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S2E85 - Tuna in Trouble (HW24) · No Latency

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Last time on no latency. Halloween's coming if.
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We got trick or treating to do so.
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Not even knock him out. Everybody leaves, so only I know
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what Vendel's costume is. Happy Halloween to you.
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That's a threats you got on there.
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Let go. See, I don't know how I'm not
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supposed to copy your accent all night.
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It's going to be difficult. Yeah, What did you trip over?
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Are you all right? Not this again.
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Yeah, Jeb. No.
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But I would very much like to take a sneeze.
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Let me take a look. Every time that it comes back to
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life, I hear a ringing in my ears.
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What is that? What the hell is that?
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That's copyright infringement. What is that doing?
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Well, I'm going to up the stakes and stab it in the heart.
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The hand is jerking something. Oh God.
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At least it adds to the Halloween effect.
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Retro's number one fan. It's OK.
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It's OK. Everything's fine.
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It's OK. Guys, do you see this written on
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the ground here? That does not look good, but I
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can tell you. And Jeb kind of bends down,
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wipes his finger. He thinks it's blood.
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It is blood, yes. And then takes a sniff, sniffs
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his fingers. Oh gosh, every time you do this
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it concerns me. Roll perception.
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Of course. All local expert either 1 is
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fine. Oh, it's paint, I think.
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You rolled a crip fail and what has unfortunately happened is
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you brought it too close to your nose and you've sniffed some of
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it and the blood goes into your nose.
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Into your body. And it makes your head tingle
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and you take 2 damage as you feel it sort of attack you in a
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weird way. And then on your neck you feel
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the slots heal over. In order to remove your chip
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now, you will need a medical professional to surgically
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remove it from under your neck skin.
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Well, shit. Something in this blood has
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caused you to heal. This is a strangely familiar
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feel. Meanwhile, Phoebe is currently
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helping Iona to kill. Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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It's OK. It's all right.
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Yeah, you're gonna be OK. I'll be fine.
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I, I I'll, I'll just change my shirt.
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Yep, fan #2. Yeah, now you're Retro's number
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2 fan. #2 Fan. I'll take the number one fan and
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I'll I'll I'll take it to joy to clean you.
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You guys try and work out what this hand's about.
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Fendale Bug is off to go and get the shirt cleaned.
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All right, So what does this say?
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Is this we're we're back Who we're.
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Back with a weird symbol. What is this?
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Z with the line through it. That's not a weird symbol.
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I do not know. Wait, do I know?
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No. You don't, because you rolled
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really badly on perception. This.
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Red chicks out. It's the same symbol that was on
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the creepy thing with the Radiohead.
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Yeah, that's that's the glyph, baby.
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Do you remember when we met a couple Halloweens ago?
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Yeah, I was working the morgue. I was drunk and.
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And we were all having a great time until the hand thing.
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Well, we. I remember the hand thing.
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What wasn't just the hand, it was also the feet, which then we
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tracked back to my apartment building where there was another
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hand. And Jeb, you saw that crazy
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spider gun thing. Crazy spider gun thing.
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Yeah, it was a gun that was mounted on the thing like a dog
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that had like 8 legs, mechanical legs.
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And then Dell arrives and walks up to you all.
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Yeah, but none of those were gold.
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No, none of those were gold. The gold is Steve.
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I'm just saying like in the end of all of it we had to kill that
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giant vending machine cyber baby thing because there was a cult.
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The child of Domino, right? But again, none of those were
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gold. Well, maybe they updated their
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colours, I don't know. Yeah, what's the gold?
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Oh, that's Steve, obviously. Wait a minute, where's old man
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Steve? Steve Prime.
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Yeah. Steve 0.
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Steve 0. I don't know.
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Last time I saw Steve Zero was at the bar.
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That was like a year ago, wasn't?
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It I know their presence is unknown to me.
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I'm running to the bar. I'm.
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Oh no, did we forget about an NPC and then they escaped?
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Was maybe they've just been living in the the basement of
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the bar this whole. I haven't seen him in the
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basement of the bar. All right, you've been streaming
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down there. Yeah.
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My number one streamer would know that.
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But I don't know where Steve 0 is.
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I don't know where Steve 0 either I'm going I'm going to go
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see ping I'm running. Ping.
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Pings, pings, walks outside to put something in one of the
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dumpsters. Big, big.
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I got Oh my God, is that blood? Yes, yeah, it's a lot of blood.
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A lot of blood might be pink. What's?
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Going on they say is they throw they continue to throw trash in
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the dumpster. Where?
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Where is Steve 0 huh? You know, feels like we all all
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forgot about him. He must have got out.
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Why? Oh no.
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Wait. Do we lock our NPCS and we we
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have to keep? Track of our NPCS, everyone.
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I I let him go out because we had that button.
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We had that button that made him like fall over, right?
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And I so I let him out. I.
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Mean we're not like we. Could just hit the button.
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Yeah, but if we've if we've been away from him for a long time,
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he was good at cyberwear. I'm not sure this button works.
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You can take it if you want. Could we let me, could you?
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Could you reverse track it perhaps, since it has a signal
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that goes only to to Steve 0? I can try, but if I mean if
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they're smart enough to been able to take out the actual
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transponder to it, we're only going to follow to where the
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transponder is. Not to mention if it's unplugged
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there's nothing for it to beep off of so.
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It's the best we've got. Someone go find out where where
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Stranger is. I haven't heard from him in a
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minute either. He didn't catch that stranger,
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did he? Doesn't know a stranger sleeps
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in the back booth of the bar. I got their own point from the.
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Bar not not when he's drunk. The the one right next to Jeb.
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It's true. We're the cowboy guys.
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We have the same accent. Not anymore.
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What a what a good set of episodes this is going to be.
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I'm so excited. So so in this commotion, you
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hear a rummaging inside of the dumpster and stranger pops out
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of the dumpster and pushes the trash up.
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Hey. Motherfucker, I was sleeping.
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How's it all going, everyone? He's standing in the dumpster.
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What's going on? Oh.
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Thank God Stranger didn't get Steveed.
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Steve Holy shit, is that blood? It could be paint.
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Yeah, it's blood from a hand it. Would be painful.
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And a dude that I sandwiched inside of a porta potty.
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Gosh. OK, what are we going to do
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about the Steve situation? I will.
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Fuck them up, No. Let me go and take a look at
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this button, Retro. Just go ahead to pull out the
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back and, you know, double check to make sure the battery's got a
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charge. Did the battery have a charge?
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Oh. Shit.
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Let's roll for it. That is A5.
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Yes, it is charged. OK, I'm just going to, I'm just
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going to ping it first and see if anything, if like anything
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happens. Right, you rolled.
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Is that basic? SEC 31.
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Yeah, so I'm going to press it, but at the same time I've
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already been connected to the actual frequency source to see
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if it actually pings back anything.
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It pings back a no connection. He disabled it.
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Fuck. Jeb, as you're sort of walking
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away from the blood, you hear sort of like a an intermittent
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beeping noise coming from the body in the Porter party.
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Wait a second, there is more here.
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I hear a, a a a beeping in this man.
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What is what is going on here? Well.
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Get whatever whatever's beeping out of there.
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The dead man's head is beeping. He's.
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Beeping. Should we be concerned that was
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a went rush on that one SEC. What did we try that name?
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Again, recalibrate for a second. Yeah.
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Oh, I guess that brain dance isn't really working for you,
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huh Jeb? Oh I thought it was getting
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corrupted because the flesh covered over it now.
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So now it's starting to get corrupted.
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This, this man's, this head, it is beeping.
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Beeping like a bomb? Like what kind of beeping we're
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talking here? There we go.
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There are many types of beep. It is a It feels like it's
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trying to find something, but now that the person is dead, the
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signal isn't really doing much. Jeb.
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It's just. Maybe it was controlling the
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hand? And perhaps we can use this to
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do a reverse search, no? Can use it like a.
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Like on the garden? Reverse search on the garden.
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We could we could triangulate a signal.
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We could use it like. Mendel I appreciate it when
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someone actually knows what they're talking about.
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And don't blame us because you're the smarty pants.
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That's right, I'm the dumb one. I saw it in a movie.
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Who doesn't know triangulate? Some people.
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I work in biomedicine, I don't work in electronics.
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I work in medical, I don't work in electronics.
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Do you want to examine the blood, VB?
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Because, like, Jeb just kind of looked a bit funny and walked
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away. Yeah, it's.
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Paint. Apparently there's this person
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has paint for blood. Smells like blood to me.
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Let me just take a look at this. These blood splatters here.
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One moment. Oh, eighteen, yes.
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VB is just sort of scanning the blood on the ground that says
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we're back. You walk past Iona and Iona
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looks at the screen. Behind you and Iona, you see the
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formula for body Fuel skin. That's good, because I need
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that. Vivi, could you bring that
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closer? The the blood.
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Scanner the skin. Oh yes.
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Do you, do you see, do you see this make up here?
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Do you see this chemical compound that that look a lot of
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place here? Yes.
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This is Biotechnica. This is, this is the skin.
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This is body for your skin. Oh, we need that for Domino.
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We do. Oh.
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OK, so it looks like we did it, huh?
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We've done it. Let's get back.
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All right. Question.
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We've got Domino's skin. Don't don't we need it in like
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it's pure form, not mixed with the blood of a?
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Is this a Steve I? I guess, Steve, no, that's
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impossible. Steve, Who else would coat
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themselves gold? Well, I mean, do we really need
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to go after this Phoebe with this?
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Can you just culture enough extra skin growing wise and we
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can just create enough skin for them off of what we got here?
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Yeah, no, this is too tainted. I don't know if that's the right
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word, but tainted. Then contaminated.
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I like that because it's very Halloween.
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Cool VV. Nice.
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This is this is not going to work for Domino.
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No, we, we, we have standards, first of all, and second of all,
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no, this, we need it. And it's like purest original
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form. Wasn't it just locked up in?
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Yes, it was, but that facility no longer exists.
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Silo 74. Yeah, it does.
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Oh, the silo. I thought you were talking about
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the. That's where we had the sample.
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Remember we forgot to grab it when we were there.
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Oh, oh, why don't we just go to the silo?
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That seems too easy. It does seem too easy, but well,
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and we don't have to do that. It's Halloween, we could do it
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after. It's not going anywhere.
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There's. So many adventures to get.
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Up to hold on, hold on. I'm ringing ring ring the the
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the the G the GM is is is sending me on a a path here,
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here we go. I answered.
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Hi. You're right.
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Hello friends. Whoa, hey, why?
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Why are you yelling? It's tuna, what's going on?
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You're right. Tuna.
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Tuna, why are you calling me? It's Halloween.
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Right now, that's fine. Everything is great.
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I'm absolutely great point as you go.
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It's tuna, right? I heard that screaming all over
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here. It's very.
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Loud I It's not on speakerphone, but I'm holding it away from my
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head. So friends there's there's a lot
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of gold people attacking me and saying the crew is gonna get it.
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And and they they keep, they keep moaning the word Azeeb.
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I don't know what that means, but the first two groups of
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people I have to help me have exploded.
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So although you are the third option, help.
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All right, We'll, we'll, we'll, we'll be right there.
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Stop playing disco and you'll stop having gold people.
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All right. Well, Tunas, I assume Tunas, we
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should probably just go. We can talk about it on the way.
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I. Got to go get my gun first.
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All right. And you guys were very, very
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interested in me having my guns as well.
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So I guess I'll break character. Hold on, let me turn this off.
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Howdy. No, it is.
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Jeb. There's.
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Something wrong here? Jeb, just turn off the things so
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we can understand what you're saying.
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Keep. Trying.
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Jeb. This bullshit it is.
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I don't know, Iona, can you please get Jeb to like be a team
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player right now? I got to go get my gun.
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Anyone else need anything with the BAR while I'm down there?
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My guns. Get my guns.
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For me. I'll.
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Get your guns, but stop that stupid accent.
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I can't. Phoebe, could you, could you cut
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him open? Do we want to do this?
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We're going to threaten him to cut him open just to tell him to
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stop doing the accent. That's pretty fucked up.
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But you can't. I see if you're you're covered,
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you're healed, you're you're trying to pick out a thing that
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isn't there anymore. Yeah, because this wasn't, this
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wasn't a brain dance, Jeb. This was something that's now
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permanently in you. No, no, the the the doctor said
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that I could take it out after the beat was done.
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Well, see your skin there healed.
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That. Son of a bitch.
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I I don't think that that was his fault.
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This is going to take a bit of time.
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I don't think we have that time right now, Jeb.
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You might just have to have a Transylvanian accent until the
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end of Halloween. This entire ark.
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Yes. Well then I guess I don't have a
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choice. You've made your bed, now lying
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I have a giant black duffel bag which put it in my duffel bag
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put. That in there.
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It's I understand a hoe never gets cold so I will carry all
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your stuff. Thank you.
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Thank you. That's that's the motto of
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Halloween. A hoe never gets cold.
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I carry nothing. I have no jacket.
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Valid. Here's your guns so you could
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stop doing the accent. He unfortunately is stuck like
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this until I can fix him later going.
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To die really hard. The original accent.
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Hold on, let me give it a throw. Howdy y'all, this is just me
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Jeb. It's not working.
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All right. Are we going to go help Tuna?
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Or are we going to go to the silo?
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Well, Iona, how? Tuna, obviously there was a lot
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of gunfire. There was a lot of gunfire and
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Tuna. Tuna needs us.
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If we want to stay on Tuna's good side, we might as well help
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him. Yeah.
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I agree. All right, Jeb, so go grab the
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car. OK.
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Oh, it's right here. I'm just pilot.
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It's even labeled. It does it literally.
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That is just say Vanna White right there.
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All right, we hop in the car. We did put a plaque up a half a
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year ago, so oh. The Vanna white is on the layer
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above me. I am underneath the car.
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Hey, why are you checking out the transmission?
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I'm in the car. And you will pile in the car,
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Jeb, and you drive off to tuners.
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That That's right, yes. You drive off to tuners.
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Jeb, you're driving. If you want to just arrive loud,
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you can just drive up. If you want to be clandestine
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then you have to roll the driving.
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Chair Well, I suppose it's time to have the vampire take the
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Batmobile. This is payback for that
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horrible joke. I did pretty good but also bad.
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Crit Fail. Unfortunately, that means that
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whatever is attacking this place.
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As you come closer to Tunas, you can hear gunfire in the
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background, you can hear him screaming, and you can hear the
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distance slamming of a door. You drive near to Tuna's lot,
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lose a little bit of control, and smash it into a vending
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machine, breaking the vending machine.
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It fills with safety foam. You haven't damaged the vehicle
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because you didn't actually roll negative, however the vending
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machine. Is fucked.
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Oh no, I'm sorry, it was. I was all distracted by the
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sound of my own voice. Oh God, I'm all I'm all spinning
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right now. Are you all right, Retro?
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Do you need? No, I, I have, I maybe just
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everything's so uncomfortable. I don't know why anybody wears
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this stuff. You know you don't have to
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commit to anything the whole night if you don't want to.
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What? Else do I have to wear you?
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Didn't break your other costume. We had to go safe, tune up.
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We said it was high priority. What am I going to?
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Do well, I guess you're stuck in the tight leather.
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To be fair, you'll actually look pretty good.
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Thanks, Jeff. I'm just I'm a little worried
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that if I flex the wrong muscle group it's just going to split.
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I mean, it would not be the worst thing to happen.
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All right, all right, let's stop focusing on that.
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Let's I'm sorry you're going a. Body, I'm so sorry.
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All right, so you're outside Tunas.
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The gates are shut. You can hear the the occasional
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distant gunfire, but it has subsided after the door slam
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all. Right, weapons out, I guess
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there might be danger. This is so tough.
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Why would why would a vampire have have a gun?
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I have two guns. I don't know, Chad, why do you
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have two guns? I suppose.
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Ah, no, no, no, you see, because vampires are immortal.
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Well, what about Blade? He's a vampire.
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Please. 1/2. There's a half of.
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Human A. Day Walker.
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Vivi, do you know a lot about vampires?
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I did have a hyper fixation in a college, yes.
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Did you go through a goth phase? Yeah, yeah.
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Is that a goth thing if you're a guy who like vampires?
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Yeah. Did you not know that retro?
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No. I'm really sorry you didn't know
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that. I'm so sorry.
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All right. Blink 187.
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Right. Oh my, go back to the 19919, the
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early 90s retro. Oh, there's another door over
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here. I'm going to check out this door
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down at the bottom. Someone else could check the
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front door. You've come to the entrance to
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the driveway of the mechanics, so there's a big gate.
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It's a solid metal gate. Tuner installed a much better
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gate after his gyrocopter was stolen.
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Although as you can peek over the the wall, you can't actually
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see the helicopter blades. So it isn't here.
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Yeah. It's one of those like, roll
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down doors, yeah. You know, it's it's middle open,
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so you open up the middle. Oh, open up the middle.
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I'm going to try to see if I can perceive through the gap in the
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door. If there's anybody behind it,
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well, of course it's going to be in there. 15 Yeah, good enough
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you're able to peek through the door.
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Fair enough. If you want to ask questions
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about what you see or roll perception, you may well.
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I definitely don't have roll perception because I the moment
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I think hold on, I think I see 14 people. 14 people but like,
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do they look like beaches? No, it's.
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It looks like copyright infringement is what it is.
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I don't understand. These are not licensed.
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What? What is it?
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What that man has a Game Boy stood up to his face?
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Oh geez. You see three different kinds
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these, should we call them, human with gold skin?
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And they all look a hell of a lot like the Steve's from Season
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1. Everyone's favorite gold guy.
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There are three different kinds, one that has like a screen
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attached to the front side of their face, one that seems to
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have a Tamagotchi inserted into the Crest of their head like a
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punk Mohawk, and finally another Steve silently screaming with an
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explosive barrel fused to the top of his head.
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Wow, these guys look like they had metal days.
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A bullet rings out from an unknown shadow as you hear tuna
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fire out against these people. One of them falls to the ground.
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Jeb. You hear a ringing noise as the
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body on the ground rides, clicks back together and tries to get
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up. As it does this, one of the
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other creatures comes over and takes a huge bite out of the
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half dead creature on the ground and it falls.
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The one who eats, however, seems to bulk up strong.
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What the hell was that? Bulk up.
24:33
That's a pretty good slogan. Well, what the hell are we going
24:35
to do about these guys? Do.
24:38
We just shoot them all. It's certainly an option.
24:43
We could. Do that or call tuna, see if
24:47
they can get outside and then we just treat it like the same way.
24:53
What is it? I my step sister treats treats
24:56
whenever they find a spider in their house.
24:58
Scream another way all in. Flames to set the whole thing in
25:01
flames. Burn the place to the ground.
25:05
OK, that is an option. Do you call tuna?
25:07
Yeah, sure. I'll call.
25:08
I'll call. Tuna.
25:09
I mean, he could probably write it off.
25:10
Yeah, I'm. I'm I'm hidden in the shed.
25:13
Are you here? Yeah.
25:16
Can you get outside? No, the shed's kind of a dead
25:21
end, so if I come out, they will chase me.
25:24
Especially the careful of the ones with the redhead.
25:27
They they, they, they seem to explode.
25:30
Did one explode already? About two or three.
25:34
This place is normally tiny bit cleaner than this.
25:36
I do apologize. I'm not going to fault you on a
25:38
messy on a messy workshop, I just the same.
25:43
Are you near any kind of wall we can break down?
25:46
No, after the gyrocopter got done I had Bob and Elder come in
25:49
and reinforce the walls. They're literally blast proof.
25:51
Well, that's cool. We're.
25:52
Not making this any easier for me.
25:55
Yeah, I know. Isn't it awful?
25:56
Well, if they're blast proof, what about the doors?
25:59
Are the doors blast proof? No.
26:01
Shit, but can we barricade everybody inside it and burn it
26:04
to the ground? I mean, this is my livelihood,
26:08
so I would prefer if you didn't. There's only there was a really
26:11
simple way to take them all out at once.
26:13
Yeah, I just told you a simple way to do it all at once, but
26:17
you don't apparently have insurance.
26:18
What what about something like an EMP?
26:22
Would that work? I think that could work.
26:27
Does anyone have an EMP grenade I.
26:31
Think I have one, don't. Look at me that that thing will
26:33
kill me. Well, get out of blast range.
26:36
I do not. I have a something called here a
26:40
smart grenade but what is this? It's basically an EMP grenade
26:45
for us. Well then yes, I have two.
26:50
OK. Well, I'm getting out of here
26:51
then. Yeah, Retro, just get back far
26:55
back and Jeb I'm. Going to go sit and vent a
26:58
white. Jeb, throw that thing in there.
27:00
All right, so you rolled 15 with your grenade.
27:03
You throw it into the centre. Where do you throw it exactly
27:06
from your position? I would say.
27:11
And on that, you can throw it 25 feet. 12345 squares times 525
27:20
feet. So you cause an EMP explosion
27:27
around 3 of the bodies and the the air fills with electricity
27:33
as it rattles and crackles around these 3 golden human
27:39
beings. One of them though has a
27:42
redhead. As you look closer you can see
27:46
on the face there is an explosive warning symbol right
27:50
where their eyes normally are. Look out.
27:54
I think he's going to blow. Pretty much.
27:57
Good thing the walls are blast proof.
27:58
Holy. Right.
28:01
Cannoli. Yeah, it does a lot of damage.
28:04
It kills the other two Zeves in front of you as they both get
28:09
eviscerated into pieces, their bodies pushed back by this
28:13
explosion. There aren't enough pieces to
28:16
reanimate, but yet Jeb in this moment after these three die.
28:21
The ring, it's back. And you watch the flesh on the
28:24
ground try and come back to life and it just can't.
28:28
You've taken out three of these Zebs.
28:30
From behind this door, take that you're sons of beaches all.
28:34
Right. So we have to blow them up, yes.
28:37
To like our best course. Or EMP them.
28:40
Yes, but it looks like the best way to deactivate them is to
28:45
dismember them. Or if we did.
28:49
It's good it's come here, Vendel are.
28:51
We done with the EMP grenades yet?
28:54
No, hold on, one more. I would say fire the other one,
28:58
Jeb. OK, that does mean I'm going to
29:01
have to run in. There, there aren't really any
29:03
targets close here. Jeb, Jeb, there aren't any
29:05
targets close here. You could try maybe the other
29:07
door. There's another door.
29:09
Yeah, we passed by it. You you smashed into the vending
29:11
machine near it. Can you not see?
29:12
Oh. I get the air, no comment.
29:16
If you go back to where the van is, there was a door.
29:18
We passed it. Yes, let's take a look.
29:22
Oh, you mean this one over here? Oh, OK, yes, I will open the
29:27
door. Oh no.
29:29
Opening the door. Roll Stealth.
29:32
Can I talk to Vendel? Yes, while they're doing.
29:35
It. Not bad.
29:36
I've had Vendel. What don't they know?
29:38
What don't they know? Well, I don't.
29:40
I just, you know, I noticed that after we killed the guy with the
29:43
radio for a head that the hand didn't come back.
29:45
So we have to find the broadcaster.
29:48
Yeah, maybe. Maybe that seems right.
29:54
Hey, Retro, come over here while they're doing the EMP over
29:57
there, over over here. All right, all right.
30:02
I don't want to be anywhere near an EMP.
30:04
And Jeff, you managed to, you managed to open up the gate just
30:07
a little bit and you can see through it into the courtyard.
30:09
There are two parked cars, 2 vending machines and a bunch of
30:12
these golden people. There is a red barrel hatted 1
30:18
quite close to you though, just so.
30:22
For my they throw the EMP grenade 12345 squares away.
30:35
God, I hit myself. You're the one who rolled.
30:40
Crit failed. Holding tainted blood is what
30:43
happens. Roll for it.
30:44
For oh, sorry. You have to.
30:47
Roll the EMP, yes. Because it might not be 5.
30:49
If you roll higher it could go further, or if you roll lower it
30:52
could be not Jeb. You don't roll high enough to
31:00
throw this. Oh shit.
31:03
Oh. It's just an EMP.
31:05
However, this may have, this may be a chance for you to fail
31:09
forward a little bit because you go to throw it and instead of
31:11
throwing, it gets caught in your Cape.
31:13
It wraps around the back of your Cape and falls down to your feet
31:16
and goes off. And genuinely there are two
31:18
things that happen. One your tile resets and you
31:21
have to put in all your passwords again, which is super
31:23
annoying. It still works though and the
31:26
chip in your neck stops working and you now don't have the ex.
31:30
Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit. And as you're saying, oh shit, a
31:37
a bunch of the Zeves turn to you and start to look at you.
31:43
You know, I might have liked you better before, and I didn't like
31:46
you before. And while the Zebs are coming
31:50
towards you, do you slam the door shut?
31:51
No fuck up, OK? Jeb is taking on six of these
31:57
guys on his own. Two of them are explosive.
32:00
Great. And his radio doesn't work.
32:02
Yeah. He's locked out, so you guys
32:04
have no idea. While that's happening though,
32:05
you're asking Van Del some stuff and Retro's just.
32:08
So Ventel brought up a very good point.
32:11
There was a a a a golden zombie Steve in the Porta party who
32:19
looked like he was broadcasting or controlling perhaps the hand.
32:25
Yes. So is that who we should be
32:28
looking for? Maybe we skulk around the
32:31
broadcaster. We need to find the antenna.
32:35
The antenna. That exactly.
32:37
Yes. So we've got we've got regular
32:39
Zeves and then we've got what, Zeve Prime with the the radio.
32:45
I don't think so and. Then you've got.
32:48
Oh, he's the transiever. Yeah, that's the, that's the
32:51
one, right? There transiever transceiver.
32:54
So we got to look to see if we can find it the wherever the
32:56
transiever is that got that had that that Pike pole thing.
33:01
Well, let's start sneaking around.
33:03
I'll. Check this alleyway, it's down
33:06
here. All right, Retro, you head on
33:08
down this alleyway. Does anyone follow Retro?
33:12
The Arcasa doesn't look like there's a way to sneak through
33:14
this gate, so yes, I will follow Retro.
33:19
So you will head down to the South side of Tuna's compound
33:22
here in Knight City, following him through a little side alley.
33:28
And in the distance, you start to hear, I'm assuming, gunfire.
33:32
Chip. Oh yeah.
33:34
We're we're shooting so you. Brought all your guns with you,
33:36
remember? I sure did.
33:38
So what guns are you using? Well, Grandpapa's twin Colt 4 to
33:41
5 starter. Oh, no, hold on.
33:43
I've got an Arrow electric shotgun that's got a company all
33:48
right. Still nothing in shoulder arms
33:50
in in heavy weapons or shoulder arms.
33:52
Don't worry about that. You know, redheads were never
33:56
really my thing, dude. How?
33:59
Dare. You Wells, your first shot
34:05
misses and it goes wide. You needed.
34:07
It you needed a 13. Oh, OK, nice.
34:10
You step into the area, getting a little bit closer.
34:13
You fire 17, which is enough, and you hit the Zeve boomer
34:17
right. That's right.
34:20
Cool the The blast knocks this creature back one and you see
34:26
him glow a little bit. The ringing noise once again
34:30
fills the air around you. Jeb, this guy explodes in.
34:36
Oh you are just outside of that radius my guy.
34:39
Oh man that is oh mate, oh mate, if I'd rolled an 18 you would
34:46
not be in a good place. The explosion is based on what
34:50
they roll when they roll explode.
34:52
So 18 and up is actually 2 squares around them, not one
34:55
like a grenade. So be careful.
34:58
And you don't have time to run away.
35:01
You. I mean if you have a high reflex
35:03
yes, but it's not a melee attack it's a grenade so the in person
35:06
who can dodge it is you. Oh, and then it explodes and he
35:11
takes out the guy next to him as well who forced the ground in
35:14
pieces. It was an OK boomer.
35:17
You hear the ringing once again as you watch the flesh undulate
35:22
and try and come back together. Gross.
35:27
Jeb, there are now a bunch of these guys coming towards you
35:31
and it's at around about this point that your tile finally
35:34
finishes its setup and you have your connection once again.
35:38
Hey guys, I may or may not have bitten off more than I can chew.
35:43
I do have a big mouth, but I can't chew this big.
35:47
Wow, Jeb, you're really batting 1000, aren't you?
35:49
You. Need help.
35:52
Yeah. I'd Sarah need some help.
35:54
I I didn't follow Iona so I can come.
35:56
Phoebe, if you want to stay here and not help, that's fine.
36:00
Bendel skate feats over to Jeb they've.
36:05
Taken it to the neck level. Well, go ahead, Remy.
36:09
I see those. Phoebe, are you doing anything?
36:12
I thought there was a door right here.
36:14
I. Oh shit.
36:15
Well, I'll go with Bendel. Cool.
36:20
Damn it. All right, I'm going to go with
36:21
Bendel. I get on my hoverboard to catch
36:24
up. Cool.
36:26
Right, so you, in your cool Halloween cat suit, ride your
36:29
hoverboard over to Vendell and you're behind Jeb now as you see
36:34
this horde coming towards him. Meanwhile, on the other side of
36:37
the compound, as Retro and Iona make their sneaky little journey
36:41
around, Retro gets to the corner of the compound and goes to turn
36:45
left. And he just steps out into this
36:48
alleyway, not thinking. And there in front of him, is
36:51
another Red Barrels Eve. Oh shit, what?
36:54
Are you going to do retro? I would like I got a split
36:57
second I'd like to see if on the red barrel Steve since this is
37:00
my first time seeing it, if I can understand the how it how
37:06
how it works as an explosive. Sure. 26 Yes.
37:09
You see that there is a controller for the explosion on
37:13
the very top of the barrel that is the top of this creature's
37:16
head. And then there are pipes that
37:18
come down, wires that come down. They connect into a little
37:22
screen on their chest which is a timer which is stuck at 5:05.
37:26
5055 minutes and 5 seconds. 505 that's SOS.
37:33
Oh, I thought they just added the one.
37:34
For four O 4 Cinco de Mayo, OH. Jeff got his tile back,
37:41
everyone. His quips?
37:44
That one left a bad taste in my mouth.
37:46
Great, I'm good. I'm I'm glad I could be the only
37:48
serious person here. SOS.
37:52
Someone sends a signal. Yeah.
37:54
Who? Who needs help?
37:56
Anyway, Retro is dealing with a explosive Zev here, so maybe do
38:03
something about. That.
38:06
I'm going to shoulder, well not shoulder charge, I'm going to
38:08
try to run past it and as I do use my tool hand right and break
38:13
off the antenna which is the signal which we determined as
38:17
the the signal centre to have it explode.
38:19
Yeah. Sure.
38:20
Yeah, 29, yes. You walk straight past him as he
38:24
goes to grab you. You see him start to glow and
38:26
you pull the aerial off the top of his head and he drops to the
38:29
ground like an inanimate object. Without the signal, there's
38:34
nothing to run on. He is inanimate, doesn't
38:36
explode, it just stops working. Period.
38:38
And these things are pretty soft, squishy, pushy.
38:42
But he literally stops breathing.
38:44
He's dead. How much power would it take to
38:45
RIP the helmet off? I mean, you'd have to give it a
38:49
shot. Depends.
38:50
We're all for it. Can you get that helmet off it?
38:53
And I'm going to shoot this one. Those things, I'm not touching
38:56
it. Someone's got to shoot that and
38:57
I'm a better shot. You shoot it, this thing is
38:59
dead. I'm fine.
39:00
Rock, paper, scissors. For what?
39:02
Who takes the helmet off? Someone's got to do something.
39:04
I I shoot it and you take the helmet off.
39:07
I'm not touching that thing. Get it, Get it.
39:09
I shoot, I shoot, I'm shooting. I'm shooting.
39:16
I got it like I get there. Hold on.
39:18
I'm going to shoot it by now, make a dollar, hit the shirt.
39:26
I press the button. Bang.
39:28
You. Shoot this Zeve with this Super
39:33
Chrome sidearm 19 to hit. You blow a hole through its side
39:39
and it falters and steps back. That's going to hurt.
39:41
Right to fire 2, right? No, it's one.
39:43
Just one. All right, that's a lot of
39:45
damage. The guy is just wearing like a
39:47
like a green jacket, not really any armor to speak of, and the
39:51
bullet just goes right through his flesh.
39:53
What we're we're not an initiative.
39:55
I'm going to take another shot. Oh yeah, we're not an
39:59
initiative. I mean, should we just?
40:01
Kind of. Well, that's.
40:02
Kind of trying. To find the.
40:06
You go, you go, you go to shoot, miss and you hit the explosive
40:11
guy on the ground. No, in front of us.
40:16
Retro is standing next to it and it starts.
40:20
To glow next to it, I'm actually taking the helmet.
40:23
Trying to take the helmet off Retro.
40:26
As you're pulling it, the bullet hits the body and it starts to
40:29
glow. Roll evasion because it's going
40:31
to explode. Yeah, yeah. 22 Yes.
40:36
Do you want to roll towards the Zev or towards Iona?
40:39
When I go to pull the helmet off, Iona takes their second
40:43
shot, bounces off, which of course sets enough of a kinetic
40:48
charge in there to have it start beeping.
40:49
Oh fuck. And immediately let go and have
40:53
to try to. I try to do a backflip.
40:56
I can't, but I just somersault back.
40:59
I'm hoping I don't get hit. You roll back and this creature
41:04
on the ground explodes. He actually rolled a crit fail
41:07
on damage so it wouldn't have hurt you too much, but all the
41:10
same no one gets hurt. But you now cannot grab that
41:12
head because it has exploded. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
41:16
I, oh, I, I, I put my, I put the gun down and I just back away
41:21
from it for the moment. Meanwhile, on the other side of
41:24
the compound. Vivi is going to run in.
41:31
Hover in. Hover Vivi is going to hover in
41:35
Oh, I kind of like this. I never really I ever really
41:38
practiced shooting while on the hoverboard, but we're going to
41:41
give it a go. So official cyberpunk rules say
41:45
if you want to get a plus one to any role, you can roll a
41:48
complimentary skill for it. If you roll well on your
41:51
complimentary skill for your board, I'll give you plus one to
41:53
whatever hit and to damage 16. Yes, very good.
41:58
You get plus one to hit anyone even if you shoot twice.
42:01
All right, I guess I'll shoot one of these Zeves, the
42:06
explosive one. We're we're pretty out of range,
42:09
right? Yeah.
42:11
Yeah, yeah. All right, I'm going to shoot
42:13
explosive Zeb. Zeve, Zeb.
42:17
They don't deserve the respective naming.
42:20
Shoot them. Oh crit success?
42:23
Nice, you hit this guy. Crit success causes enough
42:27
damage and he explodes. This boomer?
42:33
OK, Boomer. Oh and it's not a very good
42:36
explosion, but it's just the standard size.
42:38
He rolls a crit fail and the Zeve to his direct north or gets
42:44
also gets caught in the explosion and dies because
42:47
that's 25 damage that that guy does and.
42:50
Dies. Nice shot, Phoebe.
42:52
Thanks, that actually worked. 2 for one Hell yeah is your gun.
42:58
Did your gun shoot twice? It does.
43:00
Let's shoot again. Who am I shooting at the Zeve up
43:04
here? Cool.
43:05
The one with the Game Boy surface.
43:07
Yes. You shoot him for six damage,
43:11
takes a step back and just takes it is Vendel's turn.
43:15
Got my skate feet and a sword. Vendel's just got to skate
43:19
straight. Let's see, escape feet, give
43:21
them double speed question mark. It lets you do essentially you
43:26
can do a run action now and station. 12345 there are 8
43:31
squares in front of them. Can they run the Zeve directly
43:36
in front of them straight through with a with a sword?
43:41
Yes. All right, double check my
43:43
movement there. Slice.
43:49
I heard that too. Vendel slices forward stabs this
43:56
guy, pulling him under half health.
43:58
I roll A10 so they get crit which is an extra 5 damage.
44:02
This creature takes a critical injury.
44:05
Vendel cuts their arm off, grabs the arm from the ground, skates
44:08
behind them and smacks them from behind with the arm and
44:12
unfortunately falls straight into a vending machine and
44:15
bruises their head, taking too damage.
44:17
Ow fuck, I'm still not good at this.
44:19
Although that guy is dead. That's that's great, Vendo.
44:22
Just try to stay on your feet, skate feet.
44:25
I'm sorry, your wheels. The one with the handheld game
44:29
console through a face pulls out an SMG and shoots it.
44:32
Watch him click this shitty auto fire button and shoot.
44:36
The bullets RIP at the sound of the beat around you as they
44:40
ricochet against the gate behind you.
44:42
That creature does it's attempt to attack another Zeve that's
44:46
close enough to attack you on this turn.
44:48
Comes up to VV. Roll evasion VV Pew.
44:52
Oh, close. That was a very close evasion.
44:54
He rolled an 11 year old a 13. He tries to attack you again
44:58
with this baseball bat Evader 14.
45:01
Oh boy. I'm gonna put two luck points
45:03
into this one. Ohh whoa.
45:06
Ohh I didn't need to. You didn't need to, but you do
45:08
dodge him. With your luck points, you're
45:09
able to step back from it, giving Jeb a clear shot.
45:12
That's right, I'm taking a shot by a. 25 yes, you blow a hole
45:18
through this guys face. He takes a step back and falls
45:21
to the ground, dead. They may be easy to kill, but
45:24
unfortunately there are a lot of them and as this guy dies, we
45:29
did a really good shot of shooting him through the head.
45:31
You didn't do enough damage to his body though and you hear a
45:34
ringing noise and his body starts to undulate as he repairs
45:37
himself. The.
45:38
Bigger. The bigger ones, though, need a
45:40
bit more time to do so, so there's a bit of time before he
45:43
stands back. Well, I guess I'll shoot him
45:45
again. You're.
45:46
Going to shoot that guy or the guy who.
45:47
Just noped the guy, the guy who I just chat and finishing the
45:50
job. All right, cool.
45:51
So you're just trying to like, wreck the flash essentially.
45:55
That's correct. All right, because you're
45:56
shooting this guy who is dead. I'm going to give you something,
46:00
Jeb. You're able to pinpoint the
46:02
noise since you made it happen twice.
46:04
Well, from what you can hear, it's in the northeast, this
46:09
area. From.
46:09
Northeast Oh, the desire is going from the northeast.
46:14
It's. Coming from the.
46:15
Far side of this building though, where I am.
46:17
Meanwhile, you know what? I'm going to run for it.
46:19
Meanwhile, as you've called that into your tile, retro on the
46:22
other side of this area hears you.
46:24
Jeb, please run forward and you'll have consequences for
46:27
that later. I.
46:28
Just did. Retro You hear this on your tile
46:32
as you're standing next to a Zeve with a a Tamagotchi like
46:35
thing stuck in his head and he goes to attack you as you're
46:37
listening. Fuck.
46:40
Dodge in 1117? Yes, tries to attack you again.
46:43
Dodge another another 1119. Yes, you managed to step
46:46
forward. Actually, while they're making
46:49
an attack at me, I would like to use a move that I learned from
46:54
an old friend of mine, Sano. It was a trick Sano used to do
46:59
when I would when we were living together.
47:01
I would always like to go in and try to give him a hug or maybe a
47:05
Peck on the cheek. And whenever I would, they would
47:08
do this thing where when I reached in with my arm, they'd
47:11
grab it and fling me into the wall.
47:14
OK, do that. So I'd like that.
47:16
Brawling 20 Yes, it's a brawling, so let's see if they
47:20
can evade this. It's not likely.
47:23
Rolls of 22 and evades. You try again, you get too many
47:25
a text. All right, I'll do what he says
47:28
to do anytime. Go for the Ghoulies. 22 Nice Oh
47:32
crit. If crit fail you go for the
47:34
ghoulies and as you kick him the structure of this creature is
47:39
not very good and as you kick him your foot goes straight up,
47:42
almost up to the base of his rib cage and he splits in half to
47:45
the ground. It's gruesome.
47:47
Iona, you're disgusted. Holy crap, actually pulled off
47:51
the standing split kick that. That was amazing actually.
47:55
But Retro's foot's still up in the air though as they're doing
47:58
the but with the leather I can't seem to get my like.
48:02
I need help. Help.
48:04
All right, Jeff. 'S message rings in your ears
48:08
OK. Yeah, we'll, we'll investigate
48:11
right away. I just have to fix retro deep
48:16
breath deep breath ready 123 and I like push it down.
48:25
I think I take another two points of friction burnt. 05
48:28
damage. Yikes.
48:29
Yeah, that would hurt. That would hurt.
48:31
Sorry, but let's let's keep going north.
48:34
I think. I think we'll be run into
48:36
whatever we need to find there. I.
48:37
Don't think I'm running anywhere, but I'll be waddling
48:39
behind. All right, I was stupid that I
48:42
put down my gun. I'm going to pick my gun back
48:44
up. You pick your gun back up and
48:45
you take point. I take point, follow me.
48:48
I, I, I do my best impersonation of a lawman.
48:55
I honestly, I'm so I'm like crouched and, you know, hands,
49:00
hands ready. I have a flashlight that I've
49:04
found underneath my gun. Yes.
49:08
And you step forward to the corner of this wall with Retro
49:13
hobbling behind you. So he tries to get rid of one of
49:16
the most uncomfortable wedges. I I give the hands signal to
49:19
stop just my fist up in the air. Retro and.
49:23
Squeaks behind you and. I'm going to peek around the
49:29
corner. There we go.
49:30
Nice stealth 17. Yes, that is enough.
49:34
All right, I saw. All right, Remy, there is a
49:38
receiver and a regular Zeve. So I, I, I think that I think we
49:43
should take him out quickly, but.
49:45
But you want to shoot first. I don't want.
49:48
To throw up again, I. There's no bomb, there's no
49:50
bomb. There's no red, no bomb, no
49:52
bomb. I drove just a better shot than
49:54
I am so I'm just going to back up here.
49:57
Go, go ahead, I. Will come to the edge.
50:02
He's he's like right there. He's like, right, right there.
50:05
I'm. Just going to as soon as it's
50:06
coming around the corner, just blind fire my shotgun.
50:09
Go for. It crit success amazing K tech
50:15
hammer you've caused an unbelievable amount of damage
50:18
and is legit is legit way more damage than this creature has
50:23
health and they take I'm not even going to roll the critical
50:26
injury because you've. You've you.
50:28
You. Blew them up, fucked them up.
50:31
Looks like transmissions ended. You crit success so well that
50:35
the others, even on the other side of him, takes the shrapnel
50:39
and also dies. Splash damage.
50:43
And as this Z falls to the ground, there's this silent
50:47
scream from the radio's expression.
50:52
It's a mouth that hangs from underneath.
50:54
And Jeb, you hear it, and it's much louder as all the Zeves
50:57
around you, as you raise your hand to punch one with the butt
51:01
of your gun. Drop to the ground in Anna.
51:03
Yeah. Oh, Jay, you guys don't hear
51:06
that for real. You'll.
51:08
Hear what? No, it's gone.
51:11
Radio silent. Next time on no latency.
51:29
Tuna, just keep talking so I can follow your voice.
51:33
All right? All right.
51:34
Yeah, I guess you just went right on in.
51:35
Everybody's gone, right? It's a bit morbid, but that's
51:39
that's the case. No, you're supposed to call them
51:41
biters. We kind of killed their like
51:43
mommy or whatever. What do you got over there?
51:45
Retro I'll. Put that on.
51:47
Oh yeah. But yeah, we could do that.
51:49
I don't know, I feel like we should probably get going.
51:51
Yeah, yeah. I, I I'm not quite sure.
51:53
Better safe than sorry. We should get in Vanna White.
51:55
I used to work there when. I am very curious.
51:57
We should get in the van and go to the silo.
51:59
What? We're going back to that crazy
52:01
fucking place. I'm.
52:02
Driving. That's copilot stuff.
52:04
It's a good thing that we just saved your mechanic I.
52:06
Have something that might help? Should we fling both of you in
52:10
there? We could do that.
52:11
Whoa, die. Shut up.
52:15
Shut up. If this was the bathroom, that'd
52:17
be a problem. Oh, I know what I'll do.
52:19
They are lined up in a line and. Jeb, did you just shoot?
52:22
Yeah, who's shot in here? We thought we had a rule.
52:53
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