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S2E54 - Crew in Two · No Latency

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Last time on no latency. I just walk up to it with my
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baseball bat and smash it. I mean, it was a clean kill.
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Jeb, are you feeling all right? You're looking a little sickly.
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I'm not feeling great, actually. Oh.
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Hey, what's this over here on the floor?
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Oh God, another dead body. Do you want to split the party?
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Not a waxed choice normally. Sometimes it helps.
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Cover work around. I've lost Bendel one time.
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I'm not going to do it again. Are you guys OK?
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Fuck. There is a drone in.
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Here, Van Dale, did you get the sickle bullets again?
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Let me assist with that. They're splitting us up by job
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like there's two classes I. Think they'll be fine, dude?
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We could trust Jeb. It's not like Jeb killed Vendel.
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Jeb's not going to kill Vendel. Exactly.
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So what are we worried about? They're fine
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after you. Thank you.
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Thank you. You step into a room that says
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automated security below this floor on the ground.
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As you step over the threshold of the elevator on the ground,
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you read be required. B Required.
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Yes. Like AB level pass oh.
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Well, I have an A level pass. Is there anyone out there?
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Your voice echoes through the corridor.
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What does this other door say? Thermal required.
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So that's to the thermal room that they're in.
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Perhaps. Perhaps.
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Oh hey Vendit. Immediately.
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Checks to see what's in it. Inside the vending machine,
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which is almost completely empty, is a very old packet of
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fish kibble. Nothing get in here.
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I see that there are two doors on either end of this hallway,
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but if if you 2 come over here, there is a a much longer,
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smaller corridor. OK.
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I'll we'll follow you, Iona. I I mean, I don't know.
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It's just ominous and I I feel like I'm in a very liminal space
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and I don't know where we're going.
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Yeah, I don't know either, so. This place is weird.
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It's like somebody built on a grid system.
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Almost. Well, I know we shouldn't split
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up any further. So which way do we want to go
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down this ominous corridor? Yeah, I I think that we should
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check out the corridor. I mean, that's it.
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Let's go to the door that's closest.
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All right, let's just. Oh, all right.
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Let's just. Let's just check this room out.
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I'm just going to, I'm just going to look a little bit down
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here. All right, guys, it just takes a
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turn. That's it.
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I didn't go very far. All right, let's let's let's
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let's open. The door you step in to the room
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to the West. Inside you see 2 doors, 1 S, 1 N
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and a vending machine at the very end.
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Oh, another vendit. How does the vendit look?
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Is there? Does it seem full or does it
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seem empty? It's got two wet suits in it,
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each for 350 eddies, and another very old packet of fish kibble,
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but not much else. Wet suits that doesn't go.
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Well need wet suits. I own it to your right on the
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ground just below the door it says Sub Bay.
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I almost thought that said surgery and I got excited.
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Sub Bay, Does that mean we're going?
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We're like a submarine. Oh, sorry about that.
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I was just ripping some cotton over in the corner.
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What was going on? We may need to go underwater.
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We. Are underwater.
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We're talking about Hate to break it to you.
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We are underwater. Like in the water.
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Well, this there's two. Suits this, says Sub Bay.
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So do we have to go, like suit up and go?
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I don't know. I'm going to open.
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Does this other door say? It says barracks.
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Not important. Well, see this one?
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We don't need to go underwater. Is this where we suit up?
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Oh. Probably Oh.
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That's not good. Are those body bags?
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Oh my gosh. Meanwhile, on a different floor,
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deeper in the ocean, Bendel and Jeb, their elevator comes to a
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stop moving sideways. That's.
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Why I think that this isn't an elevator, but it's really like
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more of a pod that is on some sort of track system.
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So it's kind of, it's kind of like we've been riding a a
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roller coaster if you think about it.
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Right. Oh look, we're here.
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Yes. What's through the door?
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Jeb walks through the door. Jeb, you see a very long
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corridor with the words thermal written on the ground step by
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step in front of you are those wait signs you saw further up
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inside the facility? So I would imagine that normally
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there'd be a bunch of people here and they would be waiting
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in the line or something. What do you think, Van Dale?
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Yeah, I think so. And it looks like they got some
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vending machines over here in case we, you know, people in the
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line need a snack or something. What are they on here?
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You look at the vending machines, Jeb, and you find that
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there isn't a lot in here. The first two vending machines
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are empty and dusty. The other three have one wet
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suit each, a bunch of benzies, hypos at 50 eddies each, and a
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rebreather is leaning against the glass in the final vending
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machine. Oh, oh, oh.
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Van Deal. Come on this.
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What? What did you find?
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I'm sure there's a rebreather in there just just waiting to get
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Jawson loose. Oh, oh.
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We could do the the what does Retro call it?
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Not sure. And and Jeb.
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Steps back and shoots the. Glass, Jeb, We'll go for it. 24
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Yes, the glass smashes and the rebreather rolls out and falls
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on the ground. Jeb Oh, well.
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Oh, we're supposed to be like? Grab one of these benzies then,
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I guess. Might as well.
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Do you want the wet suit that's covered in glass?
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That's probably not going to work anymore.
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Or why not? Because it's covered in glass,
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Jeb, You probably cut it. Well, it's a wet suit, not a
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draft suit. It's a good thing there are two
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more. Give me, give me, give me some
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eddies. Sure, here.
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Thanks. All right.
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And wet suit, one-size-fits-all. All right, three. 150 Eddies.
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All right. Thanks for that. 700 Eddies you
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just gave me. What?
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Yeah, I just took it off your tail.
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Appreciate it. And.
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Bendel buys the two wetzers. You go.
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All right. I mean, we're good.
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All right. Well, they might.
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We're underwater. Mike Sands.
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I wish we could have bought the other one.
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What if the other? What if everyone else needs one
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champ? You got to be more careful.
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We're trying to be sneaky. Oh, I thought we were just
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trying to get through this, you know, and as fast as possible to
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to make sure that we can meet up with our friends.
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Well, yeah, but also we've got to be careful.
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Well, you know, I I feel like we ain't.
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We ain't been too careful before.
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Why start now? OK.
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All right. Come on, let's keep going.
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Yeah, just there's a door there. Well, I'm curious.
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I mean, this line's got to lead to something.
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Right, I'm. Going to try this door.
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We did pass. Did you want to?
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I mean, I mean, this room's pretty big.
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There's a there's a sub Bay over there and you're at a door.
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No. Well, this door's locked, so I
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guess let's try that one, OK? Shit.
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What? This one's locked too.
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What does the computer say? I'm not too good at computers.
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You take a look at that. OK.
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Bendel accesses the computer and has a little tap away at the air
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lock. Oh, it's an air lock computer.
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Air lock. Yeah, For equalizing pressure
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rooms dry I. See what we're going to have.
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To do here Benzie's recommended high levels of O2 detected
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ignition source and sources are not recommended.
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Oh, Jeb, don't be firing things randomly, I mean.
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Oh, because there's a lot of, there's a lot of oxygen there.
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And it'll it'll burn. I see.
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I see. Yes, yes, the Sub Bay can be
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unlocked. OK all right.
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It says we need a key to unlock it.
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I mean I could try and fonzy it. We could try to fonzy it all
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right. I wonder how my electronic
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security tech is. I could try rolling that.
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I wonder how my cool is. I don't.
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I don't think that's that's the appropriate thing to use.
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But it's the farms. I mean, I know, but it's like an
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actual like, I think one of the reasons why retro it works for
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retro is is like really good with tech, so.
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Oh, that makes a lot more sense. Yeah 'cause he ain't too cool.
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I only rolled A9 on electronic security tech.
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I don't know if I if I can work this one out, Jeb.
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Well, here, let me, let me give it a shot.
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Let me give it a Fonz here and. OK.
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Nope. Well, hold on, hold on.
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There's the the padlock here, I think.
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Well, let me just take a look at this sniff each and every one of
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these ten buttons here. 123420. Yeah, yeah.
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I think the most, the most, the buttons that have been pressed
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the most are four and seven. And that's it.
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So hold on, let me look how. Let's see it.
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And there's 4444. Try that.
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Yeah. OK, 447447 74, Hey, all right,
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well, you know, we could have been here all day, but I'm glad
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it worked pretty quick. Yeah, me too.
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You both step into this chamber. Oh, it says on the wall here.
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Benzies recommended. Benzies.
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I don't know what that is. Well, I grabbed some from the
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vending machine. Did you grab any?
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And Bendale takes one and. Bendale, what would I do without
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you? Probably die, no.
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No, no, I did you not grab any from the vending machine?
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Was I supposed to? I mean it, said someone.
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I said it to you. Did you?
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I thought you grabbed. Oh.
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Jeez, I thought you said that. You got the pressure in here
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build. Oh yeah.
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Oh, well, I'm. I'm feeling that we are deep
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under under the sea, aren't we? Oh.
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Man, is that dope. As you enter this room, you're
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really feeling the pressure. I need you to roll Resist
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Torture Drugs 12. 12. Not enough.
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DB was 16. As you step into the rule, it
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only causes you one HP damage, but a blood vessel bursts in
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your left eye and you feel. Oh jeez.
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You can still see it's just now quite uncomfortable.
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Oh, I feel like I'm going to hurl damp.
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Oh. Jeb, are you all right?
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No, I am not all right. There's a vending machine here.
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It's got some benzies in it. Have you got oh, it's more
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expensive in here. That's so fucking cyberpunk.
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I mean, it's how they get you, you know, they can charge
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anything they want. I don't see what are you going
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to do not buy it. It was only 10 eddies in the
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hallway. It's 50 here.
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Wait Wait, Wait. Wait.
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Wait. Wait, Wait, wait.
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Remember what the door said? It's full of O2.
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Oh, that's that's right. That's right.
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Yeah, if you. Kill Mendel.
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I'll kill you. It's over.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Let me try something. Let me try something.
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I want to get my. Big noise.
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And I want to stick it underneath the the.
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Little pad, the little control. Pad and try to pry it off and
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see if I can. Get behind there.
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Roll for it 18. Yes, you pry the pad open and
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you can reach in to grab the benzies through the back of.
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This console, you just got to kind of oh man, I'll tell you,
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it's awkward to get your arm around there, but.
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Just. With fingertips.
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And as you pull your arm out, a piece of metal scrapes you
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across the arm because you will crit fail on damage.
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Yes. It taking one HP damage.
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Yeah, well, at least we got this benzene you only is this an?
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Peel. Benzies is.
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It a. Peel.
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Is it a? Is it injection Hyper it's.
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It's a pill. It's a peel, you know.
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You got any water or anything? I can't do Pill.
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Oh wait, hold on. There's water down here.
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Jeb, you step over to a big open pool.
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Now you imagine the pressure is so high in this room as to keep
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the water from pushing into this space.
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And as you lean over the water, you can smell the salt and the
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muck that has started to gather at the lowest part of the water
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near this oil rig in the middle of nowhere.
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Once you look into the water, you see a shadow cast much
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deeper. Oh well, I was going to use this
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water. To and the shadow comes.
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I know it's a little more, yeah. Are we sure they're dead bodies?
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Or what if they're Halloween decorations?
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It wouldn't be the first time, but I I think it's worth taking
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a look. I know it's a.
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Little. Absolutely.
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Go ahead. You know, what I just realized
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is that I'm still covered in dust.
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I'm going to fix that real quick.
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Seven Yes, you wash your hands and dust off your arms with your
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sanitization spray and feel a lot better while you do this.
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You watch VV open up this body bag and examine this body.
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There is a body in there. The body looks emaciated,
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drained like someone sucked the air out of a balloon.
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Oh. My.
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Gosh, this seems. I've never seen something like
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this before in all of my medical expertise.
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This person. Retro perception.
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This person is like completely drained and and not like in like
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the the weird, like drained of their you know, blood vampire
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thing. Like they're drained of
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everything. They just look like a deflated
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person. I mean, that's the best way to
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describe it. What are they?
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Doing to these. People.
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If you want to examine the body further, you can take out your
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scanner or do a proper role okay retro.
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As you're looking around the room, you notice that at the
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very South side of the room, behind a vendit, is a big crate
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that, unlike the other side, doesn't have a crate behind it.
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At the very very back of the room you can see a line of porta
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potties. There are a bunch of beds in
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here, and in the middle the room is split by a set of lockers.
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This barracks is a little dusty and seems like it hasn't been
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used in a few months. I want to open a random locker.
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Pick one. I'm going to pick this one
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that's 123456 download line on the West side.
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You crack open the locker and it's pretty empty.
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You find a small packet of benzies and a half eaten packet
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of jizzness naps. That's it.
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Well, that's gross. I guess I'll just pocket the
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benzies for now. BB18 you discover on the back of
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the body, just underneath the back of the skull, are a few
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custom cyber Ware ports. Oh, and.
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What do these do? These cyber Ware ports?
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Do they give me any inkling of what they might be for?
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They're connected to brain Ware similar to like the the basic
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tech that you would plug into for like BDS.
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OK. But this is a a lot more
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bandwidth than your average BD and then lower on the body.
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On the left side of the abdomen is another port that has a two
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flow valve in it. It looks like it could receive
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and send nutrients and waste. OK, yeah, this this is very
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bizarre. There's there's ports to their
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brain and then also on their side like they were feeding them
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and sustaining them, like they could have just been vegetables
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somewhere and they were just giving them nutrients to keep
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them alive. I don't know what is going on
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here but. You say as you open up another
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body. Yeah, I same thing.
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This is some twisted shit. I want another vendet.
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Speaking of that, let me open up one of these random porta
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potties. In the corner of the room, as
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you get closer to the porta potties, you notice a vent as
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you're about to open the porta potty in front of you.
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Well so far with vents were one for two.
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I'm going to go over to that vent.
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Are you sure that's really such a good idea?
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It's fine. I'm just going to open it.
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I'm just take a look inside, see if I see anything.
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Role Perception 19. Yes at the very end of the vent
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you can see a cleaning drone sort of dead end point of the
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vent that would relieve pressure if too much built up.
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But at also at the very, very just shy of that, just a bit
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closer to you, there is a left turn.
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OK, I'm going to head close to the left turn.
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Roll Stealth. I'm not going to be able to pull
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you out, Remy Remy. What?
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You can hear Retro now over the communication network 16.
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Yes, that's enough. The drone does not notice you,
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OK? Not seeing this turn yet?
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You keep going closer, OK? Oh, Ronnie, is it?
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Is it safe? No, there's drones in here.
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But I'm really, really quiet. I'm like Fendel, quiet.
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All right. Making a turn and oh, more vent.
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OK, it's a great in the way. Just going to kind of just push
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on it, pop that slowly, slide it to the side.
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OK, I'm in another room. What do you mean you're in
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another room? I'm.
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In another room, there's a look. In.
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There a door. Oh, OK well, there's there's
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like 2 glass doors and there's like a regular door.
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And then yeah, it looks like an office and there's like 2 chairs
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and a desk and nothing really interesting when when I see in
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these cells. Should we?
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Should we come with you or? And the cells look pretty pretty
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clean. Let me see if I can open one up.
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Remy Remy, Don't. What if there's something in
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there? Well then, I'll just close the
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door. Do I need to come after you?
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Cha all right, the door won't open for me so.
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Did you roll for it? So console next to the door.
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I'll just roll. For it open for him.
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GM. How about now and I'm rolling
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low. 29 Yes, that is enough. The South most door opens and
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you step into a pretty small room.
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There's a cot in here and a porta potty.
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Nothing really interesting. I take the pillow.
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It's really, really uncomfortable.
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Fine, that's fine. I'm just taking it to make
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whoever ends up in here next more uncomfortable.
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So now I just have a pillow, right?
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And that's what you check in that room.
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Yeah, I'm not going to take the rest of the bait.
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Hey, I'm going to check to see where this door leads.
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This main door Shit. What can I tell from this door?
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It's an automatic door that slides into the wall and the
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controls for this door are not on this side.
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OK, I'm going to head back in the vent.
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Roll Stealth. Can I do something first before
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I roll stealth? Sure.
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I'm going to get semi like halfway to where I know the
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turns AT and then I'm going to unhook my hand from my arm and
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let that crawl along till it gets to the little drone over
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here. OK.
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And then use it to crush it. So yeah, I'm going to, I'm going
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to drive my hand to go and crush the the little clean bot right
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about here. Roll for it.
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You rolled A crit. You rolled a Max crit at plus
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10, giving 34. Your hand crawls up behind the
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drone and crushes it into a ball and it rolls into the corner.
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All right. I think that the the vents
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clear. I think it's good to come over.
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All right. OK.
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Yes, we're all going going on over there.
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Really are? I'm stuck.
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Never mind. If they get to the turn quick
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enough, they'll probably see my hand crawling its way back to
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OH. Yeah.
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Jesus Christ, is that your hand? You watch Retro, pick it up and
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click it back onto his wrist. And scared the living life out
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of me. Good old righty.
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I didn't know you could do that. Well, you do now detachable.
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Learn something new about you. More than I thought, actually.
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GM Can we see into this window? Yes, that's intentional.
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Yeah, all that's in there is like 2 chairs and A and A and a
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table. Can I precept?
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Yeah. Remy, did you not see the dead
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body behind the desk? What dead body?
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Meanwhile, Jeb and Vendel are standing in this high pressure
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sub Bay. And earlier we left Jeb looking
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down at a shadow, getting progressively closer and closer
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To him, Jeb out of the water bursts a tongue.
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A long, long tongue and it whips towards you.
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Oh God. Dodger 14.
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All right. The tongue whips past your head,
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you rolled a crit on evasion and this tongue whips around and
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comes back towards you, dodging. Oh, Bendale, get down.
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Oh, not enough. As it whips back, it snatches
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onto you and you fall prone and you begin to be dragged towards
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the water. Oh shit.
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Bendale. Bendale help slash off the
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tongue. Oh fuck.
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And Vendel pulls their sword out of their sheath.
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And Jeb, you've never really been alone in a fight with
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Vendel, but watching their face panic but the rest of their body
24:50
move like a whale oiled machine is something to behold.
24:55
And with a 15, Vendel slices at the tongue and it slightly
24:59
deflects off the side, causing only eight damage, but it does
25:02
slow you being pulled towards the water.
25:05
Oh shit. Vendel does a little side slide
25:09
back towards the beast, back towards the tongue and attacks
25:13
again causing a crit. They slice straight through the
25:16
tongue and you both hear a massively deep groan emanating
25:21
from the water below you. The tongue snatches back into
25:24
the water and this, whatever it is, disappears.
25:29
Oh, God. Fuck.
25:30
Oh, Jesus. Shit.
25:34
All right, let's let's get out of here.
25:37
I mean, there. There's nowhere out from here,
25:39
right? There's we'd have to go back
25:41
through the sub Bay and there's there's just like a computer in
25:44
here and. Oh, so what's the alternative?
25:47
You're saying we'd get in there with that?
25:50
Jeb, as you're looking around Role Perception 18, yes, that's
25:54
enough. Beating the DV16 you spot as
25:57
you're walking around a little vent in the corner.
26:00
I mean, listen, I'm not going back to, I'm not going in there
26:03
and I'm and I hold on, what's that?
26:06
Is it a van? You see that van deal right over
26:09
there? Where?
26:10
Oh yeah. Oh my.
26:12
Well, you just went in. All right, I'll follow you.
26:16
Don't don't put this the wrong way, but I gotta say you're
26:21
you're a cyber leg. It's a real clean.
26:25
Thanks. Like real, it looks real good.
26:27
Thanks Oh. There's.
26:29
A drone in here. Jab, jab, jab.
26:32
There's a drone around that corner.
26:33
Oh, shit. OK, OK, you scroll.
26:36
There go you. Know fart.
26:37
Fart. I don't think I've ever.
26:43
And there's like no gun. For.
26:45
Oh, yes, he holsters it again. All right, I'm just going to
26:50
take out my combat shovel. I'm just going to drive up to it
26:54
and like, splat it with my shovel.
26:56
Like as if you were a bug all. Right Roll Stealth 17.
27:00
Bad. 17 is really good. Says Vendel as they close the
27:05
vent hole behind them and you both feel the pressure in this
27:10
vent slowly start to fall as you get closer and closer to this
27:14
drone. It's tinkering away at some of
27:17
the inner workings of this vent, and you smack it 21, causing 12
27:24
damage. Rise, attack, and smack it in
27:27
the back and it splits into a bunch of pieces.
27:30
One of its legs flies off and a dart lodges into the corner and
27:34
sort of rolls around. Oh man.
27:38
I mean, I'll tell you, I could not get hit by one of them one
27:42
of them sicky bullets anymore because I went home already
27:46
feeling it. I'll tell you.
27:48
Right. Well, I guess we're going to
27:50
keep going through this vent, huh?
27:52
I guess it's. Oh, that's Danny.
27:54
All right. Yeah, turn back.
27:55
OK. All right.
27:57
No, you you go first. No, no.
27:59
No, you go first. No, no, you you definitely go
28:01
first. All right.
28:02
Sorry. Sorry.
28:04
I'm the sneaky. One you just back up a little,
28:06
yeah. Yeah, yeah.
28:08
Just a bit further down. No, no, no further down.
28:09
There you go. OK.
28:10
Sorry, going, I'm going, I'm going.
28:12
OK, what do you see? I mean, honestly.
28:15
Oh wait. Oh.
28:19
What? I see another Room 0.
28:21
You see another room? Yeah, yeah.
28:22
But there's a there's another drum in here and looks like a
28:27
dead body. Meanwhile, back on the second
28:32
floor. Yes, Remy, it's a a dead body.
28:36
What do you mean? Another one.
28:39
I mean, they're littering the place I.
28:42
Suppose, I guess we should assume every desk we find an
28:48
empty. Desk.
28:49
It does a dead body. Yeah.
28:51
I. Mean.
28:54
That's just pessimistic, but all right.
28:56
Well, did you try this door at the end?
28:59
I did, but there's no there's no handle to jiggle.
29:02
I kind of just gave up. Does it slide?
29:04
I I put my hands on one side of it and push it.
29:08
Roll brawling. Rolling.
29:10
There we go. 12 It does move just a little bit.
29:15
Just a little bit. I think it might slide.
29:19
Side, side Slippity slide. All right.
29:21
Let's just put a little bit of Lube on there.
29:23
What? What are you going to do?
29:24
Spit on it. Wow, that's not what.
29:27
That's not where I keep my Lube. I don't spit Lube.
29:30
It's going to open up my back pocket, put a little bit water
29:35
based silicone. Water based and silicone that
29:38
doesn't work you. Don't know that.
29:40
Shut up. It's cyberpunk.
29:43
It's the best of both worlds, yeah.
29:45
BB You watch Retro Put Medical Grade Lube on this door.
29:51
I mean, I guess it works. I'm not going to question it.
29:55
Roll for. Roll for Lube, yes.
29:58
Roll for Lube. You're on 32 on basic tech Lube,
30:03
and you Lube up this door to make it a lot easier to move.
30:06
It will still take a few people to get it to budget.
30:09
All right, is everyone ready? Let's do it.
30:13
Retro Rolls 20, Iona Rolls 13 and VV Rolls 16.
30:19
Yes, combined, the three of you managed to shunt this door open
30:24
and basically force it to remain open forever.
30:28
It's a rather horrible noise, like fingers on a chalkboard as
30:31
it scrapes into the wall slot and as you step into the room.
30:37
There are two drones in here. What do you mean there's two
30:41
drones? In there's two drones.
30:42
That's not a drone. That's a drone cloud.
30:45
All right, Rocket launcher time. There's a regular drone and a
30:48
cloud drone in here, right in front of the vending machine on
30:51
the right hand side. Yeah, should have expected that.
30:58
Phoebe. Deer and headlights.
31:03
Spotlight down here. I wish I had a rocket launcher.
31:10
I'm going to shoot. I'm going to shoot it.
31:17
The drone on the ground or the cloud drone?
31:19
The cloud drone. Hit it, you crit.
31:22
Fail smacking the vending machine behind it, but only
31:26
causing it seven damage. Because that's a crypt flail, it
31:29
doesn't break the glass, instead pings off the wall and sticks
31:34
into a crate on the other side. But you do have a second shot.
31:39
20. Three yes, your bullet smacks
31:42
into a bunch of the drones mid air as they coagulate into a
31:48
small fused piece of metal and land on the ground.
31:52
You've taken 15 damage and it explodes and covers the side of
31:58
the vending machine in this sort of black splatter.
32:00
Well, and we shoot the other one with a flame gun. 17 Yes, you
32:09
hit only a few feet from you. You set it on fire and it gets
32:13
caught on fire and you you swear you can hear it scream.
32:19
I didn't even feel that to happen.
32:20
I'm so sorry everyone. And then you start to hear it
32:27
say a word and it starts to scrape something on the ground
32:33
as it's on fire and it's scraping an H, an B, an L and a.
32:40
Peep this. Is.
32:41
Terrifying. And after it's finished scraping
32:43
these letters into the ground. It.
32:46
Bursts into more flames and dies.
32:51
What's happening here? I don't know what does ELP stand
32:58
for. It's help for sure.
33:01
A weird theory just occurred to me.
33:04
These drones have been popping out of people's heads.
33:08
Do you think that they're the people they are and that all
33:10
these dead people are did? You clean.
33:12
You've been killing people. Well, that's not new.
33:14
Wait, wait, wait. Are you saying that Jeb Jeb's
33:18
theory is true and it's the brains have been taken over by
33:22
the actual drones popping out of their brain skulls?
33:27
And then I. I I think, I think Jeb may have
33:30
been correct on this one. Holy shit, Jeb was right.
33:33
Don't let him know that. I'm not radio you radioing you
33:37
Jeb. Retro.
33:41
Now that you're standing in this room with this word word written
33:43
on the ground, will you roll Perception for me?
33:45
Oh, sure. 17 To the north you see a door that says disposal.
33:50
The little console next to it. To the South is security, the
33:54
room that you could see into from the other side of what was
33:58
labeled under your feet as brick.
34:00
Well, that makes sense. Well, if they're popping out of
34:05
people's skulls and you say there was a.
34:07
And you find another vent. Oh gosh, that's that is
34:10
tempting. Well, if if the theory is true
34:14
and they're popping out of people's skulls and we know that
34:16
there's a dead body in what we're calling security here,
34:21
probably don't need to be going in there, right?
34:23
I don't think so, unless can you.
34:26
Is there a window on the security door?
34:28
No, but you could go back into the Brig to look in.
34:30
I will go back into the Brig and look through the window.
34:34
Do I see any chips or any drives or anything besides just a
34:40
computer sitting on a desk? Yes, you see in front of this
34:46
man, half dead with piece of his head blown off half.
34:50
Dead. He's only half dead.
34:51
No, Sir. Dead with a piece of his head
34:53
blown off in front of him. Well, maybe you're right,
34:57
Phoebe. Maybe they were half dead.
34:59
But we just finished off the other.
35:00
Half the computer is on, and on his desk is an audio chip.
35:05
All right, I'm going to go to the security guard and swipe my
35:08
card. It asks for a code. 4774.
35:13
The door opens. Wow, you need that right off the
35:15
bat. It's honestly, it's been the
35:18
same everywhere. So far I yes, it has.
35:24
On the computer. That's the only other time I've
35:27
used it, but it was the same as the computer.
35:30
Anyway, let me we don't have Jeb's tile to play this audio
35:34
chip. It's probably safe, right?
35:37
I mean, there's a computer there, You could probably just
35:39
jam it in that. OK, I will do that as I lean
35:44
over the backside of the desk instead of the side with the
35:47
dead body on it. Your test results match your
35:51
biometric data. I couldn't fake having the high
35:57
iqi just told them I was given the the wrong results and they
36:00
seem happy with that. But I'm now waiting to head down
36:03
to thermal. I'll see if I can sneak into
36:06
some other part soon. This person must have used the
36:11
vent system to get everywhere, I think.
36:17
Maybe that's why they're so clean.
36:19
There has been a person through them recently.
36:22
Yeah, not the cleaning drones, GM.
36:29
I'm going to turn this computer around.
36:32
Anything prevalent on the screen?
36:36
On the screen you can see that there's like a spreadsheet open.
36:42
The last month recorded on the computer is about 3 months ago
36:45
and it says 197 disposals. Are there any other files?
36:51
A few listed but locked. What do they say?
36:55
They're locked. You don't know.
36:57
Oh, it's just a little file icon with a lock on it.
37:00
Yeah, There was a file open and you can see that there were
37:03
three months ago about 197 disposals.
37:06
So apparently the disposal that we see over there, apparently it
37:12
was either opened 197 times or they've disposed of 197
37:18
somethings, probably bodies. Wow.
37:23
One, they dispose of the bodies in the barracks.
37:27
Maybe they were finishing some of the process or something, I
37:31
don't know. Harvesting.
37:33
Yeah. Harvesting what?
37:36
Well, it looked like all the water and membrane and
37:42
everything had been drained from their body, like they were dried
37:47
out like fruit or jerky. It's an interesting analogy.
37:54
I am I wrong? But you're not totally wrong.
37:58
Right. So I didn't.
38:00
Tell Iona there's a dead body here.
38:04
Oh, hello. There's a dead body here as
38:07
well. Yeah, there there's a there's a
38:11
dead body in here. I guess it was about dead drone.
38:16
There's a dead body and there's a drone and and I smashed the
38:19
drone earlier but this dead body looks kind of, well, excuse my
38:24
friends, kind of fucked up. What?
38:27
What's so fucked up about it? Well, I mean, if I had to take
38:31
your gas, I'm going to go with the the the drone popped out of
38:36
the thing here. Jeb, I look around and.
38:42
The drones are big. I don't see how they'd fit in
38:44
someone's head. Well, I think it's.
38:52
Like Athena? Or or the the drones were, you
38:58
know, they they were they were eating the skulls of the people.
39:02
They would suffer their brains there.
39:04
Oh, oh, Jeb. Yeah.
39:08
I don't think you're right. Oh man, what's new?
39:12
Anyways, it's. A.
39:15
Smash this drone and then I can do some sniffing on them.
39:19
There's a. Picture in here too I think.
39:21
Oh, I don't do computers. Brendel, can you do the
39:24
computer? I'll look at the computer in
39:29
front of the dead body. You can turn the computer
39:31
around. And I'll fit the dead body.
39:45
Next time on no latency. Yeah, let me take care of that
39:53
for you. Yes.
39:54
Did you find something? Alright, that wasn't that bad.
39:57
I have rocket. Did you say he shot himself?
39:59
I think you should help them out.
40:01
Did you try 6969? That's the.
40:03
Stupidest combination I've ever heard.
40:05
Decrypting worm. All right.
40:08
Is the screen supposed to flash? OK.
40:10
So send it to VV and then we'll we'll we'll go from there.
40:13
I think these pods are full of people then, Dale.
40:15
OK, I got it. I really enjoy a mustache.
40:18
Oh, is that right? They're using the people.
40:21
Man, you know, the longer I'm down here, the more that I'm
40:25
fairly certain that we are going to succumb to hypothermia.
40:28
Stacking 200 at a time. In towers like Spires.
40:33
No, It's almost as if this entire facility is 1 big toilet.
40:39
1000 or was it 7200? 72,000. 72,000.
40:44
Oh, that is a lot. Oh, Van Dale, I think I.
40:46
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