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Last time on no latency. Here's 700 that is.
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That was smooth sail. Ben Dale, did you take notes?
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I didn't know retro had it in them.
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Bye, Knox. That's how flirting work.
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Good chatting up that librarian there, Retro.
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I don't know that I've ever seen a more successful flirt.
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I don't mean to say this in a mean way.
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You are a serial dater. I wouldn't say serial dater I.
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Think they're going to burn down the library?
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Keep books in schools. I was just looking forward to
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looking at more of those picture books on the back.
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A time frame. Roll for time frame.
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Expansive rare book. With everyone's social credit
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looking like. That we could, maybe?
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And we can kill that guy, can't we?
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He can't just check the book out.
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This guy isn't exactly the brightest, is he?
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No, he really isn't. Yeah, you're not really having
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to do much for this. Big your vibes.
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Yeah, tell us about him. And now you'll get to remember
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her, because we're going to get you that damn book.
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OK, that seems like a good deal. So now like, you don't even have
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to deal with the other guy. Yeah, tell us about him.
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He's, you know, he's just a guy. You know, he, he, he's put on
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all this like big old, like chim costume, but I'm not meant to
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tell anybody what he does. But he's he's a teacher.
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He's a teacher. Like here.
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So the Dean hired you and a teacher from here to do this.
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Yeah, but he's dressing up like a, you know, a vandal.
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And then like, for me, getting a reputation to like burning a
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building or whatever, not a big deal.
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It's actually pretty good for business.
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But for him like, you know. Yeah.
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I mean, what, what wouldn't have a little mayhem in in this line
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of work look good on your resume?
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Yeah. But also your deal sounds better
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and less effort, so I'm done. Cool.
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Yeah, when were you? Yeah, we can do a deal.
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I usually do like a holding fee just in case.
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So I'll give it back to you when you give me the book.
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Sure, yeah, but this one's for your mom, you know?
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Yeah, I know. And the money is for rent so
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like 2K3. Sure I I transfer 2K.
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Cool, here's my card. If I don't hear you hear from
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you in like an hour and a half, I have to do the gig.
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So look, hey. Ram said.
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You didn't answer me if you wanted if you wanted a side gig.
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Oh, I didn't hear you. I'm sorry.
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Let's see how this job goes first.
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Well, I kind of, I kind of need it now.
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So since you're not doing anything, sure, sure.
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I hear my proposition first. Sure.
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I am in need of somebody to go and raid the dumpsters of the
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engineering and science buildings and bring me back any
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decently put together projects because now we have to take care
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of this. That was my original plan, but
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now I can't do that. So you go and get that.
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You know where Tunas is at. Yeah.
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Yeah, you drop that all off at Tuna saying care of Retro.
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And then when you come, when you come find me, say, you know, a
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day or two from now, I'll I'll, I'll, I'll give you a free
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hookup on a on a weapon or a cyberwear for you.
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How about that? OK.
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I usually charge a holding fee so like 500.
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I will give him one of the rings that I have.
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Oh, gold band ring that I have all.
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Right. There you go.
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Sure. And he pops.
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You know, you know who's that is?
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Yours. Yeah.
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It's yours now. What's mine now?
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All right, here's my card. If I don't hear from you, I hear
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from you in like a week. I'm selling this he.
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Puts it in his pocket. You know, Ram said.
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I just got to say, it's been an absolute pleasure working with
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you. Is there some way that we can
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like, give you a rating or something like something, you
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know? Oh yeah.
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After the job is completed, I send you like a follow up
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message and I double check that you're satisfied with your
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service. I use this like back end thingy,
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it's pretty cool. Yeah, absolutely.
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You know it. So it's it's I really appreciate
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just how candid and straightforward you are.
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No funny business, just straight to the.
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Point if you've got money and you pay me like yeah I'm yours
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and since you paid me so much, if somebody tries to counter
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bribe me and you have holding money, I will let you know and
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we will. Be.
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Nice, Oh. Oh, hold on.
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Whoa, whoa. I love that.
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Love that for me. Does that mean that you are
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going to go talk to the Dean and and do the same thing to him?
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Did he give you holding money? No.
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Oh, thank God. No, he, he, he, he just offered
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me the job again, you know? And that's why you always paid
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the deposit. Exactly.
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Very good. Yeah.
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But you know, he said he was going to pay me 10 grand, so
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that's why I took the job. Yeah.
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Like even the big regular kicks at Night City only pay like 2.
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Anyway, I'm going to go get some trash and shit, drop it over at
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2 news and I'll be back here in about an hour, so please.
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He walks away. Well, that went swimmingly.
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Exactly. See how easy that was?
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We know people. We know.
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People. Yeah, sometimes talking to
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people and and you know doing it the non violent way, sometimes
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that is better, huh. Hey, can one of you remind me to
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make sure to contact him within that time frame before he sells
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that ring? Yes.
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Because I'm pretty sure that that ring's connected to one of
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the people that we've demonetized, and I'm pretty sure
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the cops will probably come after him for that.
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Oh shit OK so half the threat to the library is paid off.
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We have to find out who the teacher is, steal two books and
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then punish the Dean or like disgrace him or something.
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We could prepare him in front of the whole school.
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Oh indeed, some exposure. We could put him on probation,
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double secret probation. Or maybe we could find, I mean
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like he did try to or rather is trying to burn down the the
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library for insurance money. I imagine if we can find some
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sort of dirt on him and like leak to the press or something,
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that might take care of that right there.
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Pretty heavy scandal. While they were talking to him,
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I was trying to still scout out this guy who is with the teen.
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OK, I'm going to keep. I was.
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I'm going to continue to spy on them.
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OK. And see if he leaves at all or
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is he staying in the room or is he?
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You if you want to peek back through the window, you'll have
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to Did you go with everyone to the other the other courtyard,
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or did you stay behind? No, I stayed behind.
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I like watched them while they were going but I just I stayed
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behind to keep an eye out. Great if you want to peek
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through the window and see if he's still in there.
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Because he didn't come out the front door with Ram's head.
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Ram's head came out on his own. Stealth 15.
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Yes, that is enough. You peek through the window and
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he's not there. Shit.
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And you're looking at the the back of of the Dean's head.
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Where did he go? Did he leave?
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Rob Perception 21 As you peer into the room, you see a few
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things. You see the Dean's desk, He's
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got some like stuff on his desk computer.
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There are two chairs in front of it for people to sit down.
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There's some sofas, a bunch of cabinets and a back door as well
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as a front door. He might have gone out the back
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door. I'm going to peer around the
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corner and just take a peek at what's around the corner.
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Great. If you want to do it quietly,
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we're all stealth. Yeah, let's see what did.
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You get. 15. 15 Yes, that is just enough to peek.
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As you peek around the corner, you see a guy who's taking off a
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bunch of his gear, packing it into a bag, looking around kind
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of nervously, and he sort of straightens his tie.
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He looks like a professor, fairly young.
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OK, yeah. I don't trust this guy's gonna
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not do something. I am just gonna like sit on this
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bench, pretend I'm like reading a book and just if he goes
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anywhere, I'm gonna try to, I'm gonna try to follow him,
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basically. Cool.
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He walks past you with your stealth and your little being.
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Conspicuate. What?
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What is it conspicuous? Inconspicuous.
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Being inconspicuous as you sit there on the bench nonchalantly
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doom scrolling on your agent. He walks behind the library.
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He looks around, and then he walks further into the shadows.
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I'll get up after he makes a bit of distance and I'm going to
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just send a message to the others guys.
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I got eyes on the other guy, the teacher.
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I'm going to follow him. I'm tailing him.
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Oh damn it. That's cool.
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That's real cool. You don't need any backup.
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I'm good for now. OK, well.
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I think it's a novel idea. Go ahead.
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Oh my God. Take take a picture of him, we
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can use it as dart. Oh, it's not a bad idea.
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All right, just. Pretend I'm continuing to doom
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scroll in my agent and then pull it up to snap a few photos as
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I'm watching this guy. He's now walked to the very
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other end of the building and you are lightly filming him.
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If you do not want him to notice you are filming him, you have.
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To go for it. Yep, I'm gonna add 2 luck to
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this one. OK, OK, so I got a 20 you.
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Got a 20? What you grab as he goes around
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the corner is him pulling out a grappling hook and disappearing
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around the corner. You hear the distinctive noise
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as it flies and clanks onto the roof, and then you hear the
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retraction of said grappling hook and some struggling.
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We're supposed to put this thing on the roof, right?
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From my understanding are. You asking me or the crew?
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Actually, I'll ask the crew. Hey, gang, we're supposed to put
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this thing on the ceiling, right?
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Or on the roof? I'm sorry, on the roof.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We need to get it on the roof.
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It needs to have an unobstructed access to.
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Yeah, I think the teacher guy just went to the roof.
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He grappled up there. What?
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I grabbed. I could do that.
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You could. You could because he is up there
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right now as we speak. Should I go do that?
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I'm gonna go down this. I'm gonna go do that.
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OK, any excuse where? Was it?
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Where did he go? Where did?
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He go, he's he went to the down to that end, right over here and
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all the way at the other end and grappled up.
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Like like right right here or a little further?
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All the way at the end of the library.
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OK, OK. I mean, if you want to follow
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him directly, are you? Oh yeah, yeah.
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You know what, go ahead. You want that way as.
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Good as he be because he kind of sounded like he struggled a
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little bit so. More perception.
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Perception, you said? Yes.
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Please. OK one SEC I have to reopen my
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character sheet perception. 19 Excellent.
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Yes, you hear the distinctive wearing of a observation bot as
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it comes into the alleyway where you are to investigate the
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various footsteps and activity. Oh.
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Shit, OK, check this out. He, he had to struggle, right?
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We all heard that. We all heard him struggle.
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Check this out. Stealth 22 you make it on top of
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the roof in silence, but in order for the bot to not see you
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do that because you did not go around the corner of the
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building, BB has to do something about the bot.
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Oh, OK, got it. I, I am going to act like I am
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totally distracted on my phone, like those Dang kids on their
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phones. Vivi's looking down and just
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walks right into the thing just oh shit, sorry, oh sorry.
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And just like bliss, acting blissfully unaware and just like
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acting OK, Oh boy. Acting.
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Wait wait wait. Can I make a suggestion?
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Yes. Feign concussion and then use
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medical because you're, you know, some different concussion.
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Well, acting. I'm also going to add 2 luck to
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this because my was not very good.
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Burning the luck today? Oh no.
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Oh no. God, I knew my luck.
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As you roll into the bath, you fall over and it falls
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underneath you. There's a crash as it splits
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open underneath you and causes. Oh no, A.
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Call to NCPB. Yep. 10.
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Damage 10 damage and since it's a a a melee attack, technically
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it causes 5 actual HP damage to you and the remaining pieces of
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it set off an alarm. The alarm is now going off
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underneath you in the remaining parts and you're pulling out
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bits of metal from your jacket and the the alarm's going off
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and there's just loads of noise. What do you do about it?
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Oh shit, oh, I'm so crap and I'm just going to keep up this act
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and. Oh.
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Damn it, I'm so sorry. Librarians of the back door.
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Oh of. Denny's office is the Dean of
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NCU, Professor Grindwall. Professor Grindwall.
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What the fuck are oh? Shit.
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Hello Professor. Sorry, I just, well, you know,
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us, US kids, you know, we can't get off our agents.
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We're always distracted. He pulls a little remote out of
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his pocket and points it at the pile of scrap underneath you and
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oops it it turns off below you. Is this like scrapped unit?
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I'm sorry about that. Look, I know there's a fine for
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everything, so just let me know what the fine is and I'll make
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sure to add it to my constantly incurring student debt.
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Honestly, Bebe you haven't changed a bit.
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You're still a klutz. Yeah, that.
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That, that that artery you nicked in first year?
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Jesus Christ, God. All right, let me see.
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He looks through his agent. How much was this damn thing?
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What was? It was.
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What was it listed as? A drone taps away a little bit
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more. No, not that one.
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No, that was the one with the cool colours.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I thought.
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You see the? Problem is. 4000 Eddies so. 1000
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Eddies. That's one of the worst crit
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fails you've ever had, God. So look, we can do a payment
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plan, but honestly, you know, the university really needs the
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money. We've had a lot of outgoings
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recently since you left, faculty included.
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OK, well I mean I I do have 4000 eddies, VV says internally in
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her mind. Has has Iona and I come back
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yet? It's.
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Up to you, have you? I feel like after we got done
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having our discussion and having ramps head go give me that scrap
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that we need, we wouldn't head her back to to them.
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Sure. Oh.
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Shit, look who it is with Phoebe.
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Phoebe's struggling. Iona, did you ever You didn't go
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to to you here, did you? No.
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OK, so you never met Professor Dick Head?
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No. Vivi looks to be a little.
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Distressed. Flustered.
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Yeah. Do you think we should?
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Do you think we should go help them?
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Sure, absolutely. Yeah, well, let's let's head on
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over to Vivi. I'm just going to walk up and
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hey, Vivi, good to see you. And oh hey, it's everybody's
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favorite professor. No not did you end 2 end up
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being friends? That tracks.
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Yeah, that's what happens, you know, when you are, you know, a
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good person, you make friends with people in Knight City.
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And people like you. Who really should charge for
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alumni connection? Shouldn't we?
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I'll write that down. Oh my God, writes a down noise
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agent. Well, Richard?
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You're looking pretty good, like you seem a little taller.
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Did you eventually grow a spine? No, I broke both legs.
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A huge insurance payout. What's what's what's seems to be
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going on here though? Like well.
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You're like this alumni has broken a piece of university
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property. Vivi, you broke.
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You broke property. I was not paying attention and
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accidentally walked into this thing and the professor's
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telling me it's 4000 eddies to get a replacement.
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He's. Going to cover your medical of
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up to 4000. Shit, yeah.
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Oh my gosh. My back you are.
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Bleeding. You are bleeding.
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You are literally bleeding. Professor, from what we can see
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here, they seem to be bleeding from your drone, which supposed
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to have Oh. My.
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Gosh back problems as good that drone should be having safety
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parameters to make sure that nobody.
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Can. Oh my gosh.
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So if you cheaped out and didn't get, that means.
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That that doctor over there, the accomplished medical
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professional, seems to be bleeding because of university
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property. Hmm.
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It sounds like university negligence to me.
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Yeah, it does. Both I am and I have to roll
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acting. I'll roll Zendel.
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I'm bleeding. Thank you.
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Thank you Bleeding. Where is acting?
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Performance probably. Yes, underperformance there it.
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Is it's on? It's Oh, it's the only one.
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There. Oh nice, let's go.
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Oh my gosh. Vendel's performance is perfect.
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Iona's is very good as well, but Vendel rolled a crit 28 and
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Vendel looks at VV. My darling, I can't believe
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somebody hurt you. And just starts bawling.
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I'm going to have to tell my lawyer father and his judge
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cousin about this and all my friends of the NPZD DVD74 which
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is a new thing I just made-up. But it's bullshit because
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really, I can't believe you hurt.
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Someone I love. Oh my God.
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You see, you see Iona like welling up behind them, down.
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It's times when people are. Close to death.
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We have to tell. Them these please, are you are
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you OK? No.
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Oh. Yeah, you.
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Should be asking I mean. If I forget to come come with
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me, I'm going to go some of them now.
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So professor, their partner, their partner's right be after
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Docket 674-D9 from Arasaka versus all foods from when their
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own exec got injured on the floor, it came out to being that
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the person that owns the property is liable for damage.
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Right, yes, look, if you can just repair this piece of shit
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then I'll let it slide. If you need to clean up, there's
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a bathroom to the east. I know I'll marrow that on
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property, but I would prefer it if you all just didn't come back
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after tonight. I have a business to university
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to run. Sure, I'll fix it for you.
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And the performance from Vendel is so good the the Dean goes
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back into his office and just watches you through the window.
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Now The thing is, he can't hear you at all now.
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I well, actually, no, they heard, they heard Jeb saying he
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was going to go on the roof because I was going to tell them
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Jeb is on the roof. Yeah, Jeb's on the roof.
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But yeah, I would just thanks. Thanks Retro and thanks Vandel.
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That was really good. I don't know where that came
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from. It was amazing.
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Remember to breathe and and find, breathe and then find.
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Find a place to recenter yourself and be who you are.
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Yeah, Yeah. There you go.
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I think I'm getting a hang of this stuff sometimes.
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So, Vivi, do you want to patch yourself up?
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You're bleeding. Oh yeah, I probably, I probably
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should, Yeah. One SEC guys, I'm going to grab
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some gauze and the antiseptic or whatever the any.
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Antimicrobial. Antimicrobial.
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Yeah. Yes.
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Disinfectant. Disinfectant.
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That's the correct term. I have salad sanitizer if you
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would like that. OK.
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That would sting a lot. Sting Yeah.
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Do you want Iona's help? If you use Iona's help, this
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will cost you less money from that pack.
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Yeah, you know what? I'm ready for it to sting.
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Iona, go ahead. Let's How about we How about we
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use hand sanitizer first to clean our hands before we apply
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the disinfectant? There you go, I've helped.
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All right, Roller D 10. I own a Roller D10.
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Excellent. I own a roller D 10 all right.
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You're all a real 1, I don't mind.
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Roll. A10 roll it again.
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OK. Exploding.
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You roll a 13 nice and your sanitizer nozzle changes shape
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temporarily to get out a different viscosity of the
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sanitizer, which has a much better cleaning effect.
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This causes Vivi to only have to spend like 20 eddies to repair
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all of her injuries. Oh.
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Thank goodness. The sanitizer has gained kind of
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a sticky texture and it it turns out that the sanitizer and super
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glue work really well together and they seal up your wounds and
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you gain 3 HP back. Great.
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Wow, Iona that, that thing's pretty pretty awesome.
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And you feel incredibly clean. That's I.
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I might need one of those. That's great.
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It's a it's custom cyberwear and Iona made it up.
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Wow, we're gonna have to. We should market that.
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That that's awesome. Anyway, I feel a lot better.
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Thank you. Good.
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Should we join Jeb on the roof? Don't worry you guys.
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Retro kneels down in front of the drone and starts to work on
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it. Yeah.
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Cool. You start to tinker with that,
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which will take a few minutes. And so in the meantime, we're
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going to go and check out what's happening on the roof.
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With Jeb. Meanwhile, Jeb 's got up onto
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the roof. Nash and Sneaky.
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Nobody knows he's there except for all of his friends, and he's
29:49
looking around. He's looking around to see if he
29:51
can find that motherfucker who just went up not what, 10
29:56
seconds ago to him, which was 8 minutes ago in real life or
30:01
whatever. He's looking, he's looking.
30:04
What's he see? Let's find out.
30:07
Let's click Awareness and then click Perception. 20 Yes.
30:13
You don't see him, but you do hear him.
30:18
He's somewhere on the roof with you and you hear like a
30:21
tinkering light drilling noise. Light drilling noise.
30:28
I'm going to sneak up on him. Well, I'm going to sneak around
30:33
to like right here and see if I can kind of peek my head around
30:36
the corner and see what he's doing.
30:38
All right, roll Stealth. Yes, Sir, 18.
30:45
Yes, very good. I mean, you know, I figure if I
30:51
can, if maybe he's like planting something, right?
30:57
Yes, because if I can if. I can just stop the the if he
31:03
plants a thing that's going to burn down the library and then
31:06
he goes and fucks off, then I can just stop it from going off.
31:11
And then we got ourselves a success, I'd say.
31:15
Right as you peek around the corner, you see there is a guy
31:22
in kind of he's now put his costume back on and then you can
31:27
see this one buckling up the collar and then he's finishing
31:31
off attaching this object to this large air conditioning
31:35
machine that regulates the temperature of the book section
31:39
of the library. I'm going to see if I can snap a
31:44
quick picture and send it to retro, see if he knows how to
31:49
disable this thing. Retro your tiles.
31:53
Going on, Yeah, Hold on. What?
31:59
What is it, Jeff? I'm going to send you a quick
32:01
picture. Did you get it?
32:05
What does the picture show me? You see the guy in the teacher
32:11
finishing drilling like this box, and it has these two tubes
32:14
that have been attached into the side of a large air conditioning
32:18
and humidity control unit. OK, do I recognize a teacher?
32:26
Roll for it. Perception 19.
32:29
Yeah, it's a firebomb. It's going to pump fire into the
32:32
duct system and set the whole book collection on fire
32:36
directly. Yes, but do I recognize the
32:40
teacher? Ah, do you recognize the teacher
32:43
19? Yes, yes you do.
32:45
It's Professor Blaze. Professor Allegris, OH.
32:52
Shit, Jeb, that's that's a firebomb.
32:59
It's my favorite teacher. Shit.
33:02
Oh shit, that's that's Professor Allegris.
33:06
God damn it. He used to be so cool.
33:09
OK, well now he's going to burn this motherfucker to the ground.
33:12
So do you know how to stop this? The thing?
33:16
The thing? Yeah, one, don't let him break
33:21
into the Freon lines for the humidity control so he can pump
33:24
that in, and two, just get the get the bomb away from him.
33:31
You know I don't. Know something like he's.
33:33
Run, grab it, hook it, something.
33:36
OK, well, I think I know what I have to do.
33:39
And Jeb comes around the corner and says this is a stick up.
33:50
Did you? Did you not hear me?
33:51
This is a stick up. What?
33:54
What? This here's a stick up.
33:57
Oh my God, he puts his hands up. Sorry, we're not on video, I
34:02
forgot about that. He puts his hands up and he
34:05
looks at you. OK, great.
34:09
Go ahead and take 3 full steps back.
34:15
OK. OK, good.
34:18
Yep. Now I'm going to I'm going to
34:19
move right here where you were just placing that thing and my I
34:26
have it on good authority that it's a firebomb and not to touch
34:30
the freeze on that goes and I suppose makes things cold.
34:37
It's a good name. Nice.
34:38
Good job, Yeah. You.
34:41
Buddy, buddy, Yeah. Why don't you just go ahead and
34:43
take a seat while I figure out how to not make all the books
34:49
burn? Roll something to keep him
34:53
still. Persuasion 21.
34:59
He shrugged. OK, kid, whatever.
35:02
You know what hold on. Let me just take a look at my Oh
35:05
my God. Got anything here?
35:07
Oh well, look at that. I've got one left.
35:12
Actually, do me a favor. And Jeb just walks over, takes a
35:17
grenade out, pulls the pin and hands it to him.
35:20
Like with the with the with the the the clip still on it.
35:24
Go ahead and hold on to that. OK, so.
35:31
Yeah. The average timer of your
35:34
average grenade is 4 1/2 seconds.
35:39
So there's like a pin and then there's a yeah, there's like a
35:42
no. No, I, I I understand.
35:44
I'm just in order to fix my anxiety, I am thinking about
35:50
this like a classroom problem. OK.
35:55
OK, so theoretically, oh, that's.
36:01
A good point, that's I see. I think I know where you're
36:02
getting at and I'm going to try to slice at his legs with my
36:09
beak knife. No, no, no, no, wait, wait,
36:10
wait, wait. And he, he like, holds the
36:12
grenade of his head. No, no, no, no, wait, wait.
36:14
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You rolled high on persuasion.
36:17
I'll just sit here. I'll sit down, I'll hold the
36:19
grenade. You're good, you're good.
36:20
And he sits down really carefully.
36:22
It's OK. OK.
36:24
But just just to make sure, I am going to go ahead and just tie
36:27
your legs together. That cool.
36:30
It's it's listen, I don't, I don't want that thing to go off
36:34
as much as you do, but I am going to need you to tell me how
36:39
to turn this thing. Off OK, so.
36:44
You're a teacher, you should be good at explaining how to do
36:46
things. Absolutely.
36:49
I'm I'm professor. I shouldn't tell you my name.
36:51
That's a stupid. Idea.
36:53
Yeah, don't do I'm. Professor, let's go with that.
36:57
So today we're we're working on how to uninstall a homemade
37:04
bomb, which is one of my favorite dissertations ever from
37:11
one of my students. It was really good.
37:14
Who was it? It was a good student.
37:16
Oh, something Ortiz. He wrote this big old paper.
37:21
It was like loads and loads of pages and it was really well
37:26
formatted. And he wrote this paper about
37:28
how to disarm a pawn. So he said always second guess
37:33
the color coding. All right, yeah, so so double
37:35
check you got like 4 wires. Over there, right?
37:38
Uh huh. Blue, red, yellow, green and
37:40
orange. Exactly which one do you think
37:42
is the dangerous one? Probably the red one.
37:44
It's always the red one, right? No, but that's the thing.
37:47
In his dissertation, it showed that a lot of people think it's
37:50
the red 1, so they don't use the red wire for that.
37:52
Fascinating, right? Oh, OK, you're telling me.
37:57
All right, so just like every like thousandth grenade is a
38:02
dud. I wouldn't take those odds.
38:05
No, I'm not going to just statistically speaking.
38:08
Right, OK. So you want to cut the wire?
38:12
That seems this the the safest, but that is not.
38:16
Brain wire? Exactly.
38:20
Because that's how I wired it and I'm scared to die.
38:22
So good, following that logic and and that dissertation, if
38:26
you, if you think about the next logical step, I've got 2 cables
38:31
and there's a lot of Freon running through that machine.
38:34
Which one do you do you remove first?
38:37
The one that pushes it in or the one that pushes it out?
38:46
Oh geez, I don't know. I was never good at school.
38:49
Out, out. Chip, I forgot, I forgot to tell
38:54
you, whatever you do, don't engage the professor with
38:57
anything scientific. He's really good at reaching out
39:01
to kids that have like, you know, issues and you know, like,
39:07
like bad backgrounds and such and like really, really like
39:10
makes an effort to teach them and like break everything down.
39:14
So if you don't want to have like an hours like lecture
39:16
session on something, just don't.
39:18
Don't use anything technical with them.
39:21
Gotcha. OK, nothing technical will do.
39:25
So teach when you say push and pull out how?
39:29
How does that work exactly? Well, one side will it takes
39:33
into the machine and one to inside takes out of the machine,
39:36
right? Uh huh, uh huh.
39:39
And and it's all connected. Yeah, 'cause I was going to take
39:45
the Freon in, change the composition of the chemicals so
39:50
it's flammable, and then send it out with a spark.
39:53
Wow. OK.
39:55
Conservation of energy and time. That way I didn't have to bring
39:58
up a big tank of flammable shit. Wow, that's real smart of you
40:01
man. Afterwards.
40:02
Me and some guy the Dean hired we.
40:04
Oh shit, I shouldn't be explaining all this shit.
40:07
Oh, oh, oh, don't worry. About it, it's AI really I've
40:10
I've been been loving our little lesson here.
40:13
You know, I actually, I actually know a guy whose last name is
40:17
Ortiz. Maybe he knows maybe he knows
40:19
the guy who wrote that that dissertation so many years ago.
40:23
But anyway, so you were saying either in or out, and I think
40:28
after your lovely explanation of things, I'm going to say out.
40:36
Exactly. Well then, you know, I think he
40:41
did. Really.
40:44
Well, you know, I always. Remove this.
40:47
Remember, it's going to be blowing like a.
40:50
Fairly toxic. Gas out of it and you don't want
40:55
to breathe it and with the machine disabled it was not
40:59
flammable but it is not breathable.
41:01
So hold your breath and make sure you turn off the shut off
41:05
valve after you pull it off. OK, so we're going to pull it
41:10
out. Don't breathe and then turn off
41:13
the valve. Yep.
41:16
OK. Do we like countdown or or just
41:21
do it? I'm holding a grenade, so that's
41:23
on you. Right, follow me on that.
41:26
Yep, got it. I guess I'll just, I'll just
41:29
pull it out. It spews this this air, it spews
41:36
this gas out and it's blue as it sort of smokes out and you do
41:42
your best to not have it blow into your face.
41:45
Roll evasion and then to shut off the valve roll basic tech or
41:54
brawling evasion 20. Yes, you manage to manipulate
41:58
the tube so it makes rings instead of a straight shot.
42:01
Oh, you hit the the valve and it snaps off and now it's
42:08
constantly spewing this gas everywhere.
42:12
Oh, now you're going to have to like tie it off like a, like a
42:14
loaf of bread. Tie it.
42:17
Off. Oh jeez.
42:19
Get. Fucking drunk and.
42:23
You succeed but take 4 damage. Oh, it is a metal.
42:27
Pipe. Oh God.
42:33
Oh, oh, that stuff is. It's kind of sweet.
42:37
Don't breathe more of it in and now all you have to do is pull
42:42
the other valve and. Then let me go.
42:45
Oh, OK. Last valve.
42:48
All right, Well, thanks, Professor.
42:52
And it's gonna. And now this one, The last one,
42:56
I was way, way too strong. It took more of a deft hand than
43:00
kind of a force. Brute force.
43:02
Machine. OK, OK.
43:04
So I should be slowed here. Oh well, that makes sense when
43:07
you put it like that. Just kind of deftly take this.
43:14
Down and you unscrew the other side, turning off the outside
43:19
access panel, and you've removed the firebomb from the top of the
43:22
library. Whoo.
43:24
Well, all right, great. Now, actually, if you could just
43:29
come right over here just to right, right where this thing
43:32
was. Yeah, just right next to me.
43:34
Yep, Yep. Yep, right over here, right over
43:37
here. OK, now keep holding that
43:38
grenade, obviously, obviously, and I'm just going to kind of
43:42
place this firebomb thing now that's kind of loose.
43:45
I'm just going to kind of place it right here on this little
43:48
shell. OK, stand right there.
43:50
I'm just going to take a step back and snap a picture.
43:56
All right, great. Go ahead and just hand me that
44:00
grenade right back. OK.
44:03
Thank you. And put that pin back in.
44:07
Roll for it, it's easy. But if you fuck this up.
44:12
I mean, I suppose there's another deft deft stealth
44:17
situation. Sure, yes you managed to save
44:21
the grenade and it is because you rolled a 22 like new.
44:26
The pin cannot fall out all. Right, put that back in here.
44:31
All right, Well, honestly, it has been an absolute pleasure.
44:38
Now, obviously I do have dirt on you.
44:43
So why don't we just go ahead and have you go back to making
44:48
inspiring the next generation. And I think we're all, we're all
44:52
set here 00. And if you could go ahead and
44:55
also send any information that you've gotten from the Dane,
44:59
send that to to to me. Here's my Here's my number.
45:03
But now, But now the but now he's going to hire the other guy
45:09
to kill my mother. Oh, no, yeah.
45:12
Oh, shoot the other guy. What do you look like?
45:16
Well, he had a huge tattoo on his chest that says Ram's head.
45:19
Oh, man. OK, we'll, we'll make sure that
45:22
we, we, we protect your mom. Don't, don't you worry about it.
45:25
As you can see, we are clearly the good guys in this situation.
45:31
Promise extra credit. Oh, of course, I mean, I I
45:34
wouldn't want any harm done to to your mom there or to you to
45:38
be quite honest, so. Do you pinky promise with him?
45:42
Oh absolutely. Get in here bud.
45:45
And he goes to grab your finger. Retro.
45:50
This is where you remember something about this professor.
45:55
He also teaches martial arts. Yeah, it does make sense why he
46:03
was a big fanatic on martial arts movies, but I mean, Jeb
46:13
wouldn't take him on, right? Bang Bang.
46:18
Getting here. He goes to grab your finger.
46:23
Roll Brawling. Oh, that's it, That's it.
46:27
Oh, that's a little tighter of a grip that whoa.
46:30
Roll brawling Brawling 16 does not beat 20 and he knocks you to
46:36
the ground. He has his foot under your neck
46:39
and you are now restrained. He also has your tile in his hat
46:43
that's really good that he can. Teach me that sometime.
46:48
Maybe. Hello friends.
46:51
Now I must apologize, but your friend is now in my grasp.
46:59
Yeah, he's teaching me how to do this one, don't worry.
47:02
About it. Who pushes your jaw shut with
47:04
his toe? Now, I'm not normally a fighter.
47:10
I don't really like doing this, but if I don't do this, not only
47:14
does he kill my mother, he also blackmails me.
47:17
I don't want to get into what he knows about me.
47:19
I would prefer if no one ever found out.
47:22
I just want to teach. Hello.
47:37
Next time on no latency. I would like to use my access
47:46
now with this drone. Oh man.
47:49
This is probably the best photo I've ever seen of you.
47:54
Yeah, well, he is a teacher of both, so.
47:56
Yeah, I could see that. Yeah.
48:00
Honorifics are important. Very excited about the.
48:05
Book on fire today, Vendell. You ever saw a man's mouth?
48:08
Shut. Oh dear.
48:09
Have have fun. It would probably be painful and
48:13
require sedation. Phoebe and I.
48:15
Yeah, that, that's the thing. So go and confront the
48:17
professor. Did you want me on team?
48:20
You're going to have to hold them down.
48:22
Outside of the room I can do that.
48:24
Yes. Randomly sticking objects and
48:27
orifices in his body at work. I mean, come on.
48:30
No. I'm going to stand outside the
48:32
room and hear it apparently is what I've decided I'm going to
48:35
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