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Last time on no latency. I suppose if if you think it's
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safe. I think you should choose that.
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Did somebody say cocaine? Happy Halloween, The Collector
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got you a present. I haven't even thought about my
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costume yet. But we have to see it at the
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Hillview. Well, it's just a hop, jump and
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a sniff away. Let's go.
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I think I know who I'm going to ask.
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Wow, is it going? Oh, that's can't come back.
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People dress up as doctors all the time for Halloween.
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I was hoping to figure out how to get to the room.
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Maybe. I guess that means you and I
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just get to hang out inside until the fireworks go off.
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Wait, hit the button. Now that.
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One looks like a UFO. Look at that one, fireworks you.
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Think they're pumping in those spooky sounds or?
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What? Well, shit.
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Well, shit. Phoebe.
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I'm going to go check on the body.
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There's a body, there's a dead body.
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I'm a doctor. I'm actually a doctor.
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I'm not just dressed up as a doctor, I am actually a doctor.
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They are actually a doctor. You could step back, ma'am.
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You could step back. This is a crime scene.
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A crime scene I They're dead, so there's not much I can.
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Tell. Officer, do you not know who
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this is? This is Doctor Vivi training
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training training exclusively from Knight City University, as
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well as did a lot of their postgraduate work at the morgue,
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so they have a pretty good idea of being able to.
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Forensic. Out for the forensics.
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I I I have a degree in forensics.
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That's what I went to school for, please.
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All right. Well, but before you go, before
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you go inside, I need to ask you some questions.
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Were you in here during? Did you go in the bathroom at
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any point during the event? No, I have not had to use the
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restroom. I've been out here at the party
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and I went to go watch the fireworks and I had a cigarette
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outside. And you had a cigarette outside,
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All right. And can I see some kind of
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credential or ID? I won't say so.
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God damn it. You have to roll VB helps
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people. Yeah, good all.
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Right. Well, you do help people,
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apparently. You're welcome.
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Inside, Jane is is standing there next to the officer, kind
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of in shock, still dressed as a monkey with a ripped costume.
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OK, I'm going to go take a look at the body you.
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Got more sets at Centco, no? No, I only, I only brought a
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bump darling. Also there's other shit going on
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retro. The drugs can go, can deal, you
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can later. No, I this is this is how I
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deal. This is how I deal.
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I need, I need some more. You need some more.
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No, they're not paying attention to us.
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Inside the bathroom Bebe you walk inside.
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As you walk in, it's empty. On your left, a few stools down,
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there's some blood spattered on the walls.
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The leg sticks out from under the stool.
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As you step closer, the door eerily creaks open, and there on
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the ground is a massacred human. Does this?
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What do the wounds look like? Like someone tore him to shreds
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and took a bite out of him in several places.
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Just as I suspected another victim of this ravenous wolf
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attack. Raw perception.
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This is another victim to this serial killer, whoever it is,
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this wolf serial killer. You rolled A-15.
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You can see scrapes that lead to a vent hatch on the wall.
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Vent hatch. Oh, dear.
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OK. They were they were here
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recently. They went through the vent.
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Hey, guys, there. Be careful up there.
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There might be a wolf on the loose.
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A wolf. On the.
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Roof, OH, on the loose. Yes, unclear, but.
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Well, that you saw that wolf man, he was out front.
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You saw the wolf man. I mean, you did.
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You did. Yes, he.
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Was dressed up, he had the whole thing.
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Oh, right, I should look out for him.
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No, I think this is this is something more deadly and
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fierce. It might be somebody fully
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decked out in some sort of strange.
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Oh man, possibly, yes, Jeb I it, it could be some sort of hybrid
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there. Out in the bad lamps.
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Yes, just be careful because they killed somebody in the
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bathroom and now they're in the vents.
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I don't know where the vents go to, but if you see any vent
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areas up there, just be careful, that's all.
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I mean I'm counting 12345. There are several.
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There are several. Okay, be careful.
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Well, they got grates on them, so I think we're all we're all
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right. Just another quick examine of
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this body, the the the, the tears and the slashes, Do they
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look mechanical or do they look like, is there any way I could
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tell if it's like straight up this was like a claw or
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something else? It's definitely cyberware.
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OK, that's what I assumed. Your little device does a little
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scan and it's definitely cyberware serrated.
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A cop walks into the bathroom behind you.
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Doctor. Yes.
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I don't mean to impose, but it is like a big party night, you
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know, October 1st. So it just do you have time to
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look at some more bodies? Are there more just?
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Yeah, just, you know, to. Where?
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Where are they? They're outside the front.
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We could, like, avoid panic. Just.
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Be great. Stop this party if there's all
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these people, yeah. But if they come outside, then
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they'll see all the blood. OK, let me take a look.
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That would be excellent. I'm going to entertain everybody
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on the inside. I've got like a good 10 minutes
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of stand up that I've been preparing.
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Typed in. It's really good.
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It's it's like the underground, right?
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Anyway, it's not important. There's there were dead people
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here. So the captain's outside and
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just because the doctor Dave didn't didn't pick up.
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And it's it's on party nights, he's usually drunk.
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So if you could just take that spot, you'd be saving us a lot
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of money that we don't want to spend on anybody else.
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OK, that was a lot of explanation.
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I'm going to just go look at the bodies.
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Bebe you walk through the the building as people are
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questioned by the police. Hey.
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Bebe, how's that dead going? Bendel hits retro.
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Hi, Yeah, we're doing the Thriller dance for later, right?
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And we're all going to pretend we're dead zombies.
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That's that's right, there's only one dead body.
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And as Vivi makes their way out, Iona and Jeb, you're on the roof
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for a perception. Jeb, while you're leaning over
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the roof to have a look, you roll a crit fail and fall off
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the roof. It is only one story.
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You are not really going to get that hurt, but you have fallen
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off the roof. Oh, hurt my tailbone.
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Oh, that was. Round you are now on top of the
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roof on your own and Jeb is now on the ground.
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Jeb, Jeb, well, on the on the brat side, now I can move my,
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my, my joking around so that. Right.
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Like I don't know what you're talking about.
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Did you, did you hit your head on the way down?
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Are you OK? Hey my butt.
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You know, I really I should have spread.
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I should I should have spread you.
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Lose. One HP I should have spread my
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arm around wings you. Do you do got wings, Jeff?
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Do do I still need to be up here then?
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Is it turned on? Are we done?
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And as as you do that, a police officer and VV come round the
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corner and they're standing near a dead body looking at you in
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this dead end alley near a body. I'm a bird.
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I'm a I'm a vulture. Happy Halloween.
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Y'all all right? Yeah.
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And I've walked past them. You walked past Phoebe.
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Yeah. I'm, I'm, I don't say anything.
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I was like, you know what? No.
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Sir. If you could just.
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You're in a crime scene. I need to now talk to you.
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Oh, no, Yeah, yeah, I I saw it. I I just came.
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I just came up here. I'm a little late to the party
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here. You want to see my I got?
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I got my invitation right here. Jeff, did you know that there
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were bodies up here? No.
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OK. I just got here I think.
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It's been OK for me to beep my head out.
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Honestly, I thought this was decoration for the party.
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I, I thought, I thought this was all, you know, Oh, spooky dead
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body. No, this is a real dead body.
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Oh, that's bad. People are dying.
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There's a killer on the loose. There's a wolf killer on the
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loose. You.
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Hear that, Officer Wolf? Killer on the loose?
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There's a bigger, bigger face to fry.
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We're. Trying to reduce panic so if you
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could just move the body into the alley so nobody would see
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it. Hit the wrong person but.
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Wait. OK, Yeah, Jeb, Iona, just don't,
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don't say anything to the rest of the party for now.
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Although this is very concerning.
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Just keep keep your eyes peeled. I'm going to examine these
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bodies. All right, you examine the body.
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I assume it's a similar a similar Yeah MO.
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Very. Yeah.
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The neck has been bitten and a large chunk of it has been
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pulled out. A large part of the right arm
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has been chewed up and the body has been torn apart by what
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seems to be metal claws. Officer, this is this is all the
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same. There's somebody who is serially
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killing people like this and they may very well be these
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bodies are not that long dead. They, the people of this party
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are in danger. We need to do something right.
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Well, just I have one more body to show you.
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Oh my God. Mean.
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Are you kidding me? No, I I don't care about dead
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bodies. Also, Sir, I believe you are too
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dumb. Too dumb.
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This. So if you could just come with
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us. I mean, I don't know about too
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dumb, I I mean. If he doesn't have any the cyber
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cyberwear that would even allow him to do this, this is you.
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Know maybe I got some sort of claw or something I could get
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and and and or maybe maybe you. Trying to incriminate yourself,
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is that help? Me just and I, I wanted to do
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what I could do it. I don't really.
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Anyway, so here's the other body, and by far it's the most
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gruesome quad. When you look over to the other
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side of the Hillview as he walks you across Jeb.
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Raw perception. I'm hanging out with them.
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And as you, you were talking to them and they're walking.
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He's cut. He he's very difficult
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questioning. Yeah.
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Well, see, I'm just saying that you see this.
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I got, I got this. And also roll resist torture
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drugs because you're around a lot of blood.
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Oh. Oh yo.
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And in front of you, in front of you, Vivi, while Jeb is sniffing
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the air and looking around. Jeb, you are really hungry.
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You failed that, Jack. Oh God.
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BB you notice Jeb start to walk towards the large pool of blood
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in front of you. The thing about this bullet
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though is it's a little different than the other one
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because they're on the ground. Written like finger paint.
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Are the words so hungry? So hungry.
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Oh no. I could just I make.
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Jeb. Jeb Frick.
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I'm just, I'm just going to lean over real quick.
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Just get. I.
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Just just fucking punch him. Punch.
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Him in the face. I'm going to sleep dart, sleep
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dart. Fuck it, I'm just gonna.
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Sleep dart. Excuse me, Sir, I just need to
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do this really quick. I'm a doctor and he has a
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condition that I need to take care of immediately.
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I take out I pull out my stun gun and put a sleep dart in it
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and shoot it at Jeb. All right, roll for it. 19 Jeb,
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do you want to watch this? Oh, I guess not.
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What, what, what the hell was in?
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And Jeb falls to the ground and will be asleep for the next 5
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minutes. He is now just fainted on the
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ground. Oh.
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Oh, my blood, huh? It's it's yeah, yeah, I and it's
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for for the his own good. He'll be up in a one the.
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Craziest reactions when they see blood.
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If you wouldn't mind, Sir, would you mind just taking him, the
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sleeping man and bringing him toward the door?
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Sure, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll drag him over onto a bench over
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here. Thank you.
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Thank you. Your forensics thing.
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OK, OK, so this body is mauled, I assume?
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Yep. And so hungry.
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So hungry. What the what does this mean?
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Yeah, I'm going to. I'm going to just keep an eye
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out around this. Does this body look like it's
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the oh, I see it up there. I see.
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Ah, Oh my gosh. It's sprawled out everywhere.
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My gosh. OK, Yeah, OK.
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Well, this is bad. Is that your medical opinion?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is we need to find who this
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is because the the amount that they've killed in just this one
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area is alarming. 6 bodies so far, shut the fuck up. 6 bodies.
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OK, that's extremely alarming. We need to, we need to find
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them. They're probably we need to
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check all the vents. All right, you got to check the
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vents. There's one on the side of the
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building. Oh boy.
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Hey guys, this killer has killed 6 people in this vicinity.
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We need to, we need to do, we need to get this shit done and
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like get everybody the fuck out of here because people are going
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to die. Just saying.
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Jeb slowly starts to wake up and just the the his tongue kind of
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just lapse at the blood that he's laying in.
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No, no, you wake up on a bench. Oh yeah, Jeb, you wake up on a
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bench and in front of you is a man in a trophy hat.
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Oh, oh, are you? Oh, you must be dressed as a
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Sherlock Holmes or something. No, Happy Halloween, Right?
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So I'm a little. You're jabbed the racer, right?
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Huh. You jabbed the racer.
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Right jab. That's got a good ring to it.
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Yeah, I suppose I am, but I know I'm not.
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No, I'm not. I'm, I'm.
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I'm Sloan. See.
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And he springs his, he spreads his arms out.
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See, I got wings and and the bike, the paper, my shape.
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I mean like the bike puts. His hand out.
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We should chat. Sure.
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What are we doing now? Well, I'm going to check the
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door to the roof to see if I can get down, yeah.
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There's a hatch above the bathroom.
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The. Hatch was about I would like to
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jump down. Cool.
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Yeah, there's no one around you. Look at the Hatch.
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Drop into the bathroom. Roll Athletics.
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No. 15 Good enough? Yes, you land and you do not
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break your costume. All right, Vendel Retro, where
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are you? We're in the, we're in the main
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area with, with the collector. Yep, Yep, Yep.
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We're in here. It's really, really boring.
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Can we just get the fuck out of here?
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This is like, this sucks. I I want to go and do something.
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This, this is really, really boring.
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Now we're just sitting here not doing anything.
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This. I've I've I've asked for our
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car. Where are you?
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Where are you? Can you speed up with this?
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I'm in the main room, I'm looking for you.
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But what a load of fun costumes this was.
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This probably was a very fun party.
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Did you 2 have very much fun? It was loads of fun before the
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dead bodies. Yeah.
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Yeah, I can imagine. Well, should we just should we
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just leave? Should we leave?
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I suppose the mass hysteria really isn't our problem.
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Well, we didn't do it, so we're we're good.
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Well, we just don't say anything about the bodies and just
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meander our way out. Right.
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It's not like any of us would have, you know, gone and said
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they were going to help the cops out or something like that.
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We can just get the hell out of here.
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Sure. All right.
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Let's go. Go outside, go outside.
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Well, I'll, I'll, I'll see you later.
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I'll, I'll stay here and report back.
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Anything else? Happens.
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Thank you, darling. Well before we go, can can you
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give me a hook up before we go? That's all I have, darling,
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That's all I got. Oh come on man, you made it seem
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like it. Was happy Halloween.
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And you walk out of the hill view.
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Leaving leaving the area in a tiny bit of hysteria.
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As you walk outside, Jeb is standing next to a man wearing a
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trophy hat. Oh yeah, the one that has the
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queen energy. And I, I told you I I came up
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and the dead body was already there.
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And I mean, I will admit it smelled great, but I didn't do
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nothing. Well, here's the thing.
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I saw a man run that way during the fireworks.
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Which way? That way, huh?
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West, yeah. And I mean, was he maybe scared
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of the fireworks? No, my sources say.
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I'm sorry to say this might be your fault.
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My my fault. Oh no.
21:02
Fuck. Night City.
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If you look at a map of North America, somewhere on the
21:21
western edge you'd see an inky black dot with fingers pressing
21:25
into the side of the continent. That's where you find Night
21:27
City. And somewhere in the middle of
21:30
that inky black dot is a giant smoking hole, like the universe
21:34
itself drew iron and shot straight through the city.
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further South in a dive bar the shortstop.
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Watch now at youtube.com slash at Infinite Sided dice catch you
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later tunes. I know exactly what this.
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Is. God damn it.
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You're now in the van. You're in Vanna White with this
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guy. Are all of us in the van with
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the gun? You're all in the van.
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You've all you've left the Hillview behind.
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The police continue their reports.
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They've taken a report from you VV.
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They may call you later. OK.
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And you're in Vanna White with this guy.
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So you said this may be our fault, Detective?
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Yeah. Care to elaborate?
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Well, I'm Detective Rothko. My sources are desperate.
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However, I was hired by a a family member of a hot dog
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vendor because he went missing a few months ago and the only two
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things I've really been able to find are one, that he may have
23:18
rented an apartment in South Nite City, 2 they may have got a
23:22
lot of augmentations, and three, that no latency keeps on coming
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up. Come coming up hell, like he
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just loves us and he keeps talking about us and how cool we
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are and how handsome that that one guy.
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Is nothing linked, nothing firm, but my the last gang that one of
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the main maelstroms came up against were you guys.
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What I don't know what to talk about.
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Chop shop, bunch of other stuff. I can't think of any time I was
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in a chop shop. And the only lead I have on this
24:03
guy is that he owed a lot of money to those guys.
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Word on the street is you guys took them out.
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So to who out? Sorry.
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The maelstrom. Maelstrom.
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All of them, huh. A.
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Large chunk, maybe not. All, not all.
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That. Damn it specific gang the they
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were owed a lot of money by this hot dog vendor called Arthur.
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Does ring a bell, Sorry. I mean, to be honest, if our
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name keeps coming up, that doesn't necessarily mean that
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it's us. You know, sometimes some people
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just like to say stuff. I mean, you're just hearing the
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name, you don't have any proof. And at the same point, like even
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if it was potentially us, we if we were to potentially have done
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that, it could have just been a complete coincidence that maybe
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it was something other that had to do with him.
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And he just kind of was, you know, got the the benefit of us
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checking out his eyes. So that doesn't necessarily want
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to do with it. Is we don't have anything to do
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with it? Yes.
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Right. So it's just a coincidence.
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I'm sure. OK, well unless you have
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anything else to tell me, I'll be on my way.
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Yeah. Did they did, did they say
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anything about anybody in particular or just kind of no
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latency as like a as a group? You know, there was a one in
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particular that they were there is.
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Some footage of your van being nearby, St. cams stuff that took
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me a few months to get hold of but.
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Yeah, so, so not exactly. There, but it's weird that I've
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seen this van more than once. I see it almost every day.
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That's funny. We'll be in touch.
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And he opens the side of the van and closes it.
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Hold on. Wait.
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Can you wait You? See him walk away towards the
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West. God damn it, did anyone get his
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badge number? Damn name badge number,
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douchebag. Am I right guys?
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No, I mean like, did anybody, did he ever show anybody a
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badge? No.
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He actually part of NCPD? Is he just a private detective?
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He could be. And at least had a license, but
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nobody. We should have got us
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credentials. You're right.
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Yeah, we could. We could, we could, we could
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search him. We could look him up in the
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garden. You know what, Yeah, I'm pulling
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out my tile. I'm trying to go ahead and do a
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search and I'll connect it to my face so that way whatever
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displays can pop up. Great.
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I'm seared. What would be a good one?
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Just because I think it'd be funny, yes.
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Detective Roscoe Private. Investigator or PIXNCPD?
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Current employer unknown. See folks, Library search does
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come in handy. So you can do at your local
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library. No, we're not going to do an ad.
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No, please run an ad for the local library Dad, please.
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There's a lie you can do at your local library.
27:27
Check out books, check out movies.
27:29
Get this, you can even check out media using the Internet.
27:34
All you got to do is roll. Roll on down to your favorite
27:38
local Public Library and they'll hook you up with one of them
27:41
magical library cards. It's free.
27:45
Some of them have video games. Yeah, it's true.
27:48
And you can even print things. Some of them even have 3D
27:51
printers. It may be the first time you see
27:53
a printer in your entire life. I'd be the last.
27:58
Jim, how much would this cost to?
28:00
Get this, it's totally free, paid for work by you, the
28:05
taxpayers. Oh fuck, I should pay my taxes
28:10
anyway. Hey, So what do we think's going
28:16
on? I mean seems to me pretty clear
28:20
as a guy I went cyber psycho mod modified his entire body to look
28:25
like some sort of wolf thing. Maybe he was inspired by the the
28:29
terrifying and probably true stories of the the man, the men,
28:36
wolves that are out in the Badlands.
28:39
Do you all think this has something to do with, oh, I
28:43
don't know. Yes, Uh huh.
28:45
Go ahead. Because it does.
28:48
Well, absolutely. Oh, we can just say it because
28:51
we all know what it is, but maybe we'll all say it on three.
28:55
It all has to do with 123. Body feel.
28:59
By Jeb. Body feel by it.
29:03
Oh, sorry, hold on a second. Retro where?
29:07
Wait, why did you get out of the van?
29:10
Why did you get out of the van? Retro.
29:14
Where are you going? Rocher's just walking down the
29:19
street. He's been dramatic.
29:23
So a body feel bite, OK, we this is yes, this is definitely a
29:32
consequence of that, a reaction. No.
29:35
Oh no. Is this the consequences of our
29:36
actions? The consequences of our actions,
29:39
unfortunately. Where are you saying body feel
29:42
bite turned this person into a some sort of man?
29:48
Wolf, he may already have had some sort of level of cyber
29:53
psychosis or that was already there and the body feel bite
29:58
might have enhanced that or just made that a made make that come
30:08
out more basically. And we gave him a bunch of money
30:11
to change his face. Who knows if he spent it all on
30:14
just his face? And the more cyberware you have,
30:18
the worse it is. You get more and more lose
30:23
yourself. And he may have totally lost
30:26
himself. Lost in the sauce, as they say.
30:29
But how do we know? But how do we know which part,
30:31
if you'll buy it, That's that's making him Sacco?
30:35
Did you take scans of the blood? Oh, I did.
30:38
I did scan. Well, I I I scanned at least one
30:40
of them. So yes, I can take a set, take
30:46
the sample and see. You open up your little Med
30:50
scanner and roll a medical check to see if you can detect it.
30:55
Multiple blood samples detected. Trace trace amounts of custom
30:58
compound body body fuel. Bite, bite, bite, bite detected.
31:04
Yep, that confirms it. It is in fact tainted with body
31:10
fuel bite. Shit.
31:14
This is yeah, he he has the thirst for blood and has some
31:19
sort of cyber psychosis. That plus that equals bad combo.
31:22
He turned into a wolf man, wolf cyber man that's killing people.
31:27
We need to, we need to find this and stop him and rectify and do
31:35
we do some damage. Clean up that we tried to save.
31:38
That feels unfortunate. The hot dog guy.
31:41
The hot dog guy. Retro did warn us.
31:45
What cool thing did you find inside of the vending machine?
31:51
Railroad, Railroad, railroad. Go ahead and roll for for what's
31:55
in the vending machine then. I was trying to find something
32:00
good but all they have is this seasonal candy corn kibble.
32:04
I'll take it, I'm sure. So I'll appreciate that I'm
32:07
here. I'm retro, I think.
32:10
I think it's important for us to point out that while you were
32:13
outside of the van, we worked out that you were right.
32:19
I mean, I know I typically am, but about what this time?
32:22
Hey, you remember the hot dog guy?
32:27
God fucking damn it. What the fuck?
32:30
I I said it. I said it.
32:32
What did I say? Fucking covenant vampires.
32:36
This is what we're fucking starting around here.
32:38
God fucking damn it. No.
32:41
No, it's not a vampire, it's a wolf man.
32:44
All right, well look, see I fine I guess then that shows that I
32:48
am human and I'm not a God because I was wrong for the
32:51
cryptic creature, but still it I what the fuck?
32:56
I know, I know. We we have to do damage control.
33:00
Also, if we didn't recognize him when we saw him, that means that
33:05
he changed his face, so that's harder.
33:08
But we told him to because he looked like the fucking the the
33:12
doctor dude. Right, but now he's a monster
33:15
and we don't know what he looks like.
33:17
Wait, hold on. We did.
33:20
I gave him money. You did a lot.
33:24
So that means I know where his bank is.
33:27
Yes. I, I, I'm going to go into my
33:31
banking, my banking app and see where I sent that money to.
33:35
You see an account number. Make out what bank?
33:37
That is OK. You see an account.
33:40
Number. All right.
33:41
I would like to try to see if I can.
33:45
Can I determine what the bank is from that account number?
33:50
Yeah, the code is, is like a fingerprint.
33:53
So it's it's Knight City Bank, it's one of the regular bank.
33:57
Banks I'd like to try to hack it and see if I can get into his
34:00
account to see what his recent purchases have been.
34:06
Go for it. Sure. 31 Yes, you get an
34:13
itemized bank statement and you see a few things.
34:17
One, a large payment to a facial reconstruction, literally
34:23
labeled facial reconstruction, but the cheap option, and then a
34:29
few more payments for cyberwear quote UN quote and installation.
34:35
And then third, a rent payment for a building called Flow
34:39
Apartments 13. All right, everybody.
34:42
So I was able to double back, figure out his bank, and then I
34:47
hacked his account also. Well, since I'm in that account,
34:50
I'd like to go ahead and just put it on hold.
34:52
Freeze it for right now. Sure.
34:55
You roll 31. I'll let you do that.
34:57
Yeah, he can't get no money out. Sure.
35:00
So I I found out where he got his face changed, I found out
35:04
where he got cyberwear, and I think I figured out his address
35:09
because I have rent. Do we want to check all three or
35:12
do we just want to go to the place where the fuck is living?
35:15
I vote for where the fuck is living?
35:18
I mean, I guess we can take the spooky season to him.
35:22
Ayona. I think that that's fantastic.
35:26
That's probably the best place to find him, unless he's just
35:30
prowling the streets. So let's go Jeff roller driving
35:36
him. 28 yes, you managed to leave without any of the cops
35:42
noticing noticing you. You did actually have to roll
35:44
pretty high for that. None of them stop you, and you
35:46
also don't get a ticket for standing in a loading Bay for
35:48
like 20 minutes. You drive to flow apartments. 13
35:54
roll. 20 added a party feature. It's very cool.
35:58
Party feature. So you can now select all of the
36:01
dual players in one group, right click, select them as a party
36:04
and then on any map you can say place party and it will move
36:07
everyone to that page and focus on that location.
36:10
It's really cool. Well.
36:13
That's nice. And you're outside of Flow
36:15
Apartments 13? I checked the venue missions.
36:19
This place looks like shit. It also smells like shit.
36:26
Role sanitization. Thank you and.
36:31
One of the vending machines you find a single skill chip for 500
36:34
days oh very good sanitizer Alayana, you are very clean
36:38
you're. Very clean a.
36:43
Single skilled chip of any skill.
36:45
Yes, and not at times too skilled because those are more.
36:48
I mean, yeah, I'll buy that, sure.
36:50
What skill do you want? I would like the skill of what
36:58
am I? You know what I would like?
37:01
No, I was, I was going to say resist torture drugs, but I'm
37:04
still high, so that's not going to work.
37:09
I would like contortion. You got it.
37:14
You have a contortion chip. It'll give you +2 to that, sorry
37:18
+4 to that skill if it is 0 all. Right before I do go it, was
37:25
that the only thing in there or was there like any random bobs
37:28
and? Roaming AD 6.
37:30
I'd like to see if there's just any kind of electronics in there
37:32
whatsoever. I see nothing One.
37:40
No, the only thing you find is the sculpture.
37:43
OK shit. Well, it's still good fine
37:45
though. Yeah, very.
37:47
And you're outside one of the doors to this building.
37:50
As you drove around it, you saw at least three.
37:54
All right, well, what do we know?
37:55
What apartment he's in? Do we just go in?
37:59
Can you trace the, I mean they probably maybe access their bank
38:07
account from their towel well in their in their apartment and
38:13
maybe, maybe we can track them via Wi-Fi.
38:16
That's really smart. Thanks.
38:21
I saw. I just noticed that it says.
38:23
It says right here, free Wi-Fi in every room on the on the
38:27
side. Oh, Jeb, lead the way.
38:36
Oh God. We have to track the Wi-Fi which
38:39
is which is you retro. Oh yeah, that's right.
38:43
Me. Jeb can't smell Wi-Fi.
38:45
He can smell blood. Yeah, and sometimes.
38:49
You might be able to smell the blood on on him.
38:52
Take a whiff. Raw.
38:59
Perception, now that you mention it, there is kind of this
39:03
interesting, almost like a, like a, like a.
39:10
Raw perception. 32 You do smell blood to the east through the
39:23
building. Through the building.
39:26
Hold on, hold on. I'm a foul man.
39:29
What do you smell? What is?
39:32
It boy, that's a window. You go up to a window, it's a
39:35
one way window and you it's not there.
39:38
It's it's, it's definitely in the building more.
39:41
It jumped. The doors over here open.
39:45
Come on, Toucan Sam, let's go. This way over here.
39:52
I just sorry, sorry. I it's got this fascinating
39:56
aroma. It's almost like a it smells
40:01
like you would think wet dog tastes.
40:04
Oh. That doesn't seem at all
40:09
appetizing. Well, that's where you're wrong.
40:12
You just. Stepped into this dank, messy
40:18
one story apartment building and inside you can see dirt and
40:23
grime on the ground. All of these apartments seem
40:26
like they're almost exactly the same.
40:28
There are three vending machines in this corridor and at the very
40:31
end, Jeb, you can smell blood coming from the east kind.
40:35
Of looks like your apartment retro, it's coming from down the
40:41
hallway. It's definitely getting getting
40:45
a little bit strong, stronger. Oh man, I'm getting hungry.
40:53
I'm right behind you, Jeb. Roll, resist, torture drugs.
40:57
Yeah, I can see that one coming. In fact, I did.
41:00
I set you up perfectly. As you turn around the corner on
41:05
the final intersection of this building, you're all A12 on
41:09
resist torture drugs, and although you're able to resist
41:12
most of it, you do. Put your hand down to the ground
41:17
where you see a little dried blood in the shape of a
41:19
footprint. Pick it up.
41:23
Lick it. This is this now I imagine that
41:29
I can taste slash smell the difference between the smell
41:33
that I've been him our our our our perp yes, and maybe a victim
41:44
is this is this perp blood or victim blood?
41:48
It's it doesn't taste like a victim.
41:52
It has that distinctive twang of your own.
41:57
And by that I mean it has body feel bite in it.
41:58
That's what you point out. Wait a minute.
42:00
This this blood. This ain't this ain't the
42:04
victim's blood. This is his blood.
42:07
Yeah. It's got that kind of sour taste
42:10
that Body Fuel bag gives you. As you ingest the blood because
42:15
it's body fuel bite, you do heal to HP I'm.
42:18
Going to lift my fingers. The cut on your hand finally
42:22
seals up right before your eyes. Well, that's convenient.
42:28
Yeah, it's not like someone that has body fuel bite, if they were
42:32
to bite someone else that passes on, right.
42:37
No, no, they have to drink it will consume it first.
42:41
Yeah, see, that's why I went with the vampire thing.
42:43
Why would you? You know, it's not like
42:44
werewolf. We just have to get bit.
42:46
You have to like literally ingest the blood.
42:50
I think we're more referring to the way that they were killed,
42:52
but yeah. OK, let's keep.
42:55
Let's keep going. Well, I is this it?
42:58
This door? That's where the blood trail
43:02
leads. It could very well be.
43:05
Is that the apartment that the rent is paid that I noticed the
43:09
rent was paid to? You check the little barcode on
43:12
the door and scan it and it matches the barcode in the bank
43:16
statement. This is this is supposedly is
43:20
his place. Do we knock?
43:22
You rattle the door. It is locked.
43:28
I mean are we going to breach and clear this song bitch or?
43:31
We might as well. We might as well.
43:34
Well, maybe let's kind. Of breach and clear in some
43:37
time. Well, let's take a more measured
43:40
approach if reaching clear, how about that, OK.
43:44
All right, I'm listening. Because we don't know if there's
43:49
other like, you know, this apartment building.
43:52
And as much as I remember about apartment buildings, sound
43:55
carries like a motherfucker around here because all the
43:57
concrete. So how about we pick the lock
44:05
and then Jeb, you just be there with the guns ready if
44:07
something's there when I open the door?
44:09
All right, I like that. Jeb.
44:11
You take a step back from the door as Retro steps in front of
44:14
you, still dressed like a pirate.
44:16
Yeah, I'm still dressed like slow.
44:19
Retro pick lock. I haven't met the chest I
44:22
couldn't crack. Oh, like a pirate.
44:25
That's very funny. Oh, they were talking about
44:29
never mind. Bad joke.
44:32
Bad joke. 23 You unlock the door.
44:38
Silent. It clicks open.
44:42
All right. You ready, Jeb?
44:44
I'm ready. On the count of R12R.
44:52
Oh, that's not OK. The door bursts open and you
44:55
barrel inside to an empty room. I'm doing the classic like, you
45:01
know, 22 my my 2 revolvers on either side like sweep in the
45:05
area, chicken left, chicken right. 24 All right, Yeah,
45:12
Pulling a good Mark Wahlberg. Gotcha.
45:14
Is it is, is the is the coast clear?
45:17
BB I think the coast is clear. Seems clear.
45:19
OK. I'm going to keep your GAR.
45:22
Work my latex gloves onto my hands.
45:24
Thank you. Excellent.
45:26
Yes, and I'm going to open this door.
45:29
You open up the bedroom door. It's clean.
45:34
The bed hasn't been slept in recently.
45:38
It's a little dusty in here. The room you left, though,
45:42
smells faintly of blood. Do I see anything outside of the
45:46
bedroom window? You see a dumpster in the alley?
45:53
Anyone can roll perception. Who's in the main room?
45:57
Oh good. Quick question, what is the box
46:01
that says NC? That is a manhole cover.
46:06
Thank you. Welcome.
46:08
Perception 19 VB You see a trail of blood leading towards the
46:13
bathroom. You're old, high enough that you
46:17
almost but have not stepped in it.
46:23
Well, I'm going to check the bathroom.
46:28
Oops. I'm going to, oh, shoot, we need
46:33
to get in there, Will. Did I see anything?
46:37
You're old perception 31 You see that the vending machine has
46:42
been emptied of any kind of meat product, that the fridge was
46:46
left open, and that there is blood on the ground and
46:50
handprints on the door. Oh.
46:54
Shit. It's gruesome in here.
46:58
Yeah, they don't look good. Vivi, have you tried knocking?
47:03
I don't think knocking is the move here, I think we need to
47:07
break in. It's a it's a bathroom like that
47:09
is a very private area. There's blood coming from below.
47:14
If somebody was in there, if it was occupied, I don't think
47:17
it's, I don't think it's occupied anymore.
47:20
OK, fine, I will. I'll help you open the door.
47:23
But if there's somebody in there that's using it, you owe a big
47:26
damn apology. Fine.
47:29
You know I'm usually right. You have been these last couple
47:32
of times, I will admit. As you step next to the bathroom
47:37
door, you notice that not only has the vending machine been
47:40
opened, it's been smashed open and it's broken.
47:43
Oh boy. Oh.
47:46
OK. That doesn't make me feel any
47:48
better, but yeah, Phoebe, Are you ready?
47:52
I'm ready. I hold my gun on my side and I
47:56
pull it out just in case. The fucker's in there.
48:01
Don't want to bite me. I'll.
48:04
Try my best. 19 Yes. You unlock the door again,
48:10
silently. It clicks softly.
48:14
Do you open the door? I don't.
48:15
Yes, I I open it slowly, Phoebe. As you open the bathroom door
48:24
slowly, before you is a very bloody sight.
48:32
A man wearing AT shirt with a hot dog on it has a big metal
48:37
jaw and he's lying at the very back of this bathroom, his body
48:43
limp, gaunt like he's been drained, his face stuck in a
48:51
forever screaming expression of pain in a pool of what you
48:56
assume is his own blood. The man you were looking for is
49:03
dead. Was there somebody in there
49:07
peeing or not? He's, he's the one we're looking
49:13
for. The wolf.
49:14
He's he's dead. He's dead.
49:33
Oh, that's good. If he's dead, then who is doing
49:37
all of the killing? Oh yeah, I can see where you
49:38
were eating carpet. I don't want the fiber Jeb.
49:41
Are you so hungry right now? Wait you guys gave body fuel bad
49:45
to domino? He's munching carpet right now.
49:47
What are you? What are you saying?
49:49
I don't see anything wrong with that.
49:50
It's not hurting anyone. There probably is some level of
49:53
cyber psychosis as well in this. You're going to call Fred?
49:56
Well, I was thinking you first. You're here unavailable, are you
49:59
not? Given the nature of all of his
50:02
installments. Did we check to see how he died?
50:06
So he was well, vampires don't exist.
50:08
Oh God. Strange rogue Ripper dock.
50:12
Somebody knocking turn off the lights.
50:16
Well, that settles that. He can't know where in here.
50:19
I can't believe I did it. Damn.
50:21
Oh, I feel like that was the sneakiest I've ever been in my
50:23
entire life. I shall deduce.
50:26
Yeah, I'm just, I'm just thinking about all of this and I
50:30
feel like I might be responsible for some of this.
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