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Hello listener, and welcome to No Latency Season 2 Episode 100.
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And now it's time. Shall we begin?
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Last time on no latency. Stuck in a locker at the moment.
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Doctor Dave is in the room. Stay hidden.
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I don't know what I'm doing. It smells like expired Axe body
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spray in here. As the hood is slipped over his
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head. OK gang, throw him in a locker.
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Write synapse. Yeah, could have been a lot
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easier, but no, you just had to fight back.
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They freeze the dead bodies. Sounds cool.
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Look now in peace, I. Don't know what a gallbladder
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is? I know I don't have a
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gallbladder. The freshest bodies.
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Maybe on a computer or something?
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The ones out here on the tables. We're not in an operating
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theatre. What do you get titties down to?
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Treasure Chair. You're having an arm problem.
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Let's just get to work. First time building a body.
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You want a hand? It's an.
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Opportunity. Don't.
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Worry about it. So with that, we should grab
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some of this equipment so I can get everything ready and we
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should head to the bar. Oh.
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You guys are back. He's.
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Got a body? Cool Several.
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Yes. We have all of the pieces.
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Several, unfortunately. Right, OK.
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Left Really. OK.
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OK, so I guess we better do this thing.
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For us. We have, Yeah, the last pieces
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are here, the body. So is that like a manual to put
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these Lego pieces together or what?
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I need you all to put them all together all the time.
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We're going to need a lot of electricity.
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It's happening. So should we like ride bikes?
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Yeah, we could all we'd get a bunch of hamsters.
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Hear me out. A bunch of.
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Wheels. No.
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OK. Well, I appreciate you at least
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hearing me out. One of the reasons why I
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appreciate you won't do this so quickly is to get in time before
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the storm ends the city. Storm.
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It was a storm earlier, physical storm.
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Actual weather storm yesterday. OK.
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OK. I just didn't know because you
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were like a digital thing. And so never mind, continue.
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The city is protected by lightning Spires.
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All we get is rain and radiation.
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The lightning is harvested by a ignorant.
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In order for the lightning to hit our building, we're going to
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have to take some of that network out.
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Two Spires should do that quite nicely.
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OK, So what? We just go over there, set up
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some explosives and Bing bang kaboom.
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Essentially, yes. All right, Oh well, easy enough
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working. On the bottom here, we'll have
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to send two teams, 1 to sire A and one to sire F.
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So we're we're splitting up kind of doing it 2 at a time, both.
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Spires have to be disabled at the same time for a plant work
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chair. Jacks out, OK.
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Without the siren operation, however, money will be able to
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hit the ground. Where are you fast?
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On your feet. How are we supposed to
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deactivate or or redirect the energy from these Spires?
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While you've been away, Stranger has been very busy building a
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Spire on top of this zooming hey.
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How's it going? I just, oh, it's raining.
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I just finished the Spire on top of the building.
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You could see. You could see the latining over
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the wall, hidden in the desert. Yeah.
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Domino's got this big old plan. I think it's a good idea because
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we cannot, we do not have enough power in this building.
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Oh, oh, OK. Lightning from the sky, you know
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what I mean? I do.
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Quickly into a real human body and hopefully.
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At the same time this chuckle fuck over here.
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I love it. I think it's a great plan and
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should provide us with the power that we need.
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I will say I don't think you answered my question.
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We're just disabling the Spires so that the lightning will be
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attracted to our Spire. Is is that what I'm gathering?
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Yes. Oh, the.
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Next how is going to be hit by lightning will be the Spire with
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all the survey. Perfect.
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And what I'm. Getting So we just need to get
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one giga Joule of energy, really.
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Yes. 30,000 amps. Gigawatts.
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Gigawatts. No, no, don't don't do this
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through electrician. I will come through the
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computer. Well, there's only well, there's
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four of you and one of me. And you got to stay here.
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And I have to stay here so. Dylan, I can go to A and the two
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of you can go to F. OK, so team no fun goes to A and
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chucklefucks go to F Sounds work to me.
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That's not fair to vendor. Wait, you should apologize.
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That's not nice. Which one am I on?
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We're team Chucklefuck. OK, I checked that out.
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Yeah. OK.
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I disparaged us both. I was disparaged as well.
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However you disabled the power is up to you.
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Vendel are are you able to access public public.
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What are those called? The public land surveys for
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blueprints of the Spires. I don't.
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See why not? We could do a library search.
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Sure, I can do that. I know how to read a book.
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All right, I'm checking the garden. 15 The You have nothing
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in library search. You you, you rolled very high
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for having nothing in library search.
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You do a little search in the garden, and you find out three
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things about the Spires. You may ask those questions of
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this data now. Is there a core in the Spire
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that powers the whole thing? Negative fire is a series of
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capacitors all the way up. Is there an emergency shut off
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system? Affirmative at the very top.
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What does the emergency evacuation plan for that
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building? Right.
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Great. Perfect.
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I like that. I think I think those are a
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great question you're. Welcome, here is a related file.
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The other thing you learn is that if you are going to blow
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this thing up, you have to blow it up at the top because it's
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very, very stable at the bottom, right.
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Retro has an idea. So what we could do is we could
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ask Tuna about getting the helicopter so we have some kind
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of flying vehicle of course in. A OK in a storm.
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Yeah, should be able to in a storm to.
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Have to have a really good pilot.
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You're right, we don't have anybody who could be good at.
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Pilots we're not still not very dangerous any stats and any.
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It's still very dangerous. Or we still have, you know,
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electric strikes on it. Either way, we then could, you
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know, on sale helicopter take, I'd say maybe a barrel each of
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rubberizing agent. You know, we can also get from
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tuna because you use that typically for fixing patches and
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tires and such. And if we rubberize the actual
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antenna, then Lightning won't strike it because there's no
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conductivity for that. I'm just gonna you're.
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Going to have to say that one more time.
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Cover it with rubber jab and lightning won't get attracted to
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it. Or cover it on.
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The top of it. Pretty much, yeah.
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GM Note In my wildest dreams, I did not think you were going to
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solve this problem with a giant condom.
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Paris, but. It's so no latency.
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It hurts. I did not.
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I did not think of that. I want to point out this fact.
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You have brought in electricity to an electrician yes, and also
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brought in helicopter to also an ex helicopter tech in the
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military right So. We just got to make sure that
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there's no one innocent inside of the Spires.
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Well, not when we put the condom over the top of it.
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It it'll protect them even. And we don't even have any
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collateral damage because it won't destroy anything.
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We're not. Blowing anything up anymore,
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We're so past that. Yeah, we're not evil much.
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All. Right.
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Well then I guess you're going to have to call Tuna and ask to
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borrow the helicopter. Yeah.
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Helicopter, helicopter. All right.
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Sure. We don't have one here.
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No. We.
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We. We.
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Space. Place.
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Now. Shoot, should we going to call
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tuna or? Is it it's the middle of the
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night all? Right, look, I'll do it.
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Pull out my tile, I'm going to search my contacts and find Tuna
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Riffic. What?
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OK, so make sure you're safe and to the side of the road.
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Are you in a safe area? Yeah, I'm at the.
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I'm at the bar right now. What?
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Is it? Why the fuck are you calling me
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in the middle of the night? Oh well, we need a.
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Yeah. Yeah, we need to borrow the
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helicopter and I need about two barrels of rubberizing agent.
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Yeah, I'm going. To check my stocks one second,
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all guys are two, but I've got 1 barrel of rubberizing agent and
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if you want to borrow my helicopter in the in the in the
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this kind of weather, you're going to have to convince me
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otherwise. What's your insurance like?
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My little laugh should answer your question mate.
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It's about a helicopter. Basically nothing.
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So my vehicles that drive on the ground, Yeah, I got that.
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Oh, Jesus. I'm going to, I'm going to put
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my, I'm sorry, I'm not even going to put my hand.
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I'm going to mute myself on the phone real quick and just one
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second mute. Ayanna.
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How much does a helicopter cost? Well, that thing probably
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between 15 and 35,000 eddies. Is that affordable to us?
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No, the domino maybe I. Mean I got I got some money.
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We'll pay for the helicopter. Jeb says they'll cover the bill
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if anything happens. Roll Persuasion.
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Do I get a bonus because I use Jeb?
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Yeah, I. Play with the DV.
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Your your famousness, Jeb helps us, even helps us now and again,
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Yeah. Definitely.
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Yeah, wardrobe, persuasions and social. 23 Yes, that is enough.
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All right, fine. Here you go.
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I'll I'll I'm not really my place, but here's the I'll I'll
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text you the code to the gate and the barrels in the in the
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storage locker. I've only got 1 so.
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OK. Do you have?
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Any do something with the barrel to two different buildings.
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You could probably only do it to one with the resources.
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Are you? Fair enough.
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Do you have any acidic or base high level base caustic
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chemicals, potentially even waste that you're not using?
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No shit. Only roll the two so I've got
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basically nothing. Sorry mate, end of the month.
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No motor oil to recycle. Motor oil, I mean, yeah, I've
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got a few trays of motor oil and I feel quite like a gallon jug,
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I think. Yeah.
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All right. Yeah, we'll be by in.
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Again, you're going to have to grab that yourself.
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I'm not coming in. It's the middle of the fucking
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nightmate. No, we'll.
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Take what we find all. Right.
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Normal rental fee applies. Yeah, I'm 50.
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Yeah, Jeb's got a cover, I said. Great, awesome.
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I spent my money before I wake up.
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I will let Jeb know. Thanks.
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Bye. Well, all right, so we got at
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least one covered. OK, so what's the plan?
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Well, one Spire we'll take care of pretty easily.
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The other one might be a bit of a terror.
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Honestly, I think that we take the bird, we drop someone off at
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the first Spire to coat the the antenna in.
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Oh, we can. Just dump it on the top right.
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Yeah, sure. And then we fly to the other one
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and use the emergency shut off system, which is also located at
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the top half of the bird. Go home.
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Not a bad idea. You know what it it now makes me
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think for a second, What do we know about how bad storms get in
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Night City? Bad.
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Let me do a roll and see can I do a role to see about what kind
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of phenomena. Go on roll Yeah.
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Mainly because I do also remember at one point that we
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ran into extremely acidic rain. Oh God.
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Education. You read an article about how
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the rain can change your favorite color, and there's a
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there's a content creator going on about how their favorite
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color used to be blue, but now it's red and they don't know
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why. I'm a local expert. 20 You know
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without the lightning Spires that the storm's going to be
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bad. Not only does it keep the
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lightning from hitting anything important, it also reduces the
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ionization in the air, which calms the wind and the storm and
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equalizes the pressure. This is going to create extreme
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pressure waves on the edge of the city near the bar, and being
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outside you will be in danger of being hit by lightning, blown
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over by wind, or get extremely wet.
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Hell yeah, like I'm not already we.
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Could do this from the top down or we could do it from the
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bottom up. We could also like parachute off
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the roof weed. I think we already know how to
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take care of the first one. Second one we could just split
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up again. One from the top, one from the
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bottom near the middle. Whoever finds it shuts off.
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Bob's your uncle. I have.
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I have it. I looked, I looked at the
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blueprints. Oh, it's at the top, at the.
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Blueprints. I I checked the public, the
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public records. They always deny my request for
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it. Why did I?
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Why don't I ever get access to public records?
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I work in a corporate sphere and it is it is far more oh so.
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Corporate privilege. Exactly, exactly.
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God. All right, well, we'll have to
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let's let's, let's start heading over to Tuna so we can get the
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helicopter. By the way, Jeb, you need to pay
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for the helicopter fees to tune up.
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Oh, I mean, how much is that? What 150 IDs?
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Oh well. All right.
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Thanks, Jeff. Appreciate that, I know these
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guys are crazy. Here's a whiskey.
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Oh, oh, thank you. Oh, wow.
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You know what things are? Things are coming up, Jim.
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Jeff, I keep telling you, you need to itemize your, your, your
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bills for these heists so you can get them to be paid back by
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Domino. That's what I have right now.
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I'm on page 72. So there are two Spires, A and
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FF is further out towards the wall, A is closer to you, and by
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taking them both out it leaves a corridor for the storm and the
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lightning to come towards the bar.
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I say we put the condom on A, so then that way it'll be harder
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for them to follow us back from FA is the close one.
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Yes, right. So we're going to go to A, we're
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going to put the condom on A, then we're going to go to F, get
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down, back up because that's the way we like to.
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Down, back, up. Yeah.
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And then blow it up. Blow it up, all right?
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Well, I thought we weren't blowing it up.
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I thought we were just hitting the emergency shut off button.
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That's emergency Plan C. Emergency.
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Honestly, I think that that should be Plan B and we'll blow
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up the building if we need to. Yeah, that's why it's Z the last
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resort. I've got like 20, four other.
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I have like 20 four other plants.
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All right. Bibi's standing there in full
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surgical gear. You, you've got to do your
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thing. I need bullets quite badly.
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I'm. Ready.
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Vivi, you start setting up the body on this table.
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Stranger brings you some cables which they draw down from the
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ceiling. Want to see this?
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Yeah. Obviously it needs a little more
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oath to it, you know, but we're getting there.
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That's what you guys are for. Oh, Vivi, you'll need these and.
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Ping hands you 2 large iron bolts.
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Oh, to go on either side of the head.
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I see the final touches. Final touches.
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Right, and they push a box towards you with all the
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cyberwear in it, and you start to work on the body.
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Your first medical check is now 21.
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Yes, You manage to attach all of the flesh parts to the body, put
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them together and there's a really cool stitch around the
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back of the head that goes around their neck to attach the
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head to the body. There's one that snakes around
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the arm like a snake tattoo that you have attached.
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Finally, the correct right arm and the body is ready.
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You start to prep the body for the other cybertech parts.
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As the crew leaves, you can hear your agent connect to your
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earpiece so that you can be in constant communication while
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they're working. You're going to need to be very
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precise. About this energy when it goes
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into the body, because it can't be all of it, it just needs to
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be enough to transfer the data and bring Domino to skin space.
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Skin space. The Flesh zone, that's what it's
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called. I.
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Forgot. IRL yeah, skin space.
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Skin space. Remember right's positive,
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left's negative. I.
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Know OK you're. Confused.
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Look at your hands. I yes OK, I messed up one time.
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come. Rachel, are you driving this
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bird? No, not me.
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Who's? Got the chip.
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I know one of you on the chip. I have the helicopter chip the
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flight ship. And you have the flight suit
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too. I don't my.
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Old flight suit. Chip chip shit, I I suppose that
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means I'm flying. Well, Jeb does too, right?
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Yeah, what is your? I mean, I can, I can pilot
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stuff. I'm just not very good at
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flying. I mean, like, I'm not especially
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good at flying stuff. You understand you?
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Were to say on a number range on flying between 1 and 20.
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I'd say about 12 Iona. 11 so. Oh well, Elaine.
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Wait a minute, wait a minute. Oops, Jeff, you've got a, you've
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got a chip slot now. Well, yeah, that was kind of not
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my choice, but yeah, I got 1. Is it still heeled over?
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What do? You mean it was?
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It was not your choice. You literally asked for it.
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Right. No, Yeah, you're right.
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I. Forgot.
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I kind of, I went because originally the whole, my whole
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thing was going to be that I didn't really lack cybertech.
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And I yeah. Well, people grow, Jeb, get it?
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Not up. People grow.
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Me included. I grew.
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I grew a slot. Wow.
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Slot is it? Is it?
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Is it skinned over at the moment?
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We feel, yeah. But, you know, just get in there
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with the, you know, there was some pliers and just cut it
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right open to kind of stretch it and.
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I'll stick in something. Could you do that here?
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I can just, I I'm going to pop out my own chip pop.
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Pop, Ben Dale gets out of pocket knife goes to cut your neck,
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Joe. Yeah, stab him goats.
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And Vendel. Vendel calls VB.
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VB. VB.
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Yes, Vendel this. Is a bad time.
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This is a bad time. OK, yes, I'm about to put the
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heart in. OK, well, I know, I know.
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Just I have to make an incision on Jeb's neck to open up his
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chip slots. Do do I?
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Do I can you just can you just look here?
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So dude, do I cut here and here? OK, You see right where the end
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of that little scarring is? Yes.
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Yes, I do. Right here, Right there, very
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gently. You don't have to apply a lot of
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pressure, Vendel. OK, minimal pressure.
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It should open right up. OK, OK, I'm going to.
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I'm going to try that. VB roll me something to give
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Vendel a bonus, then can we have Vendel roll something?
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Yes, 1 moment, because we're moving slowly and carefully and
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gently. We're just going to roll
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stealth. Nice 15, yes, that is enough.
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And with that 18, it is done perfectly, with almost no blood,
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just the tiniest little bit of drop on Jeb's collar.
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Jeb, it doesn't even hurt. It's kind of tickles.
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Oh, look at it actually kind of itches back there.
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You've been doing that again. Oh, yeah, we don't do that
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again. It's just like, get it, get in
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there all. Right.
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Good job then, Dell. Starts to scratch the back of
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your head into your hair. Oh, it's really nice if you.
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Don't mind, I'm going to hang up now because I'm very busy.
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Oh. Good.
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Roll a surgery check to put the heart in 17.
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You do so wonderfully, yes. You hang up, Yes.
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It's all coming together. I I think this is really getting
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to Phoebe guys. After Phoebe, it's hung up.
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They're living their dream. Come on.
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What doctors never wanted to have a mad scientist moment.
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It's a phase. It'll pass.
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I remember when I had my mad doctor phase.
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Oh boy. And you insert the chip into
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Jeb's neck and now he gets plus 4 + 4 to fly air vehicle which
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is going to need in this storm 4.
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Yep, 4. Sick retro.
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You grab this this barrel of rubber fluid.
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It is 7/8 full so it's just enough to cover the top half of
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one of these buildings. Just if you mess up, you only
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get one shot. OK, before you take off, I'm
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going to make sure that on the undercarriage we have a we have
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already set clipped in our ties to be able to dangle this thing
26:44
off. Air vehicle tech, Yes, You
26:46
accomplish the thing you want very easily.
26:48
Yeah. And now with a little Jerry
26:51
rigged thing you've set up, pouring this out the side of the
26:54
vehicle is as easy as pulling a lever, which means it doesn't
26:57
require strength anymore to do so Someone other than you can do
27:00
this. Wonderful.
27:02
That's going to be good because. It's a really high roll, so
27:04
you've just made a nice thing that's got a nice ratio out of
27:06
some scrap. I'm going to say though because
27:09
it's not a crit but it still costs 25 scrap.
27:14
OK. Wow, retro.
27:15
That's that's really cool. I like the motion.
27:18
Yeah, all just physics. Nice.
27:20
Pendulum make sure that you know it's going to stay upright once
27:24
the heavy swing goes through, so it won't just, you know, spill
27:27
right off the bat. They'll make sure that it's when
27:29
it's right hanging, dangling beneath.
27:31
You know, we'll be good. Won't have as much splatter as
27:34
well, although whoever ends up does, whoever spilling it, I
27:39
might get a little bit, maybe a lot amazing on them, but you
27:44
know, that's fine and I'm going to make sure I have on my pink
27:48
rain jacket on. Does anyone else do anything as
27:51
Jeb ascends the vehicle? Yeah, I turn on the radio to
27:55
Danger Zone. Nice making sure that we're
28:01
we're clipped in you. You noticed he's been so excited
28:06
about the barrel thing. They have not done their seat
28:07
belt exactly and they're in like a toddler.
28:11
Thanks. Tracy, I'm going to add your
28:16
token to this so you can see what's happening because you're
28:17
watching through a video. Oh yeah.
28:20
But we like the multitasker. You've got a little video feed
28:23
up as you do this surgery, as you stitch this body together.
28:26
I occasionally glance over to see how the rest of them are
28:29
doing as I work on my specimen. You can you can hear how
28:33
affected VV is. They're now wearing huge goggles
28:37
on their forehead. As you can see, the specimen has
28:41
been slowly pieced together, the heart now inserted.
28:46
Next, we make sure that it properly is attaching to the
28:51
rest of the body, and we look to the head, the brain, the most
28:57
important function, the. Stranger brings you a data
29:00
cable. Here you go.
29:03
Am I doing this? Limp rot Is this?
29:05
Is this how you want it? Thank you, my fine assistant.
29:10
That's right, my my master. Exactly.
29:14
That's a good one. Yes, that's exactly how you say
29:16
it. That's right, Doctor, you got
29:18
this. I'm.
29:20
Just going to lean over to Jeb and I'm like, I'm actually so
29:22
jealous right now. I didn't have my own assistant
29:24
when I went to my phase. So like, I feel so happy for him
29:28
right now. Damn it.
29:31
He's. Real.
29:32
Ascend, please, Jeb. Yes, let's put Operation
29:37
Raincoat into effect. All right, everybody hold on to
29:42
their butts. Oh yeah, I hit it.
29:49
You start up you start up the the helicopter plate vehicle and
29:53
it starts to hover off the ground roll drive air vehicle.
30:01
Air Vehicle. Roll Pilot Air vehicle 21 Yes.
30:05
You ascend into the air. The rain starts to batter the
30:08
sides of the vehicle and you can feel the wind swaying it.
30:12
With a little bit of work you managed to counterbalance this
30:16
and you head towards your first target, Spire A.
30:22
Here. We go, Jeff.
30:23
You're really, Yeah, you're really excited about it, the way
30:27
that this is fine. Oh damn.
30:29
Listen. Handles like a God damn well.
30:36
No sort of handles really well. It handles like a helicopter
30:40
that's been helicoptered. Yeah, it handles as well as UD
30:46
90A. I think this is the model,
30:48
right? Sure, whatever.
30:53
It's a valid prototype all. Right.
30:55
You're flying above the top of this tower, the very, very top.
30:57
There's not a lot of space up here.
30:59
It's 25 feet by about 15 feet wide.
31:04
There's a hatch on the top and then a long tower which casts a
31:07
shadow over the rest of the building.
31:09
There are three large Transformers which can connect
31:12
into the capacity storage and the rest of this Spire.
31:15
It's a very, very tippy top. This tall thin, razor like
31:19
building in the sky of this city all.
31:23
Right Jeff, make sure you put it into hover mode and let's get
31:25
like as close as we can to the tip, the tip of the Spire
31:30
without, you know running into it all right.
31:33
We definitely want to make sure we're above it, not next to it
31:36
just just above it. You know, I just.
31:38
Thought of something so so I'm not going to be able to help out
31:43
with this whole thing because I'm driving huh you're.
31:45
Piloting. Yeah, the.
31:46
Wind stuff and hit the vehicle. Roll pilot a vehicle.
31:49
Oh boy. All right, here we go.
31:51
Let's do this like and try to get real close right in there on
31:54
top. 18 We do get drifted slow. Hold on.
32:01
Here we go. Come on.
32:03
No, I know how slow it feels. But it's OK, OK.
32:08
Oh, let's see here. From what I can see right now,
32:13
are we close enough to pour the barrel on top of the conductive
32:19
part of the Spire? Yes, Jeb has to back up a little
32:24
bit, but you also need to prep the barrel, all right?
32:27
I will proceed to prep the barrel, making sure also that
32:32
I'm tied off at least to the floor of the helicopter.
32:37
Cool. Roll for it.
32:38
Jeb hovers the helicopter towards the very tip of this
32:43
Spire, and you can see it below you, these three points pointing
32:47
into the sky. You aim the edge of the barrel
32:50
as it sways left and right and get ready to pull the leather.
32:57
Yeah, I'm just, you know, taking AD clip connected to some nylon
33:02
rope and cinched it around my waist and then clipped the other
33:08
opposite end of the D ring to the belt loop in my pants.
33:15
Roll for it. I did.
33:17
Their vehicle Tech 24 yes, you start pouring this rubber over
33:21
the top and the wind is blowing. You're pouring a liquid that's
33:26
fairly discus over this thing and the wind is blowing all
33:33
right. You had there is 1/8 left of
33:38
this stuff in the barrel. So you did pretty well.
33:41
You didn't have to use it all. It's not enough to cover another
33:43
building, but you could use it I suppose to cover some stuff.
33:47
The on me. Roll Evasion.
33:52
Can we just say I failed? Because I think it'd be really
33:54
funny if I failed. Oh, if you.
33:56
Yeah, you can willingly fail, actually.
33:58
Oh. Yeah.
33:59
Should I roll? Roll.
34:00
Yeah. Roll.
34:01
Roll to see because you want it. So let's roll to see if you
34:04
where is it. OK, 16 with the wind blowing,
34:12
it's genuinely not enough because it's blowing.
34:16
I'm saying that that's a professional task, and that is
34:18
unfortunately a 17. So the barrel's cracked a little
34:21
bit and a bunch of it goes all over your legs.
34:24
It's a spattering of it though, just over your front.
34:27
Wind gust splash splashes some of the last bit on me but now my
34:32
face is completely covered. So now I need somebody to help
34:35
get it off of my face or otherwise I'm blind.
34:38
Fair enough. Yeah, so Retro turns around
34:41
towards you Iona, and there's just a big square of rubber in
34:44
the middle of the screen. You.
34:45
Can't see it's best. How did you even?
34:55
I'm trying to kick it off with my nerves as it can I knock it
34:58
off? Iona, it's a peel.
35:01
It's. Whoa, use my fingernail to peel
35:05
the the left corner. Both.
35:10
Hands each the little former. Vandell put positions the camera
35:18
up for BB2. Oh oh, roll for it.
35:26
Roll to get a perfect peel. Don't mess it up, Iona.
35:33
You're almost there, don't RIP the corner, sorry.
35:42
Careful. Come on.
35:47
Go. Make a decision soon, otherwise
35:54
you'll RIP it. The wind's blowing.
35:56
Yeah, we don't have a bureaucracy.
35:57
You know what? The esthetician in me, it's my
36:01
knees. Personal grooming, that's.
36:04
Perfect Oh, crit success, crit success.
36:08
So you get two things from this Iona you get two things. 1 you
36:12
get a perfect rectangle, a fairly solid rubber.
36:17
Which you can. Use as a pad to stand on.
36:20
It's like a standing mat for people who work in retail.
36:23
I love it. But it also on one side is a
36:27
reverse impression of Retro's face.
36:29
Rubber. Retro face got it.
36:34
And both Retro and Iona get inspiration because that's
36:37
that's a really cool thing that happened with that object I.
36:40
Mean retro just gets the feel of what's the term for it, that
36:45
good sense of accomplishment when you get the perfect peel
36:50
you. Feel directly and your screen is
36:53
so clean. It's crazy how clean you've got.
36:56
Like really, you can see really well.
36:58
Help clear out the air vents as well.
37:00
Got a lot of that gunk out. Just Jeb.
37:04
You see this in the rear view mirror.
37:06
Damn. You watch as this happens.
37:09
You watch the rubber pour around the building below you the the
37:16
windows on the sides cover. You examine the building before
37:20
it gets completely covered with this black shiny lacquer that's
37:24
getting battered by the brain. It solidifies fairly quickly.
37:28
There are a few holes in it. There is a small chance that
37:31
this tower won't do what you want, but that's a quick fail
37:35
situation at this point. The tower has been covered.
37:38
The storm is getting closer. You don't have much time to
37:42
disable the other spider. All right, well, you Jimmy this
37:46
tower, let's move on to the next.
37:48
Fly faster, Jeb. OK, OK, I'm on it.
37:51
Jeez. Yeah.
37:53
Put a money shot on it. 19 You narrowly dodge a piece of debris
37:58
that's flying in the wind. As the wind has picked up, it's
38:02
in the excess of 75 miles an hour right now.
38:04
It's actually pretty dangerous to be flying this in the sky.
38:07
This area is fairly open, but as you get closer and closer to the
38:11
last Spire, which is between a few buildings, you're going to
38:13
have to roll pretty high if you don't want to damage this
38:16
vehicle. All right, here we go.
38:17
The. Safe option would be to land at
38:19
the bottom and make your way up. But we ain't safe, so here we
38:24
go. Hold on to your bus again.
38:28
That ain't bad. 24 Amazing. Yes, you make your way all the
38:34
way through the city. As you pass by a few buildings,
38:39
you dodge a digital billboard that isn't solid, but it does
38:45
scare you a little bit. It's an advertisement for a kid
38:47
or brand. Oh.
38:49
Holy shit. As you're making a way to this
38:53
next location, you can see you can hear Vivi on her end of the
38:57
call start to attach a few more pieces of cyberwear.
39:02
The arms, the brains in the head now and the reinforcements for
39:06
the legs. We've.
39:07
Selected parts from different bodies and cyberware to make
39:14
sure that everything goes perfectly together to build this
39:18
specimen. Seems like it's all coming
39:23
together. Just a few more bits here and we
39:27
will be complete. Oh man, I can't wait.
39:30
I mean. They're really starting to get
39:32
their filling model locked down really good.
39:35
There's a static build up in the city right now with all of the
39:39
stuff you're wearing. BB.
39:41
The static is built up on you a little bit.
39:43
Your hair is now standing up on it.
39:45
The. Storm brews outside.
39:50
It is almost time. So you're you need to roll
39:57
surgery. Yeah, I.
40:02
Do 15 Yes. Domino doesn't get any bonuses
40:04
from this, but you install these various pieces of cyberwear on
40:09
his body and Stranger comes up to you with a very, very thick
40:14
cable. All right, so this is the Duffy.
40:19
This is the data cable. I guess the data cable.
40:26
It. Looks like a Bratwurst.
40:28
It's thick like a big old salon. It's like it's a huge cable.
40:33
It's he hands you the adapter which is going to be an absolute
40:36
nightmare to balance. You're going to have to find a
40:38
way to stop this from pulling out of this adapter while the
40:40
date is happening as well. That's all we got, Doc.
40:44
Sorry, I mean master. Assistant, are you able to hold
40:49
this while we transfer it all? Yeah, I got 2 hands would.
40:56
That be able to hold it. So it's like basically the way?
41:04
Or do you think there might be like, does it seem like I need
41:07
something else to like make sure it's all good?
41:11
This judgement is more based on whether you can rely on stranger
41:14
to do this. That's a good point.
41:18
That's really the thing that you're going for.
41:20
You could you could like examine him visually to see if he is
41:24
high or drunk which would have an effect on this.
41:29
Yes stranger, let me take a look at you and make sure you are
41:31
physically fit to. Bad enough I put this pillow in
41:37
the back of my jacket to give me a hump.
41:40
Why did you ask me to do that? It adds to the preparation for
41:46
the character. Hey, stop.
41:48
Taking our photo This is not the time I.
41:52
Just know funny we need full recordings of this pretend you
41:56
can't see. It your left eye?
41:57
Yeah. Scrunch.
41:58
Your face like that? Yeah.
42:00
Yeah, just like that. That's great.
42:01
I'm going. To I'm going to send this to
42:02
your black and white. TV bye perfect now.
42:10
Now let me take a look on. Perception.
42:12
Anything medical do you? Yes. 13 Yeah.
42:16
He doesn't smell drunk, he doesn't seem drunk, and he looks
42:22
at you and unscrunches his eye. I haven't.
42:25
Taken any kitten cash today. You guys said it was important.
42:30
I've stopped being high at about 1:00 AM so I'm.
42:34
Glad that you came prepared for this.
42:37
You know, I, I, I while we were talking, I rolled the dice and I
42:40
rolled boat. So I did not take drugs, all
42:43
right. Well, my assistant, you're going
42:46
to have to hold this while the transfer begins, yes.
42:51
So do you have the stamina to keep holding on to this for a
42:55
long period of time? You need an energy drink or
43:00
something to just keep you going.
43:02
I mean, if you think that your if your medical opinion is that
43:05
I need an energy drink, then I. Will have an energy drink
43:08
please. Pam take.
43:09
That thank you very much. Yes, perhaps just a little
43:15
stimulation to make sure that for the brain.
43:21
Ping make me a a lightning nipple.
43:26
With no alcohol. Please ping.
43:27
Thank you. All right, I think that I can
43:34
land this thing on the top of the Spire as long as it's as
43:37
long as I can get it just right there, perfectly placed and then
43:41
I think I can join you guys. Jeb roll pilot air vehicle
43:46
twice. Snapple.
43:52
Snapple. Yeah, You make the journey
43:53
beautifully. You arrive on the top and you
43:56
park it on the top of this Spire right there.
44:02
There's enough space to get out. There's enough space to see the
44:04
tip of the Spire. The wind has picked up.
44:06
It is now going very, very fast to the east.
44:11
All right. Come on.
44:14
Just just probably. 100 miles an hour.
44:16
It's getting more and more dangerous to fly the vehicle.
44:18
It might not be a good idea to fly it out of here.
44:20
You can you actually see it like buckle towards the east a little
44:22
bit? And really wants us to go down
44:26
his nappy man land. Landed and we can.
44:28
We can get down. What did you say, Iona?
44:32
I I was saying we should just land it and walk down.
44:38
OK. Where's the fun in that?
44:42
You notice that the wind picks up and the helicopter starts to
44:46
tilt more as you step out of it. Oh God, we're going to have to
44:50
pay 150 thousand 80s. We're going to be deep shit.
44:54
What? Do you mean we?
44:56
Fuck it, I've only got like 5 grand.
44:58
We're going to be 145 grand in the hole if this thing goes
45:02
down. Keep hearing we.
45:05
We should guys, if we if we want to make sure we don't ruin the
45:08
helicopter, we should hit the autopilot home button.
45:12
It's. Oh my God, has an autopilot this
45:15
whole time? Well.
45:17
It's able to fly itself home, hopefully.
45:21
Oh God, slam the button. Let's get out of here.
45:23
All right. I'm going to slam it and I'm
45:25
going to jump off and then land with a cool and like throw my
45:30
the the my duster behind me. So I land like Batman all.
45:33
Right. Roll, roll, roll.
45:35
Athletics. To do that in a cool way.
45:37
Athletics 17. Amazing.
45:39
Yes, you look incredibly cool as the vehicle twists against the
45:43
wind and flies away. It doesn't do this gracefully.
45:47
The wind is blowing pretty hard. The only thing you really see is
45:51
the depth of the clouds change as the rain starts to buffet
45:55
against you at the top of this Spire.
45:58
Oh, hold a 7. It looks like the helicopter is
46:02
going to make it back, but just thank God you're now standing on
46:08
the top of the electric lighting company's Spire.
46:13
F. All right, well, I'm going to be
46:16
honest, the the first Spire kind of went real well, so I can't
46:23
imagine this one's going to go very smooth.
46:25
All right, let's go ahead and open that hatch.
46:29
Is it, is it unlocked? I imagine that there is a safety
46:33
mechanism so that people can't do what we're doing.
46:36
You could always knock What? Hello all.
46:40
Right, Go and bust that shit open.
46:42
Try and bust it open. It is locked.
46:43
How is it locked? With a double bolt, a lock that
46:46
goes left and right, a. Double bolt, so we just need to
46:49
pull the bolts. Yeah, it's mechanical.
46:51
It is locked though, all right. Jed, you get 1 bolt, I'll get
46:54
the other bolt. Just pull.
46:57
All right? Rob rolling Don't get a Charlie
47:01
horse. 21 Very good retro 23 Yes, you snap either of these
47:08
and you now have two pieces of scrap.
47:12
The Hatch can be opened down the.
47:15
Hatch. There we go.
47:27
Next time on no latency. What the hell am I looking at,
47:34
Jeb? Just in case you're feeling
47:36
stupid today, don't touch anything you'll.
47:38
See the lightning before you hear the Thunder make.
47:40
Sure, you come back on One Piece Retro.
47:41
I don't have to put you back together as well.
47:43
Wasn't your hump on the other side?
47:44
I don't. Understand it?
47:45
God damn thing is. This the emergency shut off.
47:49
Soon it will all be done. Yes, we're supposed to just let
47:52
it happen. We've all.
47:53
Been waiting for it OK for. Now we will continue How are we?
47:56
Getting down unless. Someone has a better plan?
47:58
I'm about to go to plan Z. Same.
48:00
As my companions are can. You remember what Plan Z was
48:03
slowly. Putting everything together an.
48:05
Explosion I. Imagine that's where the shut
48:07
off button is. I don't even.
48:08
Notice you did a breach and clear.
48:10
Jesus Christ, it was so clean. God no, I feel.
48:13
It I feel the storm incoming. They won't be able to operate
48:18
heavy machinery so got to move. Oh fuck, building is on fire.
48:22
Shit, it was. Supposed to everything was was
48:25
perfectly calculated. It was all supposed to go so
48:28
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