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Side Quest: Sleighed Parade Pt1: Under the Weather · No Latency

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Welcome to No Latency Side Quest, a bonus podcast with
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special guests that affect the main story of No Latency.
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This time Retro's caught up in a Christmas parade problem, joined
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this holiday season by guest stars Brianna De Costa playing
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Cypher The Danger Gal, Gossip Bjorn Anders playing Remington
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the Nomad with a Hunger and Ash. Ignis playing Prompt, the Exec
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with a big project on the line. The Night City Christmas Parade
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looks like it might be a little wet this year if Retro and his
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friends don't do something to save the season.
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The water is soon going to fall and it's Retro's presence that
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will hopefully keep it all together.
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Because this year Retro's going to stop anyone raining on his
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parade. Shall we begin?
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My guy, my gym, yo. Reeves, what are you doing?
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What's up? Hey, hey.
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What's going on, man? Yeah, Hey, what's What's up?
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What's up with you? What's What are you doing this?
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Holiday, dude, you excited about the parade?
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Yeah, who isn't excited about the parade?
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I I I wish. Here's the thing.
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Parade is like one of my favorite parts of the holiday
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time. The thing is, it's like, hey,
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hey. Wait, wait, wait.
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No, no, no. Retro, shut the fuck up.
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Come over here at this at this screen store.
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April's on. Oh wow.
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Oh, April Anonymous. Yeah, man.
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What I got to see? This this is network 50.
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Four with your host, April. Anonymous.
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Good afternoon, Night City. This is Network 54, and I'm
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April Anonymous. The Christmas season has begun
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and Night City is getting into the holiday spirit.
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The Night City Parade will feature floats from some of your
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favorite brands, garden talent and this year added NCPD.
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Security. The new fleet of light vehicles
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straight from the production line will cascade along hollow
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floats and underpaid St. Performers boasting improved
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side plating, blast proof doors and a corrosive resistant
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material that looks great in blue.
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And yellow. I do love a man in uniform.
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Armed, dangerous and this year, Festive 2.
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Did I mention I'll be at the parade sign up on the Network 54
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Garden to get a hollow picture and a wave from yours.
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True. If it's going to be the parade,
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everything. For the fans.
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Oh my God. The weather outside may be
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frightful, but our boys with the NCPD sure are.
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Delighted. Oh dear. 4 I'm April Anonymous.
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Dude. Dude, dude, I can't.
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I can't get access to my car and it won't open.
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Dude, we got to have a good view.
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The parade, my guy. Oh man.
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I mean, I would say we go to the at the top of my apartment
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building, but that's like on the opposite side of the parade.
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I don't know where. Else, yeah.
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No. No they don't.
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They're not going near your place.
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And I live in a shipping container, so my view is
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bullshit. Totally.
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Hey, my friend Trent, Like, he usually has a barbecue on.
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Like whatever the fuck the day is now what?
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Wednesday. Yeah.
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Cool. So like, let's just go there.
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Is it smoke friendly? It's outside my gym.
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Hey, that's good enough for me. Let's go.
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Let's. Go and retro and Reeves skitter
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off to this lovely location prompt.
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You're sitting in the back of your car and your driver
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suddenly breaks. What?
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What? What's going on?
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Traffic. They blocked off all the roads.
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Well, yeah, there's a parade. No shit.
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That's today, yes. Oh, I shouldn't have taken that
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last. No, I was wondering what you're
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doing. I'm doing my calendar right now.
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Why? It's fine.
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I get to 54321. OK, fine, OK, Just I have to be
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able to see the cars. I need to see the vehicles.
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The the flight vehicles. Yes.
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Oh, what's that? What they were shouting about in
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the boardroom. Yes, yeah.
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Yeah. That was the whole, you know,
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the project for the last like a year and a half that's consumed
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in my entire life. Yeah.
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Yeah, so like, don't forget your camera, because it's right
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there. Yeah.
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All right. OK, you know what, I'm just.
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I'm We're not going to make it to this.
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No, no, I need. I'm just going to.
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I'm going to find a rooftop. I'm just going to find a
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rooftop. OK, well this building's, I can
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see smoke coming from the top of that building.
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It's a little like fire. Are you sure?
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It doesn't look like fire or? You know what?
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I'm just going to get out and I'm just going to get.
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You know what, I'll. I'll call you.
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Come pick me up in when I call you, OK?
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You you got it. Dick Monty, you.
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Slams the door and drives it. Whatever, Whatever, whatever,
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whatever. It's fine.
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Breathe 54321. OK.
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OK. And I'm going to just go up to
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the door and just try and get up into the rooftop.
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You step into the apartment building, walk towards the
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elevator, get inside and ascend. Perfect.
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The elevator smells of bacon grease.
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That's a little good, but a little disgusting at the same
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time. Oh, is it going to get in my
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clothes? Oh my God, it's going to get in
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my clothes. Oh my God.
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I got to get out of this elevator.
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I have to get out of this elevator 54321.
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Meanwhile, Remington. Yep.
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You are on the rooftop. Standing uncomfortably close to
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whoever's man in that grill, watching everything they do like
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a hawk. So you're standing on the
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rooftop, right next to Trent, washing his hands in this
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recycler sink. Yeah, so I've been making kibble
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patties for about 8 months. They're making what now?
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Kibble patties. Oh, jig you like.
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It's basically reconstituted meat that I reconstitute again,
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but with like, you know, nano bacon grease I.
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Mean. That doesn't sound terrible, so
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it's better than what I've eaten in the past few weeks and.
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It's better than when you're getting the vending machines.
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You're excited about the parade, cowboy.
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Slaps me on the grill. That's beautiful sight, right?
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There. I like the sizzle.
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Yeah, I like the char. I think you'd be going to get
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along. You say there's a parade
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happening. Was that all happened?
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Have you been living? Didn't you see Network 54?
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No. No, no, friend.
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It's December right now. I think you're completely off on
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exactly how you're looking at your your calendar, your your
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does have all 12 months, right? Yeah, it's the Christmas parade.
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Yeah. So why you talking about April
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like? No, the the newscaster.
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The person. Their name is April Anonymous.
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Why is her name April if she's anonymous?
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It just seems like a real fucked up there to go.
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About misunderstood. No, I think she misunderstands.
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If you're anonymous, you don't want people to know what you
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got. Damn.
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Name. What was your name?
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Remington. Nice to meet you, man.
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Would you like a short glass of weird bacon grease?
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If I ever say no to that, I want you to shoot me.
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Meanwhile, Cipher, you get a call as you're walking towards
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your parade party. Hello.
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Hey, honey. Hi.
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How's it going? OK, so the lockdown started.
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So bye. What?
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The fuck. Click.
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You were headed to a party, but looks like you didn't make it in
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time and you're now standing in on a street in Night City and
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the parade is in a few hours and you have nowhere to go, No.
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No, no, no, no. This is not going to do.
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This is my favorite season. I mean, this is where people are
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depressed and sad making bad decisions, and that leads to
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messiness and then new clients for me.
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No, no, no, no, no, I no, We got to figure this out.
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Wait, oh wait. And.
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You're standing in this street and coming towards you is a
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floppy, like very surfer, like dude who's got his shirt open,
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he has tuna put tunas tattooed across his chest and he's
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walking with a man with ATV for a head.
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Hey, what's up tunes? Where are you going?
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Hey, what's up? I like your hair.
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You look pretty dumb. Oh.
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Thanks. You are welcome.
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Like, hey, are you guys going to see the parade?
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Totally. My friend Trent is having a BBQ
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we think. Hey, how friendly is this friend
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Trent? Well, he's as friendly as me.
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Me and my very good friend Retro, who's like a fucking
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legend, are going to go up there and have some good times, maybe
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smoke a little, and then watch some floaty things bash into
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buildings in a comical but memeable way.
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At this time at this time, Retro has been trying to fashion a a
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holiday sweater with his the scrap that he has from his
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backpack. OK.
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Should I roll for that? No, I know someone who can make
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a a better version of that. No, we're gonna be like.
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Holy shit. Cipher.
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Is that you? Wait, oh.
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My God. Oh my.
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God, hey. Oh dear.
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Small. World.
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Yeah. Whoa.
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Oh God. I haven't seen you.
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Forever like fate. Like, I will really believe that
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this is like the, you know, the holiday spirit and magic.
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You know, it's just this is this is happening.
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It's like right now, isn't it cool?
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I It's amazing. Yeah, I haven't.
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Seen you in like, dude. I haven't seen any of those too.
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Reeves, this is my friend Cipher.
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They gave me my very first job, but when I moved here to Night
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City. Oh cool.
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I totally told him that he had to like increase his prices like
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40%. He wasn't going to make
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anything. Yeah, I I pretty much did.
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They got me to do a job for about 200 Eddie's, I thought
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that's with like a decent prize, but I pretty much the.
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Main line how's she doing? We're not together anymore.
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Oh, Bomber Van. Yeah.
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OK, Yeah. Well.
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Well, those are the brakes. OK, so where is this party?
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Oh, like, just like, behind you, this building.
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Right here. Wait, OK, but like, how's the
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view? Well, why don't you come
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upstairs and we'll have a look. Yeah.
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Come on, Sniper. Let's go.
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Let's go. It leads you into the elevator,
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your head upstairs, and you arrive.
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You smell that? Oh, it smells like heaven bacon.
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That's what it is. I'm gonna lick the elevator
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door. Is there like a coat of, like,
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bacon grease on it? Because she's going to lick it.
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There there is. It is on the floor.
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Oh. She totally gets on her hands
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and knees with her big platform shoes and she's going to go
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ahead and lick the floor. Cool cheer the the whole talking
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and third person thing is neat nice.
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Yeah, sometimes I do that. That's cool.
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Have you ever tried? Talking in third person, Reese
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is always down. Haha.
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Look at that Reese. Yeah, I was.
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Gonna ask what's your name? Again.
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Reese. Reese.
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My name is JK Reese. Nice to meet you.
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What is off my tune? Huh?
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What's? JK stand for?
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That is personal business that I will not share.
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That's fair, but. But I appreciate the question
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and being genuinely interested in me as a person rather than a
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billboard. Hello Corpo.
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What is up? You seem completely lost.
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I am so lost. I am.
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It's my. Bestie hi Oh my.
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God, I would like to cypher Hello.
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Magic Christmas. Magic.
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How are you? Oh.
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Sorry, I'm so excited. You're so excited.
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You're good, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's been a little while. I thought I wasn't going to be
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able to see the parade and then now all of us are being brought
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together. Is this your like Fate idea
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thing again? Yeah.
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OK, That's fair. Out during the season, for me, I
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get the most clients because again, everyone's depressed,
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sad, getting into wasted, wasted wasting someone else, you know?
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Yeah, of course. I would like to go.
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And you know, I get more clients that way.
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I'm going to go get wasted now that we're at the the roof.
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So if you guys need to. I've been here before.
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So you just kind of go this way. Plus Gabby and and Calvin.
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Hey guys, And then up here and then we're going to go over
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here. Is that cool?
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Yeah. Wait, where's Trit?
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He's already gone. OK, who is that She's just going
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to? Yeah, trit.
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This rooftop is huge. It is the full length of a large
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apartment building that has about eight different apartments
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in it, so your voice carries off into the street below.
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There is a pretty sizable wall around the very edge of the
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building, and you're standing outside of the elevator with a
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small view of the east side of this part of Knight City.
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OK, safer. So you're just here to see the
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parade? Yeah.
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Do you know which way is a good way to see it?
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I so I've been working with the SO my project that I've been
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working on for like a year and a half is finally for fruition.
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I can finally see the armor plating on the vehicles.
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I'm so excited. That's amazing.
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Congratulations. Thank you.
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I think I went with more Gray hair than I had before, so we'll
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go with that. Well, I mean, I'm digging a
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look. Thank you, I got tech hair
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installed to help with it because it was becoming a
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problem, yes. Due to the stress, yes.
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Yes, I may have gotten 5 people fired over the last year and a
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half because they don't know how to do anything.
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Oh. Yeah.
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Well, you should have just hit me up and then I could have like
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hooked you up with some new peeps.
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Yeah, I might, I might, I might talk.
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Maybe might be able to help me get a new job soon because I am
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not getting anywhere with mine. I'm still that you did, I mean.
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You hired me for a reason, and we I know.
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I know, yeah, Callum was very happy, but he still didn't give
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me more money or pay. But he doesn't really look at
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what I do, so I can kind of just do whatever I want.
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But the stress of seeing everybody's calendars all messed
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up and people not scheduling things and parts not going where
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they need to go. And 543210 you.
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I've been learning breathing techniques.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I I see that. Yeah, I need it seems.
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Like you need a drink. I would love it.
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Not not me. I will take a drink though.
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But did you wait and? Wait, why?
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Why are you smelling? Me, oh heavenly, you smell.
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Like, Oh my God, on my suit? No, I was in the elevator.
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No, I'm going to have to get this, like, somehow cleaned.
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It's one of my nicest suits and it smells like bacon.
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Of the holiday season. I'm glad one of us is happy.
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That and the smell of sadness. I mean, there's probably a lot
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of that around. Oh, yeah, that's that's exactly
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why I'm here. I'm so excited.
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OK, wait, hold on. Hold on, hold on.
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OK, wait. I think if we go over in this
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direction, what do I? Swear.
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So in the meantime, Remy has just kind of stayed next to
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cipher as they're pretty uncomfortable in social
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situations while not high or drunk.
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So they've kind of been listening at the same time and
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just kind of nodding ahead as they build this holiday sweater
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and I rolled to build it and then how it I also rolled to see
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how it looks on me on there as well.
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You rolled 29, or I. All I heard was EDA.
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You rolled 29 on basic tech. The holographic screen you
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pulled out of your bag from some scrap sits really neatly in the
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middle, and it's basically a copy of you on your sweater, and
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you've linked it up to your own head, so your sweater and your
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face have the same expression. That is actually really cute.
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It's got a little It's got a little holiday hat on it though.
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And both of you, you both look at him as he's like doing this
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in front of you while the conversation happens and he
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finishes and because. That is absolutely amazing.
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I'm sorry. Who you?
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Who are you? Hello.
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This is my other bestie. We go way back.
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Right. Way back, way back, retro.
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Retro, nice to meet you. I'm prompt.
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Or you can call me written. Whatever.
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Nice to meet you. I just call.
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It Hello bestie. You call everybody bestie.
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I thought I was your bestie. Well.
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You're like, OK if we do a ranking system, you're like,
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probably like. The smell of delicious BBQ food
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starts to waft from the West side of the rooftop.
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Oh, OK, I smell. Blow your nose.
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Get some We got to get some food.
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I think Cipher is starting to actually levitate off of.
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Oh yeah, buddy, that's the stuff.
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Oh, all right. What they got?
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I will. I will help you try and find
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some food. This place is massive.
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I know, I like. I don't know anyone here except
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Hey, look, there's some couches. And there's some nice couches
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Oh man, I'm really excited about the parade.
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I can't wait to see myself. What?
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Do you want to see yourself? Oh no, I'm.
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I'm going to be part of the the union float.
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They like, paid me a bunch of money to stand at the front on
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right on the float. Like me, I'm going to be right
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there on the front. It's going to be dope, but
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you're here. Wait, yeah, wait, how?
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How does that work? How?
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Are you like how are you? I am so confused.
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Oh. Shit.
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I don't. Think you're going to be there
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anymore? Retro I got to go.
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Here's my burger. Peace, everyone.
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Have a great time on the on the the thing, but take take a photo
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of me because I want to see myself.
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And Reeves leaves. Bye Wait.
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Oh my goodness. Man, he felt.
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The need see what I'm seeing. He needed that holiday speed,
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yeah. Well.
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That. Oh, he didn't even put any.
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He didn't put ketchup or mustard on this.
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What's wrong with Reeves? Oh, that's that's disgusting.
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Wait, you guys are? Missing.
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No, no, no, no. You guys.
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Am I the only one who's seeing what I'm saying?
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There's a. Freaking cowboy here, Remington.
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I think that tiny human is talking about you.
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Well, I do draw attention from time to time now.
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Quick question. It's probably the hat.
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It is my most becoming feature, Thank you very much.
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I did find myself a rather, well, a piece of animal of
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dubious origin that I think should find its way onto that
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grill, just so we can find out exactly what this varmint tastes
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like grilled up. Just only use the back corner of
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it. That's where most of the flame
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happens. Well, I mean, you know, I want
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to get it to a nice, good, medium rare look.
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Looks like red meat at least. So, you know, I'm not going to
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put it in the absolute, you know, and if, if, if you don't
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mind, just kind of Mosey and over.
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Just give me enough room and I'm just going to set that sucker
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down just like dead in the center of the grill.
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Yeah, the the grill is shitty. It is handmade.
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It is bad. There is fire coming out of it.
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It causes char, there's bits of burnable things in there like
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paper and stuff to keep it going.
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And it's powered by a gas tank sitting next to it, with some
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tune to siphoning off at about 1/4.
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Everything I do to move any of the meter out of the grill, I
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just do with my right hand using these two metal fingers, much
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like would use tongs. Oh damn, Hold on.
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Hey, is that the new Armalite Scope edition?
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I wish that were the case. It's not terribly new, doesn't
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have a scope, but certainly serves me well.
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Got it. It's a nice piece of hardware
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you got there. Choom.
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What is it? I'm immediately going up and
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like kind of like waving my hands.
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Not exactly touching, but it's kind of like I'm I am oogling
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your arm. It's a it's a fancy looking face
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you got there fella. Wow.
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Oh, it's got a 5D5 processor. That's pretty.
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They don't make those anymore. Where did you get?
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This. Well, if I told you, I'd piss
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some people right off, as I'm not exactly supposed to say,
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because let's just say a good friend got me a good deal as a
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result of doing a good job. Oh, that's got a story.
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I like stories. I'll tell you what, You find me
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a place around here where I can get a little bit of gulp and
23:43
whiskey. I might share a story with you.
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Oh. I don't.
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You look past retro. To the other side of the
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building and they're against some large roof equipment, are
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three vending machines and in one of them is some synth
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whiskey. Hey, do.
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Do we? I didn't catch your name there,
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fella. Oh, it's it's revenue.
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But most people call me retro. I shake that.
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Can I shake that? On No, I did.
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I had a pleasure. RIP Handshake's.
24:08
Best way to get to know somebody though.
24:09
I know that hand ain't got nothing.
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You can stab me with it in. Yeah, Retro, if you'll just keep
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an eye on particularly on that piece of environment right in
24:18
the middle there. Just don't let it catch fire.
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I'm going to go interrogate this vending machine over here.
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And you head over to the vending machines on the right hand side.
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It's all right, Retro. It's nice to see you again.
24:30
You probably don't Remember Me because my accent changes all
24:33
the time. Yeah, I'll take care of the Meet
24:36
me and Remy, the other one. We had a really good time.
24:39
Oh, you call him Remedy? You don't worry about it.
24:42
You, you, you you did entertain your guests.
24:45
Honestly, my treat. OK, well, hey, Trent, you know,
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this was a great BBQ. I'm I'm assuming this is a
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kibble Patty, which if you reconstitutioned it, you
24:55
reconstituted it. Pretty decent.
24:58
I mean. Use Christmas kibble so it's all
25:00
festive and shit. Yeah, I did taste the the
25:02
sparkle crunch in it. It's the one, yeah.
25:06
It's like Pop Rocks, but upsetting.
25:08
If I if I had an actual mouth to chew with, I would agree with
25:11
you, but it's just all just goes in the CD drive.
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So here are some burgers for your lot.
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Are any of them lot like not synth meat eaters?
25:20
Hey, you and you not synth meat eaters.
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I will, I will, I will. I will eat it today.
25:27
Hey, I eat all the meats, OK? Wait, wait.
25:29
Are you a Trent? I'm like Arby's right now.
25:33
You know what I mean? Wait, your name's Arby?
25:36
No, I have the meats. It's a reference to an early
25:39
2000s food chain that got destroyed in the corporate wars.
25:46
The very funny if you understand it, you.
25:49
Know don't understand it. Sometimes it just goes over my
25:52
head. Most things do.
25:54
That bad joke is the only thing that goes wrong today.
25:57
Then we're in luck, and then you hear Thunder.
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Is. Is it?
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Is it rain? Is is it going to rain?
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No, not today. No, that's.
26:07
That's not possible. Not I didn't bring an umbrella.
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Everyone rolled. Perception, Retro You are not
26:17
paying attention. You're handing out burgers.
26:20
You aren't really paying attention.
26:21
You just have to look up. Yeah, I kind of hear it.
26:23
I kind of look as I'm handing out burgers at the same time
26:26
with my other hand, trying to light a joint while I'm doing
26:28
everything at the same time. Remington, you're looking at
26:31
this vending machine and right in the middle is a small bottle
26:34
of whiskey that's been in this machine for four years.
26:39
Which means even if it's shit at this point, it's probably better
26:42
than the brand new ones as it's just aged in this hermetically
26:46
sealed vending machine for four years.
26:50
It's only 13 Eddie's with the Christmas discount as part of
26:55
the system and you are fascinated by this.
26:58
They have kept you cooped up in this prison for far too long,
27:00
left for entering. It is time for a jailbreak.
27:05
But ASH and Cipher, you look over at where you hear this
27:10
Thunder come from, and there on the other side you see a wall of
27:17
rain. Oh, oh, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no.
27:21
I didn't like a straight. Wall of rain.
27:26
Not not just some. Like a absolutely perfectly
27:29
straight wall of rain. Now, Cipher, you are paying a
27:36
little bit more attention because as the rain falls, you
27:39
don't just hear rainfall, you hear a sizzle.
27:42
And done. Doesn't sound good AM.
27:47
I able to use like deduction or something in order to try to
27:51
figure out what this is. What?
27:53
What is? Just some rain will be fine.
27:57
But I don't. Want to get some wet?
27:59
Bacon grease well. Here, we don't take your burgers
28:02
like I got to get this mustard. On I think we just take this
28:06
like indoors for so many. Reasons.
28:09
Towards you. We need to go.
28:12
Why? It's probably not.
28:19
Typically towards you. Oh, OK.
28:22
OK. OK.
28:23
OK. Yeah, well, I don't want to burn
28:26
my body off. Is there like a burger that's
28:29
already there or somewhere like? On the BBQ that is still
28:32
burning, there is that piece of meat that Remington put right in
28:35
the middle and Trent's taking care of it.
28:36
He's standing right in front of it and the wall of rain comes
28:39
towards him. No, it's going to be fine
28:41
because the machine's powered by gas, so it'll be fine.
28:45
If there's a little bit of rain, it'll probably add to the char.
28:48
He says as the rain partials over the BBQ have a.
28:52
Little time to go, can you? Just like it ignite, the rain
28:56
hits the barbecue and a fireball explodes in front of Trent and
29:00
he is set on fire. Whoa, no, no, no.
29:05
Shit. Take my jacket off.
29:07
Yeah, I take my jacket. Oh, no, no.
29:09
I'm wearing my sweater. I can't take that off now.
29:10
So. You try.
29:12
I'm going to go and grab a couch cushion and to be able to like,
29:15
try and put him out with it. When you go over to grab the
29:18
couch cushion, it is heavily sewn to the sofa.
29:22
Trent steps forward, the rain steps forward and the fire from
29:26
the rain starts to spread across the rooftop.
29:29
Holy. Fuck.
29:30
Oh. Oh no.
29:30
Holy shit. Stacks.
29:33
Fire. Oh no.
29:35
OK, I'm going to go inside. I'm Yes.
29:37
Just. I'm running.
29:40
Meat, even if it's like, literally still on the grill,
29:42
doesn't care. And then it's going to try to go
29:45
grab it. The The meat is at 10 feet into
29:48
this rainbowl well. If it's not, whatever is there,
29:52
if there's something for her to grab as far as food.
29:55
Oh yeah, no retro's holding a tray of burgers.
29:57
Yeah, no. Yeah.
29:59
She's going to grab that and then run.
30:02
We got to get the hell out of here, man.
30:03
Yeah, we got to go. Everybody move, just move.
30:08
And I want to like in a commanding type of voice, try
30:12
and get everybody to leave. Two of the residents run towards
30:16
the elevator, along with some of the other people from the
30:20
vending machine. They listen to what you have to
30:21
say, but they know this place well, and after going around the
30:26
corner, they're gone. You're now still standing here.
30:29
The rain approaches even more. It is right behind you.
30:32
I am. I'm going to run.
30:35
Do so. I'm going to in my my 4 inch
30:37
heels. I am going to.
30:39
I'm going to run. So you can move how far, He says
30:44
in an evil GM voice. I don't.
30:46
Know 7. You have a move of seven, so
30:51
yeah, when running you can do double that on a grip line, OK?
30:55
Wait, I was at the couch. There we go.
30:57
Who else is running? I will run, but I'm going to use
31:02
my cyber arm to grab Trent Trout Trent.
31:07
Trent. Trent I'm going to grab Trent
31:10
and let a little bit of cable out so it's not going to set me
31:15
on fire and drag him along the way.
31:18
Roll for it. OK, this is what I get for
31:21
trying to be helpful. Oh no, you're rolling dice in
31:24
the game. Oh no.
31:28
And you fall over the cable sets on fire.
31:30
Now unless you do something, you will also be set on fire.
31:34
Oh no, let's try. Sorry.
31:35
I'm sorry about you. I'm going to release him and let
31:38
my cable go back into my arm and hopefully that'll put it out.
31:42
You can now move your move to go away if you want, leaving Trent
31:46
alone to burn. Cool.
31:50
Did you like this in peasy? I tried, I tried.
31:52
Cypher What do you do? Grabbed the burger and shoved it
31:57
in my mouth and it was running. Just like those little anime
32:01
girls where they put the bread in their mouth and they start
32:04
running. That's exactly what Cypress do.
32:06
Nice Remington. You've almost managed to get
32:09
this bottle and as it clinks to the bottom, you pick it up.
32:11
You're holding your hand, you turn around and you see fucking
32:14
chaos. There's your new friend.
32:16
Trent is now on fire on the ground, and as you're looking at
32:20
him, the wall of rain passes over him and he emulates even
32:24
more and you can see and hear not only fire, but sizzle so
32:32
much. I wish it wasn't so.
32:34
Inconsequential to the story large see.
32:39
What did I tell ya? There's always death.
32:41
Well, upon hearing those words from Cipher, how many people are
32:45
paying attention to what's going on right here, and how many
32:48
people are just fully fucking off?
32:51
Everyone else has gone beautiful.
32:53
It's just you guys. Love lovely.
32:55
What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna crack open that whiskey Viacom
33:00
dios. Good friend throw it back and
33:03
from my arm I produce my very heavy pistol and it's taken a
33:07
couple steps closer and we put one right between trans eyes to
33:10
stop his suffering. That's actually fairly noble.
33:13
I like that. Very on character and that is
33:16
the first inspiration for this side quest.
33:18
Well done. You get one of those.
33:20
It's not in cyberpunk red, but you can use it at any time to re
33:22
roll anything you do or I do. Makes me happy.
33:26
Did we hear Remington say this? You are watching him do this.
33:30
Yeah, yes, you can see me. My back's turned.
33:33
You jump over the sofa to do it. Cypher's going to turn with and
33:37
take a bite out of the burger with a salute.
33:49
All right, roll your gun to see if you shoot Trent between the
33:52
eyes. How beautiful.
33:53
That's. I'll give you plus one because
33:55
the whiskey was really good that.
33:57
Makes you quite happy. There.
34:00
Let's see. Let's see.
34:01
There we go, 24 Yeah, that's a hit.
34:04
He looks at you while still screaming.
34:06
The bullet flies across through the rain.
34:09
You hear it sizzle as it flies, and it goes straight between his
34:12
eyes, cutting his scream halfway, and he drops to the
34:15
ground, dead and on fire and sizzling, and the rain moves
34:21
forward. I am still going to run.
34:23
I'm trying to get to that elevator.
34:25
You all head over to the the door to the roof.
34:32
Yes, you open the door and you come down the stairs from.
34:38
The rooftop. Wait, is Is the cowboy with us?
34:44
Absolutely. With us here, Howie.
34:46
Partner. I've always wanted to say that
34:49
to a real cowboy. Well, now you have, and I'm glad
34:53
that I could help you live that goal of yours.
34:57
What's your name? Just call me Remington.
35:01
EW, that's the name of an ex-boyfriend of mine.
35:04
Do you have another name? Not one that I'd like to readily
35:07
share. Well, perhaps through meeting my
35:11
acquaintance and through my shining personality, you will
35:17
replace all memories of said piece of shit with someone far
35:23
superior. Oh, I really like you.
35:25
That's a deal. It'll be a quick.
35:27
Stick on her hand. For a shake it's metal hand in
35:30
case it's yours and you get a handshake from it.
35:33
And while you're having this lovely moment on this stairway,
35:36
you hear give me your fucking money.
35:38
You can hear a guy like bashing and bashing on a door,
35:41
motherfucker. You owe me so much fucking
35:43
money. Give me a.
35:44
Oh, that sounds like somebody having a bad day.
35:46
I don't. I don't want to deal with this,
35:48
but I want to peek around the corner because I'm nosy.
36:00
Next time on no latency side quest.
36:06
I'd like to still be goddamn eating synthetic meat and
36:09
drinking some whiskey on a rooftop, but unfortunately acid
36:12
rain came in and fucked up my day, and right now you're
36:14
pissing me off. So what are we going to do about
36:17
it? Oh, you crossed the line there,
36:20
buddy. Do I want to be this old woman
36:21
when I grow up? I think we just saw a hail of
36:24
bullets. Another one bites the dust.
36:27
Cowboy. Oh, is he?
36:28
Going to be a problem as he dies.
36:30
I found new aspiration in life that was quite impressive.
36:32
Just press it harder. I'm.
36:34
Going to press it harder. See if that helps.
36:35
It's OK, I'm a doctor. OK, we got to go take the
36:37
stairs. I know.
36:40
Wait, are those red bottoms? Thank you kindly.
36:43
Well, they're red now, yeah. You know, there may be acid rain
36:46
outside, but that's not going to weather us down.
36:48
Yes, I need to get out. There's usually always a back.
36:52
Door. It's a Christmas miracle.
36:54
You get a free kidney if you want it.
36:57
Look at that. You made the kidney pop out of
36:59
the dipshit. What are the odds at the
37:02
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