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Last time on no latency. Take out my aerobic chuckle.
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Rominga Support Services How can I help you today?
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You realized. Yes.
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Did you find something? Well.
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Did you say he shot himself? They just have like trained
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crocodiles that come and take the bodies.
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You don't have to train animals if you're feeding them is the.
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Screen supposed to flash. OK, so send it to VV.
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OK, I got it. They're using people.
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Oh, Van Dale, I think. I like batteries.
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The lipstick, they're stacking people.
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I don't quite like those lockers.
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Stacking 200 at a time. I'm going to sit in the corner
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and think about my. Mortal in towers like Spires.
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I think these pods are full of people vendale.
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Probably little metal octopuses that jump between them.
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Vendale you. That's where we sent Jeb and
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Vendale. You seeing this?
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No, Jeb, it's not. They're using the people as a
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battery. They're what?
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They're using the people as a bet.
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What? Was that Jeb?
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Roll Perception. Vendel Also roll Perception
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1316. That beats.
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Oh, just so just you both hear a scratching both you and Vendel.
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While Vendel is screaming at you in this room, it echoes through
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the room and drones start to appear on the South part of the
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room. Lots of them.
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At least seven drones have already appeared, and it feels
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like there are more of them. You can hear them clicking up
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through these stacks of pods because below you, just between
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each of the pods, you can see a grate, and between that grate
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you can see even more of these parts all the way down at least
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200 A stack. What are you going to do, Jeff?
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Van Dale What I think we. Should prop.
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Ron. OK, stealth might be useless.
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I run out and I shut the door behind.
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Us Vendel is the other end of the room and is running towards
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you. As you hold the door, the drones
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click and scrape their way towards the northern part of the
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room towards you and Vendel. And you are watching Vendel
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being chased by these things. Vendel roll evasion.
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Here we go, 16 Yes, good enough. A dart flies a past Vendel's
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head and goes through the doorway, past you, Jeb, and into
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a crate behind you. Oh.
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Goodness, Oh no. More of the drones appear behind
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you. They are cascading out of the
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pods and headed like a swarm towards you.
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Then they'll get to the doorway. Roll evasion once more.
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No, not me. Evasion 16 Then they'll jumps
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through the door and slams on the lock button on the security
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panel and it closes and locks behind you.
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You hear scraping and and skittling of drones behind the
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door as you've narrowly escaped even more danger.
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Oh God. Call our friends.
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You got to come down here. Yeah.
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Or we should just leave. I mean, there's that, too.
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Iona. Iona.
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What? What is it?
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It's. People.
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It's people. I know.
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What? What do you mean tell you what
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it was, What people are? I know it's people we found.
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We found out the chip you sent us told you told us it was
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people. Why do you tell us?
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Yeah, we would. We didn't want to worry you.
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Oh, well, I guess it's kind of nice, but will you put us in
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danger a little bit? Yeah, we found the people.
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Oh, that is probably very disturbing.
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I'm sorry. And and it's a good thing that
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you have a good therapist. Yes, we knew it would.
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We knew you'd find them. We found we found 72,000 people
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set up like a giant battery. There is no thermal.
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It's all a lie. It's oh, oh, is that right?
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Oh, I thought. That's what Jeb.
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That's what we just found. That's why I was panicking.
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You saw that the with the humans in the thing and they're all uh
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huh. So This is why all of those.
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Bodies, the ones that were complete and used, and battery
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drains, completely emaciated. That's them when they're done
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being used. Yes, so.
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And then and then. Well then.
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I don't know what they do, but they got to get rid of them
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somehow. Maybe they sleep.
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Them. Into the.
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Ocean oh giant. Alligator eats them.
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Oh, John, you you met a giant alligator.
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Yeah, we fought that guy. Yeah, Well, yeah, Well, that's a
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strong words. More of a tactical retreat, yes,
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if you ask me, but. Talking of tactical retreat,
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Jeb, I don't want to be here anymore.
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Fuck the exam. I agree.
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Where are you guys? Can we come there?
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Can we just step in the elevator with you?
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I don't like Proctor. Can I be?
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I don't like it here anymore. Get out.
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There get. Back in the elevator, Come back.
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Up. OK, great.
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Here, Jeff. Let's go through here.
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Let's not go in any other direction.
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We're just going to go through the security office, through
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that vent, past that dead guy and the other dead guy, and just
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get the fuck out of here, right? Yo, yeah, I'm.
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I'm right behind you. OK, that's not the way, Jeb.
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It's this way. Oh, oh, thank you, That's why I
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said. I'm behind you.
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And Jeb and Vendel make their way through the floor towards
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the elevator. Now you are in an elevator
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heading down to B. You can choose to change the
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direction of that elevator and head back up to get Jeb, or open
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up the elevator for them to come down later.
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Should we just ride it back up, make sure they're OK?
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Yeah. I greet them at the top.
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I agree. Well, I appreciate that.
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It's not that I've necessarily heard to say that, but you know,
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maybe you just hang up. You hear the thermal elevator
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engage as you come up back to storage and security, and you
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hear the dinging. They're going to be here in a
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few moments. We're we're in the metro.
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We're. We're.
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We're not. There yet?
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So yeah, if you want, I can play waiting music.
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I can play waiting. I can sing it.
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I can. See it as the music is amplified
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by the microphone you have attached to your boom box.
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Then Dell and Jem step out of the elevator if it opens.
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Are you alright? Yeah.
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Is it good to see you guys? Oh yeah.
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Yeah, it's good we're all back. Jeb, why are you all wet?
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It's a long story. I'm not sure you want to hear
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it, to be honest. So you're standing outside of
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the B access elevator. OK, let's head down.
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Another elevator. Oh fuck.
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All right. I know.
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Can I? Just real quick, Jeb raises his
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hand. Yes.
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Oh, what exactly is the plan right now?
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Because I was kind of under the impression that the entire well
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planned of this facility was to destroy it and or blow it up in
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some capacity. Oh, let me.
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Look through my notes. There's a cat on my lap.
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Hold on. Oh my God, you brought a cat.
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It's my it's my comfort animal. Emotional support.
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Animal company issue, I'll major.
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It's also a hologram look. Oh, right, cool.
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Cats aren't real. No cats are real.
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We saved one once, although. Cats are real, but not very
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many. No, no.
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No. We met Mr. Carrigan's cat,
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remember? That was fun.
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We did meet the Carrigan Cat. Oh, Carrigino.
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I do think yes, we were supposed to destroy this place, but does
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that seem morally and ethically sound now that we know there's
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like thousands of people in here?
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Well, can they be safe? That's kind of a big if.
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Yeah, I don't know. Maybe.
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I'm looking at UVV. I can't.
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I can't. I'm not a doctor.
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I mean, am I supposed to have the the answers of if we should
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be able to stop people from being human?
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Batteries. I I don't.
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Well, one way to stop people from being human batteries is to
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destroy the battery. And I like that's a lot of
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people. And it's just five of us.
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But they kind of seem like they're real close to dead
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already. You know what I'm saying?
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Now again, if they're if they're able to be safe, then do not get
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me wrong, today is certainly the raft thing to do.
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A trolley problem kind of situation where we don't know,
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like if we should save them or just let them die.
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Or just like I I don't know. I'm not philosophically equipped
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to answer these questions. We we do need like some of their
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tech though. We do.
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This is where they make the body frames.
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I was just reading, oh, no, yeah, that's OK.
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You know, more than I do. I had to go back and read the
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documents that I have. Yeah, so I think right now the
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plan is to like we found like the entrance to like the R&D
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facility. So maybe we can get some answers
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or info on like how they were created.
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Maybe there is some info on how we can power it down or
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something rather than blowing it up and keep potentially killing
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thousands of people. That's my thought.
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And. If they're worth saving
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something too, right? Has it occurred to anyone that
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we're in a Biotechnica facility and there has not been a
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custodian? Well, I did think that it got,
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it was a little dirty down there by, you know, I imagined that
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that the custodian died along with all the other people.
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I mean I mean like 9 on the list or 7. 01 of the circle box.
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One of the circle box, yes, we just, I haven't seen one.
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I suppose it is a large facility, but usually they can
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transfer from space to space. Yes, they're quite small.
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I mean, that one of those would fit through a vent.
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If we had nine right now, could scoot around.
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Not that I'd bring nine with us. That's a terrible idea.
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We should. That's an awful idea.
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Terrible. Hand of that guy we know.
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What happens when you take him outside?
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So using my motorcycle. Oh yeah, yeah.
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It's not great. Do do we have an AI core when we
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do the? Is there a CAD system here?
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That's a very good question. A what?
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A CAD system. CAD.
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Yes, the thing that makes the makes the note CADS makes the
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whole facility. Implode.
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Compress and yes, implode. What?
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You've done that before. Twice.
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Pretty much. Preferred method.
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Of solving any problem. Imploding buildings.
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Facilities. Yeah.
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Jinx Vendo to be. Fair.
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I think. I think the the morality problem
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for us is much more Gray. I mean, I think we're on the
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scoreboard right now for. Are we back to the morality
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thing? Yes.
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I mean we've we've destroyed 4 buildings of people so far.
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With people inside. No, no, no, that's not true.
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They. Were bad people.
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If there were any people left, they were pretty bad, you know?
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Like, 'cause they're always like there was the there was the
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place under into the junkyard. There was nobody in there.
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Oh, well, there were there was spiders in man.
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I mean. Abominations.
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And there was There was Retros old.
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There was retros old. Landlord Trevor.
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Trevor. Oh, the man we still on fire, is
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he? Still on fire?
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No. No, you had.
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Sona cut his head off. Oh.
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Yeah, Donald cut their head off. Those were the days.
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OK. Well, the other facility, what
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was the other one? Well, there was a Steve mansion.
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We didn't that didn't have a custodian.
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And we didn't blow up the Steve mansion.
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Do you need the custodian to, like, initiate this cad's
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implosion? No, not necessarily.
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Oh. Oh, you don't?
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Oh, good. Well.
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I don't know usually. Usually what we do is we have to
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get a bypass through the AI system or or or what is it Sisi?
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Well, I mean, we tell, we tell people it's an SI, but I I have
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a feeling that that custodians are very much AI.
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No, they definitely are. I just wanted to say the correct
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thing. But we have to bypass the AI
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core. But it's there's no AI core if
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there's no AI. If they're then, then we can do
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it for free. Here's another thing.
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If there is a CAD system, where is it located and how do we get
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out? How?
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How old are CAD systems? Are they?
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You know, maybe this was made before CAD systems were company
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policy. Not according to the documents
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we found. Oh, all right.
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Well, never mind. That system is usually in the
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very base of the of the facility.
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I mean, to be fair, most of the time when we find or are able to
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get a hold of the CAD system, it's usually at the bottom of
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the facility. Yeah.
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And we're usually getting pestered by the Guardians, who
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to me are not so much AI but more of like STD's.
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What? What?
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Huh. That's such an antiquated term.
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No, it's not studious, terminating detrimental
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identities. STDs What?
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I'm very confused. I am also very confused by that.
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I'm sorry that you all have not caught up to the latest tech
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lingo, but we'll get you there. Fair enough.
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I only know the medical in lingo and that is very close to
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something else. Close to what?
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What else would there be? We don't have to get.
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Into it. The elevator is open.
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Oh, we should probably get in the elevator.
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Let's to our. Elevator.
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We're in it now, OK? Let's go back up again.
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Just ride it over and over again.
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The elevator opens to a corridor, and as you enter this
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corridor in front of you is just a big wall.
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On your left is a door labeled Research Office and your right
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is an opening to a corridor that goes West and east.
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And a bunch of vendits. Oh look, some vending machines.
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You know what that means? Screw the vendits, I'm going in
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the lab. Well, I do.
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PV As you step up to the vending machine, it's empty.
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Everything's gone. Oh.
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No. No, it's.
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All right, Chuck, Why I? Thought maybe I'd get myself a
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snap. That's well, you should have got
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it on one of the higher levels where there were Ginger Gisler.
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Gisler what I would do. My cue for some Gisler snaps.
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You should have got some from the upper levels.
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There were Gisner snaps in every Vendent.
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Every what? Almost.
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Is there anything in that vending machine for me?
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No, they're all empty. They're all they're what?
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Yeah, they're they're completely empty.
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Huh. Were you expecting something?
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Well, I mean, vending machines aren't usually empty.
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Yeah, and all of the other levels had stuff in them.
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And there's a lot down here I don't know.
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To be fair, you know, vending machines aren't usually empty.
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It is kind of like saying power plants usually are staffed with
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people. Yes, also now, now it's like I
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now understand why it's cold. I expect it to be warm near a
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thermal vent, but obviously what you doing retro?
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I'm trying to get in this door. I I thought I made it through at
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one point and now I got suddenly booted out.
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We but I mean, it's locked. There's computer and everything.
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One locked a second ago. It's weird that this lock
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magically appeared on the door. I know.
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I just keep throwing myself at the door, hoping it'll open.
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Oh, here. Metro next to the door you find
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a little console and on the console it says lockdown.
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I type in by whose authority? It gives you an error Iona do
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you type your little code? Sure do 4774.
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You know your little code, you little your little 4. 474774
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code. There's an error on screen and
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it says. Custodian code denied.
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Wait. You're the custodian the whole
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time, iota. Oh no.
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Wait, you're the janitor? They've got an AI in them.
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Wait, what? Wait no, doesn't make any sense.
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What? No, I don't.
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Oh, but the drone has popped out of everybody's head.
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Did you? Put drones in US, is there going
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to drone that's going to come out of me now?
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Maybe. No.
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Vandal I'm having fun. You're evil.
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Oh, I see. Oh, I was worried.
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No, I didn't put drones in your head.
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If that doesn't make any sense, I don't work down here.
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It just said your custodian code did not work.
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We were just talking about who the custodian is and you've been
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able to open up every single thing around here.
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So you tell me, is there a little Roly Poly somewhere
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rolling around in there? I type in 7447.
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There's another error. Shoot.
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OK, I shoot it. Don't do that.
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Oh, you said it. Roll for it.
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I mean, I'm just, I'm just following boss's orders.
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So what, boss? Where'd he go?
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This may be the one of the few times when he actually listens
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to Iona. 1917 damage yes it explodes through the the machine
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and with your crit success on damage the door opens like
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opens. It doesn't unlock.
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It flies open, and then before you in this room is a huge blood
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stain and a dead body near an exit to the southwest.
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And there's a cleaning drone frantically trying to get rid of
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Shoot, shoot the drone since you're trigger happy.
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Fine. God, Salt blood.
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Oh, and you pull the trigger on your shotgun fires and hits this
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drone. Shotgun.
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Oh, what's that? It's my assault rifle.
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Oh, well, sorry. I apologize.
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There is a difference between my K Tech Tech hammer and my
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assault rifle. My assault rifle XCOM dash 52.
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Which by the way, now after blowing a hole in that door, I'm
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renaming to skeleton key. Thank you very much.
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It's a pretty good name for gun. Retro fires a hail of bullets at
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this drone and it stops trying to clean the ground takes a lot
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of damage. Is still up.
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Not well going to be honest. It's not having a good time
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below half hell. Oh, that's that's not bad,
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that's amazing. One of its legs breaks, but
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since it has more than one, it still manages to make its way
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towards you. Losing a little movement, it
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moves towards you. No, that bad drone.
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Iona, are you going to attack this drone?
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No, I'm chastising it. All right.
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You're all persuasion. Face down right now.
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Yeah, sure. Am I doing persuasion or a face
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down? You should do a face down call
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plus reputation, plus one D10 on a cleaning drone.
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It's likely this has never happened before, ever, in the
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history of Sun. Yeah.
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We have fun here. We have fun here.
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Super cool. So 16. 17.
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Oh, it's 17. That drone rolled 12, which is
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pretty good for a drone, let's be honest.
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But all the same, it rears back in fear of you.
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That bad drone. Giving someone else the
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opportunity to take it out. I got it.
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Jeb pokes his head around the corner, points his gun at it,
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and pulls the trigger, causing 14 damage.
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It splits into a bunch of pieces, which cascade across the
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floor. Oh.
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My gosh. Yeah, I'm getting really sick
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and tired of these little guys. Me too.
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You got any, I mean, like it's got these guys.
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In my experience, all these guys are kind of, you know, usually
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hooked up to one kind of central computer or something.
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You think we got to find something out that and take it
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out? Well, now you've cursed us with
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that job. Thank you.
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An AI core that we're looking for, right?
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Oh, you know that that makes lost sense.
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It could be kind of wrapped up into one big thing here.
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Well, it's possible that there isn't an AI core if I'm the
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custodian. What?
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Wait, do you really think you're the custodian?
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We don't think that you just put in the number.
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I I just thought you were the sleeper.
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Do you have loads of titles? Do I need to do that to get
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better in business? Wait.
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A minute? What the fucks, the sleeper?
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Nothing. So you could be the custodian?
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I very well could be. How do we?
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Is there a way for us to? I don't.
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Check now. I'm actually in the What now?
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Now I don't believe it. There might be more records of
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employment somewhere. Hey, let's why don't we check
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that file that we decrypted? Maybe there's something in
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there? Sure.
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The audio file. No, the file with 72,000 people
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in it. Oh yeah, I guess you could cross
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reference names. Did you search for our names
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when you were control F thing to?
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Be honest, I didn't. I was just kind of looking for
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my favorites, like. I don't need to know your
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favourites for me, Well, I. Mean I was looking for Reeves.
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I, I I was looking for Shibari. Steve, Who else was looking for
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my professor? Go home.
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Well, you could like a a great story retro, but you could just
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check our names now. I I am, I'm I'm I'm doing.
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I'm doing a search. Oh, look at that 34 + 6 crit.
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Yes, you do not find any of those names.
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None of the crew are listed. What you do find as part of
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looking at the list, is that all of these 72,000 names were sent
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to Thermal. Interesting.
24:32
So we essentially, but essentially we well, not we the
24:37
Proctor had sent Jeb and Vendale to become batteries.
24:43
Yeah. Is there like a quota?
24:44
Is there like a quota that they need to have to keep power
24:48
consistently going? Oh, it's probably right.
24:50
I assume so. I can can I calculate on how
24:53
long the bodies last until they're just dredged?
24:57
Yeah, 98%, yes. That's where they were at.
25:00
That's what the battery said, 98%.
25:01
But when do what happened? Like how long does it take to go
25:03
from 98% to 2%? I I We weren't there long enough
25:08
to find out. We got chased by drones.
25:09
It was really scary. I'm gonna guess 20 days. 20
25:15
days, huh? That's way too short.
25:16
Yeah, if. I'm just making a gamble well.
25:20
If you. Take the average lifespan and
25:22
then how long it goes by. If it just ended up sleeping the
25:25
whole time, 7%, They're just trapped in these pods now.
25:28
Are they shoving nutrients inside them And you got to use
25:30
that to keep it going as well as water and then you got to give
25:33
them a little bit of, you know, sunny D So then that way they
25:37
keep that vitamin deficiency down South.
25:39
Retro No one's been down here for three months, so they're
25:42
either not using power or they worked out a way to make this
25:44
last a really long time. I think 7 to 2000 is probably a
25:49
really long time. Yes, I would agree.
25:53
Yeah, I tried to carry. Them They took way too long.
25:56
We also have to take into account that people were down
26:01
here and weren't sent to thermal.
26:05
There are people like VV who got into the Abbot lab.
26:08
Yes, I mean and that's I did too, but OK.
26:13
Well, yeah. What were they supposed to be
26:14
doing? I don't know.
26:16
If what were you supposed to be doing with Jeb the capacitor?
26:20
Well, yeah, the the smart people were sent to be.
26:22
The smart people were sent to be batteries.
26:24
And then what were the the dumb people supposed to be doing?
26:27
The dumb people were supposed to run the show.
26:29
Strange that they do it that way.
26:32
That's why everything's all kind of topsy turvy right now.
26:34
Oh, because the dummies are running the show.
26:38
Yeah. Interesting.
26:40
Well, all the dummies are dead. The inmates are running the
26:42
asylum kind. Of this dead guy over there on
26:45
the ground. Oh, we should probably check
26:47
that if if someone of you could do that because I won't be
26:52
touching that I will take. A look.
26:55
OK, I'll take a look. Oh, not great.
26:59
You. Step in some of the blood and it
27:01
sticks to the heel of your foot. This is this is pretty gnarly.
27:10
You did roll over 13, so looking at the body, you look down at it
27:15
and it's scientist. He's been ripped open by much
27:20
larger blades than you've seen before on the cleaning drone,
27:24
and he's written something on the floor in blood.
27:29
Oh gosh, something's written on the floor here in blood.
27:34
I'm a little distracted by the nasty blood on my shoe.
27:38
It got out. Oh, I saw something else
27:45
completely different. Who do you think it is?
27:48
Maybe. All the big Gators thing mate.
27:51
Wait, wait, wait. This is a scientific facility,
27:54
especially with a lot of computer stuff.
27:56
This man is a scientist. Maybe it's not it.
28:01
Or person. But the IT department?
28:06
What if the IT department went nuts here?
28:10
The IT department got out. Oh, that could be it.
28:17
Retro, it's I can always trust you to lighten the mood.
28:20
Look, here we are laughing around a large pool of blood
28:23
that VB stepped in. That's so nice.
28:26
VB is even comfortable enough to drink.
28:28
So do you sneak down here? I thought you said there was no
28:30
vent any nothing in the vending machine.
28:32
I grabbed one from upstairs. Yeah.
28:35
They're able to get the last ginger ale.
28:38
Do you mean the Gisner Ale? Incredible the.
28:46
Gisner Snap, a branded drink. Inspiration.
28:51
Tracy. Inspirations.
28:52
The Gisner Ale. It's blocking my view.
28:58
There it is. OK, sorry.
29:00
I had a pop up block come up on my face.
29:02
I got. Maybe you need to check your
29:05
phone that is. My agent.
29:09
Yeah, something popped up on my Chiron and I was like, get it
29:12
off, get off, get off. I couldn't hit the little the
29:14
little X. The way they make it really
29:17
small and slightly, yeah, I hate that.
29:20
And then, like, if you miss it, you automatically click the ad
29:23
and it takes you there. It fucking hurts.
29:25
Should try. You should turn on that Turn off
29:27
intrusive ads feature. I hear if you sign up to the
29:30
Patreon, you don't hear any ads at all.
29:36
My head must be nice. What's a patron?
29:40
You're poor. You wouldn't understand.
29:43
Patron. Look, if I wanted to listen to
29:45
an asshole, I'd Fart Vendel, OK? Look at you, slap back.
29:51
I owner I got a slap back. You don't have one.
29:54
You don't have one to give back. Oh, that's right.
29:59
Have a roast battle oh oh. I did a Raspberry.
30:07
Just furthering the point that you're an asshole blowing farts.
30:12
Buttholes all. Right, I'm going to check the
30:15
dead body to see if there's any keys or cards or eddies or
30:20
pictures of family members or. Role perception.
30:24
W twos. I'm assuming there's still W
30:28
twos in this world. Is it possible that it is the
30:32
research? What is the research?
30:35
It's it got out. Word Word got out, I see.
30:43
Perception 16. You don't find much on the body.
30:46
It's been pretty torn apart. A lot of its abdomen has been
30:49
sliced open and a lot of the blood actually sprayed across
30:53
the room rather than poured, which is why it's gone so far.
30:58
You do find another B pass, which means you can now give
31:01
someone else access independently to the elevator
31:04
without locking yourself in, which is super useful.
31:06
And behind you there is a very thick glass window out into the
31:12
depths of the ocean, and there in the distance you see a vent
31:18
duct going through the water from one building to another.
31:23
There's a vent duct is. There another going from one
31:27
building to the other. Is there another building that
31:29
we haven't seen or is this like the same?
31:32
It looks like this is. Well, it's going to another.
31:34
It's it's a vent to something else on this level, but I don't
31:37
see where we'd access it from here.
31:38
We can just see it out the window.
31:39
Maybe one of those pools that. Oh yeah.
31:43
Maybe there's another vent. Quick check under the couch.
31:47
Or that. There's usually, there's usually
31:49
people put a couch over a heating transfer.
31:52
Raw perception. 17. 17 is enough.
31:55
Just behind the crates you discover a vent.
32:01
Oh man, I think I found out where they crawled from.
32:03
That gives us this vent behind the crates.
32:07
Oh man, I think they found their their old belly button ring
32:11
still attached to the belly button.
32:12
Gross. Gross.
32:15
Are you not going to look through that big door for the
32:17
research office? You're right.
32:20
Here's the research office. This vent can wait.
32:27
Can I-4774 the store? Sure.
32:33
You tap the code in and again it says.
32:36
Custodian code denied. And then it says lock down
32:40
again. All right, you got to you got to
32:43
get these computers in line, Mayor.
32:45
Just turn and heal. They are not listening to the
32:49
boss. Who's the boss here?
32:51
You're the boss. Right, you should.
32:54
You should. Wait, are you the boss?
32:58
You're not, you know, under some sort of.
33:00
I make the most money. And that's in our society.
33:03
Makes them the boss because they make the most money.
33:06
Won't argue with that. That's I think that's just
33:10
science. Rendo.
33:12
Rendo. Rendo.
33:15
Retro, you should use your new skeleton key gun.
33:18
I did and. 19 Yes, you blow the machine off the wall.
33:24
And you got to see, You got to see this.
33:26
Slides open. Shit, that's a triple crit, my
33:30
guy. I just want that.
33:32
I just want that at least put on.
33:34
What a waste of using that on a door.
33:36
I know, right? When you step into this room,
33:41
it's the offices of the research level, and as you step in there
33:46
are two vending machines to your left, the control panel to the
33:49
door, which is now fizzling because you blew it up.
33:51
On your right there are three pods and then three desks with
33:55
computers and the rest of the room is filled with lockers and.
33:59
What is in the pod? You check the pod and they're in
34:03
the middle. Pod is a Person Person.
34:08
Pod people. Only in the middle pod.
34:14
Only in the middle pod. How emaciated are they?
34:18
Oh yeah, they don't look like the ones in the battery at all.
34:20
That person's like got cheeks that aren't invented.
34:23
Vivi, in your medical opinion, do you think that we can save
34:28
this person? Boss, permission to unlock their
34:31
soul from this hell? Let me take a look.
34:37
Damn. OK.
34:41
Do I think? I can save them medical.
34:44
Tech Eighteen from the outside, looking at some of the readouts,
34:48
There's a few numbers that aren't labeled, but you
34:50
recognize them with all of your experience.
34:53
Recognize that this person's been in this thing for a little
34:57
under three months? There's Their heart rate is
35:01
pretty low. The machine is producing enough
35:03
energy to keep the human alive, it seems.
35:07
But the power readout's pretty low and they they do not look
35:13
great, but they certainly look better than the other bodies you
35:17
have seen. Does.
35:21
I wonder if this is like part of the the step process to turn
35:24
them into that. So those they're still, they're
35:26
not like quite at the level that you know Jeb saw them or that
35:32
this is like getting them to that point.
35:34
I'm going to try to take them out and see if I can help them
35:38
and examine them and see if they can be saved.
35:42
I mean, at this point, what else can we do?
35:45
I I I don't know about that. I'm I've got I've been getting
35:49
bad vibes about this place. Everything has just been really
35:53
Uber creepy and like, how are we to know that they don't have one
35:58
of them drones inside them? Aren't we past the the?
36:01
Drone inside theory isn't like. Yeah, the drones are way too
36:05
big. Also, are you just going to
36:07
leave this person to die Retro? No, I'm not leaving them to die.
36:11
I'm leaving them in protected care and which we can then
36:16
anonymously call the authorities and they can handle.
36:20
We will not be calling the authorities.
36:23
Totally calling the authorities. Phoebe You continue to look over
36:26
the machine and you see that the nutrient reservoir is bone dry,
36:31
and the readout says it's been bone dry for a few months.
36:35
They have not been. They have not been receiving
36:38
nutrients, none for months. Then they're probably as good as
36:43
dead. But they're.
36:44
Probably pretty fucked. I'm I'm going to try to help
36:49
them. I'm going to try to get them
36:50
out. Rough for it I'm.
36:53
Trying to think of what I. Roll like I.
36:56
Said. Paramedic 14 you go to disengage
37:02
parts of the machine. Don't do it in the order that it
37:06
was designed to do so. As you undo the front panel, the
37:12
fluid that this person was being held in does not drain correctly
37:17
and it starts to spill out the side and pour over your shoes
37:21
and the ground. The ground gets covered in this
37:23
sort of ever so slightly sticky water that starts to evaporate a
37:27
bit like hand sanitizer. And this person is lying there
37:31
with a mask over their face that looks like it's got tubes going
37:34
down their throat. You can see the tubes undulate
37:37
as it pushes and pulls oxygen in and out of their body.
37:40
And in this moment, as the liquid settles out, the machine
37:44
pulls around their waist. As they sit in this pond, the
37:47
eyes pop open and she looks at you.
37:51
Whoa. I don't like that.
37:53
Maybe I do. I mean, that means she's live.
37:56
Right. I I I'm about to.
37:57
I'm about to shoot. You you have to.
38:00
You have to take out the tubes. Being being incubated like this
38:05
and conscious is not easy. Iona, you know more than me.
38:12
Yeah, I'm going to try to. I'm going to try to pull the
38:14
tubes out and try to help them. Retro is just shaking, starting
38:19
to get a bit nauseous and get dizzy.
38:22
I'm going to add 2 luck points to this role.
38:27
So let's add. 2 to this. 19 Yes, very good.
38:32
You pull the cable out of this woman's mouth and she coughs
38:36
profusely as this much larger and longer tube comes out than
38:40
needs to. She still has some connected to
38:43
her skin, but they don't look the same as as the one you saw
38:46
earlier. They look like they were sewn
38:49
recently by a human rather than installed by a machine, and she
38:53
coughs sputters as the final piece of the wire comes out of
38:57
her esophagus. Is it all right?
39:06
Yes. You're safe.
39:11
Oh God. I was so terrified.
39:17
God, you killed the Custodian. I looked to the rest of them.
39:22
Killed the custodian. Need a regular frame or do we
39:42
need one of these like better ones?
39:44
You can donate kidneys. You're welcome.
39:46
Sometimes you have to spell it out for.
39:48
Him Doctor Ombre. You're stealing body parts.
39:50
You've really thought about this, haven't?
39:51
You. That's reassuring.
39:53
At least these people consented to this.
39:56
I hope you enjoy these. They were not cheap this.
39:59
Whole thing is starting to make me feel.
40:00
Sick. What is the custodian?
40:01
Which custodian? No, I have not found #2.
40:04
Fucking perfect. It's a big lab.
40:06
You said there were two. Let's do it.
40:08
Let's just do it. And let's go.
40:09
Let's get out of. Here can I just take a look at
40:11
your pulse really quick? Vivi, are you talking about
40:14
drugs over there? I just I I decided I wanted
40:16
anime Eyes today. All right.
40:17
Oh, I'll get there and I'm, I am stressed out right now.
40:20
I think he's suffering from high pressure nervous syndrome.
40:23
SPNS. Are you also suffering from his
40:26
penis? If he has some of those
40:28
recreational drugs. Remy.
40:30
Remy, do you have any weed? Did we lose him?
40:33
Remy. Yeah.
40:34
Wait, where is he? He's not.
40:35
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40:38
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