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S2E101 - DR. VIVINSTIEN'S MONSTER · No Latency

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Last time on no latency. We have all of the pieces.
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Several, unfortunately. So we just need to get one giga
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Joule of energy. Get a bunch of hamsters.
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Hear me out. So what's the plan?
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Set up some explosives and Big Bang kaboom.
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That's emergency plans. We're not blowing anything up
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anymore. What's happening?
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We're so past. That one Spire we'll take care
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of pretty easily. And I have to stay here.
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Damn this thing handles like a God damn.
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I occasionally glance over to see how the rest of them are.
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Doing on the bird go. Home well, no.
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So that it handles really well. The other one, the.
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Storm brews outside, it is almost time.
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OK, OK, I'm on it. Jeez.
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The emergency shut off system which is also located at the top
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all right. Let's go ahead and open that
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hatch. You get 1 bolt, I'll get the
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other bolt. Down in the Hatch.
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There we go. Standing at the top of this
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Spire and you can see Spire A covered in this rubber and in
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the distance there's a bolt of lightning and then you hear
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Thunder. Works outside difficult.
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You'll see the lightning before you hear the Thunder.
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What the hell was that? It's it's VV getting into her
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role. Don't you gotta let them get
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through the phase on their own? And you and you make your way
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down very good into the Spire, into this next floor.
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And on the inside you've come downstairs.
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There are 7 capacitors in here that connects 2 cables going
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into the ground. There's the ladder you came down
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and a little console on the wall.
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Oh my God, look at all this. And some stairs down.
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What the hell am I looking at? I don't understand a God damn
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thing. Do you try and touch it?
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No, he's not that. Stupid Jeb, just in.
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Case you're you're feeling stupid today, don't touch
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anything. It's just a capacitor.
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The hum of this tower can still be heard.
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It has absorbed some lightning recently.
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Oh, so then the capacitors are full or no, at least somewhat
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full. Somewhat full, yes.
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And it's being slowly drained away by I'm assuming.
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The city. 400, well, yeah, but it's like it's getting run by,
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I'm assuming 400 millisilles cables.
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That's about how you can go at the moment.
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I guess I mean, I don't know. Yeah.
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I mean, the amperage for that's going to be, I mean, to be
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honest, like if you really want to get a better charge from it,
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you'd actually want to take all of the, you know, protective
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covering off of it because that actually cuts down the amount of
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power the more exposed copper. You have the.
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More, that's exactly. Yeah, yeah, I need that.
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Right here can is this. Is this the emergency shut off?
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Does it say it? I don't know, there's a
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computer. Well, I'm asking I'm.
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Asking. We're looking at it.
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I'm asking. Yeah, we're.
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Looking at it, does it say it? This computer is the release for
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the Hatch above you, as well as a little stasis indicator for
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how the tower is doing. So not the button I'm looking
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for. No, it does indicate that the
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emergency shut off for this Spire is connected to the tower
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above you outside. Can we find where the circuit
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Breakers are? There's one on each of these
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capacitors. I'm going to shut each one off.
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True. Roll for it if.
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There wasn't that bad. Roll 3 times.
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OK, I'm going to say. Roll again one more.
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You shut off one side, you shut off the other, But you also
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rolled a crit fail on electronic security tech, so as you go to
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shut off the final one, it shocks you pretty heavily.
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You take 5HP damage. Retro careful.
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I think I just took 480 up the poop shoot.
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Vivi, you see Retro take this five damage over the video and
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you're starting to install some of the internal cyberware and
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the port will be temporary for installing Domino into this
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brain. Make sure you come back on One
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Piece Retro. I don't have to put you back
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together as well. Hey guys, she's really into this
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doctor BB Stan thing. Yes, we're supposed to just let
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it happen. Oh, OK, just.
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Man, the the delusions of grandeur to go.
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You know it's a phase. Oh hey, wasn't your hump on the
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other side? Shut up, retros, shut.
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Up. We're we're going to watch BB
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roll surgery right now and we're going to ignore the fact that my
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shoulder does not have continuity.
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Do I have an idea of how many more checks I just how many more
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checks I'm going to need to do before the final?
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You need to do three more major surgery things before the body
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is ready for the energy and the data, including this one.
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All right, Good to know. Just determining when I want to
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put luck in. For now, we will continue.
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Oh, that is great success. And now it is much easier for
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stranger to hold this cable because you've managed to
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position everything in such a way that the body helps keep it
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in place. You're really proud of yourself,
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actually. Yes, this will do just fine.
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Stranger. I've made it easier.
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For you. Thank you, Master.
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Is that what I meant to call back in the Spire?
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You're watching VV laugh maniacally into the sky.
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We are nearly complete. Soon, soon it will all be done.
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Soon, soon Domino will come to lie also.
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That's my line. Don't you dare say it.
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Oh shit. We've all been waiting for it.
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OK. All right, all.
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Right. Sorry, sorry.
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Meanwhile, back in the Spire, Retro has finished being
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electrocuted and you know that the shut off is above you.
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OK. Retro was actually shocked, not
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electrocuted. Thank you.
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Fair enough. I I I learned something from my
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electrician friends so. We we do take that seriously.
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Electrocuted means actual death. It's it's a portmanteau of
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electric execution. Yeah.
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You can't get electrocuted if you don't die.
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Remember folks. Just like defenestration.
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If you weren't dead, or if you don't die, you weren't
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electrocuted. So unless someone has a better
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plan, I'm about to go to plan Z. Can you remember what plan Z
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was? An explosion.
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I wouldn't know. We don't need to.
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I've just got to climb back up this hatch and hit the button.
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Oh, I I thought we couldn't find the emergency shut off.
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I was just going to cut off all, you know, circuit protection.
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And then the next lightning bolt would come and fry the tower
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itself, pretty much melting it where it stood.
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And then, you know, no more tower.
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Well, at least no more electrical one.
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You hear a rumble of Thunder. Did we see the lightning?
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Yes. Oh, what was the count?
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3. Shit 3 miles away.
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Well, here's the thing. How, how, How are we getting
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down? Well, there's stairs, right?
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Yeah. Sure.
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How fast do you think we can go down the stairs?
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The emergency evacuation plan for that building, was it purely
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just stairs? Because I the evacuation plan
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said run, but did it mean like run to the chutes or?
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That means run down the stairs. Run down the stairs all right,
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just have to double check. Elevators would need to be shut
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off. You can't have elevators during
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an emergency shutdown. But they do.
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They do. Shoots There are no elevators in
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this building. That is not 88 compliant.
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Oh, they revoked that in 2038. So you're going to go upstairs
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and turn this thing off for a while?
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Well, Roger, I didn't know there was a shut up button.
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Let's just do that. No, we can hit the shut up
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button. I just.
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I thought we couldn't find it so.
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Well, I didn't look UPS up on the roof.
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I looked down here because I didn't want to be on the roof
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because it's wet and it's cold and I might get shocked.
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There's a flash of lightning. One 1000.
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Two 1003 One. That's 2 miles away.
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Now you're going to need to go ahead and get your get our butts
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up there, Somebody Vendel, send Vendel.
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Vendel's really good at that stuff, right?
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No. Vendel's got a middle leg.
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I'll just do it. I'll do it.
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Right Iona, you climb back up the ladder and you're upstairs
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in front of. Wait, wait.
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Before you go, I'm going to hand Iona some heavy surgery gloves
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that I got from the coroner's office, which should be a pretty
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good thickness of a rubber. You.
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Slip by the mall your. Your raincoat.
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Rubberized raincoat. Yes, you're very cutesy.
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Pink rubberized raincoat. There's a flash of lightning as
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you come up two. 100 thousand shoot.
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All right, all right, I'm I'm looking around at the top.
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Move back up here where I'm not. Oh, I'm trying to find where on
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the map I was. All right, I'm here.
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I see that there is a the bottom of the the like the electric
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conductive actual Spire. There's a little computer here.
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I imagine that's where the shut off button is.
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Be a good guess. Tip tap away but.
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You, you tap away at this this little computer, and you shut
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off the collection. You you push a few buttons and
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you watch it mechanically start to fall into the tower to remove
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the metal from the sky and it makes a very upsetting noise and
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stops. The metal piece is still stuck
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out, however the tower has been shut off, so now the capacitors
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are not connected and this will no longer draw as much
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electricity in. However, now that it's stuck, if
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this building's hit with electricity, it's not going to
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be a good day. And that's what it says on the
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screen. Not going to be a good day fire
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error. In the danger of the mission of
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building it's hit by. Lightning makes sense.
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Oh boy. Why should we do it come.
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Back down the Hatch, I'm. Going to get the hell out of
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here. I come back down the Hatch.
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I my plan. Just as that.
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Let's go. There's a flash.
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What? Of lightning.
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One, 1000. Two, 1000.
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There's a lot of stairs. Maybe we should get a
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Stairmaster. It is one mile away.
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Oh. Shoot.
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All right. Like we're going downstairs and
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I'm starting to get like, this is this is a lot of stairs.
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Is this like lighthouse stairs where we're just going in
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circles and circles and circles and circles and circles?
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One second. Oh.
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We're about to find out. Oh gosh, it's a pit of
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blackness, everyone. Oh God, you guys are on the
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right. Oh, there we go.
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Oh, I thought for a second we could just hit a blackout.
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Oh, OK. I'm running, it's OK come on
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Playing a video game here the. Concrete work on here is really
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good. Oh, there you are.
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Oh, this is a dead end. All right, somebody roll me AD
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10. OK, sure.
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Jeb, you're leading the pack as you come up to the door to the
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next available floor. You rolled an 8.
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That's very good. That's very good.
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It's pretty good. And you make your way down to to
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a locked door. Oh.
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Shit. All right, it's time to blast
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this shit up. Come on now.
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So I'm going to do some. You're the one with the big
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guns. Can I, can I just rattle the
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handle and keep it OK? I'm going to run off the handle
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and see if it's actually just, you know, pressurized door and
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you just need to put a little more force into it.
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It's definitely locked. As you rattle the door in
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between the rattling, the wind battering the side of this
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building, you hear the distinct whirring of security drones.
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Yeah, we were going to the next without shooting some stuff, so
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here we go. Well, to get out I guess I'm
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just going to do a a a running shoulder charge using my
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metallic arm as part of the battering ram.
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Sure I roll wrong for you. 32 Yes, you blow the door open and
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as you smash on through you see that there is a drone directly
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in front of you. And the door hits it.
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Yes it does and it takes 7 damage and worse slightly as it
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as it flies backwards. That's pretty cool.
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I that that you know, that that is a small fantasy of my own
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already, to be able to kick a door open and have a hidden
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enemy. Yeah.
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That was cool, Jeb. Did you see it?
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Yeah, Jeb, good job. I mean, I was right here.
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I mean, Jeb was looking retro. You did a good thing.
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But did Jeb? Jeb, did you see the the the
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breeching clear? Oh my God, I did a breeching.
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I was here. I was sitting here watching you
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and I didn't even notice you did a breeching clear.
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Jesus Christ, it was so clean. I don't even know how I did it
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myself. I just, I'm impressed.
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Now that you can see this drone, what are you going to do?
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I don't know, I'm all amped up after getting shot.
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What are you? What are you going to do?
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We're going to shoot it. Right, Jeb, Shoot it.
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Oh, OK. I thought we weren't going to go
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into like initiative or nothing. We're just going to go out and
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shoot it. OK, OK, sure, sure.
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No. Problem 2 Enemies Absolutely
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not. Got you 22.
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Yes, your first shot rings out inside of this area.
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It flies towards the drone and the drone takes 8 damage.
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It wears slightly as it tries to re stabilize itself in the air.
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You have a second shot. Sure do. 29 what a hit you do 10
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damage brings the drone down below half elf and it flies to
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the N wall and smashes open the window.
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Rain and winds start to batter inside of the Spire as it's also
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word by the wind. It takes 7 damage from the wind
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and such as it rattles against the wall and explodes, ruining
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the window. The window now cannot close.
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The glass smashes everywhere. It's cold in here.
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There must be something. In the atmosphere I said, oh, is
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that the wrong movie BB Sorry. Bring it.
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This is ruining my concentration.
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Retro You start to laugh at this video feed, and as you step out
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into this room, there's another drone to yourself.
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Oh shit, OK, do I get serious or do I get silly?
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What do I do? Get serious.
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Let's get serious. There's now a -, 1 to hit in
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here because of all of the wind and such.
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I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll shoot it with my with my K tech.
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Where are you, buddy? Oh, there you are. 22 you do 13
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damage which is a decent amount. The drone flies back in the room
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as it takes your shot. Damn it, I left.
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I left the bird shot in there. Not a slut fuck.
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Any two people who can do anything now are Vendel and
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Iona. Well, I guess I'll step into the
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room and shoot at the drone of that Retro was just shooting at,
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which I believe is the one to the left.
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To the South, yes. South Oh, that's right, all
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right. Remwear IP edition handgun, the
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Hello Corpo, if you will. Bullet rings out and you do
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eight. Yeah, that's right.
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You do 8 damage. The drone flies to the back
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wall. I'm going to roll, see if it
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hits the other window. It avoids it.
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That's awesome. And it just smacks against the
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wall. It's still up though.
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Oh, Chip. Oh, nineteen.
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Yes. With crit damage it explodes
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against the side of the building and you are able to choose with
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your bullet as you hit it if you want it to blow open the window
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or avoid blowing up the window. No, we're avoiding any more
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wind. All right.
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Do not blow up. The wind, you take out this
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drone and it is finally down with two drones.
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There are pieces on the ground, wind blowing through this room.
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You're about 1/3 of the way down this tower at this point and
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there's a flash of lightning. It is very close.
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How high up? Probably.
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Pretty high up. Like over 100 feet.
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Way over 100 feet. Fuck where?
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Where is the door? Oh God, there's.
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South. So many distractions.
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All right, well, I'm going to hit.
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I'm going to hit this Doylan. I'm not even going to check to
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see if it's locked battering ramit again.
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It is open and. It goes boom and it.
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Goes boom. And you head on down the stairs.
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I really need to do more cardio. I need more cardio rolling.
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Machines the. Bar.
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OK, All right. Who's leading the charge?
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I'm going to roll AD 10. That's a 30.
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Here. Oh, Jeb, I I met you down here
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at the bottom of this stairwell. Yeah, I learned I can.
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We can use the arrow keys, so I'm kind of running constantly.
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Wait. I don't need to actually run, I
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can just use arrow keys. You can just use the arrow keys
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man. And you make it to yet another
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open floor. I'm just glad I don't need to
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use my walking legs no more. Oh, I see there's a dog legs.
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Well, would someone else like to take this one or a?
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We gotta go. I think we should just start
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opening doors. I mean, at this point we got we
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how much time we got left you? Think Lightning.
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Before this whole thing. Oh.
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Yeah, not very. Not very long at all.
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It's time. It's.
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Time to go right now. Well, open the door, Jeb.
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OK, OK. Raw perception No, don't step
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out. Don't step out 22 Jeb.
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You're about to step out and you notice that the floor is wet and
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there's a crackly noise. What?
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Oh boy. Whatever could that mean?
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come. Is the water conducting
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electricity? You're on to 22, so yes.
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OK, OK, Rachel, you seem to know how these things work.
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How do we get around this is. There any way I could take a
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step out to see any more into the room or at?
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Least yes you can lean out a roll athletic so that you don't
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fall over. Can I do evasion?
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Yes. That's better. 17 Yes, you may
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stand there, but go nowhere else.
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Can I tell where the where there is an an excess amount of
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sparks? It is mostly coming from the
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cables to the southwest as they are.
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They have burst from one of the capacitors and are laying in the
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water that is bifurcating this room.
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Son of. A bitch and there's no.
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I know, right? Good use of the word
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bifurcating. Thank you, Tracy, and.
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They have no surge protection here.
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Great. What do we what's what's the
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ceiling looking like? Pretty plain.
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It's solid, though it's not a drop ceiling.
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Not. A drop ceiling.
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Nope. But there.
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It's also dripping water from one of the windows just where it
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came in. Is there a bunch of conduits for
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where the wires run through? No, it's lying on the floor from
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the transformer to yourself. Above us in the ceiling, is
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there a conduit where they would be doing runs of the power?
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No, the cables run on the outside of the building.
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Normally they're not inside. Fucking mad scientist who built
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this building. Holy shit.
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Definitely not, Nika approved. Oh hey, you still got my face.
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I sure do. Do you want to use it as like a
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Lily pad? You could try to do it as a Lily
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pad or like we use it like a like a body board or like.
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A boogie board and. We just, yeah, just stand on it
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and then somebody pushes the other one across the water.
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Is that going to work? I I think the Lily pad might be
24:16
an easier and more simpler idea. So I'm, I'm just going to, I'm
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out. Of shape, I'm afraid.
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I'm going to, I'm going to lob this thing into the center.
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It's just a nice little plop. So there is a pillar in the
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middle of this room, which means you're going to have to jump
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around it to get to the door. The door on the other side of
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the room, however, is open, so you could jump through it.
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It's been blown open by the wind.
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So just so my oh, go ahead. Jeff, your, your bullets are
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high caliber, right? 45.
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Definitely would be able to take a chunk out of concrete, right?
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Oh, I think so. Can you blow us a couple of hand
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foot holes on the concrete pillar?
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Well, that's an interesting idea.
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I suppose I could try. All right, roll for it.
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That goes wrong. Sure did.
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Nice 22 and 23. You blow two holes in this
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concrete pillar that are really good, like hand and foot holes,
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enough for someone to grab on, but you don't do enough damage
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to damage the pillar structurally, which is nice and
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gives you one extra step to this, making a little easier to
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cross this electrified water. This is so idea plan Zeta Alpha
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back to the surfboard idea. But we use the hand holds to
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help push ourselves along and going in a diagonal to the door
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and then when we get there we throw it back to the others.
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Sure, go ahead, try your boogie board idea.
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Shit. So where are you throwing the
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pad? I'm not.
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Throwing the pad down at my feet.
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OK. Jeb, push me to the pillar.
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All right. Roll Athletics 18.
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Yes, that's enough. Retro slides across the room and
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is now parallel with the pillar and the door.
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I'm going. To try to use the hand foot
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holds on the pillar to help stabilize and push myself to the
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other end of the door. You slide into the stairway all.
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Right, I get just to the edge. Oh, roll athletics.
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Yes, thought I could get away with it.
26:35
Nope, 17, yes, that's enough. You slide in, now have the pad
26:41
underneath you. One down, 3 to go.
26:45
Make it all the way to the end and as I go to jump off I
26:48
actually slip and the the board goes flying back to the rest of
26:52
the crew but I land face first down the stairwell.
26:55
All right, Jeb, roll something to catch the piece of rubber.
27:01
You managed to catch it. And as you catch it, really,
27:06
really happy with yourself, Phoebe, you see Jeb catch it on
27:10
the video feed that Vendel's filming.
27:13
And this, this accomplishment fills you with a little bit of
27:19
joy as you work on your next stage of operation.
27:23
Seems my companions are slowly putting everything together on
27:29
their end to make sure that this entire process goes as smoothly
27:33
as possible. I am quite proud of them.
27:37
Here here are the the the final major pieces master.
27:42
The final. Cyber hands.
27:45
Yes, the final pieces, then we will construct the last of this
27:52
specimen and we will be ready. To go some people might call
27:57
this thing an abomination. Not me though, don't know what
28:00
that means. No population, No.
28:04
This is a gift and nothing more. Role surgery 15 Yes, you attach
28:13
the cyber hands to Domino. Domino gets no plus or minus to
28:19
this and then the empty husk of a body now has all the cyberwear
28:24
needed. Your next surgery is to close
28:26
him up and you get ready to to work on that as you watch the
28:29
crew try and pass this electrified water and video.
28:33
Oh my. God I just realized VV Victor.
28:37
Yes, Doctor Phoebe. Frankenstein.
28:43
Frankenstein. Frankenstein, she's really
28:47
getting into it, guys. You should hurry up.
28:51
Yeah, I'm getting worried now, actually.
28:54
Jeff, as you're holding this map, you hear lightning, and
28:57
then you feel the Spire around you rumble.
29:00
It's been hit by a shot. Oh, shit.
29:03
And Ayanna, you know that if the Spire gets hit one more time,
29:08
it's not going to be good. It's not connected to any
29:10
capacitors, so now that it's fully charged it'll just burst
29:15
into flames. Well damn it, I've already told
29:17
everyone this. We just have to get out of this
29:19
building and we need to do it faster.
29:22
All right, Jeb, rather get across the water.
29:25
Sure. I guess I'm a roll sneak and
29:29
that or stealth because that makes sense.
29:31
I'm being sneaky as I'm trying to, you know, get across this
29:34
whole thing. Don't let the electricity know
29:37
you're scared of it. It can sense fear. 22 Yeah, you
29:43
make it beautifully. And now Vendel and Iona are on
29:47
the other side. Do you want to just carry you?
29:50
Yeah, that definitely works. Yeah.
29:54
Because your wheels are rubber, so that's good.
29:56
Yeah, you can keep the pad, guys.
29:59
I got this. Come on Iona, I'll save you.
30:05
Wee. Skate fast.
30:10
Turn. Right, actually.
30:17
You know what, this whole session has been very good of
30:19
learning our lefts from our rights.
30:20
Yeah, right are. You rolling something useful?
30:24
Skilled. Oh am I?
30:25
Am I rolling something? Well, Vendel has to roll and get
30:28
past this electrified water. Sure.
30:31
How about dance? 18 Yes beautifully takes Iona
30:38
and skates across the water, heading to the other side.
30:41
Oh my God, they pulled off a triple Axel.
30:44
I've been practicing, thank you that.
30:46
Was like floating on a a cloud. You're welcome.
30:50
I highly suggest it. And you make your way down the
30:54
stairs and you haven't got long to go.
30:56
Now a door A door A. Door.
31:08
Going to make your way. Region Clear.
31:11
To another floor. This door is not locked.
31:16
OK, that way it is before I step in.
31:19
Oh, crackle, crackle. Yeah, any crackle, crackle. 16
31:24
There's a giant hole in the floor.
31:26
The fall below you is like 5 stories.
31:29
Oh, it will hurt a lot. What's the what's the this big
31:35
structure to our right? That's one of the capacitors.
31:40
Is there something I can grab onto?
31:42
I mean in theory it's got like cables and stuff.
31:45
I fire off. Oh no I can't, I disabled it.
31:49
Fuck. I was going to try to use my
31:53
grapple arm but it's disabled right now.
31:55
You've got a grapple, Jeb. That's true.
31:59
You always forget you have a grappling hug now might be not
32:01
always and vestigious to that. And as Mandela's talking, there
32:05
is another flash and the whole building rumbles around you and
32:10
you can hear the crackling at the top and the sound of
32:13
capacitors exploding above you, and it is now on fire above you,
32:19
and the fire is making its way down.
32:21
Oh. Shit.
32:23
Is it starting to get hot in here?
32:25
You know what I'm? Saying, yeah, Jeb, attach your
32:28
grappling hook here and then we repel down the this hole.
32:33
We're repelling. OK, Great idea.
32:36
Actually, it's very good. Very good.
32:38
Here we go, and I shoot right above me.
32:44
Well, we're at above the hole, I suppose.
32:46
Great, there's a pillar in the middle you could attach to if
32:48
you're skilled enough. Let's find out.
32:55
Do I have a skill? It's a gun, I think, in your
32:59
sheet. I thought it was but I'm not
33:02
seeing it. Roll handgun because that's all
33:06
it is. OK.
33:07
Yeah, gun pep is cold. You fire it off and the grapple
33:13
flies off and falls down the hole.
33:16
Can I burn one of my inspirations for Jeb?
33:20
Yes. OK, hold on, hold on, hold on.
33:23
I got time. I got time.
33:24
Let me just reel that back in and.
33:26
Here we go. I don't think we really have the
33:27
time. Just relax.
33:29
You can hear fire start to crackle above you in this
33:32
stairway, Jeb. You're all a 23, which gives you
33:35
a grapple point down 5 levels, giving you good headway above
33:39
the fire that is encroaching this fire down.
33:42
Do you want to make your way down?
33:44
Yeah. One at a time.
33:46
I don't want the the rope to break.
33:49
Right. Roll athletics.
33:51
Everyone except VV. Yep.
33:54
No VV if you could also. VV is just long for the ride.
34:01
I just wanted Tracy to see my cool maps, that's all.
34:03
Yep. You did put a lot of work into
34:06
it and I took not that long to screw it up.
34:08
Yep, I expect that of you, Jeb. You make it down, Iona, you make
34:19
it down. Oh.
34:20
Fuck. Vendel comes on down and wraps
34:26
their cyber leg around the rope and it cuts midway and they
34:29
fall. Retro is above them and retro
34:32
falls two floors. Retro roll 3D6 so.
34:37
This is how I'm punished. Oh.
34:44
What's your what's? Yeah, yeah.
34:45
So you take, it's a melee attack, so you take half that.
34:47
So that's eight damage total and you land on Vendel.
34:52
So Vendel takes now? Fuck 4 damage ow.
34:56
Rich Rd. Get off.
34:59
Oh God, your body is made of iron.
35:02
No, just my leg, you prick. Get off me.
35:04
But. What the fuck did I land on?
35:07
I think. I think you just cracked my
35:10
back. You're welcome.
35:11
Dislocated my fucking disc Ow. Phoebe.
35:16
Phoebe, does this look serious? Phoebe.
35:18
I'm very busy right now. I cannot.
35:22
We are nearly to completion. Now Retro's having to walk
35:26
around with a hunch because they've got a big old bump from
35:30
landing on Vendel's steel leg. Whatever physical ailments have
35:37
come to retro, we'll have to wait until after this procedure.
35:40
I. Wasn't told by retro.
35:41
It's all about me. I really hurt my OK fine.
35:43
Oh, and and you, Vendel, I'm sorry.
35:48
Should be it's. Me.
35:55
What are we waiting for? We got to get.
35:57
Out we got to. Move just hobbling along, old
36:05
man. Walk with the hand on my back.
36:08
This is the door down. Jeb, as you're walking around
36:11
this floor, you notice that there are two cabinets in this
36:14
floor on the walls as you pass them.
36:17
Cabinets. Yeah, like lockers.
36:19
Oh. We gotta go.
36:21
You don't check him, all right? That's fine.
36:22
No. We gotta go.
36:25
The building's on fire. I just wondered if you want to
36:26
do a little, you know, looting on the way down.
36:29
God no, the building is on fire. If I hadn't gotten hurt, I would
36:33
be like, well, hold on a second. My belly's on fire, how about
36:37
yours? And you make your way into
36:39
another stairwell, heading down to the final floor, the entrance
36:44
of the Spire. I'm glad it was down and not up.
36:52
Oh, thank you. You know, where'd it go?
36:55
Ready. Are you doing OK?
36:56
Do you need any? I don't know.
36:58
I I I have drugs. Do you need that?
37:02
Yes, give me drugs. All right, I'm, I'm going to
37:05
pull, I'm actually going to pull a stimulant out of my bag.
37:10
Interesting. Because a muscle relaxer or a
37:16
suppressant it's going to make retro slower and at more of a
37:21
hazard and they won't be able to operate heavy machinery.
37:26
So have a stimulant make you forget all about your.
37:29
Trouble. What is that?
37:31
What is it like a pill? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's, that's
37:35
going to be a pill, not a hypo. Shit, I can't swallow pills.
37:39
Production up and snorted. Oh yeah.
37:49
Roll, resist, torture drugs. Don't want it to happen. 10
37:53
basic stimulant, yeah. Let's go.
37:56
I'm just going to start bouncing off the walls.
37:58
You're going to ask the drug, the drug taker if they want
38:01
drugs giving me. You can hear the crackling of
38:05
flames and then Thunder once again.
38:09
The building shakes again as you hear pieces of it break above
38:13
you and you rush down to the bottom of the stairs and you
38:17
come up to a locked door and the sounds of two guys arguing.
38:21
I know, already busted through the door.
38:24
Roll for it. It's on fire.
38:26
Run. I say as I bust out through the
38:28
door. Yeah, roll for it.
38:30
The busting or the yelling? Busting make me feel good.
38:34
Through that 23 Amazing. Yes, good.
38:39
The door bursts open and inside are two guards arguing with each
38:45
other. I look, I, I, I don't know, the
38:49
door won't open. It's this fire security?
38:52
It won't open. Fuck.
38:54
Who the fuck are you? I'm just trying to get out of
38:56
this building. Can you?
38:59
Why? Did you?
39:00
Get inside fucking squatters. Fire starts to lick into the
39:13
bottom of the stairway. The entire thing is now
39:15
completely aflame. Please kick it open.
39:18
Kick the door open. Do something.
39:20
Come on. Oh, you know, Vendel's got
39:22
powerful legs. Why don't you do it?
39:24
I'll do it. Get out of my fucking way.
39:26
And they push this guard against the wall.
39:30
There you go. That is a crit 23 on damage.
39:34
The door bursts wide open. That's 666's baby.
39:39
And the door flies across the room and sticks into the sofa on
39:42
the other side. You got it open, no?
39:46
Wait, I think a moment needs to be taken right now because this
39:49
there's no. Moments retro The building is on
39:52
fire. Let's.
39:53
Go. We got to move.
39:55
I just got to appreciate a cold mat.
40:00
Yeah, we did, with the door sticking into a sofa and you
40:04
make your way out to the small parking area outside of this
40:08
lightning Spire and as you turn around you can see it full
40:12
ablaze. You know, it's kind of beautiful
40:16
from down here. VV On screen you can see that
40:20
this tower is now dead, and soon the Lightning's target will be
40:25
the Spire. Open their latency building.
40:30
The roof, The roof The roof is on fire.
40:34
All right, we're going to head back to the bar and we'll see
40:37
you in a bit, Vivi. Crazy there.
40:39
Will they be back? In time for yeah.
40:42
OK, they will. So they're heading back towards
40:45
the bar. You're standing with stranger
40:50
inside. Now we wait for them to arrive.
40:56
We finish the final touches before he is complete.
41:03
Look at him. We, we, so we're going to attach
41:07
the, the the cable will not reach up.
41:10
Then I take it upstairs to the warehouse across the way and
41:13
then that's got the thingy to put it up to the thing.
41:15
Bob. With the.
41:17
Spire now. Can you take it across?
41:20
Yeah, I got you. Do you want to carry the other
41:22
side of the cable? Yes, I will.
41:25
So you and stranger awkwardly move this thing up the stairs
41:30
outside through crystals by joy as she watches you.
41:32
Hi. Guys, so I do some late night
41:35
stuff. OK.
41:37
You guys are always up to the weirdest stuff.
41:39
And you, you're in the middle of you.
41:43
You've, you've done it. You're on the other side of the
41:46
little cul-de-sac here, outside of Crystals by Joy in the empty
41:50
warehouse across the way, on a table that is suspended to the
41:55
ceiling with four cables on each corner.
41:58
And when you're finally done placing the body on this, you
42:01
can snake the cable down and push it up towards the Spire in
42:04
time for it to gather a little lightning.
42:08
Yes. And the crew arrives in the
42:12
alleyway behind you. Just in time you've arrived.
42:17
Yep. Yep, we made it.
42:19
We made it. We're here.
42:19
You got it. You got it all done.
42:21
Yep. Yep.
42:22
Yep. Yep.
42:23
Yep, Yep, Yep. Yep, you can see a huge cable
42:26
you lot as you enter this area, running from Crystals by Joy
42:33
right across the alleyway to an empty building on the other
42:35
side. Oh, nice, A4 hot.
42:39
That's about roughly the size of a Bratwurst.
42:42
You are correct you. Should go in the warehouse.
42:46
It's like there's stuff in there.
42:48
Oh, there's stuff in there. And you're all standing around
42:51
VB, a head full of static, the goggles on top of her head,
42:57
stranger with a pillow now on the other side again I'm.
43:00
Facing my continuity. You're just doing the final
43:03
stitch as one of them came undone as you were transferring
43:05
it over roll search. All right. 17 yes, the stitch is
43:11
beautiful and your final stitch is a heart on his left thigh.
43:15
I love. That.
43:18
Very VV. Preparations are complete.
43:23
Yes, preparations are complete. The storm is coming, Rain is
43:33
bonding, is dying to ascend my new shell.
43:36
It is time indeed. Now everybody gather round as I
43:39
put the cables together and we prepare to bring this body to
43:46
life. And you pull this thing from
43:50
above you, it's got a big controller on the end and two
43:53
buttons up and down. You can send it up towards the
43:58
roof of this building. Oh.
44:00
And I click it up. And you hear the winch pull this
44:05
body up as the arms flail out as it heads towards this Spire on
44:13
the top that stranger has made. Yes, ascend you.
44:21
See a flash of lightning in the distance?
44:23
It won't be long now. I I feel it.
44:25
I feel the storm incoming. Do you all feel it?
44:29
Hey, hey, hey. Is it me or is it just like is
44:32
there a lot of static build up because Phoebe's hair is
44:35
starting to get really frizzy? It's, it's got to almost Afro
44:39
quality at this point, and there's a flash of lightning
44:44
which hits the building. You feel the whole building.
44:47
Rumble and Vivi, you haven't felt this once all night.
44:50
But the rest of the crew who are in the Spires earlier, they
44:54
recognize this building. The building's been hit with
44:57
lightning above you, a flash of light cascades through the roof
45:01
cavity as the body is filled. You can see the hands twitch,
45:05
all four of them. You can smell in the air.
45:09
The ions change and through the very bottom of this glass panel
45:14
that you've thrown up there because it's not as conductive,
45:17
you can see the sand division on their back filled with green
45:20
light as the cable fills with electricity.
45:24
The electricity heads down the cable towards the bar and comes
45:28
back with a green. As the data fills the body, you
45:32
can see the hands convulse and then they go limp.
45:39
The sound of rain buffeted against the building clears the
45:42
silence. You can hear the tap, tap,
45:45
tapping of heavy raindrops against the windows.
45:48
And there above you is this still body.
45:51
In the aftermath of this electric explosion, No.
45:55
No, no, I press down immediately.
45:59
It comes down the winch, straining at the electricity
46:06
it's just happened to withstand, and it comes down to about waist
46:12
height. And there before you is the ever
46:15
so slightly singed body that you'd put together still
46:19
lifeless. Smells like ribs.
46:24
Or gel tape me no. No.
46:28
It was supposed to. Everything was was perfectly
46:31
calculated. It was all supposed to go so
46:33
well. And this creation I move closer
46:39
to my creation. You step next to the body.
46:43
Do you examine it? Yes, I take a look at at the
46:48
charred pieces and look closer. The cable is dark.
46:54
The room is 2. There's a distant flash of
46:56
lightning 2 Three. There's another flash of
47:02
lightning from afar. The angle of light cascades
47:05
across the eyes as another one comes out.
47:07
The Thunder follows, and in the second flash of light, the eyes
47:11
have opened. I check the vitals and pulses.
47:18
You feel a pulse. The hand grabs yours.
47:25
Now's. The time.
47:27
I've done it. This is it.
47:31
It's alive. It's alive.
47:45
Next time on no latency. I also love the fact that he's
47:53
got a A duster. Are they at least up and walking
47:55
around? Maybe a bit more time to adjust
47:58
to the body and. When do we think Domino will be
48:01
up and? What's your temperature reading?
48:03
Oh no, he's high. Warmer than usual, but that's
48:06
still average. Not full credit.
48:08
I mean, yes, we gathered the pieces, but.
48:10
But I do take credit for that duster.
48:12
And Vivi, you did a wonderful job.
48:14
Thank you. Very good.
48:15
That's just something you do when life just kind of hits you.
48:19
Yep, it's the marijuana. Oh yeah?
48:21
Did you hear that every? Different in person, yeah.
48:23
Wow, karma comes back eventually, doesn't.
48:25
It how are you with the Dewey Decimal System?
48:28
I don't see any major flags or issues.
48:31
Well. Look at that.
48:32
Big deal, I can do that too. Do do you think Domino's hitting
48:35
up? Oh, I forgot that you had that.
48:38
Well, you weren't supposed to hear that.
48:40
Would you like to go first or should I go first?
48:42
Oh, another one of them. Not again.
49:10
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49:11
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