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Last time I'm no latency side quest.
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Baby, are you running around the market already?
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I need a Bang Bang. I've gone to multiple shops in
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Night City to try to find a limited edition run of Danger
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Gal Collector's item Cat Years. I heard you talking about cats.
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Does the cat make it better? Cat years.
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No, I'm looking for cat. Food.
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Wow, I did not expect them to sparkle that way.
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I think that's a pretty steep price.
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Give you $500.00 for those. Years.
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Can I try those on? Cat ears.
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Are you going to put those ears on your gun?
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Oh, that was awesome. What was?
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That oh, shoot. Hey, put that burst out.
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We should help them. Help them, they're people hurt.
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Hey you stop. Give them their wallet back.
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That is a very rude response to a reasonable request.
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Roll for initiative and our combat begins with
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Scabbard pulling out their weapon.
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What do you do, Scabbard? Well, much like every other day
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in his life, when the solo to Free Bird is playing, there are
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no rules. So free.
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Bird. Just full Kingsman mode, runs to
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the first guy. Nice.
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I assume they're I'm just assuming they don't have a gun.
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I'm going to fucking just swing. Sure.
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Swing for the fences. Yeah, I like that. 15-O rolls a
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crit success 19 and dodges your first swing with your Cortana.
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Your Cortana made out of quarters.
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The thing about melee attacks though is you get 2 swing again.
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Brilliant. So the first swing goes and
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misses. He flips the blade in his hand
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and swings back the other way. Oh oh.
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You did not roll very well. Oh, no.
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Oh, no. Oh.
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No. Oh, your second attack also
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misses now. You still have some movement
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left if you want to move at the end of your attack.
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That's fair. Need to be faster than that
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motherfucker. My dad had that license plate.
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If I was that proud of being fast, I'd be a very lonely man.
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Dude, I'll just back up two steps.
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Oh fuck, it's my turn. Bendel's going to kick the gun
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out of that guy's hand. Who's Ken?
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Who's gun What? The looter that's pointing a gun
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at me. Oh him.
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Yes, I'm I'm on it boss. And Bendel moves over to the
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middle of this combat, grabs the civilian that that guy was
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attacking, and throws them over the bench.
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And the guy who sold you, the rulers and this civilian hide
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behind this bench where they sell their shit.
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And Bendell walks forward to this looter that attacks.
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We're gonna, we're gonna kick with our power leg.
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I've got a cyber leg bitch. No one points a gun at my boss
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and gets away with it. Yeah.
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And the looter tries to dodge the first kick.
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Yeah. Dodge is the first one does not
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dodge. The second one gets hit in the
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chest for 12 damage and then he tries to dodge the last one and
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is miserable at it because he's now been very hurt and he takes
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another six damage which brings him under half health.
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He takes a critical injury as Vendel makes the third kick.
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They twist their foot around this guy's wrist and pull the
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other way, ripping his arm out of his socket.
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This guy's arm has been dismembered by he literally like
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kicked off his body and he sails back to the ground and starts to
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scream in pain. Oh.
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Wow, it's not all. The This short guy has a knack
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for disarming. I I have, I have a knack for a
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lot of things. I'm I'm, I'm actually fucking
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bad ass. Get fucked, mate.
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Not you, the bad guy on the ground.
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Yeah, cool. High 5.
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High five, yeah. Sick.
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And that means Vendel steps one step towards Scabbard to give
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them a high five. And it's scabbard.
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It is a crisp high 50. It was a high 5.
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That was very good at high fives.
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The kind that gets the freeze frame.
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It is the kind that gets the freeze frame for the record
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Bendellas. I I really like high fives.
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Yeah, I like this too. Iona.
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This one doesn't smell like the other guy.
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The one with the the the quarters.
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I bathe in public fountains. Cool.
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Well, the the one that Vendell just kicked the shit out of
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looks pretty, so I'm not going to I'll just leave them and I'm
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going to go for the looter that is next to them, the one that's
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on the ground and I'm going to pull out my Sanrue.
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Hello cutie, Ultra K pistol and shoot.
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You know, I might have to just kind of reposition myself a bit
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here 'cause I got some Bendel just doing the high five with
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the scabbard individual. It's kind of in the way.
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So Vivi moves a little bit out of their way to get a better
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shot. So let's see.
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Excellent. You fire off this adorable gun
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and it gains a lot of attention. It is probably the coolest thing
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that's been fired here in a while because most of the time
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it's a few shots and everyone scarpers, but this bright pink
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bullet flies through the air and hits this looter.
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He doesn't have an evasion of above 8.
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You've shot him within range. Nice.
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He gets hit for for 9 damage. Now he's not wearing very good
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armor, so that does actually cause him some pain.
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This one not so great though. Your second shot is not so
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great. That is very astute of you with
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that crit fail, although it's only a crit fail -1 you haven't
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gone below 0. So instead the gun bullet fires
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off. And unfortunately, because it's
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a crit fail, you do shoot a glass cabinet behind the the the
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looter. And you break this cabinet and
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it shatters behind this guy, and this guy looks at you.
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What the fuck you're going to? You're fucking insane.
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I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm.
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Explosives. Just give them the fucking
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money. Oh God, sorry.
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What? Oh fuck.
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You watch like a grenade, land on fall and roll.
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It doesn't hurt anyone. Everybody, everybody grabs their
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heads and ducks for a minute. Oh no, it's OK.
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And do you do anything else with?
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You've moved a lot. You don't get to move.
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Yep, that's all for me, Iona. All right, so there's the looter
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directly in front of Phoebe, who had their arm pulled off.
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Yeah, he's he's he's not doing so good.
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And then there's the looter between Scabbard and the big guy
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with the saw. Has that been addressed?
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Was that the one that Phoebe just shot at?
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Yes, this one on the ground. Ah, but I just saw somebody run,
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run after that guy. I'm just going to step over the
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guy with the arm that's. My.
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Arm I didn't I didn't mean to step on you.
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I, I I was just moving over you. You were just in my direct path.
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This. Is just a tiny six second.
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Move. That's it.
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He's too far away for me to shoot, but while I'm over here
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there I just wanted to to see there's two other looters and
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someone else that I see. Or is that guy dead?
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As you come out to the edge of this alleyway, you look to your
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left and you see a huge visceral scorched mark on the ground.
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It's covered in blood. In the middle is a leftover
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human body which seemingly is the centre of the explosion.
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All right, well, I've I've moved more towards the centre of the
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action and I will remain here with my gun out.
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Do you shoot anyone? The one hassling the tomb to the
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north? I'm just going to pop in.
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Cool, do it. Super Chrome sidearm.
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You rolled A-16? That does hit, yes, and he takes
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some damage. Fuck, what the fuck?
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Sorry, stop stealing things from people.
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The looter on the ground can't do a lot.
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His arm has come off, He's he's dying and he he takes you're on
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my call. D4HE takes one HP down.
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One of the looters who has come in has stolen some money off
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someone who is sitting on a bench and is just leaving.
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He is running away, and he has a movement of five and gets close
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to the edge of the street, getting further away from you
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all. The looter who Iona just shot
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takes a step away from the civilian, pushing this civilian
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back into the blood, and they fall over and slip in it.
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Oh. Gross.
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Oh and the looter takes their gun out and shoots at Iona.
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Oh he's only got a rate of fire of one.
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And he also does awful on damage.
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Like genuinely bad but he does hit you for.
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As he sees this looter Eamon Fire Saw would like to take the
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shot for her. Amazing.
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I'd love that. Saw as a hero.
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Roll for it. You are in the line of fire.
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This is not actually that difficult. 13 Yeah, it's above
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mid athletics. 13 Good role. You step in front of the bullet.
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The DV to take damage is low. Welcome to Cyberpunk.
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How's it going? And you take a bullet to the
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shoulder. Now, Iona, he takes a bullet to
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the shoulder. The shoulder, that's where I was
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planning on getting hit. Oh, OK, little lady, I can take
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it. It's well get him.
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And it's your turn. Saul would charge this looter
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that just shot him or you know, he took the shot for and he
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wants to grab him. Roll a brawling Jack.
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That's all you have to. Do 17. 17 Very good.
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Yep. You both roll A-17, you get into
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a stalemate, you go and grab him and he grabs you and you are now
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interlocked with hands. He can't like he's gone.
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Two wrestlers like when they meet up in the ring, Yeah.
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With interlocked fingers and you're now like scrounging as
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you push your two hands against each other.
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The civilian scarpers away and you feel a twange of pain in
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your shoulder as your left arm hurts more as the blood trickles
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down your bicep. Get off me you stupid joom.
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We don't we don't hurt innocent ladies at the night market.
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Says you, you dumb fuck. I'm also not that innocent.
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It's all right. You were asked to me.
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I really wasn't though. Another of the looters has got
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what they want and is running away.
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The guy on the ground gets up and goes to attack saw getting
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out their melee weapon. Oh, that's not going to be hard,
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I think, to beat. Yeah, nice.
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Even while grabbing this other guy, the looter goes to attack
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you with this rebar he has. It's a pretty thick piece of
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metal. He completely misses you and
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Dings a little dent in the store bar that is in front of you.
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With the such high evasion role, could I move the looter I'm
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grappled with in the line of the swing of the rebar?
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For a second attack, absolutely, I love that.
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That's great. And he goes to attack you again.
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Oh man. And the.
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Looters in the way now. I will let you have this if you
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beat a 17. I know that's a crit, but I
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really like what you did so. Evasion again or do you want
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brawling since I'm moving him? What did I say?
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Did I stutter? No.
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A little admittedly actually, but beat a 17, doesn't matter
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how you do it. Argue it.
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Because I'm grappled with him and SAW is very good with melee
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weapons, I almost want to swing this looter at the other looter
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as a melee weapon. Fantastic welfare.
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Oh, OK. That's OK. 15.
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So instead what happens is you do move this looter towards this
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guy and you get pushed back a little bit.
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The looter passes by you, you roll high enough that you don't
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let go of this guy, but as you swing him around you time it
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just wrong and you get hit in the side for eight.
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Damn it again on your left side. All right, so he sees this man
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with rebar attack a fellow connoisseur of the feline
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variety. I might be new to the world of
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cats, but I know that wasn't very cool and I'm just going to
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run right in from behind to hit the jabroni with the rebar.
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Now you're hitting him from behind.
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You're going to pass one to hit for that.
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Oh brilliant, I like the sound of that.
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Most players do. That was bullshit on damage, but
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that's a 19 that's difficult to hit.
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Here's the thing, you're hitting him from behind, so he he has to
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roll. Yeah, he didn't roll evasion
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enough and you hit him with a sword made out of quarters and
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cause him five damage. I'm not happy about it either.
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Oh oh fuck. You get two hits with a mellow
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weapon. Excellent.
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And I come down with the back hands.
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Keep the change. Oh, he does not.
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Your one liner is really good but it makes him chuckle and he
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dodges. He moves sideways.
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OK with my remaining movements, can I slide over this desk to
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cut him off? Yes.
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Hell yeah. You slide over the desk like
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you're in the Dukes of Hazzard movie over some kind of cool
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American vehicle, and in order to make sure that it looks cool,
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vote for. It Oh hell yeah, athletics for
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that. I guess yes.
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Or cool. Or street wise.
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I'll, I'll do athletics then. Oh.
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Oh, OK. Damn.
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Athletics was the right choice. Athletics was the right choice,
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yes. Well done.
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You was 25 on athletics. In the words of the Prophet.
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Joe Tarot, Jo Star, Yuri. Yuri Dizzy.
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All right, you you rolled high enough on athletics that if you
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want, you can push him to the South.
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And I will. Push him five feet away from you
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and he takes a back step like he's an enemy in a Power Rangers
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episode. I can see that in my mind.
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I know. And now it's my time.
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It's Morphin to. No, it's not.
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I mean, it's just fuck him up. Here's a sword.
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Fuck you. Yeah.
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So which everybody's engaged with everyone.
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Yeah, Bendel passes by the the guy who they kicked their arm
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off on the ground. And does Bendel come out of
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their misery? Yeah, I was going to say, we're
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just we're, we're just going to bring a foot down on his head.
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Oh fuck. Oh Dang.
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It's just, it's just going to be the quickest way.
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Curb stomp, motherfucker. Just kidding.
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It does happen. Here's the thing.
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Yeah, it's just poorly. It's.
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Just. It's a lot bloodier than we
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expected. Iona.
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No Vandel is so expected to be fight.
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In this moment. But they.
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Forget that you're standing right next to a.
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Bloody girl. Oh God, and.
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In this celebration, they power up their cyber leg.
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Everybody who can, can can, motherfucker.
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And they do like 3 very quick stomps on this person's face and
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it's dense. It's deeper and deeper and
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deeper with each hit. And with each hit, because this
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is a crit fail, you get covered in splatters.
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This tune's blood. Oh fuck, sorry.
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I'm I'm going to finish my turn by attacking this guy.
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No. That's.
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OK, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
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I'm so sorry. I'm oh gosh, this is going to be
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bad in my review. Excuse me.
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Excuse me? And they tap this guy in my
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shoulder. Excuse me, turns around, take
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this. And they flip their sword out
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and jam it towards them. 16 Yeah, that's good.
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Oh, they don't do well, do they? And Vendel causes a serious
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amount of damage to this tomb. And he goes underneath, half
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out, takes a a pretty bad attack to his chest.
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You can hear the sword cut straight through a rib as Vendel
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brings it back out of this tomb and his rib cracks and the guy
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falls back next to scabbard and just collapses on the ground in
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pain as he starts to bleed from this wound on his side.
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Oh fuck, people aren't normally this tough of the market.
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Fuck. You picked the wrong day, buddy.
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Oh man, Iona, you look Oh. I don't want to talk about it.
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I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to.
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Talk about it very quickly if go through her medical bag and see
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if she can find some sort of like she has like a bottle of
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like a cleaning solution for blood.
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No, don't wipe it off. That's metal.
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She looks great. You don't.
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You don't know. OK, that's fine.
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They are very sanitary individual though.
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It does look really cool Iona, I will admit.
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Does it look cool? Does it look?
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Cool, you look like a Jackson policy.
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I'll do, I'll do a thumbs up. Double, double thumbs up.
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You look, you look really bad. You look really badass.
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You look really good. Badass too.
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Hurry up and cleaner or something, because this guy's
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this guy's slippery. Sorry, sorry.
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Yes, I'll help. I'll come help.
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I quickly toss Iona like a cleaning solution that's like a
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big bottle, like a spray bottle, so they can quickly like try to
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spray it off and then run toward the one that saw is wrestling
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with. Sure.
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And try to. I'm actually going to swap from,
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well, if you'll allow me GM, because I know I'm doing a lot
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and my little bonus action or my bonus action here, but I want to
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swap to my bat potentially. Yeah, totally.
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That makes perfect sense to me. Yeah.
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You put your gun away. You take a this this spray
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bottle, you throw it at the owner as you walk by, and then
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you whip out your baseball bat and hit this guy from, I'm
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assuming, behind. Yes, I'll just smack him.
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Oh man, what these crit fails we're getting your.
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First hit misses. Now you did not move far.
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You moved like what, 20 feet? That's half of your, that's
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under half of your movement. So you can attack with your
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melee weapon again, but you won't get to move again.
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So you can choose to retreat now or attack.
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I'll just attack again. Cool. 21.
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Better Oh. Yeah, fucked.
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And you hit this guy for 12 damage and it's from behind, so
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you get a bit more than. You would.
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Oh dude that takes this guy under half health, you hear
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something snap and he has a torn muscle.
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He gets -2 to melee attacks for the.
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Rest of. Time until someone fixes him for
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a parent. Till forever.
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Till forever because he's been really busy and you you've
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really messed this guy up. Oh, I'm stuck between a cheer
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and a baseball bat. Fuck.
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Swing for the fences, Mama. Mama used to say.
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Swing for the fences. It's a good line.
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I I get this water part, this cleaning solution bottle from
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Phoebe and I just rip the top off and just start pouring it
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all over my head. And this mostly alcohol solution
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washes away the blood on your outfit, which of course is wiped
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clean because you're Iona and you feel this fresh, cool
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feeling as this slightly minted cleaning solution evaporates
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from your skin, a sensation that you revel and enjoy as you feel
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clean once. Again, I might like this a
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little too much. Scabbard is watching in total
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awe. Just a boom, boom, boom boom
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boom boom at the glass market of all places.
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Hopefully you don't have any cuts or open wounds because that
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would sting. My eyes are burning, my nose is
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burning. I have a hangnail.
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I can feel it. But you know what?
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You're clean. That's all that matters.
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And I'm, I just, honestly, I'm going to take my jacket off just
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because it's weighing me down and I'm going to throw it onto
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the bench behind me, OK? I'm going to sidestep BB and
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shoot the running man OK? I do not have time to change
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weapons but that's OK. Fuck.
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Iona. As the final bits of the alcohol
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evaporate from you, you see it steaming off your gun as it's
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still warmed from its last shot, and you fire it at this looter.
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And in this moment, it's not been very long.
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You're holding an ignition source and you just covered
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yourself in alcohol. That's OK, you rolled.
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Hardly enough that instead of this hurting you, it just looks
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incredibly cool. There's this flash of fire.
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I just like burst into light. Yeah, as your bullet goes off,
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it sails across this alleyway and hits this guy for 18 damage,
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and he's going to the ground like a sack of shit, going under
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half health. He also cracks his head against
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the bench to his side and a bit of it splits off and sticks into
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his chest. Oh fuck, what the fuck?
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As this guy's like sitting there holding some dudes watch some
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agent and a wallet. Sorry I I thought maybe you had
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stolen more stuff but just don't steal so the.
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One with saw is still kicking, not.
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For much longer. Yeah, I'll take a swing at them.
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Nice. He rolls a 12 for evasion, You
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rolled a 22. You literally rolled 10 more
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than this tomb and you hit him for 15 damage.
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That's a lot of damage. He's not much longer for the
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world. Maybe this will be the final
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blow. Rolled 18, he rolls A9 on
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evasion now that he's being grappled and as you hit him the
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back of his head dents in and he just goes limp.
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He's dead. Oh, it's awesome.
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And his hands go limp in your hands and he just drops to the
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ground. Oh, he's, he's dead.
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Dead. Oh, he's dead.
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He's fucked up. I don't normally like to like,
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kill people that are just, I don't know, this guy's just a
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looter, but whatever, he shouldn't have been looting.
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I don't mean to interrupt you. I'm sorry.
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I apologize. We got more peoples we got.
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We got hurt. Yes, sorry.
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Yes, yes. There is a looter in the
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distance that full on just. He out.
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Yeah, he's gone. The guy who just died takes his
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turn. Nice.
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And then, and then it saw his tongue.
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This guy crumpled in front of him, but for some reason Saw's
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fingers are still interlocked, like he doesn't know what to do,
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so he looks around. Want to?
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Get that guy. Yes, yeah, get that guy.
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OK. And he runs over the guy who has
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the piece of wood sticking out of his out of his chest and
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just. You think it's wood?
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Oh, oh, the the mysterious splinter that is sticking out of
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his chest, this is. Nice and like anyone has money
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for wood. Yeah, right.
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Yeah, a natural resource, please.
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And we'll run up above, you know, because he's on the
25:40
ground. So he'll hover above him and he
25:42
will go for his chainsaw and look towards the group like and
25:46
like. Oh yeah, sick fuck yeah too.
25:50
For a seal of approval. Iona is going to shake, shake,
25:53
head furiously no, and turn around and go.
25:58
You don't want to get splattered.
26:00
But we don't. Want to get splattered?
26:02
With Vendel's enthusiasm, he Revs the chainsaw and.
26:05
Just swings at the guy. On the ground all.
26:09
Right. Scabbard pulls down the ski
26:11
goggles. A watch. 18 nice, 10 damage.
26:16
Aw. So here's the thing.
26:18
That guy? Uh oh, he's in the ground,
26:21
right? You rolled 18, so yeah, he did
26:27
not roll high enough on evasion. He's on the ground.
26:30
He literally has as much health as you did damage, so he dies
26:34
underneath you in a splattery mess.
26:41
And, and as he's in this chainsaw, in his chest and blood
26:45
and viscera squirting up at him, he just raised it in the air.
26:48
I got him, I got him. Guys, good.
26:51
Job VV claps uneasily. You did it.
27:00
I like you. I think this one needs like
27:02
words of affirmation. I whisper to the others.
27:06
Please. Help me, there's one looter
27:11
left. He's on the ground, lying next
27:14
to scabbard. Would would you mind taking care
27:18
of that You you. My name is Scabbard.
27:24
Scabbard. Thank you.
27:26
Would you mind just you know. I'll keep it quick.
27:30
You're just gonna. Chop chop.
27:32
Chop chop. I have a sword I can chop.
27:35
Ha ha, fun. There he does like little
27:39
finger. Finger guns back here, he'll
27:40
just. He'll, he'll, he'll Crouch down
27:42
next to the sky. Do you have any last requests?
27:46
Get fucked. I'll see how I do with that
27:50
later tonight. I appreciate the the enthusiasm
27:55
though. It's it's very nice of you great
27:57
comments. No, not.
27:59
You're ready. I'm not a necrophile and we're
28:01
just going to slit his throat. In combat, he's over.
28:10
He takes out a cloth to wipe the Cortana clean and then back in
28:14
the six pack ring. Is anybody hurt?
28:18
This guy was. I mean, I got hit with like a
28:21
piece of rebar, but I think I'm OK.
28:23
Didn't you get shot? You also took a shot for me.
28:26
Oh. I took a yeah, but.
28:28
Oh. Shit, you can.
28:30
You got a bullet. You turn to sore and he's like
28:33
bleeding from his leg. Oh, no, it's it's, it's fine.
28:37
Don't. Don't worry about.
28:38
It no no, no I I will help you. It's only a flesh wound.
28:43
It's fine. Hey, they can still get infected
28:46
and that gets that gets real nasty so and.
28:50
You just you don't want. You get the bar rag and you put
28:52
it on it. That's what they tell me.
28:54
Oh dear, Oh dear. That's not.
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Maggie RPG. OK, I take it.
30:29
Yes, so that I guess that means you don't normally get proper
30:34
medical attention. So I will help you out.
30:40
I'm a medical professional. Look, I'm not I I don't mean to
30:43
be rude. I can't.
30:44
I don't got any more euro bucks. It's it's, it's on the House.
30:49
I just help people. Between the cat food and the
30:51
drum magazine, I'm I'm, I'm skint.
30:55
That's all right. Just I, I, I am just here to
31:00
help. I apologize, I didn't properly
31:03
introduce myself to you when we were talking about cats earlier.
31:07
And as she, she's going to do this as she's patching you up so
31:10
you're not like bleeding out. So VV will begin to start
31:13
patching you up. And and and Saul will will take
31:17
his trench coat off his shoulder and on his arms you see light
31:22
tattoos of cats. OK, you really like cats.
31:31
I look, I'm not I'm not a liar, OK?
31:35
I have I have a cat. His name is Mastophiles.
31:40
Mastophiles. Mr. Mastophiles, he likes to be,
31:43
you know, proper. I see.
31:51
Well sorry I I keep getting a little distracted here.
31:54
My name is Vivi. Hi Vivi, I'm saw.
31:57
Saw saw with the cat. Sarcophagus.
32:02
Yeah, it's my stage name. Sarcophagus your stage name are
32:08
Are you a performer? Yeah, I'm the lead
32:12
singer-songwriter, guitarist for a neo death metal band.
32:16
Yeah. Oh wow, neo death metal.
32:19
I have not. I'm more of a pop punk kind of
32:23
person, but I'd be I'd be open to listen to your to your neo
32:28
death metal, yeah. You've never heard of Corpo
32:30
Corpse? No corpo corpse.
32:34
Yeah, we play at Toten Taunts like every weekend.
32:37
Wow, wow. Well, you know what, I'll have
32:40
to grab the gang sometime to to come check them out.
32:44
Check. It's a hell of a time.
32:46
Yeah, yeah. And, and and you.
32:49
OK. So you as Vivi is continuing to
32:54
just kind of like put some gauze on the after.
32:58
I assume that there was a bullet in there.
32:59
Yeah, Yeah. This might sting a little bit.
33:01
Just one moment. And here comes the the
33:05
disinfectant. So it's going to feel just a
33:07
little worse for just a minute. You go to look for disinfectant
33:11
and realize that you are out of disinfectant.
33:13
You gave it to Iona. Crap, I gave Iona all of my
33:16
disinfectant. It's it's, it's fine.
33:19
It's fine. Soap and water will also help at
33:21
some point, just make sure you clean the wound.
33:25
What about just just water? Soap and water would be good,
33:29
antibacterial soap if you're, you know, real fancy, but any
33:34
soap will do. And because of your lack of
33:38
sanitizer, cleaning spray. Oh no.
33:41
You only get to give him one D6 health but her order six, so
33:47
that's pretty good. OK, this isn't my best work, but
33:53
you know what? Again, we'll just have to make
33:55
sure that the wound is clean. I I appreciate the good gesture,
33:59
I really do. Of course.
34:02
And VV is going to OK, if just if you just forgive me a minute,
34:07
I want to check the explosion over there because I think it's
34:11
a little. I just I want to what's the what
34:16
happened? Yeah, I I would like to see what
34:18
happened here because I think this is a little more than just
34:22
some looters coming in to loot the place.
34:27
Vivi will walk over toward the viscerated spot.
34:33
And you step over to this bloody mess on the ground.
34:36
What's remains of this tomb here in the glass market?
34:41
The scorch and stain of their blood can be seen glistening in
34:46
the neon lights of the street. Can I take a closer examination?
34:55
Sure, you'd have to roll for it. Yeah.
34:59
Oh, eighteen, yes. So a few things around this body
35:04
that you notice. One, the body was the source of
35:07
the explosion. The body was OK.
35:11
Two, they had a lot of cyberwear.
35:13
They had a cyber arm that has exploded and you find that most
35:19
of their batteries and storage in those items has overloaded or
35:24
exploded and he's lost a lot of blood.
35:26
It is everywhere. You can smell it in the air
35:29
around the explosion and the whole everything in the air
35:34
around this body overly smells of iron like the air.
35:40
Oh. And because you rolled so high
35:43
on perception, you also notice that across from the explosion
35:46
is where there's a net runner who sells net runner stuff, and
35:51
he's got a security camera that points right at where the
35:53
explosion happened. Oh, this is I, I yell back to
35:58
the the rest of the group. This is this guy exploded
36:02
straight up. That's awesome.
36:06
Like, like there was no bomb. He he was the bomb.
36:10
Yes, it might have been like cyberware overheating or
36:14
something. It might have been some
36:17
cyberware he had overheated and caused him to explode.
36:21
Possibly unclear. And at this point you see saw
36:25
take out a little notebook and he writes something down real
36:28
quick. What are you?
36:30
What are you writing down? Internal bomb malfunction.
36:34
Good song name. Internal bomb malfunction.
36:37
I like that you have a band. Yeah, yeah.
36:43
What, what what? What's it called?
36:45
Corpo corpse. Corpo corpse.
36:48
Yeah, yeah. Neo Death metal.
36:50
Yeah. Nova.
36:52
Well, that's fun. Did you tell Vivi about it?
36:54
Sounds like something she'd be into.
36:55
She she loved it. She said she's going to come see
36:57
me play. Oh good.
36:59
You know what? We should all come see you play.
37:02
You should. Yeah, I.
37:04
And look, I know you don't believe me.
37:08
My cat comes on stage. It's our, it's our number one.
37:11
Like Crowd Bringer is there's a live cat on stage.
37:14
We love animals. My friend has a duck.
37:18
That is true. You know we saved a real cat
37:20
once. Yeah.
37:23
My cat's real. It was our first Comic Con
37:25
panel. What's Comic Con?
37:29
I don't know, sorry, had a brain fart.
37:33
No, but I'd look. I did a job and the guy, he
37:38
asked me what I want and I've all my mom always said, she said
37:44
saw you're getting too big for the apartment, you got to move
37:48
out. And I said what am I going to
37:49
do? And she said, I don't know, get
37:51
a cat or something. And then I've always wanted one
37:54
because she told me to get a cat.
37:56
How is a cat supposed to help you find a place to live It's.
38:00
Probably the sense of smell I'm. Sorry, I shouldn't be judging
38:02
your mother. We all have our methods.
38:05
I'm glad you found a cat. Yes.
38:08
It smells bad here. Yes, the smell.
38:12
Of booster bar. Yeah, I I do have to show you
38:16
something, saw. Will you show me?
38:18
I, I, I'm wearing like a, a broad shouldered tank top and I
38:24
just pull it to the side on the same shoulder that you got shot
38:27
and I said thank you for taking that for me.
38:31
You think I need to take any more on this arm?
38:34
Look. And you see on Iona's shoulder a
38:37
very deep scar that looks like it's been hit in the same spot
38:40
several times. Several times.
38:43
I I didn't want I I know you called me stinky, and it's
38:48
probably true. I'm.
38:49
Sorry, I mean, it's true, but it's true.
38:53
It's a fair assessment. I haven't showered in a couple
38:55
days. All right.
38:57
And, and and but, you know, you, you you didn't shoot me away
39:02
like some, you know, if I was like vermin or something like
39:05
that. So the guy was aiming a gun at
39:08
you and I wanted to take the shot for you.
39:10
Look, I'm a big guy. I can take it OK.
39:12
I I appreciate it and I mean both of you are such a help
39:16
during this. I I didn't know you could cut
39:19
someone up with quarters. It took a while to make it.
39:23
I will say I sat on a street corner.
39:27
I just put my hat down because my head was itchy.
39:29
People started throwing coins into it.
39:32
Wasn't sure why. I turned him into something
39:35
useful, I think. I would say.
39:38
So yeah, you cut that guy up. It was cool.
39:41
I did. It was no.
39:42
Fun. Yeah.
39:44
A money sword, huh? Yeah.
39:47
That's pretty metal, my Cortana. I call it the money maker.
39:52
Well, I mean it it. It was made of money.
39:55
It's it's literally made of money.
39:56
It does demonetize people. Oh, that's funny.
39:59
Yay, corporal. Who knew, man?
40:01
BD Are you like medically examining that?
40:04
Yeah, I'm going to take a look at this and maybe actually
40:09
Vendel, maybe you can or some or somebody ask this, this net
40:14
runner guy if if they wouldn't mind, maybe if they have some
40:20
footage of what happened, maybe we could take a closer look.
40:24
I'm going to examine the body. Iona.
40:28
Yes. I think you're the face in this.
40:30
All right. Do I have any?
40:33
Can I have both of you as big strong backup just in case?
40:36
OK, I'll I'll hang out with BV. All right, you BB VS big sell
40:40
backup. People say I'm imposing.
40:43
Yeah. Keep the Blood on the chain side
40:45
has the imposing vibe. Oh, this thing hasn't been
40:49
cleaned in ages. Oh my God.
40:53
Yeah, I we can see that. And you walk up to this net
40:55
runner in a booth who's just cleaning up his staff and
40:59
locking up some cabinets, putting the protective cover
41:01
over some of the stuff in here and just closing up shop.
41:05
Excuse me, I I see you have a surveillance camera.
41:13
Oh, yeah, No, I do. Yeah, Yeah, I do.
41:18
And I I see that it is pointed towards the viscera.
41:24
I mean, I guess, I guess. Yeah.
41:28
Are you all right? Does this, does this person seem
41:30
all right to you guys? This.
41:32
Seems fine to me, yeah. He's trying to flex in front of
41:35
you badly. Well, I would like access to
41:42
that footage from, you know, when the guy exploded.
41:47
Oh yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Well you did get the looters
41:53
before they tried to steal my shit, so if I mean I I might
41:59
give it to you for free maybe. I would expect you to give it to
42:03
me for free, seeing as we protected the market.
42:07
Row for it. Oh sure, absolutely.
42:10
I did just spend all of my improvement points on Persuasion
42:13
so. You know, just just have the
42:18
camera. And he pulls the camera off the
42:21
wall. It's magnetic and he just hands
42:23
it to you. You can have it.
42:24
You're all at 25. Thank you.
42:26
What's your? You now have a security camera.
42:29
You're welcome. What?
42:31
What's your name? Sam.
42:35
Sam. And this is your booth.
42:37
You run this or do you run this for someone else?
42:39
I'm garden Sam GS. Garden, Sam.
42:43
All right. See you on the shrubbery.
42:47
I don't know. I'll remember.
42:48
I'll remember that. Thank you for the camera.
42:51
You're welcome. You're all really high and you
42:52
saved us so. I.
42:57
You could see him chastising himself for some reason as you
42:59
walk away from the booth. I'm just going to add 2 luck
43:02
points to this just because. Sure.
43:05
Something tells me I might not roll.
43:07
Great. Oh, I guess I rolled OK.
43:09
So you add 2 luck to that, That's 22.
43:12
OK, so according to the little thing I have there, you rolled
43:15
very high, scammy. Patient has this lended on
43:20
scammy arm capacitor overload before detachment scanning.
43:26
All installed side Ware overloaded or destroyed.
43:30
Scanning biomass results. Major iron deficiency detected.
43:35
Scanning Deceased iron levels at 2%.
43:41
Scanning airborne particles detected.
43:44
Scanning atmosphere Scanning Patient thought detected
43:51
atmosphere contains high concentrations of airborne iron.
43:55
Scanning Referencing medical database error.
44:01
No connection error. No connection scanning.
44:05
Huh. Possible cars iron in
44:08
atmosphere. Scanning Possible cars for iron
44:11
in atmosphere. Dead patient scanning complete.
44:17
Iron. The iron floating in the air was
44:20
originally in this guy's blood. What?
44:24
The heck? You've rolled really high and
44:26
there's an unknown compound in any of the blood that that is
44:28
left. This is I've never seen anything
44:31
like this before. This person, the iron in their
44:37
system, left their body and is currently in the air.
44:41
EW. We are breathing this person's
44:43
iron. Gross.
44:45
I Iona don't come over here. You'll breathe blood.
44:51
Why does it taste like pennies? Should we?
44:56
Should we lie to Iona? Scabbard's going to offer a
44:59
bandana to her. You might want to put this on
45:04
your face. Bless you.
45:06
I appreciate the the offer but I'm not going to take cloth from
45:11
a stranger, but thank you. I cleaned it this morning.
45:16
Did you? I'll I'll take it and I will
45:19
sanitize it. I did I.
45:21
Did sanitize it. Hell yeah.
45:24
Wait, so are you telling me, little doc, are you telling me
45:29
that it's like raining blood right now?
45:32
Sort of is, yeah. A good song name, Raining Blood.
45:36
You're getting a lot of inspiration tonight for.
45:39
This is a great night, yeah. But this is I've in my I don't
45:43
want to give how many years I've been in in the field.
45:45
In my years of experience, I have not seen something like
45:49
this before. This must be something I it's
45:54
something to do with their cyberwear.
45:56
I assume their cyberwear was like frayed at all, like totally
46:02
messed up already. So something must have set it
46:05
off. Well, I have the camera.
46:09
Oh yes. Do either of you know how to
46:12
work this thing? I don't have like a port to plug
46:14
it into or anything. I think we just.
46:19
Press or what kind of? Yeah, what kind of camera is it
46:21
actually? It's a magnetic portable
46:23
security camera that this net runner was using to watch over
46:28
their stall. Obviously only when they were
46:30
selling stuff, so they would remove it.
46:32
They gave it to Iona. It's got a little screen on the
46:34
back. You can review footage and
46:35
everything. I guess we could just watch it
46:37
from the camera. I owner if you flip the plastic
46:40
panel on the left, there's a little screen see.
46:43
Oh, I'd flip up the screen. There's probably this last
46:46
recording, right? Yeah, I'm clicking a bunch of
46:49
buttons and I hope I don't delete anything.
46:51
You press play, there's a big play button on the screen.
46:55
Oh, it made it idiot proof. Tech kind of has to be like that
46:59
in Night City. And you watch this guy, this
47:05
delivery guy, cycle in the background, park his bike.
47:09
He walks into the night market with a bag from a company called
47:15
Neon Freeze. And then he pulls out a little
47:18
flask from his bag, unseals the straw and takes a big sip.
47:23
And he's sort of looking around for some stuff.
47:25
And then you see him clutch his stomach.
47:27
His eyes glow. He bends fully over and then
47:30
explodes. Ha, well anybody heard of Neon
47:36
Freeze? Has anybody heard of Neon
47:40
Freeze? I'm going to go with Streetwise.
47:44
What did we say it was branded on?
47:46
It was on the cup he drank from and unsealed.
47:49
It was on the bag that he was carrying.
47:52
He was wearing a Neon Freeze uniform.
47:53
He was a Neon Freeze delivery guy.
47:55
OK. I'm.
47:59
Going to search search it up. You go to search on the garden
48:05
and can't because you can't get a signal out here.
48:07
Shit, right? You rolled really well, but it
48:10
doesn't matter because you can't get a signal out while there's
48:12
no line in the air. Is there an advertisement
48:15
anywhere? Huh.
48:17
It's very smart. Look at you.
48:20
You look around for an advertisement.
48:24
You walk down to where you had the fight, past the guy who was
48:28
selling grenades who's now completely locked up all of his
48:30
stuff, and kind of gives you a look that nods at you.
48:33
Thanks. And then right at the end the
48:37
green sign flips to the advertisement from the map and
48:41
says Neon Freeze gives you an address to the east.
48:47
Going to ride it down very quickly.
48:50
It's near subway station 7. Subway 7.
48:54
Perfect. I also rolled streetwise. 18 on
48:58
neon freeze. Yeah, I've.
48:59
I've been there before. You've been to Neon Freeze.
49:04
What is it? It's like a drink place.
49:06
You get like frozen drinks. You could put drugs in them.
49:08
It's it's affordable. That sounds a lot like a
49:14
business that I invest in a bubble cafe.
49:18
Wait a second, Vivi is the bubble cafe drugs?
49:22
You can get drugs in them, yes. You're an you're an investor.
49:28
Investor I well, I'm like a major patron of theirs and I've
49:33
saved their cafe a few times, so I consider myself an investor.
49:37
Wait, the one that's just down the street Yonder?
49:41
This way. Something like that.
49:44
They have the comfiest benches inside.
49:47
I thank you for saving my favorite nap time.
49:50
They're pretty great and you know, if you go inside and tell
49:54
them you're Vivi's friend, they might give you a bubble, a
49:59
bubble tea on the House. As you say that and you say the
50:02
word Vivi's friend saw just lights up.
50:07
From a friend. I mean, look, we just, we just
50:11
took some bullets together. Trums who take both together,
50:15
you know, we, we stay together. And he's in a go like motion to
50:20
give you a hug. Oh, oh, and she, she, she's
50:31
going to because it's like, oh, this, this poor sad man.
50:35
And he's hug you very tight. I don't have much many friends
50:41
in in this city, so it's nice and and one that can then stitch
50:46
my flesh up. That's that's that's worth
50:48
something now. What flesh was a choice?
50:50
Cool. And and and and now you could
50:54
say that you're sauce friend. Yeah, I can and I can get into
51:00
what was the name of that club you said.
51:05
It's the Maelstrom Bar. Oh.
51:08
Corporal Corpse. That's my band name, yeah.
51:12
Maelstrom Bar. But you're going to come, right?
51:16
You say. You're going to come to a show.
51:19
Yes, yes. If we will come to a show.
51:21
I get you tickets. We love getting free tickets to
51:25
things. But yes, yes we do.
51:30
Vivi's friend. I like that.
51:32
Vivi yes. Are you now going to make us
51:35
work out why this man exploded? Yes.
51:41
OK. Next time on no latency side
51:56
quest. Look, I don't really trust this
52:05
neon freeze place. Is that what happened?
52:07
His iron dissipated from his body and he exploded.
52:10
Yes. It is a pleasure to meet all of
52:13
you. We have team now too.
52:15
Is that what we're doing? So we demand answers.
52:17
Well, come on Miss Vivi, let's get out of here then.
52:20
Well, you should have shot him or something.
52:21
Or are we waiting to see the effects?
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What else did we really think was going to happen to this guy?
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This is good for evidence. Good.
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Use a new shoulder pauldron. I think they look cool.
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They have to get the approval of some exact.
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Maybe let's let's see if there's any other deducing we can get
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done first. If you're a little klepto, can
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you help me get this cash register open so you?
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Got a thing with cleanliness, don't you?
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A little bit, yes. Do you think this stuff is safe
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to drink? Thank you, it makes the cash
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register noise when I kill somebody.
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Got any crystal cats? Personally, I like making
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friends. Is Vendel right?
52:55
Should we not be trusting these people?
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