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S2E77 - Bathroom Deals · No Latency

• 0:02
  Last time on no latency. Looks like there was a there's a
• 0:05
  maelstrom scavengers just lying dead and sadly apart.
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  Yes, we did just land very silently.
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  What are you thinking? Well, not my normal methods,
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  but. Oh, he ain't the only one
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  bleeding around here, Retro. Someone else is dead or bleeding
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  at least. I was wondering if perhaps Danny
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  Dark Side and I could have a bit of a private chat.
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  Passcode, passcode passcode passcode passcode passcode.
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  They don't have a pet. This is Danny dark side.
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  Danny Dark side don't like dogs? Danny dark side don't like
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  anything but money. Your alpha and Kappa have been
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  delivered to your assistant. Please choose from the following
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  words. All right.
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  Let's figure out a plan real quick.
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  I'm going to put our four heads together and really think on it.
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  OK, All right, so retro, you, you grab,
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  you grab kind of like his, his his left side and I'll kind of
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  grab his rat side and then we'll kind of hold up his head and
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  then we'll just kind of kind of peek it in through the door.
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  All right. OK, where did you get this idea
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  again from? You ever seen that movie
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  Weeknights at Bertha's? Yeah, maybe unlike the midnight
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  showings on what was it, that classic movies channel on the
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  tube? Yeah, knockoffs, the knockoff
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  channel. Yeah, it's the knockoff channel.
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  Yeah. How long we got to keep holding
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  him? Man, this this guy's getting
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  heavy. I'm also picking his pockets.
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  I'm trying to hold him. Yeah, sure, row for it.
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  All right. So I think we what we got to do
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  is we got to. Pickpocket 17.
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  Yes, you find 150 eddies and a cough drop.
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  No identification on them. It's a maelstrom gang, no?
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  Fuck I was hoping to get a name or something.
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  You could also pull the battery out of his gear if you wanted to
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  as scrap. Oh yeah, for.
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  Sure, I'm doing that. Cool all.
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  Right, roll me two D 10 and that's how much scrap you get.
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  Two D 10/10. You gain 10 scrap.
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  Yay. Oh, this battery's actually
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  pretty good. I would pocket that one second,
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  all right. Jeb, you witness Retro pull a
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  piece of this human. Oh, oh boy.
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  Well, I suppose he's not needing it.
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  No, this is just just straight up recycle.
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  I meant. All right, so he, so I think
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  what we got to do is we got to go up there, go up to the door
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  and we'll say something along the lines of, you know, I barely
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  made it alive, What happened? And then we'll just kind of like
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  let him fall over. So he kind of falls over inside
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  the door and then all of all of his buddies will come over and
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  check up on him. And at that point we'll just
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  kind of throw a grenade right on top of him.
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  Take care of all of them all at once.
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  Wait, why throw the grenade? We can put it inside his dead
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  body. Well, is.
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  That what you were thinking? Drop him.
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  Oh what if we drop him right And when we drop him use a piece of
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  will pull the spoon out of the will pull the pin out of the
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  spoon in the grenade right So body will fall on top of it.
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  Spoon will keep it pressed when they go to turn them over, pops
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  the spoon off and then goes off. It goes boom.
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  I love that. Yeah, I love it.
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  Let's go. All right, well, help carry
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  over. This guy is heavy enough with
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  all the Chrome on him. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  OK. I just kind of grab his arms
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  here, all right? Yeah.
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  Roll for it. For what?
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  To drag this body over to the door.
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  OK, well obviously we got that means we got to roll body maybe.
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  Athletics. Athletics.
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  Oh, Retro. That's a crit success.
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  Yes, you drag the body over. Jeb really doesn't take any of
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  it, like when you're going to move and you have that one
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  person who just kind of like barely pulls it.
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  As you're dragging him over, there's a chain that comes loose
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  from his neck and falls on the ground and it says James.
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  James. James, All right, Yeah, I'm also
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  taking that chain and I'm. I'm going to wear that now.
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  Cool, you're now wearing a a chain.
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  This is James. It's worth about 5 eddies.
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  I know it's some, you know, electrochrome plated, but blings
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  Bling. Cool right?
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  The doors not locked. So what you going to do with
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  this dead body? All right, so which one of us is
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  going to be the ventriloquist? He's got a digital voice box so
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  can you sound computer like? Is that a joke?
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  Because like, you're you, you also have a voice box, I'm
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  pretty sure. I mean, I have an actual voice
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  box, not a computer voice box. Jeb, what are you saying?
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  Just because I have ATV for a head, suddenly I can speak an
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  electronic. Listen, it's been like three
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  years. We started this show, and I was
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  under the impression that you had a robotic voice this entire
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  time. Is that wrong?
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  Hold on. Am I the only one?
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  Oh, my God. What do you mean?
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  I've been living a lie. Dude.
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  Literally it was his voice box. All right, Jeff, since obviously
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  I'm having to hold the body, you're going to have to talk for
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  him. OK?
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  So I'm going to take some of the scrap that I have and fashion
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  cable to the voice box connecting to a little antenna
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  that I have now stabbed into the base of his skull so it can
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  still send the electrical motor impulses.
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  So it'll they will talk. It'll actually look like they're
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  talking as well to Jeb's tile and Jeb, you can speak through
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  the speaker part of your tile for them to speak.
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  All right. All right, I think I'm ready
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  all. Right, so you're going to have
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  to prop open the door while I hold the body up and then hide
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  myself behind it. Gotcha.
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  OK all. Right, ready.
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  Three. 210 My God, why did you leave me behind to die holy?
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  Shit, Flesner. It's me, Flesner die.
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  No, I'm. Flesner.
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  Wait, no. No, flesner, don't don't.
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  Move. Stands.
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  Stuck. Connected to the machine.
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  All of you, all of you and my body.
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  I've also once I dropped the body I run over and jump over
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  the bed. Do you?
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  Do you don't want to talk to these people?
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  Jeb's doing it. I'm not we.
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  I've set, all right. I set a grenade off underneath.
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  It Yeah, there is a live grenade being.
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  Held. When they lift that body up,
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  it's going to. It's going to pop like a, well,
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  like a grenade. OK, Jeba.
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  Just kind of like hunches down by the wall, puts a finger in
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  each ear. Like, so he's just begging for
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  help, essentially trying to attract them.
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  All right. Cool.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's foolproof.
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  It can't go wrong. Go and.
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  Make sure James is dead. The scabber that was watching TV
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  walks over to the door and sees his dead friend in the hallway
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  and is now looking at the body on the ground.
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  I. Thought you were shot.
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  I barely lived through. It James.
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  James. This maelstrom walks into the
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  door and pushes James over and he rolls over in a squelch of
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  blood. So that he pushes him outside
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  the door and then Jeb sees him roll over and goes oh boy and
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  takes a few steps back. So the grenade is right there
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  and it goes off, and so this guy has to roll evasion.
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  Assuming that he can. I'm going to check his stats.
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  Let's see, That's a reflex of four.
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  That's not good, my guy. I'm going to.
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  Give him a chance, but unless he rolls a crit, he's not going to
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  be able to do this. 13 not enough.
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  That's 5D6 damage. The grenade goes off 5D6 rolling
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  damage of 10. It's armor piercing.
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  The Scabba loses two more of their armor and they are blown
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  back, now singed and in pain as they take a critical injury from
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  the grenade and a piece of grenade gets stuck in their
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  face, covering one of their eyes.
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  The eye is fine, but there's now like a piece of sharded metal
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  around their eye, giving the -1 to hit.
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  Oh. Fuck.
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  James exploded. What the fuck is going on?
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  1st stand stuck in the computer and now.
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  Fuck. All right, so retro, can you
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  hear me through this, these COM units?
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  Yeah, I can hear you, Jeff. So do we just like hide again or
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  do we start shooting? You take, you take the one we
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  just blew up. I'm going to watch the door.
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  When the one comes to the door, I'm going to let him have it.
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  Fuck all that I'm going to go hide behind this the couch.
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  Hey, they're going to be now it's we're we're doing the
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  equivalent of what was that so that they start patrolling.
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  Yes, Retro. Hey, I mean, yeah, I'm, I'm with
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  you on I'm. Flying by the seat of our pants
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  at this point, hey? It's literally just we set off,
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  we set off. A man.
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  I was going to say, we just set off a scab call, we're going to
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  come out and we're going to fucking catch them in the
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  crossfire. So you see the foot of this scab
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  being pulled out of the doorway? Fuck me.
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  And the door gets closed and now you can hear mumblings of
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  someone trying to be healed. Dammit.
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  They're smarter than I thought. All right, well, fun's over,
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  Jeb. Looks like we're going to have
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  to go back to you. The same old tactics as always.
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  Rudy Tooty, grenades and Shooty. Do you want to say the magic
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  words? I sure do.
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  Jeb, let me ask you, how are we breaching and clearing this?
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  Yeah, I was just about to ask, are you doing, are you going to
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  like, you know, kick the door in or?
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  OK, Jeb, how about you kick down the door and then once you kick
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  down the door, I'm going to do something fun and stupid and
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  jump on it, trying to slide it across and shoot while I slide
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  on the door going across the carpet.
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  Oh, I like that. That's good.
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  That's good. All right.
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  So should we try it again? Yeah.
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  All right. Rachel's going to go ahead and
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  get ready. Are you good?
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  For your stance. Oh.
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  Hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm going to actually going to
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  use it. I'm going to do a little donkey
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  kick this time. I'll try this job.
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  OK, here we go. Ready all.
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  Right. Are you good?
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  Do you think they hurt us the first time?
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  All right. It doesn't matter.
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  It doesn't matter. Bridge and clear, motherfuckers.
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  Go. Roll for it.
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  What? Can I do for?
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  What's going to get me through this?
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  Jab has to roll to kick at this door, so that's the first roll
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  19 yes, the door kicks open beautifully.
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  It's a it's a sudden and loud and exciting noise and retro
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  steps into the room and right in front of him is an injured
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  maelstrom holding his face and that person's boss pulling them
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  into the room a bit more and looking very confused.
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  What? Oh the I'm just running in, then
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  I'm just going to straight punt them since they're bent down
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  right? Pulling the person down.
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  Yep. Absolutely.
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  Right in punting range. Roll for it 25 yes.
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  Retro literally running in, sliding on the door after Jeb
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  kicks it down and as the person looks up to see what it is,
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  Retro has come running in and like Randy Orton back in like
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  the odds, punt right across the chin side of the face.
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  They roll A20 on evasion which is very high, but you roll a 25
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  and they get knocked back. Wow, what squares?
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  They get knocked back 20 feet. They slide across the room,
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  smearing blood with their feet. Ow fuck I've.
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  Always wanted to do that. What's your bodies go?
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  Body is 7. Your body is 7, so you do 3D6
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  damage when brawling. Oh nice.
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  That's that's. Rules I was written by the way,
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  there's a. There's a table for this.
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  Oh. Two Crip fails, you've given a
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  little bit of a bruise, they take four damage 4.
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  Damage. So it wasn't as cool.
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  I thought it was like a super kick, but it was really more of
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  like a kind of scraping of their faces.
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  Fuck. I think it's NC.
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  You're not in CPD. You're going to wish we were in
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  CPD. What the fuck are you doing in
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  our place? That means stand still, blocking
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  the alarm. And they point at this net
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  runner who's plugged into a cupboard up in the kitchen in
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  the north side of this room. Oh yeah, Is he still?
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  Is he still blocking the alarm right now?
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  And I chewed at him. All right, Jeb, now.
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  All right, now you're going to see if you stopped Jeb from
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  shooting, so be at 24. Fuck shit, what can I do?
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  What can I do? Oh, wait, hold on, spoon.
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  That's 90 feet you miss. So you watch Jeb pull out one of
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  his guns, points it at this net runner who's plugged into this
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  cupboard and shoots trying to hit him 90 feet away, and his
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  bullet goes wide and sticks in the wolf all.
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  Right by the time I've grabbed him, they just said that they
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  are connected to the alarm. They are one you can't kill.
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  Do that guy gotcha? You know what?
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  That's my mistake. I misunderstood I'd.
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  Prefer it if you didn't kill anyone, motherfucker.
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  Did you hold on hold on hold on hold on everyone everyone chill
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  retro. Did these guys want to talk?
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  I was under the impression that you said Maelstrom's don't don't
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  they just want power and and and death?
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  But y'all want to talk? Wait a minute, I'm genuinely
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  surprised as well. I mean, honestly, I'd, I'd, I
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  wasn't, I wasn't prepared for this kind of came in guns
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  blazing, quite literally in this case.
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  But listen, if you, if you want to, you know, put aside
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  differences and, you know, give some fish some water, then
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  that's fine. The guy on the ground in front
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  of you is is wailing in pain with this shrapnel in his face.
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  Oh, yeah, Sorry about that, Sir. Listen, you know I know a great
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  doctor. And she could probably patch you
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  up if she was here, but I'm just going to.
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  I'm going to. I'm going to slap Jeff.
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  Dude, what are you doing? Sorry, go ahead.
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  You, you, you take the talk. What the fuck are you doing in
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  here? That's none of your concern.
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  What are you doing in here? This is our heist.
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  What the fuck? Well, now it's turned into a
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  heist for two. Well.
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  I can't get through to anyone. No communication is getting out.
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  Are you here for the brain too? Any.
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  Gear we can fucking get, Jim. Well, hold on, hold on, hold on,
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  hold on, hold on. Because if you don't, I mean,
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  all we want is the brain. So you can have everything else
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  and maybe we can kind of help each other here, you know what
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  I'm saying? I mean, listen, I don't, I don't
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  know how much the rest of that shit is worth, but I know this
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  brain thing, it's really not worth much because it's still a
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  prototype. So we just want it because we
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  want to help out a friend who needs it.
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  You know, we're we're doing, it's kind of like a charity case
• 17:02
  if you think about it. But you can have all the, all
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  the like, you know, valuable stuff, the important stuff.
• 17:08
  Y'all can have that. Can we put can you ask the TV
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  guy to stop pointing a gun at me?
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  What depends Do we have an agreement?
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  I don't have a gun pointed at you.
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  I'm willing to talk. OK.
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  OK. So it's kind of a, you know, a
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  sign of good faith kind of situation.
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  Yeah, like a what? Is it like a Poly pirate thing
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  or something? I look over at A at Retro and
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  Jib's kind of shrugs. I can't explain retros face of
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  the exact exasperation, disappointment, upsettedness of
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  everything that was just said, because now somehow we've been
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  committed to giving up everything but the brain.
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  But OK, I guess this is just how it's going to be then I'm going
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  to take my my gun, just stop pointing it at them, and I'm
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  going to lollygag over to where the person watching TV was
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  sitting. I'm going to take their spot and
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  just sit there staring blankly at the TV while I kind of
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  reassess myself before the emotions get to me.
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  I've. Already lost two guys, the other
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  one's stuck in the room. Now we can't get back in.
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  Which room? The secret room in the other
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  room. Oh, this this secret room?
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, we.
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  We. We.
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  Tried. Maintenance mode and now you
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  can't try maintenance mode again so we don't have the fucking
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  code on the back door and it fucking killed two of my tunes.
• 18:37
  Well, maybe. Maybe my my boyfriend a.
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  Lot of hits. A bunch of my guys got killed in
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  a train recently. Found his body on the tracks,
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  fucked up. Yeah, man, I tell you, You know,
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  crime just don't pay. Not like it used to, you know
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  what I'm saying? Whatever tune.
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  So maybe maybe my boy here can, you know, patch in with your boy
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  over there and they can do some. You you think you can get a
• 19:02
  signal out of this place? You what what have you like
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  exclusive communication satellite or something?
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  I can't get a fucking anything out and as long as Stan is
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  plugged in, no one's getting a signal out in a regular network
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  we are out of. I don't I can't call for backup.
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  That's it, huh? Well don't worry, 'cause you
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  'cause we're your backed up, remember?
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  I also can't call for pizza, but that's like well.
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  Don't don't you worry, you know, well, maybe maybe we could put
• 19:32
  aside our differences for just tonight and my crew and your
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  crew. Do y'all have a like a fun
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  nickname for your crew like a or is it just the Maelstroms and
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  there's no kind of You guys hadn't come up with a?
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  Just master, man, we're just trying to get our bit.
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  Trying to get our no get that, get that same same but listen
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  you do that but we help you. You said he can't call for
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  backup but don't you worry honey because we are your backup now
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  because we're working together and y'all can have all the other
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  stuff as long as we get the brain.
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  So we get all the stuff. Sure.
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  So I get everything accepted. Right.
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  Yes, if the brain is there, we will take it and you can have
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  everything else. If the brain isn't there, then
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  sorry June, we're going to have to split it up evenly.
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  If the. Brain is there.
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  That's our share. That's not, I mean, that's not a
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  bad deal. What do you think?
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  Oh. My.
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  God, shut the fuck up. Well, I'm the only one who has
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  any kind of cognizant Stan is stuck in fucking cyberspace,
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  fucking Dick headed here on the ground is wailing in pain with
• 20:49
  his face. Yeah, I'm saying you.
• 20:51
  I'd say that that's in terms of like a training that's like ADV
• 20:54
  what, 13? Sure, Ralph.
• 20:56
  All right, well, you know I never got your name.
• 20:59
  I'm Jeb, by the way. I'm Fleesner.
• 21:01
  Fleesner or Fleesner? Fleesner, FLENSER.
• 21:06
  All right. Can I call you little F?
• 21:10
  Coming Fez. Fez I can do that.
• 21:14
  I can do fez that's. A good one.
• 21:16
  All right, so guns away, but roll trading.
• 21:21
  Guns, oh, guns away, but us, we will still play.
• 21:30
  That's not even a crit. That's not even a crit.
• 21:33
  Yes, you pass, they take the deal and the tension in the room
• 21:37
  fades a little bit. Do you do anything to help the
• 21:39
  guy on the ground? No, all right.
• 21:44
  Then Flezner walks over and tries to help them.
• 21:47
  Fifteen. Yeah, They removed the shrapnel
• 21:49
  from the cyberwearer in this guy's face, and he stands back
• 21:53
  up. He's still hurt, but he can now
• 21:54
  see out of both eyes. Stop being such a fucking moron.
• 21:59
  Why did James explode? I don't know.
• 22:02
  You tell me. What kind of what kind of
• 22:04
  hardware do you have in the guy? He's all shot up to hell.
• 22:07
  How'd that happen, by the way? Well.
• 22:09
  He's dead now. Right.
• 22:12
  OK. So all right, new guys, what's
• 22:15
  your plan? Jeb, you go ahead, explain to
• 22:20
  them what the plan is. I'm going to need a second.
• 22:24
  I'm going to walk out because I remembered that there was a
• 22:29
  computer that nobody's checked yet.
• 22:32
  Meanwhile, How to help you, Bendel, Iona and the Collector
• 22:37
  and Vivi are all standing around a table at the gala.
• 22:40
  The meetings start in a few minutes.
• 22:45
  So someone in that party roll perception.
• 22:47
  Sure, I'll roll perception. 16 Yes, you notice that Jane went
• 22:53
  to the bathroom. I'm going to excuse myself and
• 22:57
  follow them to the bathroom do. You want me to come with or is
• 23:01
  this? Sure, if you could like, watch
• 23:05
  the door and make sure that Jane doesn't leave.
• 23:09
  Oh yeah, do you want to make sure no one comes in?
• 23:11
  Or or that as well. Oh, sure.
• 23:15
  And then Dale follows behind you and stands at the door.
• 23:18
  Cool. You open the door into the
• 23:19
  bathroom and Jane is standing at the vending machine.
• 23:22
  As you step inside, the door automatically closes behind you.
• 23:25
  OK. In a breath I have an inner
• 23:35
  light. I am the centre of God.
• 23:39
  Have you tried box breathing? Box breathing.
• 23:44
  No. Who the fuck are you?
• 23:45
  Sorry, who are you? Didn't mean to swear.
• 23:48
  That's all right, I've never heard the word fuck before.
• 23:54
  It's all right. It's all right in front of
• 23:55
  someone who might be important. I'm really sorry.
• 23:56
  Breathe in for four, hold for four and exhale for four.
• 24:05
  Hold for four again and just keep doing that.
• 24:08
  OK. It's just a big box of breath,
• 24:12
  OK? OK, OK.
• 24:12
  OK, OK, OK. What's upsetting you?
• 24:17
  My boss. What?
• 24:21
  What's going on? He won't make decisions.
• 24:26
  He's mad. He's just, I thought he doesn't
• 24:30
  leave the house very often and whenever he does it's chaos.
• 24:32
  Most of the time I'm just, I'm just work from home file stuff.
• 24:36
  I send the maid over. I haven't heard from the maid in
• 24:39
  ages. I can't get to the apartment.
• 24:41
  He asked me to check on the fucking plants.
• 24:42
  They're all plastic anyway. I don't know why he cares.
• 24:45
  Maybe to dust them. I, I don't know, I'm just.
• 24:47
  Yeah, right. I don't.
• 24:49
  Rich people. What the fuck?
• 24:51
  Right. Well, just know that it's one
• 24:55
  night and after tonight you can go back to working from home and
• 24:59
  doing the stupid shit he asks you to do.
• 25:02
  Right. Do you know how hard it is to
• 25:04
  find a whole wheat toast? They do, actually.
• 25:09
  It's a fucking nightmare. Every.
• 25:11
  Fucking whole wheat. Toast.
• 25:14
  Is that? Is that what he sounds like?
• 25:16
  Yes it is. You're funny.
• 25:17
  I'm like I'm vending machine, vending machine.
• 25:21
  I will get a jizz in a real use. The machine and get a sausage as
• 25:25
  in a real. I'm my owner by the way.
• 25:29
  Hi, I'm Jane I. Take a sip.
• 25:32
  So what brought you to this shit hell?
• 25:34
  Oh, I'm walking over to the mirror and I'm going to start
• 25:37
  fixing my hair. And while I'm doing that, I'm
• 25:39
  taking risky out. I am an investor.
• 25:44
  Oh shit, I'm so sorry. If you need to make an
• 25:48
  appointment we've only got 3 this afternoon.
• 25:50
  I can schedule one in the next few months.
• 25:52
  The prototype probably gone by then, if you have any.
• 25:55
  Sorry, I don't need your spiel. It's all right.
• 26:00
  It's OK. I understand meetings are full
• 26:03
  and everything like that. Oh.
• 26:06
  I mean if somebody cancelled I'd I'd I'd find a meeting for you.
• 26:09
  You're obviously not an asshole. Thank you, thank you.
• 26:12
  I pride myself on not being an asshole.
• 26:17
  How can you tell if someone's an asshole?
• 26:20
  They have a mouth. Oh that's funny, I was going to
• 26:23
  say that they're a corpo. Yeah, watching you say that
• 26:28
  around. I mean, you're cool, right?
• 26:32
  You seem cool. Yes, I'm cool.
• 26:34
  But you know, only, only uncool corporos say they're cool, so.
• 26:39
  Right. Yeah.
• 26:41
  Why did I become a corporo? I know system work is hard.
• 26:48
  It is while this is happening I've I've let Risky run down the
• 26:54
  back of my dress and hide under my dress and I'm going to get as
• 27:00
  close to Jane as possible without it being weird and let
• 27:05
  Risky crawl onto their heel and attach themselves.
• 27:10
  Roll persuasion to get close to them and that will affect how
• 27:16
  easily it will be for risky to get onto their body.
• 27:19
  Can do, can do, can do social persuasion. 17 Yes, you're able
• 27:28
  to get very close to them, and you stand right next to them in
• 27:32
  the vending machine. They're leaning against the
• 27:34
  vending machine, sipping their Gisner L with a straw they
• 27:37
  grabbed from their pocket. I will reach over them, I'll get
• 27:42
  close to them and I'll reach over them and I will punch in
• 27:44
  ages and rail as well. Right, so that's five eddies.
• 27:48
  That's a wonderful distraction, and I need you to roll something
• 27:53
  to release risky. You can be creative if you want,
• 27:56
  or you can roll stealth. I am.
• 28:01
  I'm going to roll personal grooming.
• 28:02
  Oh wait, what's my bonus to wardrobe and style?
• 28:05
  You have a +2 to wardrobe and style, but you also have another
• 28:07
  +2 because you are accessorizing with your super Chrome.
• 28:10
  So you have currently a + 4 to wardrobe.
• 28:13
  That is the same as my personal grooming.
• 28:15
  So I'm just going to personal grooming.
• 28:17
  Use my little hair clip to crawl onto Jane's heel. 18 Oh, that's
• 28:24
  not Oh, no, I did. All right, I did.
• 28:29
  All right. OK, I did.
• 28:30
  I rolled. I rolled.
• 28:31
  I rolled a six. It's not high enough.
• 28:34
  Scared me. They don't notice risky scoots
• 28:38
  across the back of the vending machine, comes behind them and
• 28:41
  then just attaches to their stiletto heel and then uses it's
• 28:45
  camo to try and match the color of the shoe.
• 28:47
  Doing a pretty good job. Unless someone who was actively
• 28:50
  pointing out the shoe, nobody will notice.
• 28:52
  Perfect, it was wonderful to meet you Jane.
• 28:55
  I crack open my jizzner. I hope you have a good rest of
• 29:01
  your night and that Danny doesn't ride you too hard.
• 29:05
  Yeah, well, I mean, I'll get assigned to another executive in
• 29:11
  a few months. You know how assistants are.
• 29:13
  No one ever stays with someone forever.
• 29:16
  Oh, my assistants stay. What?
• 29:20
  No, I've had my assistant Bendel for oh gosh, I don't even know
• 29:25
  now. I lost my last assistant.
• 29:29
  Right. I mean Night City, right?
• 29:32
  Where did you misplace them? No, he blew up.
• 29:37
  Oh shit, I'm so. Oh God, that's really
• 29:39
  insensitive. I'm so sorry.
• 29:41
  Oh wow, I I feel really guilty now.
• 29:44
  Did you did you want anything? I would have bought you your
• 29:46
  drink. Oh.
• 29:47
  No, no, no, no, no. OK.
• 29:51
  Well, thanks. This has been an incredibly
• 29:53
  positive interaction. It was nice to meet you of.
• 29:57
  Course. If if anyone cancels like let me
• 30:01
  know. You seem cool, I'm sure.
• 30:03
  I I also pull out one of my cards and I hand you in one of
• 30:05
  my cards. Oh, I own a Pepesky, OK.
• 30:10
  And they get out their agent and they start tapping in your
• 30:12
  information. I don't know what to do.
• 30:20
  I'm leaving now. Oh no.
• 30:22
  I know, do I? Do I kiss Jane?
• 30:23
  What do I do? The pressure.
• 30:27
  Kiss, kiss. Kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss.
• 30:30
  All right, so you've now, you've now done that, You've watched
• 30:32
  Jane like putting this number in and they look at you and this is
• 30:34
  kind of your opportunity to either continue the conversation
• 30:36
  or just leave. Jane.
• 30:39
  Yes, sorry, what? Do you really dislike Danny?
• 30:44
  I mean, it's kind of a pretentious prick, Chad.
• 30:47
  So yeah, tastes good. Oh, is it?
• 30:51
  It's OK. Well, how much?
• 30:57
  How much do you dislike him? I'm not asking you to kill him
• 30:59
  or anything, just to preface. Oh, I don't want to kill him.
• 31:01
  Yeah, I don't want him dead. It'd be really great if if if
• 31:06
  one of his projects was knocked down a peg, Like maybe if if his
• 31:09
  project was unsuccessful because they lost the prototype or
• 31:12
  something. That would make me really happy.
• 31:14
  Oh, losing a prototype. Oh yeah, it'd be awful, be
• 31:18
  really embarrassing. He's always going on about how
• 31:19
  great it. Was That would be so awful.
• 31:23
  Perhaps we can help each other. What?
• 31:27
  I mean, if Danny needs to be knocked down a peg and lose his
• 31:31
  prototype, I wouldn't disagree with receiving said prototype.
• 31:37
  Right. OK, well, it's not here.
• 31:43
  Is it? Oh, I know what?
• 31:45
  Do you mean you know? Why would he bring it to a
• 31:48
  meeting like this? Oh.
• 31:49
  Yeah, of course. Yeah.
• 31:50
  I thought you knew where it was. Why would I know where it is?
• 31:54
  I don't know. I don't know.
• 31:56
  Do you? I know where it is.
• 31:58
  You do. Yeah.
• 32:00
  I'll I take a moment to just look at Jane, watch, I'm going
• 32:06
  to not say anything and just continue to watch them
• 32:10
  intimidate. Not intimidate, but like, you
• 32:13
  know, the power of manipulation where if you don't speak, the
• 32:16
  other person continues to speak. That's what I'm going to do
• 32:20
  here. I'm waiting for Jane to speak
• 32:22
  more. Roll something to intimidate
• 32:25
  them. I don't want to intimidate Jane
• 32:28
  A. Little.
• 32:29
  Something, something something something.
• 32:31
  Roll something. I want I want to make more.
• 32:32
  Information out. Of them, yes.
• 32:34
  Oh perfect, I will just persuade. 19.
• 32:38
  What's if I look at my roles please 16171819.
• 32:43
  Oh wow, that's cool. Truly.
• 32:47
  A roll. Truly A roll.
• 32:49
  I am on A roll. Yes.
• 32:52
  He's one of he's got one of those fucking safes.
• 32:55
  What? You know what they're.
• 32:56
  Trying to save. He's got a corpo.
• 32:58
  He's got, he's got a corpo safe room with a safe in the fucking
• 33:02
  table. There's a turret in there.
• 33:05
  Oh geez Louise. He.
• 33:06
  Almost shot me last week when I went in there to bring him a
• 33:09
  beverage. Well, and then I had to, I had
• 33:13
  to chase a rat out of the vent. You can get in on the side.
• 33:17
  There's a vent in his very secure corporal.
• 33:20
  Room, it's really you have to be like really like athletic to be
• 33:24
  able to scooch your way through there.
• 33:26
  But I mean, we're getting an engineering to Weld it to a
• 33:30
  smaller hole next week. But I mean it's just that who's
• 33:33
  going to climb through a vent, right?
• 33:35
  True. True.
• 33:37
  Any other information you can give me about this room and
• 33:40
  maybe the prototype will disappear you.
• 33:44
  Didn't really crit pay me. Maybe I can do something
• 33:46
  together? Oh yeah.
• 33:52
  Find an executive you want to work for and I'll figure it out
• 33:56
  for you. I know exactly the executive
• 34:01
  that I would like to work for Danny.
• 34:07
  Danny hates her. Who is it?
• 34:11
  I got her an invite to the party.
• 34:14
  Is it Vivian it? Is, you know her, She's
• 34:17
  terrible. I love, I do.
• 34:18
  She is terrible. All right, done.
• 34:25
  Oh, if I could. Oh, he'd hate that so much.
• 34:30
  Oh, it it would break his little heart, I'm sure, Losing his
• 34:33
  prototype and his assistant, Yeah.
• 34:36
  It would. So do I have to do anything or
• 34:40
  is this not just going? To give me information, do I
• 34:46
  need any information? I mean vent, that's great.
• 34:49
  Turret something. Once he gets home, it's going to
• 34:53
  be a problem he can fight. So unless you've got like
• 34:59
  friends on the outside, like at the location, which we don't
• 35:02
  because you know, there's a, I can't actually get hold of the
• 35:06
  apartment right now. There's a, there's a blackout in
• 35:08
  the communication. I'm assuming it's just a Night
• 35:09
  City thing. Probably.
• 35:11
  You know how Night City is. Yeah, well if the vent doesn't
• 35:17
  work, are there like codes to the safe?
• 35:21
  There's a fingerprint scanner. It opens up the secret door on
• 35:24
  the wall to the north. Well, Danny over there is
• 35:27
  wearing gloves. Yeah, I know.
• 35:32
  Stickler for his fingerprints, huh?
• 35:33
  Stingy. He's just a germaphobe.
• 35:38
  That's funny, me too. Really.
• 35:40
  Yes, you see this bracelet? I press it and latex gloves.
• 35:47
  Oh wow, that's cool. Yeah, my, my tech made it for
• 35:53
  me. That's cool.
• 35:55
  So you're saying that you can basically just sort of inject
• 35:59
  rubber gloves from your hands? I can coat my hands in Latex,
• 36:04
  yes. So just I sorry I assistant
• 36:09
  brain here. That's great.
• 36:12
  Helpful, Very helpful. What happens when you take them
• 36:14
  off? The latex gloves.
• 36:16
  I guess on the inside there would be residue and perhaps
• 36:20
  enough. But surely, surely you should
• 36:22
  you you have to dispose of those pretty carefully, because if the
• 36:25
  if the latex just expands around your hands, surely the inside is
• 36:28
  like a copy of your fingerprint. Surely it is.
• 36:36
  Well, thank you for your concern.
• 36:40
  It's very helpful. Exactly my concern.
• 36:44
  Yes, I love keeping my hands clean.
• 36:46
  Have a great night, Miss Pespescu.
• 36:50
  Pescu. Pescu, it was great to meet you.
• 36:57
  I look forward to hearing from you.
• 37:00
  Yes, I'll schedule a meeting with Vivian.
• 37:08
  She's giddy, she's happy, She's a lot.
• 37:10
  You've rolled really well. You've really cheered her out.
• 37:12
  Good. Good, good.
• 37:13
  She's had a lovely gal pal moment in the bathroom.
• 37:16
  You can either continue talking to her or you can step outside
• 37:19
  to try and knock. Out the rest.
• 37:20
  Let her, let her go. All right, You're going to stay
• 37:22
  in the. Bathroom.
• 37:23
  Or are you going to leave the bathroom?
• 37:24
  What would you prefer? I'm going to leave the bathroom
• 37:31
  after a a nice pause from Jane leaving so it's not like I'm
• 37:37
  following her out. All right.
• 37:40
  Jane steps out of the bathroom and heads back into the room
• 37:42
  after finishing their jizz in her ale and throwing it in the
• 37:44
  trash can. I walk over to the collector and
• 37:48
  VV and I bring Bendel with me, obviously.
• 37:53
  What happened? How did it go?
• 37:55
  Amazing, actually. What did you do?
• 38:02
  There's a lot of information that should share privately.
• 38:07
  No offence, collector. Oh yes, no, it's fine.
• 38:10
  Do do you want me to schmooze some up somewhere else I can go?
• 38:14
  Yes, please. You got it.
• 38:16
  You. You give me a nod.
• 38:17
  Excuse me? You were there.
• 38:20
  I'd like more of those pups. They're.
• 38:23
  Delightful. All right.
• 38:24
  So there are a couple of things for the fingerprint.
• 38:30
  If we can get a hold of one of his gloves, turn it inside out,
• 38:35
  the residue there is enough for a fingerprint.
• 38:38
  OK. And then there is a way into the
• 38:45
  safe room, through a vent that is.
• 38:49
  Those vents. Well, it's still person sized.
• 38:53
  It won't be for very much longer till next week, but it is person
• 38:57
  sized. Oh man.
• 39:01
  OK. So we just need DNA and the
• 39:09
  codes. We need so we still need DNA.
• 39:13
  As a side note, you haven't told fresh pay anything, so if you
• 39:16
  want to do. That, yeah.
• 39:18
  I should probably do that. So we need we need to get the
• 39:24
  code still. Which I have risky on Jane.
• 39:28
  I probably could have just asked Jane.
• 39:31
  I probably could have just asked Jane.
• 39:34
  Shoot, but did you like make a deal?
• 39:38
  Oh, I did. I did.
• 39:39
  Not a deal. I traded information.
• 39:42
  Yeah. Jane hates working for Danny, so
• 39:44
  I'm going to fix that. I mean, he does seem like I have
• 39:46
  a prick. He is kind of a prick.
• 39:48
  Oh. No.
• 39:50
  All right. Well, I need to contact Fresh P,
• 39:54
  We need to contact Jeb and Remy, and then I think we need to get
• 40:00
  the hell out of here. OK.
• 40:03
  So we're not going to try to get the DNA.
• 40:06
  We're just. Going to try to.
• 40:06
  No, no, you're right. I totally forgot I'm just.
• 40:08
  Panicking OK Oh man, so I should stick around for when he's done
• 40:15
  with his meetings and then I meet him and I try to get his
• 40:19
  DNA? Oh God, you've got this.
• 40:23
  I believe in. Feel harder than every person
• 40:26
  we've ever fought, every combat we've ever been in.
• 40:29
  All right, I could do this. You can do this.
• 40:31
  You can do this. Next time on no latency.
• 40:49
  Well, I get out. I need you to do some hacking,
• 40:54
  some net running if you will. I look to Vendel.
• 40:57
  Do you see that up? Still have a feeling we're not
• 41:00
  alone? So keep a swivel on your head.
• 41:02
  All right, I'll keep a swivel on my head.
• 41:03
  I'm not normally this forward but I am outside with Danny Dark
• 41:08
  Side right now. I'm inspiring to everybody.
• 41:10
  Our Bard here. Pretty much a freaking swimming
• 41:13
  pool as a bathtub. I'll leave it to him to light.
• 41:17
  They are. They are very smart and very
• 41:18
  capable most of the time. I really wouldn't.
• 41:21
  I want you to head back so soon. I think it would be nice to just
• 41:25
  spend a little more time with you maybe.
• 41:28
  Such a hurry, What are you doing?
• 41:30
  I did it. I did it.
• 41:30
  I did it you. Had a bird shit on you twice?
• 41:33
  That means you should be extremely lucky.
• 41:35
  Remember Mr. TV's got some more fingies for you when you get
• 41:37
  back. VV's eye twitches.
• 41:40
  You have no grenades. The drone is in there.
• 41:42
  We can't fuck up the drone. Oh, that's where it's coming
• 41:45
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