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Side Quest: Sleighed Parade Pt3: NCPD Standoff · No Latency

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Last time on no latency side quest.
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I'd like to still be goddamn eating synthetic meat and
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drinking some whiskey on a rooftop, but unfortunately acid
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rain came in and fucked up my day and.
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Oh, you crossed the line there, buddy.
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Right now you're pissing me off, so.
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We just saw a hail of bullets. Oh, is he going to be a problem
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as he dies? Hey, as they say, another one
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bites the dust. You only live twice.
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Oh wait, why is this not working?
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Just press it harder. I'm going to press it harder to
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see if that helps. You made the kidney pop out of
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the dip. Shit, it's.
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Done, Pop. What are the odds?
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Is there another exit? Fuck if I know I don't live
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here. I don't know.
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There's usually always a back door.
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I'm going to try and call Monty. He can pick us up.
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There's one other place that we could go.
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What? Is that?
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Yeah. It's my favorite bar.
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Oh yeah, no latency. Opened a vending machine and
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gone past like a secret little door, down a little staircase
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and into a fairly large underground bar.
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There's a floating island bar in the middle, a bunch of booths
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around the outside, and sitting at the very very end of the room
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in an elevator is AVW Bus. My kind of place.
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I'm sauntering straight up to the bartender.
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Hi. Yeah, what would it cost a
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feller for three fingers of gulp and whiskey?
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One second, retro friends of yours.
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Hi. Whatever they want on my tab,
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keep it running. Oh, you got it.
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Not a problem. I'm Ping.
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Nice to meet you. In that case, I will take 6
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fingers of gulp and whiskey. Don't worry, I'll keep serving.
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And they pour you a shot. What would you 2 like?
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Whatever you recommend, this place is amazing.
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Sake with ginger A sino. Sounds amazing, yeah.
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Wait. Something with an O sugar.
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Wait, oh do you have to kill ya? Yes, I have tequila.
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Yes, that's what it said. I'm.
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I'm sure it was. Here's a lime.
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Don't forget the salt. Wait, you don't have it with
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like one of those, like those little worm guys in at the
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bottom. It's like a special kind.
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An actual worm in 2047? Are you high?
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I mean, it's Christmas time. Yeah, but I can't.
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Dream. I I'm not a corporal bar.
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I don't have actual worm tequila.
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Well, I. Don't know that.
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I can take you to a place that does.
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I had the synthetic shit. It's like my first time here,
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man. That stuff's like thousands of
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eddies of Glass. I mean, hey you.
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Got to ask You don't ask you don't.
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Know that's absolutely fair. What's going on retro?
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Oh, you know, same holiday stuff all over again.
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Earth's getting warmer. Acid rainfall in, you know,
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setting buildings on fire. How it typically goes.
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Can I get an audio Santa? Oh.
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And our cowboy threw someone down an elevator.
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Sorry, I'll, I'll get to that in a second.
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What did you want, Retro? I want an audio Santa please.
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An audio Santa, OK. Audios Santa, not audio.
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Oh, audios Santa. I was very confused.
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Sure. And Ping starts making you a
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drink and slides it along the bar.
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You catch it right where you always sit and you sip your
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drink and you look over to the television and you notice
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breaking news appearing on the screen.
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Breaking news We interrupt this parade feature with an urgent
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weather warning from the NCPD. Despite scientific predictions
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here at Network 54, a freak storm has started circling Night
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City, a mass cloud pouring acid rain on buildings and citizens
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alike. NCPD states to not go out and
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take cover until the weather subsides.
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The rain is highly corrosive and.
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Flammable. The parade has been cancelled
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until further notice. And.
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Better skies. Well, that's not what this
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anchor wanted for Christmas. Sorry to bring the bad news,
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Night City. Sadly, it looks like this year
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someone is raining on our parade.
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I may have been dreaming of a white Christmas, However, acid
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rain does not precipitate in that fashion.
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For Network 54, I'm April Anonymous.
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I love their pun work. There's just so jolly with it.
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Yeah, also acid rain. That's flammable.
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That's fucked. That's.
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New We went out the hard way, though.
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I still think she's missing the meaning of words there.
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You can't really give your name and also be anonymous at the
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same time. Just defeats the entire goddamn
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purpose of its Maybe for Christmas.
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Somebody to fight? Mr. Cowboy, I'd like to point
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out that the whole point of her personification is that you
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remember who she is and you are definitely remembering who she
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is. Mission accomplished.
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Well, that is fascinating and you just absolutely blown my
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mind. I never thought of that either.
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Whoa, tell about. Branding pretty.
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Good. Also, retro is very, very high
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right now, aren't you? What does this have to do with
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with? With.
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Marking your cattle territory. I don't understand what a brand
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would have to do with any of this.
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Good, right? So I suppose Retro, you're going
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to do that thing every year where you save Christmas.
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We could try and like, fuss around with it, but like, what
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are you going to do, dude? Because it's always on you, you
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save. Christmas every year.
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Yeah, like Batman, but for Christmas.
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But cool. Yeah, I mean the TV for a head.
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Wait, do you have a Robin? No, the Robins are different
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every year. You guys are the Robins this
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year, I think, right? Oh.
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No, no, I know the entire 12 days of Christmas.
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There ain't no damn Robins in there like.
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Hold on. OK, so there's Dick.
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We would. What's Dick?
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Are you? We would actually more like be
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French hens, because there was three of them.
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I mean, if they're all Dicks, that's fine.
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Yeah, I. Thought Yeah.
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Hmm. Wait, wait.
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What's this hen? Business.
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Yeah, we're 3 French hen Dicks. That's, you know, actually worth
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the three hens. But that makes more sense.
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I think I'm going to take it, just I'm going to dab the.
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Entire dream Add Golden Ring song Wait wait.
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I'm very confused. Yeah, I know.
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They talk about birds a whole fuck of a lot.
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Throw a few rings in there and then they add people.
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And it's it's a it's a bunch of avian nonsense, you ask me.
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The TV fizzles and plays a completely unofficial broadcast.
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Yo ho. Ho, it is our doctor forecast
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and I am the one who is raining on your parade.
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Y'all, and you're sick and tired of this consumerism, so you all
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shall wash My advice is that you stay inside, stay with your
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loved ones, and leave the consumerism and the presence
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outside, and they will melt in my wash Shall we have the
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transmission? Boss.
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Yeah, ah. Shit, one liner got a second
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job. That that didn't look like one
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liner to me. I wasn't really looking at the
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TVI, was too focused on my audios.
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He he also had some kind of like German or some kind of Austrian
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accent. Yeah, so.
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So I just got to say people, they always go with the the
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consumerism around Christmas time.
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There's plenty of other times a year when consumerism runs
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rampant and this is the time people are trying to be festive
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and holly jolly. And frankly, I think it's just
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an easy scapegoat piece of bit bit of a piece of low hanging
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fruit right there. I don't know.
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Not not overly impressed with this tirade we just heard.
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I mean, I still have to work, so it doesn't really solve my
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problem. Prompt.
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You get a text message from your boss.
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If those vehicles don't go out in the parade, you're fucking
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fired. It's not my job to make the the
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rain stop. Do you say that?
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Are you just saying it out loud? I'm saying it out loud, not
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sending it, not. Sending it, That's definitely
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saying it too phone, not out phone.
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I'm real glad to hear that's not your job, because it was.
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I'd say you better find a whole new vocation, because you can't
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exactly control whether or not the precipitations would be
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coming down for the winds and wears.
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Apparently it's my job now we have to get the the fleet of
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cars to go through the parade, says the fuck who It's here.
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Says the fuck who? It's your job.
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I don't see my boss. Who's your boss?
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Callum Mccurry. Oh the.
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Corrosive plating guy. Yeah, it's been my project for
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the last year and a half. Wait a minute now.
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Oh, you're working on the NCPD vehicles?
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Yep. I schedule everything, all the
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parts, everybody's calendar, making sure people get to and
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from places. Oh yes, see they they were going
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to be in the parade. No, I'm I'm, I'm not the
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smartest feller around, but you're telling me that your boss
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who is in charge of corrosive planning, which I would assume
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would be able to resist corrosion, and it just so
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happens that there is a very surprising large deluge of
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corrosion dropping down on top of everything.
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Do you think there may be just some sort of causing correlation
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that may be happening there of some such?
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I mean, that's not my job though, to think about that.
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Oh, well, it can be. Do you want to hand me so that I
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can look into it? Because I think that Cowboy is
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on to something here. I don't.
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I don't have any eddies and I don't have the budget for that
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right now, but. If you if we, it's fine.
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How about you do it as a favor to me?
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Retro. Hey Retro, can you fix this for
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me because my job's on line right now.
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I will pay you to save Christmas again.
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OK, well I better get something from Santa this year because
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he's been nickel and diming me so far.
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I'll get you something really nice, I promise.
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OK, well, my Trois player, Francis, let's we go on our
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little Cluckett and take out the whatever that guy was.
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What was his? Name Weatherman, MC Weatherman
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no. No.
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No, we're the Cluckett. We already say we're the hens,
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we're the Cluckett's Wait kids. Win it.
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Wait, what? I thought we were Dicks.
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No, we're both. We're the Cluckett Dicks like.
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Betsy. That's just we're spotted Dicks.
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No, that, that, that, that that's a that's a European
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dessert right there. OK.
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How about we showing it to Cox? There we go.
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Sure, we'll be 3 cocks and retro Retro with three cocks this.
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Won't be the first time. We're the Three Cocked Retro.
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Retro's more of a duck person, actually.
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That's true. Mama Mallard would not be happy
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with these jokes. All right.
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Well, if it's the normal megalomaniac vibe, he's probably
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creating some kind of artificial weather with some weird science
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from some kind of flying apparatus, which means you're
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going to need something that can protect you against the
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corrosion to get to that, I assume.
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I think I know where we can get some, yes.
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Yeah, The warehouse. Oh, where the the NCPD vehicles
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are. Yes.
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Right. Might be able to get in there.
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I can try and put something on somebody's calendar and see if
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we can get in that way as inspection role maybe?
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Role for bureaucracy. OK, I might be able to track
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based on that audio recording or was that ATV recording?
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I'm losing track. It was an audio broadcast, but
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I'm I we've got some pretty good electronics and tracking stuff
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here. I feel like we should be able
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to. 18 You are tapping away at your agent and you find the
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address of where the flight vehicles equipped with the
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plating are. The information was distributed
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in such a way that there were false positives to stop people
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from stealing this very expensive invention.
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And you know the true location of this, which is NCPD Air Deck
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12. Perfect.
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OK. We just have to get there and I
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will try and I will just try and get something on somebody's
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calendar and see if I can get us in somehow.
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I I don't know. We'll figure it out as we have.
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You have the address. I have the address.
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I can call Monty again. Or do we have another way to get
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there? Yeah, call Monty.
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Let's, let's take their vehicle. We don't have any other way of
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transportation. I'm going to call Monty.
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OK, good. Yeah.
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Hey, can you come pick us up from the bar?
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Sure. I'll be there in about.
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Do you want a drink? Oh yeah, fuck yeah, I'd love to
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drink. OK, I will get you a drink can.
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I have a pina colada just in case we get caught in the rain.
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No, now you don't know I'm going to get you just a beer.
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The. Fuck.
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Could Cipher take this time to try to triangulate the the
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broadcast to try to basically figure out and pinpoint the
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location of where this individual probably was because
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she doesn't think that they're that smart to have basically hid
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their location correctly? Nice.
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I like it. Roll something.
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I actually let me take a look here.
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Something fun. Oh, roll a fun one.
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Insist on fun. Let's fun.
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I mean, I like to think that she's using deduction and
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reasoning. Yeah, that works. 17 Yes, you
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managed to triangulate its location and par, and it's
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moving in a circle right along the parade route, like a big
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middle finger to the parade. It's pretty high up though.
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Oh yeah, we're going to definitely need one of those
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vehicles. It seems like it's right.
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Yep. Yep.
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Just right in the centre of way at a parade.
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Should have been. Yep, that's where our guy is.
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They're doing the parade right. It's like circling and and I
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think it's pretty high up. How many?
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How many feet? Thousand, 1000 feet.
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All right above the clouds. I mean, I don't.
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Think they can go that high? Yeah.
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I mean, I guess the whole doctor Forecast, he wants to be in the
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clouds would be like Doctor forecast look at me.
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Yeah. That's a great impression.
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I like that. Look at me, the weather.
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Look at me, I'm looking down on you guys.
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That's why my bars under underground.
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I got a beer to go. Yeah.
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Actually, I'll be very nice. A pina colada to go.
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Oh yeah, sure. Do you want it in a shaker?
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Yeah, yeah, I'll be nice this. Time.
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There you go, Retro. That's five extra for the
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branded shaker. OK, Merry, Merry Christmas.
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Ping hands you a pina colada in a protein powder shaker branded
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with no latency. Perfect.
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Thank you. I'm going to take it and I'm
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going to, I'm going to take a sip of it just because I'm kind
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of curious. And then when Monty gets here,
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I'll give it to him. Cool.
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Take a sip and put it down and cipher as you look at prompt,
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sort of smile a little bit at the really quite well made
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drink. You also notice it was full of
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edible glitter and their mouth is glowing.
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Do I notice this edible glitter? Yes.
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So lean and real close. The bartender Can you make my
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whiskey sparkly just like that? Sure, sparkly.
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I'm not putting whiskey. I'm not putting whiskey in a
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protein Tumblr. You just have to drink it and
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eat like a real man. That's fine, I just want to have
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a sparkly tongue when this is all said and done.
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And Ping grabs some edible glitter and salts it like that
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guy from the meme. Wait.
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Can you just put it in my mouth? That's.
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Your your. Retro, your friends are forward.
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Here you go, love. Your your elbow is all sparkly.
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Now. I don't know if that was on
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purpose, but if it does. Don't lick me.
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Not going to happen. Have a great day, No?
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No, I was talking to them. Cool.
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Yeah. Here's your glitter.
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Here's a shot glass of edible glitter.
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There you go. I didn't know that was going to
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be a no. That wasn't for you.
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OK, that's another one for you. There you go.
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Wait. Is my mouth glitter?
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Yeah, Yeah, retro. Is my mouth glitter.
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Yeah, as it. Should be it suits.
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You It's cool. It's retro.
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Do you think this is cool as anything?
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However, it comes to everyone's attention that prompt may not
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want to have a glitter. E-mail.
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This is. Hey, just just think of this.
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You've you've become the the one that everybody follows in style
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now. Oh, the brightest star, Yeah.
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There's no one else that can pay not pay attention to you now.
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You get a text message that Monty is here.
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Oh, thank God. OK, Monty's here.
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Let's let's go. I'm gonna like try and like rub
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the glitter off my do. We need to bring some glitter
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glitter for Monty. Hey, do you have to glitter in
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like A to go cup? Because Monty might want some
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glitter. You can only have a certain
17:42
amount per day, my guy. My.
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Microplastics. Will fuck you up.
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You're very no. I look, I've.
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So I've been on the exit end of When You Have Too much edible
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glitter. No, I'm, I'm fully aware.
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Like I'm I'm going to be sparkling from from mouth, shoot
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to poop shooting. That is fully OK with me.
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Oh, sparkly poop. Yes, I'm so glad this show has
18:03
an R rating. Sparkly poop.
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try and see what I can do to schedule us an appointment so
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that we can like try and get something on somebody's
19:25
calendar, make my way through, just like see what I can do.
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The calendar has been blocked out for the parade.
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You can see that it says cancelled on the calendar, but
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you can also see in the calendar it says.
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This is not going to work. I don't think I can get us
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something in. It's oh, I rearranged somebody's
19:47
schedule. There's a way around that.
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We can just have, you know, kind of get into your system.
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I did it before. You did what?
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Oh. You did what?
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I did something in order to help your boss.
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Before. OK, well.
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Access to your whole system. Yep.
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OK, We are gonna just brush past that because I do not want to
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acknowledge that because then I'm going to probably lose my
20:14
job. I mean, you're the.
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Boss, so lose my job. You're the boss, right?
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No, I am so far. I'm a secretary.
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Oh, we could fix that. I could totally make it.
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So then that way it's like tomorrow, you know, you're
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already like CFO. I don't want that prompt, that
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is too much. Prompt I I, I'm.
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I'm a little confused. You are the streamlined up and
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coming Corporo who is in charge of running the parade, which
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does not sound like secretary material to me.
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And if you're in charge of running the parade, that means
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you should be able to go in there, kick that door down and
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get the motherfuckers to get you what you want.
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Because you got to get this stuff going.
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You got to go in with confidence, right?
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It's like, it's like my buddy Jeb said.
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Don't think, just shoot, shoot off from the mouth.
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Am I shooting the? Badges.
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No. You're shooting off at the
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mouth. OK, OK I I just.
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Go in, say whatever is the most impactful thing that you need.
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Don't even think about it. Just do it.
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OK, you got this. OK, OK.
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OK. Everyone roll Perception screech
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outside of this location and wow, that's a lot of crits.
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And on the front of the building, it's there's mostly no
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windows to this building. You can see at the very
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southeast part of the building, you can see it's slightly raised
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and that's where the vehicles come in and out and there's a a
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simple front door. And after driving around the the
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long way around this building March, to your chagrin, you
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notice there's also an exit window on the back of the
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building. Plan B.
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With your perception crit, however, you also hear shouting
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and arguing on the inside from two different tones of people.
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One sound sounds really official, a lot of like army
22:04
lingo, and the other sound sounds really chaotic, like it
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belongs in the combat. Ohk OK well we're going to be
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coming into a very hot situation.
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Like how hot? Like room temperature hot or
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like sauna hot? Remember how like hot the fire
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was? Oh, so like, like Trent Trent
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Hot. Yeah, like Trent.
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Hot Trent. Hot and fully roasty.
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Toasty. Yeah.
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Don't shoot yet unless shot at that is the ground rules.
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OK we're. I'm going to.
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I'm going to do this should. We have like, a cold word for
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like when we need to just pop off and just like, you know,
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guns blazing, yeah. Yeah, let's say glitter.
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Glitter. I like that word now just real
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quick piece of protocol. You say do not shoot until shot
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at. Now if one of y'all gets shot
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at, can I still open fire? Oh, that's a good question.
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Use your best judgement. Fantastic.
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I have none of that will do. See, I like.
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You so going to get fired. Question.
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Question. Yes, yes, Red trap.
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Us doing this, is that against the rules?
23:15
Is us doing what we're doing now against the rules?
23:17
I mean, we're technically going to steal a flying we're going to
23:22
be stealing stuff. No.
23:23
Well, technically you're a boss. Well, you can be the boss.
23:26
So technically it's not stealing because it's your product and
23:31
merchandise, yeah. Confidence.
23:32
Yes, we. Confidence do.
23:34
It. Yep, it's mine.
23:35
This is mine. I organized all this.
23:39
I'm going to go and just gently knock on the door.
23:41
Take your dreams and do it. The gentle knock on the door is
23:44
heard by no one as the shouting continues.
23:47
I'm going to hit the door harder.
23:49
No one comes to the door again. The shouting inside is very
23:52
aggressive. Can somebody please knock, just
23:56
kick over the door? I'm going to step away, just
23:57
kick over the door, just kick it open so I can walk through it.
24:01
Claire bam, you. Blow open the door and as you
24:03
step inside there are fucking people retro.
24:07
In front of you are some fucking Maelstrom deals and you know
24:11
they are Maelstrom. They're wearing fucking
24:12
maelstrom jackets. There's a dude who looks way
24:15
buffer than the rest of them hiding behind the desk and on
24:17
the other side of the room there's one of the NCPD with a
24:20
gun against a different Maelstrom Goons everybody.
24:23
Get back, everybody Get back, I said.
24:25
Get back. No, man, You want to get back?
24:27
You want to get back, man, We're going to fuck you up.
24:29
You better let go of our tune, my guy.
24:31
What the fuck? I'm going to walk through the
24:33
door. What the absolute fuck is going
24:36
on? Who?
24:37
The fuck are you, man? This is my fucking product.
24:39
You want to. Go.
24:40
Do I want to go? They've got my tune, you
24:42
motherfucker. I'm going to look at the other
24:44
guy. What the fuck are you doing?
24:45
My job. What's your job?
24:48
Everybody get on the ground. No, this is my product.
24:51
I have a parade to get going and I'm just going to keep walking
24:54
towards the NCPD. Can I OK, can I help them with
24:58
that? Because absolutely.
25:00
Yes, definitely. Anyone else who wants to help
25:02
with this? This can be considered a group
25:04
action, yeah. I'm absolutely helping with
25:06
that, which is not. A mechanic.
25:08
But if you Remington, you in particular, if you want to walk
25:10
in like a fucking bodyguard. Oh, let's see that.
25:13
Was my fucking. That was my plan.
25:14
I'm fully franking her like I am her hired muscle and I am
25:18
producing the heavy pistol from my cyber arm.
25:22
Not anybody like keeping it down, but looking around.
25:25
Like any. Fucking threats.
25:28
Cyber May has hands on a badge for it in CPD.
25:32
Do it. Burst in.
25:33
Do it. How do I do a face down?
25:37
It's cool. Plus reputation, plus one D10.
25:40
22/2. I rolled A5.
25:43
Who are you trying to intimidate?
25:46
The NCPD. Not the Maelstrom Goons.
25:50
Not yet. OK, that'll be next.
25:54
So I just let this fuck, I let this guy go.
25:56
Put the gun down and we'll talk. Motherfucker, That's not going
26:00
to go well, I guess. Sure, it's not going to go well.
26:03
He says as one of the maelstrom on the other side cocks his gun
26:07
and goes to shoot him. I shoot him first.
26:10
I want to shoot him first. I would like to ruin his day.
26:14
That is not enough. You are too far.
26:18
The bullet flies across the room and it hits the vendet, breaking
26:22
into the glass and bursting a can of real water which sprays
26:25
all over the goon. Oh fuck, God damn it.
26:27
And he misses his shot as it goes flying past.
26:30
The cavalry grabs the guy and puts the gun back up.
26:32
What did I fucking tell you? OK.
26:35
Are we can we just be cool? Are we going to have a tantrum?
26:39
And I'm going to look at the maelstrom people.
26:41
Are we going to have a tantrum right now?
26:42
We're. Just taking an opportunity, man.
26:44
Big fucking storm Parade is over.
26:46
Let's steal these fucking vehicles and fuck this shit.
26:48
Up. No, because my job is I have to
26:50
get the parade going and we have to show these fucking things
26:53
off. Oh, that's such a shame because
26:54
I don't give a fuck about your things.
26:56
I'm leveling. Do you want to do the parade for
26:58
me? I don't care if the the badges
27:01
are doing it. If you do the parade for me, I
27:03
don't care if you take them. I'm not.
27:04
Getting out of the rain, man. I'm just going to steal this
27:06
shit like my boss told me to, so fuck you.
27:09
I'm going to level the aim of my pistol at Mr. Mouthy right here.
27:14
I don't know if she completely heard what she said.
27:17
My employer gave you a very reasonable offer and right now
27:21
this is the best time for you to consider it and come out of this
27:25
a winner on all ends of opportunity.
27:29
Think real hard. Roll evasion.
27:32
Evasion. Yes.
27:34
Cool. I think I like that one.
27:37
Because he's about to shoot you with a gun.
27:41
Oh, he fires a bullet at you as you talk, but he only rolls an
27:44
11. You're all a 19 and you dodge
27:46
the bullet with the side of your head as it sticks into the side
27:49
of the wall. Fuck glitter.
27:51
The very heavy pistol is going to go back into my cyber arm and
27:54
reach behind me and producing from underneath my leather
27:58
duster. I'm going to pull out my assault
28:00
rifle and I want to go Full Auto fire on this motherfucker.
28:04
OK. Do it.
28:04
Do you did you put any points into auto?
28:07
Fire. I probably did.
28:08
I probably did because that's just how I'd be.
28:12
Ranged weapon. Yeah.
28:14
No. Auto fire is level 0.
28:15
My heavy weapons has some numbers in it.
28:17
Let's just see what the fuck happens.
28:19
Because I because I said it and I will not walk it back.
28:21
You have to, because I'm not that.
28:23
Guy Yes. Let's go.
28:30
That is what happens when you stare straight in the face of
28:33
death. OK, so the distance between you
28:37
and this guy is about 15 feet. So this damage down there is
28:43
times six. You cause 30 damage to this guy
28:48
as you hail bullets into him. He is well, everyone's like and
28:53
he gets full of bullets. This guy does not have a high
28:56
reflex. It makes him step back.
28:58
He falls on the desk, chest, slides towards the vending
29:00
machine, looks down at his chest.
29:03
He is definitely, definitely rolling the critical injury
29:06
table. Peter Wellard, RoboCop.
29:10
That's an 8. As he steps back, one of the
29:12
bullets goes right through his knee and the bottom half of his
29:15
right leg goes limp. Oh fuck.
29:18
God yeah, fuck guys, this might be going bad.
29:23
Oopsie Daisy. You want to test me still and I
29:26
look around the room. All the other goons in this room
29:29
have to roll something. The first guy closest to you
29:32
behind some boxes puts his hand up.
29:33
No, fuck this. The next guy also does the same
29:36
because he also only rolled a three and he puts his hands up
29:39
as well. And the third guy, oh oh, that's
29:41
a nine. He pulls a gun on you.
29:43
No one's going to intimidate Mike.
29:45
Fuck you. I'm going to get paid to do
29:46
this. Let go of my fucking shoe, man.
29:49
Glitter. I'm going to take a couple steps
29:51
closer. I'm going to point the assault
29:54
rifle right at him, and I'm just going to kind of stare at him
29:57
over the barrel. You saw what happened to your
29:59
compadre right there. Are you absolutely fucking sure
30:03
that you want to be next? Because I'm in a bad mood.
30:06
I got an itchy trigger finger and I don't give two fucking
30:10
shits about you. So how do you?
30:11
And that intimidating technique is fantastic.
30:14
But you can only fire auto fire once per turn, so you have to
30:17
wait for this unofficial initiative to continue.
30:20
That's that's fine. I'm hoping he doesn't know that.
30:26
What is this initiative? I would like to help prompt and
30:28
I will pull out of my Tetromino backpack a grenade.
30:32
You either listen to the boss or I will stuff your stocking.
30:36
Oh, wait, we might want to rethink that.
30:37
Because, you know, we can't damage the merchandise, you
30:40
know, and that affects your friend.
30:43
I'm not. I don't really mean it.
30:44
Oh, oh, oh, it's that oh, that. That.
30:46
The threatening. Ah, intimid.
30:48
OK. I'm sorry, I didn't.
30:50
Roll a face down. Oh, a face down.
30:52
Oh, OK. Retro has a reputation of six.
30:55
OK, so. That was 6 + 10 plus cool.
31:00
Yep. Not that cool.
31:00
No 6 plus cool plus reputation. So 6 + 6 + 1 D 10. 666 is y'all
31:08
so 01218. Good.
31:11
Yes. I rolled A2.
31:12
So you basically were guaranteed to win.
31:17
Fuck. Look we we don't we don't run we
31:20
don't run The guys through other the the rest of the guys they're
31:23
in it. We don't I don't fuck.
31:25
And this guy sitting there in the corner of the room with
31:27
surrounded by you guys who look pretty bad ass at this point,
31:30
urinates himself. That's.
31:34
Nice. Just that's gross.
31:36
Leave. Just go.
31:40
Leaving it behind him, there's literally a trail of piss.
31:44
Can we just just let him go? Just let him go?
31:47
What is he going to do, boy? He lets go of this guy and he
31:51
walks forward. Oh guys, bye.
31:53
And they drag this guy who's got a broken leg out of here and a
31:58
desk chair, and everyone with their hands up leaves
32:00
peacefully. Oh man, they left a piss trail
32:03
and a blood trail. These guys are just messy.
32:05
Gross. Thank you.
32:10
Oh, I need to go borrow one of the cars.
32:12
What if? Yep, I'm borrowing one of the
32:14
vehicles. Official business.
32:16
We we there are there are we use those.
32:20
Yeah, and I'm going to use one of them to fix this so we can do
32:24
the parade. And then you hit Thunder.
32:26
Oh. And rain starts to fall on the
32:29
West side of the building. Oh.
32:32
Hey listen guys, I'm also one of you, Cypher pulls out, she's
32:36
going to pull out a a badge that she has to show that.
32:42
She's forgery. Yes.
32:44
Roll forgery. Oh, not that good in it, but
32:48
it's fine. We're going to try it anyway,
32:51
OK? Your badge.
32:55
As you lift it up, part of it falls off and lands on the
32:57
ground. You know what?
33:00
I I'm getting a new one, so I'm waiting.
33:04
You know, you know how these things are.
33:05
They're freaking garbage. They're trash.
33:08
There's not good quality. Don't use good leather.
33:11
I promise you. I'm, I'm.
33:12
I'm one of you guys. OK.
33:15
I feel like I'm persuading right now.
33:20
I don't. I don't feel persuaded.
33:22
Sarge. Yeah, Sarge, There's some.
33:25
They got the gangers out of the room.
33:27
All right. And this guy with a hat who
33:29
looks like he's in charge comes out.
33:30
Why do it now? We still have people in the rest
33:33
of the building, so. Might need your help.
33:35
There's there's more of them. Yeah, they're like fucking rats,
33:39
OK? That is cornered in the office
33:41
and then I beat the shit out of this one guy, Sir.
33:43
That. Was.
33:44
Me. Shut the fuck up.
33:45
And we we had him. We had him dead to rights.
33:48
We were just about to solve the problem.
33:50
Thank you for coming in. We appreciate it.
33:52
Anyway, we're going to take care of those vehicles and I'll get
33:55
them sorted out. We'll wait till after the rain
33:58
and then we will reschedule Christmas.
34:00
Why? Why are you waiting for after
34:01
the rain you can literally just got that's non corrosive.
34:04
But the whole parade, that's the whole point.
34:06
The only reason we'll get like you're not going to just have a
34:07
parade of our like 4 vehicles, that's.
34:09
Stupid. I mean, we could.
34:11
It's still a parade. We're showing it off.
34:15
Actually, well, I mean, you'd have to, you'd have to talk.
34:16
You'd have to talk to the mechs and the mechanics and shit.
34:21
Yeah. OK.
34:22
We'll just go deal with the other guy and again.
34:24
Who the fuck are you other than saving us?
34:26
So I guess I'm not going to shoot you now That was.
34:28
The people that pay you that. Was an option.
34:30
Pay your salary with their tax settings.
34:32
What the fuck bro? Roll Persuasion for that only
34:36
because that badge fell apart and it's real weak.
34:42
Wait, are you? DJ calls.
34:44
I'm. I'm, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm
34:47
trying. To get these DJ calls.
34:48
Yes, I'm DJ calls, but I got to like keep it on the down low,
34:51
right, because. Yeah, no, I don't know who you
34:53
are either. Yeah, sure, as long as you don't
34:56
kill any of my guys. If you see any more gangers, you
34:59
fuck them up. Then yeah, I guess you can take
35:02
the can I see your ID. You don't need my ID.
35:04
No, no, the the vehicle is worth a fuck ton of eddies and that's
35:08
literally what was on the price tag.
35:09
So if you wouldn't mind, I would like to see some kind of
35:12
credential. We're talking like a good
35:14
quarter of a million Eddies right now.
35:16
So I'm going to. OK, here's the thing.
35:18
Do you know how many meetings you have?
35:19
Usually, yes. I'm going to triple it.
35:23
If you don't let me through, I'm going to ruin your day.
35:26
That's the worst threat so far. Do you want to be in meetings
35:29
for 12 hours and then have to be in another 12 after that?
35:32
Oh no. Especially if it could have been
35:35
an e-mail. Oh no, it's just we're going to
35:37
be talking about a meeting for talking about having so many
35:40
meetings. Oh God, no.
35:41
You should add it's a meeting for the meeting I hate.
35:43
Paperwork. Don't, don't add to this tiny
35:45
one. Yeah.
35:46
And then I'm going to have to, you're going to have to put an
35:48
agenda. Oh, you know what you did and
35:50
what you're going to be doing? Fine, fine, fine.
35:53
Just go. Just go talk to the mechanics.
35:55
They were doing stuff for the vehicles.
35:57
I don't fucking know. I need to deal with this blood
35:59
on the ground. You.
36:01
Clean up this blood. Oh fuck, really?
36:03
So we can, like, kill them all. I'm.
36:04
Actively hurting right now. The Sergeant goes over to the
36:07
rest of his crew and they start sort of conversing in the corner
36:10
of this room near the sofa, sort of doing a little debrief.
36:13
And you're now at the north part of this room, and on the very
36:17
east of this room is a door next to two vending machines.
36:19
At the very southeast of this room is the door to the
36:22
bathroom, and the South of you is the office.
36:25
I'll go to the office. I'm going to stop, step away for
36:28
just a second and kind of catch my breath because my my cool is
36:32
falling apart now. I used up all my cool oh.
36:37
I just wanted to take a quick peek in there real quick.
36:40
What do I see in? Here, as you step into the
36:41
office, you see a few desks. Some of the computers are on,
36:45
all the paperwork is boring as fuck, and there are a bunch of
36:47
lockers at the back of this office, as well as two vending
36:51
machines in here. Hold on, Can I get on the
36:54
computer real quick? Get in.
36:57
It's the Knight City PD, right? Yep, I want.
37:01
To roll something. OK, I want to try that.
37:06
I'm going to hack it. Sure.
37:08
Wait, not that one. Well, I mean, I guess that's.
37:10
That's the 29 That'll do my dude.
37:11
Yeah, that's great. You are tapping away on the
37:14
keyboard. You open up one of your cyber
37:16
fingers and it taps away on its own, speeding up your typing
37:19
speed. And you find the only file on
37:22
here that looks interesting. And that's a report that the
37:25
vent in the bathroom has been repaired.
37:28
Oh, OK. It's all paperwork.
37:31
It's so boring. That's the most exciting thing
37:33
you can find. It still feels fairly
37:34
significant. But here's what I here's what
37:36
I'd like to do, please. I would like to do a file search
37:40
for anything with my name and anything of the no latency crew.
37:45
OK. And then summarily delete it
37:47
all. Done.
37:49
Merry Christmas, my no latency animals.
37:54
And you make your way back out of the office towards everyone
37:56
else as they go towards the door.
37:58
How are you feeling are? We centered.
38:01
I'm OK. Yep.
38:02
Just. Remind yourself that you are in
38:04
control of your emotions of the situation.
38:09
You are beautiful. You are fabulous.
38:12
You are powerful. You manifest destiny.
38:16
You look like Linda Evangelista. Thank you for shooting those
38:19
people. You are a model.
38:21
You are boss. You are boss.
38:24
You are boss. You are boss bitch.
38:25
Boss. Ass.
38:27
Bitch, boss. OK, stop screaming at me is.
38:30
There anybody else you need me to shoot?
38:31
Because I'm good at that. Oh yeah, they gave us permission
38:34
to shoot everybody. You.
38:35
Well, not everybody. Yeah, I mean, if we need to.
38:38
You guys are amazing. You guys can keep doing what you
38:41
do best and shooting people. I will keep ruining people's
38:44
days with Calvin. I was just standing there.
38:46
I mean, you can shoot people if you want.
38:48
OK, let's let's go get one of these vehicles.
38:51
Remington, do you want to go first or should I?
38:53
No, I'll take point on this. I'll go open, said said door.
38:57
It's open now. So you open up the door, and
39:00
inside you see two goons. One of them's trying to break
39:03
into the door on the other side of the corridor, and one of
39:05
them's pressed up against the locker with a gun, and it looks
39:08
like he's paying attention to something that's on the other
39:10
side of the lockers. He's a little distracted, but he
39:12
looks at you as the door is open.
39:14
Where the fuck are you? I'm in.
39:16
I'm part of the people in charge here now, so just settle the
39:18
fuck down when we take care of things.
39:21
Dave, no. No, shut shut the fuck up.
39:23
I'm trying to get the door. Dave.
39:26
Dave's. Shut the fuck up.
39:28
I'm trying to. Get the door.
39:29
Dave's not here, man, And I'm going to open fire with my very
39:32
heavy pistol all. Right.
39:34
Go for it. We're all for it.
39:35
That was awesome. I'd.
39:37
I'd give you inspiration if I could. 22 doing 22 damage.
39:43
And hold on, hold on, he he exploded.
39:46
Yes. Yeah, he did.
39:48
All right. So you do crit damage.
39:50
That means you do plus five damage.
39:52
And I roll on the critical injury table.
39:55
Do you want to roll on the Critical Injury table?
39:57
It's more fun if you do, OK. You hurt yourself.
40:01
That's a fun thing. Good is it?
40:02
Oh, that's five. Final injury.
40:09
Next turn you can't take any action but a move action.
40:12
Base death penalty plus one to fix.
40:15
This is a Paramedic DV15. This guy.
40:19
He's fucked up. Locks you Daisy.
40:21
Tries to turn away from you. Trips over the side of the
40:24
locker, bends over a little bit and you watch 3 bullets go right
40:28
through two separate vertebrae, and he goes slightly to the left
40:31
only from the top half of his body falling to the ground and
40:35
clutching as best he can his side.
40:37
Dave. Dave, What the?
40:37
Fuck. Oh, fuck.
40:42
Oh, hi. That's not good, is it?
40:44
And he tries to shoot you. Dave, you're making a mistake.
40:47
Well, it's Daves turn. This is a role-playing game.
40:50
He gets to shoot you. That's how this.
40:52
Dave is playing the role of dumb fuck right now.
40:55
You have a reflex of overrate, so you can dodge this.
40:58
If you roll over 12, the bullet does not hit you.
40:59
It's my evasion. 22 Yes, you very You just, like, turn
41:05
sideways as the bullet flies through the corridor and hits
41:07
one of the crates on the inside. So if you're standing there,
41:10
like trying to put the badge back together, and the bullet
41:12
goes right past your nose, Oh, that was.
41:14
An awesome. Dave is being antisocial now.
41:18
It's a heavy pistol, so he gets to shoot twice.
41:20
He rolls a crit fail and his gun jam.
41:22
Fuck no. Oh God, please don't hurt me.
41:25
And it's retro's turn. Let me let me walk in here.
41:28
Who's all right, man? What the hell is going on in
41:32
here? This is you.
41:34
Are you slaying these guys, Remington?
41:36
Well, Dave over here decided to shoot at me and that, I think,
41:40
was grave error. This guy, his hips and his head
41:44
don't face the same way no more, so we may have to just, well,
41:48
euthanize the poor motherfucker. But yeah, I've I've been
41:51
enjoying pulling the trigger and pointing and seeing where the
41:54
bullets land. Who shot?
41:55
Who shot at us? What's that now?
41:58
Who shot at us? Well, there were some assholes
42:00
who shot at us earlier. Was it that guy right there?
42:03
Well, no. I shot him.
42:05
Dave shot at me. It's going to.
42:06
Be fine, Dave. It's.
42:06
Going to be absolutely. Cool, it's going.
42:09
To be great, Dave, it's not. A.
42:10
Doorman. Yeah, whatever.
42:11
Yeah. I think Dave over here needs to
42:12
die because he tried to shoot me twice.
42:14
All right. I shoot Dave.
42:16
Roll forward, UH. Oh, I did not put my other gun
42:20
in the air, so Remy. I told you to update your sheet
42:24
No T boy. Remy forgot his K tech hammer
42:28
back at the bar. Fuck.
42:30
But he did remember to bring Ash, his other trusty shotgun,
42:33
so he'll take his first shot at Dave. 23 Yeah, the Oh no, you
42:41
did. So that's 26 damage.
42:44
That's a crit because you've rolled 2 sixes.
42:46
That's plus 5, making 31 damage. We also roll on the critical
42:50
injury table. Do you want me to roll it or do
42:51
you want to roll it? Oh, I'll roll it.
42:53
Do I just hit this critical injury effect thing up here?
42:55
Yeah. Foreign object Part of the
42:58
vending machine gets hit by bullet and the keypad flies off
43:02
and sticks into his lower abdomen and he falls to the
43:08
ground. He is now prone.
43:09
Well, you know what? I'll just walk up to him with a
43:14
second shot. Lay my name, Slay my name.
43:18
Is that an aim shot at his head? Oh, you know what?
43:21
Yes, I actually did aim shot at his head.
43:23
Yes, I I did Aim shot at. It cool.
43:25
So that's 23 -, 8, which beats the 13 it takes to hit him for
43:28
anything 6 yards or less. You cause a critical injury to
43:33
the head. Roll a head critical injury.
43:37
Brain injury. Nice -2 to all actions, which
43:41
would be a thing if you didn't cause enough damage to kill the
43:45
guy. His head splits open and blood
43:47
spatters all across the side of the wall and the console to open
43:51
the door. It's disgusting.
43:53
Remington. Roll evasion.
43:54
I'd be more than happy to. Let's see here. 22 A huge slosh
44:00
of blood flies past you as you dodge it, but it does
44:04
unfortunately hit retro a little bit on his tracks because he
44:08
didn't roll the crate. No, but at least he didn't get
44:11
on my sweater. This is true.
44:13
And now that you can just see a little retro on the sweater now
44:16
jumping for Joe. And that guy is dead.
44:18
And this tiny combat is over because one guy's incapacitated
44:22
and the other one doesn't have a head anymore.
44:24
Well, that's OK. We can finish off the
44:25
incapacitated one. I got plans for you, no.
44:28
Man, I'm sorry, Can. I can.
44:30
You stumble into this corridor. You see this maelstrom goon on
44:32
the ground, clutching his side where his spine was snapped at
44:36
an uncomfortable angle. The cypher is pulling out her
44:40
beautiful new hello cutie pink heavy pistol.
44:46
Oh, the weather outside is frightful and gunfire so
44:51
delightful. And since there's no place to
44:54
go, you must go. You must go.
44:56
You must go. And she's going to shoot him in
44:59
the head. You pull the trigger.
45:01
Your gun goes as the bullet flies out of it.
45:06
Roll. Roll the gun.
45:07
OK. You rolled a 22.
45:09
So because you rolled over 20, of course the other thing the
45:12
gun does is go, Oh yeah, and then it hits the guy really,
45:16
really hard. No, it's too cute.
45:18
And with 14 damage and his broken spine, that guy's dead as
45:21
well. His blood splatters all across
45:22
the room towards Retro and the other dead guy.
45:25
And you hear on the other side of the lockers, a guy grown.
45:31
Dead. If not, they're really good at
45:34
play acting. Yeah, that, that.
45:37
That's affirmative. If they're friends of yours, you
45:39
might get to join them here in a half second.
45:41
No, no, no. No, no, dudes.
45:45
I'm in CPD. I'm going to come in and make my
45:50
way over to where the voice is, carefully avoiding the blood
45:53
because I don't want to slip. Sounds good.
45:56
Hi. Hi you.
45:58
You don't look so good. Yeah, those those guys got me in
46:01
the chest. I'm going to see if I can find
46:05
something to like try and help, like first aid him.
46:08
There's there's a first aid patch in the fridge behind you.
46:10
I'm. Going to go get that.
46:11
Thank you so much. OK.
46:13
A nice Corpa. It is Christmas.
46:16
Thank you. Great, and I have a reputation
46:20
to be nice and you here as. He puts this patch on himself.
46:23
It sizzles so uncomfortably. I'm.
46:29
Going to take a step back, that's I don't want to be a part
46:32
of this anymore. Thank you.
46:34
Will you go and make sure the mechanics are OK?
46:36
And he hands you his key card. I will gladly take it, take a
46:40
step and I'm going to take that and carefully walk around the
46:43
body. You saw it?
46:44
Still alive? Yep.
46:45
OK, good. You're just leaving.
46:47
All right. I'll just.
46:49
I'm unstable to help. Thanks.
46:51
Mm hmm. OK, so I got a key card.
46:54
We can go check on mechanics and get our vehicle.
46:56
Well, that's. Going to go over to the door.
46:59
Tap. It works.
47:00
Door thing. It sticks to the blood and is
47:02
super, super gross, but it works and the door unlocks.
47:06
I'm going to go over to the dead body and see if I can, like,
47:08
wipe my hand because I don't want the blood on my hand
47:11
anymore and I don't want to put on my outfit.
47:13
Roll to not get more blood on you in the process of doing so.
47:17
Can I use? Inspiration.
47:19
You could. Dumb, but you could.
47:21
Can I just use? It you didn't roll yet.
47:23
Can I use personal grooming? Yes you fucking can 13.
47:27
That's enough. Very good.
47:28
It's a very simple thing to wipe blood on a a non moving dead
47:33
body like fucking that requires A crypt.
47:36
Fail in my book or at least something below 9 and you don't
47:40
have any blood on you anymore. You also have a clean access
47:43
card to the maintenance Bay. Perfect.
47:45
I'm going to put that in my jacket pocket.
47:49
Cool. Oh, OK.
47:50
Are you guys ready to go? Just a quick question there for
47:54
you. This set individual here, do we
47:58
need to? And I'm going to produce the
48:01
very heavy pistol from my hand and just make a couple of firing
48:04
gestures, make sure he's taken care of.
48:09
Or is he fine as he is? We're good.
48:12
Save some fucking ammo for me and I'll save a few eddies.
48:15
I like that attitude. Oh, you should check their
48:19
pockets to see if they have any eddies on them.
48:21
I'm not going to touch them too bloody.
48:22
But start rooting through the pockets of the two dead guys.
48:25
Roll. Yeah, roll.
48:27
Perception. Roll seption.
48:30
I love that I'm the one doing that because I don't have the
48:32
best skill in that fucking. Great Goblin 14.
48:37
You find 20 eddies on one guy and 40 eddies on the other.
48:41
Yeah, I found between them they had 20 eddies.
48:46
Perfect. Can you buy me some water?
48:48
Be more than happy to go over to whatever vending machines got
48:52
some water in and see how much it costs.
48:54
In this hallway, there are two vending machines.
48:55
It's full of real water. How much does it cost?
48:58
It's 15 eddies. So what I'm going to do is I'm
49:00
going to put the very heavy pistol back into my cyber arm.
49:04
I'm going to reach back into my leather trench coat and pull out
49:08
my very heavy melee weapon, which is a section of railroad
49:13
spike, and I'm just going to bludgeon the front of this thing
49:17
to bust it open again. We'll get you some water real
49:19
quick here. Brawl for that 11 is not enough.
49:26
It bings off the bulletproof glass of this vending machine.
49:30
It's a vending machine in a police station.
49:32
Hey I try again. You may try one more time, but
49:36
after the door is opened. OK, I'll wait till the door gets
49:38
open. I'm.
49:39
Going to open the door. You open the door and as you
49:43
step inside, an old guy dressed in dungarees pulls a gun on you.
49:48
Stop. Oh fuck.
49:49
You're not Maelstrom, right? No.
49:50
Do I look like it? I don't.
49:51
Know I spend most of it, most of my time with vehicles, not
49:54
people. That's fair.
49:55
God, I'm so old. You should just go sit down, go
49:58
take a rest. OK, You you feel like my boss,
50:02
so I'm going to say yes. All right.
50:04
Thank you so much. Oh, fuck.
50:06
Oh, the gunfire and the vadnais. That was bad.
50:08
Oh, my gosh. And.
50:09
He goes over to the benches between some lockers in the
50:12
bottom right of this room. You enter this room and inside
50:15
there is a large flight vehicle in the middle of here.
50:18
It looks like it's a bit of a mechanic's Bay.
50:20
There's a sink across the room, a bunch of lockers to the South
50:22
and entrance to the flight deck to the South.
50:24
To the north is an unlocked room labeled Sauna and there is a
50:29
mechanic working on the half taken apart vehicle inside here.
50:39
Hey, what are you doing? Fixing the vehicle.
50:43
Is it broken? Well yeah, the engine overheated
50:46
so I'm replacing the the manifold, the, the CD drive and
50:52
the rear view camera and I've got to.
50:56
After this is done, I've got to cover it in the plating.
50:59
It's not. Plated.
51:01
No, the other three, I had a one scheduled.
51:03
No the one for the the the parade or they're they're in the
51:06
flight deck. This is just our spare.
51:08
OK, great. Do you have the keys to one of
51:12
them that is plated? Who are you?
51:15
I'm your boss. The boss.
51:18
OK, the boss. The World Persuasion boss.
51:20
Lady. I am leaning into it.
51:23
Big Bad boss. Look at her shoes.
51:27
I I'm going to be real. My boss is named Doug.
51:29
Yeah, I'm not sure my name's not.
51:31
Doug, right. So I'm going to keep working on
51:34
this. That's my job all.
51:37
Right, look, I'm. Going to look over at Retro.
51:39
You want to handle this. Hey, look, donut.
51:41
Where, where where are they? We need to inspect these
51:43
vehicles before the next parade takes out Oh.
51:46
They're they're in the flight decks go down there.
51:48
I'm. Going to check it.
51:48
Out, he points at the door to the South.
51:50
I I have beaten you door. Now go through to this.
51:56
Oh shit. It's another door, OK.
52:00
You come through a little like airlock door where people could
52:02
get ready to get into flight suits, and there are a bunch of
52:04
lockers in this room and inside the lockers as you take a
52:07
tertiary glance, are a bunch of flight suits for flying around.
52:11
They don't offer that much protection.
52:13
It's more of a uniform thing. I'm not going to be bogged down
52:16
by the man now. My outfit's way better.
52:19
Why would I put that thing on? I'm not touching that with a 10
52:22
foot stick. It's polyester as well.
52:26
What a weird blend of fabrics discussing.
52:29
How did the second swing against that bidding machine do all the
52:33
16 on that one? 16 Not enough?
52:36
Got that feeling that you may have to pay 15 eddies for a
52:39
bottle of water. I'm going.
52:40
To very sheepishly put 15 eddies into it, then another 15 eddies.
52:44
I'm going to purchase 2 bottles of water.
52:46
Just be very glad that everyone had already moved into the next
52:50
room to not see my shame at this moment.
52:53
Do you crack open one of these waters for yourself?
52:56
I do not. So you're you're holding it, and
53:00
it feel the bottle feels great. And as you walk up to the rest
53:03
of them in the MEC Bay, you see them exit into the lower Chamber
53:09
of this room. You know what, quick question
53:12
for the flight suits, are they NPCD branded?
53:16
NCPD, yes. I've changed my mind.
53:18
I would like a flight suit. OK, you grab an NCPD pilot suit.
53:23
I'm going to each of these bottles, water.
53:25
I'm going to hand one to Cipher and one to prompt.
53:28
I'm going to crack it up, feeling it I don't have any.
53:31
Delicious. Yeah, no, it's.
53:34
Delicious, delicious water one tastes great.
53:37
Specifically asked for shed water from the funds that we had
53:41
acquired from said Dipshits back there.
53:44
You have been my personal cheerleader almost life coach at
53:48
this point, so you deserve said refreshment.
53:52
Wait, are we best friends? Now I don't know I I never had
53:57
one, but I suppose that may be a possibility.
53:59
Oh, today that changes. Way down, way down.
54:02
We're best friends. Fuck yes, yes.
54:06
Fuck the man. Lock the system.
54:11
Yeah, yeah, it sounds good to me.
54:12
Live free and let's spill some blood while we do it.
54:15
Retro. The sensor above the door in
54:18
here detects that you're holding this body suit and slides open
54:22
automatically, giving you access to the flight deck.
54:25
Oh shit. Prompt.
54:27
Soon as the door opens, you look at the back of these vehicles
54:29
and you recognize that the same piece of plating is missing from
54:32
the back of every single one. What?
54:35
The absolute. Next time on no latency side
54:48
quest. Where's the play date?
54:55
Can't just I pull a piece off of 1, slap it on the other?
54:58
Look, my skills are pretty good. I can't do it.
55:01
Oh, I have handcuffs too. I need you to fix this in 5
55:04
minutes. Where is Doug the doughnut?
55:06
How's it going in there? Do we turn left or right?
55:08
Walk out this door. I don't need to hear no.
55:10
E fucking Magellan. Give me simple directions.
55:13
You're the boss. Tell him to give me the chip.
55:15
Leave. Just leave.
55:16
Oh, that was nearly a glitter spray.
55:18
Living to feed Aloka. I don't know what we're going to
55:21
do. New plan?
55:21
Isn't his bestie like, right there?
55:23
Stop laughing at me. Wait, give me back my water.
55:26
Then Richard, can you get the doors open?
55:27
Oh, I want to shoot Doctor Forecast.
55:29
Sorry to rain on your parade. Oh.
55:31
My bad. What?
55:32
You. OK, Wait.
55:33
But no, I don't care about you. What?
55:35
I don't. I don't want to see him.
55:36
He fucking terrified me. Hell, hell, hell.
55:38
Motherfucker. Yeah, just leave.
55:41
I got chills. They're electrifying, but you
55:43
still suck. It's going to be a silent night
55:46
for you, dude. And everyone just needs to stop
55:48
making fun of me. Stop making fun of me.
55:51
Yippee. Ki yay.
56:18
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