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  Last time on no latency. Clive I really want that
• 0:06
  jetpack. Are we going to run into people?
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  Between your jetpack and my hoverboard, I think we're ready
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  to go. Sewer people Wait, wait, wait,
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  wait. We're going to be in hazmat
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  suits. Will they be hostile?
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  Well. Now I'm nervous about my head.
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  I'm sure you've never gotten any complaints.
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  Did we decide on which net runner we wanted to go with?
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  Four. F4 E What is happening here?
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  Oh God. OK, so he's the one.
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  The AI or whatever is down and they're waiting for us.
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  Room with the USB port. Pretty much.
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  OK, nine, you're coming with us on this job the.
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  Innovation, The jolly, the whimsy.
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  One of these days I'm going to catch you and I'm going to fix
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  that mute button of yours. As a gunk, I kind of understood.
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  It I don't know how good my sewing skills are anymore.
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  It's time. I mean, I'm ready.
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  I got my jet back. I've been ready to go like this
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  whole time. Wait what insurance level are
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  you? That depends on the co-pay.
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  It was under 1000. It was only 680 eddies.
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  That's. Not bad.
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  It's not bad that buy that buy. Insurance, yeah, because.
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  That's not bad. That's what the dice said.
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  That's nice. Fucking fantasy still.
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  Yeah, I've got this really cool old black D10 and I rolled a
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  gold one with it. I know it's very fancy.
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  What colour is the what? Colour is the are the numbers.
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  Black. Oh no, it's easy to read that.
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  I was going to say. No, you.
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  Have the leg black. And shinier than the rest.
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  I'm not sure if I'm Vendel in this moment, so I'm going to say
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  with the voice. Who's not Vandel in any moment,
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  this is true. We're all vandel.
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  We are all Vandel on this blessed day.
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  You're driving through the city and out there in the streets,
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  you're heading to this little area in the combat zone.
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  So, Jeb, to avoid any other interruptions or a driving
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  check. 20. 66 Yes, that's enough.
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  Yes, you find some good back alleys and avenues to make your
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  adventure through the nasty streets of the Combat Zone near
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  Sharks cards. Take a turn through the streets
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  and you'll be there in a few minutes.
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  All right, lock and load. We'll be there in a few minutes.
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  I I I load all my weapons. All of them.
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  Smile there's. A lot of weapons.
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  Being out there right through. Never enough.
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  He is OK walking and loading. I don't.
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  Know why Three Days Grace just popped in my head?
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  And you arrive on a small St. you believe the sewers to be
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  located. Oh man, look at the amount of
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  vending machines. If there's anything I know, it's
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  that we got to check those out first before we do anything
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  else. Everybody got their hazmat
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  suits. You you turn around and Iona is
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  it's just beaming already in a hazmat suit.
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  I don't. Live in a hazmat suit they
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  could. Oh, that's not very conspicuous.
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  It's tailored. You did overnight roll wardrobe
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  in style, That's amazing. Absolutely.
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  Give me one moment, give me one moment.
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  Yes, you do not make the suit any worse, but you also for a 13
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  don't make it that much better so it fits you.
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  It's nice. I just added some darts in the
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  side. Yes, absolutely.
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  Yeah, it, it cinches at the waist a little bit.
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  Oh, that's nice. I don't know.
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  I should ask you to tailor mine too.
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  Look at how bulky this thing is. I just, you know, sometimes I
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  just the hourglass figure I have, I just have to accentuate
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  the hazmat suit just. How big are these hat mats
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  suits? Like now I'm thinking we're all
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  just walking out there like looking like.
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  Yellow, yeah. We do like the monsters.
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  Think it's. Kind of snatched.
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  Everybody except for Iona is just walking around looking like
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  a a pea coloured version of the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man.
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  Or Iona is just like Slack. Yes.
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  Correct. Your slant I need a bulldog
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  clip. There's too much I.
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  Feel like I'm running around inside of an inflatable
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  dinosaur. Jeb, where did you park the van?
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  You know, over here next to the next to the vending machine,
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  parallel parked. Oh, wait a minute.
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  Backed in. There we go.
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  Nice. Wait a minute, I want to double
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  check that. Is that a vending machine?
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  This thing down here that says Vend, Yeah.
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  Vended God. I I was, I was a little worried
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  for a second. I was like, Jeb, maybe it's
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  actually the place where you got to sometimes pay for parking.
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  Name nothing like that. There's any machines all over
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  the city? It seems.
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  Argument for a vending machine, Jeb.
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  Huh. Do you always stop for a vending
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  machine, Jeb? Well, not all the time, but you
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  know, I tried. I tried to stop out of any
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  machine near whatever destination I'm going to so I
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  can always check out the vending machine on my way.
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  Oh, OK, odd. Is it?
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  Let's forgot we got a whole squad here.
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  We're rolling deep. The gang's all here.
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  OK, I hate to be the one to do this, but I feel that we need to
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  put some responsibilities on people for doing this.
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  So who's going to be watching for radioactive activity?
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  Like we're not in the radioactive zone yet, right?
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  No, but you have the detector retro.
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  The Geiger counter. The P bucket?
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  No, that's the shield. Just kidding.
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  So someone's got to be holding on to the P bucket and protect
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  that. Someone's got to be in charge of
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  the Geiger counter. I'll I'll take cold of the
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  Geiger counter and keep track of our radioactivity.
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  Nice. I should probably take the pee
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  bucket then because we need to have our best fighters to be
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  having their hands open in case something happens, right?
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  Good plan. And then I own as the face.
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  So you can't be, you can't be holding anything, otherwise you
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  look weak, so. Yes.
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  How are we supposed to know who's the leader if everybody's
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  carrying something? Yes, I you know what?
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  You're I'll let you, you know what?
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  You are a leader. You will be a leader.
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  No, let let me carry the P bucket you said.
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  You said our fighters. I can't shoot worth a damn.
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  But you're the face. I am the face.
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  And you can't look weak. And the waist.
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  I mean, sure. Well, it's because of the
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  outfit. I'm making a reference to a
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  thing you did earlier. I know I just when you said it,
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  I, I, I. I Oh, it's a harmony I.
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  Took the homonym. Yeah.
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  It was like, oh, that's a backhand.
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  It's it's supplement. Waste of space.
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  I meant the bit between the butt and the chest I.
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  May just got it. Me, no, Jeb said.
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  A waste of space and I knew what the hell meant.
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  OK, your expression. So we, yeah, I'm taking a look
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  at this. I mean, while we're here, mods
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  will take a look at this vending machine.
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  No. Yeah, just in case.
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  Roll the D6. Did anyone aside from me bring a
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  bag? It's just six.
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  You wrote a six. I have my medical bag.
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  I mean, you know, for this entire time, throughout all of
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  the adventures that we've had for the past like four or five
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  years or whatever, I've actually had a satchel.
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  Do you guys know about this? Oh.
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  Yeah, every time I see you, you've got a satchel on.
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  Yeah, I think I actually pointed out like episode like 2 of this
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  entire series and it's never come up, but I actually have had
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  a satchel this entire time. Yeah, and DD has a boom box.
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  Oh yeah, I do have. A always, always.
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  And I carry around my little. Forget.
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  I don't think we need the boom box.
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  It might make a good distraction actually.
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  It does come in handy when you least expect it.
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  We should bring the boom box. All right, I'll bring the boom
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  box. It's got a strap so.
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  True. I'm just, you know, I got the
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  Geiger counter, I got my medical bag, I got the boom box.
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  I'm pretty full up everybody. Your hoverboard folds into the
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  boom box as well, so right. It's like a little storage
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  thing, yeah. While while you're all
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  discussing this Jeb, you turn around and look at the vending
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  machine and find. Oh look at that.
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  Looks like we got a a Med patch, a skilled chip, and oh, a
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  rocket. Well, I don't have a don't have
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  a rocket launcher and I don't know, I don't feel like spending
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  1000 eddies on a skill trip is a good use of my money right now.
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  So and damn those are some expensive Med patches.
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  Yeah. Looks like I'm I'm all good.
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  Wait, did you just say rocket? I did, yeah, it's actually.
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  I run over and I pushed you up out of the way.
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  Jeb, you get pushed out of the way for elevation.
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  Nuts fall in these trash bags that are right.
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  Here now I'll just follow them. OK Jeb, you fall on 2 trash
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  bags, they are gross. You wearing a husband suit?
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  It doesn't matter. I buy the rocket for 100.
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  For 100 I buy the rocket. I buy the rocket.
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  The skill chip is the rarest skill chip.
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  By the way, Jeb, you rolled incredibly well on this vending
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  machine, and you rolled the times 2 skill skill chip, which
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  could be bought for at times 2 skill.
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  If they don't want it, I'll buy it.
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  I am going to sneak in here Remy real fast and get that Med patch
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  because Vivi's bag is is a finite supply.
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  Cool. True.
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  So I'm going to you pay 250 eddies and pull the Med patch
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  just from the side Retro as he stares at the selector for the
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  skilled chip. Yeah, I've gotten into like
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  Pokémon scalper mode right now and just full protective
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  hovering over it. Unless anyone else is saying
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  that they want that skill trip, I'm going to buy that skill trip
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  skill selection required. I was going to say martial arts,
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  but. You've already got that.
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  No, I don't. Not for martial arts.
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  Oh, do you not know? Can we?
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  Can we? Can we insert it later?
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  I have to go look up times 2. I think the obvious choice is
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  auto fire, but that's just me. Oh, auto fire.
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  Yeah, Actually, auto fire is a pretty good one.
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  Yeah, let's go with auto fire, OK?
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  You buy an auto fire skill chip for 1000 eddies.
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  Anyone with a skills chip slot can use it.
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  Woo Hoo, now this feels like heavy metal.
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  Now you're standing in this street.
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  You've parked your van onto the sidewalk in this abandoned area,
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  and on the other side of the street you see a bunch of boxes.
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  There are a few more vending machines and between some of the
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  boxes and crates you can see some people and some stuff.
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  People and stuff. I love stuff.
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  Where is the entrance to the sewers that is supposed to be
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  around here? I suppose we'll have to look
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  around, Jeb. Isn't that what you normally do?
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  No, that's not really a math thing, but I see what you're
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  saying. We the collective.
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  Should we check out these other vending machines before?
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  Now, I suppose we should probably get rid of this person,
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  this person that's here up here and sitting on a a couch in the
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  middle of the street, probably get them out of here.
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  We don't want any witnesses or anything in case someone comes
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  looking for us, you know all. Right, I'm going to run across
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  the street. Iona you cross the street and
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  it's quiet so it requires no roll.
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  You walk up to this vending machine and you have rolled a
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  full on lovely 6 and you also find 3 different items in this
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  one. Unfortunately the spending
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  machine is broken. Roll AD 10 3.
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  The vending machine does not have the next two items.
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  It is broken. Unfortunately, it sparks as you
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  come close to it and goes dark. Mother Trucker.
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  Well, Mother Trucker. Job job.
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  Do you want to check the other one?
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  Yeah, sure, one. Broken. 4 You find two things in
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  this vending machine. This.
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  One's kind of like glass themed. It's got blue glass and a glass
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  grenade. What'd you say, blue glass?
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  Blue. Glass.
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  I love me blue glass. I mean, it's honestly pretty
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  cheap. No, we're not taking any blue
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  glass with us. Look, if we're going to be in
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  the wasteland, might as well get wild with it, right?
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  No. It's really that's like smash.
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  Any of that is fine. Blue glass is like heroin.
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  Isn't it? It's more like peyote, really.
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  It's not good for you that. Makes you hallucinate a lot of
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  really cool shit. Well, I don't think that that
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  would be the best idea for. Agreed.
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  Raiding the Arasaka I. Mean it'll.
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  Definitely. You know, the high will come
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  down by the time we get there. I mean, we got to walk a bit of
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  a distance, right? So, like, come on, let's enjoy
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  nature. How often do we get to do that,
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  you know? By nature do you mean the
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  sewers? Yeah.
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  Ah, no, thank you. Well, it'll make your demeanor
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  not as snarky. I don't think that's true, is
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  it? Are you just nicer on blue
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  glass? Hold on.
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  Just real quick. Sorry, out of character real
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  quick. Did you say that it it's like
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  paella? No peyote.
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  Peyote. OK, it's.
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  Like the fish dish, it's. Like paella is a dish.
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  Look. It's.
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  Delicious. It's like peyote, but it tastes
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  like paella. Whoa.
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  Blue glass, like, Like the glass you find on the beach that's
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  been eroded, it looks like. That's nice.
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  I would. It does look pretty.
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  I do. But no judge.
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  Maybe grenade Jeb. Maybe we should get that grenade
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  that looks good. You know, I've never actually
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  never tried a a glass grenade before.
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  I think I'll take a a few of those.
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  How many got in there? I'm rolling AD 43.
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  Doesn't joy make those? Joy does make those.
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  I'll take some of those. So just so you're aware, Jeff,
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  do you know what a glass grenade does?
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  Nope, don't tell me until I use it.
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  OK, wait. Why are we buying glass
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  grenades? We have glass grenades at home.
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  Yeah, I mean, I, you know, they're right here.
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  We didn't bring any with us though, so.
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  They're not homemade glass grenades.
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  We could have gotten. You better than.
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  McDonald's. I bet could have asked nicely.
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  When was the last time anyone talked to Joy?
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  I haven't. I haven't.
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  I said goodbye. I didn't.
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  Oh, I have not. I have not done assessments on
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  joy in in some time. Yes.
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  You're her physician? Yeah, she lost an arm.
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  Yeah, I kind of messed up there. That's OK, You're not really a
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  doctor doctor anymore. You're more of an adventurer.
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  Yeah, this is true. Feel come back, Medic.
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  Yeah and also I am a a a bad ass bitch.
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  Correct. I mean.
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  Don't you forget it. Clock that Vivi bad ass bitch.
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  Yeah, I. Don't know how you all screwed
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  up. Anytime we see I see Joy, I just
• 18:21
  give her the what's up, but nod and then they give me the what's
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  up, nod back and we're like cool and that's it.
• 18:30
  Sounds like you 2 are really close.
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  You wouldn't believe the connection that we have with
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  that, with just being a wireless.
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  Have you ever noticed that when you're like around somebody and
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  you're too uncomfortable, so you feel like at the talk, talk,
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  talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, when
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  you're around somebody comfortable, you can just be
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  like, yeah, and you already know.
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  And I thought being in a book club with joy was special.
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  I get it, GM. Yes.
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  Can I make AI forget? Is there perception in this
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  game? Yes, very much so.
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  You have a very high perception as well.
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  What could be under? Oh, everybody went back to Jade
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  not knowing how the game plays. Oh, good.
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  OK, that took it. That took a few episodes.
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  Here we. How to worry?
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  There for a second. Oh. 19 Yes.
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  Is there anything specific you want to know?
• 19:31
  Two things actually. I would like to listen with my
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  listening ears to see if the people behind the boxes that are
• 19:41
  directly next to us are saying anything about us while I scan
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  the area for anything that looks out of place that might be an
• 19:49
  entrance. OK, so between the two vending
• 19:52
  machines you see a hatch on the ground.
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  You notice that it's pretty dusty and hasn't been opened in
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  a while. You're unsure if it can even
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  open. What you hear on the other side
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  are two people talking pretty casually.
• 20:07
  They seem pretty used to people driving by.
• 20:09
  They they seem like they've been here for a while.
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  The thing you notice about the little area they're in before
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  really listening is the potted plant right there.
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  Looks like it came from a corporate lobby.
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  Oh. 3000 miles of open Rd.
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  The Chip and retro show. Oh man, this is going to be
• 20:46
  tough. Join Jeff.
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  Wakey wakey, sleepy Princess. And retro.
• 20:51
  I did not agree to this, Jeff. On the road trip of a lifetime.
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  Oh yes, she did. Fans got some tunes on the mix.
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  No, it was the second car to the left.
• 21:03
  As they take on Route 66. The Jab and Retro show brought
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• 21:19
  Forward slash. No latency and check out more at
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  nolatencypodcast.com. We'll just have to ship some of
• 21:35
  the stuff out. I mean, that briefcase has got
• 21:37
  to be worth something. Yeah, but we really don't have
• 21:40
  enough gear for the sale, so we've got to just hold the door.
• 21:46
  I bring something good. Yeah.
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  I suppose I just hate waiting. Well, the last time you went
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  down there, you got hurt. Now your foot is burned.
• 21:58
  Yeah, but I just. We're going to have to spend
• 22:02
  some of our loot on repairing your goddamn foot.
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  Now you got to be more careful. I I.
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  Don't you hear them disappointingly sigh?
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  Only J only I don't want to cut that right.
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  And VB because VB has super ears.
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  Oh yeah. Because I was going to say, I
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  don't think I heard any of that because I'm no staring at this
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  blue glass like it's a hot pie on a windowsill at the moment.
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  Salivate. Floating through the air.
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  I tasting drugs. Retro Over your shoulder comes a
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  hand wrapped in a hazmat suit. Retro you can resist.
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  Let's go. Roll something to convince me.
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  I rolled A9 so. I.
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  All right, pseudo dad. I do have to let you guys know
• 23:07
  that I think that these two over here, sorry, sorry.
• 23:12
  I think that these two over here might know where the entrance
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  is. Like, look, OK, look, look at
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  that plant that's obviously from a lobby somewhere.
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  That's not just an outdoor potted plant, that's indoor
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  decor. How do you know?
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  Can we tell if it's a real plant or is it one of those fake bio
• 23:38
  plants that they have nowadays inside of corporations that
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  never wilt or anything because it's really more of a furniture
• 23:45
  piece and not a living item anymore?
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  Oh. It's it is 100% not a real
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  plant. OK, so there ain't no
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  chlorophyll in that thing? No, it is not.
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  What? What?
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  Not osmosis for photosynthesizing?
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  There's no sun anyway, so. Oh yeah, that's what it's
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  called. So what are we going to do?
• 24:07
  Should should we convince them to tell us where it is?
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  Or cure the face so. I think so, I think.
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  Come on, Phoebe, cure the ears. You, you take the lead, Iona.
• 24:19
  I'll, I'll back up. I'm just the ass. 9 Shut the
• 24:26
  fuck up. Nice little hazmats, it's just.
• 24:30
  Wiggling in the way. Come on, we gave 9A hazmat suit.
• 24:34
  You don't even. Need 10 of suit.
• 24:36
  Because you have 10 of them. If we're fun, why wouldn't we?
• 24:40
  Everybody. Look at how cute he looks.
• 24:42
  You know what? I wasn't sure if it was going to
• 24:43
  be fun. It is fun.
• 24:49
  All right, I'm covering on the corner in my house about suit.
• 24:55
  Yeah, but also snatched. So it's so cyberpunk.
• 25:00
  I'm going to I'm going to say actually, you know what Jade
• 25:03
  this is? This is something I should have
• 25:05
  done the moment you did that inspiration.
• 25:07
  It's very good. Thank you.
• 25:08
  It's so Iona you get that? So you walk into this little
• 25:13
  area and it looks like these people have kind of set up shop.
• 25:15
  As you turn the corner, you see them casually talking to each
• 25:18
  other. They're not really guarding.
• 25:20
  One of them has a gun, but it's in their holster.
• 25:23
  And in this little corner you see a red sofa, a water cooler,
• 25:28
  a desk, some chairs, and that plant.
• 25:34
  And then right in the middle there's a hatch on the ground.
• 25:37
  Do I also see said briefcase? You see said briefcase, this
• 25:42
  blue briefcase. What are we doing?
• 25:54
  Did you move along? Yeah.
• 25:57
  Move along. Well it it seems like you have
• 26:03
  something that I need and all I would like is to enter.
• 26:11
  Enter what? Yeah, we don't know what you're
• 26:14
  talking about. I point with the Hatch on the
• 26:16
  ground. So in front of the Hatch on the
• 26:18
  ground you see some Japanese text.
• 26:22
  It says secret hatch do not open.
• 26:24
  Japanese text on ground click. The text is probably old.
• 26:29
  Text is old, probably pre the red.
• 26:33
  I really wish. Is this considered kanji?
• 26:37
  Yes. Yeah, I hold on.
• 26:40
  Let me Iona knows Japanese, apparently.
• 26:51
  I do know that this is the entrance to the Arisaka
• 26:54
  building. It says it right there.
• 26:58
  That's what that says. Well, finders keepers, losers,
• 27:04
  fuck off. I think that's the wrong answer.
• 27:08
  Do you want to try again? Roll for it.
• 27:16
  See, I would talk smack about you, but I I fear that the dice
• 27:26
  karma will blow up in my face. All right?
• 27:32
  No, I I really think you should just let me into the Hatch.
• 27:40
  Look, you seem like a nice person and unusually well
• 27:46
  prepared to go in. It's not good down there.
• 27:53
  We've been waiting for a buddy for a while, but it's too
• 27:55
  dangerous for us to go in. I'm hurt, so is she.
• 28:00
  Like, I would shoot you, but I can't really get up.
• 28:02
  I'm just trying to rest. We didn't get much on our last
• 28:06
  run. If you're scavenging like all
• 28:07
  the good stuff is passing really gnarly radiation.
• 28:11
  You just want to tell them everything.
• 28:13
  Well, they're old in 19 and they don't seem like they're going to
• 28:15
  hurt us if we just tell them what they want to know.
• 28:18
  You are very smart. I might have the low voice, but
• 28:23
  I'm actually pretty smart. Well, listen, I.
• 28:26
  Select this briefcase. What's in the briefcase?
• 28:30
  Nothing. That you know of.
• 28:33
  Well I opened it, there was nothing in it.
• 28:35
  It's just pre war, you know pre red, so it's worth something to
• 28:39
  a collector. 20 bucks. More than that, dude.
• 28:45
  You know these are my friends also.
• 28:48
  Square head dude kind of weird in that suit.
• 28:52
  Better than a flat ass. Got him dude.
• 28:58
  I suppose you got me. Honestly man, I really do feel
• 29:01
  bad for you. Your tailbone is really going to
• 29:03
  be hurting you when you hit your 40s.
• 29:06
  Oh, thanks. She could have checked out.
• 29:11
  I guess I just need to see a doctor.
• 29:13
  Nudge. No comment.
• 29:16
  There's nothing you can do for flat butt syndrome,
• 29:18
  unfortunately. Nothing.
• 29:26
  Nothing you can do. So are you just going?
• 29:29
  To go down there. Yes, and if you let us pass, we
• 29:34
  can keep an eye out for your friend.
• 29:37
  That seems fair, but who's going to keep an eye on that?
• 29:43
  She points across the street at your car.
• 29:45
  Oh. Jeb.
• 29:51
  Jeb, that's you. You know, never really thought
• 29:55
  about that, but there's a good chance that, I don't know, this
• 29:59
  kind of feels like like what we've been leading up to for the
• 30:03
  past like, year or so. So, you know, I figure we'll be
• 30:07
  down there for quite a while and who knows if all of us are going
• 30:10
  to make it out alive. So maybe it is best that we put
• 30:15
  Vanna Wyatt somewhere safe. Or we could call up somebody and
• 30:23
  keep an eye, like call a friend to keep an eye on it or or at
• 30:28
  least take it and put it somewhere safe.
• 30:30
  You know what? Tuna, I bet.
• 30:32
  Tuna, Yeah, would want to take it.
• 30:35
  An eye on it. And then if anything happens to
• 30:38
  us, I I say we give it to him. If I die, I say it goes to him.
• 30:45
  OK, I think that's a good idea. All right, one SEC.
• 30:51
  Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on.
• 30:54
  He's already dialing, you know that.
• 30:56
  Yeah, wait, I put a lot of work into that jab.
• 31:00
  Vanna White is just as much mine as is yours.
• 31:03
  Hey, Tuna. Hey, tell you what, we're on the
• 31:07
  corner of 43rd and Pine. And if you just want to come
• 31:14
  grab Vanna White and take her back to to your place.
• 31:20
  We're about to go on a real, real big mission here.
• 31:23
  And you know, who knows what can happen to us?
• 31:27
  So if something does, you know, feel free to keep her.
• 31:32
  It's all yours. OK.
• 31:37
  Do you want me to do maintenance?
• 31:41
  I mean, yeah, that'd be great all.
• 31:43
  Right, you're off. Sure, if you're alive, I'm still
• 31:49
  going to charge you. But if I'm not.
• 31:53
  I'll keep the van. You got it all right, Cory,
• 31:55
  Crystal clear. You have a great one buddy all.
• 31:57
  Right. Make sure somebody's watching
• 31:59
  it. It'll take me a few hours to get
• 32:01
  there. I've got hours.
• 32:02
  Oh shit. Yeah, just some fucking MPC.
• 32:07
  You'll be fine, all right. Good luck.
• 32:09
  Don't. Die.
• 32:12
  Thanks. Cannot believe you.
• 32:16
  Your phone or your? Your tile, what do we call it?
• 32:20
  Yeah, it's a flip. It's a flip tile.
• 32:22
  Your flip tile to the old ones made a.
• 32:23
  Really strange squelching noise. Have you closed it?
• 32:28
  Is it sticky? To really clean that Jeb.
• 32:30
  Yeah. Oh, it's, I mean, wait, who's
• 32:32
  tile? Who isn't sticky, You know what
• 32:33
  I mean? Mine.
• 32:37
  Really. OK, but retro, yours is
• 32:40
  definitely sticky, am I right? No, I clean mine all the time.
• 32:44
  What are you talking about? Clean it how you supposed to
• 32:46
  clean it. These things are not waterproof.
• 32:50
  It's it's a hand in rag dude, come on.
• 32:54
  Hard work put in the hard work work.
• 32:58
  I mean, it's just a tool at OK, you don't look at me like you
• 33:02
  don't. Take a lot of.
• 33:03
  A lot of people have sticky tiles.
• 33:05
  When you don't take care of your tools and you fail your tool,
• 33:09
  you are inevitably to have your tool fail you.
• 33:11
  That's. A good thing.
• 33:14
  Yeah, OK, Dad and and Jeb walks away going down the they're
• 33:18
  going down the street. Hello.
• 33:19
  Is anyone available to watch my car for let's say fifty 80s?
• 33:24
  I just, I just offered to that guy, did he not?
• 33:27
  Oh, I. Missed it.
• 33:29
  Oh, Jeb down down here. Jeb down here.
• 33:31
  Oh. Oh yeah.
• 33:33
  The these lovely people who are going to let us into the Hatch.
• 33:38
  We'll watch the car. Fifty 80s.
• 33:41
  What do you think? Road Trading.
• 33:46
  Oh, guy. Hey, you're good at that.
• 33:50
  I am good at that. People forget about that.
• 33:52
  Yeah, you're very good at trading.
• 33:55
  I was out tempted to try to pull a Joe Henry.
• 33:58
  Trade this money with that service. 23, yes. 50 all day.
• 34:03
  It's because you know what? It's because people just
• 34:06
  appreciate how straight laced and, you know, straight is
• 34:08
  narrow that Jeb is. He says I've got money, you've
• 34:11
  got service, let's do a trade. Sometimes he's got the service
• 34:15
  and you've got the money. Oh.
• 34:17
  My God, you're. So awful.
• 34:21
  Oh yeah, we're all going in. That wasn't.
• 34:22
  Clear. We we should really get going
• 34:28
  now. We are a little conspicuous.
• 34:30
  Could you? Let's just get going.
• 34:34
  Don't get up. I, I, I know that your, your
• 34:37
  butt is flat and it probably hurts.
• 34:38
  We'll, we'll just, we'll just go.
• 34:42
  Thank you again. Thank you for not stealing my
• 34:45
  briefcase. You can have it.
• 34:47
  I I don't want your briefcase, Your empty briefcase.
• 34:50
  It's cool. It is cool.
• 34:56
  Yeah. Congratulations.
• 34:57
  When you find that hidden pocket, it'd be good times.
• 35:03
  Yeah, I just be careful down there, scavengers.
• 35:06
  And he salutes you like he thinks you're all scavengers
• 35:11
  because you rolled high. Jeff salutes.
• 35:16
  I also salute I. Don't salute.
• 35:24
  Not surprised you find yourselves in this old abandoned
• 35:35
  sewer. You make your way down into this
• 35:40
  underground space, and in this little room there are a few
• 35:46
  pieces of trash. There's an old metal plate,
• 35:50
  there's an old vending machine for some reason down here, and a
• 35:54
  crate marked Arasaka. 2 crates marked Arasaka.
• 36:00
  Are they open? No, they're just big old
• 36:04
  chipping crates. They're more like boxes that you
• 36:06
  can move and climb. They're rather large.
• 36:08
  They're about 5 feet across. What are they made of?
• 36:12
  Wood. Metal, Wood.
• 36:15
  Damn, I'd like to inspect one to see if I can crack it open.
• 36:21
  Sure. Perception.
• 36:23
  I'm sure there's nothing in it, but I'll be damned if you're
• 36:26
  going to pull a Final Fantasy 7 on me and have one of the best
• 36:29
  damn weapons in the 1st 15 minutes.
• 36:33
  You knock on it and it sounds hollow, but it also sounds
• 36:37
  really sturdy. Would be good cover in a fight.
• 36:41
  Hollow but sturdy. Like a like it could contain
• 36:46
  something, but the one that you are tapping does not.
• 36:50
  OK. Anybody else?
• 36:56
  Oh hey, VV doc, you mind taking a look?
• 37:01
  Can you just double check that it's, you know, full of fuel and
• 37:04
  it's all ready to go? You can run a diagnostic I
• 37:06
  think, if you just press the the three buttons at the top at the
• 37:09
  same time and hold it for three seconds.
• 37:12
  OK, hold for three seconds. Are you sure?
• 37:17
  Don't. Hold it for 5 though, because
• 37:19
  then it will do a full reboot and it will sputter a little
• 37:23
  bit. So don't hold it 3 seconds only,
• 37:24
  OK? OK, one Mississippi, two no.
• 37:28
  No, they're not Mississippi. No, not Mississippi seconds.
• 37:35
  You get a, you get 3. Green lights your jet.
• 37:38
  Pack is your jet. Pack is has a little counter on
• 37:41
  it for how many times it has been flown and it lists one.
• 37:45
  Nash Hell yeah. OK, Hell yeah.
• 37:51
  All right, well, no one else is going to.
• 37:52
  I'm just going to go ahead and check the vending machine, all
• 37:55
  right? Five.
• 38:00
  If you find 2, I'm alive. #5 is alive.
• 38:06
  This vending machine is full of cool shades of very different
• 38:09
  descriptions and a few different packets of bubble tea.
• 38:13
  You know what, I I, I just want to go with the joke now that I
• 38:15
  want to make, I want to, I actually want to buy those cool
• 38:19
  shades, just like Johnny #5 from Short Circuit.
• 38:23
  Hell yeah 5 eddies. And then I realized I can't wear
• 38:28
  them because I have ATV for a head.
• 38:30
  What the fuck you thinking? Shall we head to the store and
• 38:39
  go through? Blaze fart.
• 38:42
  You open the door, you step into another room.
• 38:46
  There are a few more crates in here that the other end of the
• 38:49
  room is a little computer terminal at the locked door.
• 38:55
  Oh, retro. Would you like to look around
• 39:02
  the room before you call retros? I call retro and then I begin to
• 39:06
  proceed and look around at these crates and things.
• 39:09
  Sure, right? Roll Perception Yes 18 Yes, you
• 39:14
  discover on the N wall a little vent hatch that's locked.
• 39:19
  Oh OK, there's a vent here in case retro you can't get through
• 39:25
  that keypad do. You want to try and unlock it
• 39:28
  PV? Are you compelled?
• 39:32
  Yeah, you know what? Shoot, it's locked.
• 39:38
  Let me try. Let me try my skill.
• 39:41
  And if not? Maybe Jeb you can help.
• 39:45
  Yeah, sure, why not? Yeah, Jeb's really good at
• 39:48
  knowing about how events work. Yep, a lot of experience.
• 39:52
  Yeah, I'm a bit I'm a bit of a damn of a of a vent planner.
• 39:58
  Come on, come on. VV Iona 9.
• 40:02
  I know you like that one Nine. That's right up your alley,
• 40:04
  buddy. I don't.
• 40:05
  Get it? Baby shakes her head.
• 40:06
  There's like an E Vance planner, like a like a plan evance, but
• 40:10
  it's just a vent because I'm I'm known as kind of the vent guy
• 40:13
  around here. You haven't been on many
• 40:15
  missions thus recently, but Vance kind of crawling around,
• 40:18
  Vance being sneaky, shooting people with my two guns, having
• 40:21
  a bird, kind of the whole thing. Bebe you with a 17 unlock vent
• 40:30
  and it flies open. Oh.
• 40:33
  That wasn't too difficult. OK, this fence are open in case
• 40:41
  we are feeling vents. Oh, I am.
• 40:44
  I'm going in. OK.
• 40:47
  Good luck, Jeb. Check check the Geiger counter
• 40:49
  first. Oh yeah, yeah, that's probably a
• 40:51
  good idea. I just like stick my hand.
• 40:54
  Oh, Jeb's already in. You detect no no radiation
• 40:59
  inside of these vents. Thank God Jeb didn't grow up
• 41:02
  during play space times hours. He's in there running around
• 41:08
  like a hamster. Jeb, you explore these tunnels?
• 41:15
  Yep. Oh yeah, Jeb in his element.
• 41:19
  He likes to sing to himself a little bit.
• 41:20
  Jeb, I'm Jeb in a turtle. Go, Dad.
• 41:37
  You come up against a grate which has some like debris on
• 41:40
  it. It's just trash.
• 41:43
  Very easy to remove, no roll whatsoever.
• 41:45
  You just have to ask. You brush the trash away and
• 41:49
  through these bars in the wall, you peek into this little room.
• 41:56
  I would like to say I am trying to open the door, however I'm
• 42:00
  also being very lazy about it so I'm just brute forcing 000000.
• 42:05
  Doesn't work. 0000100002. While Retro is doing that, Jeb
• 42:12
  role perception OK. I've been this entire time I've
• 42:19
  been trying to remember Iona's risky.
• 42:25
  Risky. What are you doing here bud?
• 42:31
  OK, oh, perception take. A look.
• 42:33
  All right. Hey everyone, can you, can you
• 42:35
  see through? Well, at least Iona, can you see
• 42:37
  through Risky Risky's eyes? I blink.
• 42:40
  I blink. Yeah, yes, yes, I can see.
• 42:43
  So you. Can see this.
• 42:44
  Too, Inside this tiny room, you see some old Japanese written on
• 42:52
  the ground. You see a panel on the other
• 42:56
  side of the wall that looks a lot like the door panel in the
• 42:58
  room you just left. And there's like a metal robot
• 43:02
  on the ground and it's moving around and finding bits of trash
• 43:09
  and debris and it looks like it's eating it.
• 43:15
  Well, well, well, looks like we've got our first son of a
• 43:22
  bitch. I would have to agree.
• 43:27
  Is that a trash robot? Does is does it just eat trash?
• 43:32
  Throw it around the ring and eat trash.
• 43:37
  You watch it glow and it drops a cube behind it.
• 43:40
  Oh, it's. Like a walleye.
• 43:44
  A what? A walleye.
• 43:48
  You know, them trash robots go around, they're kind of cubic in
• 43:51
  nature and they kind of scrunch up all the the trash in and when
• 43:55
  they come back in two cubes poop Mount Black.
• 43:58
  Oh, a Walley. A Walley.
• 44:01
  Oh, all right. I didn't know that's what they
• 44:03
  were called. Yeah.
• 44:05
  We seem outside out in the the bad.
• 44:07
  It moves up to the great looking at you through its single eye.
• 44:13
  Risky's going to back the fuck up.
• 44:15
  Risky's like away. And you hear it start to angrily
• 44:27
  grasp at the bars since it heard you.
• 44:30
  The noise scrapes and sends a chill down your spine.
• 44:33
  Roll. Resist torture drugs.
• 44:35
  Yeah, there you go. 15 Not enough sends a chill up your
• 44:49
  spine and you don't pay attention and you scrape your
• 44:52
  hand on some of the metal in this little corner of the sewers
• 45:00
  and you take 1D6 damage. Sadly just a one, but it still
• 45:05
  hurts. The other thing you noticed in
• 45:09
  there is the panel of right across from that little grate is
• 45:13
  displaying a red error symbol or something wrong with it.
• 45:18
  Do you make your way back to the crew?
• 45:23
  Yeah, looks like about going in that way.
• 45:29
  You continue to hear over here 204. 520462047.
• 45:38
  Rob Perception. Wait.
• 45:41
  Oh, Nope, You find nothing. Yep.
• 45:51
  Dust myself off? Well, that's a pretty good
• 45:57
  venge, not to say. There is a room past this room
• 46:03
  with a Wall-e. Yeah.
• 46:10
  It looked violent on the video. It did look pretty violent.
• 46:14
  Well, that ain't no wall-e then. Wall-e ain't violent.
• 46:18
  The door suddenly opens behind you. 300076-O got it finally.
• 46:24
  It startles all of you. There's a green glow in the
• 46:29
  distance. Oh.
• 46:32
  And the darkness feels like it harms.
• 46:36
  Oh. That's not good.
• 46:52
  Next time on no latency. It's detecting a bit more
• 46:59
  radiation that way, so that is bad Did.
• 47:02
  You guys hear that? Who replied to my knock?
• 47:04
  What do you mean who replied to your knock?
• 47:06
  I take a look at the door. Oh my God.
• 47:09
  That guy should be fucking. Fired 09, come back 9.
• 47:12
  Are we locking alone the game alone?
• 47:14
  Come back. Oh yeah, no retro.
• 47:16
  Fully radioactive there. Was that the sound you heard
• 47:19
  earlier? Dora, it's just like a little
• 47:21
  like bachelor pad down here or what?
• 47:23
  Something not making sense here. We won't know now.
• 47:25
  All right, somebody grabbed the bucket.
• 47:27
  Because yes, smashed it to bits, Jeb, that's OK are.
• 47:30
  You thinking what I'm thinking? Breaching clear.
• 47:32
  We should all stick together. Can I try?
• 47:34
  Glowing and green. Yeah, that's probably not good.
• 47:38
  Yeah, I'm going to go with no. Who gave the robot a gun?
• 47:42
  Holy shit. Is 9 OK?
• 47:45
  Go looking for Balkan. Sometimes Balk finds you, so we
• 47:49
  probably should have lead with that when you kind of went all
• 47:51
  gung ho earlier. Sorry about that.
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