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Last time on no latency. Happy Halloween everyone.
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Oh shit. Is that today?
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What's everybody dressing up as? This might be the best
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Halloween. Or maybe you've been a sexy
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nurse this whole time, Claire. Oh, we're going to the brain
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dance place to get you some brain dances.
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Well, I suppose it's a good thing that Claire's already
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here. It might be worth doing a big
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old group. Do you have any Battle Royales?
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Crip fails are really. Punishing in this game, they.
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Are very punishing. I only you've gone black and
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white. Can we go to the Bubble Cafe?
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Absolutely. Let's go.
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I would love to. I've never had Bubble Cafe.
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Holy fuck. I've run over there.
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Oh my God. Oh.
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Who said to the clowns? I jump out of there too.
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Oh no, there's a lot of. I push past all clowns.
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I am just going to window. How?
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How? How?
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And it's only OK. I'm going to take care of you.
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We're gonna get you out of here. We're going to go.
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It's. Why aren't you helping me?
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Why aren't you helping me? Helping me, me.
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Me. Me.
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Me. Help me.
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Help me. Me.
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Me. Me.
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Me. And it all goes black.
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Hello. Hello.
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Is everyone alright? Alright, right.
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Where are you? Where are you guys?
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I can't see anything, no Bendel. I'm here to help.
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Can you hear me? Maybe you have to do something.
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I'm going to help Bendel, no. No, you send me out.
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Hello. Meow.
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Hello. Hello.
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Hello. Who's that?
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Who? I don't know.
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I've got. I've got a signal.
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Is that Fandel? I don't.
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Know. Fresh.
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Hi. Hello.
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Fresh what? Why can I hear you?
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What are you doing? I did.
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Your heart rate went up really high and there was like a there
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was like a data stream and I've hooked into that and now I can
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talk to you. OK, can you hook into Vendell?
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Can you check on Vendell? Sure, I can give it a shot.
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Roll for it. I never have fresh piece sheet
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open. No sheet?
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Ha, ha. Solid pun work go all right.
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How's your Halloween? Having a good day.
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Can everyone hear fresh P or is it just?
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Yes, you all can hear fresh P21. Oh yeah, it says here that
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Vendale still has two lives left.
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What? What?
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What the hell was going on? Wait, like Vendale's moving on?
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For moving on in their life. Wait, what do you mean there's
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two lives left? No, no, it says here.
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What does it say here? Vendor should actually have
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three lives left. No, that's 30 points.
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Phoebe has 20 points, Jeb has 40.
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Let me just rich it and have. 5. Chose five points and has used a
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life, Yeah, says Here you're doing a game or something.
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OK. Can you can you see us?
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Oh, do you need me to? It looks like you're you're
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stuck in a loading screen. Do you need help?
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Yes, if you could, if you could clear that or I need to find
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Vendel OH. Everything's so bright.
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You're all standing in front of this big door with like
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circuitry on it. You can see light and data move
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across it in slow bars and fresh P is standing there.
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Alright, why are you here? What?
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I like video games. Me too, bro.
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Fist bump. What?
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Rami, this is not the time. We don't know where Vendel is.
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Vendel has lost a life. That must mean we're still in
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the BD. But I don't know.
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Yeah, where they would have gone.
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Oh, you guys doing a BD? That's fun.
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Where'd you go? Brandon's Palace.
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Oh, OK. Why did you sound like that when
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you said that? By the the Emma person with the
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deep voice. Yeah, right.
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Like, really deep. Like, weirdly deep.
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You definitely notice it every single time.
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See the person that we. Got the brain dense thing from.
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Did not have a deep voice? No, But I assume more than one
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person works there, so it must be fine.
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Maybe they move. It's a new hire.
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Huh. Give me one second.
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Let me roll interface again. Sure.
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Let me roll interface again. Hey, Fresh Pete, since you know
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so much about the place, how long has it been open for?
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The BD place? Yeah, yeah, about two years.
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OK, pretty popular then. Well over 100K.
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Yeah, this is this isn't Emma. That's not how Emma loads a PD.
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I'll tell you. Give me a second.
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And. Fresh pee, like full on, just
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disappears. Well, I'll be honest, I'm
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starting to like, kind of freak out a little.
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Bit everything is going to be OK.
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We are all right. I hate to say this, but fresh
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pee has got this. Whatever it is, we're going to
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be fine. I'm gonna smoke a J Where's
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where's my joints? Roll Conceal Reveal object 18
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of. Course they roll high on that
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one. You put your hand out into the
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air, pinch, and a joint materializes in your hand.
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Oh. Whoa, did you Did you just,
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like, summon the joint into your fingers there, retro?
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Yeah. What?
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Oh, good, you're back. Go ahead.
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OK, so. This feels like a hack, so I
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locked the door. But every time I try and get any
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further into the network, I hear this, like really weird noise.
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Yeah, like that laugh noise. Yeah, Every time I touch the
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door. Look, I think it's bad in there.
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Or or it's a security system and it wants us to think that it's
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bad behind there. But really, that's where all the
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good stuff is and it's trying to scare us away.
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Right. Not not to point out the
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obvious, has anyone just tried calling Vandal?
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You have been with us the entire time.
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We have had zero time to call Vandal.
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OK. I'll call Vandal.
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Thank you. Hello.
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Hey, Vandal. Hey, are you OK, buddy?
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How are you? I'm.
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In a room on my own, it's like a big circle thing and.
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And there are these. There are these podiums and I
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tried making it go. I think I need a colored key or
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something. They're definitely not in the
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room that we're in there in some big circle thing with podiums
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and. My chest sort of hurts, but I
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like re materialized or something retro.
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You aren't kidding. Coming back with one of those
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lives sucks. It's terrible, isn't it?
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Also, not to alarm you, but I think I'm still in the BD.
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Vendel. Vendel, can you hear me?
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I mean. I own it.
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Are you OK? Wait a minute.
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What? Vendel.
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Vendel. What?
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What else is in the room with you?
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How do we find you? What color of the key do you
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need? I need not all the lights are
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on. It's really dark.
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I'm trying to use my leg. I found there's a red one and a
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blue one and a lot of crates in here.
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Like a lot of crates. Have you opened any of the
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crates? They're they're they're really
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heavy, but when I knock them, it doesn't sound like anything
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that's in them. Do you want me to check?
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Go for it. Yeah, yes, but carefully,
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please. OK, you only have three lives
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left, if I'm counting correctly, because you had one and then you
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got +20. Did you hear that?
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I didn't. There's a lot.
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I think there's something outside the big door.
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The door, big door won't open. Wait, there's a big door where
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you're at too. It's really dark, Iona.
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I know, I know, It's going to be OK.
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That fit really hurts. I know, I know.
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But you're OK. It wasn't real.
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I. Have a I have a feeling you
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might want to ask like maybe you can get like a call to fresh or
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something. Rushes here.
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Please. Oh, OK, fresh.
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Yes. I have a feeling the safeties
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are off. Oh fuck yeah, no.
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So yeah, if if you know what that means, right, everyone.
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Yeah, no, you know what that means.
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What What's will mean? What does that mean?
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If you die in the game, you die in real life.
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Oh, great. Oh, Oh no.
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Wait a minute. I always thought that that was
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just pure speculation. Well, I mean only if they've
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like plugged into you or injected you.
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Which all of us have. Oh, shit.
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All right. Fuck.
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OK, well, we've got to get you out of the BD.
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Even if I was to get there physically, I probably couldn't
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make it past. Any defenses they have, but I
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can join you in here. Thank you.
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Fresh that. You know what?
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Probably honestly, having a net runner here will be very
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helpful. All right, cool.
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So how do we get through this door?
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Vandal In what arrangements are the podiums?
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There, there's two podiums. I know, I know.
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Just focus, really. Scary in here.
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I touched the door. Well, still got the touch.
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Vandal What arrangement are the podiums in?
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There's, there's two. There are a lot of boxes in
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here. There I found two.
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There's a red one and a blue one.
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There's blue on the blue on the left and and oh wait, no, I
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don't know which way you're facing, so there's a red to the
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north. And a blue to the South.
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OK my legs. Compass is still working.
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I I see. I thought that maybe that had
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something to do with the pattern on the door, but I think I might
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be wrong. What?
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What do you guys think? I'm just trying to see if I can
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force open the door. All right.
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Yes, Bendel, just stay where you are.
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Stay safe. I think I hear something.
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I gotta go. Put my tile back in my pocket.
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Then I'm gonna try to use my cyber.
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Arm to help wrench open the door.
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Not very well. You place your hand on the door
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and moving, your electric lines come up through your arm.
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You rolled A crip. Fail and you take take two
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damage. Should should we try to hack it?
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I mean that that. I mean, we are in cyber space,
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so. Try and hack it, but remember,
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like just like with retro with the joint in the air, you could
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be kind of like creative in this since it's a game space.
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So you're telling we can just kind of just like like retro
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just kind of appeared with a joint, we can just operate
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stuff? I mean on a small scale, as long
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as it's not too too like large. Because let me try, let me try.
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Let me try. And I stick my hand out and I
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think about Sloan all. Right, 12 OK Animal Handling?
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Yeah, 23 crit. 9. Nice as you, as you almost get
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to a fart you. Can see the veins.
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On my head and a. Blown appears on your arm.
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Oh my God Sloan. It worked.
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Hey, baby girl. It's not really Sloan, It's like
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a mental manifestation. But that's that was really good.
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Well then maybe maybe this Sloan, you know, doesn't go
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crazy about popcorn like the regular Sloan does.
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Cuz I tell you it's a problem with her and I and I and I
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operate some popcorn in my left hand, I try to operate a health
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hypo for Vendel. Roll for it. 1010 You don't roll
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grate the VV, and as you pull from the air, you manage to pull
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a hypo that's empty. Yeah, think I just have to think
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harder. Jab All the popcorn you pulled
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from the air is burnt. OK, pop pop pop.
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Oh. Well, slow.
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You want any? Yeah, go ahead.
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I'm going to try to imagine a master lock pick key.
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Oh, that's a good idea. Roll for it.
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Is that an 18? That is an 18.
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Says Fresh as a large golden key just materializes in front of
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you and hovers lightly. Wow, that's that's like the like
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the size that you give when they give the city gives you a key.
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Big. Key That's big.
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Oh, I get it. It has a it has a like a skull
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on the end because it's a skeleton key.
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I get it. I did not get that at first.
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How I get. Wow.
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All right, cool. I didn't think about that.
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I never thought about that until now.
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OK. And then you try to use it on
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the door? Yeah, you grab it and you tap it
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on the door and the door cracks open and you walk into a
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corridor. Vendel.
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Is it dark again for everyone? Yes, yes.
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All right. Just making sure.
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Hello. Hello.
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Hello. Hello.
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Hello. Sloan Can you see quiet?
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Oh. Sorry.
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Well, we are being quiet. Whoa, whoa.
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Where are we now? So you walk into this corridor.
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You have two directions you can go.
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Left, right or in front of you is a large stack of crates.
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Bendel. Somebody roll.
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I don't think they're in here. I will roll perception.
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I am very perceptive. Nobody calls back from you
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calling it. You're so distracted by your.
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Grief. For Vendel not being around,
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instead you find nothing rolling a Crip -10 on perception.
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There's nothing but crates in here.
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Retro, you rolled 16 and you notice on the ground.
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On the left it says the tank and on the right it says the well.
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Vivi on the other hand rolls 23 + 7 on perception.
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What a crit between the boxes. You see Watchmen.
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Shit, there's more of them. More of who?
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The Bosons. Those Watchmen.
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That's all right. They take one head to kill.
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We can get rid of them. I shoot.
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Do you have a gun? I think about a gun.
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Roll handgun. I feel like Jed didn't didn't
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even think. About the.
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Fact that he didn't have a gun, he just thought that he must
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have a gun because he always has a gun on it and so he just grabs
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for his waist and I like to think that.
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There's a gun there, and it it didn't even cross his mind that
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he didn't have a gun until this moment.
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And while Jeb is admiring his same gun from the real world, VV
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puts a handout and grabs a gun as it materializes midair.
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Firing through two slips between the crates, it hits one of the
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Watchmen whales as it explodes into a shower of pedal like
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pixels as they scatter on the floor like marbles.
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Voxels, if you will. Indeed.
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Wow. Holy shit.
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So fucking cool roll. Yeah, that was.
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I don't know. It just kind of happened.
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We should just be careful in case there are any more around.
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There's probably more. Well, there's two ways we can go
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or third way if we decide to not climb over these crates.
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Well, I've got an idea. Why don't we, you know, burn
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down these crates and Jeb? Thinks about holding a Molotov
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cocktail. As you raise the Molotov
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cocktail up in your hand, roll A roll.
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Something to grab it from midday 13.
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Not quite enough. You lift up this bottle, but
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there's no alcohol in it, so it's just a burning rag in an
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empty bottle. And as you lift it up to the
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crates, you notice the crates of metal.
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So that that gets me. I don't know how to get past
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metal things. Unless, and Jeb thinks of a
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giant magnet roll for it. 19 You think of a giant magnet and
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you're really excited about it. It's like a Looney Tunes
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cartoon. And it and it appears midair and
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flies out of your hand and smacks into one of the crates.
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As the crate gets pushed along, it squishes one of the Watchmen
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behind it and gets stretched across the ground and then
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chapters into pixels. Man, stop points.
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Wow. Great, I moved through the gap
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in the crates now. I will follow.
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Yup. Why is I am so giant?
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I'm the leader. I thought maybe it was like, you
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know how we all see you is how you appear in this world.
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So I'm very small and here big. I'm the smallest I'm so.
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Tiny, I wasn't going to say anything.
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Well, I just had a gross fertile.
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Oh. Wait, does that mean that we
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can? I concentrate and I think about
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shrinking in size to about half my size.
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All right, roll for it. I will roll for it.
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Let me think. Maybe a second.
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Doors locked. 19 You managed to reduce your size just a bit, not
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a lot, about half half your height.
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Now you're the smallest. .0 OK, that means that anything goes
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all right if we need to get in between something, if we need to
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get under something. You can do it.
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Just believe in yourself. That's the way this world works.
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What if I were to, uh, believe that I am, Uh, uh, uh, what is
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it when like you know, like a ghost, you know, like they're
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they're like, not physical. They're they're like, you know,
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you can do like walk through things.
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What's that called? Oh no, you always have to have
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physical form. Darn.
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Yeah. What's this say on the ground?
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It says key required. Oh shit.
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Say, do I have a key? Yeah, I got a big gold key.
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You do see if. It.
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Works. I use my skeleton key.
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Does nothing. Well, that's a bunch of bull.
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OK, but there's also a red button and a blue button I
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believe. I will tap them both with my
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gold key. Nothing happens.
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Shit. Call.
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Call Vendel. Pull.
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Out my tile. Mmhm.
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Sorry, I'm not used to having to do things by myself, so I will
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say to do things. Yes.
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We're at a place with a red and a blue button.
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OK, if I press one, will you tell me if something happens to
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the red or blue podium? Sure.
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All right, I'm pressing the red button.
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Anything. Nothing.
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Happens. What if we press the red button
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and the blue button at the same time?
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All right, let's go, Jeb. All right.
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And 321. Press.
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Or I did two tabs there. Did that mean that it was twice
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as funny? Has anything changed for you,
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Vendel? No, it's still talking here.
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I think there's one of those Watchmen in here.
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Are you guys still in the BD as well?
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Yes, you you can make things appear, You could probably make
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things disappear and you can change your size.
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Basically anything you think of, you can make real.
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OK, I'm going to hide. OK.
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You need or should I do something else?
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Nope, that's it. I just that I just we're going
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to hang up again. Don't let anything happen to
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you, OK? Please.
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Don't forget about me, Iona. We're not.
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We're not. We're coming for you.
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All right, well, this didn't work.
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Well, two places we can go, the tank or the well.
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Do we all go together to one and then the other, or do we split
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up? Yeah, we never split the party.
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Never split the party. Let's.
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Split up. VV.
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We can cover more ground and we're kind of in a rush.
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Yeah. I mean.
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According to the time dilation, you've only really been in the
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BD for about 11 minutes. All right then.
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But who knows how much time Vindel has?
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Your right? It's.
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That's what I'm thinking. I didn't want to say it, but
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yeah. I'm I'm not a great fan of
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splitting the party. I haven't really got to hang out
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with all of you very often. Can we just go together?
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Well, guess what, fresh pea? You can come to the Halloween
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party, of course. You mean the anti invite was a
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joke? So funny, I got an invite
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telling me not to come. Like expressly don't come,
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you've got. That must have been, that must
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have been stranger. The stranger not like me.
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No, he's just a bit of a buffoon.
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OK. So are we going to the tank or
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the well? I vote tank.
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Sure. I also wanted to do the tank.
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Maybe we'll be able to, you know, take it for a spin. 2 fish
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are in a tank. One looks at the other and says
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Do you know how to drive this thing?
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Incorporeal. That's what I meant to say.
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That's that was the word that I was looking for earlier.
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As you walk down this long corridor, the world shimmies
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around you and it ends at a dead end.
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In front of you are a bunch of boxes and crates all over the
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ground. I need someone to roll
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Perception 19. You notice that there are two
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Watchmen in here on the other side of the Greens.
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Oh no. Looks like there are more than
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scary guys just kind of hanging out there.
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Are you going to do that cool shot again, Phoebe?
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Yes. I pop out and handgun dream of
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shooting them. Handgun Dream of shooting.
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Yo, leave the shooting to me. Jeb, you actually feel kind of
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bad because Phoebe jumps out from both of these crates.
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You're about to pull your gun and do a double shot and as you
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pull the trigger. Your bullet flies through the
23:45
air and misses because one watchman is blasted into
23:49
another. Wow mine.
23:52
One of their bodies remains. This is making up for all of the
23:56
bad shooting I've done in the real world, and I feel powerful.
24:01
Well, I was for a while, but I'm making up for it in this
24:08
fictional world. Yeah, I'd say so.
24:13
You know what a nice shot. Thanks.
24:17
I just really want to help Ben though.
24:20
I mean, I guess we don't see any other Watchmen around here.
24:23
I guess I'll just moves on into the next room.
24:27
That's just a big. Glowing thing.
24:29
Role perception. Retro, you put your hand out.
24:32
Here we go again. In this sort of space between
24:37
the two rooms and just as you reach out, it just.
24:42
It just. Oh man, yeah.
24:49
Oh, it hurts. The gap stop.
24:51
It and you get 3 damage. Out.
24:55
Chuck me why? Vivi, you pulled out your Med
25:00
scanner and on the Med scanner it says hurts organic material.
25:04
With your 19, you also see that there's a switch on the other
25:06
side and it's glowing the same color.
25:09
As this force field in front of. You this might only be able to
25:13
be open from the inside. There's that green glowing
25:17
switch back there if you can see it.
25:21
Is there a way to get inside? Let's see.
25:24
I have an idea, Iona. Hold on.
25:28
You said that organic material can't get through, right?
25:30
Yes. Iona, where's Risky?
25:33
Right here and I I tap my hair clip twice.
25:37
Roll for it. Only because Jeb had to 12.
25:41
Yes, you pull risky off your head and place them on your hand
25:47
in front of. You all right?
25:48
Risky. Look at me.
25:52
OK, you're going to pass through this, and hopefully you do so
25:56
without harming yourself. But there's a flip.
26:00
There's a switch that needs to be flipped on the other side.
26:03
If you could just do that and I'll let him go.
26:09
He learned it from you. Gets over to the lever and
26:19
climbs on top of it and then looks at you.
26:24
Yes, yes, that lever. Yes, go ahead.
26:30
And the force field falls before.
26:33
OK, I'm not touching it. Someone else does it.
26:35
I, I, I, I walk through. We're fine.
26:39
All right, Jeb, roll Perception. Sure 17.
26:42
The body that didn't disappear finally breaks into a bunch of
26:47
pixels and a coin burst from their chest and rolls off behind
26:52
these crates. Wait a minute.
26:55
Did you see that? Anyone else see that?
26:57
What? What happened?
26:58
Well, that body, it's being all I'm, I'm gonna, I'm shooting
27:01
that thing. No, the body's gone, but a coin
27:03
went behind the crates. Oh, wait, never mind, never
27:06
mind, guys. It's nothing.
27:07
I walk over and I pocket that coin.
27:10
You pocket a coin. You feel like you gain 100
27:13
eddies for some reason. It feels nice.
27:17
Wait a minute. We're saying it's a dark corner
27:21
and no one else is around. I'm gonna go ahead and touch
27:24
this weird thing, huh? Hey guys anyone know what to do
27:29
with this card full of holes or something?
27:32
Punch card. Oh, is that what it is?
27:35
How many more? How many more do you think I
27:37
have to do before I get a free slash this?
27:40
Looks like some sort of. Dot matrix, yeah.
27:46
Code or writing? Or binary.
27:50
Maybe. No, it wouldn't be Morris Code.
27:56
Maybe it's some, maybe it's like you know the digits, you know,
28:03
like maybe it's like 314231. 42 three thousand like a code for
28:10
something. Ooh.
28:12
I like that thought. Well, hold on to that and let's
28:16
explore this room. See if there isn't anything that
28:18
needs a code. There's a computer over here.
28:20
You. Want to take a look at that?
28:22
Fresh? You're pretty good with
28:23
computers, sure. Let me roll perception.
28:26
That would be smart. Yeah, looking around, looking at
28:31
this and that. I am going to roll her
28:36
perception and and and this is my chance, I'm going to look
28:41
around with my perception. I'm on an 18.
28:45
I found this some my computer and there's a big fish tank
28:50
right here. It sounds like there's something
28:54
in there. It's glowing blue and I found
28:59
two tablets. Can you get into the tablets?
29:03
Well, they're just here on the thing.
29:04
Do you want to see them? Yes.
29:07
Alright, there's this one and this one.
29:12
Well, maybe if we put the dots over this, like if we turn it on
29:18
it's sad, then we get 92V. Since this is a radio plate, you
29:27
kind of describe the thing you're looking for well.
29:30
I'll tell you right now, the dot matrix one seems like it goes
29:33
through cold plate code plate one and the the first code plate
29:38
has a jumble of letters and numbers and four lines.
29:41
Yes, it does say dead. 3142 says dead.
29:45
So if we find dot matrix two, we could probably figure out what
29:48
code plate two says. Yeah, we just have to we got
29:51
these two, two. Is it a plate?
29:54
I guess like a card. Yeah.
29:57
And one of them. Is.
29:58
Where did you get the dot matrix?
30:00
It was in the corner over here, in that dark corner that I heard
30:04
voices. I'm just getting that in here.
30:06
Voices. VV Roll Perception.
30:10
One moment. Perception. 19 Yes, as you move
30:13
over to the West side of the room, you see.
30:17
Ah, I think there's another one over here.
30:22
OK, this may be. Our other dot matrix for code
30:26
plate 2. It's SOAL.
30:33
Sol Sol. Dead soul.
30:36
Soul. I don't know what SOAL stands
30:39
for. Dead soul.
30:42
Oh my God, it's dead soul. Yes.
30:45
Dark Souls, we're gonna be we're gonna be playing Dark Souls.
30:48
You know what's funny? Before you found the dot matrix,
30:50
that was the only word that I could find.
30:52
So I I guessed that already. But soul is spelled wrong.
30:56
It's like a plane. You know, I think it's like a,
31:00
you know, like when you're making, you're doing password
31:03
safety. You don't actually want to use
31:05
the real spelling of the word. You're going to misspell it on
31:07
purpose in the way that. Only you know I.
31:12
Am a hacker man and I know these things, so there you go.
31:16
He says as the tank beside you opens up.
31:21
And in the depths of this water, you can see something blue and
31:25
glowing. And I need you to roll
31:28
Perception, Jeb. It's 22.
31:30
Retro. You zoom in a little bit.
31:32
You see a dark mass move in the water.
31:36
Lots of them. Spoon.
31:37
You're all 22. And as you look closer you can
31:40
see. Oh well you guys, I think we
31:43
found out what's in the tank, and that's a whole lot of
31:46
piranhas. Can we reach into the tank?
31:48
In order to get whatever is in there, you'd have to swim to the
31:52
bottom. How far is it?
31:53
It's. About 30 feet down.
31:55
Hold on. Wait a second.
31:56
Let me double check something real quick, OK?
31:59
Shit. Also, I'm gonna say I've never
32:01
really seen you guys work in person.
32:03
You worked at that puzzle so quickly.
32:05
We're we're pretty good with puzzles.
32:07
It's kind of our job. I think it's mostly if you were
32:10
to, if you were, if I were to describe our job to you, it
32:14
would be. Killing things and solving
32:16
puzzles. And doing heists, there was that
32:19
whole. I mean, you know, it's funny,
32:21
I've looked into this. The Collector still has no idea
32:23
that you've stole him from him twice.
32:25
Iona. Now here's the thing though.
32:28
We don't talk about it out loud. Now here's.
32:31
The thing, though, is it out loud if we're in a dream.
32:34
Whoa. Actually, Phoebe, you're a
32:38
doctor. Is it out loud if we're in a
32:39
dream? Do you sleep?
32:42
Talk. Frisbee because it could be.
32:44
I mean, I'm not asleep. Oh, right.
32:46
I'm jacked in. It's.
32:47
It might vary. Oh, some might, some not might
32:51
not. Do you?
32:52
Talk into a sleep. I've been told I do.
32:54
Oh, you should record it. I don't want to know.
32:58
I don't want to know what I say in my sleep.
33:00
Oh, OK, that was good. That got dark all of a sudden.
33:03
I'll just go back to the computer.
33:06
OK, I have two ideas. First idea I don't think should
33:09
involve any sacrifice I'm going to imagine.
33:13
A fishing rod. A powered electric fishing rod.
33:17
But at the end it has one of those grabber claws that you see
33:21
for the grabbing machines. OK.
33:23
Roll for it, sure. 32 Yeah it it appears before you, it has.
33:31
You didn't roll a crit, so it has no guidance.
33:33
This is all based off your skill.
33:35
OK, I will cast into the water and hopefully it'll sink down
33:41
to. Which said item?
33:46
This is going to be difficult. How about Jeb?
33:48
You're really good at stuff, right?
33:50
Some things. Are you really athletic?
33:54
I would probably consider myself 6.
33:59
Athletic. No, I'm sorry.
34:04
I'm sorry that, you know, actually I'd say I'm about a 10
34:08
out of what I unclear. OK, if I guide you in using
34:12
this, can you athletically clamp on to whatever is in there and
34:16
then pull it back up? If there's one thing I'm good
34:18
at, it's clamping. OK, that's not true.
34:21
I would say shooting for. Sending JEP into the pole on the
34:24
back of a fishing line. No, I'm having Jep do the
34:27
fishing line and I'm guiding. OK, good.
34:31
I. Thought you were gonna use Jep
34:32
as a human crab, but that's. There are piranhas in.
34:35
There, no, we would. We would never do that.
34:37
That's plan. 20, OK. I'm glad it wasn't me.
34:41
I can't swim. Is plan 2 all the way after Plan
34:45
Z? Does it go a BCD all the way
34:48
through the alphabet Z and then roll over to plan 2?
34:51
No, I didn't even think about the alphabet.
34:52
It goes 123 and then alphabet. OK.
34:56
All right. Well, hand me that thing, I'll
34:58
I'll start fishing. Jab I've.
35:00
Done it a few times. It's time for you to fish
35:03
because. Every good video game has
35:05
fishing. That's my favorite part of any
35:08
video game is fishing. I'll just go ahead and cast the
35:11
line and then I'll just wait for it to give me a little rumble
35:14
and then I will, you know, start the mini game of the the what
35:18
are those things called the the when you have to press the
35:21
button when it comes up on your screen.
35:23
The claw. What is it called?
35:25
What are those things called? The Fishing mini game.
35:29
QuickTime events. Yeah, that's it.
35:30
The. QuickTime event.
35:31
Yeah. All right, Jeff, go for it.
35:34
Well, clearly that was athletics, apparently.
35:39
Oh. You drag the claw through the
35:43
bottom of the pool, narrowly avoiding the school of piranhas
35:47
as it tries to attack the line, and the claw grabs onto the blue
35:52
object at the bottom of this pool and you feel it tug.
35:55
It's heavy. Oh boy.
35:57
Roll something to pull it in. All right, somebody holding
36:01
back, I need some help here. This seems pretty heavy.
36:07
I'll also, I'm also just going to roll for bureaucracy.
36:12
Retro you rolled dance and you got a 20.
36:15
Your shadow reflects on the top of the water and distracts the
36:18
school of piranhas as if you of them leap over the surface to
36:21
try and snatch at you as you do the Macarena.
36:25
Judd, go ahead. Just adjust your left shoulder
36:28
back a little bit to put more strength in your arm.
36:31
You probably knows this as well. I did learn this from one of you
36:34
these books. If you if you pull your
36:36
shoulders back now, you'll have more strength in your pectorals.
36:41
Go ahead and engage your pectorals.
36:44
Go. Ahead, and you should you should
36:48
You should always be holding your core.
36:50
I shouldn't have to tell you that.
36:52
Do I need to send you back to basic training?
36:55
I mean, while Iona's giving Jeb this pep talk, what are you
36:58
doing? Following Iona's instructions,
37:02
the two of us are like working together.
37:05
So it's. So lovely seeing you all work
37:07
together. It fills a side character's
37:10
heart. I tell you what, 1234 Jeb gets
37:16
inspiration all right. I got some new ones.
37:21
They're really cool. I got this one.
37:23
And I got this one. We don't have time fresh.
37:26
And the blue object comes barreling up through the water
37:30
as piranhas jump up to try and grab it.
37:33
It flies and hits Jeb on the chest, and you get thrown back.
37:36
It's pretty big. It's a large blue key.
37:41
You're not holding it yet. Can I try something when the
37:44
piranha jump in the air? Sure, I would like to imagine
37:48
Sanos Katano and try to cut the fish in the air all.
37:51
Right. Go for.
37:51
It What is friendship on here? Education.
37:56
Yeah, roll me a detail. OK, The sword appears midair.
38:00
You slice across the air. It disappears as you finish your
38:04
swipe. The piranha splits into two
38:07
midair and disappears into pixels, and a coin appears
38:11
midair. I would like to pick the coin.
38:14
You grab it and you're all very high on your D10, but you make
38:18
150 eddies. Oh yeah.
38:20
Hey, fresh here. And my hand to 150 over to the
38:24
fresh. That's.
38:24
Nice. It's a it's a chip as well, as
38:28
you know. You know, keep up the good work.
38:29
And now that the key is in Jeb's possession, the iris above this
38:33
tank closes once again, and as it's just about to close, the
38:37
arm jumps out through the middle.
38:39
And get sliced in half. Oh shit.
38:43
That's a ten Wow. Floating right there on the top
38:46
of the now closed tank is a. Life.
38:49
Somebody should take that. I say we roll a D4.
38:51
See who. Who gets it?
38:53
Should I? Use one of my new D4.
38:54
Yeah, Yes. Go ahead.
38:56
Four. It goes to you, baby.
38:58
Sweet. I grab.
39:00
It all right. Be ready to be sacrificed.
39:03
What? Next time on the latency.
39:20
Well, you know, this ain't my first time fishing.
39:22
Great. Well, Speaking of, we should
39:23
probably go to the well. Oh, the whale.
39:26
Where the fuck did Jeb? The screams are very loud.
39:30
Yeah, I should have. It's fine.
39:31
I've been shot. Before, well, I'm gonna go ahead
39:34
and use my Spreadshot and see if I could shoot them all.
39:36
That's fine. I'll shoot it.
39:38
It's fine. Uh, maybe we've been thinking
39:40
about this wrong. Maybe we got a fight.
39:42
Clowns with comedy. Or hopefully you're feeling
39:44
well. Let's go.
39:46
I yes. I feel much better.
39:48
Cute. I like that all.
39:50
A little heavy on the ooh Woo's, but that's OK.
39:53
Oh my God, baby, no. It's everywhere.
39:56
Hold on, I've got an idea. Jeb, if you die in the game, you
39:59
die in real life. But I have a jet pack, hey?
40:01
How's it going in there? This ain't jet pack fuel.
40:03
Maybe it works. Turn it on.
40:05
Oh God, take it off my back. I throw it down the hole.
40:07
I got it. Thanks.
40:09
What, Jeb? Who's that?
40:12
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