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S2E53 - Split the Party · No Latency

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  Keep listening after this episode for a special Christmas
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  message and now I'm with the show.
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  Last time on no latency. Who scored?
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  Top Proctor. I'm not at liberty to say.
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  I got plus one. Well, that's pretty good.
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  I'm going to assign Vendel to thermal with Jeb.
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  Yeah. All right.
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  Just because you got Thermal Lab and we got Abbot I.
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  Think you'll be OK? Is anyone else kind of skeeves
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  by the fact there ain't nobody here.
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  It is kind of weird. Vendel, come here.
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  I'm going to teach you how to do the Fonze.
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  Oh, you know what? You're a natural.
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  Oh gosh. We found someone.
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  An audio chip. We should try to play this.
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  A lot of cleaning droids and a ball.
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  They seem pretty pissed off. You got this.
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  Oh man, my shoulder. Wonderful job vendor Oh.
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  Damn. Yeah, it was something.
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  Well, too bad for the drones. It looks like we're the ones
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  cleaning up. Oh.
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  Iona. I'm sorry.
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  I I know. Was it too much?
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  Yeah. All right, well, there is one
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  actual thing for us to clean up there is this.
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  And I point to the jacket covered drone.
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  Oh yeah. I mean it's it's kind of, I
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  think I've got it. I mean, it's not going to, I
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  don't think it's going to go anywhere.
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  Do we smash it to bits? I mean, are we thinking of
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  keeping it? Because if not, then you know,
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  we're, I imagine we're going to blow this place up at some
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  point, right? That's kind of the.
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  General plan that we usually do normally.
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  I just walk up to it with my baseball bat and smash it into
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  pieces. Yeah.
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  Roll for it. OK, up there it is.
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  Melee Weapon 13 Yes, your baseball bat skips the top of
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  Bendel's jacket and the drone splits a little bit and you can
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  see it sort of singe a little the inside of the jacket.
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  Oh fuck no, I oh shit. Don't worry, we'll give you a
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  new one. OK.
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  Well, that's taken care of. I just it it was very tempting
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  to just smash it. So I.
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  Mean it was a clean kill. Yeah.
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  Can we? First of all, Jeb, are you Are
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  you feeling all right? You're looking a little sickly.
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  Oh gosh. Jeb, honestly, I'm not feeling
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  great. Actually, come to think of it,
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  ever since I got poked by that bullet with a needle on it.
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  OK, What are your symptoms? Nausea.
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  Well, you know, Main mainly. I got a killer headache.
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  And then honestly, yeah, I mean a little bit of nausea.
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  Vomit warning Jeb. I'm sorry I I if I if I had any
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  warning, I would have told you. That's concerning.
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  You're telling me? Well, I may have something to
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  help with the nausea, yes, How about some some fizzy drink?
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  We can find some at the Bendit just.
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  Just get some some ginger ale. Yeah.
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  Well, you know, one of my favorite drinks, root beer, if
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  you got any of that, it's, I think it's the Sassafras.
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  It really helps the TomTom. Sassafras.
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  Is that a medical term? The, the, the sassafarilla.
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  It is that right? Is that what it is?
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  Yes, I haven't seen one of those in a many, many years.
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  It's not sassafras. Well, there's a there's a Trisy
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  Frizz here in the vending machine.
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  Perfect. This will do the trick for you,
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  Jeb. Oh oh, it's 10 Eddies. 10
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  Eddies. Thank you so much.
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  For a soda pop, that's. It's.
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  Not just any soda pop. What is this cyberpunk?
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  Damn 10 Eddies. Sometimes, you know.
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  Back in my day, we only paid 8 eddies for a soda.
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  Second of all, Remy, do you think that we can harvest those
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  needles like that bullet needle from this drone?
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  Because something like that, that makes somebody so violently
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  sick could come in handy if we run into anybody.
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  Yeah, or if you know we want to like, you know you ate something
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  bad the day before and you need to throw it up, I.
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  Mean. Yeah.
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  If we could stop talking about throw up because it's gross and
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  also you smell like it. Yeah.
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  Oh, sorry about that. Sure, I will.
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  I'll see what I can find. I'm going to go ahead and see if
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  I can, you know, tool around in there using mostly my right
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  hand, which is a cybernetic arm, so it shouldn't be able to get
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  pricked with a biotoxin specifically saying that.
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  Those biotoxins, I'll tell you, not great.
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  Electronic Security Tech 32. Jeez.
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  Yes, you managed to salvage a few of the darts.
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  Not many in a say on D42 managed to salvage 2 darts from the
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  mechanism and the mechanism itself.
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  So you could create a single firing device.
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  Reloading it would take forever in combat, but you could like re
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  put it together with a whole turn.
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  OK, OK, so. Now are you going to, are you
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  going to like retrofit one of our, hey, you know I just re
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  last, your name's retro and you could retrofit one of our guns
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  with the, you know, an attachment of some sort that
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  that shoots out sick bullets. As Jeb says, as he sort of
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  stands behind you. As he watches you with a can in
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  his hand. You.
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  Know what, Jeb? I honestly had never thought of
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  that. That's a really good.
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  Retrofit. Point retrofit.
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  I never thought of that. That's actually damn.
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  It could be a sub brand for for remware.
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  Remware Retrofits. Oh wow, that's pretty good.
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  I like that a lot. Good branding.
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  I mean, just builds the name just builds is.
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  That what you do, Liana. Oh shit.
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  That's right. Don't ask Ayana what you done.
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  Don't ask Ayana. Never mind.
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  I didn't say anything. I know the rules.
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  Do I? Do I look like I'm in marketing?
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  Do I do I sound like I'm in marketing?
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  I. Mean honestly.
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  Yeah, I mean, right now, genuinely, you do, but.
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  Yeah. No.
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  OK. That's the only time I'll ever
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  let you ask that question. We only get to ask once a year.
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  Damn it, I guess I'll have to wait till after Christmas.
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  Have you ever gotten an answer or you just you know you just
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  kind of ask and you get the same non committal answer every time?
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  Well, they said no, so. But you can try once a year.
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  I I can appreciate that. Thanks Sir.
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  None of you have ever taken your turn.
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  Well, well, hold on. I I didn't know we had once a
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  year. Let me give you a shot.
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  Can you say, hey, I don't know what exactly do you do here?
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  No, it's like 20 questions. Oh, is it but?
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  You only get one question a year.
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  Do you work 9:00 to 5:00? No.
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  Is it traditional work week? That's two.
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  Questions. Well, we'll come back next year.
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  Next season, we'll ask you one more question.
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  What do you mean no it won't after Christmas.
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  Oh. Yeah.
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  Every year. That's true.
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  The the year's almost up. It's almost 2048.
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  Time flies. Jeez, it.
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  Does. Time flies.
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  I feel old. We should probably save humanity
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  soon. Oh, who wants the sick bullets?
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  I'm I'm interested in the sick bullets.
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  Here, take these sick bullets I I gently grabbed them from Remy
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  and I passed them to you VV. VV You are handed a single
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  biotoxin dart in a firing enclosure and a biotoxin dart.
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  Speaking of Brandon, maybe we could call, you know, Bubbly
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  Belly bullets. Is that anything?
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  Not as good. No, all right.
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  Hey Jeb, are you lactose intolerant?
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  No, no. In fact, I think I eat about a
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  block of cheese every week. Oh, OK.
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  Because I was just hoping maybe they just injected you with some
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  milk and that's why your stomach was off the other way around.
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  It's good thinking, good thinking.
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  But no. My last night checked.
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  Mine does when I have too much dairy.
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  No ice cream for Remy. I can have ice cream.
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  I could totally have ice cream. I just can't have like skim milk
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  or 2% milk or anything other than.
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  Ice cream is literally cream. What do you mean?
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  The more. Milk.
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  Fat that's in it. The more milk fat in it is
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  better. It's it's the it's the lip tones
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  inside of The Milk that makes you.
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  I thought it was the lactose instead of the milk.
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  Yeah, colour milk. Fat The more the cream has more
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  milk fat than it does of the lactose.
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  That's why you can have it. That's why, you know, I can eat
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  a block of cheese? No, no problem.
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  Kind of, not really. But sure, it depends on the
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  cheese. What about like, a nice Bree?
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  Because I've I've made a pretty good baked Bree before.
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  Oh, that's good. Do you not cook for us?
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  Now I'm hungry. Tell me about it.
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  Do we want to do we want to go in this room down here?
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  Yeah, we should probably move on, huh?
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  I'm right behind you, Phoebe. All right, it's.
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  As you approach the door, Phoebe your pass that you have, it's
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  got a little barcode on it. You notice next to the door
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  there is a barcode scanner. I will try to scan it.
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  Oh good it worked. Not sure which of these rooms we
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  each have access to based on our results, but I guess we'll find
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  out. Role perception.
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  Yeah, I see something going on here. 15 You notice a cleaning
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  drone cleaning up a little bit of blood on the ground.
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  It spots you and scarpers away behind the desk.
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  Another active drone in here. Well, is it still there?
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  I heard it wander around. It's skittering away a clank.
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  Oh. Is there something coming?
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  Like a very small tinny like clank.
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  Like a tiny door opening and closing.
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  I think it just ran away actually.
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  Well, then we're fine. Well, is he, you know, going for
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  backup or something? It was cleaning up some blood,
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  so I'm going to check that out. It's probably fine then, right?
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  Sitting at the desk in front of you is a dead body.
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  Oh God, another dead body. Half of his head has exploded.
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  And now? Again, and his blood has been
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  cleaned from the floor, so is a faint smell of bleach near the
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  body. Oh my gosh, they're really
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  cleaning this thing up. This person had the same kind of
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  the same thing it looks like, to what we saw in the other room
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  with the head completely blown off.
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  Right now, did we ever figure out if the the the the drones or
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  causing that? Oh yeah, you think that it comes
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  out of their actual hat? Yes, maybe.
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  I think that might be what it is.
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  A job. Yeah.
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  What blood type is this person? I'm going to use a sniff, so
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  several for that. You can try.
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  I'd like to try. Perception 18 Because you still
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  have biotoxin in your blood for the next 30 minutes, you needed
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  to roll a crit to make any kind of identification, and all you
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  smell is bleach. Yeah, you know, it's it's just
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  toxin. It's making my my nose all
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  stuffy. Phoebe next to you on the desk
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  you can see that there are some instructions and it says place
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  all belongings in a locker. Present your exam results to
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  personnel. Proceed to allocated line.
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  OK, I don't know what this this paper means that they have on
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  them. Well, what does it say?
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  Go to the locker and then what did the second-half?
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  Is it proceed to locker? Price all belongings in locker.
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  Present your exam results to personnel.
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  Proceed to allocated line. Right.
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  What's this over here on the floor?
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  Those look like lines. What does that say?
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  Thermal and Abbot. So these were the 2 assignments.
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  Yeah, the lines that they had to proceed to.
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  Right, it's. Our two.
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  It's the two, you know, when we took the test.
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  Well, I'm Abbott. Yeah, which one of these do the
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  smart people go to again? Abbott.
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  They're Abbott. OK, Yep.
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  Abbott. Here, here's the thing.
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  And Jeb goes over to the Abbott side as well.
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  Everything that those recordings were talking about, we're
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  talking about the thermal lab talking.
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  About the thermos. And Jeb, Jeb and Vendel, you're
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  both assigned to Thermal. So why don't we go down there
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  and? Take I'm in the wrong one.
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  Sorry. Sorry about that.
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  We we should I think we should at least see both or we should
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  at least go to our assigned ones cause.
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  Do you want to split the party? Not a.
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  Last choice normally. You know, it's not always the
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  smartest, but sometimes it helps cover more ground.
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  Sometimes you guys split upstairs for clues.
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  I get it. Does that.
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  And I have to go with Jeb, yes. Get to go with Jeb, you mean?
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  Yeah. Come on, get over your vendor.
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  Oh. Sorry.
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  The vendor You're so lucky right now.
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  Yay. What's in this door?
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  Oh, that's locked. You see a computer next to the
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  South door. It says Locker room.
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  I scanned my pass Z. Does the door.
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  Open, the door opens. Oh, what's in there?
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  There's. A lot of lockers in here.
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  Oh, lockers. I should should we put our stuff
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  in the lockers before we go? I'm.
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  Not leaving my shoes in anywhere I like my sword.
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  There's probably we probably shouldn't.
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  Even though the instructions say to.
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  I don't think we should. I'd like to point out that
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  everyone who followed the instructions is now dead.
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  Yes, which does concern me. Locker in front of me.
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  Is there anything in it? You open the locker, There is a
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  blue jumpsuit hanging on there. Just a blue jumpsuit.
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  It says thermal across the back. Oh, I drop it to the ground.
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  I purposely take it off the thing and just let it drop to
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  the ground. Done.
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  What? What else is back here?
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  I don't know. Just more lockers.
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  The lockers over here. Roll perception.
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  I will percept, thank you, even though Jade with their eyes can
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  see what's happening. Perception 18.
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  Yes. Not only do you see the full
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  breadth of this room with all the lockers in it, you also
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  notice at the very very end of the 2nd row of lockers is a
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  cleaning drone on the ground. It doesn't seem to be active,
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  but just beyond it is a door with a security console next to
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  it, but next to you, behind the crate you spy just the corner of
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  a little air vent. Oh, oh, Vendel.
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  Yes. Then Vendel, can you come here?
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  Yeah, yeah. Coming, coming, coming, coming.
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  Hello. Hi.
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  Do you? There's a little crack in the
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  wall here that looks like it goes into a vent.
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  Vendel starts moving the crates to the side.
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  Yeah. Can you check out where that
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  goes? Sure.
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  And Bendale gets into the vent. Do you need me to move through?
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  Oh. There's a drone in here.
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  Shit. Oh, are you joking?
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  I I can't tell. Looking for an RPG podcast that
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  I'm not joking. There's a there's a drone.
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  It's OK All right. I'm coming.
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  I I climb into the vent. Oh, you, you.
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  Are now very covered in dust. I've lost window one time.
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  I'm not going to do it again. Oh.
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  That's really sweet. And the drone attacks Vendel and
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  Iona are. You guys, are you guys OK?
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  Oh. Fuck, there is a drone in here.
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  What is going on? Where?
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  Where? Where'd you go?
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  There's. A drone.
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  In here and it's. What are you doing in a vent?
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  Roll evasion for Vendel. Oh my God.
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  Oh no. It.
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  Shot me. Oh God, Vendel by the seat and I
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  start dragging them backwards. All right, and you drag Vendel
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  out of this vent. Vendel, did you get the sicko
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  bullets again? Yes.
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  Not again the first time, I suppose.
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  At six damage and four damage ow.
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  Yeah, and now you're going to be feeling, you're going to be
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  feeling pretty bad. Oh, that really hurt.
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  Oh, that was painful. Australian your tum tum's not
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  going to feel very good. You want some of this this.
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  Vendel kinks the vent shut. You little shit.
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  I'm oh, sorry, ow fuck. It's alright.
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  Just just just let it out. Vent.
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  Tell. Retro I I do.
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  I have no patience for you right now.
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  Oh, sorry. I just vent it out.
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  It's OK. Hey, hey now.
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  Oh my gosh, please don't. Will you just go and shoot the
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  other drone down there before it hurts someone else?
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  Ow you got it, it'll be a breezeway.
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  I I have a a health hypo if you if you would like it, I lost. 10
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  HP so that would be nice. Yes all.
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  Right. I don't know how to use health
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  hypos. Let.
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  Me assist with that. Thanks, Philly.
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  I'll. Help I am how much hope.
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  Happened, though don't sound like they come with handy.
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  None of your business might. Be.
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  While this is happening, just shoots off his assault rifle at
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  this drone. Filling it with.
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  Bullets at the same time you hip as the hypo goes off into
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  Bendel's arm, helping to cure out the biotoxin in their system
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  and sort of fix them up, they gain oh, look at that 11 health.
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  So mine Van Dale, you look great.
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  Did that cure your your skin? That's like cocaine.
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  It's so good. I mean, I I feel much better.
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  What do you mean? It's like cocaine.
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  I don't mean anything. What's that have you been doing?
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  Have you been doing synth coke with with Pink?
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  I didn't do any synth coke with pink, although it looks like
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  Retro may have blown the legs off that drone over there.
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  Good. Everybody turns to look at Retro
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  with his hands up, and this drone's just in pieces on the
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  ground. Perfect.
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  What does that door say? I'm not sure What does this door
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  say? Authorized only.
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  Authorized Authorized personnel only.
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  Oh well, I'm the authority adjudicating around here right
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  now, so. Lovely.
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  Please scan your card. Can you get in?
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  I'll scan the card. Your card does not work.
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  You get an error message. There we go.
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  It must be dirty. Hold on all.
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  Right. Try it.
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  Again, and I'll just rub my hands real quick and I'll give
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  it the old Fonz. Eh, did.
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  It work. Roll for it 29.
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  Not by much Retro, that is a low roll for you.
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  It is a low roll at a 29. You fiddle with the machine a
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  little bit and you manage to find the position in the console
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  where you can press your finger just past some of the plastic
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  and connect two wires and the door shifts.
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  Open. Hey.
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  Well, I wanted to see if my card opened it Fine.
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  What's in here I. Don't know.
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  Let me take a look. Inside the room, real
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  perception. Don't go in before you look,
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  Look first. That's that's that's too late.
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  That's what. That's what passed us now.
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  I'm too cocky at this point. Perception 15 You've come into a
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  long corridor light room that's lit by lights running right down
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  the center. On the ground, you can see stay
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  in your lane. There are several crates in here
• 22:06
  that seem to have been haphazardly put around, and it's
• 22:09
  fairly dusty. And on your right there are two
• 22:12
  elevators, Thermal and Abbott. And behind two crates in front
• 22:17
  of you is a drone, and above it is a drone cloud buzzing.
• 22:22
  Man, they're really kind of, they're splitting us up by job,
• 22:26
  like everywhere this place, like there's like, there's two
• 22:29
  classes. Rocket attack.
• 22:31
  Rocket attack you, you hear? You hear Jeb say this very
• 22:36
  nonchalant line as like the overly loud mechanism of a
• 22:41
  rocket grenade goes off, hits the drone on the ground, which
• 22:47
  explodes upwards, catching the drone cloud on fire, and both of
• 22:52
  them fizzle and spark into 1000 pieces.
• 22:58
  Oh. Shit, Remy, was that a little
• 23:00
  overkill? No.
• 23:03
  You know what? That's just straight up
• 23:05
  protection. It it did get the job done.
• 23:09
  I'm not a fool, I use my tool. Wow, Retro, that was sort of
• 23:13
  overkill. Yes.
• 23:16
  I just. I just said that, Brendel.
• 23:18
  No, I know. I'm just, I'm like, I'm
• 23:20
  following up. I agree with baby.
• 23:23
  That was fairly. Oh, I'm sorry, Did did people
• 23:26
  around us, you know, go running into some of these drones and
• 23:30
  get shot with biotoxin and you know feel all the Icky Ookies
• 23:34
  and 1st of. All what it's worth.
• 23:36
  I don't think it was over coup. Thank you.
• 23:39
  You're welcome. Yeah.
• 23:40
  No, it wasn't. What about?
• 23:41
  You, Jeb, you're going to you know well.
• 23:43
  What's your thoughts? I mean, listen, you got to do
• 23:46
  what you got to do. And may I remind you again that
• 23:51
  this whole place can be blown up in, you know, a few hours.
• 23:54
  I'm going to bet. So we can just start things now,
• 23:57
  or we can just let them sit there because they're going to
• 24:00
  blow up. I mean, to be fair with they've
• 24:02
  also shown murderous intent, so. A lot of people feel murderers.
• 24:08
  Cross the line worried about it, Remy.
• 24:10
  We we can move past it. I mean, they crossed the line
• 24:12
  and they had to be put in their place.
• 24:14
  Yeah, it checks it out. It says they're stay in your
• 24:16
  lane. They did not stay in their lane.
• 24:18
  I I think that this is where those two doors go from the
• 24:23
  other room. We just cut the cut through it,
• 24:26
  huh? I think you're right.
• 24:28
  Apparently. Oh, I guess this place has lots
• 24:32
  of options for where you can go. Wow, there's so much.
• 24:38
  Choice, like someone, spent a lot of time, whether it was
• 24:42
  necessary or not, for us to to find where we're going.
• 24:50
  All doors lead to the same place.
• 24:52
  Well, well, no. All the all the doors seem to
• 24:54
  have lead to two separate places.
• 24:57
  Well, I think we should follow the the directions here and stay
• 25:02
  in said lanes of our results. Retro, will you check like I
• 25:10
  can't get a signal to the outside world.
• 25:12
  Can you do anything to make sure we can stay in contact?
• 25:20
  Let me think here. We have earpieces.
• 25:23
  No, I know, but also this place is underwater.
• 25:26
  Is your earpiece working? Hello.
• 25:29
  Hello. Hello.
• 25:31
  Hello. Testing.
• 25:33
  I don't think it is. I'm going to go ahead.
• 25:35
  I'm going to try to use the scraps leftover from the the
• 25:39
  cleaning drone and the cloud of mini drones and try to see if I
• 25:47
  can use their amplified signal, probably which I'm assuming that
• 25:50
  they're able to use down here underwater under a sub radio
• 25:55
  contact and see if I can use that to make a slight upgrade to
• 25:59
  our communications. 25 Yes, you rolled 25 Invent finally getting
• 26:06
  to use that skill, huh? You pull out the communication
• 26:11
  module from one of the drones on the ground and with a few other
• 26:15
  parts you manage to create a tiny little addition to the
• 26:21
  tile. It slots into the bottom in the
• 26:23
  chip slot and gives you the ability to talk using audio
• 26:28
  communication piggybacking on that band wave.
• 26:31
  The thing that is a little weird is that it was very easy to do.
• 26:37
  Yeah. Wow, you really like spread
• 26:39
  through that there, made it look easy.
• 26:41
  Yeah, it just kind of like came to me like a, Muse said, giving
• 26:46
  me a a warm hug. It's never that easy.
• 26:50
  But no. Well, we're done.
• 26:51
  So we can Hello, hello. Oh, that works.
• 26:54
  Hello. Hello.
• 26:56
  Hello. Hello.
• 26:58
  Wow, you guys seem great. You guys getting back.
• 27:00
  To here is Piffy. Yeah.
• 27:04
  Is your headpiece working now too?
• 27:06
  It's good. Seems to be fine.
• 27:08
  So it looks like we're all relayed through Retro's tile
• 27:11
  now. Oh, good.
• 27:12
  OK, wait, does this mean so we still can't talk to the outside
• 27:16
  world? It's just kind of, you know.
• 27:19
  It's a local radio network. It's not going to go any further
• 27:23
  than about 10 miles. Gotcha, gotcha.
• 27:26
  All right. 10 miles is pretty good.
• 27:28
  I mean, we're not going to get any outside help from 10 miles.
• 27:31
  We're probably lower than 10 miles under the water.
• 27:34
  Well, we can radio pirate. No, you can't.
• 27:38
  Damn. It.
• 27:39
  Oh, all right. Pirate.
• 27:42
  Come in. Hello.
• 27:44
  Hello. No, he must be just out of that
• 27:45
  10 mile radius. Shucks.
• 27:47
  It was a long elevator ride. That is true.
• 27:50
  Very. So are we splitting up then?
• 27:55
  I suppose. Because this is the thermal lane
• 27:58
  and this is the Abbott lane, I. I think we should.
• 28:02
  OK, well thermal's really far away on the other map, so.
• 28:07
  What we have, What do we, What do we do if the other party's in
• 28:10
  trouble? I guess we'd have some sort of
• 28:13
  code word that you know, like a. Help.
• 28:16
  I'm going to go with help. Help sounds right.
• 28:18
  Help sounds like a really good one I.
• 28:20
  Don't know if it's kind of fun. Maybe it could be like Bananas
• 28:24
  Foster. No help works.
• 28:26
  All right, it's not. How do we know if the other team
• 28:28
  is in trouble? It's How do we help if the other
• 28:32
  team is in trouble? Oh, Oh no, yeah.
• 28:35
  I don't think we could do much run.
• 28:37
  Maybe backtrack a whole lot? OK, well, if I can't get to you,
• 28:44
  I'm going to give you this. Fendel have a Med pack.
• 28:50
  Oh, thanks, Iona. You're welcome.
• 28:52
  It's the only one I have, so use it wisely.
• 28:55
  Does anyone have any grenades? I got a few let me say.
• 28:58
  Can I steal an EMP grenade? No, Jeb, I'm with you.
• 29:01
  Not you. Anyone else?
• 29:02
  Oh. I got a flash bang.
• 29:04
  That's about it. Oh.
• 29:06
  No, you should keep that. All right, let's.
• 29:09
  Bendel's very reluctantly scans their pass on the thermal
• 29:13
  elevator and it opens. Let's split the party.
• 29:18
  Well, this will go well, surely. BB will also scan her badge all.
• 29:25
  Right. Is this just an elevator?
• 29:29
  In the elevator. All right, so.
• 29:31
  Jeb, you follow Vendel into the thermal elevator.
• 29:35
  Jeb and Vendel's elevator door closes and Iona, VB and Retro
• 29:40
  are locked away in an elevator as well.
• 29:44
  You both start to descend Can. You hear me?
• 29:49
  Hi, I can hear you. Can you hear me?
• 29:51
  We can hear you, Jeb. You're right in front of me.
• 29:53
  Of course I can. Well, you know, I'm angry.
• 29:55
  Iona he's already doing it. It's OK just.
• 29:59
  Have patience. Never.
• 30:01
  Mind Jack. Or Vendel.
• 30:05
  Uh huh. Can you can we Remy, Can we
• 30:08
  switch to private chat? Is there a different radio
• 30:12
  frequency that we can switch to? So Vendel and I can have a
• 30:16
  private conversation? You.
• 30:17
  Can go to. Great.
• 30:19
  Go to Channel the Five, all right.
• 30:22
  Switching to channel. Vendel, I know don't say
• 30:29
  anything because Jeb is directly in front of you, but do not use
• 30:33
  that Med pack on Jeb. That is your Med pack That is
• 30:37
  for you. OK.
• 30:40
  OK, what? OK, outfit.
• 30:42
  Jeb, you look great. Oh.
• 30:45
  We can switch back now. OK.
• 30:48
  I'll talk to you soon, VV. Remy, I understand that you
• 30:51
  heard that, but you understand where I'm coming from.
• 30:54
  What? Heard what?
• 30:56
  I've been on Channel 1 the whole time.
• 30:58
  Well, you're standing directly in front of me.
• 31:00
  I was. Paying attention, I was just
• 31:02
  listening to like the. The music broadcast.
• 31:05
  What? I don't have a microphone
• 31:06
  anymore. It's just my head.
• 31:10
  Yes, we both heard nothing. What exactly?
• 31:15
  It's fine if you did. I honestly don't know what's
• 31:17
  going on here. That is a OK how long did it?
• 31:23
  Looking at the schematics here, we should be hitting the Abbott
• 31:26
  lab before they hit thermal. Let me pull up the schematics
• 31:30
  is. It me or is this like elevator
• 31:32
  going way slower? It feels pretty slow compared to
• 31:36
  the other one. Must be the water pressure
• 31:39
  crushing depths. Oh.
• 31:41
  Everything went dark. The lights must malfunction down
• 31:45
  here. The two elevators descend and
• 31:50
  and Iona, VV and Retro, You feel your elevator slow down and come
• 31:56
  to a halt. Bendel and Jeb, however, descend
• 31:59
  at an ever increasing speed, and at some point the elevator
• 32:04
  shifts and starts moving to the right.
• 32:10
  Feel. That I did.
• 32:13
  I think our elevator is headed down.
• 32:15
  That was going to wow even deeper.
• 32:17
  Yeah. Jeb.
• 32:20
  Do you know? What I think's really weird.
• 32:23
  No what? Why is it so cold?
• 32:28
  Well, I do think that, you know, when you get down, you know,
• 32:31
  under, under the, all the hot water on the top of the surface,
• 32:35
  on the top of the ocean, this could you go down.
• 32:38
  I think the water's deeper. Oh yeah.
• 32:41
  The power the power plant we're headed to is powered by thermal
• 32:45
  vents. My nose ears are getting all
• 32:49
  tingling. Do you think they're going to be
• 32:53
  OK? Probably not, but we've been
• 32:58
  through worse, I think. After splitting up.
• 33:02
  I mean, Jeb's got their guns and Vendel's the the only brains of
• 33:08
  the situation, so. Look, I I think they'll be fine.
• 33:14
  We can trust Vendel, right? I know you know, you lost them
• 33:17
  that one time. And OK, I'm not making this much
• 33:20
  better. I think.
• 33:22
  I think it'll. Be fine.
• 33:23
  We we got Fendel back. It's not like we took.
• 33:27
  It's like we left Fendel with the person who got rid of Fendel
• 33:30
  in the first place. Yeah.
• 33:36
  What I don't know what that means.
• 33:38
  I guess that's enough convincing for me.
• 33:40
  Right. It feels accusatory.
• 33:42
  Are you are you talking to about me?
• 33:44
  We could trust Jeb. It's not like Jeb killed Vendel.
• 33:48
  Jeb's not going to kill Vendel. Exactly.
• 33:50
  So what are we worried about? They're fine.
• 34:03
  Next time on no latency. Does it seem full or does it
• 34:13
  seem empty? We may need to go underwater.
• 34:15
  We are underwater. See.
• 34:17
  And that's why I I think that this isn't an elevator.
• 34:21
  But it's. If you kill Vendel, I'll kill
• 34:23
  you. Well, I'm curious.
• 34:24
  I mean, this line's got to lead to something.
• 34:26
  Holy shit, there's so many dead bodies in here.
• 34:28
  Yeah. Are we sure they're dead bodies?
• 34:30
  I think it's worth taking a look.
• 34:32
  There is a body in there. I've never seen something like
• 34:35
  this before in all of my medical expertise.
• 34:37
  And Vendel, what would I do without you?
• 34:40
  Take a look inside, see if I see anything.
• 34:42
  What are they doing to these people?
• 34:43
  I think Jeb may have been correct on this.
• 34:45
  One, they can charge anything they want.
• 34:47
  What are you going to do not buy?
• 34:48
  It yes, Remy, It's a a dead body.
• 34:50
  What do you mean? Holy shit, Jeb was right.
• 34:53
  Don't let him know that. What?
• 34:55
  What are you going to do? Spit on it.
• 34:56
  Slide side, Slippity, Slide. All right.
• 34:58
  Let's just put a little bit of Lube on there.
• 35:00
  Another one. What's the alternative?
• 35:02
  You're saying we're getting in there with that?
• 35:35
  Hello everyone and thank you so much for listening to No Latency
• 35:38
  this year. We'd like to all thank you so
• 35:41
  much for joining us in Cyberpunk Red and on the show.
• 35:45
  I hope you all have a very happy holiday and a happy New year as
• 35:49
  well. Hopefully you are able to spend
• 35:53
  time with your own crew at your own bar like no latency, and may
• 35:59
  you receive all of the things that you've asked for like a San
• 36:03
  Rue. Hello, cutie.
• 36:07
  Yes, Sandru. Hello cutie.
• 36:09
  Ultra K8 Assault Pistol 5000 Eddies.
• 36:13
  You know, I hope that you all get one as well.
• 36:17
  This is a very Merry Christmas, Happy holidays from Jeb, asking
• 36:22
  all of you to take a little time and remember those pets that you
• 36:27
  may or may not bring along with you on your adventures.
• 36:31
  Because sometimes Sloan gets a little, gets a little antsy
• 36:34
  during the holidays, and all they want is some scratches and
• 36:38
  some snacks. So give him some scriptures and
• 36:41
  snacks. From Jeb, it's.
• 36:46
  Very good. Oh, no.
• 36:49
  Oh, Iona, you spoke. You go next.
• 36:50
  I did. You spoke.
• 36:51
  I was just jumping on the train. Happy Holidays and Happy New
• 36:57
  Year from Corporate America. Nice city.
• 37:04
  Be sure to to be kind to industry workers during this
• 37:10
  during this time, because they don't want to be there as much
• 37:14
  as you don't and everybody deserves kindness especially
• 37:17
  that's kind of here. I'd like to wish everybody a
• 37:22
  happy holidays this season, Whether it be Christmas,
• 37:26
  Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, starting the evening of the 7th of this year
• 37:31
  for sure a candle for those late nights like I will be doing
• 37:35
  anyways. Look out for your loved ones,
• 37:37
  enjoy the friends, enjoy the time you have for now.
• 37:41
  Take this time, enjoy a beer, enjoy a joint, those that can
• 37:46
  invite those and smoke those of legal time.
• 37:51
  Not that Retro would pay any attention to those laws
• 37:53
  whatsoever. But if you do, please do and
• 37:59
  enjoy responsibly. And give us a ring.
• 38:04
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• 38:09
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• 38:11
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• 38:13
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• 38:16
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• 38:19
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• 38:24
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• 38:27
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• 38:31
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• 38:34
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• 38:37
  In the meantime, keep listening every Wednesday for our special
• 38:40
  Christmas One Shot starting next week.
• 38:43
  And until then, we'll see you in Night City.