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Last time on no latency. Who's not Vendel in any moment?
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All right, lock and load. That's a lot of weapons you've
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got there, Retro. Never.
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Enough. I load all my weapons.
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We'll be there in a few minutes. Iona is beaming already in a
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hazmat suit. I can't live in a hazmat suit.
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I just added some darts in the side.
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So someone's got to be holding on to the P bucket and protect
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that. Power here.
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Might as well take a look at this vending machine, someone.
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'S got to be in charge of the Geiger counter.
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I'll take hold of the Geiger counter.
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Take some of those. These two.
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Might. You know where the entrance.
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Is you take the lead ion up and. I figure we'll be down there for
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quite a while and. It seems like you have something
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that I need. OK, dispense are open.
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Pass, we can keep an eye out for your friend.
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Oh, I am. I'm going in. 00002.
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In fact, we've got our first son of a bitch.
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Oh, got it fine. Oh, that's not good.
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VV As you're staring down this corridor, your radiation
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detector in your hand clicks slightly.
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It's faint. Yeah, toward the green light,
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you said. Toward the green glow, you said.
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Yes, to the east this way. OK, whatever is down there, it
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is detecting a bitch. More radiation that way, so that
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is bad. Did you guys hear that?
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An intentional thud like 3 long pounds on a door.
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Am I safe to assume that's knocking?
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Yes, of a sort. Seems desperate.
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I mean, I got the P bucket, I if there's a radiation I should be
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pretty OK then, right? Gib locks and loads.
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Walk along in. OK, guess I will percept if
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there's nothing that just stands out.
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In this tiny alcove of a room, roll perception.
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There's weeping walls in here. It's dark.
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It's dirty. Well, yeah, with condensation
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and stuff. Just gross down here.
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I thought it was actual crying walls.
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No, no, it is gross with the with the faint light coming off
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the P bucket. It does glow green a little, but
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that's more the P bucket than anything else.
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You rolled an 18 though, so you see this little vent that Jeb
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couldn't see earlier. On the ways to get past the
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door, you see a crate and to your east is a unlocked door
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all. Right, so we got a locked door
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here, unlocked door here. I'm just going to go to that
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door and I'm going to give it the you know what, the best way
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to be able to tell if they're human or not?
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I'm going to give them the old what?
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It's the cost of a haircut. Wow, history has really ruined
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that knock, hasn't it? Is it something else?
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I give. I give them the Terminator.
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Well, yeah, but you need the you need the repair the reply one
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back, the two bits. Oh, OK, I opened the door.
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Obviously they're human. If they did that, it's obviously
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human because that's the two bits.
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That's part of the joke. You open the door.
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The room in front of you is filled with a dark green glow.
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It's like a static to this room. In the furthest bottom corner of
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the room is an old porta potty. To your N is a computer console
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displaying a very visible error, and to the South and the north
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are locked doors. But there in front of you to the
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east, is a large spill of green liquid.
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I can assume that's not Mountain View Apple.
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OK, so who who replied to my knock?
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What? What do you mean?
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Who replied to your knock? There's no one on the other side
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of the door. I did the whole, you know, and
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they replied back with the. Can I take a look through the
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door? Sure, it's open.
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Wait a minute, it's the door itself.
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It's a haunted door. I take a look at the door.
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It's a normal door, or so he says.
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It appears to be a normal village door.
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You find you find out in the like way back, somehow Jeb is
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connected to Zach Baggins. Oh, is this haunted?
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I hope that people understand who's who's Zach Baggins is.
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But there doesn't seem to be anyone in this immediate room.
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I don't see anything. I don't see anyone.
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You don't see anyone, you just see the things they're
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described. Keep a lookout Hey 9.
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Yes. I'm floppy, floppy, floppy.
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Yes, yes, you are quite the floppy 1 floppy floppy.
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Floppy, floppy, floppy. Floppy now you've ruined it.
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You, you ruined it. 9:00 We we were we were having a moment,
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and you ruined it. Floppy.
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What about if a wiggle like this?
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It made you smile earlier? Me.
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Come on. Floppy.
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Well, I'd be more happy if you could go and unlock this other
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door. I.
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I don't. Know it looks like I have hands
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then I don't it's it's floppy floppy.
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We're building what I can hack things. 9.
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You can't hack the electrical the lock for the door.
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I can hack it. Yeah, I've got, I've got a
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cable, but I don't have hands. That's not true.
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What do you mean? We know it's not.
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True Roll the tapes. You just, you just you just see
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Nine holding Remy. Up.
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By his neck. 9 looks at the video you're showing him and
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says. Wait wait wait, does it say
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redacted? Then he blinks a lot.
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It doesn't seem like 9 can process the information you're
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telling him about. There's something inside him.
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That's all right, he'll discover it.
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No, you know what? You know what actually now think
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about it. Let's not, let's not discover
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it. Let's just forget that that ever
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happened. Forget.
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What? Happened.
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This is all this has all been a really good joke and you know
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what you're the best. Like you got it super funny,
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right? There's no way that never ever
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remind him that he has that and just pray to God it never
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fucking comes out again. OK, OK, OK, go, go, go, go, go
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hack. Go do it boy, guys.
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No. No, no, my my eye gets static
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over here. Thatch.
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Cool. Oh, oh, oh.
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Sorry, I wasn't meaning that door.
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I wasn't meaning that door. I was meaning that this door
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that. 1. Yeah, Oh.
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It's open, 9 smashes through it disappears into the into the
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Todd. That's on me.
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I saw an electronic key lock on it.
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I thought, you know what? Whoever placed that electronic
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key lock there there is fired. Should be fired.
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That doesn't go to that door. That key lock should be on the
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same wall as the other key lock. That guy should be fucking
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fired. I know you crawling into a vent.
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Oh, no, I thought it was a door. I thought you said it was.
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No, that is a vent. No, I.
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Am definitely not in this vent. You watch 9 disappear into a
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vent. Thank you, I thought you said he
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smashed through a door. No he the the vent hatch was
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unlocked and just Jeb didn't see it earlier and 9 just blasted
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through. It does 9 get radiation
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poisoning and. 9 is heavily resistant to radiation, but he
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is also wearing a hazmat suit. For the magnet chrometer that he
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has. Technically, he's fine.
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He's radiation. Proof.
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He is. He is basically radiation proof,
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although you have now seen that when he's near radiation his eye
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glitches a little bit, but there's no damage.
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It's just superficial. I just, you know what, I, I, I
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don't know if this is what you're doing DM, but I'm just
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going to go ahead and say it right now.
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Just as a reminder that 9 is not the only robot that we've met at
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the at the silos and just want to say we all remember what
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happened last time that the other ball robot got glitchy.
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Was it 7? I think 7 Was 7 the one that
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that went bad? Yeah, the one that wanted to
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become human by cutting other humans up and making a human
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suit to wear. Like what Phoebe did with me?
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I did with you, yes. Well, thing is though, it's a
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little bit different because we didn't harvest people to make
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you, we just took people that had already passed away.
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Yes, it was very Frankenstein. Right, not Hannibal Lecter like
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7. No.
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Context matters, people. It's context, so 9's now
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disappeared into a vent. 09 Come Back 9.
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Come back 9. Please I.
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Feel hungry? Leave him alone, OK, OK.
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Do not approach or touch. Now I have an.
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I just have an. Image of nine comes out of it
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933. 9 and the and the Wally robot just like robot barking at
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each other like 2 dogs on the side of a fence.
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Was that the sound you heard earlier, Remy?
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To be honest, I can't tell because I'm a little sober so
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I'm a little disoriented. 2 bits. 2 bits.
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All right, that's a little spooky.
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OK, well, let's. Let's are we locking and loaded
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again? I mean, I already locked and
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loaded, but I can unlock to reload.
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Don't unlock, because when you unlock, that's when it's going
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to happen. That's true.
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Yeah, how about you open this door and maybe are are we still
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good radiation wise? I will extend the Geiger
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counter. In the room that Retro has now
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stepped into, he is holding the P bucket.
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As you get closer, the radiation detector starts to give off a
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louder signal, and as you get into the room you fully surmise
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that the green liquid to the east is radioactive.
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Oh yeah, no retro fully radioactive there.
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Great. Well, that's radical.
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If you want to not be affected by radiation, get inside to the
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green circle. Jeb, it's it's this door.
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Are you, Are you ready to kick it down?
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And. Oh boy.
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This is where the knocking is coming from.
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Yeah. I'm just going.
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To get in there, just check real quick just to see if it's open,
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unlocked I mean. I'm I'm here.
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Mike, don't be out of the circle.
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We all have to be inside the circle.
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This is this is going to be a gamified thing.
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I think we have to stay. That's why we built the bucket.
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Jeb, open the door. OK, OK, I'm opening it.
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Jeb, The door is not locked. It is heavily jammed.
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Oh shit. Maybe if you knock, they'll just
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open it and let us in. Knock, knock.
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It seems to be stuck. What?
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What? What?
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The door stuck and the door stuck and you unstuck it.
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Please can you unstuck it? It's not stuck on mass side.
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Kick it in. Kick it in, Jim.
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OK, donkey kick. Back up from the door.
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Donkey kick, Hold on. We wait.
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For the roll rolling 17, very good.
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Yes, the door bursts open and thanks to Iona saying step back
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from the door, inside you see pretty short gym.
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They're about 5-1 and they're wearing goggles.
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They've got a backpack on and they're just standing in this
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little utility room in the sewers.
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Hi. Hey, are you like radioactive?
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Are you OK? Because our our our little.
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I mean, probably I live in Night City, but no, I was I'm I'm
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stuck. Or I was.
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Now that you've opened the door. OK.
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Well, Jeb, nice to meet you. Hi.
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I'm Dorai. Dorai, great to meet you.
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What, what, what kind of is this like a little like bachelor pad
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down here or what? No, I'm a scavenger.
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Oh, are your friends guarding the Hatch?
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Yeah. Oh how shit did they let you in?
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They did, but that's because I said we were coming to find you.
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Yeah, well. I still haven't found enough
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salvage so. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
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wait. Your friends left you stuck in
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this room. No, I, I I got stuck in here on
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my own. But you called them friends.
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I'm the only one who's healthy enough to scavenge, and we need
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the money. There's something not making
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sense here because when we entered, the two that we talked
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to didn't mention any anything about.
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You didn't even mention anything about needing somebody to go and
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save their friend who's trapped in A room.
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Well they they did mention that their friend was still down here
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and they were worried about them and I said that if we find them
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we will send them back, which is what we're doing.
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Well I didn't hear all of that so shit.
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My apologies. Sorry to be suspicious.
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Great. Well, doors unlocked, feel free
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to take whatever you want on the way out and we'll see you
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around. Oh, there's not enough stuff in
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here. I'm going to try and
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breakthrough the the door to the north.
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I couldn't get it unlocked. Great idea.
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We'll be right behind you. She goes up to the door.
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She bangs on it. I got it.
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I'm actually going to go in the room that they left, OK?
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VV gets choice paralysis. Phoebe gets choice paralysis.
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I'll go with them. OK, Retro, you're exploring this
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room to the South while this scavenger works on the door.
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Jeb, you noticed that the door does have a keypad?
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It seems to be broken in some way.
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And in the South Room, Retro roll perception.
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Got it. 20 You see that this room is filled with a few
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things. Oh, a few things.
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Yeah, there are some old lockers on the wall.
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There's like a little area to your S where there's a bed roll
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and a piece of sewage machinery produced by the RHC company, and
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next to it is a bed roll. If you want to examine these
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things, they require another roll.
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All right, I would like to know about.
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Well, you know what, let's let's knock the other things out of
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the way first. Let's I see the data tablet,
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it's locked. I'm going to pick that up.
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Save that for later. Great.
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I'm going to check the lockers. Sure, roll D6.
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I'm checking both so I'm assuming D6 for two.
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Yep. OK so you get 4 items total.
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You find a lock pick, a combat knife, a clip of regular
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bullets, and a box of staples. All right, now I'll roll
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perception about the machinery. The machinery is made by the RHC
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company. You bait the DV 12 so it's
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produced by a company called the Red Herring Company.
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The. Red Herring Company?
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Oh yeah, one of the up and Comer ones that no one seems to ever
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remember, but somehow it seems to sneak their way through.
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Yeah, I feel like it's that's going to be really important.
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Do you examine the bed roll? I mean I am kind of feeling a
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little grossed out because it's like a bed.
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Does it look like there's a lump in or not?
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Or does it just look like a regular bed roll?
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Roll through all the perception check 15 it has not been used
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all. Right.
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Well, I'm going to go ahead and roll that up and I'll take that
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too. Great, you grab a bed roll.
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Meanwhile, Jeb, you working on this door?
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Well, I'm waiting for them to open it.
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All right, 11 They tinker with the door and get it unlocked.
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Although you watch them get hurt, they take.
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Bit of metal, I got it open. And while looking at you, they
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open it, and from behind you, the bot in the tiny room jumps
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to attack you all. Jeb.
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Bang, bang. I'm working on it.
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Hold on. Oh, look at that. 24 and 25 with
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crit damage. Nice.
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You know, no joke, you actually blow it to pieces.
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That's more HP than it has, even with its armor, and it flies
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into the corner, smashes on a rock, and explodes.
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Your victory is only overshadowed by the loss of
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knowledge of what this robot can do.
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Oh, what's it doing? It's dead.
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We won't know now because yes, smashed it to bits, Jeb, that's
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OK. I'm sure there'll be other
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robots. Yeah, yeah.
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Oh. Thanks, Jim.
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And Dry walks forward to a stairway that leads into a cave.
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You coming? She disappears.
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Yeah, I guess. All right, somebody grab the
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bucket. Oh I I got the bucket.
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You walk over some Japanese on the ground as well as a sign
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that says EXIT. Oops, what did?
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I just. Say OK.
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I believe that just says Arasaka Company.
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Arasaka Arasaka Song Arasaka Incorporated.
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Is it the same? It's the same.
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Yeah, it just says Arasaka Company.
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You make your way through this dark piece of the sewers,
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through this dusty old area. Not seen much action.
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I'll be honest, if we weren't limited on the amount of space
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that we have, I would probably try to take that robot with us
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because that feels like be a pretty cool guard dog.
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Perhaps. Call them scraps.
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Scraps. That's very cute.
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Just the guy, this little guy, he's.
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Just a little guy. Little guy.
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Feed him some lint curls up when we watch Netflix Marks and
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anything that walks by the door. As you step up the stairway, you
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see a little room. There's some light breaking
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through the debris above you. You know below, like a layer of
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detritus and trash, broken pieces of building material and
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some of the light cascades on the ground.
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You can see wires and girders above you, glimpses of a red
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sky. The radiation detector stops
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clicking as much. This room is relatively safe, if
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you can call it a room. There's some rocks in here, some
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crates and a door to the north. Whoa, I.
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I think I found something, Jeb. I think I found something too.
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Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
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Breaching clear. Go for it buddy.
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Roll perception. Oh, you roll.
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I did 25. Yes.
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OK, so in this room you discover that there is a little vent
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that's locked up to the South. Just to the right of the stairs
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there are these two big boulders and a door to the north, which
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looks unlocked in the north. In the north, it's still up
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here. I mean, if you don't think I'm
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going to unlock that fence so Jeff can go ahead and get his
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crawl on, you're wrong. Well, I'm crawling, baby.
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I'm crawling. It's locked.
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It is. I can fix that.
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You can pick lock. You can bust it open, pick lock
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22, you unlock it silently. I'm going in.
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It's. Just one of those little pole
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tabs that just sandwich fizz between the two.
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As you move your way down the corridor, as you turn the corner
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towards the east, instinctively that feels like the right
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direction to go, but also the ground in front of you is
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glowing and cracked and green. Do you think I could maybe take
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that P bucket? We should all stick together.
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Agreed. That's we should.
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Stick together. Oh, this is heavier than I
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thought it was going to be. I'm coming.
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Let's go. Jim.
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What? Did you see?
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Well, there's a big there's the the ground is growing and or
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sorry, glowing and green. Yeah, that's probably not good.
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Yeah. I'm going to go with no I.
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Could make it through. True could take a peek.
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Jeb. Jeb didn't respond.
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I, I mean, I, I imagined you were going to do it.
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Go right ahead. Nine things.
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With permission, I'll do. That's the point.
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I can't just to be. I'm not a hero, I'm a tool.
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Well, you got permission from somebody.
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I just thought who? You know what?
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Go for it, bud. If you're waiting for me to give
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you permission, then fucking get in there.
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Yeah, I could go glass. See nine moves out.
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You can hear it. You can hear 9 calling you over
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the radio. And then Vivi, you're standing
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next to the door and you full on here, 9 to your north.
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Oh, does it go around? I guess, I guess it does.
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Oh, OK. So you just did like 1/2 circle?
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There's a loop. I heard a scattering.
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Where? Where was it coming from?
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What? What was it?
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From the north, it was like the scattering of that little robot,
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very similar. It's good that I saw it because
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now I can identify that sound. Can you pacify it?
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I don't have any arms. I can bunk it.
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I was going to say you could bunk it.
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I can bunk. It if you if I see a robot, am I
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allowed to? Bunk it.
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Absolutely. Bunk it.
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My permission to because yeah, you can bunk the shit out of any
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robot. You will.
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Yay. Yay, I love bunking.
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I'll wait. Weird that he only needs my
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permission and yours Iona doesn't really clear.
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So I need Iona's permission so I can bionic.
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As well. Oh, and then you just like me.
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Well, you are technically biotechnical property as well,
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so. Oh shit, but also.
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But also check when when I got to ride your bike, you were a
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little mean, but you still let me and that was nice.
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I mean, don't say it like that. I'm going to start feeling bad
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for you. Ada Ada Ada has many friends and
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you let me go on an adventure with you and it was very fun.
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Yeah, OK, OK, let's not get all like, you know, fucking like sob
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story, whatever, like all, all mushy gushy get, get, get, get
28:25
yourself in there and start bonking.
28:28
You got I'm going to go bonking. 9 disappears to try bonking
28:31
things. All right, should we head this
28:34
way? Yes, but let's bring the bucket.
28:41
The bucket. I guess I don't have to stay in
28:44
the centre since I'm holding the P bucket.
28:49
So you come to a corridor. At the end, there's a path to
28:54
the left that at first glance dead ends, and there's a path to
28:58
the right that glows a little green.
29:01
Does it actually dead end? I don't know.
29:04
You'd have to look around. I'm.
29:06
Taking a look. Around 17, yes, you find a
29:13
little inlet in the wall to your West and there's a little door,
29:20
little grate in the wall that leads to like a crawl space.
29:26
Oh, I know someone just for this Jeb.
29:31
Yep. Jeb, there's there's a small
29:35
crawl space here at the at the quote UN quote dead end that I
29:41
think you might want to take a look at.
29:44
I am too big for that space. Yeah, let me take a look.
29:48
I'll squeeze past you here, right?
29:53
That's good. Oh, you might need to take off
29:55
your hat, do you? Jeb, this is a particularly
29:59
small little space. Oh, that's going to be tight if
30:05
I have to take my hat off to fit in there.
30:07
If I got to fit my, my, my hat to get in there, I'm not doing
30:10
it. Risky.
30:11
You're up. Oh.
30:13
Yep. Can I try?
30:16
You're too. Head won't.
30:16
Fit in there. You and Domino do not fit.
30:19
You are too large. It's a shoulder thing.
30:25
It's nothing to do with your weight.
30:27
Domino has four arms, so it doesn't fit.
30:29
Could 9 fit there? Yes, just.
30:34
Nines are bonking right now, so let's just send brisky, yeah?
30:37
What's? My name?
30:38
Yeah. Oh, no, no, I spoke.
30:42
Too soon 09 we have another mission for you. 9 is mission.
30:49
Hang on, Jack, should I go in there?
30:51
Yes. OK me.
30:54
Nine goes inside the Hatch I found.
31:00
A Fisher room and a friend, right?
31:06
In here, I'm going to bunk it. I love him.
31:08
I'm going to. Bunk it.
31:09
Oh, no, no. It that's not right.
31:12
No, no, no, look, it didn't roll correctly.
31:15
It bonked me. Let's try.
31:17
Let's try an actual linked skill this time.
31:20
Let's try that. There we go, that's better.
31:23
Was a 17. 17 Debunk. 17 Debunk You hear the robot's gut?
31:31
Dodge. Very dodge.
31:32
Oh, here we go. Fuck you, you.
31:46
Can't be home. You're on me here, dude.
31:47
I was. I'm impressed he he has the
31:50
ability to have ego. And then you hear like a
31:57
gunshot, Phoebe Row Perception, who was there?
32:04
Who gave the robot a gun? 19 You hear a dart go off, and
32:11
it crackles. Holy shit.
32:20
You hear 9 whimper and you hear a clang, the noise of his body
32:25
hitting the ground, the sound of crackling electricity, and then
32:31
silence. Is Vandel small enough to fit
32:34
through the crawl space? Yes, Vandel is small enough to
32:40
fit through the crawl space. If they roll contortionist, we
32:44
have to draw a contortionist to. Get through space, fucking skill
32:47
and contortionist. Wait, does vendell have a chip
32:53
socket Chip. Yes, yes.
32:58
I have a contortionist chip. Waitro, hurry up, throw it here
33:03
well. Here here.
33:07
What is it A + 2? Plus.
33:09
Four and have anything in there I keep all of my chips on me
33:13
inside of a little. Was it those old that like retro
33:16
video game system that people used to play on the Switch?
33:20
There's just like, you know, a little thing to hold chips in.
33:23
I'm going to use my inspiration for Vendel.
33:26
Sounds good. Vendel Cat.
33:30
Vendel tries one way. No, I'll help myself if I do
33:32
that. As long as the head can fit in.
33:36
+4. 12, yeah. That beats the DV of scooching
33:42
in here. They're not trying to avoid
33:44
bullets, so it's not a rushed thing.
33:45
They're trying to get in there quickly.
33:47
Vandel gets into this tiny room. Oh.
33:51
I can't oh through there. I know I can't.
33:54
Bring my token through. I put it there, it should have
33:57
loaded. Can you see that now?
33:59
It is, yes. Go back, stay there.
34:02
Vandel jumps into a room and and Vandel switches on the vision
34:07
that links to Iona. So now Iona can see through
34:09
Vandel's eyes. It's not a great signal, but you
34:13
see 9 on the ground facing the ground with its eye on the
34:17
ground glitching slightly as it moves erratically and there's a
34:21
robot just going towards it with its jaw open trying to eat 9.
34:27
Nope. Nope.
34:28
Big. Big sword attack Vendoe big.
34:31
Sword attack you piece of. Shit, we're all, we're all we're
34:34
all now. Like playing a video game with
34:38
Vendel as our character. Yes, yes you are.
34:42
Rolling a 20 does 12 damage to this robot, which is almost
34:47
enough. Well, good thing Vendel can hit
34:50
twice with that sword. Oh.
34:52
Crit stabs it in the middle, right through this weird eye.
34:56
It's red and has this little black floating hologram inside
35:01
of it. And as Vendel's sword goes
35:03
through it, the red light dies and it falls to the ground.
35:06
Nine stops shaking. Is 9 OK?
35:11
9 Are you OK? Maya, Ben.
35:16
Maya. I kicked us out the guts.
35:18
We're different. The.
35:25
Bendell pulls out this dart. This like long dark, a little
35:31
microchip on it and it looks like it's a mixture of an EMP
35:34
device and a smart arrow. I'll bring this back to to retro
35:43
to examine. Come on 9.
35:47
And then they'll picks up 9 under their arm.
35:50
Do you see? Before you go, do you see
35:52
anything? There's some filing cabinets in
35:55
here. There's an exit to the north and
36:01
there's a a long metal plate on the ground with an Arasaka logo
36:04
on it. It's.
36:06
Pretty big. So turn it on.
36:10
It's a metal plate just laying there.
36:14
With an Arasaka logo on it, yeah.
36:17
Does it say anything? No.
36:20
Free floating like metal plate. Should I come back?
36:28
Yes, don't. We shouldn't split the party
36:32
yet. Don't.
36:35
I like the way you said that, Domino.
36:36
What was that? That.
36:39
Was domino. That's just Domino.
36:41
He sometimes sounds ominous. OK, that's why we call him Amino
36:46
sometimes. We do call him that.
36:49
Yeah, that's true. 9 has returned, unfortunately in
36:57
Vendel's awkward arms been pushed out of this vent
37:00
awkwardly, pretty scratched up and has taken. 9.
37:06
And unfortunately 9 can't fly currently.
37:09
Sorry little fella, just. Rolling 9 needs a minor repair
37:14
so it doesn't take a lot. Does need to be repaired?
37:18
Remy, maybe retro can fix you up fella.
37:22
I'm not. A football British.
37:30
British, not a soccer ball. I wouldn't like that.
37:32
Hurt that arrow. Vendel hands you the arrow
37:36
Retro. Retro.
37:40
Sorry, I was looking, I was looking at the map.
37:42
I was trying to determine where we are from that map that we
37:49
got, you know, a little while ago.
37:53
You're all 33. Very good.
37:56
The arrow is a mixture of a smart arrow and an EMP grenade,
38:03
and when it hits, a piece of cyberware has a very good chance
38:07
of disabling it. Also, because it is a smart
38:10
arrow, if the fail to hit is less than four, get to roll
38:17
again to see if you hit. That actually gives me an idea.
38:23
Bing. What's your idea, Retro?
38:28
Also you should probably fix 9. It's obnoxious when he rolls
38:30
around. Fine, I'll explain it to you
38:34
while I'm fixing nine. Wait, come here.
38:37
I'm looking for bombing. Got bombed.
38:40
I got fucked. I'll crack down open to go ahead
38:46
and start fixing at the same time.
38:51
So this thing it, it, it's a smart dart.
38:54
It's smart because it uses the camera to pinpoint the target.
38:59
If it uses a camera, if we can create enough of a bright enough
39:04
flash, like as a flash bang of like blinding something should
39:08
throw it off target. Kind of like the same way if you
39:10
ever seen those like old school smart missiles when they used to
39:14
have cameras in the front before laser designating and they just
39:17
like go wherever the camera was pointed.
39:21
I'm, I'm going to be honest, retro, I was half listening to
39:27
that. You know what the It's not.
39:30
No, it's not. A flash will help the targeting
39:35
lose its target. I think is what Retro is
39:37
getting, some kind of big flashlight.
39:39
Yeah, if you flash the smart ammo it'll it might throw it off
39:44
if your. Flash is.
39:46
Ready. I mean, I got, I got a freaking
39:49
bandolier full of grenades, so we could use one of them too if
39:52
you'd like. That's a good point.
39:55
The the rules for that I've put in chat so you understand them.
40:00
It is particularly geared to hurt cybernetic and synthetic
40:04
life. And it's like a one time use
40:06
too, right? You can't just like if.
40:09
Once it's shot, it's spent. Right.
40:11
I was going to be like, so like, he couldn't just like shoot Jeb
40:14
in the arm and I could, like, take it out and stab another
40:17
robot with it. No, it's just a dart after that
40:20
because it gets discharged. Reusable as Dart in theory, but.
40:26
Man, I'm still saving it. True, it costs you 10 scrap to
40:32
fix 9. All right.
40:35
He put his engine back together, reboot it, and he starts to
40:38
float. You're lucky that I had that
40:42
extra tiny motor left from that electric toothbrush.
40:50
Feel a little better, but I'm not a full house.
40:52
I should be careful. Yeah, I guess we shouldn't just
40:56
send you off into vents. She's cute.
40:59
She's cute, especially since you brought me here as a net runner.
41:01
I'm for hacking, not for hurting burning.
41:03
Yeah. I mean, we needed to.
41:10
Die. Yeah.
41:12
Maybe next time. You know what they say, go
41:16
looking for Balkan. Sometimes Balk finds you.
41:20
So we probably should have led with that when you kind of went
41:23
all gung ho earlier. Sorry about that.
41:27
I think we all learned a valuable lesson today to the
41:30
sitcom music. Hey, listen, you shouldn't go
41:34
off wandering by yourself in places that you've never been
41:37
before. There are potential traps that
41:39
could heart or harm you, and you should, as the viewer and the
41:42
listeners out there, learn to take care of yourself and your
41:45
friends. So please don't split the party.
41:49
Use the buddy system party. Well, you should.
41:54
What the fuck was that? Oh, was that a?
41:58
Was that APSA? Wow, a valuable lesson learned.
42:03
Huh. So I don't need a court ordered
42:06
yesterday. Want us to go in pairs from now
42:08
on? That's that.
42:11
You've just made a rule, Retro. If we do split up, we've got to
42:13
be in at least pairs, yeah. I mean the muddy system.
42:17
If we have to split up. If we have to split up.
42:22
Doc, you're with me. OK, I guess we're we're we're
42:27
doing it like a dodgeball. Everybody pick your.
42:30
I'm first captain and I choose VV.
42:34
That's a great choice. Good job.
42:36
I'm just going to lean over to Iona.
42:38
I mean, honestly, who do you think's really going to need VV
42:40
more? He's going to probably get shot
42:42
up quite a bit since. I I get.
42:45
I get to be with with I am Vendel.
42:47
I get to be with Iona. Yep.
42:53
We're looking around. Domino's.
42:56
Options. I suppose.
42:58
I mean, yeah, Domino. No, I.
43:04
You fixed me. You do like me.
43:07
Hi Retro. We don't have screams.
43:10
Screams. There's a way to make an empathy
43:12
role that I don't kick him. Resist torture.
43:17
Drugs. I mean, no, not not really.
43:21
But the urge really does go through me.
43:24
I I reward you with absolutely nothing for resisting the urge
43:28
to hit 9. The rest of this area looms to
43:35
your east. All right, y'all, so I was
43:38
looking at the map right. So we are literally in the
43:44
debris corridor at the start. That little tunnel is like kind
43:51
of there but doesn't go anywhere.
43:52
But it does say there's another like walkway entrance at least
43:57
another room. Oh, maybe that's supposed to be.
43:59
Oh, OK, I think I see. Is the room we can get to that 9
44:03
was just saying is just a little bit to our east should be a
44:10
door. So should we head to East then?
44:18
The door will be N for anything with your buddy.
44:21
Come on, buddies. Yes, buddy system.
44:25
Right. You Crest into this area,
44:27
Phoebe, and as you step forward, you notice your radiation
44:32
detector click. As you look to the north of this
44:36
area on the ground, you can see the ground is cracked and green
44:39
and glowy. Oh, it's cracked in green.
44:42
Do not step in those cracks you'll.
44:45
Break your mother's back. Not again.
44:50
Does that mean I break? Never mind.
44:54
Oh, Domino, stop it. I just.
45:01
I was instructed not to say that anymore.
45:05
I just processed that because he called mother.
45:11
Break your mummy's back. Oh, no, no.
45:16
That looks like the. Bucket back.
45:19
The bucket's field is visible a little bit in this space.
45:23
You can see it push against the inherent radiation that's given
45:27
off in the air. You're all still inside this
45:29
bubble, but it's just big enough for you all to fit in.
45:35
It doesn't seem to do much for the ground, however, the
45:39
concentration is a little too much.
45:42
Does anyone want to test this? With what?
45:48
Oh no. Well.
45:51
Take off a glove and touch it. Do it maybe?
45:54
We should. Maybe we should use the Geiger
45:56
counter on it, see how bad it is.
45:58
Also, I'm going to hand the P bucket off to Iona on.
46:02
It I will carry the bucket. I'll be honest if there's if if
46:07
there is a split up that ends up happening, probably want to keep
46:11
it with more humans then. Oh my God, I just realized it.
46:16
Just realized what? All the technological beings are
46:19
all segregated into one group. Yeah, that was on.
46:26
Purpose. We just thought that you guys.
46:29
Lacked each other Metro. We're useful.
46:32
Look. I'm flocking.
46:34
And while Nine's doing floppy, he descends a little bit and his
46:39
floppy feet touch the ground that's green.
46:44
You hear just a little sizzle, just a touch.
46:51
It's not a lot, but 9 standing there, sort of floating, I
46:55
suppose, with their floppy feet touching the ground.
46:59
You see just a little bit of smoke rice from it, caustic.
47:06
It's not burning through it very quickly, but it is burning
47:09
through it. Oh shit, what's?
47:13
That noise, I can't smell things.
47:14
I'm a robot. I'm a robot.
47:17
I'm a robot. Up up 9 What?
47:19
Oh dear. And it floats up again.
47:23
It's AI mean it obviously is oxidizing caustic substance.
47:30
Don't know whether or not it's an acid or a base, but neither
47:34
way it's going to either be in the high number or the low
47:36
number on the chart. It is quite radioactive
47:39
according to the radiation detector.
47:41
That's. Holy holy shit it's radioactive
47:44
and disgusting. That's.
47:48
What kind of fucking material does that?
47:51
No idea. Hey guys, in case you didn't
47:58
know, don't touch it. Yep, good to know.
48:09
Into the depths. Into the depths.
48:12
Following your lead, buddy. Let's go.
48:15
You're carrying this bucket. Oh, what's this up here?
48:19
This is this that door? This is another crossbow.
48:23
You notice a little crack in the wall.
48:25
I'll let you have it. Little pathway, about as big as
48:29
the other one you saw, so not really big enough for a human.
48:31
You'd still need to find another way.
48:33
Nah, unless anybody we can send risky through.
48:43
This is true. All right, I I unclip Risky.
48:48
Go ahead, little buddy. Risky makes their way into this
48:53
little area and to set back area, a tiny, tiny room, like 15
49:01
by 10 feet, very small. And in that room it's a large
49:04
metal plate in Arasaka, simple on it, about 10 feet long.
49:08
Gosh. GM these aren't attached to the
49:14
ground at all. Nope.
49:16
They're just random plates from when the area was being
49:21
evacuated, presumably. Did they fall from the ceiling?
49:27
They seem quite discarded, and they also seem fairly untouched
49:30
for a long period of time. They look heavy, thick.
49:35
And there's just an Arisaka symbol on it.
49:37
Yep, it's just a long metal plate.
49:40
Probably used to stand vertical as like a wool.
49:45
Ah, nothing of import. And to the South, there's a much
49:50
larger opening, big enough for a human.
49:54
I'm still trying to figure out what all the radioactive
49:59
material is like. What did air like?
50:02
What was Airasaka using in here that would need radiation?
50:08
I think it's partly Fallout, maybe something else.
50:13
Well, follow up from what? Like what, what were they using,
50:15
you know, radioactive materials for?
50:19
I mean, definitely wasn't making any smoke detectors.
50:25
I actually want to roll perception.
50:26
Look around. Sure, I would love to know what
50:30
all the radioactive materials for.
50:34
Perception. 19 VV. Nice.
50:39
You create perception, Phoebe. What you notice, I can see
50:43
everything. You're the only one who notices
50:46
this. Is that when you look closely at
50:48
the grounds? That's radioactive.
50:53
Although they look craggy at first, they're actually lots and
50:58
lots of cubes. Wait.
51:03
What? Oh, they're like this isn't,
51:06
this isn't like cracks, like it was something that was a hole
51:09
and then broke into pieces. These are like little cubes.
51:13
They're stacked deep, like there's these holes that they've
51:16
been put in really carefully and they've created a ground.
51:19
This is so bizarre. It's like they're like little
51:23
Legos, you know? I mean, somebody purposely went
51:28
and built built this little radioactive honey trap by hand.
51:37
Or something retro. Or used.
51:40
Yeah, could have used the device or I don't know.
51:44
You check your radiation detector VV and with your crit
51:48
you work out that this stuff is spent radioactive material.
51:52
It has been used. Oh so so like the radioactivity?
52:02
It's. Hard.
52:02
It's. Yeah, it's essentially waste
52:06
from something. Oh, so whatever was in this,
52:09
it's been expended already? Yeah, which means that whatever
52:13
it is, is like what, 10100 times more radioactive than what this
52:22
is. Something's been processing.
52:25
Perhaps the ship? And it processes it into little
52:28
cubes. This is.
52:32
Are we just gonna end up? This is like Chernobyl.
52:37
Yeah, similar, Phoebe, as you sort of look around a bit more,
52:42
as you take a step more into this sort of old courtyard area,
52:47
the spaces above you are a tiny bit wider, but not big enough to
52:50
climb through. But there to your E, you see a
52:54
long, long corridor, cracked pieces of debris on either side,
53:03
but a path or the same to the east.
53:05
In the long distance you can see a building, but between you and
53:09
that building, all you can see on the ground is glowing green.
53:19
Well, it looks like this is a If only there was a way that we
53:23
could get from one place to the other without touching the
53:27
ground. Oh no, are we going to have to?
53:30
We're going to have to use your your hoverboard.
53:33
I know I couldn't think of anything else.
53:35
No, Jeb. Jeb.
53:37
What? I tap him on the back.
53:40
Hey, careful my jet back my. Jet pack
53:56
next time on no latency. This seems like the perfect
54:01
opportunity for me to test this thing out.
54:03
Can't think of a better plan. PBH I can't honestly think of
54:06
one either. Well, I could try to help.
54:08
Him, I'm going to need some help.
54:09
I have my hoverboard. Just Beeliner for that little
54:12
building. That's where I am.
54:14
He's way out there all right. I think I've heard two gunshots
54:17
so far. Jeb needs help, so I'm going to
54:20
keep going You. Got this VV.
54:21
Come on in. The Caustic's fine.
54:23
You're going to have to surf VV. Hang 10 bro.
54:26
Oh no, the caustic. The bat home run I want to try
54:28
to knock it into the wall. VV are you OK?
54:31
I'm holding on. I I took care of this robot that
54:33
was shooting at Jeb. It's gone.
54:36
Well, your suit's all right, right?
54:38
It's barely hanging on, just like my hoverboard.
54:41
Oh shit. Maybe you can always give the
54:43
board a little a little funds. OK.
54:46
So what? What?
54:47
Just hold on tight. Oh.
54:49
My God, I. Mean that was pretty cool.
54:52
Some real like Rocketeer vibes there.
54:55
No, it it was a very amazing rescue mission, but now the
54:59
issue is how do the rest of us get across?
55:22
Might I say nice work on the map.
55:25
I'll be honest, the the lighting that you have preset that looks
55:29
coming from above for the shadows.
55:31
Super cool. Also, that is not roll 20, that
55:35
is hand drawn because that's easier than your.
55:37
Computers. I also want to say.
55:40
Incredible. Thank you for having a button on
55:44
every map for the location file. We can click on that if we ever
55:48
need to double check. It that is the whole point of
55:50
that object. It is not real.
55:51
Obviously. If you need access to, I can
55:53
always send it to you. There's some sort of location
55:54
file here. No, I know.
55:56
I just want to make sure I give you accolades online so more
55:59
people can hear. That's nice of you also, just so
56:05
we're on the same There's lots of secrets, there's lots of
56:09
paths, there's loads of shit, so roll perception.
56:13
Look around because I will let you do fun shit in here.
56:16
This map is huge, it's like 4000 pixels square, so there's a lot
56:21
to see. Holy.
56:22
Crap. Oh, I don't know what you did.
56:28
The circle didn't come with the P bucket.
56:29
There we go. The circle didn't come with the
56:31
P bucket, everybody. I'm actually going to go in the
56:33
room that they left. OK, hold on, let me fix the P
56:38
bucket. Thank you listener once again
56:47
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56:49
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offs, bonus episodes, behind the scenes content, map packs, and
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so much more with weekly content to say thank you to our
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supporters and even spice up your own Cyberpunk RED games at
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home. No matter what your level of
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support. Thank you so much again for
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listening. We literally couldn't do this
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without you. Thanks Jim, it means a lot.
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Have a good week and we'll see you next time in Night City.