On the way to the party, it is revealed that Mae’s ex-boyfriend Cole is going to be there. Oh boy, that's gonna be fun for her.
Aw yeah, party in the woods! ...I wasn't expecting it to be some kind of low-key thing out in the forest but hey! We've got an amateur guitar-player and shitty beer, that means the party's complete!
Bea isn't one for small talk, is she? I can hardly squeeze more than five words out of her. I mean, I know she's talking to somebody but as the player, I am immensely more important than him. BOW BEFORE ME!
At least Gregg and Angus are willing to spare their time, talk about the guitar player playing his douchebag music. Angus doesn’t take the whole "douchebag song" comment well, though, he actually likes what’s being played. All I have to say is that I like Bring Me to Life unironically, so… I sorta feel you, Angus. Oh, and this line from Gregg is too good to overlook.
- Gregg: "If anyone’s gonna ruin your night, Mae, it really should be you."
Hear, hear! One more beer!
- Mae: "I guess beer is one of those horrible things adults do. Like doing taxes and having babies."
I don’t really have anything to say about this, this line's just funny.
Gotta say, Cole is a lot more chill than he was built up to be. Mae's still ambivalent to him but honestly I think he's an okay guy.
Mae decides to tell Bea about how grouchy she is before she, Gregg, and Angus start shouting "eff the world".
- Mae: "God someone really should just eff the world already."Gregg: "The world has gone uneffed for too long."Angus: "Effin' right."
Damn straight I suppose. But whatever, one more beer!
Third beer downed, and the effects it has on Mae are…
- Mae: "I'm gonna go run around naked in the wooooods!!!!!"
...Remarkably strong. Normally I would listen to Bea telling Mae to sit down but Gregg and Angus still have dialogue to provide and they are much more important than making progress in-game.
Mae’s very loose-lipped about how her father used to go drinking with Angus' father, he doesn't take well to hearing about it. And also Gregg says this:
- Gregg: "Don’t say daddy ever again!"
I’m going to use that out of context because the internet has ruined that word.
Cole approaches Mae as she sits by the fire, and while he's trying to make casual conversation, she kinda ruins it because she's drunk. She rambles about how she hates cute peopleCal's note and then she just starts rambling about how much of a mess she is and… well, she says the nightmare eyes thing. It's a little uncomfortable in-context because it's a vague threat, but she says it, so... memes, yay. Then she throws up and… yeah, that's the end of the party for her.
The car ride conversation with Bea starts out kinda funny, since the well-worded dialogue options you’re given just come out as a slurred mess in conversation.
- What I mean for Mae to say: "I owe you an apology, Bea."What Mae actually says: "Im sory I don't even knowhat hapdpend."
It's like it was actually written by a drunk person, goddamn. Then the conversation slowly slips into just being sad when Mae starts reflecting on her fractured friendship with Bea and makes an insensitive comment about Bea’s parents. I could've sworn it was stated somewhere before, but at this point Bea clarifies that her mother died years ago. Mae tries her best to apologize for her insensitivity, but this results in... You know what? I can't do this any justice, I'll just write down the ensuing dialogue here.
- Bea: "What happened to you? You used to be smart!!! You used to be cool! You used to be worth talking to!"Mae: *sniff*Bea: "Why did you even come back? Oh, did college not work out for you? Was it inconvenient? Were you not in the mood?"Mae: *sniffle*Bea: "I would have killed for that. I still would. I'd kick you out of this moving car right now if it meant I could go to college."
Then Mae just devolves into a sobbing wreck and I feel my eyes water up a little. It's hard to describe just what this scene makes me feel and how it makes me feel that way (besides the sight of Mae feeling like shit and bawling her eyes out being exactly as sad as it sounds), but the more I think about it, the more I realize how much I fear ending up in a position like Mae's where I wind up being a total failure in college and I just become a total wreck. Or maybe I'm just overthinking this and worrying unnecessarily about my future. I won't know until I get to that point in life. All I know is that seeing Mae cry once is more than enough for me.
Bea brings Mae into her room and tucks her in, they have a brief exchange contrasting Mae's immaturity to Bea's maturity despite Bea being the younger of the two, and then Mae passes out.
