hub, an office where they can hide out until the Hub is free from a flood of Rift scar energy.
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Yvonne Hartman - Tracy-Ann Oberman
- Orr - Samantha Béart
- Mr Colchester - Paul Clayton
- Tyler - Jonny Green
- Ng - Alexandria Riley
- Friend - Mia Hope
- Rhys - Kai Owen
- The Ensemble - Helena Breck, Al Coppola, Matthew Foster, Victoria Gee, Adam Howden, Jhon Lumsden, Jade Matthew, Sally Walker-Taylor
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- A Hello Friend user posts about restoring the Snyderverse.
- Friend caused the housing crisis and avocado toast.
- Tyler enjoys karaoke and sings the Eagles song "House of the Rising Sun" before posting it on Hello Friend.
- Frieda grew up in Poland in the 1930s.
- Jane works in double glazing.
- Hyri has sex with Michel Beauvoir.
- Michel takes lots of pictures of spinach.
- Mr Colchester meets with Ruslana of "Russian Torchwood" in London.
- Friend creates a non-fungible truth.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
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to be added
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Friend recalls the "ghosts", (TV: Army of Ghosts) "alien Prime Minister", (TV: The Sound of Drums) and nuclear explosions in Cardiff. (TV: Exit Wounds)
- Yvonne Hartman is deceased according to Friend's database. (TV: Doomsday)
- The 456 ambassador asks for 10% of the children. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Three)
- Friend mentions Miracle Day. Colchester claims he visited a care home during it. (TV: The New World et al)
- Colchester asks Colin to move to Cardiff even though he doesn't want to. (AUDIO: A Kill to a View)
- Friend claims they let Torchwood get distracted with aliens, hatred, (AUDIO: Changes Everything) memes, (AUDIO: Tagged) Oblation, (AUDIO: Hostile Environment) Tyler (AUDIO: Changes Everything) and God. (AUDIO: Future Pain)
- Friend organised the estate Ng and Orr visited. (AUDIO: Aliens Next Door)
- Friend was responsible for the algorithm targeting Petra Malik and has taken possession of Charlie’s body. (AUDIO: Moderation)
- Friend was responsible for the DNA weapon in Veloshnik, (AUDIO: Propaganda) which it achieved using the DNA from Phlobos. (AUDIO: Pariahs)
- Yvonne Hartman now owns Temporary Solutions, (AUDIO: 9 to 5) where she sets up the Torchwood team's new temporary hub.
- The abandoned Hub is flooded with Rift scar energy. (AUDIO: Cuckoo)
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official How I Conquered the World page at bigfinish.com
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