Server Outage Stalls District V Day 9 as Altus Zendoji Sees Off a Soul Sushi Manager

FIRST STAGE PRODUCTION — Altus Zendoji’s ninth day on District V, the Grand Theft Auto V role-play server, was interrupted for hours by a server outage. Altus said the site hosting the server was down, which is why no one could log in, and the broadcast ran about 11 hours.

In the first stretch Altus played the Sprunk ambassador, a character who works at the Soul Sushi restaurant. A delivery run north turned into a crash when fog got so thick that the ambassador could not see the road, and a member of the Belladonna gang who had been given the wheel crashed the Sprunk mobile repeatedly. The ambassador and a fellow character, Riri, died and were revived at the hospital. Altus later said the ordeal had at least turned Riri against the gang.

“How did we get here? Criminal activity, guys. We became miners.” — Altus Zendoji, while mining carbon for body armor

Between errands, Altus also appeared as Snowy, a snowman character who told the Soul Sushi staff he had been born five minutes earlier. The group then bought suits for a masquerade event, only to find it was the next day. For their next heist they needed materials for body armor: 320 steel, 280 carbon, 240 plastic, 200 rubber and 120 glass for eight sets. They searched scrap cars for steel and took turns drilling stone in the mines, where each stone yielded between one and five carbon, until the server went down.

With the city closed, Altus snacked, took a break in the backyard and sat in a voice call where other District V players were playing Marvel Rivals and joking about each other’s accents. The server was announced as back, but a large game-content download stalled for many players at part 174, and a restart warning sent some out again. Altus got back into the city for the last hour of the stream.

That hour went to a farewell. Soul Sushi staff gathered in the restaurant’s meditation room and each gave a speech for the manager Saraphina, who was leaving Los Santos to fly to her husband. The Sprunk ambassador said her running the restaurant was what let him go out and promote Sprunk. The group then drove her to the airport, hugged her goodbye and took a group photo.

Altus used the downtime to talk about plans. A two-year anniversary falls on the 17th, and Altus said a week of celebration was planned, possibly with a hand-camera stream and baking pumpkin tarts if a replacement webcam arrives, along with a day off on Thursday or Friday. Altus also said a break of four days to a week was coming in December. The chat sent two Super Chats.