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S2E126 - Library Late Fees · No Latency

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  Last time on no latency. Hey, guys.
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  Oh, look at your ears. You have 4 ears now?
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  Or they. Look good.
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  Very cool. Me.
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  Wow. Hey, Domino.
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  Well, I do like libraries. Library trip?
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  What's going? On we're installing a
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  transponder at the university library I.
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  Respect institutions of higher. Learning got to respect school
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  rules. Let's see what's changed.
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  Rolling like fire tonight. Oh, this is some sort of
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  protest. Why would you put dog tape over
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  your mouth if you were going to respond to questions?
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  What are you doing? To the library.
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  Oh, I hated that guy. He's he was a professor.
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  He's the Dean. I guess we get into the library.
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  900 Eddies. Oh, that's a good one.
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  Holy shit is that the Gutenberg Bible?
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  I want to know a. Retro.
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  For what? You checked out the Gutenberg.
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  We got it back though. No it I.
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  Really wanted to know that a cleaning fee.
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  Excuse me? You just cheese dust on the back
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  cover. Excuse me, that cheese dust was
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  there before I did that book. I had made a complaint about it.
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  I mean, I'm sure if you look back in there that they're like,
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  I'm going to point to the to the box over there that says like
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  suggestions, complaints and such.
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  And there's probably still of like half stuffed full of things
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  that Retro has stuffed in there back when they were in college.
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  Oh yeah, no one looks in there. Ever.
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  Yeah, I I pointed that out. Well, if you want to use the
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  library, it'll be $1400. Or I'm just going to like walk
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  up to the counter. Or you could just, you know,
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  wave it. Roll for it.
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  Can I do something to try to get them on my side?
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  Sure what? Do you want to do?
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  Hey, listen, what are you? What are you studying?
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  Library sciences. I'm librarian.
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  I'm graduated. I'm actually a librarian, no?
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  Student. Oh, OK, I mean, I'm sure I could
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  do something to help you out or like, you know, maybe, you know,
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  you could do me a favour and maybe I would be appreciative of
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  that and, and, you know, maybe take you out a, a nice dinner,
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  something like that. Oh, I'm, I'm, I'm sure there's
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  probably some way you'd like to go and we can talk about books.
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  It's you're interested in the books aren't interested in
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  books. You know, it sounds like
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  something we could chat roll for roll.
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  For roll for flatting. When you're all for flirting,
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  saying asking for a favour has a different connotation.
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  She blushes. She looks down.
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  She kind of grabs her index finger and twists it a little
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  bit. My name's Knox.
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  You take me up for a nice dinner, I can knock 50% off.
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  That's all I'm allowed to do. All right, Knox, you have a
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  place in mind. It's this really great bubble
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  tea place I wanted to try. Cool.
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  Yeah, Yeah, we can. I, I, I I might have heard about
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  that place. We could.
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  We can go there. Cool, it'd be great.
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  Here's my number. Great.
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  Thanks. Thank you so much, Knox,
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  everybody. Here's 700 that is.
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  And you get access to the library.
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  You're allowed to use it now. Cool, can't wait to to have
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  beverages with them. That'd be fun.
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  Don't forget to bring your favorite book, I'd love to talk
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  about it. I'm, I'm, I'm just going to send
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  my, I'm just going to send my number to them right now.
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  How's Thursday for you? She looks at you and taps away
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  on her palm and then winks at you and you get a message back.
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  Thursday's fine. Works for me.
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  You're shaking a little bit. This has gone incredibly well.
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  Best 700 ideas I've spent so far and if.
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  I'm going to be honest mate, you're still slightly addicted
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  to synth coke so you really either want synth coke or a
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  cigarette. I mean probably all.
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  Right. Do you go to smoke?
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  Yeah. You can't smoke in here.
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  Well, obviously I can't smoke in here, I'm going to have to go
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  outside. OK, what do you say?
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  Bye, Knox. Bye.
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  You are all completely taken back by this crazy moment where
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  Retro has Rizz. Retro has Rizz in this moment.
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  He's asked out this quite cute librarian and he just walks out
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  the building to have a cigarette.
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  Jones, are you there? Yeah.
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  Yeah, I mean, I'll just say it. They were smooth as hell.
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  Very, very smooth actually. Ben Down, did you take notes?
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  I I did take notes. Is that how flirting works?
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  That's how. Flirting works.
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  I've I don't know that I've ever seen a more successful flirt.
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  I didn't know retro had it in them.
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  No. Are you going to?
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  Phoebe, go and you smoke. Go and see what's going.
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  On go. Go oh, OK, OK, debrief.
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  Friend debrief, go time. Go, go, go.
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  OK I go run outside fall after retro all.
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  Right, you go outside to retro retro smoking a cigarette he
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  offers you on. You're now smoking in this sort
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  of northern part of the quad. Good, good chatting up that
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  librarian there, Retro. Yeah, no, it's fine.
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  Yeah, no, he. Got knocked $700.00 off.
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  That was very kind of her to do. She didn't have to do that.
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  So was that like, you know, are you actually interested or was
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  it really just to like dodge the fees?
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  Like what was the? No, she was cute and seemed
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  interesting. I wouldn't have asked if I
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  didn't. I mean, Vivi, do you not Vivi,
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  you tend to. What is it?
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  I don't mean to say this in a mean way.
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  You are a serial dater, right? I.
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  I've I. Date on occasion, yeah.
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  I I wouldn't say serial dater. Well, I'm, I'm just saying like.
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  And I flirt, Yeah. I mean, I, I've flirted with
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  some, some cuties, you know, and we're trying to like, get what
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  we need to get. So I, look, I've been there.
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  I've been there. I've done it.
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  I flirted with that guy. Oh my gosh.
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  Who was that? That guy, Fuck not, chatted
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  Donnie. Oh, that guy, Donnie Dark said.
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  Oh my, he's a good. Kisser, I shouldn't be a part.
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  Of this sorry. I mean, join in, I don't care.
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  Come on. Look, I've been there, but it's
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  the first time I've I've I've seen you do that before retro.
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  So I'm, I'm just saying I'm I'm impressed.
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  I if you wrote Perception. I'm just surprised that you all
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  are impressed like you've never seen me ever do anything like
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  that before. And it's because, well, yeah,
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  have you seen me ever go and flirt?
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  With Oh, hey Jack, you're driving us up for a cigarette.
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  I mean, I don't, I don't really. I don't.
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  I don't smoke unless it's I have a.
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  Retro roll perception please. Is this something hearing?
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  Yes. OK.
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  I get retro. You are, you are 19.
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  It's +2, isn't it? Oh, it's +2.
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  You're right, you're right. Here's the thing, I am
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  absolutely pumped that they said yes and that this could have
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  gone completely horrible. Like what?
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  Anytime when you ask somebody out, I just, I feel a little
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  annoyed and feeling like I really haven't ever tried this
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  in front of anybody else and now I'm feeling scrutinized.
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  VD Retro looks back at you, and there's this glazed look over
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  your eyes. You can hear a conversation just
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  to your northeast. It's the distinctive voice of
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  Professor Grindwall. Is that's the new Dean?
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  Yeah, OK. Professor for you, Dean you.
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  Know him, Professor Grindwall. You have found out that he is
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  now Dean Grindwall and you hear a few things and it what you
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  gather consists of these few words.
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  You hear the word. Insurance policy burning.
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  Just just burn it all and we'll make.
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  Loads of to this are. You, are you going to finish
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  that? I guess that's all you.
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  I wouldn't know. Burning insurance policy,
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  something OK? This is also an inkling that I
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  got when I was when we were talking to Sandra.
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  EI think they're going to burn down the library?
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  Yeah, I I feel like that was pretty, pretty evident as soon
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  as we found out they took out an insurance policy recently.
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  Sandra's chained to the the thing.
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  They're not going to burn anything down.
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  They how can they do anything? Wait, you guys, you guys think
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  that maybe you guys think that maybe we could like use this
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  against them? I mean, I'll tell you what, if
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  there's one thing I know about insurance companies is that they
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  hate paying out insurance policies.
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  So why don't we just, you know, give the insurance company a
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  little, little little ring, let them know what we overheard and
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  I'm sure they'll they'll throw everything they got at these
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  guys we don't have to raise. A finger.
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  There's only one problem with that.
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  If too much attention comes here to NCU, we won't be able to
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  install the transponder because they'll look over everything and
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  our plan will get delayed again. Look, Jeff.
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  You know what that means, don't you?
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  Yeah, the libraries are gonna have closed.
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  No, it means we have to deal with it ourselves.
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  I was just looking forward to looking at more more of those
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  fun picture books on the back. They honestly do have the best
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  Garfield collection and Calvin and Hobbes.
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  Yeah, I like the crossover they did in 20-30. 4 When?
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  When he came out of out of retirement, yeah.
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  Yeah. But I mean, Jeb, it is a a
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  pretty good plan. The only other issue I would see
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  with that is that also at the same time, someone who's going
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  to be setting all of the books on fire and we shouldn't let
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  books be. Burned well, that's for sure.
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  Burning books is ain't cool, kids.
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  Keep books in schools. Keep all the all the books in
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  the schools. Information is important.
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  Thank you for listening to our PSA.
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  Keep books for kids, not kindling.
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  Wow. Good catch.
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  Good catch. Wow.
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  Yeah, I didn't go to university, so I don't know.
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  So installing the satellite. Yeah.
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  Is that have we already done the installation yet or we, we we
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  still got to do that? Retro still needs to make the
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  satellite dish. OK.
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  So do we need to, like, distract the Dean so that he doesn't, you
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  know, cause pain while you do that?
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  Well, yeah, I. Mean look, I I'm really only.
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  I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I need to not just respond.
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  I mean, I'm going to. Burn an entire university
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  library for the insurance money that's.
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  A good point. He doesn't seem like I'm quite
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  certain he's not a good person. Yeah.
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  But do do we have a Speaking of that, do we have like a timeline
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  or anything? Do we know when they're going to
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  be burning down the library? Because I wouldn't mind having a
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  little look, see around, you know, just take a look at the
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  shelves, see if anything catches my eye.
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  But if they're going to do it like tonight, then we should
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  probably get to it, you know? I don't think I heard a time
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  frame. Roll for time frame.
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  Do we know? I could continue to eavesdrop.
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  You know what? You know what?
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  Good idea, Jeb. You're.
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  Full of good ideas, I'm gonna go eavesdrop.
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  OK. With my new ears.
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  With your new ears now, if you wanna look through the window,
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  you're gonna have to roll stealth.
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  If you just wanna listen, you don't have to roll stealth.
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  It's this room here, right? Yes, it is.
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  Yeah. I would.
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  I'm not. I don't need to peer in the
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  window, I would like to just stand by the window and listen.
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  True. All right.
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  Roll perception. OK, one.
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  Second, while you're doing this, are you plugging your cyber
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  suite into the group call so that everybody can hear?
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  It that's a good idea, I would do that as well.
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  I've I'll I'll plug my new ears into the cyber suite so that.
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  Says Bendel. Great.
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  Didn't we used to have like a little little spider guy?
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  Or am I? Am I confusing two different
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  games? No, we, we, we, we, we do have.
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  Well, one person here does have a.
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  You mean risky? Oh yeah, risky.
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  Yeah, It's kind of funny because.
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  You know, surveillance, but I haven't used in forever.
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  Yeah, I was just thinking that Vivi's kind of like our new
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  risky with these new ears and stuff.
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  Very nice. A little bigger, though harder
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  to get into places. Not as many legs.
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  Phoebe rolls 18 while Iona pulls Risky off their hair, has a look
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  at it. It crawls around your hand
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  elegantly, your hands still encapsulated with one of your
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  latex gloves from earlier, and then crawls back up your arm and
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  sticks back on your head there. You are.
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  It's perfectly functional and while Iona lightly plays with
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  this spider, what's the how? How are you playing with the
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  spider Iona? Oh, I'm just letting him kind of
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  like parrot. He'll crawl.
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  He'll crawl, you know, across my shoulders and then like on top
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  of my head a little bit and then maybe down my arm and I swat him
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  off the top of my head because I look like an idiot.
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  He does one of those things where he takes like his front
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  legs and kind of like wipes his his face.
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  It's kind of cute. Oh, it's so cute.
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  Does Whiskey ever do the the little Spider dance?
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  Yeah, where he he he shakes his butt back and forth.
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  He does watch Thorax. Watches Thorax.
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  Here we go. Like the crab?
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  Oh yeah, that is. Wow, I just keep thinking about
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  that meme with Jackie from Cyberpunk.
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  Hold on that little bit. Yeah, the little, the little
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  wiggle. Yeah, that's the.
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  The the the Shaquille O'Neal Jackie.
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  Yes. Yes, yeah, that like that robot,
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  that exact robot you are coming. Yeah.
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  Listener, if you know the gift we're talking about, why don't
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  you post it in our Discord? Right now, this very second, do
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  it. Do it.
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  Right now do. It right now let's see if you're
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  the first one. Contest, Contest.
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  Contest. While trying not to be not to
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  overly oowoo over, the cute little robot presses one of
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  their cat ears against the wall. Rolling in 18 you hear through
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  the wall. There's a a fan in here, so some
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  of the words get covered as the fans pierces through the wall as
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  well. Burning the fuck?
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  Is the only option? How else?
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  Am I going to be able to pay? Really tough guy.
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  Well. You think I'm not a tough guy?
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  No, it's not that you're not. A tough guy, but I love to work
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  with people who are really. Well.
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  Have to understand that, right? So tonight then?
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  Yeah, No. Tonight.
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  Would be. Fantastic.
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  Claim it in the morning. And we'll be rich by.
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  Phoebe, ask him. Ask him when exactly to that.
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  I'm not in the room. Oh, oh, but right.
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  And then the fan starts to speed up as the room seemingly gets
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  hotter and you lose your ability to listen to more of the
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  conversation without rolling again, so you hear three voices
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  in there. Damn it, I'm going to just, I'm
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  just going to peek in now and see who he's talking to.
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  Sure. Roll for it.
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  Where'd you roll 21? Why'd you you roll
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  concentration, you cheeky moo. Concentrating on the voices
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  checks out to me. I.
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  Yeah, yeah. Actually I just I didn't want to
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  roll perception again so. No, if you want to look through
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  the window, I was suggesting stealth.
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  Oh right, let me do that. Where the hell?
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  OK, so I would roll a 15 total. Oh wow.
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  Oh, that just beats the DV. But it's you're allowed to step
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  forward for just a few seconds and step back.
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  OK, so I would just like to peek at who he's talking to.
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  Sure. You step forward and look
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  through the window. You see Dean Grenmore, a guy
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  wearing some battle gear. And then at the back you see a
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  guy in like a a beanie. He looks like really roided out
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  and he's got a big tattoo across his chest that says Ram's head.
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  Oh. Man, the guys in there look like
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  a couple of gonks. What I mean, one of them seems
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  like the one that's going to be doing the burning.
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  Am I? Am I ratting assuming that?
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  Hold on, did you say Ram's head? Don't we?
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  Don't we know? Don't we know Ram's head?
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  We do. Oh, do we?
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  Isn't he an assassin? Oh, don't look at me.
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  Well, local experts. I sure will.
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  I sure will. It's going to take me a moment,
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  but I'll get there. Still getting there.
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  The library doing here. You can always just do a library
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  search too. That's just jump into the
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  library real quick. Where's the expert awareness?
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  No education. Yes, I mean we're we're probably
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  on the on the library Wi-Fi. So how about a?
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  Yeah. Tell me everything about Ram's
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  head. Loading personal database on
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  Ram's head. Loading.
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  Loading, Loading Complete subject Ram's head gun for hire
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  in Night City. Hired by Oh no No to assassinate
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  acquaintance Vivienne at the Glass Market.
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  Yes, perfect. That's exactly who I thought it
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  was. Assassination failed due to crew
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  intervention. We smoked a cigarette or a joint
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  or something. Or something.
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  Confirmed marijuana supplied by Retro.
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  Additional notes Ram's head is candid, low IQ, fiscally
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  motivated, thus easy to pay off. Perfect, perfect.
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  I relay all of that information. Oh mate, we.
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  Do know Ram's head? Kind of remember him, you.
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  You really don't remember. Was he a piece of shit?
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  Not really. He seemed kind of nice.
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  Oh, it's a little hard to remember.
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  I was high at the time. That.
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  I mean that is true. Well, my my point being, we can
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  buy them off right now. They walk out of there, we pull
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  Rams head aside, tell them don't burn the building.
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  Done. Wow, that's super generous.
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  Generous of you to do Iona. Just make a payment for the
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  entire library by yourself. That's awesome.
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  It can be that much. It can be that much.
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  How much do you think that that library is going to be worth?
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  You know, accounting bureaucracy.
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  What is newer idea Retro? I was merely trying to help and
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  here you are well. Absolutely.
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  Debbie Downing my my one. I'm not trying to Debbie downer
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  it, I'm just saying with the amount of books that are in
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  there, you're looking at roughly.
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  Jeb. Jeb has a question.
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  Yeah, yeah, I mean, I was just thinking that, well, a he's not
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  the one Rams heads not going to be the one that gets all the
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  insurance money, right. Like he's he's he's just a
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  contractor. He's working for the Dean or
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  whoever else is putting the hit out.
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  So it's not like he's getting a huge amount of money.
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  Also just saying, as much as I do love libraries and I do
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  respect them and really appreciate all the good they do
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  for humanity in general, I do think that probably their
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  library won't say miss one expensive rare book that we
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  could maybe steal for him and pay him off that way.
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  Wow, Jeb. Jeb, I I would put your oh, I'm
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  still wearing latex gloves. I, I grab your face.
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  Oh, that oh was genius. Oh.
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  You. You.
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  You think so, huh. I.
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  Really. I really think so.
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  And now I'm going to take off my gloves and burn them.
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  Yeah, that, yeah, that's probably best.
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  I I don't think I've I. I didn't know that that that
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  that that smell was going to be more poignant the closer I got
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  to you. I I should have understood that.
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  Yeah, my body does sometimes secrete some kind of nasty
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  smelling stuff and. Probably because.
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  Yeah, I was going to ask about that.
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  OK. Well, thank you, Linda.
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  Write that down. Write that down.
• 24:05
  OK. I'm I'm writing it down.
• 24:07
  There's a whirring and a beeping behind you.
• 24:10
  And there's a observer bot that is now looking at the small
• 24:15
  fire. Fire.
• 24:17
  Small fires not permitted. Fine 75 eddies.
• 24:22
  Are you a student or a visitor? Registers, registers, registers.
• 24:26
  Visitor. Visitor More.
• 24:28
  Fines. Fine 100 eddies for unauthorized
• 24:32
  fire fire, fire. Please register ID pay now or
• 24:36
  the NCPD will be contacted. All right, OK, fine.
• 24:41
  Type tab way. Didn't they give it to?
• 24:44
  Me, I'm complete record array. Jeez, your privacy is important
• 24:49
  to US 90% of the time. My God.
• 24:55
  Your privacy is important to us when it's convenient for us.
• 25:01
  And it continues to to fly around the courtyard and observe
• 25:06
  things. Just straight up up charged I
• 25:08
  own an additional 25%. Old things that just happened,
• 25:14
  that was so cyberpunk, that entire thing. 25 credit fine pay
• 25:20
  100 eddies now or every. 300 eddies.
• 25:24
  That's pretty calling the cops. That's pretty.
• 25:27
  Privacy. Yeah, to have defines tied to
• 25:33
  net worth or income. Oh my God.
• 25:39
  So what's everyone's social credit looking like?
• 25:54
  Night City. If you look at a map of North
• 25:56
  America, somewhere on the western edge, you'd see an inky
• 25:59
  black dot with fingers pressing into the side of the continent.
• 26:02
  That's where you find Night City, And somewhere in the
• 26:05
  middle of that inky black dot is a giant smoking hole, like the
• 26:10
  universe itself drew iron and shot straight through the city.
• 26:13
  Radiation turned the sky red. But our story starts a little
• 26:18
  further South, in a dive bar the shortstop.
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  Welcome to Night City and welcome to Cyberpunk Edge of
• 26:25
  Extinction. Infinite Sided Dice presents
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  Cyberpunk Edge of Extinction, a Cyberpunk Red actual play.
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  Watch now at youtube.com slash at.
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  Infinite sided dice. Catch you later, chums.
• 26:54
  Man, I don't know. I just sometimes people see me
• 26:57
  in the streets and they say hey, it's jam and I'm like hi, I
• 27:00
  don't know what that what that means, but.
• 27:03
  So. So Jeb, you're saying?
• 27:04
  Let's get back to it though. Right, right, right, right.
• 27:08
  So you're saying we are going to steal a book and then pay Ram's
• 27:11
  head with the book and then there'll only be one guy to
• 27:13
  stop? And we can kill that guy, can't
• 27:16
  we? I mean, I guess probably not on
• 27:19
  property. Maybe we can poison him.
• 27:22
  Fun, you know. I'll get him really high.
• 27:25
  Now there's that too. That's in a way of poisoning.
• 27:30
  Yeah. Oh, it is.
• 27:33
  Because they've got medical textbooks.
• 27:36
  I'm feeling very motivated and and enthused.
• 27:40
  Is this what libraries do to you?
• 27:42
  Yeah, I love the library. You're damn right.
• 27:46
  I'm invigorated with the knowledge that surrounds me.
• 27:52
  All right, so in order to get a book out that the protest person
• 27:55
  said that we need permission from a professor.
• 28:01
  I don't, I mean, I wasn't exactly thinking of asking
• 28:05
  permission to steal the book, but I mean, that's one way to do
• 28:07
  it. I suppose that.
• 28:09
  Well, I mean just to get access to the room.
• 28:12
  Right. Oh, wait a minute.
• 28:14
  Hold on a second. You're telling me?
• 28:16
  Well, I could just check the book out and give it to him.
• 28:20
  That seems too easy. Probably can't leave the
• 28:25
  building, but. Right.
• 28:27
  OK, there it is. That's that's the snag.
• 28:29
  I knew it. Ayona.
• 28:31
  Yes. Do you think Risky could
• 28:36
  potentially steal something? Depends on the the weight ratio.
• 28:44
  It's probably not that heavy though.
• 28:45
  What are we what? What are we taking?
• 28:48
  I mean, for all I feel we got to figure out how much they're
• 28:52
  paying him, and then we got to figure out what book is worth
• 28:56
  more than that. Well, I mean, I couldn't hear
• 29:01
  from the particulars honestly, if it's going off a percentage,
• 29:04
  the. Door open.
• 29:06
  Ow, I think it's coming out. Oh shit, we got work.
• 29:08
  We got, we got move now who's who's good at talking?
• 29:11
  Who Iona? Rat's head walks out of the
• 29:13
  door, closes it behind him and is not followed.
• 29:16
  He goes over to the fountain and lights up a cigarette.
• 29:20
  OK, we got a little bit of time. All right.
• 29:25
  Look, estimation wise that we already talked about, we're
• 29:28
  looking at roughly around I 5 to 6,000,000 Eddie's worth, if not
• 29:35
  counting any kind of rare buyers for some of these books, right?
• 29:38
  And you know who I, I we could didn't hear what the pay, the
• 29:42
  pay schedule is. So we don't know if they're
• 29:44
  getting the percentage of that either.
• 29:46
  However, at the same time he asked, you know, he's going to
• 29:49
  have to recognize there's still some risk that he gets cut out
• 29:52
  by being dickhead. So I'm.
• 29:54
  I'm just going down, frankly. Oh.
• 30:01
  Yeah, back to my original point, I was just going to ask, do you
• 30:03
  think Risky could just steal the Dean's library card and we can
• 30:07
  just use that to access it in, take something and go out?
• 30:09
  Absolutely, absolutely. We'll send it in with Ram's head
• 30:12
  and I'm walking over to Ram's head.
• 30:16
  Ayona walks over to Ram's head and as you walk over towards him
• 30:19
  near the fountain, you notice a bunch of students get up from
• 30:22
  one of the benches as a bong is heard and the cleaning sign goes
• 30:26
  off. The lecture halls and the
• 30:28
  dormitory area have been reopened.
• 30:32
  Oh, that kind of bong. Got it.
• 30:35
  We are in the college campus. Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
• 30:40
  Dad, you're funny. No, that wasn't that.
• 30:43
  Was like a playful punch in the arm it's.
• 30:46
  Sort of standing. You're a misunderstanding.
• 30:49
  Got him. Well, I, I, I mean, yes, I do
• 30:53
  have. That's kind of my whole thing is
• 30:56
  hilarious misunderstandings. Don't really know why.
• 31:02
  Iona walks over to Rams Head as he smokes.
• 31:04
  Does anyone else join? I'm gonna I'm.
• 31:07
  Gonna kinda. I'm gonna slowly approach as
• 31:10
  well. Like I'll come with you.
• 31:11
  Cool like. Also, you know, it could just be
• 31:16
  some of the haze drifting away. Didn't you like offer to give
• 31:24
  him work? I did.
• 31:27
  After the last time I did so, could you also potentially like
• 31:33
  make him an offer screwing over the Dean for corporate issues?
• 31:40
  You know what? Did I have him take care of the
• 31:42
  Dean? That might cost extra, I don't
• 31:46
  know well. I don't know retro what was what
• 31:49
  is the point of of that while we're sidebarring before we talk
• 31:54
  to. The point was is that you could
• 31:58
  you could give him a a payday now compared to whatever he's
• 32:02
  offering. If he's offering a percentage
• 32:04
  for the library burning down at the same time, he can just screw
• 32:07
  over this guy anyways. If you were paying to plan on
• 32:11
  taking him out with him, so easy.
• 32:15
  Easy for him because he's already got an in because they
• 32:17
  guy trusts him already so. I hear you, I hear you.
• 32:21
  Hello Rams head all. Right.
• 32:26
  How's it going? Good.
• 32:28
  We we met once at the glass market.
• 32:31
  Do you? Do you Remember Me?
• 32:34
  Did you? Pay me to kill someone.
• 32:37
  No, but we did talk about that. OK.
• 32:44
  Kind of we're kind of, you know, in the, in the same industry,
• 32:47
  you know. Oh, yes, absolutely.
• 32:52
  You know, I actually talked to you about contracting you in the
• 32:55
  future. Oh, Oh, no way.
• 32:59
  Yes, that's cool. Yeah.
• 33:02
  I I just. You seem like you have a good
• 33:04
  head on your shoulders and I enjoy that in a businessman.
• 33:07
  It's. Reinforced something more.
• 33:12
  There we go. Well, yeah.
• 33:15
  Good choice. Thanks.
• 33:16
  I'm going to cut right to the chase.
• 33:20
  Would you like to? Chase Oh, sorry.
• 33:22
  Would you like to take a walk with us outside of the the
• 33:26
  confines of the library for a moment?
• 33:33
  You know, just like away from the from the little spy bot
• 33:37
  thing. Exactly.
• 33:42
  Real persuasion. This guy isn't exactly the
• 33:50
  brightest, is he? No, he really isn't.
• 33:52
  But that's a there's a RAM. For a head.
• 33:54
  VV whispers to Vendel. No he's not Tattoos cool though.
• 34:00
  Yeah, it is. 23 Yeah. He looks at you, shrugs his
• 34:06
  shoulders, puts his cigarette out and stamps it.
• 34:12
  Now make sure that Spybot didn't see smoking a cigarette.
• 34:16
  Yeah, that's technically a small fire.
• 34:19
  Oh no, this spybot's ignored me. Oh.
• 34:23
  Great. Oh, that's nice all.
• 34:25
  Right, GM, let we're walking outside for a moment.
• 34:32
  OK, do you want to move to the where the lecture halls are in
• 34:35
  the dormitory? Sure.
• 34:39
  Shouldn't we kind of go like off campus completely or is that too
• 34:44
  far a walk? I still need to stop by the
• 34:46
  engineering department at some point, so.
• 34:48
  You step into where the lecture halls are and dormitory A.
• 34:54
  This area isn't under surveillance because it has just
• 34:57
  been cleaned, although the bots will be here soon all.
• 35:00
  Right, so. And he sits down on a bench.
• 35:03
  What? Do you?
• 35:05
  Want I know that you are being paid to burn the library down
• 35:12
  and I would like to negotiate for you to not complete that job
• 35:18
  order. You're paying me a lot of money,
• 35:22
  so. How much?
• 35:25
  10 grand and they're paying the other guy 15.
• 35:28
  Why are they paying the other guy more?
• 35:33
  I didn't roll very high. Well, listen, we have a plan to
• 35:42
  perhaps acquire one of the more rare books that they may have,
• 35:50
  maybe one or more depending on, you know, what we can procure,
• 35:58
  but we would be willing to part with some of that for you.
• 36:05
  This library means a lot to this community and it would be an
• 36:10
  absolute shame if all these students lost their library.
• 36:16
  Not to mention some of these books are real cool.
• 36:18
  I mean like we're talking like super nice binding.
• 36:22
  They got like full leather covers.
• 36:23
  Some of them even got those cool little ribbons in them.
• 36:28
  Yeah, I mean, even part of the collection is Levar Burton's own
• 36:34
  collection. The only book I I ever was read
• 36:39
  was by my mom. The Bible?
• 36:42
  No. Oh.
• 36:44
  I don't like fiction like that. Your mom.
• 36:50
  'S renew non fiction. OK, interesting.
• 36:53
  No, no, I I I I like kids books. Hungry, hungry Caterpillar.
• 37:00
  No. All the places to them.
• 37:02
  Winnie the Pooh. Oh, that's all.
• 37:04
  Right. Oh.
• 37:06
  Do they have them here? The originals you'd.
• 37:11
  Have to ask somebody who like studied here to worry never.
• 37:16
  Hey, Ram's head, let me ask you a question.
• 37:18
  You really? You really enjoyed Winnie the
• 37:20
  Pooh, right? Yeah, Christopher Robbins is a
• 37:23
  fucking dude. Yeah, right in the 100 acre wood
• 37:26
  like. Yeah, dude, when I'm like at
• 37:28
  home and I'm on my own, I call it Winnie the Poohing because I
• 37:32
  don't wear pants. You know what, I haven't heard
• 37:35
  that described that way, but that's a good way to a good way
• 37:38
  to learn now. Yeah.
• 37:40
  Yeah, man, I'm poeing all day. It's great.
• 37:43
  What? What?
• 37:45
  Ram said, Let me let me ask you a question because you said that
• 37:48
  you love Winnie the Pooh in the stories.
• 37:49
  How upset would you be if you found somebody burning that
• 37:53
  book? Do they have that here?
• 37:59
  He just said it was flammable and would be cool and I'd get
• 38:02
  paid. Yeah.
• 38:04
  They have that here. Hold on, let me think back in my
• 38:10
  memory real quick. Do they have it?
• 38:12
  Yeah. Every day task to remember if
• 38:20
  you saw a book. Yeah.
• 38:22
  Yeah, Yeah, they do. They do have it and.
• 38:25
  If no way. So if you set it on fire.
• 38:27
  Drawings and like piglet and stuff.
• 38:30
  Oh, this is a a second edition before they before they removed
• 38:36
  some of them to to to to make the book lighter.
• 38:39
  So it's actually got even more drawings in it.
• 38:42
  Oh, no way. Oh yeah, sure.
• 38:45
  Just give me that. I'll go away.
• 38:48
  Great. I was just, I was going to try
• 38:51
  to, you know, reach to your, you know, humanity of not burning
• 38:54
  your favorite book and you'd be burning other books.
• 38:56
  No, I need rent so it's either. I'm sure there's another one
• 39:00
  somewhere, but if I can have it, that's different.
• 39:03
  Sure. Well, I don't see why we can't
• 39:06
  get you, you know, a little one for you one for them kind of
• 39:10
  situation. Of course, the for you being we
• 39:13
  get you the Winnie the Pooh book and we give it to you and the
• 39:16
  for them, meaning we get you another book that's worth a lot
• 39:20
  of money and then you can sell that one and then you get the
• 39:26
  the money. OK.
• 39:28
  Well, that's do we have a deal? You rolled really high on
• 39:32
  Persuasion, so as long as the deal is good, I'll get to
• 39:35
  basically priceless books and I can sell one and keep one and
• 39:38
  remember my mom. Yeah, true.
• 39:41
  That's actually pretty sweet. Yeah, you're not really having
• 39:44
  to do much for this. It'd really be more on us doing
• 39:47
  everything then, yeah. Dude getting paid to do nothing
• 39:50
  is like you know E or vibes so. Big E Big E or vibes, yes.
• 39:56
  Right, right. Most of the time I have to be
• 39:58
  like Tigger because you have to like jump around a couple of
• 40:00
  people and. Shit the.
• 40:02
  Wonderful things about round tags, right?
• 40:05
  No. OK.
• 40:06
  You're very funny. That's.
• 40:09
  What my mom always said. And now you'll get to remember
• 40:12
  her, because we're going to get you that damn book.
• 40:17
  OK, that seems like a good deal. So now like, you don't even have
• 40:21
  to deal with the other guy. Yeah, tell us about him.
• 40:34
  Next time on no latency. And that's why you always pay at
• 40:41
  the deposit. We know people.
• 40:43
  We know people. We're supposed to put this thing
• 40:45
  on the roof, right? Yeah.
• 40:47
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We we need to get it on the
• 40:49
  roof. Should I go do that?
• 40:50
  Any excuse? All the way at the end.
• 40:52
  Oh. Shit.
• 40:52
  OK, check this out. He, he had to struggle, right?
• 40:55
  We all heard that. We all heard him struggle.
• 40:57
  Check this out. You don't need any backup.
• 40:59
  I'm good for now. Oh no.
• 41:02
  Oh, Professor Grindwall. Look who it is with Phoebe.
• 41:07
  Hello professor Do. You think we should go help
• 41:09
  them? Sure, absolutely.
• 41:11
  Us kids, you know we can't get off our agents.
• 41:15
  I have some hand sanitizer if you would like that.
• 41:18
  I'm going to see if I can snap a quick picture and send it to
• 41:21
  retro. Yes, but do I recognize the
• 41:24
  teacher? Did you?
• 41:25
  Did you not hear me? This is a sticker, Yeah.
• 41:29
  It does make sense why he was a big fanatic on martial arts
• 41:32
  movies, ah. Man, it's that's really good
• 41:36
  that. Can you teach me that sometime?
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• 42:43
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