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S2E55 - FLUSH · No Latency

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Last time on no latency B required like AB level pass.
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Well, I have an A level pass. That's not good.
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Are those body bags we may need to go underwater?
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We're already underwater. What are you talking about?
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I'm not too good at computers. You take a look at that.
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If you kill Vendel, I'll kill you.
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Oh shit. Are we sure they're dead bodies?
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Well, that's gross. What are they?
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Doing to these people. There is a body in.
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There. I've never seen something like
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this before in all of my medical expertise.
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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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Another one. What's the alternative?
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You're saying you're getting there with that?
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Let's try this again. Harvesting, yeah.
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Harvesting what? Everything had been drained from
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their body. Anyway, so should we pop out?
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Bendel, can you do the computer? And I'll sniff the dead body.
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OK, OK, Jeff, hang up, hang up, hang up.
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OK, so I'm going to check the computer.
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You check the body, but also there is a drone in there, but
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like, it hasn't seen us yet. Which one of us is more
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stealthy? I mean, I'd say it's me, but,
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you know, I don't want to like, you know, give an inflated ego
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or nothing, you know? Jeff, I'd also say it was it was
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you. I don't want to do it.
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Oh, don't want. No, I was trying to be nice.
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Oh. Oh yeah, let me take care of
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that for you. You've been in this vent for a
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minute. It's a little.
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Stuck. It's been really getting to my
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chest. Can you hear it?
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Not really to be honest, but but you know, I believe you.
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So there's like. Well, thanks.
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Thanks for yes. Sending that to help for
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immersion. We'll move on.
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Yeah, let me just figure out where my shit is.
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OK? All right.
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So what are you going to do, Jeb?
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Well, I'm thinking, I'm just going to, OK, here's what you're
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going to do. You're going to open up the
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little vent at the end of this over, do you?
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Want me to push the because there's a crate in.
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Front of it. Thank you.
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That's the word. No, no there There is a grate,
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but there's also a crate with AC.
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Oh, a grate and a crate. Yes, the double C's.
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So you're going, you're going to, you're going to lift up,
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lift open the Gray that I'm going to kind of like sleep
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around and then kind of do like a somersault back onto the
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ground. And then I'm going to run over
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and I'm going to shoot this. What do we call drone drones?
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Yeah, the cleaning drones. Yeah, the cleaning drones.
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I'm going to shoot this drone point blank with my shotgun.
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Aero Electric shotgun, if you remember.
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Oh, that does like electric damage, right?
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It sure as hell does. That's probably good for like,
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drones and stuff. I had a mansion.
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Why didn't you use that on the drone clouds earlier?
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Well, because I just happened to remember that I had.
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OK, all right, so I'll roll Athletics Or should I roll
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Stealth? Well, I think I'm going to roll
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stealth pants for sure. OK, I'm going to be surprised
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because I don't know what I'm going to roll.
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All right. Ready 3 Yes. 2.
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Yes, one, yes. Go.
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OK, one. It's 22 from ready.
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I rolled A-15 on Athletics. I got the grate open perfectly.
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You watch the crate in front of you push forward as the top of
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the grate pushes it further into the room.
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You also push it slightly and move into the space.
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There's a drone trying to clean some dried blood off the floor
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in the northern area. All right, so let's go take out
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my payroll electric shotgun from my bag, you realize, and then
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realize I'm not quite as far as I want to be before racking the
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shotgun and then blasting. You sneak up behind it with your
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22 stealth and you lost it. All right.
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Ain't bad. I mean, it's bad, but it ain't
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bad. You say as the electricity
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fizzles around this drone in front of you, it turns around,
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only taking 11 damage. It is below half health.
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OK, so it's central core gets but you are standing right next
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to it, so it attempts to attack you.
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You. See that being deal?
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Give a nice big old blast. Oh no shit.
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Still left. And it attacks you with its
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talent. Foot rolling the crypt fail
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because again, you critically injured it and missing you
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entirely, which gives you another opportunity to finish it
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off. Oh, good, because here it comes.
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14 damage. A bunch of pieces of it split in
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half and it digs into the locker behind it.
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The locker dents heavily and then starts to smoulder as it
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gets covered in electricity. You see this drone jostle at the
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bottom of this area and then full lifeless.
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All right. Is it dead?
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That wasn't that bad. I I hid in the in the vent in
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case it started to hurt you. Oh, no, no.
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I took care of you. Don't worry.
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Don't you worry. Yeah.
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Come on now. Let's take a look at this Sling
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and Mother Sling. I mean this dead man.
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Right, I'm. Going to sniff.
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Jeb, roll perception, Jeb, As you come round to the other side
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of the body, his back was turned to the grate.
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You see that he doesn't have the same brain injury as the rest of
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them. This human was shot in the head
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and in his right hand is a pistol.
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Now if you take a look here, Van Dale, you notice that this one
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here didn't have one of them things busted out of its head.
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This one had his head busted out.
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By a gun. You still don't know if that's
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true yet, but OK, a gun. That's right.
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He was shot. I do say so myself Now.
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I'm no doctor or nothing, but I've seen the I've seen the head
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wound. I've given a few head wounds
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just like this. OK.
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You look at the desk, scratched on the surface are the words.
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Forgive me, I. Was kind of saying.
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What do you think he did? Maybe we should check the
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computer. Oh yeah, I don't do computer
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stuff. So that's all you, buddy.
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OK, then Dell turns the computer around like they were told to by
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Iona, which keeps them away from the blood of the body, and they
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tap away at the computer to see what they can find.
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Roll for it. Oh, do you know that song too?
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Yeah, the Sandman song. I like this.
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After humming along with Jeb for just a little moment, Pendel
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finds a file, the last one that was opened by checking last
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modified inside of the file structure.
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And there at the top is a list of names, 72,000 names.
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Who? There's a lot of names.
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What? What?
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What do you think these names are?
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That is a lot of names. And then there's more below, but
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they don't have names allocated. I'll be honest, I'm not sure
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what's what's going on here. Bendel opens a drawer in the
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desk and finds an audio file. Oh, it's one of those chips,
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Jeb. Give me a tile.
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Yeah, here. Bendel taps away at the tile.
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Oh, it's encrypted. What?
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Was that like? Should we call, should we call
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retro and? I might, yeah, give give it a
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go. We'll see if we can get get some
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tech support over the phone here.
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OK, Retro. Iona.
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Hello. Yes.
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Did you find something? I did find something.
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I found an audio file. I think the man in the security
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office here shot himself. What did he do?
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Well, he scratched. Forgive me into a table, didn't
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you, Jack? He did that.
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He did. And then he was sitting in front
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of the list of 72,000 names. Maybe.
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Maybe more. Even more.
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Oh. That's a lot of names.
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Well, did you say he shot himself?
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Oh, he's holding a gun. Yeah, there's no human in here.
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Actually now, yeah. I thought that's what you were
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implying, Jeb, earlier when you were saying all that stuff you
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know about guns. Oh wow.
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I was just saying he got shot and then really put two and two
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together about the fact that he shot himself with.
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OK. Clear guy.
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All right, well, we we found an audio file, but it's encrypted.
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It says big secret on it. Oh, big.
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Secret. Well.
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That's how you know. Red.
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Red, Do you want to help them with this or should we let
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Fandel do it on their own? I.
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Mean if if I need to play the support hotline, I will then now
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do you want to try to give it a try without me holding your ear?
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Well, I've rolled high enough on Streetwise to get a data
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connection between us there. You go.
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I think you should. Help them out.
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Thanks, Stevie. OK, hold on.
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Is it really cold there as well? Because it's really cold down
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here it. Is free free cold?
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Retro has to reach into their backpack and they pull out him
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set of headphones with a little mic on it and put it on the TV.
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Oh. That's cute.
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I like that. Rominga Support Services How can
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I help you today? Hi I've got an audio file that I
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need to send to you for decryption please.
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Have you tried turning it on and off again?
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I tried but I'm worried if I turn Jeb's tile off, it'll never
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turn on again. That's fair.
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And you're talking about Jebedi, the Street Racer?
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Yes, with the hat. Obviously do not turn it off.
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It is my power of God. It is still working right here.
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Did have you tried any passwords first?
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Yes, I tried the one that unlocked everything really
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creepily earlier. OK.
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What's how many numbers on there?
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4. Did you try 6969?
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I did try 6969. Do you think I am an amateur?
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OK. Did you try reverse 9696?
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Of course I tried it reversed. I just turned it upside down.
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OK. Did you try it 6996?
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Yes, I tried all of the 699-9699.
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What about what about four 2069? That's too many digits.
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That's only 4340. That's a good one.
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I'm driving now. All zeros.
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No, I mean at this give. Out the password in my luggage.
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Come on. That's the stupidest combination
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I've ever heard. That's.
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Why nobody tries? OK.
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That's actually fairly logical. One second, please, And then I'm
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going to put him on hold for a few seconds.
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OK. Bum bum bum bum bum.
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Bum. Bum bum bum.
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Bum. Bum.
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Bum. Bum.
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Bum. Bum bum bum.
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Bum. OK, I'm back.
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I just sent Jeb a decrypting worm, so maybe that will help
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out OK. Is it is the is the green
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supposed to flyer and then like kind of whoa whoa whoa whoa
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crazy. So animations going on right?
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Now retro, I I know we're having fun with this, but I'm not sure
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if Jeb's tile can like, do this. You may have to like, hold on to
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the phone departed. Yourself.
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Have like 20 minutes. And and and that's crazy because
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we've been here like 3. So there.
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May be a there may be a case of us just sending you the file and
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and we'll just keep looking in thermal.
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OK. So send it to Vivi's tile and
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then we'll we'll go from there. OK, I got it.
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OK, Vivi, now I'm going to send you the worm's brother.
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Don't mind the mustache. The worm brother.
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Should we stay on the phone or should we keep looking?
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You keep looking, we'll let you know what we find.
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Jeb, say goodbye. Bye.
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Bye. So you're sending the brother of
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the worm? Yeah, he he didn't go to
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college. He went to vocational school.
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But he's. A trade school guy?
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Yeah, solid. Guy.
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You can tell by the mustache. It looks good.
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Pulls it off. I really enjoy a mustache.
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I know his mother always thought he was just going to end up in a
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bottle by the look how he is now.
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Oh, Vivi, did you open the worms, brother?
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I'm doing that now, all right? Yeah.
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Retro after all of this faffing a full on like lightning bolt
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flies from one tile to from the agent to the tile.
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Not damaging either because you rolled so high, but then this
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place. There is no thermal bent.
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They're powering this patient. They're powering it's people.
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It's looking people they're using.
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People. Like that. 200 at a time.
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I don't know how I'm going to get out of here, but I need to
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leave. Wow, OK, they're using the
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people. Oh, I don't quite understand
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what that means. OK, they're they're using people
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like batteries. They're stacking people,
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stacking 200 at a time. Yeah, in towers like Spires with
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electric sparks going off in between them, and probably
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little metal octopuses that jump between them.
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Well, I mean, that explains the 72,000.
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Or was it 7200? Seventy 2072. 1000.
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Oh, that is a lot. Where there it's.
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So where are the people? Where the thermal vent is, they
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said that there's no thermal vent.
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The the quote UN quote thermal vent.
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Right. So where we think is a thermal
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vent is actually just people. That's where we sent Jebot, Dyer
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and Vendel. Meanwhile.
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I wonder if they'll work anything out about the with that
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file. You know, normally decryption
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takes forever unless they get a massive surge of electricity.
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Vendel opens the door. Oh, we're just opening the door.
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Oh, all right. Yeah.
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I'm not. It's.
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Unlocked it didn't didn't seem locked, yeah.
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What do we got here? Oh, hold on.
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What is this bathroom? What is this?
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Looks like a a locker room. Oh, would you look at that?
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See that down at the end of the hall?
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Yes. That looks like a.
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God. And go with a sniff.
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OK. You sniff the body.
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I sure do. And there is a large wound in
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the side of their head, like something has exploded from
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within. They're wearing a security
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uniform. Now Van Dale noticed this one
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here. Don't got a gun next.
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But and no bullet wound. Yeah, this this one named the
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bullet wound. This this one, this one popped
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out of his head. So not sure what's going on, but
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this one did not in fact kill himself.
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Well, moving on, I guess it looks.
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Like there's some lockers here and do.
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You think these think these lockers are well, you think
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they're locked? I try 1.
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When you go to touch it, it's cold.
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Very, very cold. Makes sense.
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This whole place is cold. Colder than the rest of the
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room. Yeah, because it's metal and you
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know, metal, it gets cold. Right.
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That's science. That's right.
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Oh, there it is. This.
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There's metal lockers. Real cold.
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I'm going to open. It you open the locker and
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inside are a bunch of random personal effects, but it's
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filled with condensation, cold, cold, condensation.
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Man, you know, the longer I'm down here, the more that I'm
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fairly certain that we are going to succumb to the hypothermia.
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Yeah, can't wait till we find that thermal vent.
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Yeah. Because that thermal vents are
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warm. Jeb, that's an important thing
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about. Well, I mean, thermal vents have
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to do with with heat, but you know, you could have a thermal
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vent there and it's cold. Why did you grab that lipstick?
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I thought it'd be a nice gift. Well, it's used, Jeb.
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Well, I don't mean you can't use the rest to be reduce reuse
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again. That's what they say.
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Reuse it. Anyway, Jeff, I found a
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computer. Oh, well, you know the drill.
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I ain't touching. OK.
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Vendel turns the computer around and does a little bit of tapping
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on it. Vendel's going to concentrate
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super hard. OK. 18 You're all 18 on
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concentration. Vendel taps away at the keyboard
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and discovers that there is a thing called flush, and
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apparently it flushes something in this room and it's been used
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1842 times, but the last time it was used it was three months
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ago. There's a button here that says
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flush, but Jeff, we haven't found a single plumbed in toilet
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this entire time. No, It's almost as if this
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entire facility is 1 big toilet. Oh, Jeb.
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Oh, tell me I'm wrong. You're wrong.
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We've only seen one place that that that empties out into the
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OK, so. Do you actually think, do you
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actually think this one computer sitting in this room that if I
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push this button, this whole facility is going to flush like
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a toilet? I'm saying it's a possibility.
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I doubt it. What do you want me to try it?
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Should I just push the button? No, because then we would be
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inside and we would be then flushed.
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I'm hovering my finger over the button.
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Jeb, are you going to stop me with your silly, silly ideas?
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I I listen, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm the one.
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You guys keep me around for my ideas and I like to think it's
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because I think outside. Should I press the button yes or
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no Jeb? No, it seems like a girl to
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flush us. When have you ever been against
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adventure? When?
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When my life is in peril. From a flush.
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And the only reason I'm saying don't do it is because there was
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a big old monster flying at the only the exit to this that I
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see. No, we've got the elevator.
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Well, that goes up, but flushing usually goes down.
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Yeah, but on the map, the thermal, the thermal access was
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a dead end. We'll have to go back anyway,
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eventually. OK, but you?
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OK, hold on. And I run over to the to the
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nearest locker and I open it and get inside of it and lock myself
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in and then from inside the locker.
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All right, Bendale, give it a go.
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I'm now support and ready for a flush.
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Fine and. Vendale pushes the button.
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And Jeb, you hear the weirdest noise because beneath you, a
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trap door opens and suddenly suction, It's pulling all of the
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items out of the vent. It's flushing the lockers into
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the ocean. Hold on for dear life or you're
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going to die. Oh, Bendale.
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Oh, Jeff, don't die. You have to be a 17.
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You have to roll 17 or above. Do you want to roll?
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Any luck? I am going to use some luck
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here. Edit Luck down to zero baby, so
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add 2 to this. 22 Jeb you stick your legs against either side
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and press your hands against it in the sort of a spread eagle
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style it's. Pulling on you.
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Damn hard. I need you to roll 2D6.
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The winds are blowing past you. You can hear Vendel in the
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background banging on the door trying to get it open as the
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items around you clink past you. You rolled A6 and A2 so loads of
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the items miss you. One scrapes across your cheek
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and causes you 2 HP damage. The.
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Lifting. It flicks all the way down and
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scrapes a line through the tube and you hear the tube close in
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distance but there's still pressure pulling and it pulls
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against you and it pulls and the door underneath you shuts and
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the door swings open as Vendel pulls back and you both land on
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the ground. Your shoelace was caught in the
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little door and has unravelled your right shoe.
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Oh. No, you fall into this area on
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top of Vendel, breathing heavily for your life.
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What the fuck, Jeb? Oh.
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OK. If.
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Flash is the that. Flash is the lockers.
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That's oh, God, you tell me. Jeb, come here.
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I mean that. Gives you a huge hug.
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You you haven't felt a hug like this in a minute.
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It is incredibly close. God, Jeb, I was kidding.
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I love you so much. Please don't go anywhere, yes.
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Can you can you tie my shoe? You don't have any shoelaces
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left. We'll have to find some, and we
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would search these lockers, but obviously they're all empty now.
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No, I don't. I'm I don't quite like those
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lockers. No, didn't sound like you had a
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very good time. All right, Chad, I think.
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I think this room is dangerous enough.
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You don't say. Should we move on?
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Bad love though. All right, I'm, I'm going to go
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over to this door. I'm just going to give it a shot
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4774 when? The door opens.
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Oh wow. Now that one on the first try,
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huh? Yeah, you know.
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Oh, was he one of those things where they got the same, the
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same code on every door? Kind of feels like a master key
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to me. Yeah, it feels like they're not
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supposed to be doing that, you know, I think, I think, I think,
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Rachel told me. You're supposed to have
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different passwords for everything to do.
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Which I think is. Simply ridiculous.
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Now I'm starting to understand why.
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Right. Oh, what do we got here?
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Oh, it's not a locked door. And the floor, it says.
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Wait, what's it saying? Hold on, hold on.
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Let me zoom in Just one moment, it says Wilt.
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That says wait. Jeb oh.
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You should probably, probably like wring out the water from
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your eyebrows a little. Oh.
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Yeah, I'll tell you though. It should still wet.
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And and I am cold. I think I am starting to feel my
23:26
extremities feel numb. Do you?
23:29
Want to borrow my jacket? You know, I'd love that.
23:31
I appreciate. I really do appreciate that.
23:33
I'm going to go ahead and put your dry jacket on and it's
23:37
going to wring out my my leather duster here.
23:40
Now I'll tell you the the, the carbon nano weave that's
23:45
embedded into this leather duster.
23:48
It makes it very difficult to wring out those nano tubes.
23:53
Hold on to water, let me tell you.
23:55
Well. I'm going to try and get this
23:56
door open, Jeff. Please do.
23:59
I'm going to sit in the corner and think about my mortality.
24:04
Meanwhile. Or should we tell them or or
24:09
that's probably fine. I mean, there's no one here to
24:11
run the facility. Yeah.
24:13
I mean, I've just been looking through all these names, seeing
24:16
if I notice anybody that seems familiar.
24:19
Just. Can't you do like a control
24:21
control find? Yeah, yeah.
24:24
I've been doing it. I can't find it like all I can.
24:26
All I'm finding is like the the Kakowski times two and what
24:30
else? There's Joseph Pontiano and Moss
24:36
and Lawrence Fishbourne and Theodore Logan.
24:43
I don't know, we we might want to start like finding out
24:48
exactly what's going on here before, you know, somebody
24:51
presses the wrong button and. Well, should we continue
24:56
forward? Yes, I think or should we go
24:59
back down? Well, we got 2 doors here.
25:03
There's one over here to the left to help, and then there's
25:05
the other one in front, but that one says disposal and that that
25:10
doesn't seem like something that I I.
25:13
Yeah, I'm not keen to go in a disposal.
25:18
We don't care what's in disposal, so we can just leave
25:21
it. Let's try the other one.
25:23
I mean, it's got a pin code. I just I go over there.
25:26
I type in 4774. Oh gosh.
25:29
The door opens. Oh, oh.
25:33
To no one's surprise, it is Several bodies in body bags and
25:38
a hole into the ocean. Oh, I thought we weren't going
25:41
in disposal. I had.
25:42
I had to look. Oh, OK.
25:45
The Proctor had to make sure everybody was in their seat,
25:49
yeah. I one second and I I pressed the
25:52
button on the bracelet that Remy gave me to put the latex gloves
25:58
on the square, the latex gloves on my hands, and I unzip one of
26:02
the body bags. Like the other bodies, it is
26:05
completely emaciated. It has the ports on it for
26:08
feeding waste and a port for the brain stem.
26:11
But these bodies are older. They're even dustier.
26:14
Gross. No.
26:15
Zip it back up. Well, nothing new to report with
26:20
these bodies, Doctor, as to be expected.
26:23
Sorry, I made you come in here. One of the bodies at the edge of
26:26
the room is teetering over the water's edge.
26:32
So that's what I'm trying to figure out.
26:34
Did they throw the bodies in the water?
26:36
Oh absolutely. And where does does is it just
26:41
go? Is that just how they get rid of
26:42
them? I assume so.
26:45
Beauty. As you step over the water.
26:47
Not in the water, please. As you step over the water and
26:51
you do the roll. Evasion.
26:54
Oh, Oh no. Yeah. 19 + 3 crit nice out of
27:02
the water. A huge set of crocodile like
27:06
jaws snaps out, grabs the body and it gets pulled into the
27:12
water. Oh my God, where lies itself.
27:17
That answers the question, OK. You are now very wet.
27:23
VV steps away slowly. They just have like trained
27:27
crocodiles that come and take the bodies or something.
27:30
You don't have to train animals if you're feeding them.
27:34
They will just come to the food. No, I'm all.
27:38
Covered. I'm all wet.
27:42
Remy. Did you find anything with the
27:45
other locked door? Remy.
27:47
Remy, where are you? I'm.
27:51
Here I'm in front of the door. Oh OK.
27:53
I've been looking at this door I I haven't seen a a pin code for
27:59
it. Did you try 4774?
28:01
There's a door handle. Yeah, I jiggled the handle a bit
28:05
and it it, it was loose. I didn't feel like open it just
28:08
yet. And then I heard y'all yell from
28:10
in there and prepared myself for anything coming out.
28:14
And then you just came out. So I was like, OK, cool, No, no
28:16
heroes today. And yeah, I'm about to go
28:19
through the door. Oh, if you would like to know,
28:22
there is like a giant crocodile ish sea creature, yeah.
28:26
See, I could have just gone without needing to know.
28:28
That you? Know I wasn't ever planning on
28:30
going in there, so I could have just like lived and blessed.
28:33
Yeah. So don't Just don't consider
28:35
don't going in the water. Retro role perception.
28:39
Perception is not a skill I'm good at. 12 As you jiggle the
28:46
door, you notice that there's something in the door like a a
28:50
card. Jiggle it, jiggle it, jiggle.
28:54
It as you jiggle it, the door opens and the card falls on the
28:57
ground. Hey, the rhyme works.
29:00
My professor Weaving always said to try that.
29:03
You've stumbled across an R&D pass.
29:08
Oh, R&D pass, is it a day pass or just like full on?
29:13
It gives you access to R&D. Oh.
29:16
That's like that's like I'm in like theme park that.
29:19
Is a level B pass. Oh, I got Abu Pass.
29:24
I got AB Pass. Oh, wait a minute.
29:28
I mean, someone was trying to unlock the door with it.
29:32
Someone was using the old credit card trick.
29:36
Let's see. Oh, OK, well there there's a PIN
29:39
code on this side, so that's good to know.
29:42
Weird. What the hell is this on the
29:45
floor? Automated security below this
29:49
floor. Oh, B required.
29:50
Oh, I already have the key card. Oh, and then this one says I
29:56
assume is thermal required? Yes.
29:59
Who said that I hit 7447? On what?
30:10
On the pin pad next to the thermal door.
30:12
So you you just put in your code into thermal access.
30:16
I put 7447. It gives off an error code we
30:21
have not yet checked. Tried 4774.
30:24
OK. Oh, I think I put it in
30:26
backwards, 4774. And the door unlocks and opens.
30:32
Now, before we go in here, was there anywhere else that we
30:34
needed to go? Anywhere else we didn't see?
30:37
I didn't see a lab. Oh.
30:40
Oh, we haven't, you mean? We don't need to go in thermal
30:42
then that's. The B wreck, you mean.
30:45
All right, so you have a pass now, don't you?
30:49
All right. So good in the elevator.
30:51
I do. I got AI got a a Bay pass.
30:54
I'll swipe it in front of the door.
30:56
You have to make the boop boop sound though.
31:01
Poop. Poop.
31:02
Poop, poop, Poop there. You go.
31:04
And you all take the elevator down to level B.
31:08
You know what? Just to be honest, between the
31:10
the three of us, this is really starting to feel like we're
31:15
we're circling the drain. Meanwhile, Vendel and Jeb are
31:20
standing in front of a door. Vendel should roll something to
31:23
get this door open. They've been doing it for a
31:25
while. So the DV is much lower because
31:27
if you do a task over a long period of time it is easier.
31:31
You think? About.
31:33
Concentration. Oh my God.
31:38
It's. I feel like I feel like Vendel
31:42
rolls more critical fails than the average person.
31:45
And that's OK. That's fine in the process of
31:49
getting this open, because the DV for this door over a long
31:51
period of time was 10. They do electrocute themselves
31:55
on the panel, but they do oh. Fudge, I was wet from touching
32:03
you Shit. Ow.
32:05
Oh, Yikes. Wow.
32:07
There's a lot of electricity in that.
32:09
Holy shit. It's like there's a lot of
32:12
electricity here, Jeff. Oh, is that right?
32:15
Yeah, I mean, that's what the thermal thing is.
32:17
It's meant to be like a thermal generator.
32:20
Like thermal vans, like they're capturing, yeah.
32:23
Like thermal vents, yes. Hey, that's clean energy.
32:25
You know you you can't be too right to that.
32:28
Right. Well, what's in here?
32:30
I don't know. Jeb, you you you lead the way.
32:33
All right, well, you step through the door here and looks
32:37
like a lot of boxes. Jeb, you step into a room with a
32:41
lot of boxes, and on the South walls is a door and underneath
32:45
it it says authorized personnel only.
32:48
The door, however, is open. Well, I suppose we keep going,
32:56
huh? I guess.
32:58
Great. And Dell checks behind the boxes
33:00
and finds nothing. It's.
33:01
Really dusty in here. I don't think anybody's been in
33:04
here for months. Well, how long do you think the
33:09
the dead bodies will be here? The same amount of time thing.
33:13
Oh, the the guy in the office? Yeah, I'd say about that.
33:16
That's the last time the file was accessed, so that's my
33:18
guess. Did you say that?
33:20
Oh, is this a big tube? Oh.
33:23
Or something. Fendel and Jeb, you both look
33:27
down and on the ground you see an indent of.
33:30
A tube. There used to be a tube.
33:33
No, I think there's a tube below us, like in the ground, because
33:35
look, it bows out a little bit. See that?
33:38
Oh. And it's cold.
33:40
Well, it's true. We're just cold, so follow the
33:44
tube. Follow the tube, Jeb.
33:47
All right. Jeb, you open a door to a large,
33:52
large room. In this room are rows and rows
33:57
of these pods. There's a hum to this room that
34:01
makes you feel uneasy, and you take a few steps forward.
34:08
You hear clicking in the distance.
34:12
Yeah. You see them this?
34:15
Yes, I am. Each of the pods glass on the
34:19
front of it has been frosted out with condensation, but deep
34:23
beneath the glass you see a humanoid shadow figure.
34:27
I think these pods are full of people, then Dale and I'd say
34:30
there are about 56799101215410151671919202120.
34:39
223, I think there are about 72,000 people here.
34:43
Oh yeah, that was going to take me a while to camp.
34:45
Wow. There's a computer down at the
34:47
end of the corridor. Oh yeah, there is.
34:51
Do you think these people are dead?
34:52
I'm going to go up to one of the up to one of the pods.
34:56
I'm going to go up to one of the pods and take a look at this
35:00
shadowy figure behind it. You squeak your hand across the
35:04
front, and on the top of the pod you can see a little readout.
35:08
It says 400 W slash 1.4 V There in this pod is a emaciated human
35:16
with their jaw aghast, barely alive as they twitch lightly as
35:21
light flicks of electricity Passover their skin.
35:24
And they're covered in these tubes that lead in and out of
35:28
their flesh in a way that is beyond macabre.
35:32
Oh wow, I think they might still be liable, at least not entirely
35:41
dead. Vendel has walked beyond you,
35:45
further down the corridor, overwhelmed by this horrible
35:50
display. And as they reach the end of the
35:53
corridor, there on a big screen above the computer, it says
35:58
battery level 98%. Oh.
36:03
No, these people only have 98% battery left.
36:10
They're going to die once it gets to 0.
36:22
Next time on no latency. Van Dale hurry.
36:30
You son worried. It's people.
36:33
I know. We knew you'd find them.
36:35
It's a good thing that you have a good therapist.
36:37
That's them. When they're done being used.
36:39
Yes, they. Got to get rid of them somehow.
36:42
Are you all right? Oh God, is it good to see you
36:44
guys. Yeah, it's good.
36:46
We're all back. Jeb, why are you all wet?
36:49
Screw the vendets. I'm going in the lab.
36:51
Kaboom. You've done that before.
36:55
Twice. Oh, we we've done many a kaboom.
36:58
Imploding buildings. I type in by whose authority?
37:01
Bad, bad drone. It got out.
37:05
What do you think it is? Is it possible that it is the
37:09
research? Maybe there's another vent?
37:12
I grabbed one from upstairs. Wait, are you the boss?
37:15
I make the most money. What is in the pod?
37:19
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37:22
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