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S2E66 - Ted on the Edge · No Latency

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Last time on no latency. Quite something we just went
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through. Oh, hey.
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This is for Domino. Y'all didn't think that was
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dangerous. Mission success.
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Yes, very dangerous. Health and Wellness checkups
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that we do after every big mission.
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What? What about that heart-shaped and
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sized? Power cell, Yes, how convenient.
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What is a reliqui pass? OK, they said it's going to be
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at some like undisposed event. Just a matter of choosing the
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rap plane. We all have our uses.
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Iona, how's your casino? How doing?
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We could go. That might be a fun night off
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thing to do. So I'm down.
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Yeah, sure. What are we playing?
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Blackjack. I knew I should have worn my
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lucky underwear tonight. It is nice to not have to worry
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about dying or killing or vending machines or any other
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kind of appliance. Thank you all.
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Probably we could do this more often, yeah.
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For all of your money. Yeah.
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So the plan is just go in guns blazing or no, don't let that.
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That'll definitely be. Obviously the guns blaze.
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Exactly. No, there are no, no guns.
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Put your guns away. OK?
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Oh, OK, We work here. We work here totally.
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We work. Here.
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Here. Yes, and so does Vendo.
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I work, I've got see this is Biotechnica on my jacket.
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Yeah. Do you all get jackets?
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Uh. Oh.
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I mean, I could probably blend in because I'm a doctor.
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Oh, absolutely. Retro and Jeb.
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I can blend in. Not so much.
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What? Your your your TV head is like
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the opposite of blending in. Well, I mean, there's that
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collar you got from that shirt you found last night.
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What you need is like a a briefcase pair of sunglasses.
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All right, I'm going to wipe my face and then suddenly I have
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sunglasses on. Oh, that's cool.
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Oh, that's cool Retro. I didn't know you could do that.
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Yeah, and there's a briefcase. Can I do perception?
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What? Are you looking for?
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A briefcase. In the car.
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You're just going to steal a briefcase?
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Just. Looking around, I'm going to
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look out. I'm going to look outside and
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see if I see a briefcase and then I'm going to steal it.
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Jeb, roll me a driving check. Amazing.
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Jeb, you see that there is a a light up ahead and it changes
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abnormally quickly because you're just not paying attention
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and you brake. But you pull forward a little
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bit further and someone is crossing past the vehicle as he
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tries to cross the street and he lifts his hand up and there as
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you look out the window retro. He's holding a briefcase in the
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window and you snatch it. The light goes green.
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Oh, my. Hey.
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Wait, whoa, the speed off? See.
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Believe it. And the universe provides.
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Oh, this is a pretty nice briefcase.
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What's in it? I don't know.
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It's got some heft to it. Does it have a lock on it?
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Yes, Roller Electronic Security tick.
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Oh, OK. You.
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You break the lock on this briefcase, you bust it right
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open, and you'll have to gaffer tape it back together in order
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for the two halves to connect. But Roller D10.
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I can't believe it. I got AI, got a fucking crit and
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then a crit. Fail.
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There's a spare tie in the briefcase.
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I'll put that on. 80 Eddies and some paperwork that is truly.
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Boring. Oh gosh, I'm here.
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Oh, this is all just tax code on domiciles.
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Oh, great. And Jeb, you pull into the
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parking garage and you guys get out of the vehicle and head into
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the lobby, all right? So do we want to come up with
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more definitive covers or matches?
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Yeah, but working for Biotechnical.
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I would say it's probably easiest if we just go, if we
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stay under the radar. All right.
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Yeah, just walk in with confidence.
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Yeah, love it. You walk into the lobby of this
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place and there is a person sitting behind a desk and
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there's a small sign lit up that just animates the words.
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Please check in. I will check in Iona +2 Vendel
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plus one. Hello.
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Oh, hello. Hello, have you just boop your
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ID right there? I have some investors I'm giving
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a tour of the facility today and we we all need to get reliquary
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passes for our event tonight. Oh, OK at shore.
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So boop boop I boop. Yeah, how many guests each pass?
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My my pass of me +2 and then vendale here plus one.
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OK, yeah, that's fine as long as you just put their names in.
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The little data Paddy thing there.
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I don't really know what goes on here.
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I just check people in, so not being funny, but everything you
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just said to me was, you know, poppycock.
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The elevators are over there. There's A&B.
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They do the same thing, They're just labeled in it anyway.
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That's great. I love that joke.
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Wonderful. Yeah, I was joke.
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Why not? I like your outfit.
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Thank you. Appreciate it.
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It's my power suit. VV You have like a few eddies
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sticking out of your coat pocket.
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Oh, Rich. Look at you.
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Yeah, you know, just just got a got a little a little fun last
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night at the casino. Oh, I love a good gamble.
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That's fun. Did you win?
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Did you do go out? Did.
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Was it good? Well.
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You know, you win some, you lose some.
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Oh, that's nice. You know, you lot are the
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nicest, but most people just go out, just kind of barely look at
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me and just tap the thing. You guys are lovely.
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Oh, it's nice to have some nice people.
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Oh, well, thank you very much. I like to stay grounded.
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So I appreciate your candor. Yeah, no, you're nice.
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Oh, look at cowboy. Oh, I feel like I've seen you
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somewhere. Oh, you know, probably here and
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there. Where I know you're from?
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No. I rolled on one.
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I really can't remember Well, I mean, you know, you've got a
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nice hat and it looks like stuff's undamaged.
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Isn't that lovely? For now.
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Well the elevators are over there.
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Push the button. You know A will be up to you
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whatever. And then and and have a lovely
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day. I don't say that to anybody.
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So thank you. Well.
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Thank you kindly. You have been.
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You have been a delight. Yes, you're you're very welcome.
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You too. Bye, bye.
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You head up to the elevator. Which elevator do you want to
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take? A or BA?
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And. Then you step up to the a
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elevator and gesture everybody inside.
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Yeah, I did all right last night.
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What about you, Vivi? Well, I I ended up losing money.
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Oh, oh. Yeah, I I thought I had
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something going, but apparently not.
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Oh, but well, OK well then. And next drinks on me, yeah.
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That would be nice. Maybe I should have less drinks
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the next time I go. I'm actually feeling, honestly,
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I am feeling a little hungover today.
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So like. Yeah, we did get free drinks.
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There's. Probably that migraine drink I
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got for you. Oh, great, The Migraine drinks.
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Love those. Yeah, you know, because it's
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it's 151 and then the splitting because that's the headache.
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And then you put a little bit of like a what is it like another
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fifth of vodka and make it a splitting headache.
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But then to make it a migraine, you just put a little bit of
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that energy drink in there. Boom.
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I think retro might have a drinking problem.
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I think retro just has a problem.
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I think it's called a solution. Alcohol is a solution.
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Yes. Is that medically true, Vivi?
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Maybe. And the door to the elevator
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opens, and you arrive at floor 62.
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As you step out of the elevator, there are two guards standing in
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front of a large glass window. As you look out through the
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window, you can see the vast buildings of Night City shaded
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in a hazy hue of red. And there are these two guards
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standing there. If anybody wants to rob
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perception, do so now. Retro, you noticed that this
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floor is essentially a very long corridor as you look down it
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towards the east side of the building.
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On your left is the B elevator, a bunch of cubicles and then
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some offices. To your immediate right as you
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look down the corridor are the bathrooms and then a closet
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looking room to the left of that door Iona and Vivi, though you
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turn your heads to these two guards in this room and because
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you're old, over 17, you notice that they're kind of staring
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into midspace, putting their hands out and sort of tapping
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their fingers as they look around.
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They've got that implant. They're a little distracted.
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We're just going to go we're. Going to go, I think that's a
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good idea. Where?
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Where should we go first? I've not been to this building,
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so I actually don't know the layout very well.
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I'm just going to walk. Oh, there's a person in there.
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There's a. Cuticles.
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There's more people, cuticles. This is a nice place.
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Look at this place. Wow, I'm just.
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Going to keep walking down. Fresh pee.
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Is that you? I mean, Hi.
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Hi. Oh my gosh.
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Fresh pee. Oh, fresh pee.
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I haven't seen you in a bit. How you go?
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How are you all doing? This is welcome.
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It's my cubicle. Oh wow, they left.
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My office 7 buildings away from where my boss works.
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That's OK. It's not like I see you very
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often. Wow.
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So. This is your cubicle.
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Yeah, it's nice. I've got a window.
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Wow. I don't have a door, but I've
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got a window. What are you guys doing here?
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We're looking to get reliqui passes.
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You do, yeah. Why do you say that?
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Like that's a simple and easy thing to do that doesn't.
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Require a sea of paperwork and authorization.
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Competence. Don't.
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That's like, very secret. Oh, I say it like that because I
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expect that I will be able to get it quite easily.
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Oh, oh, yes. Oh, right.
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Yeah. Van Dale, our boss, is always
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really confident. Yes, because they're amazing.
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Right. Thank you.
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That's. What?
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Amen. I was interesting.
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Decor choices. What is it?
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Hard What? Getting a reliqui.
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Boss, I mean you need you need authorization or like.
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I mean I I could hack something but it it might get flagged
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later. One of the executives on this
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floor uses the machine. And then you have to book
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someone to and you and you need a medic.
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We have a medic. We have you.
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Uh, huh. I'm an exec.
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Right. Jeb's being nice.
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Right, I'm. I'm here for support.
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So if you're going to get the every, there are a lot of people
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in the higher ups who will know that you have the pass unless I
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do some on the on the web net hack saying.
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Could you? Yeah, you have to get it first
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and then I can hide it because I can't hide something that's not.
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There, because that's like, dumb.
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GM. Yes.
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Sorry, yes. Yes.
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Am I not understanding what a reliqui pass is?
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Could you explain it one more time?
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I didn't explain it to you, you didn't ask.
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That's because I assume I could just get one.
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Right. Yep, I could get one for
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everybody. We pass this for everyone.
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Here we go. Everyone gets a reliqui pass.
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Oh man, this is so easy. Well, it's got all our biometric
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data on it. It.
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I mean whoever gets 1, yes. But we all have to get one to
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get into the thing, right? Most Biotechnica buildings allow
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two guests per pass. Oh, I didn't need to bring the
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whole crew with me. But we're here for support.
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Most corporate activities take a little bit of time and
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paperwork. No, it should be quick and easy,
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right? Fresh B should be quick and
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easy. It's.
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I mean, it is a fairly extensive process.
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Also, the room that the machine is in for this process is
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currently booked for a meeting. How long is the meeting?
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Well, it it, it's, it's a meeting.
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It's, I hear they're deciding what our bonus break is going to
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be, you know, the holiday weekend, right.
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And historically, that takes a while.
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Well, which holiday are you wanting to have off?
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Oh no, it's the third quarter, so the stocks are up.
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It's like a bonus period where everyone gets a thing and I'm
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just, I'm just really hoping it's not vending machine tokers
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Again. I'd like I'd like to go on a
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trip like everyone else got to do.
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Oh, it's just a stocks are up day.
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Once every quarter. So if as long as stocks are up
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every quarter, then everybody gets a bonus.
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Oh yeah, you you missed that on the trip last.
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Time as part of the the employment in here at
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Biotechnica. You got the 10 vending machine
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tokens, didn't you? Yes, but I did.
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You look and and shakes the head.
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Yes. You you got, you got that that
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that skydiving trip. I was going to be honest.
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I I I am fresh piece of boss. Yes, Are we telling him?
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Yes, I'm checking Fresh Pee's money right now.
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Just see if fresh pee can afford to go on the rim.
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I. I, the player, am looking at his
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sheet. Jeez Louise, I have not paid
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this man. I mean, you could you could just
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be, like, going through his account, state mayor.
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Oh, let me just I'm your boss, so I have access to your bank
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account. Let me just take a look.
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Can I pay this man for the love of all that is holy?
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If you could. Finally, file paperwork to get
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him paid and have to pay a centage of it, yes.
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Oh yeah, I would like. You know what that would?
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Need jade, jade. What?
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What? Actually.
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But if that's what you want, Iona, you know what you have to
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do. Viper work.
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I mean, sort of Jeb. My, my job.
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They have to roll for bureaucracy.
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Oh, it's. Been.
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A while the gamification of paperwork.
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That's not true. I rolled for bureaucracy last.
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Session. Shit.
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All the time. It feels like it's been a while.
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It's been a while since I had to pay any paperwork now.
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Bureaucracy. 20 Yes, you managed to pay a full 1000 Eddies to
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this person and only have to give up 20% of your of that, so
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you're gonna have to pay him 200 out of your pocket.
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Yeah, I'm. I'm also just gonna hand him
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some cash. Is this are you just giving me
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money? Yes, So what I what I'm going to
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do, paid what is out of my out of my own pocket, out of my own
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pocket. I'm going to give him 1000
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Eddies. Oh my God.
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Oh, and then the 200 for the other thousand that he is owed.
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So I pay 1200, he gets 2000. Hell.
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Yeah, nice. That's really good.
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It takes to his computer taps away.
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It just rolled in eight. Yeah, 21.
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It makes 100. Eddies in the spot.
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Yeah, I'm going to do it again. Oh, probably.
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I shouldn't gamble at work. Don't gamble at work.
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I did. Just change your money in your
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account to 2600. Money.
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Yay. All right.
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Well, I mean, look, the corner office where they do the
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reliquary thing, There's a there's a there's a few other
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offices. HR is the big office in the
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middle. And then we've got two places
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where they do a bunch of paperwork.
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The bathroom's nice here, actually, and there's a there's
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a closet somewhere. I recognize the janitor, I just
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can't place in. All right.
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So here's the other thing. Do you think that I could just
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walk into this meeting and push them along their way so we could
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have the room, do you think? Well, I mean, it kind of feels
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like this is a like a a a role play, skill check, kind of bit
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of the adventure, so yeah. So, yeah, probably.
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All right, so one. Does not simply walk into this
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meeting is what you're telling us.
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I mean the door's locked, so. Not for long.
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We have a skeleton key and I wink it retro.
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I'm just kidding. I'm kidding.
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I'm. That's a joke.
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I was joking. No, Put your gun away.
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There are guards here. You said that we were.
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Supposed to All right. Retro roll Stealth.
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Oh. You said the thing, yeah.
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Come discover a new world. I can't help but get a little
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excited. I was joking.
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I never know you to joke. We're in trouble.
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Oh God, we're in trouble. I can't even find stop.
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It's for the best, I think it's under technique.
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Yes, 16 passes. Because for whatever reason, the
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guards on this floor have a -, 4 to their perception.
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You watch them tapping away in the air.
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Can I roll? Yeah, no, I'm gonna put it away.
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What do you like to roll? A perception, but not
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necessarily perception itself. Can I?
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I'd like to roll. Let me see here.
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Where is that? I'd like to use local experts to
20:01
see if my own experience of being high and seeing if they
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are high. They are not high.
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You have rolled high enough to know that they are not drunk,
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they're just using a chiron of some description, like you saw
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Ping using the bar. Oh, OK.
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That's. Why?
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They keep moving around, I know. Why am I behind on these tech
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advances? I should be on the front line on
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this. Now I want one even though I
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don't need it. I want it.
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So what are? We going to do about this
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meeting? We're I'm going to walk in.
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Are you going to just interrupt it?
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Tell them to leave? Act more important.
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Yeah, I'm going to join the meeting I think and just pushed
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push them along, OK, I think. Does do you want anyone to go
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with you? Then tell You should probably go
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with me. OK.
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And while we do that you guys with fresh here, hi, you guys
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should do something that helps us as well, right?
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Fresh What can they be doing? Well, I mean, you know the, the,
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the we've got a lot of people on the floor.
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There's like all the offices and stuff.
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There's a lot here to see you. Can just look around.
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Yeah, sure, we can just. Take a look around.
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Take a look around, I guess I mean.
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Might get in trouble, could we get?
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Like a tour guide or something? Or.
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Fresh Why don't you show them around?
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Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, I can give you a
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tool. We promise VV won't touch
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anything all. Right.
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Well, I'm just going to. He locks his computer.
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All right, I'll. You lock.
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Come with me and I'll see you later.
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That's. Good bye.
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And Bendel and Iona head over to the corner office and the other
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three of you follow Fresh P back to the West side.
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Who should we go with first? Let me just bust in this fucking
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meeting. Do it.
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Bust in this fucking meeting. You walk up to the door and
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there's a little keypad next to the door and it says executive
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access only. Boop boop.
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Door opens You are a level 5 exec.
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So I walk into the room. And who do I see?
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With that is, we'll have to load more insurance on the trip.
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I mean, that's a lot more people, is the.
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Issue, I mean I look, I understand, I understand that
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like a ski trip is a little you know more, more small, smaller
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number of people can go on that. But I mean if we, if we just
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eliminate like all of the assistants, all the lower
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employees and just do higher up execs, you know, like us and up,
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we could all just go skiing and then we'll give the guys like 10
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vending machine tokens again, it'll be easy.
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Yeah. No, no, I know.
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What I'm I know what you're saying.
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No, I hear that. I hear you.
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I hear you completely. But we did not get good feedback
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on the internal like feedback check in with employee system
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with that action last time. So I I'm, I'm, I'm thinking the
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airship, so everyone can have a party, you know?
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And the third person is saying nothing.
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What is our allotted budget for this quarter?
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Oh, it's approximately one person's salary per trip.
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You know, like 110, maybe 85. Well, I agree.
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An airship party. Sorry, sorry.
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Who the fuck are you? I'm sorry.
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Who the fuck are you? Oh God.
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I'm Rocco Lance, and you are. Interesting, Rocco.
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I'm. I'm Biotechnica's Iona Popescu.
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I take care of projects. Oh, OK.
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And if you joined the the bonus committee?
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Or. I'm here because there have been
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so many complaints from the wonderful people who work on our
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projects. See, Biotechnica sent me here
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because the committee isn't doing its job.
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I mean we we've only been having the meeting for two hours.
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You know, we we have the room booked.
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And it seems like you could have a a better use of your time.
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We are salaried workers. They're not paying us by the
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hour. There's so much more you could
25:00
be doing than sitting here flapping about a ski trip.
25:08
You know, I really think this Popescu you said.
25:12
Popescu. Right.
25:14
I really, I really think that they've got like the right angle
25:17
and like a really great suit. Well done.
25:19
I love the olive. Thank you.
25:21
You're welcome. But honestly, you know the the
25:24
big thing is you know, you're you're you're also not saying
25:27
anything. And there's a person on the
25:28
other side of the room who's working on a computer next to a
25:31
pod like device. Huh.
25:33
No, no, I'm just. I'm just doing.
25:35
I'm just doing maintenance on this.
25:38
I mean, I guess we, I mean, I love skiing, but then, you know,
25:46
morale's really important and it's down since the explosion.
25:49
What explosion? The the oil rig explosion.
25:54
Oh, do you even work here? Did that happen?
25:58
Yes it did. Yeah, no, it happened yesterday.
26:02
I think it was. Oh oh shit.
26:05
OK, well. Yeah, our project working on the
26:09
thermal vent, we did lose a a pretty good number of lives in
26:15
that accident, which is not good for morale and also not good for
26:21
the company. No.
26:24
So do you think do you think this will affect our budget or?
26:29
Well, if anything it'll increase the budget per person, but.
26:33
See we can. We can.
26:36
Afford to do. The blimp?
26:37
Then we could save money and have a ski trip in the winter.
26:39
I love that. Save the money now.
26:42
Use it for when we really want it.
26:46
I don't know. You know, it's one of those
26:49
things where just I just think you're going to have to roll.
26:52
One moment, Linda, could you, could you?
26:55
You'll have to roll Persuasion. Great.
26:57
I will Vandal. Could you also check the weather
27:01
for the slopes? Yes.
27:03
Check how the slopes are going to be.
27:05
How's the powder? I'll check the powder.
27:09
Meanwhile. Yeah.
27:12
So this is HR over here. Nobody likes them.
27:18
Further down here are the elevators.
27:20
And then over here are the bathrooms.
27:22
That's that's the bathrooms there.
27:23
They're very clean. And then?
27:26
No. No, no, that's an elevator,
27:27
mate. It's the other way, Yeah, yeah,
27:28
yeah. In the corner on the on the
27:30
left. No, that's a vending machine.
27:31
That door there on the right is the closet.
27:33
Retro moves into that room, leaving Fresh pea behind, and
27:36
walks into this janitor's closet.
27:38
And as he walks in, sitting on the sofa is.
27:42
Ted Oh, hello. You're right.
27:45
Yeah, I was coming by to see this.
27:49
Wait, is this a break area or is this a closet?
27:51
I thought this was a closet. No, no.
27:53
This is a janitor's closet. Oh well, this is a pretty
27:56
spacious closet. I know you.
28:02
Yeah, I mean, was it, I'm sure we've been passing, Yeah.
28:07
No, no. You.
28:08
You, I I I used to work in IT and I lost my job.
28:14
I I applied for an assistant position and they they didn't
28:17
give it to me. So I'm now.
28:20
Yeah. So now I clean fucking toilets.
28:25
Well, shit, yeah. I only got 8 vending machine
28:28
tokens. So only eight.
28:30
Damn. No, no, everyone else got 10.
28:33
Just kind of shit. So I was like, fuck you I'll,
28:37
I'll, I'll jump out the vent in the bathroom and smoke on the
28:39
fucking lip of the building like a fucking spider.
28:43
Damn straight. Yeah.
28:44
Yeah. Yeah, on your break, I'm sure
28:46
right, your mandated break. Yeah, yeah.
28:48
Sometimes they sneak out there, you know, rather than going
28:50
down. You know, I'm.
28:52
Always on that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:55
Where do you what is it like you sneak out from here?
28:57
Yeah, yeah, just vent to the bathroom.
28:58
You just climb out and you might die.
29:00
But lovely smoke. Oh, I mean, I'm always down for
29:04
a lovely smoke, Right, You got to smoke.
29:08
The bears shit in the woods. Not anymore.
29:10
They're all dead. But they would, you know so.
29:15
Not like smoke. So.
29:16
So have you like, have you heard much from like Iona, as have
29:19
they? Have they mentioned me lately?
29:23
Who? The the the biotechnical or is
29:26
that I you I I you when you do the hair dryer and the the
29:30
whole. Thing I helped out.
29:33
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
29:34
I used to. I lost my job.
29:36
Yeah. Oh yeah, on that.
29:38
So here's the thing. I was a independent contractor
29:43
hired by Iota. Right.
29:46
And so I've done some work for them from time to time, but they
29:50
don't. I'm not, unfortunately, like in
29:52
their cool. Yeah, I'm not in their cool, but
29:54
unfortunately. Just just do, you know, Do you
29:56
know if they're like out and about doing doing stuff like,
30:01
you know? I'm, I'm, I'm just going to have
30:05
a seat next to you right there, Bill, Right.
30:09
Ted. Right, Theodore.
30:13
So Theodore, here's the thing. As far as I know, for them being
30:17
out and about, they have actually been working very
30:22
closely among the buildings, some top secret project.
30:25
I mean, having to get like a bunch of like side stuff for
30:28
them, right? And they were talking about
30:30
needing to get something except for IT, but they were needing to
30:35
find the right person for it. So I'm going to have to think
30:38
about that because they were wanting me to talk with somebody
30:40
you. You can't just walk around.
30:42
Oh, yeah, by all means. Yeah, I guess I get.
30:45
I can't really tell you guys where to go.
30:46
You're way more. Do way more people meet VV.
30:50
By all means walk in. What's going on here, Retro?
30:56
If you'd like to rob reception. Please do.
30:58
Well, I was this is chatting here with my man Theodore here.
31:04
Hello. Hello.
31:06
I'm Ted. Ted.
31:08
Yes, I used to work in IT and now I clean up shit.
31:12
Wow, that's quite the change. Yeah, you know, I applied for a
31:17
job and because I applied for a different job with my old job
31:19
went away and then this is the only job that I could use to to
31:23
do to keep my health insurance. And so now I I break.
31:26
I I do that like a malicious compliance thing where I break a
31:28
bunch of rules that don't really fucking matter.
31:30
It's like, super cool. Yeah.
31:33
While you're listening to this Babble, you look around the room
31:36
and to the South of the room between 2 lockers.
31:40
There is a little grate on the wall.
31:44
It's about 6 feet high up and about 2 1/2 feet wide and about
31:48
two feet tall, so enough for a single person to to sneak
31:52
through if they wanted to. So you said that there was a
31:57
hole or there was a there's. A vent.
32:00
It's a vent. Kind of shaped vent it's.
32:02
Like a single? And it's in the in between 2
32:04
lockers in this room. I see.
32:06
So, Ted, you got that smoke we were talking about?
32:08
I'm gonna put my arm around. Ted, you got that smoke?
32:10
We're talking about having a smoke.
32:11
Yes, yes. No, I've got, I've got a little,
32:13
I've got a little Rolly right here.
32:15
But I mean, I can't smoke it in here because they don't like it
32:18
when the the uniforms smell. Right.
32:20
But didn't we just say we're all about?
32:23
Yeah, but I see religious complaints is about them not
32:26
nosing, so that's why I claim out onto the outside.
32:29
Wait a minute, I got a notice. Well.
32:31
I mean, claiming on the outside's actually quite
32:32
exhilarating. I was trying to invite you
32:33
outside if you want to call them.
32:35
I was going for it, yeah, but you need to like show me the
32:37
way. I would love to join.
32:40
You guys want to come outside? Yeah.
32:41
Yeah, all right. I can definitely use some fresh
32:43
air and a little bit of smoke. All right.
32:45
Well, follow me to the bathroom. Oh, hi, fresh all.
32:48
Right. How's it going, Ted?
32:49
No, I'm great. Jeb, have you seen this vending
32:52
machine? And Jeb and fresh pee.
32:53
Go and look at a vending machine in the Genesis room and you will
32:57
head towards the bathroom where Ted guides you through the room
33:02
and into a little space between the cubicles where he points
33:07
towards a grate on the wall. Jeb.
33:12
Yeah. You look at a vending machine
33:14
with a fresh pea, and then you follow the others into the
33:17
bathroom and you look out over Ted to a little grate in the
33:22
wall that you can sneak out onto this ledge on the outside of the
33:25
building. All right, now you're coming in.
33:28
Now you're coming in. Clutchier, janitor man.
33:30
Who are you? You wouldn't buy it.
33:32
You wouldn't buy Any chance have some sort of, like All Access?
33:38
Yes, there's some. Oh, well, I know someone who's
33:41
going to like that. Retro.
33:43
Yeah, that's what I want there to do.
33:46
We go and smoke on the outside of the.
33:47
Building sorry you guys left and I got left behind.
33:50
I'm just finding you now and. I'm I'm with you.
33:53
Fresh P has completely lost you and he's now looking for you in
33:56
the rest of the building. But you see this opening on the
34:01
outside of the building and Retro.
34:02
Do you want to roll perception to just look outside and see
34:05
what's going on? We're.
34:06
Going to do this. Let's do this now.
34:07
I'm just going to brave it. Let's go.
34:09
OK and to the wild all. Right.
34:12
You step out onto this ledge outside and it's it's you could
34:17
see the haze and feel the wind rush past you.
34:20
Are you all stepping out onto this ledge?
34:22
If there's room, yeah. There is, yeah.
34:25
It's kind of single. File.
34:26
You can cross each other without too much work.
34:29
Crossing Ted would be difficult because you're not as familiar
34:32
with him physically, so you'd have to offer that.
34:34
But crossing each other is free. But if we work.
34:39
With each other. If you are intimately
34:41
comfortable with his body, then we could.
34:45
No, Yeah, no, it's sorry. Fuck, I forgot.
34:47
It's loud because of the traffic and city and we're in wind so we
34:50
have to like talk. There's a lot of wind out here.
34:53
That's all right. I've got this little device that
34:55
holds to the end of the joint in a box so we can smoke it and
34:59
just be careful because you can just walk right around the
35:02
outside of this building, so try not to get seen through the
35:05
windows of the people in the offices.
35:07
Oh, I don't need to do that for we're smoking this joint.
35:10
Right. Retro and Ted are now smoking
35:14
this joint, and Jeb and VV, you're standing next to them.
35:17
Do you partake or do you do something else?
35:19
I'm just going to go ahead and take a seat on the balcony and
35:22
take a look at this lovely city that we live here.
35:25
It is pleasurable, I. Will have a cigarette on the
35:30
balcony. So I go in my own, ironically,
35:34
go in my medical bag and pull out a pack of cigarettes and
35:38
light one up. I'm going to kind of like take a
35:43
little peek around and just like, so what's?
35:48
Oh damn, you got a pack of assistance.
35:49
Those are awesome. Yeah, you want one?
35:52
Oh no, you you got your own thing going.
35:54
On I'll I'll double fist all day.
35:59
Yeah, you know, why not Where? I'm off hours at Biotechnica.
36:04
Here you go. Thank you.
36:08
Oh, you had the lime ones. These are awesome.
36:11
So. Ted does this like whole
36:14
balcony, like stretch around the whole building?
36:16
I mean, you know, it's not technically a balcony.
36:19
It's just like a bit of masonry that extends underneath these
36:22
windows that are all around this floor.
36:25
There's one every few floors that just happens to be
36:26
underneath the windows. Isn't it a great place to smoke?
36:28
He says the ashes. Oh yeah.
36:30
Pretty cool, right? Yeah, just don't look down.
36:33
Oh, I'm not scared of heights. Well, that's good because we're
36:39
pretty high up. Yep.
36:40
Yeah. Thank God.
36:42
This is the three floors. Thank God this is the only exit
36:46
out of here. Is right behind me.
36:48
Nope, no. There are a few vents as you
36:50
walk along. You just have to look for him,
36:52
you know? What?
36:54
There's more vents? Why would you have to have more
36:55
fence around there? You only need one.
36:57
It's only for the bathroom. No, no, there's there's a vent
37:00
for a few of the rooms. It's so that we can evacuate any
37:02
noxious fumes when we need to. Wait, wait.
37:05
You have it for other rooms? What?
37:07
We need them for other rooms for like, what?
37:09
What other rooms need a vent? To to evacuate stuff.
37:15
Yeah, but what rooms? What rooms would need that every
37:18
one of them has a vent? The only reason I know how to
37:21
get out of here is because I have to clean the backside of
37:22
the fucking windows. So there's a vent.
37:26
A few of these. Not everyone, but you know.
37:28
So you have to go through another event to.
37:30
Scare the shit out of the people when you see them in their
37:32
office and you're just like, you know, go watching the cleaning
37:35
the windows. I never thought about it that
37:38
way. All right.
37:41
Damn. No.
37:44
No, it's pretty good, you know. Vivi, are you having a sneaky
37:49
look further along? Yeah, I think I may kind of look
37:54
down. At least a little bit.
37:58
Yeah, Where was the meeting room?
38:00
It's further east. OK, so you're now going to cross
38:03
a window. Every time you cross a window,
38:04
roll a stealth check. Oh, I see.
38:06
OK, so I I walk down and I'm going to see if I can.
38:13
Roll. Fuck.
38:18
So here's the thing. You rolled in 11 and so two
38:22
things happen. One the DV for this, For this
38:26
window. He's actually 9 because as you
38:29
step in front of the window not expecting anyone to be in this
38:31
office, you see a woman in a very, very tight blonde Bob
38:36
sitting in a desk and frantically working at their
38:38
computer. In that moment, you get so
38:41
shocked that your cigarette drops out of your hand and flies
38:43
off into the wind and you lose it.
38:46
Shit. My cigarette.
38:51
Oh, shit. Oh, sorry.
38:52
For damage of two HP damage. Oh, fuck.
38:57
Right in the. Eye.
38:58
Was that Ted? Sorry, sorry.
39:01
Damn. Because before she sees.
39:03
You. I'll get in.
39:05
Trouble I. Zoop I zoop.
39:08
Pass pass that window. My microphone just fell.
39:13
As you get close to the next window, you see a grate to your
39:16
left. Ah, so this is another way to
39:19
get in perhaps? You suspect that if you walked
39:22
through your gate that that. Woman would see you.
39:24
Yeah, I'm going to walk past that and then past the next
39:28
window. All right, you don't have to
39:29
roll the Stealth check on this window, because there's nobody
39:31
in that room. OK, I'm going to just keep
39:33
going. Don't mind me.
39:34
I'm just checking out the the scenery.
39:39
I keep. I keep going.
39:40
Roll a stealth check. Oh boy.
39:43
I'm going to add 2 lock points to this one.
39:45
So 14. Yeah, that's enough.
39:48
The person is actually facing away from you in this next
39:51
office. You peer in and you see it's
39:54
fairly generic. There are a bunch of filing
39:56
cabinets and a few potted plants and a desk and a computer.
40:00
There's somebody tapping away in that office.
40:01
You pass by the 2nd office that isn't HR.
40:05
You pass by another room, there's no one in there, and you
40:07
keep moving along this area. As you snuck by those two middle
40:11
offices in the building, you spy 2 grates to the left hand side
40:15
that would gain access to those rooms and then you step to this
40:19
final window and you can see it glaring the red light.
40:22
The city and reflecting some of the buildings in the distance.
40:25
Roller Steel? Check.
40:28
I'm going to add 1 lock to this. Sure.
40:31
OK, 20. 20 Very good, yes. As you peek around the corner,
40:36
you can see into this conference room and there at the other side
40:40
is Iona and Vendel talking to a room with three people in it and
40:46
Iona and Vivi lock eyes. You see Phoebe through the
40:50
window, just with a big grin, and and she gives you a thumbs
40:55
up. Fiona, Iona, Iona.
41:03
We're ignoring it. We're ignoring it.
41:05
We're ignoring it. Why is Phoebe outside the
41:08
building? I don't know, OK?
41:13
I'm busy persuading people right now.
41:17
I kind of and so like I peer in and Iona probably sees me, but
41:23
then I kind of peer back. So I'm like in between like the
41:27
window and the wall. You.
41:29
Rolled to the window, to the wall?
41:31
To the Do. You rolled high enough in
41:33
stealth that you could make it across this window to the other
41:35
side if you wanted to. OK, so I'm going to just do do,
41:38
do, do all the way to the other side.
41:40
So I'm just kind of like watching, but I'm not like fully
41:45
in view in the window. I'm kind of like in the corner,
41:48
glancing in. And you find two more grates on
41:50
the corner of this building which give you, which would give
41:53
you access to this room. It's full of people, so you
41:57
decide not to go through. We're persuading right now with
42:01
with, yeah, that's definitely the blimp.
42:05
Airship thing, right? That was the thing, yeah.
42:07
Lance asked me to do a persuading role, so here I am
42:10
and I will dump to luck into it. Well, I'm glad I did. 17.
42:16
I mean, yeah. I mean, I guess, no, you've got
42:20
a point. Yeah, No, we can do it in the
42:21
winter, especially like how much snow was there?
42:26
Fuck all. Fuck.
42:28
Fuck it's. Spring.
42:29
So it's it would be more expensive.
42:31
We'd have to get the snow imported, so zero on the thing.
42:35
So that is a really good point. Exactly.
42:38
So Blimp Party everyone's invited.
42:42
No, no, I guess it's the blimp party.
42:44
Well, that persuasion role was enough for me.
42:49
Do you want to be difficult or do you just wanted them to to
42:52
have it? No, it's fine.
42:55
We'll do as long as long as we get to go in winter.
43:00
I just we. Will go in winter.
43:02
I just don't want my fucking assistant there.
43:03
It's it's that look, can I be transparent?
43:05
He's kind of a penis. I'm stuck with him.
43:09
He's no, he's he's he's Betty's son.
43:11
Fuck. Anyway, cool.
43:14
Well, fuck it. Meeting adjourned.
43:17
Oh, fuck. Food and what?
43:19
Fake pigs in blanket and some boost?
43:21
Yeah. No, that sounds great.
43:23
Perfect. Yeah.
43:24
And champagne because. Oh yeah, no.
43:27
Can we smash it on the side? These two execs walk out of the
43:29
room, chatting about their plans to what they're going to do on
43:32
the blimp, completely leaving you behind.
43:34
But left in this room is the person working on the computer.
43:38
I think that's. It and what?
43:41
What are you doing? Oh God.
43:43
Fuck. Sorry, I'm.
43:44
I'm. I know you've got the room.
43:46
I I interrupted them as well. I'm I'm going to go.
43:49
Sorry. No.
43:50
Who? Who are you?
43:51
I I don't think I've seen your face before.
43:54
I'm, I'm Sky. I'm, I'm one of the.
43:57
I'm one of the medical technicians.
43:59
I'm not a nurse or a doctor. I just work on medical
44:03
equipment. That's all I do.
44:04
How long have you been here? I know 6-7 years I'm I'm part of
44:10
a project I can't say out loud. That's wonderful.
44:13
That's what I do. Oh, good.
44:15
Yes, corporations, right? Well, sky.
44:19
Yes. I do need a medical tech at this
44:23
very moment. If you wouldn't mind with what?
44:26
I assume this is what you're working on this machine I I.
44:32
I can neither confirm nor deny. The Seymar response.
44:37
Delightful. Well, I can't really disclose
44:42
why I need the pass, You know, projects.
44:48
But I do. Row persuasion.
44:49
And you're here. Row persuasion.
44:52
Let's fucking fuck it. Let's dump somewhere.
44:54
Fucking lock into it, baby. Let's go.
44:57
Let's get this. Let's go.
44:59
We're going to put another two lock into it 21. 21 so you know.
45:04
That mm hmm. I do.
45:07
At the Reliquary Pass. Awesome.
45:09
Great. So you've you've you've brought
45:13
a nurse. I have actually Vendel.
45:16
Could you let them in wait? Can.
45:19
They see me. Next time on no latency.
45:34
Vendel, could you, could you let them in please?
45:37
Hey, Vandal. Clearly, Iona wants to be awake
45:40
for this whole ordeal. Could you give me the thing to
45:42
make me not feel things? Why do you have to curse him
45:45
like this? Why wouldn't you do it while I
45:48
was passed out? This way look at me.
45:51
I I think someone's given blood. You smell that?
45:53
Can I sit down? I was worried about this.
45:55
I swear I could just smell the hint of Iona's blood boiling.
46:00
Boom. Nailed it.
46:01
We can only make one relic. We pass a day, correct?
46:04
What the fuck? How do you audit the building?
46:05
Is the IRS coming in? What the fuck's going on?
46:08
Audited. Fresh Listen to me guys.
46:12
Can you help you? You should come with us, Ted.
46:15
Yeah, see, that makes more sense.
46:16
Hey, Sloan girl, you one of a useful game Hard up here.
46:19
We really can't smell much. Yeah.
46:21
I'm so sorry. I don't have it storing.
46:22
God damn. I didn't crash into your car and
46:25
you're cursing at me. Look, I'm trying to help you.
46:29
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