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S2E52 - The Exam · No Latency

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Last time on no latency. Is this it?
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Is this the moment where I feared my entire life?
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Well, don't sound so excited about it, Beebe.
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Maybe. If it was one of you can check
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for blood. Can an electronic device truly
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die? If the battery runs out.
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See now this is where you come in handy.
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Beebe, that's your department. OK, I'm going to just pull the
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chip out. Put some gloves on 1st.
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Can you check the porta potty if there's a body in there?
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There was nobody in the Porta potty.
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That's true. There was nobody in the Porta
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potty. Shall I just say that we're
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candidates then? Let the record show that this
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pretty much was a theater. Is this oh?
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Shit, we're back in school. If everyone could please take
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your seats. Well, I am going to sit front
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and center. Listen, I I'm always in the back
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of the class, so that's where I'm going to be.
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All right, heads down. Your test begins now.
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There is a loud noise, an electronic beep noise, the sorts
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that would start an exam and then you hear a voice and on
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each of your screens appears a bunch of 3D blocks and a little
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3D manipulation piece of software.
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Arrange these blocks so that they fit in this space.
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OK, Square, square hole. Circular Circular.
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Holes. Triangle 10 over sin by 90°
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divided by the diameter. What's the area inside?
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I think it's the flat of the place.
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Oh, this is definitely it. I know talking during the
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testing, sorry. Sorry, what?
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I, I I still haven't rolled. Oh.
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Sorry, I started cleaning my nails.
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What would you like to roll Vendo?
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I don't know. Everyone else seemed to roll
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education. Oh, you know what?
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I don't like that for you. I didn't.
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I didn't roll education. Oh.
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No, but it I've still got a block left.
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Time's up. Oh no, Vendale.
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Did you fail? No, shut up.
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I mean, it's fine. I I I failed.
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I didn't know what to do with this triangular one, no.
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Me neither. Please solve these five math
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equations as quickly as possible 4 + 2. 4 + 2. 6. 6. 7 * 12. 143.
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42 + 74 / 3. 7. 6 * 9 in parentheses +9.
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Can that be repeated? You see the option to repeat the
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the last math question on the screen.
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I press repeat. 6 * 9 in brackets +9. 63. 14 ^2. 196.
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Time's up. Time's.
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Up. I'm so glad I'm not taking this
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test. I don't.
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Understand this. That was really bad.
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I'm really bad at math, am I? Yes, I am.
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And he rolled to 16 Retro. How did you do on that question?
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Are we going with the first row or the 2nd row?
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First one. We only, we only you're the only
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one that rolled twice. I mean, I feel confident.
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That's why I've got this brain blessed.
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Do you join right now? A trolley is racing down a
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track. Oh no, if it.
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Continues in its direction. It will kill one of your friends
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and or a family member. On the other track are five
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people you don't know. Do you change the direction?
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Yes or no? I hate the trolley problem.
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Or as an easy one, yeah. There is no correct answer.
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I blow the wheels off the trolley.
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Yes or no? Wait, which one's Yes is yes?
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Change the track and kill 5 people and keep my my loved ones
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laugh or or is no. Do that yes or no?
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Yes. But but which?
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Which track has the five people? I want to kill the five people.
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Well, it's it's who. It's going to hit your friend if
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you don't change it. So if.
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You change it, yes. OK, I think I jumped in front of
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the train. That's not an option.
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I killed the five people all. Right.
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Fuck Em. I really hate this these kinds
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of questions because it's not logic, it's just there is no
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right answer here. It's more philosophy really.
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Yes, Time. Stop.
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Does the end justify any means necessary?
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Yes or no? What kind?
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Of test is. This.
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Oh, that's a no. Yes.
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Secretly answers yes. Yes, I think yes.
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Phoebe, did you answer yes? I'm not telling you, OK?
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I mean, yeah. I peek over my computer towards
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Phoebe's. Hey, no cheating.
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Hey, no cheating Proctor. Time's up.
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Not cheating. He was looking.
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Using my resources do not. Interrupt the exam.
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Sorry. What is life answer with one
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sentence only? Laughs a bitch.
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And then you die. A good time.
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Biology. Wow, you did.
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You really went overboard there. They they asked for an entire
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sentence. You just you gave them one word.
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Friendship. The period of birth to death.
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Only one answer will be accepted.
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The exam is completed. Thank you and.
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On the screen Iona, you see the results of the exam.
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Vendel got equal points and you can assign them to either the
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Abbott Lab or to Thermal. Retro is assigned to Abbott, Jeb
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is assigned to the Thermal Lab and V is assigned to the Abbott
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Lab, but with a high grade does. That mean I did the best?
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Who scored? Top Proctor.
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I'm not at liberty to say the. Computer prints out a pass for
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each person who took an exam, listing except Vendel because
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you haven't chosen. Jeb is assigned to Thermal.
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Retro and VV have been assigned to Abbott, but VV has been
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assigned to Abbott plus one. Wait, A.
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Minute these are grapes. How am I supposed to know who I
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did bitter at? Well, I mean, I guess Vivi
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obviously because they got plus one.
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Well, they're pretty good. Vendel 2 with thermal with Jeb.
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A little logo appears next to Vendel's exam ID number that
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says inadequate and they get assigned to thermal.
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You notice next to Jeb's name, it also says inadequate.
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I wish I'd seen that before I assigned.
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Do I? Does Jeb see that?
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No. OK, good.
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Dang it. Well, Judd needed a buddy.
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How did I do? Is thermal good?
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It means we're on fire. You know what I'm saying?
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Yeah, I mean. I don't see anything wrong with
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that statement I think. You'll be OK.
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Yeah, you're really heating it up in here.
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Well, you're. God damn rat.
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And I give I give Vandella High 5.
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Yeah, I love high fives, friendship, smack.
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Yeah, all. Right.
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Just because you got thermal Lab and we got Abbot, I mean, you
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don't need to Lord that over us. Jeez.
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Everyone takes a pass and the computer prints out a Procter
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pass. I think you I was just about to
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ask does it have a location? Abbot.
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OK, so I hand out everybody's passes.
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I guess this does mean we're splitting the party, but I I
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vendel I did put you with Jeb so that Jeb wouldn't feel alone.
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OK. Sorry, Jeb.
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What? Nothing.
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All right. All right.
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Well. I suppose we go through the next
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door. I suppose we didn't really check
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any of the doors behind us. There are doors behind us.
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Yeah, there was a door in the hallway to the South, and then
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there was that locked door to the north.
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I just kind of went straight into the exam room.
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Oh, there is a door back in the hallway.
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Looks like an empty room with some lockers.
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Roll perception. I will percept.
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Thank you. Was I right GM?
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Are they lockers? They are lockers.
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Stuff You search the lockers. This small room smells a little
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of bleach. On top of the crate you find an
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unactivated drone, and now that it's not covered in blood, you
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notice that it's mainly they seemingly designed for cleaning.
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And there are three in here. Now you roll pretty high on
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perceptions. You notice that there's
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something stuck in the one near the crate, but it is
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deactivated. All three of the ones you found
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in here are not on I. Will pull the thing from the
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drone that is deactivated. It is another chip.
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Oh, oh, Jeb, give me your tile. Oh, all right.
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All right. And I I do the thing that I saw
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Remy do where I break open the back and I take the previous
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chip out. And I.
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Here you go, Jeb. You can have this.
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We don't need it anymore. I put this chip in.
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I'm on my way to oil rig M5 for some secret lab project.
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Hopefully I'll find out more when I get there.
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I've managed to sneak my way into a recruitment process.
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It wasn't easy, but I'm on a boat and I'm on my way.
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This is going to be the biggest story ever.
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I mean, I don't really like water or boats, but there's
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something fishy about that place.
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I know it. I've got a covert recording
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system and some spare chips in case anybody catches me so I can
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offload the data. This might be the story.
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It takes me to the big time. GM Can I send these audio
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recordings to fresh P? You pull out your tile and
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discover that you have no signal.
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I should have known. Well, does that mean anything to
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you, Jeb? No, I mean it does mean one
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thing and that apparently they had a snitch or a a journalist
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or something in here and maybe that was the person who died and
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say we haven't found their body yet or maybe we did but they
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were just disintegrated or something.
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Maybe. Well, I I do believe that we
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should probably be on the lookout for more of these chips
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since it sounds like they did offload data.
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Right. And then with that data, we can
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go and and publish the story ourselves and then make money.
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Oh, by selling the story to the news people.
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April, yeah. April.
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There you are. Great idea voice, is it?
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Sorry, what? It's not April's voice.
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No, it's not April's voice. No, no, we'd recognize their
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voice. No, no.
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Yeah, of course not anymore. GM I didn't follow the rest of
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the group. I went and checked out that
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electronic door lock. What do I see?
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What? Are you doing?
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You know, maintenance. What do I see?
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You find a little console next to a door that says security
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one. Was there like a swipe card
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thing and something like that? Yep.
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OK, take the Roach of my joint and I rub it on the inside of
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the magnetic strip. Roll for it.
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You bet your bonnet I will you. Bet your.
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Bonnet crit. 34 jeez. Oh.
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Shit joint never fails so. I'm going to tell you right now,
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this door was a 24 to unlock so the door clicks open.
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You get the feeling that this was really really hard to do
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while you are messing around with the joint.
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Your cyber hand also sent a spark into the machine and it
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pops open. Hey.
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The door shudders slightly and the crate near the door shuffles
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towards a sofa in the room. Well, perception.
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That sounds ominous, but OK. Perception 15.
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So as you enter the room you see that there are a bunch of sofas
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for waiting, 2 vending machines full of food and beverages, as
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well as a few bandages and a packet of chisnas snaps.
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But the other thing you see is an air vent in the bottom
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southwest corner of this room. Call.
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Well, my interest is piqued. Let me let me take a look what's
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what's in there? I heard some shuffling.
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You open up the vent and you can see inside there's enough room
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for you to squeeze through, but just you.
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It's about as wide as a human. OK, there's a little voice
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inside me telling me no, but the weed is telling me yes.
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OK, let's see. All right, let's start crawling
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through. And this is really tight.
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Be honest though, this vent is extremely clean.
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As you get near the other end, a little door opens.
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As you find that there's a vent behind the Proctor desk, you
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found a little path from security one to the exam room.
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Hey. That's pretty cool and only I
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get that knowledge. And nobody else knows.
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I'm gonna head back in. Let me see if there's anything
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else. Is that I see another door over
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here. Metro.
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Where'd you go? Metro.
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I'm right here. Wait, what?
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How did you what? Did you just miss me going by?
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I I OK, I guess, yeah. Took some practice, got some,
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got some stealth moves now. All right.
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Well, thanks for opening the door, Retro, what's in here?
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There's a bunch of couches. I'm not.
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I'm not going near those anymore.
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Oh, it's like a it's like a lion or something.
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Also, is anyone else kind of skeeves by the fact there ain't
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like nobody here. Well, I hadn't considered it
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until now. It is kind of weird, I mean,
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yeah. Yeah, down here in the lower
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decks, because there were people up above.
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Were there? Yeah, we had to sneak past them,
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Jeb. We we threw people in a locker.
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Right. Yeah, Metal Gear Solid style
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metal. Gear Solid Style Vivi.
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Are you looking around? I am, yes.
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RAW Perception 21, Yes, Vivi, you're standing next to a locked
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door. It looks like it has a lot of
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security on it, and as you're sort of scratching your head
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looking at this computer, you notice that behind the crate on
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the N wall there is an air duct vent.
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You. Pull the crate aside.
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Yeah. Does it look like a person can
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fit through this? It does look like a person could
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fit through that. What you thinking, Vivi?
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One of us small people without big TV's for heads could maybe
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go through this this. Is.
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Normally me do you get it? Like when yes.
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You know what? I'll volunteer this time.
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Woo Go V don't die. Thanks for taking point.
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Oh oh boy, this is like this has given me, you know, I I'm afraid
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of elevators because of claustrophobia.
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And now I'm going through a vent.
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As you get down to the end of the vent, you make your way into
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security too. You're on the other side of the
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door and there's a door release button on the wall.
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I will release the door. The door unlocks.
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Oh, hi. Yeah, that was pretty easy.
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Hey, you did. It you did.
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You did. You did an Ellie.
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Yes. That was a that was a Last of Us
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joke. Very, very.
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I get it. It's a really old reference.
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Yeah, I know. I What can I say?
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I love the classics. All right.
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Another vendit? What's in this one?
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Looks like some Gisner snaps. Gisner snaps in all of these.
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A sedative and some ammo. Well, you never know when you
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can need a sedative, so I'll grab that.
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It's 20 Eddies. Poof.
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Oh, high price, but all right. Well, why don't you try to
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fonzie it? Yes, Jeb, you're good at that,
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right? Or was it retro, what have you?
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Can one of you like, smack this thing a little bit and maybe
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it'll knock the sedative down and I don't have to pay 20
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Eddies? You're muted, Retro.
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I was just holding in my excitement.
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You know what? Hey, Vendel, come here.
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OK. I'm going to teach you how to do
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the Fonzay. Really.
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Yeah. Check it out.
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All you do is you just got to feel for the right spot, right?
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And when you feel that sweet, sweet spot, right where, you got
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to knock it. Give it a good pair and it'll
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open all gifts to you. OK, let me give it a shot and
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hold on. I rolled a 20 and.
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They put their fists through the keypad.
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Oh, and ammo drops. The sedative drops the jizz and
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the snaps drop. The ammo falls on them and
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crushes them into dust, and then the sedative falls in.
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Oh shit, maybe that was a bit too strong.
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You know what? I'm going to be honest with you,
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Vindo. You're a natural.
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Thanks, this is a new room. Should we look around?
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Jeb like walks over to what seems to be a big window.
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Hey guys, I think we're on the other side of the giant screen
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that we were watching that pre test video last episode.
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So there would have been people on this side, but there's nobody
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here. No.
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Raw Perception 15 Yes, that is just enough.
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Behind the desk you find a dead man.
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Oh, oh, oh, gosh. Oh well, you found someone.
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Let me check his his vitals and you know, see if I can see how
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long he's been dead and cause of death.
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I run over there and I sniff. Oh.
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That's not 13. That's not great.
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Don't roll great. But it's fairly easy to see what
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happened to him because half of his face is missing.
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Something exploded the left hemisphere of his brain.
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Oh my, does it look internal or something?
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Like did something jump on his face and explode him?
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Or is it something internal that exploded him?
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You didn't roll high enough to know.
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Shoot. What do you smell, Jeb?
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Oh my God. You smell the air and you smell
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this sort of distinctive coolant smell and then just a hint of
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some kind of explosive charge and it seems like something was
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inside his brain and exploded outwards.
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I almost smell like a like a coolant.
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Is that like like engine coolant or something?
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Maybe explosive coolant? What is explosive coolant?
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I don't know, but it kind of smells like whatever was inside
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his brain. Well.
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He's on the outside now. It might have been an internal
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explosion then. Like a hemorrhaging.
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Something was. I was trying to use medical
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talk. Yes, good job Jeb.
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It could have been like a hemorrhaging.
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Yes, something in put in his brain that caused it to explode.
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Because the hemorrhage would not cause your face to explode like
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this. So I don't.
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Yeah, something. Also this guy, universal donor.
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Right now. What is this whole blood blood
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type sensing thing and new like? I'm not sure if Jeb actually
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into. It it's Jeb's superpower.
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Before he could, he could regrow limbs and things.
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And now I I guess he smells blood types.
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Yeah, it's. I pretty much get the worst.
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We haven't actually checked if he can actually do this though,
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which is kind of going on his word.
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There's a street gang called the Philharmonic Vampires.
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They are people who would probably very much enjoy your
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skills. I might have to go talk to him.
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Yes, I don't think that's a very good idea, Chip.
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It's making a little extra cash, you know.
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Baby, you notice the computer on the desk is on.
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Do I see I'm going to just quickly examine and see if I see
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anything on the computer that doesn't require passwords and
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shit? Yep, you see on the screen that
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this person was in the middle of writing a report and on the
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screen it says candidate tried to escape, had evidence of
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thermal facility shot on sight, and next to the keyboard is an
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audio chip. Oh, an audio chip.
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We should try to play this. Say it, Tracy.
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Retro, can you play this? Make a chip.
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Do it, Jeb. I'm using this tile in case it
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has a virus. Don't tell it, Jeb.
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Yep, Can you can you play this? Oh, just just stick it in here.
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Yes. All right.
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I managed to talk to one of the guards before I started my
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entrance exam. Yeah, there's an entrance in
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exam for this and you get put into two different pockets.
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Thermal power or the Abbott lab itself.
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They swear that there's a thermal vent down here, but that
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seems very unlikely. But the place seems to have
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power, so maybe it happened, but I'm already suspicious.
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This place is too clean. Way too clean.
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It's almost like nobody lives here.
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Wait, are there living quarters down here?
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I haven't seen any yet. Yeah, I thought this was a place
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of business, not a not a dormitory.
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Well, I mean, it's an underwater lap.
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I would assume that they'd have to sleep somewhere.
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Hey. Maybe they slept on the couches?
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This is getting more and more weird.
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By the 2nd. OK, we've got a practically
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empty bio lab underwater with a supposed thermal vent, robots
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that are eating people to clean, and people with their brain
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exploding from the inside out. Well, I I don't think that the
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robots are eating people. I also don't think the robots
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are eating people. Jeb eats people, but but not the
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robots. I'm basing this off theory, by
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the way. Robots are disposing of bodies
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except this one. Why not this one?
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Maybe they couldn't get in. I'm a pat down the body, see if
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I found anything. You find a bloody 50 Eddie Bill
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and some ammo. OK, I'll go with the other ammo
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I found. Nice.
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He's gonna win. Sucks.
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Yeah, I mean, it's just trash. But he has a gun, so that could
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be the potential shooter from earlier.
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Maybe not. Not not crossing it out yet.
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That's what it said in the report.
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Yeah, so just the two of them done here.
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Seems like there should be more. Well, the computer in the other
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room said. What did it say?
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No candidates expected. Maybe they just haven't had
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anybody come down here in a while.
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Yeah. Seems so efficient, but I'll
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accept it. Should we keep?
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Looking around if there's anywhere else to look.
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I mean, I think we just need to keep going forward.
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Yeah, let's. Stay on our toes, eyes in the
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back of our head. Nose leads the way.
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OK. Nose leads the way.
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The nose, Nose. Well, if you say so.
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Take a lead, jab, aye. I.
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Jeb, do you need some help here? I think hold on if I could maybe
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you know I'm thinking what I'm thinking is if there's a if
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there have been Vance that leave it that lead into the other
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rooms maybe there's a vent around here got try to catch
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catch us you know across breeze check.
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Check behind any crates because the last one was hidden behind a
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crate. I don't see no crates, but maybe
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one of these? Phoebe, we're over here.
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Oh, sorry, I'm just, I'm just wondering.
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In in an incredibly spooky facility on your own.
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Terrible idea. Remember Buddy system?
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Come back? Yes.
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South's a bit. We're over here.
26:07
There you are. Hi.
26:08
Hi. Retro.
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Retro, have you got that door yet?
26:13
Yeah, do I just scan my pass? I guess.
26:16
If it doesn't work I have the the Proctor pass.
26:19
I'll put my Abbot pass on on the door.
26:23
It pings. Hey, pings are good.
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Oh, I want to do it too. Bendell's pings.
26:31
Everyone. I'll do mine.
26:32
Oh yeah, who? Who?
26:36
An Iona is last to do so, and it's Iona's pass that pops open.
26:40
The door slides open a little rustily.
26:44
I could probably use some WD50 on that.
26:49
Roll Perception, Jeb. You roll a 23 crit plus one, and
26:56
you can smell the slightly warm coolant of the drones As you
27:03
listen a little closer, you can hear them clicking in the
27:06
hallway ahead of you. I'm.
27:07
Just damn, cleaning drones I smell.
27:11
It's that same cool that I smelled inside of that man's
27:14
head. Do you think a do you think a
27:16
drone popped out of that man's head?
27:19
Why would it? Because it wanted to get out.
27:23
I think they're a bit big for that, Jeb.
27:26
Maybe they grow. That would be creepy.
27:29
Not grapier than some of the other stuff we've been up to.
27:32
Can you can you smell how many drones are in there, Jeb?
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1238 No Wait No 27. OK.
27:45
Yeah, I can't do. I don't.
27:46
Believe them. I mean, look, Jeb. 27 I was
27:49
scared. Jeb could be right.
27:51
I mean, we haven't seen any drones aside from that one
27:53
bloody one who knows how they're able to reproduce.
27:56
Oh, you weren't with us. There were three deactivated
27:59
ones. Oh well then Chad, what are you
28:00
talking about? You saw 3D activated ones.
28:02
How are they going to fit into the head?
28:03
Well, maybe they were inside the head, but they're cleaning
28:06
drones. There's a reason that those ones
28:08
were clean because they've been outside of people's heads for
28:12
so. Long they didn't have such a
28:13
dirty mind, they wouldn't have to clean your head.
28:16
Oh. God.
28:17
Nice one Zing. Thank you.
28:21
I got one. That was a good one.
28:23
You did get one. All right.
28:27
So what you're saying, Jeff, is you smell more than one drone in
28:29
there? Well, yeah.
28:32
Well then, should should we be cautious?
28:36
I mean, we should always be cautious.
28:38
So are we going to be stealthy or are we going to go in and be
28:43
like, fuck you, you're a drone. How?
28:48
How do we be stealthy? I mean, the last one died in one
28:52
shot, so I don't see why we can't go in there and start
28:55
blasting. True.
28:57
What did you say, BAE? I said.
29:00
We could try to be. I don't know how we would be
29:02
stealthy. Well, if we just act like we
29:06
belong here, like we have been doing, we.
29:10
Should OK. It did work for us previously.
29:13
We are cleaning drones, right? I think so, right?
29:18
I have an idea. Make a mess.
29:21
I pull out a couple packets of crushed Gisner snaps from
29:25
Vendel's Fonzay. Oh, did you grab those?
29:29
I did. I grabbed, yeah, I grabbed that
29:30
and the ammo I was going to get the the sedative, but Baby was
29:33
too quick and wow, OK, I see something.
29:42
You see something? What did you see, Retro?
29:46
I see a lot of cleaning droids and a big hefty ball where the
29:52
ball is. You see a sort of a cluster of
29:55
hovering swarm drones moving like liquid mid air.
30:02
That's fucking. Terrifying.
30:04
What's terrifying? It's.
30:07
The best way to put? It is a floating hornet's nest
30:11
of metal Hornets. Oh, no.
30:14
Yeah. You see the cloud turn towards
30:19
you. Oh shit.
30:21
Roll for initiative. Looking for an RPG podcast that
30:31
isn't? Just D&D roll to cast, is the
30:35
answer no. Wait, sorry.
30:36
What games have we played so far?
30:38
Well, we've. Done.
30:40
Cyberpunk 2020 oh Catholo. Vampire the Masquerade.
30:44
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31:00
to cast. ROLE come.
31:02
Discover a new. World.
31:16
Runs through the door and takes aim at the cloud.
31:20
What he expected to be a cloud, but what now looks like various
31:25
clouds and or stand alone drones and blasts your first shot.
31:32
Shoots wild, and it hits the other side of the room and
31:35
sticks into the wall that is a full.
31:37
That's a full -10 crit, and your left Grand Pappy's Colt 45 jams
31:43
pretty hard. A bullet gets stuck between the
31:45
cylinder and the outside, and it's going to take you a minute
31:47
to fix that. No shit.
31:49
Hair. Just keep happening your other
31:52
bullet. Though 25 rips a hole through
31:54
the centre of the cloud of drones and they take a decent
31:59
hit of damage, they buzz violently and angrily at you.
32:05
You. Cause 14.
32:06
Damage. They seem pretty pissed.
32:08
Off. Cheers.
32:10
One of the. Drones pops out from around the
32:13
vending machine and gets close to Jeb.
32:18
It then rears up its front legs and shoots a dart at you.
32:22
Dodge Jeb. Roll evasion.
32:26
It. Hits you.
32:28
The dart hits you in the shoulder and you feel it sting
32:33
as it passes your armour because it is a biotoxin dart and causes
32:39
3D 6 + 1 damage and you take 10 HP damage period.
32:47
Audible Gulp I'm. Not feeling.
32:50
Too good? Oh shit, it's.
32:53
My turn. Well, make sure your.
32:55
SHIELD is on. Oh, that's a good point.
32:57
And then? They'll taps their.
32:58
Shield. And it turns on around them.
33:02
Vendel. Vendel.
33:03
Cap. Capture it.
33:05
Oh. OK, Oh yes, I'll use my jacket
33:09
And they whip their. Jacket around the back of their
33:11
head and jump towards the drone with their jacket. 19 Evasion
33:19
The drone tries to avoid rolling a 17 and gets caught in Vendel's
33:23
jacket and is now heavily immobilized.
33:26
Vendel raises their fists and goes to smack at the drone
33:31
underneath the jacket. Rob Rowling.
33:35
Can I roll? Taekwondo instead, yes.
33:39
I don't know how. To do that should be martial
33:41
arts. Oh, I got it.
33:42
Bam. That didn't do any better way?
33:46
Blame Vendel gets a pretty good hit on this creature, and it is
33:50
now trapped under Vendel's jacket and under their foot,
33:55
which they're holding it down with.
33:56
And that's the end of Vendel's turn.
33:59
Did it work? I I.
34:00
I'm not in that room. Yes, I.
34:03
Managed to get it all right. One of the.
34:05
Drones at the back of the room, moves forward and tries to shoot
34:09
Vendel. It's pretty far, so we'll see
34:12
how this goes. 20 miss. They needed 25 or higher, so it
34:16
misses and stays exactly where it is since that's all it can
34:20
do. Another drone little closer to
34:23
Vendel gets right up towards Vendel and it's 2.
34:26
Front claws extend little razor blade like sharp knives and it
34:33
goes to attack Vendel Dodger. 16 is.
34:37
Making these. Things Pandale sidesteps.
34:39
The drone and the drone misses stepping in front of them.
34:42
Hell yeah. Oh, it's.
34:44
A melee attack, isn't it? Oh, I've got a Dodger 19.
34:48
I got me. Right on the leg.
34:49
Ah, but it was the Cybertek leg, so it only did three damage.
34:52
Hell yeah, The swarm. Drones moves towards you, but
34:57
ultimately doesn't get near anyone.
34:58
It's loud buzzing makes you feel uneasy as it gets closer and
35:03
closer to the door. Vivi and Iona, you can hear it
35:06
buzzing. Vivi, they're coming.
35:10
OK. Well, yeah, that that drone.
35:18
I am not a fan, so I'm gonna try to.
35:24
I'm gonna just run in the room, position myself, and shoot with
35:31
my weapon, my Sandro, Hello Kitty, Ultra Kate Assault
35:34
Pistol. I love that you say that.
35:35
Every time I do too. 25 So did you aim at the cloud?
35:41
Yeah. I think.
35:42
I think I'm going to aim at the cloud.
35:44
You're on a + 10 crit. With the result of 25 and the
35:47
bullet goes right through the centre of this cloud of drones.
35:51
But you're you see it whack a few of them as they fly past the
35:56
bullets trajectory and fizzle and spark in the air.
36:00
And this thing takes another decent hit.
36:04
Nice one, VV. Sweet.
36:05
Did you get? Two shots.
36:06
I do actually. So let's go for it again.
36:10
Oh, that's pretty good. It is pretty good.
36:12
You. Roll a 24.
36:14
Not a crit, but it does cause more damage to this cloud.
36:19
And assuming that's what you're shooting, yes, cool.
36:20
And you see even more of them spark.
36:23
You hit it well enough that it actually gets pushed back a
36:26
little bit further to the north part of this corridor.
36:28
This long spooky corridor got a little.
36:32
Damn long one of the drones. Tries to get closer and it tries
36:37
to shoot you, Vivi. But.
36:41
Doesn't roll enough because at that distance it means a 25.
36:44
It is far away from you and the. Dart goes.
36:47
Whizzing past you and sticks into the crate behind you,
36:50
cracking and pouring biotoxin all over the ground.
36:54
It evaporates into the air like hand sanitizer.
36:57
Then. Another drone tries to get
37:00
close, tries to shoot Vendel being the closest target.
37:04
Still pretty far 22, not the 25 it needs.
37:08
And the dart does fly into the vending machine beside Vendel
37:13
and the vending machine shuts down.
37:16
Oh shit. That was close.
37:18
Iona. I think it's time for you to do
37:21
something. I'm coming.
37:23
All right. I'm going to take a shot at the
37:27
drone that is not held down by Vendel.
37:31
It's really close, but I yes, I I see that.
37:35
I don't. I don't want it to get you.
37:38
Thank you. Get.
37:39
You. You're well.
37:39
You're welcome. I'm going to look stylish while
37:43
I do it and use. I keep clicking the wrong thing
37:46
and I'm going to use the Super Chrome, Super Chrome. 20.
37:53
Yes, that is enough because you at 20 can reach 25.
38:01
You hit this drone fairly hard in front of Bendel for 12 damage
38:07
and you get another shot. 21 you.
38:12
Hit it again, this time for 13 damage.
38:15
It goes under half health and two of its legs blow off,
38:20
causing a small explosion. Great, there's less to.
38:23
Stab you with. Thank you.
38:26
And it now can't move. That's two we've disabled.
38:29
All right, everyone else put. In work.
38:31
Good job, nice, nice work. Nice.
38:34
You did a good job. Thank you, Retro.
38:37
Now would be a good time do something.
38:41
Yeah, hold on. So while everyone else was doing
38:45
their bit, I took my tool hand and I made a taken the punch on
38:51
my tool hand and very carefully tapped the firing pin part for
38:55
all of the bullets. So that way just the tap is
38:58
going to cause them to go off. And I just throw them all into
39:01
this bag and I take out whatever, you know, scientist
39:05
needs duct tape and wrap it up. And.
39:09
Duct tape and I I rear back and I try to remember back when I
39:14
was a kid when I was playing cash and realized that I never
39:17
did and just throw shoulder arm 17.
39:21
Yes, you throw this ball of duct tape, incredibly bad corporate
39:25
snacks, and random ammo towards this cloud of drones.
39:31
The drones attack this ball mid air and they do their best to
39:36
really, really fuck it up. That that is 8 damage and eight
39:40
damage is enough to breakthrough the duct tape and it rips open,
39:45
the ammo explodes and the drone cloud expands.
39:50
It takes out not only the drone cloud itself, but also the drone
39:55
next to it. Nice one, Retro.
40:00
And as Retro puts their hands up in celebration, the cloud of
40:04
dust from the explosion just completely covers the front of
40:09
Retro. So now they're completely
40:11
covered head to toe in the front with the crumbs of Jizzer snaps.
40:15
Look it's. Frosty the retro man.
40:21
That's funny. Do you have There's two left.
40:25
No time to laughter. I was wrong.
40:28
I mean, listen, I know what I got to do and I shoot.
40:32
Do you move forward first? No, I.
40:34
Can hit it from there? Apparently yes.
40:36
You roll a a crit plus four with the result of 30 causing 14
40:41
damage to one of these drones. That is a lot of damage.
40:46
Is that enough to kill? One of them?
40:48
No, but. It's enough to bring it under
40:50
half health. I will.
40:51
Then I gotta. Shoot a gam 25.
40:54
Not very good on damage with an 11, but with your crit from
40:57
before, the drone closest to you also explodes.
41:02
There's only one drone left. Nice.
41:05
Nice. The drone under the jacket.
41:08
Tries to move around and fails to get out from underneath
41:11
Vendel's foot. Yeah, you little piece of shit.
41:14
Don't you dare. Right, there's one left.
41:18
It's pretty far, I'm not sure if I can.
41:20
You got this. OK.
41:23
Somebody jump on that drone under the jacket before it takes
41:26
its turn again. Fuck you, little shit, all
41:31
right? Doug Battle cries.
41:32
Really need some? Work. 21.
41:37
Yeah, Vendel. Runs towards this horrible
41:43
little drone and kicks it like an American football.
41:47
Amazing. Fuck you.
41:48
It flies to the back of the. Room Taking 10 damage just from
41:51
Vendel's foot and taking another 19 damage.
41:55
Yes, that's right, 19 damage from the wall behind it.
41:58
Jeez. Flows into.
42:00
A a multitude of pieces and causes little flames to fall
42:03
through the air. Wonderful job.
42:05
Vendel and combat is over. Well, damn.
42:11
Yeah, it was. Something well, too bad for the.
42:15
Drones. It looks like we're the ones
42:17
cleaning up. Next time.
42:32
On no latency. I imagine we're going to blow
42:37
this. Place up at some point, right?
42:39
It's what we do normally. It was very tempting.
42:42
To just smash it. I mean, it was a clean kill.
42:44
Are you feeling all right? You're looking a little sickly.
42:47
I'm not. Feeling great, actually, that's.
42:50
Concerning if we could stop talking.
42:52
About throw up, probably hurry up before.
42:54
Jeff gets a pace for finger sandwiches.
42:56
Do you want to split the? Party sometimes helps cover
42:59
more. Ground sometimes you guys split.
43:01
Up Search for clues. Hey, what's this over?
43:04
Here on the floor, yes, maybe. I think that might be what it
43:07
is. What does that say?
43:09
Thermal and habit. What is going on where?
43:12
Where? Where'd you go?
43:13
Are you guys? Are you?
43:15
Guys, OK oh, fuck. There is a drone in here.
43:18
What are you doing in a vent? I grabbed Wendell by the feet
43:21
and I start. Dragging them backwards and I'll
43:23
give it the old. Fonzay, they're splitting us up.
43:25
By a job everywhere in this place, like there's there's two
43:29
classes. Holy shit, Remy.
43:31
Was that a little? Overkill.
43:33
I'm not a fool, I. Use my tool.
44:01
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