After Four Lost Chases, Lan Philia Takes a Mountain Break and Goes Back on Patrol

AEGIS-LINK — Lan Philia lost four police chases in a row on Day 7 of the District V2 roleplay in Grand Theft Auto (GTA), drove up a mountain to clear her head, and used the rest of a stream of more than nine and a half hours to shop for outfits and cars, tune her cruiser and return to patrol. She played Juniper, a police officer whose bright-green cruiser gave the stream its title.

The shift began with a run for sushi and Sprunk, the in-game soda, followed by a string of robbery calls, hostage standoffs and pursuits. Several ended with the suspects getting away. After the fourth, Lan told colleagues she had lost four chases back to back and that the last had lasted about 30 seconds. She said it stung both as Juniper and as herself, and that she had to keep reminding herself nobody succeeds every time. Chat wrote that she was free to feel how she felt, and one viewer said it was good of her to share such personal feelings.

“Good god does it feel bad to fail. But at the same time, failing is good. You’re not always going to succeed.” — Lan Philia, after the fourth lost chase

She then parked on Mount Chiliad, said she would be back in a few minutes and stayed away for roughly ten minutes. When she returned she said her head was cleared. Back in the city she spent a long stretch trying on outfits, mostly in green, and then test-driving cars at a dealership, saying she was shopping to feel better. She tried a Dominator muscle car and several sports cars, including one chat identified as the Initial D anime car, and said she was leaning toward a 9F, which she planned to buy after the server restart.

At the mechanics’ shop, which had just reopened police-vehicle customization, she kept her cruiser’s green paint and added police decals and lights, then spent more than an hour while the mechanics tested engine and turbo stages to raise the cruisers’ top speeds. Her car is an electric model she said she regretted choosing; tuning brought it to about 210, short of what the gas-powered cruisers reached.

By the evening she was back on calls, and she told a colleague she had finished two chases and felt exhilarated again. The shift went on to a suspected gang link at a church, an air drop in thick fog and a car driven off a bridge, and officers talked about a possible raid the next day. Before signing off, Lan said she would appear on a dating show called Cupid’s Corner at 9 p.m. Eastern the next evening, in it for fun.