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S2E112 - South Lot Looting · No Latency

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Last time on no latency. We've got to find out where that
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syndicate is. Well, don't be obtuse.
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So altogether it could be a rhombus.
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I think we can all contribute. Tuna, hey.
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To this plan and. It'd be fun.
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Hey bud, just wondering, you ever heard of the sandicate?
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Snipe City prices right there. Good luck there buddy.
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Bring them up. Oh, everyone is here.
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The whole crew Who? Does the muscle.
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You are important. I got to pay my rent.
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I'll read it. I see.
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I see. What an interesting note from
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the manager. More bullets I see, Clyde.
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I ain't thought about ammo and a long drive.
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I'm I'm looking at the map right now.
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Clive is along the way. We are the boys, so we should
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take the back streets. Clive's.
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We haven't talked to Clive in a minute.
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Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding.
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I do a sweet. Drift. 7500.
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I walk in it's bullets. Maybe not because I was checking
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my my sheet and it says I got a lot.
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I got 229 bullets. Well, you don't have any armor
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piercing. No, don't don't got that armor
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piercing. Well hey could I have a what are
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the kind of I'm trying to trying to get some more ammo from.
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Oh, hello, how are you? I'm doing great.
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It's good to see you too. Now, Grand Pappy's twin Colt 40
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fives. Of course they take, well, 45
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caliber, which in game terms is a heavy bullet.
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Yeah, not after, because I made that adjustment to your guns in
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at the glass market. Do you remember?
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My God, it's been so long. It's been a while.
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Have they been shooting OK? I'm shooting great.
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Oh good, that's nice. It'd be it'd be bad if you had
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like a problem with a jamming situation at some point.
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Oh well, you know, I didn't even think that revolvers could jam,
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but it's happened once or twice. Pretty.
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Much can like the GM did some research and it's actually quite
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common. I don't know why you've got this
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idea in your head. That's wild.
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Sometimes the bullet comes out the back and gets stuck as it
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turns, and it's quite common. It's hard to fix.
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Yeah, well, I'll tell you, I've got plenty of experience.
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It happened to me quite a few tabs.
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I. Mean that's what you get for
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lubricating your your cylinder so much.
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Well, I like to lubricate my cylinder.
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Oh yeah, no, I like that you reciprocated that joke.
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I tell you what, I'll give you a little discount so you get a 5%
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discount on what you want. You want some like armour
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piercing ammo and some grenades and chips.
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Well, yeah, you know, you know, I was thinking what are what are
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the kind of ammunition you got in terms of heavy?
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Box I've got incendiary and I have like like an electric one,
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like a tase bullet, but those are really expensive.
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So I'd be, I'd like, I would honestly, I'd say load one and
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shoot it. You just put it right in there
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and then shoot it. Maybe just have it as the first
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bullet and and then you the rest be normal, that kind of thing.
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You know, they're really shit. Like I'm not even shitting you.
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They're like 200 Beach Boy. That, yeah.
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Because it's a, it's a micro, it's a micro EMP like grenade
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and a bullet size. So we can wow, it's impressive.
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It does damage and shocks people.
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You know, and when, when they shock people.
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Expensive. They they, I imagine they become
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incapacitated in a sense. I mean, it depends on how much
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cyberware they have. And they're like, you know how
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they roll in the streets, as it were, to make a Dice and Night
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City joke? Right, right.
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At once. That was great.
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Yes, absolutely. Well, you know what I'm going to
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take? How much are incendiaries?
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Incendiary bullets. Let me just have a look in my
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little system. Yeah, while you're ready, go
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ahead and dig. Give me give me the price for
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them Armor Pearsons as well. Just have a look.
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Incendiary, Incendiary, Incendiary.
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The heavy, heavy bullets having a look right for a pack of 10
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there. 100 for the incendiary. Packet 10 for they're 10 bucks.
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I pop every time I pull the fuck a trigger.
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I'm spending 10. No, I'm sorry.
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That's 100 for 12 because you are 6 shooters, aren't you?
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So we're going through. Yeah, that makes sense.
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So yeah, that'll be 100 and that'll be for 12.
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You get for 100, which is. I don't know.
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That's a pretty good deal if you ask.
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Well, I suppose. And then you wanted armor
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piercing, right? Yeah, yeah.
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AP bullets armor Oh yes, that's right, because American spell
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armor differently, it's hard to. Yeah, no use in there.
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There's no, There's no. There's no, there's only dead
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extra you there just just taking no space.
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Yeah, that's not how you sell PSE, but honestly, sometimes my
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sister. Oh, yeah.
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OK, so those are a lot cheaper. They're only 50.
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Oh great, well go ahead and take 2 packs of them and 1 pack of
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the Incendiaries and here's 200A's for you.
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You have a great you have a great time.
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Oh, thanks, Joe. All right, the rest of you do.
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What else do you need? I owner.
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Yes, I also need ammunition. Do you have do you have smart
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bullets currently? I have some, yes.
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I'll take a pack of those and then probably 2 packs of just
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basic heavy pistol. It's a smart, smart bullets.
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Are you a medium or a you're a heavy pistol, aren't you Heavy
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Yes, yes, a heavy pistol. Smart bullets are pretty dear.
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They're not cheap at all. So so for a pack of like, how
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many how many smart bullets do you want?
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10. 1010 is 500 eighties. All right.
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And then just the basic 2-2 packs of basic ammunition please
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for. Basic ammunition I mean you can
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have. I mean armour piercing is only
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50 if you've got scratch. Sure.
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Cool. Twist my arm, Clive.
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And did you want like a grenade or like a?
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If you're throwing it in, for sure.
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Look at that grenade humour. I was going to say you can have
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50% off another set of smart bullets because we're all
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friends. Sure.
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So that's 77150 for the smart bullets and then the 50 each for
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the stack of armor piercing. So that would be 100 and top so
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850 so far. And then a grenade is 100 if you
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want one. Oh no, I'm fine, OK.
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Here you go, I. Thought maybe you'd like my joke
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and and and I. I remember correctly, you've
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you've, you've told me a few times that grenades and you
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don't really mix. So I think.
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It's hard. I don't.
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I've been shot. In the arm too many times,
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right? Yes, I just can't throw as well.
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Not one to pitch. No.
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Right. Good.
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All right. Well, there you go.
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That's nice. VV Retro.
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What else do you need? VV go ahead.
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Well, I just dropped a lot of money on my apartment so I'm not
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going to splurge here, but honestly I I probably should
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also get some ammo, some heavy pistol ammo for my sanroom.
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Hello cutie. Oh.
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God, your gun is so pretty. Isn't it?
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You've kept a really good job. You've like, that's not really
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damaged very much and it's special edition.
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I can't believe you've got the balls to use it.
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I suppose it's better if it's used, isn't it?
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You can still live a life because to have a story, you
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know, I'm a nice city legend. I could sell this for a bunch.
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Yeah, well, I I'm actually a collector of San Rue.
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Hello cutie items and. I know because the ears give it
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away. Those are cute.
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Yes. Another thing that you know a
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lot of people keep in the packaging, but I'm happy to wear
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it, use it, give it a life like you said.
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Yeah, no, I'm the same. That's why.
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That's why all of my stickers, I stick on stuff.
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I'm not one of those. Very good.
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Yeah, stickers for a cyberwear are basically tattoos.
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You try and get that fucking adhesive off.
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Fuck. Yeah.
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All right. So do you want that?
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Do you want some armour piercing for two packets?
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I mean, I mean, if you're going to be using the auto fire on
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that, like that's like $50 every time you do an auto fire.
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So be aware of that. Yeah, woof.
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Yeah, that's when you put it that way.
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Like that's why maybe some regular ammo might be smart if
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you don't really have a stockpile.
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I think some regular ammo is probably best.
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OK, do you want just like a pack of armour piercing?
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So you've got 10 to go. Yeah, just in case.
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Cool, so there's that. That's fifty.
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Regular ammo is only 10 for 10, so if you want 100 ammo, it's
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100 eddies. You know, that kind of thing.
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I'll sell in in packs of 10. I'll do 100 of the regular and
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then 10 pack of or a pack of 10 of the armour piercing.
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That's 150. Do you want anything else?
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Do you want some darts, some poisons, that kind of shit?
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I will, that'll be all for me. That's no no worries.
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It's lovely to see you Vivi. Do like the ears, they suit you.
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Thank you. You're.
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Welcome. All right, Vendo Retro, what do
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you need? Oh, I'll go last.
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Vendo, was there anything you needed?
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Oh, do you have any leg oil? Oh, right.
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I hear if I use leg oil it gives me plus one to stealth so it
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stops me from squeaking or is that like a snake oil thing?
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Vivi, you're the cyberware expert.
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I mean, I got I got WD-80 that usually works.
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I think I think the leg oil will probably be best, yes.
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I'll buy some of that. It's only 25.
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And look, it's right here at the counter.
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I'm sure it works. Sweet.
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It's lavender scented. It's my favorite.
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And retro, you were lost. What do you need, brother?
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Work, live. I'm actually in a bit of a
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shopping mood. Well, that's nice.
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I've been perusing the latest interface Red Magazine 1 Volume
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4, and there's a few items that I'm interested in that I would
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like to know if you have Ion cuffs.
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I prefer some Ion cuffs. Yeah, it came out from the the
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Gear Mist, the the Christmas Gear Mist one.
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They say they're roughly about like 500 eddies made to work as
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regular handcuffs but disable any internal workings inside of
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cyber arms and such. But is it not working?
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I can't search, I just want to read it.
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What page is it? That's going to be page 67. 67
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right one second, page 767 on the magazine.
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Here we go. Let's have a look.
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All right? You've got iron cuffs.
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Oh, yeah. It looks like here they're 500.
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Do you want to try and haggle me down or you were coping Market?
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I'm OK with paying market because I have two other items
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I'm interested in that I would plan on haggling with.
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All right, well, if you don't haggle me on the first thing,
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I'll give you plus one to your heart cup.
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That's why I'm with me. Sounds good.
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You know, glad I'm always super appreciative of how just
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transparent you are with the whole bargaining process.
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Well, yeah, I mean, you might as well.
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We're friends. Like you've saved my bacon, so I
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might as well be open with you. So fucking love bacon.
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Hey, who does you know? Right.
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Yeah. What was the other thing?
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Bacon and bacon and bacon. All right, the second thing.
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Yes, Google. You've got to do your best not
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to lean on that button, Jeb. Could you lean away from the
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wall? That's the activator.
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My apologies. Yeah, it's.
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You're fine. It's.
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The second item I'm looking for, I'm probably confident you do
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not have it at this time, but I'm thinking about doing as a
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special order the Master Mechanics Toolkit, something I
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would prefer to like get sent over to.
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No latency. Fuck I I, you've scared me so
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much. I went temporarily Irish.
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That's impressive. It's a pretty high price tag
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now. No.
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Do you know how much that things costs?
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You know 20,000 eddies. Good Lord it's 20, do you have
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20 grand to just fuck around with?
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No, I don't. OK, that's a lot of money that
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we don't I can. Order it for you.
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If you but five, you know as well as I do that I do some
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moonlighting. And so if there's somebody that
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you need to get some debts handled too, or perhaps even if
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you'd like some personalized items to be made for your shop
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one-of-a-kind, you know, my work, there could be something
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to be worked out for that. I'll just, I'm going to be real
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with you. I'm going to be real with you,
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Retro. That's going to be a tough one
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for me to find on my own. You're going to have to involve
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a fixer. So maybe like, I don't know,
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we'd be paying or I hear VV met a new fix fixer recently, so one
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of those. OK, that's fine.
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I just, you know, I thought I'd ask.
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Yeah. No, I mean some feelers out.
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I'm not confident about my roles, but I'll give a look.
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Super luxury is difficult for just a regular shopkeep to find.
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That's more of a fixer night market kind of thing, right?
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But if I find out where there was, there is one at the night
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market, I'll I'll, I'll get in and get you a guarantee.
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Like if it shows up at the glass market or whatever, I'll do my
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best, but I'll keep I'll, I'll, I'll get you something.
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I promise. That's my G, my heart.
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What's the What's the other thing you needed?
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The other thing, it's actually 22 fold 1 is that I would like
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to try to find a way to be able to extend the amount of slots
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for chip wear if possible. More fun or a way to be able to
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boost if possible. The second is I am trying to
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find. Like jump, I don't sell
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cyberware. I sell, I sell like you know,
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ammo, guns, attachments. I sell a few cyberware stuff
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like internal guns and I've got a, I've got a cyberware pocket
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somewhere like major cyberware. You'd have to talk to a Med
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tech. All right, then the only other
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thing I'm going to need from you is going to be roughly 100
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rubber bullets, we'll say. Yeah, sure, yeah.
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But I I just need the stick ball variety, you know?
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Yeah, that's not a problem. Let's have a look.
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Rubber. Do you want the slugs or the
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pistols? We're going to we're going to go
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with slugs. Slugs.
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All right, let's have a look at the system Oh yeah, they're
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cheap. I mean you get 10 for 10 eddies
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so. Yeah.
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They're they're, they're in 80 each essentially.
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So, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
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So if I wanted to get 100, that would be about 1000.
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I think so, yeah. Yeah.
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Give me, give me 100. Yeah, you've got it.
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There you go. And he pulls out a big box thing
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you put on the desk, like advertise them.
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He just folds it up and hands it to you.
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Awesome. All right, 100.
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Any other ammo? Any other stuff?
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Have you been firing rockets lately?
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I have fired a few but. Do you need to refill?
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Because I've got rockets in right now if you want one,
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especially after not having two of the things you needed.
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I feel really bad, so I'll give you a deal.
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OK, yeah, give me a zero. I think I can only hold a Max of
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eight. How many you got?
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Let's have a look. Are they smart rockets, armor
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piercing or regular? Oh, I don't have smart.
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Is it in Smart Kate? I guess smart isn't.
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It you'd have to double check. Double check.
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It's on the side there in the menu.
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They are smart. They're smart.
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OK, so they're 500 each and I've got 5.
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Now give me 4. I will.
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I will sell them to you for 450 each.
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What's that? OK then yeah, I'll take, I'll
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take 4 smart rockets. You got it.
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Here you go. They're coming.
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This plexiglass briefcase. It's ridiculous.
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Welcome to waste Looks good. It's aren't they pretty like
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they look like they're suspended in ice, but it's really just
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plastic. I know all right, well, if
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that's all you've got you guys have fun.
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I'm expecting you to go on a heist, but I'll have ammo for
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you if you need it and if you need a delivery, let me know.
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I will charge extra, but I don't mind shipping it over.
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I can drop it off with joy. With joy, well, I mean, you
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don't have to be super excited about it.
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You can just kind of drop it off.
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But I appreciate your enthusiasm.
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No, Jeb, I mean your girlfriend. Where, where?
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Where we. Come on Jeb, we've got to go and
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steal more shit from someone. Abandoned life is never done.
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Night City if you look at a map of North America, somewhere on
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the western edge. You'd see an inky black dot with
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fingers pressing into the side of the continent.
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That's where you find Night City.
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And somewhere in the middle of that inky black dot is a giant
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smoking hole, like the universe itself drew iron and shot
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straight through the city. Radiation turned the sky red.
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But our story starts a little further South, in a dive bar.
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The shortstop. Welcome to Night City and
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welcome to Cyberpunk Edge of Extinction.
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Cyberpunk Red actual play. Watch now at youtube.com slash
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at Infinite Sided Dice catch you later chums.
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You are on the streets. Hell yeah.
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You're driving through the city. Hell yeah, you've.
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Left Clive's behind with your new Casharolo with your new ammo
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and the gear, and you head down Skyline S through South Knight
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City, dipping into the combat zone just.
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And in order to avoid any bullshit, Jeb, you've got to
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roll the driving check. Hell yeah, brother.
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Here, here Burger, OH. You roll a crit and a simple
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roll down your window. You enjoy the the fresh breeze
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of the river as you cross over the bridge and as you're doing
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this rather sit. You put your hand out and as
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your hand is out there in the air it gets hit by a 50 Eddy
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bill. Close your fist.
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I love it when that city gives back.
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How do you keep? Doing that, that's.
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Ridiculous. I don't know to tell you lucky
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as hell. You take the back streets
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through Pacifica, seeing the pug punk roller dub rink in the
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distance. You make your way through the
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back streets and into Rancho Coronado, past Retro's apartment
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building. You can see your building
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manager sitting outside the building on a box, smoking a
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cigarette. Retro and he pays no attention
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to your vehicle whatsoever. He seems pretty chill.
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I give him the peace sign as we go by.
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He looks up and just doesn't fully recognize you as you drive
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too quickly past and then you end up at the UPNS S lot.
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And Dale, where are you? I'm right?
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Here oh. Sorry, my eyes were closed.
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I was. I was just tying my shoe,
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apologies, I only need one nowadays.
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And you arrive outside of of the UPN S lot.
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So are are we meeting Barry or on?
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Are we going in guns blazing or? We're not going in guns blazing,
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We're going to go in, I would say.
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Guns drawn. Corpo Chalant.
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Oh, corpo Chalant, OK, but. Like we be like, we deserve to
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be there. We have a higher status than
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everybody else and they'll just accept that or of authority.
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Oh, we can do that. Iona does it, why can't we?
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I'm going to take a little bit of gel out of my bag and we've
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squirt it into my hand and run it through my hair to kind of
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like make it more severe and slicked back, tuck it behind my
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ears. I'm going to pull the the Super
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Chrome onto like put it on to my side so it is visible and
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tighten up my jacket, button it up, toss my bag in the back seat
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and I'm ready to. Roll Great roll wardrobe in
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style. Sure, I get a + 2 because of the
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gun, wardrobe and style. Oh, +2. 16 in total.
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That's really good. Nice.
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Yes, you have improved your look and now you look even more like
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an intimidating corporate. Great.
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Now as you get out of Vanna White looking through the
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street, the general things you see without rolling perception
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are the front of the South Block building.
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This is where they keep vehicles when they're not delivering
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stuff in between deliveries for breaks, etcetera.
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The drivers don't hang out around here, they go to a local
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like coffee shop or bar. There's no staff area here for
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them. Staff area here for that is for
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the organizational staff and the security staff who take care of
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the vehicles. In front of the building is a
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big glass overhang that has the UPNS logo on it and that
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protects guests from the rain while they're waiting at the
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desk. And you can see that there is a
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woman at the desk window at the front.
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If you want to see anything else, roll perception.
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You also see a vending machine bench, an advertisement for some
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kind of, you know, biotechnical vitamin that you know, does
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nothing whatsoever. As do most vitamins.
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I rolled A20 Perception. Rolled A20 perception.
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You can see that to the north of you there is a parked car and a
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guy who is sleeping on a bench. But with your high perception,
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it doesn't really come across as someone who would normally be
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sleeping on a bench. That's it.
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What? What could you elaborate a
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little bit? Is it?
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Is it the look of the person? Is it?
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He he looks like he doesn't need to sleep on the street, but not
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in a corpo way. He just looks like a the kind
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of. Just an average Joe, but.
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Just an average Joe, and he's just sleeping on.
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Yeah, he. He doesn't look like the kind of
23:55
guy who would normally sleep on a bench.
23:57
He looks dirty, but he looks like he has a home.
23:59
All right, I've got pay. Pay him no mind.
24:02
Really. Should we do this?
24:06
Yeah. Should we?
24:08
Maybe. Lead and I'm just going in and
24:11
I'm asking for our package. Yes.
24:15
Do we all need to go in? That's that's really my only
24:17
question, 'cause I I'm gonna be honest.
24:18
Are we, are we going around the back as a distraction?
24:21
Is that what you're saying, Jeff?
24:23
Oh well, Iona is the distraction.
24:25
That's fantastic. I love that.
24:29
OK. No, I I do need a confirmation
24:33
number. Do we have one?
24:35
Yes, all right. We do.
24:37
Could you send it over so our? Confirmation number For the
24:40
order number I wrote it down. Oh, hold on.
24:44
All right. I pull out a pen.
24:46
Here we are. It's going to be NTRS 00116.
24:56
That's it. That's the order number that I
24:59
got. That's what's so funny.
25:02
NTRS, not ours. I mean, I mean, that's so funny,
25:08
boss. Ha ha, guys laughing Diana's
25:10
joke. Wait.
25:12
Why am I laughing? You're so funny, Boss did.
25:16
You not think it was interesting?
25:18
I I actually thought that was really.
25:19
Funny. Thank you.
25:21
Thank you, Garden Master. Garden Master.
25:30
All right, I'm ready. With the with the back of my
25:34
knuckle, I just tap on the glass.
25:38
She looks up. Hi.
25:41
Hello could you help me? Can I help you?
25:45
I I asked you the same thing. I mean, I guess I can help you.
25:50
OK, I'll take this nice and slow because OK it it seems you seem
25:55
a little tired. I know it is that hour.
25:58
Yeah, I just, we, we sorry, we've been dealing with like a
26:02
clerical error. There's an order and the the the
26:05
person who had the order is really upset and corporate's
26:08
breathing down my leg and sorry for oversharing.
26:11
That's totally I I completely understand.
26:16
And I asked the boys to go and look and they were like, it's on
26:18
break and so I have to wait for them to be done.
26:20
And that breaks like 2 hours. She's just hanging out in the
26:23
back. Well, I mean, they, they are,
26:28
are they union? They are.
26:29
They are supposed to have their break.
26:31
Yeah, I know. I mean, I'm union too.
26:33
And why don't you have your break?
26:35
Where's your break? Well, somebody has the man in
26:37
the window until Dave can take over for my break.
26:41
And where's Dave I? Sleep in the back.
26:44
And then the other boys like Barry and that lot, they're in
26:46
the back lot. Well, I don't know why I'm
26:48
telling you this. You seem nice.
26:50
Thank you. Is is Dave the one asleep on the
26:55
bench out here? I don't know who that guy is.
26:58
I can't even see what you're talking about.
27:00
Oh, I, I just, I back up a little bit and I, oh, that's not
27:03
backwards. This is backwards.
27:05
I back up a little bit and I just kind of like motion to the
27:08
right of me where the benches are.
27:11
Oh yeah, people sleep around here all the time.
27:13
Plus, the vending machine's always full of good shit.
27:15
Oh, do a lot of people steal out of those vending machines?
27:20
Not that one. There's like it's one of the
27:23
good ones because one of the deliveries is done by one of our
27:25
trucks. So all the gangers tend to leave
27:27
it alone because it's usually got some nice shit in it, like,
27:30
you know, bubble tea and other crap.
27:32
That's nice that they're respectful well enough chit chat
27:35
I it's. Like the glass market, but in a
27:37
vending machine. You know what I mean?
27:42
Like a no man's leg. Sorry, I thought it was funny.
27:44
Sorry. I'm really stressed with this
27:45
thing. Like corporate's like really
27:47
angry so. I, I can, I can understand I'm,
27:52
I do and not for me to be pushy or anything, but I, I am here to
27:57
pick up a package that I I see was not deliverable and.
28:01
Oh, oh, sure, yeah. Do you have a an order number?
28:03
I sure do NTRS. Which is very funny because it's
28:08
like, not ours for me, you you, oh you and PS and PS or whatever
28:14
your name is anyway. NTRS 00116.
28:22
Oh, oh, oh, you're the oh, I I was told that the client was I'm
28:27
sorry for assuming because the client's a guy.
28:29
Are you sorry? I didn't realize, Sir, I fuck, I
28:35
I should not have assumed. That's that's really bad.
28:37
And my my manager said that you bought insurance.
28:40
I did. For the yeah, we've had a
28:42
problem with. There was a glitch in the system
28:44
and now we don't know where the package is.
28:46
We know that it right here, we don't have a record of where it
28:49
left. I've been trying to track it
28:51
down and Barry said he'd look, but he's also on his break and
28:56
then and then and of course that was like a few days ago and and
29:02
he never really got to it. And I'm really sorry for Barry's
29:05
behavior. He is a bit of a stickler for
29:07
the rules. And if he doesn't get all of his
29:09
stuff done, he can't do any extra tasks and it is counted as
29:12
an extra task by the union. So we're trying to work out
29:14
where it is. I've been doing my best, but I
29:16
am terrible with computers. I've been trying to do like a
29:18
hacker man thing and I'm just not very good.
29:21
I mean like I I I. So VV the other, you can see
29:26
this person sort of get really nervous and you're looking
29:30
through Vanna White. You recognize this woman.
29:35
She's the one you had a lovely experience with when you asked
29:37
the Maelstrom to leave with. So you gave the the people
29:41
there? The Taser Boy plushie.
29:43
VV walks past Vendel and Retro by Vanna White and just hold on
29:48
guys. I think it it looks like Iona's
29:51
having a rough time in there and I think I know this person.
29:56
You do. Yeah, last time I was here it
29:59
it, it's a long story. Let me see if I can help him
30:04
out. Go for it.
30:07
All right, Vivi, you head underneath this glass awning
30:10
behind Iona, and you recognize the person behind the desk as
30:13
Janice. Hi, Janice.
30:17
Remember Me? Oh, doctor woman, yes.
30:21
Hello, my name is Vivi. Is this is this your order as
30:24
well? You work for the radio station.
30:27
I'm kind of just like a colleague.
30:30
I, I, I love them. Yes, so do.
30:33
You know each. Other Yes, Yes, OK, yes I I know
30:38
this is a whole like complicated mess.
30:41
I heard some of the you know, the story had been.
30:43
Yeah, we just had a massive glitch and like, like the
30:46
computer just like fried. It went green and checkered.
30:48
I swear I saw an eye and then it just went away.
30:50
I think we just got some black bug or a, or a virus or
30:53
something and then like that order and then like the the
30:58
where what van it was put in was all deleted.
31:01
The only thing I'm fairly certain is that it hasn't left
31:03
the lot yet. And Barry said he'd look for it.
31:06
He's in the back. But I'm really sorry.
31:09
And I know that you guys paid for insurance and frankly, like
31:11
if I can't find it, it does come out on my paycheck.
31:13
So I am trying my best. I'm just not a very good hacker.
31:17
So I don't know like what van it ended up in.
31:21
And then obviously once you give me your your valid package
31:26
ticket, I can hand it over because I need that for the for
31:28
the paperwork. The the one that they left on
31:31
the on the door to the radio station.
31:33
And then as it's happening, I'm unzipping my jacket because I
31:36
realize it says Biotechnica on it and hold it up and put it
31:40
across my. OK, roll me some kind of sleight
31:43
of hand or stealth or something. You'll.
31:50
Probably get away with wardrobe and style since it is clothing
31:52
related. Yeah, I think my stealth is
31:55
higher all right. 13 yeah, that passes.
32:04
That's an an everyday task to do that simply and it's easier
32:07
because VV is causing a distraction, which is very
32:11
helpful. Thank you, VV.
32:12
Thank you, VV. You know, we might be able to
32:15
help with that whole. What was it you said was like a
32:17
virus problem? You are like stuff was going up.
32:19
Yeah, the company net runner is on like back order, and even
32:22
though management's shutting down my neck, they won't answer
32:25
me when I ask for like a requisition for a net runner.
32:27
So I'm just kind of fucked. We have a great net runner.
32:31
We have a guy we can we can give him a call.
32:34
He'll be here maybe in like 10-15 minutes and OK, you won't
32:40
even have to worry about that and they'll be so happy when you
32:43
get the problem taking care. OK, do do, do I have to like pay
32:48
you for that service? Don't.
32:49
Even worry about it, look, it just it helps us, it helps us,
32:53
it helps. You know, I it was so nice when
32:58
you came by and no one got hurt. Like I've seen so much like
33:02
violence. Out here, I know it's rough out
33:04
there in Night City. So thanks.
33:07
Yeah, yeah. That that's nice.
33:10
I'm I'm glad that so far it's all been good.
33:12
So we'll we'll help you out here.
33:16
Vendell calls Iona in their earpiece.
33:18
I. Probably could just like plug
33:22
our tile into the computer and fresh could do it remotely if
33:25
you want. Unless you want me to get them
33:27
down here, but I could take some time.
33:29
I could take some time. No, absolutely.
33:31
Hold on. I'm, I'm, I'm speaking with my
33:35
assistant to right, Yeah. Corporate stuff.
33:40
Yeah, go ahead and go ahead and just let them know that we're
33:45
we're going to be connecting. Janice, is it?
33:48
Yes, that's me. Hi.
33:49
So what we're going to be doing just to help you out, would you,
33:54
would you just plug in the tiles so he can access it and he can?
33:57
Oh yeah, but Romy Persuasion, one more time and I'll let you
34:01
in. Sure, absolutely.
34:03
'Cause I mean you, you still haven't shown me your ticket.
34:05
You just told me their number. The one that hmm.
34:09
Let me, Oh my, I don't have my bag.
34:14
Silly of me. I don't have my bag.
34:15
Persuasion 23. All right.
34:17
Well, I mean, if you guys just want to come in, you can.
34:19
And see her push a button and the door opens to the little
34:23
office. They have little waiting area
34:25
and you can step inside. Thank you.
34:27
Thank you. Yeah, I've.
34:29
I must have put it in my bag. And as you can see it, all I
34:32
have is my jacket. Right, yes.
34:35
And maybe your assistant can get it retro, retro, retro while
34:40
they're going inside. How's your forgery?
34:44
My forgeries, OK, OK. We need a we need a pass over
34:50
seat. OK, let me.
34:54
Let me. Wow, that was cool.
34:58
Right. Isn't it fucking cool the way
34:59
the roof is? Is so deep.
35:01
It's so cool. This forehead layer is amazing.
35:05
Let's see if I could just pull something into my ticker tape.
35:13
Forgery 18 You managed to forge a UPNS receipt that as long as
35:20
the person who reads it does not roll over an 18, we'll believe
35:23
it is the package receipt for this package.
35:26
Literally pulled out of my ass. That's very funny.
35:31
And Iona is now inside Vivi. Are you inside as well?
35:38
Yeah, I'll join Iona. Good, right?
35:42
So you're inside, you're sitting on sofas inside of this tiny
35:44
little room. You can see the commuter that
35:46
Janice is using. She relocks the door, assuming
35:49
no one else is going to come in. And then there's a vending
35:52
machine in here and then a door in front of you across from the
35:54
sofa that says staff only. In the roof you can see two
35:59
skylights that look up towards the sky.
36:02
And so it lets in a little bit of natural light as well.
36:06
So meanwhile, nice. Meanwhile, Jeff has disappeared
36:13
from everyone else. Yeah, see, I thought that me and
36:17
Vandel were going to be doing a, you know, going around the back
36:20
type of situation. So.
36:23
Just give me a second. Vandel is headed toward the
36:27
front to hand Janice the package note that has been printed out
36:31
of Retro's ass, and then Vandel goes to walk back to Vandel over
36:37
here. What do?
36:40
You. What do you?
36:41
What do you need? So I thought maybe we would, you
36:44
could, you could kind of like vault me over this wall so we
36:47
can get to their parking lot and then we can kind of go around
36:49
the back and and I guess see if there's any way in or something.
36:54
I don't know. I'm thinking as simple as I go.
36:56
Right. I, I think that I'm going to be
36:58
real. Doing it at this particular spot
37:00
is going to be harder stealth wise.
37:02
We should do it where there's no one around, like on the other
37:04
street around the corner. If.
37:06
There's a guy here and he'll get like, he'll know it.
37:09
Isn't he sleeping? He is, but like that just makes
37:12
the stealth harder in this corner, whereas if you go around
37:14
the corner there's like other. Stuff walks down the sidewalk,
37:17
past some streetlights and some vending machines.
37:21
But on this wall, there's no one.
37:24
There's no parking. There's these two vending
37:27
machines. And as you pass by them, you're
37:29
fairly certain that you'll be able to jump off the bench that
37:33
is in front of you, jump onto the vending machine and clamber
37:35
over the wall. Or you can see further down
37:39
there is a big gate that's locked like a drive through gate
37:42
where all the vehicles go in and out.
37:44
But what am I if not athletic, you know?
37:48
Right. This is going to be an easier DV
37:53
because there's no one around. And I'm going to tell you the
37:55
truth with your 19 you just rolled, you would have failed
37:58
that and woken him up because it was a 21.
38:00
What we what would we have done? Sadness.
38:05
As you jump on top of the wall, though, you see that there are
38:07
two guys sitting on a sofa facing away from you as you're
38:12
on top of the wall and put you right here, right?
38:14
Oh no, no, I'm going to put you right here.
38:16
So you're on top of the wall. Now assume that that position is
38:19
on top of the wall and you can see into the back lot.
38:22
They have not seen you yet, but you will require to roll a
38:25
stealth to know anything else. You are welcome to look around,
38:28
ask about what you see before you do so.
38:30
Stealth 29. They do not see you.
38:33
You get to stay on top of the wall.
38:34
Right now the wall stops at the buildings and if you get to the
38:38
building, you'll be going on the rooftop.
38:42
And So what I'm what, what Jeb sees as he's looking into this
38:46
parking lot is like the a bunch of like delivery trucks.
38:51
You see a bunch of delivery trucks, a few prob, probably
38:54
personal vehicles that are black.
38:56
If you roll perception, I'll let you know what other things you
38:59
can see. 20 yeah, over on the right hand side on top of the
39:05
roof to your right, you can see that the other building that
39:09
Iona is not in has a hatch on the roof.
39:14
OK, find out, find out. Get up here.
39:17
I think we can get in through a hatch on the top of this roof
39:19
over here. OK, I need to roll perception.
39:22
Oh, not perception athletics. Sorry I have to do this.
39:26
Jump let. Me, let me let me move out of
39:28
your way. OK, you're old.
39:31
Really. Well, on Stealth they can't hear
39:32
us Athletics 11. And Bendel falls off the vending
39:36
machine onto the ground in the street.
39:37
Ow. Oh boy.
39:41
Oh. That's four HP damage.
39:43
Ow ow ow ow. I hurt my flesh legs.
39:47
That was my funny. Ball.
39:50
You can hear Bendell complaining over the radio.
39:53
Iona. I didn't roll a crit fail but it
39:57
was just as bad. Yikes.
40:00
I'm going to try again. So jump off the bench, right?
40:07
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bench like this?
40:10
Yeah, bench and then on top of the the vending machine and then
40:13
on top of the the wall. It's my fault, there was some
40:16
really good St. on the side of this and they did it in a 3D way
40:18
and I thought it was an actual box.
40:20
I fucked up. Vendell does a forward cartwheel
40:24
with like a little spin with their hand and lands on top of
40:26
the vending machine, silently rolling 17 Dance.
40:32
I thought athletic was a bad idea.
40:33
Did you like my little dance? It was nausea.
40:36
Thanks. All right, I'm going to roll
40:37
steals and join you on the wall 15.
40:39
Yeah, with your crit success I aroused no suspicion.
40:45
I am the night and and the night.
40:50
Take Take us to the Hatch. Right, so Vendel and yourself
40:55
move on top of the building and you're looking at this hatch.
40:58
To open it silently roll something.
41:00
It doesn't have to be stealth. But it could.
41:02
Be could be. GM, may I interject at this
41:05
point? Yes, you may, while they're
41:07
working on that. So noticing that there's
41:11
probably going to be quite a bit of subterfuge and working around
41:17
that, I would like to know a couple of things.
41:20
First, around the area, is there any kind of digital or smart
41:26
billboard or large advertisement screen?
41:31
Yes, there are. So on the outside of this
41:33
building, you can see these sort of bumps that are in different
41:36
colours. The yellow ones are all
41:38
Biotechnica commercials, the purple ones are all Continental
41:41
brand and the green ones are so built.
41:46
OK, I would like to take control of a pretty large size screen,
41:55
maybe one of. Them.
41:56
There's one right across from Vanna White, there's one right
41:59
behind that yellow bench. You can see a Biotechnica
42:01
branded one. I would like to hack into that
42:05
particular screen and using my agent, stream the ongoing
42:13
stickball match between the vampires and the Bozos.
42:19
OK, sure. Trying to cause a distraction
42:23
for people to come and watch slash, maybe make bets on.
42:28
So maybe this will be a a overall distraction for guards,
42:32
people on breaks, so forth. Sure.
42:34
Yeah, Yeah, you you'd have to roll pretty well for them to
42:37
hear it out here. I boosted through Vanna White's
42:41
My Speakers. Sure.
42:43
Yeah, I can do that. That sounds good.
42:45
That sounds like a plan. So I rolled a land vehicle tech
42:49
for boosting those sound 2 speakers to be able to pull it
42:54
off. All right, yeah, You've rolled
42:58
high enough that one of the guards in the back is confused
43:02
and then heads out as you didn't roll a crit.
43:04
You do. You don't get both, but one
43:06
starts making his way around the lot.
43:10
Actually, no, he goes he doesn't go through the back because
43:12
that's not the shortest distance.
43:15
He doesn't go through the back gate.
43:16
He goes through the building itself.
43:19
So you watch him go through the building Iona, you see this guy
43:23
come through the building and into the room that you're in.
43:27
Nod at Janice. So I'm.
43:28
Going to go and check out what's happening, I said.
43:31
Barry's in the back by the. Way I go that Janice locks the
43:34
door behind him and he comes outside to join you.
43:36
Alright. What's?
43:38
What's going on? I was just watching the the
43:41
booster gangers doing their their their stickball fight.
43:44
Oh shit. Versus the that's.
43:46
Cool. Yeah, man, did you like, did you
43:49
hack? This is way bigger than my like
43:50
pocket screen. Nice, right?
43:52
Didn't be able to watch. Hey, look, you know, we're,
43:55
we're just starting off taking bets.
43:57
Hey, you know what? I'm meant to be working in the
43:59
back, like guarding vehicles and shit.
44:00
But you know what? I'm going to stand here instead
44:02
and smoke a cigarette. Do you want that?
44:04
Sounds good. Yeah, I'll take a cigarette too.
44:06
And so you have now distracted this guy with this stick ball
44:10
game and he's now smoking a cigarette with you.
44:12
On top of the building remains Ben Dell and Jeb.
44:15
They rolled really high on stealth with the 21 and you
44:18
managed to open the Hatch and noticed that there is a man
44:21
sleeping in the room below you. Jeb.
44:25
No, Yeah, the I'm just, I can't see.
44:29
Am I like, is it? Is it?
44:30
Is he the one that's like right next to us?
44:32
There's two catches, one on either side.
44:35
There's one on either side and you can see.
44:38
Yeah, he he's now that you're on top of the building, you can see
44:41
down through a skylight and he's lying on a sofa asleep.
44:44
But right. But the one further away from
44:45
us, The one closer to us. So where?
44:48
Right here. OK.
44:50
Further away, yeah. Underneath you there is no one
44:54
on that sofa, but jumping down from this hatch you can take
44:58
advantage of the sofa as a soft landing and it'll give you a + 1
45:01
to stealth 'cause you rolled so high.
45:04
Yeah, we're gonna do the thing. We're gonna Jeb's gonna do the
45:08
thing that's like, you know, Mission Impossible style, like
45:13
swing in from the, the Hatch in the ceiling and then like spin
45:20
the legs through the arms and then slowly drop down, landing
45:25
like Spider man landing onto the cushion of the sofa below.
45:28
Great roll for it. And then he fights OK.
45:32
Do you have any inspiration 'cause you just wrote a crit
45:35
face? Excuse me, I had inspiration at
45:40
one point. But you know what's fun?
45:44
Failure can be fun. You guys never forget.
45:47
It can be fun, never forget it. That the story.
45:50
If you're OK failing, I'm just asking for you so that you can
45:52
check. I'm not.
45:55
If I do, I'm not going to use it.
45:57
Fair enough, Vendel is still on top of the building but you you
46:03
are inside the building on the ground and you falling with your
46:07
crit fail above 0 attenate does wake this guy in the room who's
46:13
wearing a name badge that says Daniel and he wakes up.
46:19
Hey, Dan. Who the fuck are you?
46:22
Why is the Hatch open? We're just checking to see if
46:27
all the exits are up to code, and I'll tell you that thing
46:32
just popped right open. Phil, Phil, what, 10 feet it.
46:37
I'm gonna tell you if this, if this couch wasn't right
46:39
underneath it, I would have hurt myself.
46:41
Hurt myself bad. Yeah.
46:43
And. If I wasn't in here, you
46:43
probably would have taken damage for that could fail, right?
46:46
Well. I imagine so, but thankfully,
46:49
you know, I got my associate up there and they're going to be.
46:54
This this morning. Just fine.
46:55
Oh well, You think you think we do want to?
46:58
You think that we do a an expansion?
47:00
I don't know man. And he stands up.
47:02
He's taller than you. He is a beefy man.
47:04
Damn. Daniel.
47:06
I don't know man. I don't know man, it's pretty
47:10
sauce. Persuasion.
47:13
This is going to be tough because your crit fails.
47:14
So I'm going to tell you your DV straight out is a 17 on
47:19
persuasion. No, the crit fail means this
47:22
should be hard. A 21 on Persuasion.
47:28
Well, Dan, you know, I don't, I don't know when the last time
47:33
that you met one of the Union inspectors, but we usually come,
47:43
you know, in in these clothes. Like a cowboy.
47:51
Well, not necessarily the the cowboy, just, you know, No, you
47:56
should have. Been.
47:57
Plain, plain you. Literally rolled 1 below what
48:01
you need and this guy obviously doesn't believe you and you see
48:05
him reach for his radio. What do you do, Jeb?
48:10
I'm going to grab them and like put them into a headlock.
48:24
Next time on no latency. I like.
48:29
You. I don't want nothing to happen
48:31
to you. Just go back to sleep.
48:33
Uh Oh, my flash leg. So much good vibes here, you
48:40
know? Vinda, you're supposed to aim
48:42
for the couch You. Get doctors everywhere.
48:44
So push the bangs that are hanging across her face behind
48:48
her ear. There's one or more interfaces
48:50
going on right now. Janice, you are just.
48:52
Audible gasps No. No.
48:54
No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
48:56
The cushions off of the of the couch put it in the couch, they
48:58
put the cushions off. Oh God.
49:00
Freeze. He's about to perform a multiple
49:03
tracheotomy with her gun. What did you call me?
49:06
You shouldn't have said that. Oh, she's about to get surgery?
49:09
Roll on your ass. It's time to die this.
49:11
Is Vendel's very bad? Horrible.
49:13
No. Good day.
49:14
Take the shot, Vendel, OH. Yeah, I don't know if I can hear
49:17
that. I'm all the way outside watching
49:18
a stickball game. All right, so maybe just finish
49:21
off the the mask broken arm, man.
49:23
Perfect. That's the boss.
49:24
That's the boss, yes. He's almost done.
49:26
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