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Last time on no latency side quest.
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Sweet hot lead. You know what that means?
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No, I'm not. No, I don't have a gun.
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I don't. Is there a clear shot it's?
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Got messy tunes? Hostage do that going to take
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that body shot. And I'm going to pick up Maggie
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and throw it at them. Great, but what the fuck?
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Oh yeah, the chat is just clipping bad now.
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I'm sorry, tune. Pick it up, put it in your
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pocket. Cover me, I got to get this
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fixed. Really don't want to pick up
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that gun, man. I'm sorry, Did he?
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Just come what happened? Trying to whack him right in the
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head, yeah. I enforce the NBA.
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Yeah, it's when I shoot. Oh no.
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Listen, I've worked for these fuckers.
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They will not be honest. Before we go poke in the bear.
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If we got paid yet, maybe. We talked to Natasha.
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Maybe they're at the other. It's only a few blocks away.
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I'm. Sure it will be fine on the
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grand scale. Marvin wise it.
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Was not fine. No, it was not.
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This is going to this is going to be a great collab.
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I, I can, I can already see this is going to be this is going to,
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I mean, I, I don't quite know how to get through all of this
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stuff that you just handed me, but I think I think we're going
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to have a good time, man. It's going to be great.
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Well, well, in honor of your collab, what's the cover story?
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We want to get in there. Are we doing the story or are we
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doing the pissed off? I was going to say customers
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pissed off contract employees. That just got our heads almost
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blown up. Oh, they don't care, can I?
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So if you tell them you have a tip for them that could probably
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increase revenue if they fix it really quick, they'll they'll,
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they'll listen to that 100 times before you say you almost got
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killed. Yeah, I second that.
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I probably should use that more often.
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Usually I just throw angry burning bags of poo through the
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doors. Or dead bodies.
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Well, those are harder to find. Are they though?
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In Night City. There's not one on every corner,
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but well, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll.
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I'll take your lead, Lumen. Whatever you need me to do, I'll
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fall after you. Oh, OK, sure, OK, sure.
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Yeah, yeah, I got down. So walking up to the front door,
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here is there. Do we have to kid buzzed in?
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Is it Timmy just well. Perception.
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Oh, that's, that's fair. I'm going to pull Cargill off to
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the side. I know you think you beat me at
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that ball game. Oh yeah.
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I don't know. I challenge you.
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Challenge me. Yeah, I challenge you.
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You challenge me, are you? You're coming right up to me and
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you're challenging me. Yeah.
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Oh, you don't want to come up to me and challenge me?
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I will show you and the cup and the cup and ball Master I'm.
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Going to say this. OK.
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Feel like we're probably going to get into more fights.
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OK. Whoever has the bigger kill
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count wins. If I win, I get your pay for
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whatever this was. If you win, I'll convince Neon
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Pass to make you a mod. Boy, you don't have that power.
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Hey Neon, you still want those recommendations for mod?
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Oh heck yeah man, I'm this, this stream is blowing up.
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I'm going to need a few more. All right, I got a short list.
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I'll just look directly back at you.
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You you realize this means I must destroy you.
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Whatever keeps your head in the game.
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Oh yeah. And and you're having this
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incredibly cool guy moment. I thought it was locked.
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As you watch Lumen fall through the front door of this place, he
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falls into the lobby. Very.
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Sexual when he falls. That's his king.
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He just thought he thought it was locked.
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You felt right. I don't know.
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Can I help you? Says the receptionist.
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And you get up and you dust yourself up.
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You know you didn't hurt yourself.
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It's really embarrassing. Oh, no, it's my pride.
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Yeah, I didn't expect to get this far.
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Hi. Yes.
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Oh, we were just part of product testing for the the cup and ball
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product that you're you're about to launch.
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Oh. Cool we haven't had our heart
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back name yet to how'd it go? I think we have some notes that
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might help, and this would be like a small patch you could
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roll out and. If not, just tell Maggie those
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notes. Maggie was busy.
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Maggie was busy. Why she's not picking up and
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Howard from there is picking up crazy.
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It's it. Is it it?
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Yeah. So, so if there's someone we
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could speak to and we could just give them these notes, we really
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think it would help the product and and is.
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There someone you wanted to speak to?
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Is anyone specific or? Is Mr. Wise available?
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Maybe I see him down there. She points down the hallway and
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Mr. Why not be that easy? Standing in front of a woman and
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you're really far away, So what you can see is that he's
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shouting at her. What I need you to?
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Understand is get this done before Christmas.
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Eve, are we clear? And then he walks out of sight.
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Would you, is it OK if me in the test group just try to try to
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get him before he's too engaged in something else?
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We don't want to take up a lot of his time is the thing.
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Yeah, sure. Just sign in in the in the sign
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in book and make sure you leave your fingerprint.
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Yeah, yeah, All of us. Or just me?
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Every person who comes in the building has to sign in and give
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their fingerprint. I OK I I fully understand, I
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just didn't know if everyone was under my fingerprint because
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that would be a but this is fine.
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This is fine. No, no, we we need that in case
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some shit goes down. Right.
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It would never do that though. It's no.
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No, I'm at the happy company. Be happy.
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He's going to sign it just like get out of there.
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Just like, come on guys, can. You sign your actual name.
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Sure. I I think he would.
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I just think it's Yeah, of course I'd sign my real name.
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Why wouldn't I? And.
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Do the rest of the group follow you into the building?
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Because they don't have to. I just signed POS and maybe do a
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funny little drawing. Of a possum.
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Cool. Yeah, I'd.
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I'd follow, I said I'd be right behind Lewin and I am one to
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stick to my word as best I can. I do not like giving my
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fingerprint though, so First off I'm going to sign the Jebadiah
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Popeska though. OK.
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And then I would like to accidentally break the
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fingerprint machine. That would not.
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It's just. Ink and paper.
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Oh, then I'm just going to roll my finger as just one big giant
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smudge. No whirls.
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Well, then roll for it. If you if you want to do that,
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you can roll forgery or try and convince me of something else.
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28 Yeah, that's good. You have tech hands.
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That's excellent. So you smear your fingerprint
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and the receptionist doesn't notice because they're filing
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their nails, regrowing them, and then trying to get the perfect
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shape and then regrowing them and then trying to get the
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perfect shape. The fuck you finger never is
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right. What?
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I'm going to be honest, you're a little long on the right side
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of. That.
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One fuck you. Yeah, I thought so.
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I mean. Stay happy.
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I'm kidding, right? Cargill, what do you do?
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Cargill and Vex, are you coming in?
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Yeah, Cargill comes in and writes down Cargill.
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Past past, pal past. PAL number 007.
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And at least it's not great effects.
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You coming in. Yeah, I'd walk right in, not do
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anything special. He's along for the ride.
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Cool. You're all inside.
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And you see the woman that Mervyn was talking to?
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OK, it's Kite, just like a. Pocket, that's all he's.
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Gonna do. Yeah.
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Hi, man. I just, I, well, we'll just ask
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her where he was going. So you walk down the hallway,
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you pass more of those commercials you saw at the
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marketing place. They glow yellow in here.
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As you're walking on the yellow floor, there's this like, red
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line that leads up to a locked door at the end that says main
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train staff only. And she's standing in front of
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it. And you can see she's having
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emotion. If you want to learn more about
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those emotions role human perception, which is Cyberpunk's
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version of insight. That's not.
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My best. You say that a lot, Lumen.
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A lot isn't my best. You say that a lot but still
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rolled in 18 so. If I, I think that's my, that,
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that's like saying someone's going to crit on someone else's
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turn. I'm not going to say that
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anymore. So.
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So Cargill and Neon, you look at this woman and she seems upset,
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but you can't really work out what kind of upset lumen you
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see. Regret, shame.
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I so approaching. I think it would.
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And sorrow. Oh, ma'am.
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Excuse me. Sorry, sorry.
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Who are you? No.
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Who are you in? At the door I fell it.
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We were just here to talk to Mr. Wise.
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We were part of the testing group for for the cup and ball
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and we had we had a couple of suggestions.
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We thought you'd want to know about it.
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Are you OK? Yeah, you, you.
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You've played the game. And she takes a step right from
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you. What?
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What group are you in? A.
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Oh, OK. What did you want to know?
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Sorry you had feedback from me. Sorry.
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I. No, no, no, no.
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It's OK. We'll forget about that for a
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second. Are you OK?
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What's wrong? I'm.
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I'm fine, just some corporate arguments, you know?
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OK, no, I I get it. I, I, I, Yeah.
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Well, test Group B had some side effects, right, guys?
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What would you describe the side effects as?
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They went cyber psycho. Oh.
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Fuck. Aggressive.
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Yeah. Did anybody get hurt?
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Oh boy. Yeah.
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Maggie fell to pieces. Is Maggie OK?
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In a sense. No.
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I meant literally. Oh.
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Fuck. The thing about corporations is
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there are some things you can't say, you know, there are some
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things that I can't say. She swallows hard.
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I I have a pretty good conversation is is there a way I
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can speak around it and still get an answer that I can
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interpret, like kind of reading it between the lines?
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Yeah, definitely. Roll for it. 23 I'm good at
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talking. Yeah, she gives you a look.
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What do you say to her to convince her to do something?
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It seems like the Group B thing wasn't unexpected and we would
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really like to kind of curb that in any way we can, right?
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And if something were to happen that were outside of your
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control, you, you, you had no idea that that this could
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happen. Would that help you?
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Hypothetically speaking. Of course.
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Of course, yeah. And she looks at this group of
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edge runners in this hallway. You look very out of place.
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This place is clean as shit and you're all dirty.
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Oh, I like to kind of, you know. After that fight, you're all
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dirty. Yeah, I know, I know.
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Hanging your head in shame, yeah.
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I know, I'm sorry. I'm a dirty boy.
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Dirty boy. I'm a filthy filthy.
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And she eyes the corridor to her left and looks at a security
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guard. Well, it's, it's near the end of
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the day, of course. And hypothetically speaking,
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what I should do is relieve my team and lock this door behind
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me, this door where they do all the research for the latest
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product it's coming out, which I'm sure you're very excited
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about after testing it, right? Yeah, very.
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It's very I the adrenaline was pumping.
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Good. And let's say hypothetically
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speaking, I had like maybe, maybe I can't help you directly,
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but I might, I might say that like Mr. Wise has left this
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building for the day. I might say that, and I also say
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that I'm just going to. And she walks back, you know?
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It I should, I should really be careful to not leave this door
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open. It's the end of the day.
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You could you too. So we can.
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We're done. Yeah.
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And these two technicians in the room.
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OK, OK, Doctor Gray, we. Didn't really fight.
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It's fine. Go home.
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And she steps out, and these two assistants step out the room.
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OK. Sorry, Natasha, just.
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Fucking go. Big group of people.
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And these two people walk past you and you wave at them and
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they they wave at you back. Don't worry about it.
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Bye. I'll see you tomorrow.
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Don't forget the picnic on Sunday.
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Be happy. And and you know, I would never
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say, I would never say that. I would never say that, that my
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computer's in there. I'd never say that.
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Anyway, I'm just going to close this door and lock it because
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I'm, that's my job, you know, as the head of the R&D department.
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And it was lovely to meet you, but the the craziest thing has
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happened. I've completely forgotten your
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name. And she looks at you as she
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walks around, and you turn around as she walks past you
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towards the main door. It'd be an awful thing if the if
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the Happy Company secrets got out, wouldn't it?
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Yeah, I'm Lumen. I just.
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I. He's not trying to.
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He's trying to be helpful in that.
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It's like, no. You're not.
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No, like, no you're not. We'll see.
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I. Hey, we got.
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Thank you so much for everything.
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We're gonna. We're gonna, Yeah, we're just
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gonna you a. Happy Christmas.
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We're just gonna be here, you know?
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Yeah, Mary. Yeah, we're gonna spend our
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work. What?
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What money did we get again for doing this?
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Fun box. Yeah, our fun box.
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Where do where do we even spend those fucking things?
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I'm not spending it on that ball and cup game.
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That's. And as you're, as you're saying
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this retro you, you look, you look in this in this hallway,
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you can see that there are vending machines where you could
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redeem that for cash do. Vending machines.
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Oh, so we can't exchange it for cash?
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Oh, OK. Yeah, you have to do it at A, at
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A, at a happy company vending machine and there are three
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this. Hallway I I would love to do
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that. Let's get.
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It right? So I just feed it the QR.
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Code or Yeah, there's a machine just to your S Do you see the
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vendor just there? No.
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No, there it is. Soon, soon, soon, soon.
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Line. I think you're first there bud.
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And you get exactly what they promised.
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You've signed a contract with a corporation and they're going to
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stick to it. So everyone earns 500 eddies
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except who gains 550. Yeah.
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It's the last thing Maggie did, apparently before she died, was
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register your win. What did I say?
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Maggie's a full on hero. Gosh, she's such a champ.
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Such a champ. Is there anything inside of the?
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Machines. Oh nice, so you rolled 2 twos in
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A10? You find the physical version of
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bowl in a cup in the vending machine part of a promotional
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reward for pre-order bonuses that you can only currently buy
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in this building until Christmas Eve.
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And then you find that the the lowest layer of this vending
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machine has broken and those two rows have very warm boost in
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them. Each can is 30 yetis.
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I want the ball in the cup for sure because that reminds me of
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the first toy that my adoptive mother gave me so.
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It is 40 eddies. It's pretty cheap.
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Yeah, yeah, I'll buy that. Sure.
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And it's 3D printed and the little wire that connects the
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ball to the cup is like carbon fiber.
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It's really. Oh, yeah.
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No, this is really good. Yeah.
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That's like a weapon. Try to.
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You could the ball and the cup. This isn't the same as the one
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that that my my mom gave me. That one, that one you had, like
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it was a cup on both ends so you could try to get it on a higher
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side. And Lumen, you look over at the
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door to R&D. Hey, guys.
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You may not have picked up on that.
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It was super subtle, but I think that Lady who might have been
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Natasha just did us a favor and left the whole R&D department
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unlocked for us and we could go take a look.
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Just, you know, yeah. Yeah.
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You. You know what I'm saying?
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Give me one now. The only problem with this is
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that there is a guard to the South staring at you.
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Oh, hi. Cargill knots at you guys and he
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walks over to the guard. That is a that's a nice weapon
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you're packing. What are you?
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What are they armed you guys with?
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Oh, hey, man, How's it going? Yeah, I don't.
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Yeah, man, that's pretty sick. It's a company issue.
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That's why it's yellow. It's not my color.
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I'm more of a red guy myself. No, no, I could tell you look
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like a red guy. I could see that.
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Do you like no one's around? Oh no, I don't see nobody.
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He. Takes out a Santa hat and puts
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it on. Oh bro.
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Yeah, that's you. That's pretty sick.
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Roll Persuasion to see if this fucking works.
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Not a chance in hell, but let's go.
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Christmas keeps on giving. And as he's like showing you,
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his gun goes off and it the bullet goes towards your foot.
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Roll Evasion. Where is evasion?
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Oh, it's in Fighter. It's in fighting, yeah.
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Like, minus the bullet goes, the bullet goes into your shoe,
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scrapes the top of your foot and flies out and hits the vending
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machine and the vending machine and you take 3 damage.
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Oh. Dude, fuck, oh dude, oh dude, oh
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dude. Fuck.
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Oh fuck, dude. Oh dude.
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You have got to get me to a medic.
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Fuck. I've got a Med.
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Do you want a Med patch? Please don't tell my boss.
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Oh my God. Oh.
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OK, OK, let me help me out with this.
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Oh God my oh this hurts. Oh my God, oh dude, oh dude,
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God, oh guys. No one saw anything right?
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Oh my God, I could lose my job. I got, I got it all on camera.
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I got it all on camera. It's gonna be a huge liability.
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Yeah, man, Sorry. Hey, hey, hey, squirrel guy.
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Come here. Come here.
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Yeah, OK, Pop. Yeah, he waves.
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His gun at you. All right, Cool.
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OK, cool. Cool.
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I need you to like, delete the footage and then maybe if I
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like, pay you off, you'll leave me alone.
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I'll leave you guys alone. Hey steel shipping the vending
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machine, I'll give a fuck. I got a better idea.
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Why don't you First off subscribe to my stream just.
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You know I'll. Send this to you.
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Boom, flips it over. Oh dude what?
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Do you call this is red sick? I like purple too.
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Yeah, man, it looks, it looks good.
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I got a couple of outfits like that.
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So good to have you in the past, pals.
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I'm really sorry for shooting your friend.
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I'm really that's my bad. Hey, you know what?
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You know what you know what? Don't even worry about it.
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I'm going to delete this video. Why don't you take like a 30
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minute break just outside of the building?
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Yeah, totally. I mean, the break room's just
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down there. So like this is good.
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We're good. I don't want to give you
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anything we're. Good.
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And I'm going to see you in the past, pals, right?
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Yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll check out your latest video.
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So there's a fight and. He's walking away like looking
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at. A button, Sir.
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Hold on, Sir. Sir.
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Yeah, I thought we were good. Can we?
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Can I just fucking go? Or not?
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Can I have that patch? I'm bleeding.
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Yeah, he or he, he hands you a patch as he walks away.
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It's, it's a, it's you have to take your shoe off and wrap it
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around, but it stings a little bit, but it does return to HP.
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Sir, I I don't think my friends were being completely honest
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with you and I feeling like the honourable one should be the one
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to tell you. You know that your security
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cameras caught that too, right? I mean, yes, but also no,
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because there are no cameras in this particular bit of the
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hallway. That's why Mr. Wise likes to
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leave through this back door. So no, I can.
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I shouldn't have said that. That's stupid.
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I didn't say. What, sorry, I, I was kind of
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scratching my ear. I, I, I couldn't hear what you
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said for that last bit. I wanted to check to make sure
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that you weren't going to get caught back by your own company.
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That's all. So.
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The cameras were on, everyone would see that the code for the
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door is 21470. Shit.
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What? Exactly.
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Fuck, I need to grow. And he walks away.
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One second, I'm so sorry. I don't want to hold you up.
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I just want to thank you and tell you there's a little button
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next to the trigger that turns the safety on.
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And if you do that. He gives you a look.
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Just trying. To be helpful just like OK.
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Bye, you know. What you know what, Jason?
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Excellent call back inspiration. Thank you.
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That was good, and so now you've cleared the guard by someone
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taking a bullet. Cargill.
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That was pretty cool though, not going to lie.
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I mean, you literally. Yeah.
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I mean. Just try planned.
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So we should get in that. We should get it.
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Yeah, No, no, let's let's limp over there, walk over there.
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We know no one's in there. Let's just go in.
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Let's go, let's do it. Hello, it's Ian from Respect the
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You roll another D20. 12 you. For the next 70.
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Two hours are 12 years old. Oh no.
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To the post apocalypse. He's a vault dweller.
24:58
You could probably tell with the jumpsuit and everything like
25:01
that. Hey lads, you gotta tell me
25:03
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and jagged teeth, it's visaged a grotesque mockery of humanity.
25:23
Good. And a Galaxy far, far away.
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It's fun. Let's do it again.
25:28
And then he'll punch it. And we'll.
25:29
Go into lightspeed. The dice tell a story and we
25:33
have a hell of a lot of fun rolling with it.
25:35
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25:37
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Gets out of his phone. All right, everyone, we got
26:06
another surprise stream going on.
26:07
This one's going. To be a little bit.
26:09
Quieter, I can't talk to chat so much.
26:13
Hey POS pals, still with my buddies here.
26:16
We just found I just. Walk in.
26:18
Some cool stuff, yeah, I wouldn't.
26:19
Let's just go in. As you walk in, you see to your
26:21
right. Just before you step fully into
26:23
the room, you see to your right that there's a security camera
26:26
to the right. I step back out of the If you
26:31
you, it can't see the door at its current angle because it's
26:34
pointed straight across the room.
26:36
OK, I'm going to turn back to the group who's good with camera
26:40
shit. You know, just making it not do
26:44
the camera thing. There's camera right inside.
26:48
Well, Lumen's pretty illuminating.
26:51
Yeah, you're a tech guy. Can you make that move?
26:56
I can't. Where's the?
26:59
I need an access point. The console to open this door is
27:04
connected to the local security network.
27:07
That'll do it. OK, I've had good luck with
27:11
this. Please just hey.
27:15
Oh honey, one you loop the. Footage.
27:18
Of the empty room. Oh, we Ocean's 11 it.
27:23
Oh, OK guys, I got like one more good role in me.
27:27
So whatever we're going to do, let's fucking.
27:31
I've never had a run of luck this good.
27:33
And you make your way into the room.
27:36
I'm assuming everybody. Yes.
27:37
Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
27:38
Yeah, amazing. So you will make your way into
27:41
the room. Does anyone close the door
27:42
behind them? I'll, I'll.
27:44
Close the door and kind of try and make sure it stays close
27:48
behind us. Like even if it's just blocking
27:50
it and holding it because the less he does the better he
27:53
figures at this. Point actually, are you in there
27:57
too? Yeah, mainly because Retro needs
28:00
to find a way to get his count up after making that deal with
28:06
Cargill, because Cargill's up by 1 now.
28:08
Yeah, if you want to have a look around this room with more
28:12
detail, please roll perception. But what you see is 2 sort of
28:16
desks, a bunch of closets on the wall to the east.
28:20
There's only one of the desks has a computer on it, the other
28:23
has marks from someone making equipment and probably
28:26
prototyping. And on the N wall there is a
28:29
large mainframe computer. Well, I'd like to go to the
28:32
mainframe computer. Sure, Neon passes with.
28:38
There are cables leading from the mainframe computer to the
28:40
computer on the desk. Can I plug my neural link which
28:44
is the audio visual ports in my head to the mainframe computer
28:51
and see what I can find? Sure. 30.
28:54
Oh. 33 The mainframe computer has no storage.
28:58
There's something really weird about this machine, and as you
29:02
dig through the data, you find a bunch of overinflated RAM chips.
29:06
You find empty data ports to inflate the data being
29:11
displayed. At the very, very base of this
29:13
system. You find a thing that says open
29:17
close. OK DM, quick question.
29:22
Yes. Would I assume this to be that
29:25
it's wide open because nothing's really been put into it, or that
29:29
it's been cleaned out? It's not a mainframe computer,
29:33
it's a door. So there's another way out of
29:38
here I guess. Maybe.
29:40
The back door. I oh, I love a back door.
29:43
It's only all. Well, Roger, I did my bit.
29:46
What are you all doing? Do you tell everybody that?
29:50
Oh, yeah, no, I'm like, oh, no, I, I I I found a back door.
29:53
Like a literal back door. Not just like a back door in the
29:55
system, like a back door. This thing not even actually a
29:57
computer. It's just like is.
29:59
This the one emptiness. Is this the one that Weiss goes
30:02
out of? Is this the?
30:04
Is this the door they were talking about?
30:06
No, I don't know now hit open that.
30:08
Was in the whole way outside. Oh, got it.
30:11
Yeah, and you see, a countdown doesn't feel like a bomb
30:14
countdown just feels like an unlock countdown as it sort of
30:17
undoes a bunch of bolts in the wall and you hear it disengaging
30:20
feels like it's going to take a second.
30:21
Cool. I'm.
30:21
Just going. To sit there and wait, you know
30:24
what? No, I'm going to pull out my
30:26
shotgun again and then I'm going to be sitting there and waiting.
30:30
Does anyone else look at anything else in this room?
30:32
I'll take a look at the computer on the desk, but it seems moot
30:35
now. Give.
30:37
It a shot. Yeah.
30:39
You rolled 18 on basic tech, and as you look at this computer you
30:43
see the last user to log in was Natasha Gray, and with weirdly
30:47
very little resistance, you discover a document.
30:53
Oh, this is this is a bit deeper.
30:56
OK, so some of this information's redacted, but
31:00
there's a bit at the beginning. Do the highly controversial
31:05
nature of the latest happy company product.
31:07
The following in highly classified is highly classified
31:12
considering a company and considered a company.
31:15
Sick of that makes sense. Yeah.
31:17
Do not distribute. Natasha, you signed an NDA.
31:20
This report is to be buried. Don't undermine me again.
31:25
You think I wouldn't find this Mr. Wise?
31:27
Oh, OK. So obviously this is the, the
31:30
rest of this is from Natasha. OK.
31:35
The blank are secure. Work on the software continues.
31:38
Their blank continues to baffle the R&D team as well as its
31:43
effect on others. There's no doubt they want to be
31:46
close so they have to be separated per orders.
31:52
They both are more blank now, yet the code still holds.
31:57
The connection they have is blank and that data has mostly a
32:02
similar effect on most exposed mostly and most are like
32:06
highlighted red now. Blank of test subjects
32:09
experience withdraws after exposure.
32:12
This seems to clear up after a few weeks.
32:15
However, blank negatively affected are also seeming seeing
32:21
symptoms of big blank. I don't think that Mister Weiss
32:26
will take heed of this. It's my professional opinion the
32:30
project should be scrapped. Miss Mr. Weiss vendetta against
32:34
these two stinks. I doubt they even need the
32:39
blank. Nothing in my scan suggests that
32:42
is the case, despite Mr. Weiss fervent insistence.
32:46
Honestly, big blank Natasha Grey.
32:52
I bet all the I bet all the like the the blanks that they put in
32:56
there are swear words. They just didn't want anyone to
32:59
have to see all that language you.
33:02
Want to print all of that file? You can't attempt to do so.
33:07
What would that be? Can I give them help?
33:09
Sure. Yeah, well, I got a bunch of
33:12
luck too. Mm, hmm.
33:15
Mm. Hmm.
33:15
Oh yeah. Yeah, just make sure you change
33:17
the code because they're probably, if it's redacted, they
33:20
just slapped a sensor bar over it.
33:22
So if you decided to make that into either a transparent or a
33:26
separate color, then the regular font is just going to pop up
33:29
over that. Oh, I had a Batman comic like
33:32
that. Who's Batman?
33:35
Go for it. Me or them?
33:38
Roll for Batman. You want to help?
33:43
I thought you were. I thought you were asking me to
33:45
roll if I didn't. Eight, yes, you pass over a
33:49
decryption algorithm and it removed 28.
33:52
Yeah, it removes the redacted information.
33:56
Oh. Oh.
34:00
See a 15 to 22% of test subjects experienced withdrawals after
34:04
exposure. Over 5% of those negatively
34:08
affected are also seeing symptoms of rage, violence and
34:12
inhumanity. Who are the?
34:14
Twins. And a door opens in the
34:18
mainframe, Neon as you turn around.
34:22
They're in that room. There's a male figure crucified
34:29
in a pod, cables cascading at the back back of his head and
34:33
his eyes robbed back past his eyelids, his mouth agape as
34:40
light moves away from his brain into the machines.
34:44
Around him is a macabre sight, and we'll do really well as a
34:49
thumbnail. Someone's been watching too much
34:55
Evangelion. Are you OK?
35:09
Guys, I don't think he's happy. How, how do we, how do we help
35:13
you? I'm gonna look around and and
35:24
see if I can see a a Safeway to unplug this guy or around his
35:28
body or around the machine or or something.
35:42
Oh, he's a fork. He's a net runner.
35:49
Oh. You found this secret side room
35:54
behind the mainframe. I want to get all I get all of
35:59
this. I just I like I'm do like as I'm
36:02
looking for some place to unplug him.
36:04
I'm like just recording of panoramic of this room in this
36:11
this scene. Fucking hate corpose.
36:15
OK Cargill Vex. Can you find some kind of
36:25
cooling apparatus? Like, I don't know, maybe some
36:29
cold water, ice if preferable, Something like that.
36:36
Cargill. Cargo types into the chat and
36:41
says me and I'm watching the door.
36:46
Got it. He's he's at the door.
36:49
Oh shit. I'll go to the I'll see if I can
36:54
get to the vending machine. Yeah, you know what?
36:56
Hey, that's a smart idea. There's probably some kind of
37:00
cold pump in there that'll have something right?
37:03
Because usually. Vending machine has a coolant
37:07
pumps that you could pull. Yeah, all.
37:10
Right. Grab that.
37:11
Yeah, it's ruined. So that doesn't require a roll.
37:14
OK, All right. And I will bring that over.
37:18
Hand it over. Really.
37:18
I listen. If you need me to do something,
37:21
just tell me. Well, we're going to need
37:24
somebody that's going to be pretty dexterous, good with,
37:29
good with the reflexes, something like that to help
37:34
catch the body if it falls, as well as to help cool the body
37:37
down. Lumen Pass, you and I are going
37:41
to have to all disconnect them in the proper order.
37:46
This isn't just like a plug and play system, right?
37:49
If we don't do this right, they could go.
37:54
Yeah, you. Got it.
37:56
This is so fucked. I don't get why you'd need this
38:00
for a ball and a cup game. Right, but what are they putting
38:05
in this game? My sister.
38:07
I. Thought Twins.
38:14
Fuck. So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
38:15
There's another one of you, my sister.
38:22
Let's disconnect them first and then we can ask questions once.
38:24
They're not going to fry their brain out.
38:27
OK, OK, OK. OK.
38:31
Yeah. Yeah, let's do.
38:38
Now, Evan, do you want to use all of your inspiration right
38:41
now? I don't have any, yeah.
38:43
You do? Yeah, you do.
38:45
Wait, No, do you? No, I don't.
38:48
If someone else wants to give you their inspiration, they can.
38:50
They are. If you like an inspiration,
38:51
let's I feel like this is crucial which you you can have
38:54
my inspiration. Yeah, sorry, I used my last
38:57
inspiration last night, remember?
38:59
That's right, you did. Apologies.
39:01
But it's fair because I've given my inspiration to tell people a
39:03
lot too. So 100 lbs. 33, yeah.
39:07
Oh yeah, yeah, yes, there. The machine Pistons out and
39:11
follows the disengage procedure correctly and he is released and
39:16
put in a sitting position in a medical chair.
39:19
The pod disengages and the lights change to yellow.
39:22
Thank. You.
39:34
Hey, hey, hey, hey. It's OK.
39:38
Where's your where's? Where's your sister?
39:40
Do you know she's out there? Production facility.
39:49
And where, where, where is that? That's E Night City.
39:55
You have to. You have to stop them.
39:58
My brother's a madman. All he cares about is money.
40:04
Is your brother Weiss? Yes.
40:08
Holy shit dude. I'm Frank Weiss.
40:16
So you're all family? Yes.
40:20
Is your, is it? Is it your twin sister or is
40:24
yes? My my sister and I have twins.
40:27
Sorry, my sister and I are twins.
40:29
My brother's just paternal and he never did very well in
40:35
school. He's kind of an asshole.
40:38
Yeah, I can tell. I I I gotta ask?
40:41
What month is it? Oh, it's almost Christmas, my
40:45
guy. Oh fuck.
40:48
Yeah, and they're trying to roll out with some cup and ball
40:51
bullshit that is like fucking people.
40:53
Oh, the. Game's bullshit.
40:54
It's my sister and I need to be together, Mike.
41:03
When I'm near her, I can hear. I'm deaf.
41:05
When I'm near her, I can hear and she can see.
41:10
Oh, is this like psionics? No, it was some cyberware.
41:18
To save both of our senses, we borrowed the brain pathways of
41:24
each other. Does the cup and ball represent
41:30
you 2? Kind of.
41:34
That's. Just shitty.
41:36
Yeah. I mean the the stringing you up
41:38
thing is real bad but I feel like the cup and ball thing was
41:41
over the line. It's a bad metaphor, right?
41:46
Oh my God, this. Kind of an asshole.
41:49
My sister and I, we were doing good things.
41:53
We could process so much data. The neck can really, really harm
41:58
you if you're not careful. But with my sister around, I
42:01
could even go beyond the Black Wall for a little bit.
42:04
And then my brother realized that anyone else connected to it
42:09
wanted to be I'll handle it. Went mad.
42:14
Holy fuck. You have to stop my sister.
42:23
Why is this rich as fuck? I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll
42:25
wire money. I'll, I'll, I could shit, just
42:30
just get me to a node and I can do it.
42:33
OK, shit. All right, well, if someone
42:40
who's who's here strong enough to carry them.
42:43
Bloom It's going to step way back.
42:44
I can help, but not not me. Plus, I got to hold the.
42:49
I got to hold the camera. You really should invest in one
42:55
of those hover cameras. They're not very expensive.
42:57
Well, I got one in my. Sister and I'll, I'll, I'll try
43:00
this. Coupon code, anything.
43:01
Just save my. That's cool, man.
43:04
That's cool. Yeah, you can.
43:05
You can rack up a bunch of Subs later.
43:07
Let's get you out of here. Yeah, let's, let's just move on.
43:11
BEX, can you keep that coolant pump on them so they can restore
43:16
their body temperature? Yeah.
43:19
So he'll support that with one hand hopefully, and then try to
43:24
with the other hand support. He.
43:26
Grabs the cable from the coolant pump and plugs it into a a
43:31
little port on his side and you see the coolant spread through
43:36
the machine and go through his veins and the blue kicks through
43:40
his whole body and his eyes go white.
43:46
OK, I can walk. What time is it?
43:53
Yeah, it's almost. Dusk.
43:54
Almost dusk. 45 past five. OK, well if you can get me and
44:04
my sister out of the city, I'll make sure you're paid
44:07
handsomely. If you can kill my fucking
44:10
brother, I'll pay you double. Oh, I like that.
44:17
Well, OK, your sister's in another building and OK.
44:21
That's where they'd make the fucking machines happy.
44:24
Company my fucking ass. OK guys, they already said that
44:27
Weiss left so. Can you tell us where this
44:32
building is or give us like GPS directions?
44:36
He said he's. Device and I'll just give you
44:39
the pen. Oh yeah, here's my tile.
44:42
Grabs the tile, pulls a cable from his head that retracts,
44:47
plugs it in and you see his eyes glaze over and your tile gets an
44:50
incredibly exact location of the production facility for the
44:53
happy company. There you go.
44:57
Hey, could you call us A Dalaman?
45:00
But don't use my name it. Blinks twice.
45:06
Hey, are they going to let you walk out of here?
45:08
I know the lady at the front desk, she's super cool but I
45:12
don't know if wait. We're going to use the side
45:14
door. The guards gave us the code.
45:17
The camera over there doesn't work.
45:19
That's smart. That's smart.
45:33
Next time on no latency side quest.
45:39
Right, Yes, no, I after. Almost a full year.
45:42
Yeah, you don't smell great either, but I'm not going to
45:45
lie. Let.
45:45
Me, let me check out first. Make sure no one's coming this
45:47
way. Just confidence walking in.
45:49
What's in your head? Look, we look like we work here,
45:52
not the other building. We don't want to be Krampuses
45:55
before Christmas, right? Mainframe computer.
45:58
Hey, is anyone else good at talking?
46:00
That's you, Mr. Pocket. I'm just following Lumen's lead.
46:02
Confidence. Let's go.
46:05
I feel it would impact profits. Roll that high.
46:08
Roll that high. I, you know, I, I felt stickier.
46:10
It's, it's fine. It's OK.
46:12
I think you misunderstand me. All right, so retro, we've got
46:15
all these red barrels surrounding all of us all over
46:17
the place. It's a whole clause and effect
46:20
then. You're Mr. Wise, right?
46:22
We need you right over here. I pull out a grenade.
46:24
When I hear beeping, I start running.
46:26
I want. To see you spam that.
46:27
Run. No.
46:28
It's probably a good time for all of you to run.
46:31
I think that's insider trading. I I don't think you're supposed
46:33
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47:09
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