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  podcast description. And now on with the show.
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  Last time on no latency. I was going to say, what's that
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  supposed to mean? But actually in this case, yeah.
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  Do you still think he's hot, Vivi?
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  I don't know how to answer that question.
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  That itself is the answer. Fine back here.
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  Whoa. Right, let's head into jail.
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  Yeah, let's. A sudden nympho.
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  Doctor Glass. Who the hell is Doctor Glass?
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  Just a guy. That's a.
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  Clone. The clone works at a hot dog
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  stand. Yeah, Anyway, in in my ear.
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  What were you saying? I.
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  Don't know what Maelstrom is doing with all these guys.
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  Vivi, what you just told me is not a clone.
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  Don't look do good. Don't think he's going to be
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  much harm to anyone. Is thus a mutant.
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  That's. Why the other guy died do.
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  Not show him that give. Him a peaceful out if he wants
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  it, I. Could, yes.
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  Not until we transfer his debt to us.
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  Hey, Iona. Damn.
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  Do you have anybody fuel bite? I don't have any on me, but
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  there are some back at the lab. I mean, we do have some.
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  Oh that is true. Domino is made of body fuel
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  bite. As is a germ.
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  Wait, wait. Made of.
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  It's not important right now, Germ.
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  I, I don't have time to explain. You could feed a little bit of
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  Domino to this person feed, that's the option.
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  Or we could go back to the lab. Well, I guess we don't really
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  have a choice right now. This guy, the clone guy, he
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  could be saved if we give it to him.
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  So I think we should help. Hey buddy, I'm going to help
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  you. So I don't see my blind.
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  I take the blindfold off. Oh God.
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  Hi, I'm I'm I'm a doctor and I'm here to help.
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  And he looks at you from the ground with awe.
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  Behind you, near the door, the fluorescent light is causing a
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  Halo effect around you and you see him well up with tears as he
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  looks you in your face. My guardian Angel, you're not a
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  male. Strip.
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  Wait, are we going to live? You are going to live, Yes.
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  What? Yes.
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  You're just going to stitch me up, doc.
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  Yes, it's a little bit of a complicated process, but it's
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  OK. It will be quick and you will be
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  able to be on your way and go back to your hot dog stand for.
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  Your non citizen? Oh fuck, what the fuck is that?
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  This is Domino and he's just going to feed you a little
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  something. Is he it?
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  Maelstrom is that. No.
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  Not no thank you fee fee. The maelstrom their kaput.
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  Kaput. Yeah, they're gone.
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  Oh no, where'd they go? Oh, Oh, no, wait, are you like a
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  sympathizer? No, I was just being sarcastic.
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  I don't know, I'm under a lot of stress.
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  All right, fair enough. They're all dead.
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  Oh fuck. They're all dead, said the
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  executive as his head pops up. Yeah, and oh, wouldn't it be
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  interesting, buddy, if, you know, just saying us, my, me and
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  my chums. What if we didn't want to let
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  you go? Maybe, maybe you give us a
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  couple. You relax.
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  You were like you Mr. Exec me. You know, that biotechnical
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  story was a nice story, OK, but I think we're not going to let
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  you go. OK, shit.
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  Well, it's not like. You, you don't even know who I
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  am so. I think I know.
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  Oh. God, Mark Ziger.
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  DV touch a cigar. Yeah.
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  Mark. Mark Ziger.
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  Fuck. Oh, oh.
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  What is his position at Biotechnica?
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  He's. Middle management.
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  His is in office there. Phoebe, if you really want to
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  get under his skin, telling me doesn't have the bureaucracy
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  skills to get him out of middle management.
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  What's it like to be the middle management at Biotechnica, Mark?
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  Oh, fuck. I don't know if you're going to
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  be able to get out of there and move up the latter I.
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  Think. Cool.
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  Plus reputation plus 1D10. Oh, I did not roll well.
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  I forgot it's VB helps people. That's my reputation.
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  That's what I wrote. Right, so you rolled A15I rolled
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  dice on the table. He has a base of 10 for this
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  this cool and his reputation, but he did roll a three.
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  So he rolls under you and is now incredibly intimidated.
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  Every role you have against this guy for the rest of this
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  encounter is minus. One now, Mark, I think before me
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  and my chums let you go, Maybe you pay, pay up that ransom
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  money you were talking about. Yeah, I think, I think we'll be
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  taking it. OK.
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  I mean, you know, they say that having a a.
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  A chairman. In, in, in, in in the corporate
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  sector is like useful. Yeah, well, I might know a
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  couple. Oh, OK.
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  But it's not you. Well, this.
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  Problem is I can't pay all of my debt.
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  Can I just give you the money I have?
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  How much you got? 2000.
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  Well, human perception. What is he O?
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  Role local expert to find out Iona.
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  Got it, got it, got it. Got.
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  It. Human Perception 12 You believe
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  him? Yes, yes, I'm going to see if
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  Iona. I'm trying to find can whisper
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  in my ear. She happens.
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  She's like, no, I. Think on Roll 20.
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  You're local. Yeah, there.
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  You go. I got it.
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  Yeah. 17 he owes $4000 you. Guys, take it. 2000 eddies, huh?
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  See if you can squeeze anymore out of him, but honestly take it
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  and cut him loose, yeah. Yeah, I think you're right.
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  Well, I mean, look, I could just, I could see your, your arm
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  looks like it is partially fractured from being tied up
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  like this. You know, I could just take the
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  arm and turn that into a full break.
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  What that would that would take at least 8 to 12 weeks.
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  Jesus Christ. That would take at least 8 to 12
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  weeks to recover, as opposed to the four to six weeks of the
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  fracture. Well, I mean, I, I, I have
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  biotechnical insurance, they pay 30%.
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  Well, it's your funeral. And I walk toward his arm.
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  Roll persuasion, he gets a negative, but roll persuasion
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  it's. Just such a pass I don't have.
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  This this is so good. This is.
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  OK. All right, he has.
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  All right, so it's this +8. Yeah, this +8.
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  Gosh. He rolled a.
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  Flat 0. OK, OK, OK.
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  Look, I owe 4000, I told this but I don't have it.
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  I've only got like 2500 in my account so you can just fucking
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  have it. All right, send me the 2500.
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  OK, I won't forget this, you know.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get out of here.
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  OK, he fucking hobbles out. Can you?
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  Not to be like me. You're a doctor.
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  I hurt. I toss him a an air hypo with a
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  stem in it. Fuck.
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  He gives him 1D6 health, he injects it into his arm, he
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  threw it. He gives him 2 HP.
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  That's so pathetic. So like, what's that worth it?
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  He throws the hypo on the ground after transferring you 2 1/2
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  grand. Was it worth it?
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  Iona as the guy. The guy is moving past Vanna
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  White. If you want him to not see you,
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  you have to roll stealth and so does Mendel all.
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  Right can. Do.
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  Oh no. He locks eyes with you in the
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  van and gives you a weird look and you turn to look for Vendel
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  and Vendel is hiding. Why are you not hiding?
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  He saw you. Yes, he did.
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  What what is what is his last name again?
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  Bendel. Zeiger.
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  Zeiger. All right, I'm.
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  I'm putting this in my tile right now.
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  If anything comes up with him through e-mail, through any
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  notification, through work, we are immediately going after him.
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  OK. He didn't see me though, so
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  let's remember that. Good, good.
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  I'll, I'll write that down in my notebook of, of things that I'd
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  notice while we're out on missions.
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  That's a good plan. Old players should do that.
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  The GM that makes the GM really happy.
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  I don't really have a notebook. It's a sticky note that I found
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  in my my bag. Don't, don't tell, don't tell
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  the GM that. Let him think that you have a
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  dedicated notebook for the game that you love and play.
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  Fuck me, don't share me the post kit.
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  That's the worst. It'll it'll go in the notebook
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  which I do have. Wait, you guys.
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  Might use a Word document. Iona after after failing to hide
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  from this, we're going back to VV over this tied up math.
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  Hello, Sir. OK.
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  Now just go ahead and Domino, can you actually how?
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  Yeah. Possibly the combat.
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  Knife. Oh, oh, sure.
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  Yeah, I wasn't going to use it. Thank you.
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  He doesn't have flesh hands, so Domino undoes a bit of a shirt,
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  revealing his strong seek underneath.
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  Cuts a line on his left Peck, collecting the blood on the side
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  of the blade. How?
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  Much does it need the baby? He honestly just like just a
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  little vial's worth is probably fine.
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  May I have a vial? Yes, here you go.
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  Thank. You.
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  And he drips some blood into a vial, filling it to, you know, a
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  few millilitres of blood. And he hands it back to you.
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  Thank you. Do you need and I have a gauze
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  like bandage for the cut? No.
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  Need to be there. Draws the blood across on one of
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  his cybernetic fingers and licks it and the wound heals in front
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  of you. Tis what a flesh wound.
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  Yep, OK. What the fuck?
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  Now listen, please don't be alarmed.
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  I'm going to need you to drink this now.
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  Can I? Can I ask your name?
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  My name. Yes.
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  I'm. Arthur, Arthur, Arthur, you
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  there's no real easy way to put this You were part of a tragic
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  experiment. What you are OK, however,
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  however, there you may feel a bit different because as part of
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  this experiment, which by the way I wasn't involved in, but I
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  did find somebody else during my studies that had this happen to
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  them. So that's how I know how to take
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  care of you and cure you and everything like that.
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  Will I get better? You will you will get better in
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  some ways. But Jeb, can you, can you just
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  grab me like a mirror? I think there was 1.
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  Jeb, you're standing right next to a mirror.
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  There is a sink in this room and a mirror to your left.
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  Yeah, hold on one SEC off the wall.
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  I'll, I'll just hold it for you. I'll be like a yeah, right.
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  Is is. This now, Yes, that's good.
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  This may be alarming. You have not tilted the mirror
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  towards him yet. Jeb, you're waiting for VB
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  Signal. Yes.
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  But as part of this, this process, it was a gene splicing
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  kind of process, your body was altered to look like somebody
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  else. So you do not look like yourself
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  anymore. OK.
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  But you are still conscious. Your consciousness is still
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  yourself. So I'm going to show you now
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  what you look like. Jeb, can you just move the
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  mirror? Yeah.
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  Whoa, whoa, whoa. He's still turned up, so he's
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  trying to like, move around. Wait.
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  No, I have hair, yes. I'm not sure if this is like a
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  good reaction or a bad reaction. Well, I'm not being funny, but I
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  was just a guy who sold hot dogs.
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  I wasn't exactly like a spring chicken.
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  Yeah. What the fuck?
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  Big. Nose.
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  Who is this guy? He was all reversible, right?
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  I could go back to being me. I don't know if I if I give him
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  this, it's not going to revert him back.
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  He'll forever be this. Unfortunately, no.
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  You are forever changed. Oh, is it a bad face?
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  No, it, it, I think it's a great face, I think.
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  He'll give my job back. No one's going to recognize me.
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  I've got no money. I can't get into my bank account
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  because I'm assuming I don't have my original fingerprints.
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  Well. That's a lot of problems that I
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  can't help with because I'm a doctor.
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  It's not as if you had some money give.
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  Him, give him the money. Give him the money we just
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  extorted from Mark Tiger. Here, Sir.
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  Do you give him the full 2500? You don't have to.
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  I'll give him 2000. Fair. 500 is my medical bill.
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  He is. Still tied up though and you
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  have not cured him so he is still going to die at this
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  current point. Phoebe.
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  Yes. How much does facial
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  reconstruction cost? Oh.
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  How much would that cost? It's probably expensive.
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  The cheap one is 1000 Eddies corporate level ones like seven
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  1750. If you want a street doc to take
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  care of it and might not be the best, 1000.
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  If you want like the good, good. If you like 7000.
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  Maybe give them an additional 2000, I'll pay you back.
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  Yeah, we're all calling in here. Have you heard him yet?
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  Have you heard? Him yet?
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  No, you should probably. Do that.
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  OK, OK. Yes, yes, yes, Sir.
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  Arthur. OK.
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  In order for so part of this process as well you right now
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  our terminal. However, what this you just need
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  to drink this and you will be fine.
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  It's. It's that guy's blood.
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  Yes, and it has regener. It has regenerative properties
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  to it, so it will take care of you.
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  Retro's made his way in here now, OK.
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  Yes. So it has regenerative
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  properties. It will help you.
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  And then once that happens, my friends and I have decided to
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  help you out. We're going to give you a bit of
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  money to take care of yourself and you can be on your way,
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  Will. You untie me.
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  I'm very uncomfortable. Yeah, sorry about that.
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  You untie him? Yeah.
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  Sorry about that. OK, yes, so just obviously you
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  need your hand to drink this vial, so here you go.
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  He. Gets up and sits on a chair in
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  this room. OK, I mean, if you say so.
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  Yes. And he and he opens his mouth.
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  Yeah, it's. A little nasty, but you'll be
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  all right. Do you pour it in or hand it
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  over? I hand it to him but I make sure
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  he drinks it and if he doesn't then.
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  I'm gonna. He takes a sip.
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  All. Of it.
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  All of it. Yeah, it's not that much.
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  It's only a vial. What the fuck is going on?
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  Why does that suddenly taste like BBQ sauce?
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  For giving him Domino's blood. Yeah, I hope you like, I hope
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  you like BBQ sauce. I'm going to be honest, all you
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  really got to like the whole kind of BBQ culture and taste.
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  If that's not really your thing, this whole thing is really going
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  to be a huge curse. And you maybe what?
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  What are you doing here? Black lines from his neck
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  cascade through the skin that is exposed and a click.
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  Oh God. I've seen you some injuries
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  underneath. His clothes close up and he
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  straightens his back. Whoa, that's great.
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  Yes, yes, retro. He's no longer terminal and
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  won't die in the next week or two.
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  He will live is. There like any side effects?
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  Do I have to worry about anything?
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  Yes, there is one side effect. Pretty big fucking side effect.
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  Well, you might. Either that or Death Retro.
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  You may crave. I can't.
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  I thought it at first. I thought it was blood, but I
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  think you craved flesh. It's any organic flesh.
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  You could just eat. So wait, you're you could just
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  eat hot dogs and be good? I can eat hot dogs to like,
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  heal. I don't know if hot dogs are
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  actually flesh, but some sort of organic flesh.
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  OK, do you know how fucked up that sounds?
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  Yes, but what happened to you was fucked up.
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  Right. So you're just going to give me
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  money and let me go? Yep, yeah, here, buddy.
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  I'm going to go to the guy. I'm going to be like here guy,
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  here's 3000 Eddies don't get your face fixed.
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  Whoa, All right, No one's ever been this nice to me.
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  No one tips the hot dog guy so. Well, I'm doing it for your out
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  of some little wow like ethics I have left.
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  Look, here's the thing. You have to go get your face
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  changed immediately. All right, first thing you go
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  do, go get it changed. Where?
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  Where do I go? Who?
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  Who's good? Phoebe.
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  I don't know the corporate. Check the garden.
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  I'm sure that there's going to be reviews, but you go get your
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  face changed, Phoebe. I mean, yeah, he could.
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  He could go to Sawtooth. Who's who's got a card?
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  Who's got softest card? I have, I do, but I'm oh good.
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  Here you go, I'm. All the way in the back.
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  We we know a guy, go to him. Go ahead now.
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  Like right now. Go.
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  Right now. Go.
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  OK, I can just leave. It's nice to meet you.
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  Thanks for letting me drink your blood.
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  You're very welcome. Enjoy the rest of your life.
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  Yes, resist the hunger, human. What the nothing?
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  And he walks out to the building, leaving you all alone.
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  Maybe. What the fuck are we doing here?
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  Are we starting the coven of vampires?
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  Maybe we are retro. He was going to die.
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  That's like what, three people now that have this?
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  It's only three. Well, not including.
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  All the. Test subjects that we've had in
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  mind. I should.
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  Tell that, shouldn't I? I'm just saying we're bringing
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  so far, except for Jeb, that's two people right now that we've
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  brought from the brink or death back to life with this.
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  You tell me it's not vampirism. And we that's close.
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  The the, the part that we're missing here is that they don't
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  have to eat humans. They can eat plants they can
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  eat. It's organic flesh.
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  It's not plant like fiber. They have to.
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  And you know, organic is expensive.
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  Unless they're catching rats out there, it's going to be very
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  difficult. Cut, Seriously.
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  Cut to Arthur in in an alleyway Crouch.
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  Eating a rat? Start eating a rat.
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  So he this guy sounds extremely dangerous.
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  He's gene therapying people, people into mutants to make his
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  own organs. If he this guy didn't get his
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  face changed, someone was going to notice him because he is
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  somewhat famous so. But he he has the cure.
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  What you got, Yes, you got to stop.
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  We hit the cure is in him somewhere, so we could figure
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  that out, right? The injection was something so
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  we could try to figure that out from that, but like, we need to
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  stop making vampires, all right? I I agree, but look, there was
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  it was really not like neither option was good.
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  Like I could have let the guy to die.
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  I mean, that could have been an option.
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  We could go kill him now if you want.
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  I just want to say. This fate.
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  I just want to say this like I trust Jeb not to go ahead and
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  start feeding himself to other people.
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  Appreciate that. Domino honestly in flesh form
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  now, still forming an opinion. If it was not flesh form, it'd
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  be different. Right.
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  Don't know this guy from Adam. You're going to tell me that
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  this? Guy.
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  His name was Arthur. Sorry.
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  Well, we could keep tabs on him. I'm just saying there's this,
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  there's thing in my brain right now that's making me think at
• 24:56
  some point there's going to be a ravenous fucking cult group of
• 25:01
  vampires feeding off each other. People force feeding.
• 25:05
  Like if Jeb was to be a true Dick and just started cutting
• 25:08
  flesh and force feeding at the people, how bad is this?
• 25:14
  I. Hear you go true.
• 25:19
  I hear you. And you're right.
• 25:22
  We shouldn't take this lightly. I mean, it's just one guy.
• 25:28
  I will not. If there is somebody on the
• 25:30
  brink of death, I will not go to the alternate to save them by
• 25:35
  turning them into a ravenous Flesh eater, or they're not even
• 25:40
  ravenous, but they're but a flesh eater.
• 25:42
  I will not if somebody including any of you and Body Fuel Bite is
• 25:51
  the only cure. Well, actually, let's let's make
• 25:54
  a pact right now. Iona Retro Vendel, If any of the
• 26:00
  three of you are on the brink of death, would you want to become
• 26:09
  a flesh heater? God, no, not yet.
• 26:14
  No. I'm going to tell you it's not
• 26:19
  amazing, but it's not terrible. OK, I'd always If it means
• 26:26
  saving everyone, then actually yes.
• 26:30
  OK. I'll be honest with you Vivi, I
• 26:35
  know I'm a piece of shit, drug addled son of a bitch.
• 26:40
  I don't trust myself not to at some point snap, so I would
• 26:46
  rather have that not be an option.
• 26:49
  OK. All right.
• 26:53
  I think that's fair. And now that we know Bendel is
• 26:59
  the only one who would consider it.
• 27:02
  If that happens, we will not go to that alternative method, nor
• 27:11
  will I look to that method for other people.
• 27:16
  But you can with me if it's safe to run and I don't mind.
• 27:18
  Yes, yes. What did you do out here?
• 27:24
  Yeah, well, like we know the OP of every Maelstrom group I went
• 27:30
  searching for where, you know, the little hive of, you know,
• 27:36
  was it the harvesting cyberwear? You didn't find a lot, you found
• 27:45
  a cyber arm and a cider hand. The rest is all car parts
• 27:47
  because that's what these guys mostly dealt in.
• 27:49
  It was Gavin Cars. Well, I took what I can from
• 27:52
  that and then I also tried to see what I could off that
• 27:54
  computer, but the data is still a bit fragmented for me all.
• 28:01
  Right, you do. You found a Dick load of scrap.
• 28:03
  I just rolled very high. That's yeah, dude, I just
• 28:09
  rolled. I rolled two 10's and a four.
• 28:11
  So I'm going to give you 240 scrap from all of the parts and
• 28:15
  stuff here. There's a shit ton of strap.
• 28:18
  And to cyber where you say? It's a cyber cyber arm and A and
• 28:22
  a very, very generic cyber hand. Not a tool hand, just a cyber
• 28:25
  hand. The computer had a little
• 28:27
  information, not a lot. They'd lent 4 grand to Mark
• 28:32
  Zeiger and the clones were listed as stolen from a medical
• 28:37
  facility. They say which medical facility.
• 28:39
  Right, you'd have to roll for that.
• 28:41
  I'm I'm rolling to see if it said what medical facility and
• 28:44
  where that's at. Cool. 32 yes, it's called
• 28:49
  medical warehouse. It's a medical.
• 28:51
  Warehouse. That's where I get my plastic
• 28:53
  gloves. It's a subcontractor for medical
• 28:56
  procedures, usually high exact level.
• 28:59
  Even with that electronic security tech, you have no idea
• 29:01
  where the building is. But I got a name.
• 29:04
  It's called Medical Warehouse. Right.
• 29:06
  All right, Domino, I think you have the right idea.
• 29:10
  Time to remove ourselves. We got the vending machine.
• 29:16
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  The endless Winter. Has finally come.
• 30:33
  So you're telling me that you could have, like, you could have
• 30:37
  been fun of this entire operation for the past God knows
• 30:41
  how long, but I seem to remember that everyone thought that I was
• 30:44
  the rich one. Yeah, that's kind of the point,
• 30:50
  Jeb. Is to be.
• 30:53
  Wait, what's the point? Well, I'm not famous.
• 30:57
  I don't flash my money around. I save it, I invest it, and I
• 31:04
  keep under the radar. OK.
• 31:06
  So then nobody knows that I got money.
• 31:11
  Are you saving this 25K for something retro?
• 31:21
  Yeah, yeah, wait until I can get just enough so I can get a big
• 31:26
  gold statue of myself. Footwear.
• 31:29
  Arisaka used to say it. Would be a radiated retro.
• 31:36
  But it would still be. Cool.
• 31:38
  Valid. And who's going to go and steal
• 31:40
  an irradiated gold statue? Retro This is Night City.
• 31:47
  The answer to that is everyone. Which only makes me that much
• 31:52
  more famous. Are you not seeing the pattern
• 31:54
  here? I'm trying to set up here?
• 31:55
  Come on. Understood.
• 31:58
  OK, so we've learned that Retro has a lot of money.
• 32:06
  We have a vending machine. Yes.
• 32:11
  Which, you know, Domino, you haven't really told us what the
• 32:20
  whole point of this vending machine thing is like while
• 32:24
  we're bringing it back to the bar, like what's is there a is
• 32:29
  there a purpose? Is there a plan?
• 32:31
  We haven't let in on it. Jeb just a little bit more
• 32:36
  forward so the elevator can descend.
• 32:39
  Oh yeah, no. Problem.
• 32:43
  You'll feel the elevator clink as you start to descend into the
• 32:47
  bar in the vehicle. Well, I am aware that we have
• 32:54
  been using the same information screens etcetera for planning
• 33:01
  our machinations of the city. It was not.
• 33:11
  Entering into skin space has been an adjustment and frankly,
• 33:19
  this was easier inside the net. Yeah, the real world is tough.
• 33:28
  This is true. So I'm bringing some of the net
• 33:32
  to the real world. And how?
• 33:36
  How does that help the real world, exactly?
• 33:39
  And more specifically, how does it help you know us, presumably
• 33:43
  your only friends in the real world?
• 33:49
  Domino opens up the side of the van and starts to pull the
• 33:52
  vending machine out, carrying it on their own with their
• 33:55
  forearms. Retro and he.
• 33:59
  Slams it down on the table with the screen facing up.
• 34:03
  Now you put that in the large table.
• 34:05
  Please just detach the front half and install it.
• 34:10
  Yeah, sure. I'll be honest, I thought you
• 34:13
  just had a real hankering for a certain type of snack cake and
• 34:16
  that's why we're going for it. But all right.
• 34:19
  Be careful as you detach the screen, you could destroy the
• 34:22
  few items that are left inside. Oh is there anything I need to
• 34:27
  know? Does it need to be fully re
• 34:29
  grounded? No, it is unplugged.
• 34:32
  Are we plug and play here or are we having to go through
• 34:34
  soldering? We will have to do some
• 34:37
  soldering once it's on the table, but we're fine for now.
• 34:40
  Electronic security tech, Yeah. So you're undoing the screws
• 34:44
  around the outside of the screen.
• 34:46
  Around the outside. Around the outside.
• 34:49
  There's a plastic bevel and you can see it's got some prototype
• 34:52
  marks on it and the the this is obviously one of the first of
• 34:57
  run of this model of vending machine because after the first
• 35:01
  batch they glue the screen to the front to save money.
• 35:05
  Yeah, I'm obviously using some rubber size rubberized tool.
• 35:09
  So yes, I'm not scratching and breaking anything.
• 35:12
  Excellent. And as you sort of lift up the
• 35:13
  side, you've rolled high enough that you see the little ribbon
• 35:16
  cables and stuff, and you don't tear those and you unhook them
• 35:19
  very carefully. And then Domino helps you carry
• 35:22
  it over to the big table, which has a screen in it, but it's
• 35:26
  just a screen. It's not a touch screen.
• 35:28
  It's not holographic. Just 2D.
• 35:30
  It's like a. It's like a one of them.
• 35:34
  It's like the big billboard that for for like draft through Adams
• 35:38
  when you're working at a McDonald's, tells you like
• 35:40
  what's coming up. What you have to do next?
• 35:42
  Stole this screen that's in the table right now.
• 35:44
  Yes, Jeb, Exactly. Right.
• 35:47
  OK, OK. But.
• 35:48
  We're going to throw it away. Do you want a television?
• 35:51
  Oh, no, But that's all right. Right Retro.
• 35:54
  And he lifts up the screen. If you could remove the one in
• 35:57
  the table. OK, I was really caring if
• 36:04
  somebody wants it. I mean I could use it for
• 36:07
  something you. Can show them Is it bigger than
• 36:10
  your TV at home? No.
• 36:13
  All right, you remove it. You're all 29.
• 36:16
  You do a pretty good job. You don't scratch it, but it is
• 36:19
  a delaminated screen so it's not very sturdy and you remove it
• 36:24
  and place it down. I'm really just using it for
• 36:27
  parts. I'm probably not going to be
• 36:28
  using the screen, honestly. I mean, I could have been trying
• 36:32
  to use it for my TV at home, but my TV at home is like my actual
• 36:36
  wall. Like I converted my wall into
• 36:39
  ATV screen by just connecting a bunch of LEDs together.
• 36:45
  So it's, I mean, it's not hollow, which, you know, I know
• 36:49
  a lot. Of that sounds.
• 36:50
  Really cool. Why'd you never invite us to
• 36:52
  your apartment? You never ask.
• 36:55
  It's sauna, isn't it? Oh, you never ask?
• 36:57
  Oh, then it's the nice reason. That's fine.
• 36:59
  I mean, originally it was because Sano and Sano hated
• 37:01
  having people over. You get 38 scrap from removing
• 37:07
  that screen. Thank you.
• 37:09
  You're welcome. And then Domino in lays the
• 37:13
  screen into the table, uses one of their cyber fingers to open
• 37:17
  up the bevel just a little bit, and it slots in.
• 37:20
  Then they start along with retro plugging things on the
• 37:23
  underside. I know that so.
• 37:26
  Go ahead. Oh, we both were going to talk
• 37:28
  to each other, kismet. Ha ha ha.
• 37:32
  What? What was it?
• 37:32
  Domino? Stop it.
• 37:36
  Ha ha. This is this is very funny.
• 37:39
  You, as anyone, tell you, just a little gesture.
• 37:43
  I've been practising my comedy. Good job, I'm proud of you.
• 37:48
  Thank you. We're fine.
• 37:52
  Did we? Did we steal a vending machine
• 37:55
  because you wanted a new scream? Yes.
• 38:01
  We we killed people. Yes, but that was unrelated.
• 38:11
  So true, very true. I mean.
• 38:14
  And also they were previous antagonists.
• 38:17
  Well, I guess. We won't be seeing any more of
• 38:19
  them, huh? Absolutely not.
• 38:23
  And what were you going to say, Domino?
• 38:26
  I was going to say this is much like the tables you use in your
• 38:29
  corporate meetings. Oh yes.
• 38:32
  That's the aesthetic I'm going for.
• 38:35
  Oh, I like it so. Just to be clear, we did like a
• 38:41
  whole hast job thing for you and it was for interior decoration
• 38:46
  purposes. Yes, yes, it was.
• 38:50
  A laugh. It is different now, yes.
• 38:54
  Hey also we stole. We stole that vetting machine
• 38:57
  because thanks to Retro not destroying the objects inside,
• 39:00
  it's full of plushies. Well, expected a bigger reaction
• 39:07
  from Vivi, but OK. Plushies.
• 39:16
  Did someone feel like oh Domino got me something?
• 39:18
  Oh no. So I said plushies.
• 39:22
  Well, there's a bright side to all of this.
• 39:25
  We've we've dealt with our maelstrom problem.
• 39:29
  So. That's true.
• 39:31
  That's a pretty big bonus. And we have this blood that
• 39:37
  could be a cure for cyber rejection, cyber rejection.
• 39:44
  So that's also good. Yes.
• 39:51
  We learned a little bit more about this, you know, Doctor
• 39:54
  Glass Fellow. So it wasn't just getting a
• 39:59
  vending machine for an aesthetic reason.
• 40:03
  Well, I mean. What was the other reason?
• 40:05
  Taking care of Maelstrom and dealing and getting the blood,
• 40:08
  not the yes. To be clear, though, the vending
• 40:12
  machine kind of had nothing to do with us really lapping out
• 40:16
  the. Yeah.
• 40:17
  I mean that's all coincidental, honestly, look, I don't know why
• 40:20
  all of you are complaining domino.
• 40:22
  I'm all for it, all right, really it was as easy.
• 40:24
  It was supposed to be an easy job and you're still paying us.
• 40:27
  So I don't know why they're complaining.
• 40:29
  This is why you guys don't have any money.
• 40:30
  I'm. Not complaining, I'm just trying
• 40:33
  to clarify the importance of of purpose it it's important, but I
• 40:42
  don't know what to tell you. Retro The table needs extra
• 40:46
  bandwidth. Could you lay some cable?
• 40:50
  Did I say that in the funny way? Yes.
• 40:55
  I would I would say so. Good.
• 40:57
  I was implying you know. You.
• 41:01
  Are doing work with with a penis, yes.
• 41:08
  Oh oh, like laying some pad? You said laying cable.
• 41:12
  I was under the understanding that laying pipe was taking a
• 41:15
  dookie. Who taught domino the word?
• 41:21
  Who taught Domino Dookie? It wasn't me.
• 41:28
  Oh God, not him. Oh, hi, hi, hi.
• 41:34
  No, I, I've been. Alone.
• 41:36
  I'm sorry. No, no, no one's asked.
• 41:40
  About me in ages. I.
• 41:41
  Can make jumps. Bike drives and everything.
• 41:43
  Just reminding you I'm I'm I'm going to go and hack hack my
• 41:46
  existential Drake now. Good, he's gone.
• 41:53
  We should really check out the Nine's capabilities a little bit
• 41:57
  more in depth because I think that there's a whole system
• 42:01
  we're not utilizing here and who knows what our next mission may
• 42:05
  be. That's that's exactly what this
• 42:11
  table is for. For 9.
• 42:14
  No. Or is it for, is this kind of
• 42:16
  the thing where we can all like get around and we can vote on
• 42:19
  what the next job's going to be and there's going to be kind of
• 42:21
  a post in and, you know, maybe like 5 or 6 different options
• 42:25
  and we can go in and no, no, that's not it.
• 42:28
  One of one of the benefits of this is that it's programmable,
• 42:31
  so in theory, yes. Oh.
• 42:34
  Retro roll another check to lay the cable.
• 42:38
  I'm trying to find Dick. Damn 29.
• 42:45
  That's my metaphorical 1. Excellent.
• 42:48
  And with a final clunk, the data speed for the download of this
• 42:52
  table increases and you see finally it reach 100%.
• 42:59
  It is at this point that the screen goes dark and for a
• 43:04
  moment. Or consider that maybe this has
• 43:08
  gotten rather wrong. Oh.
• 43:11
  Shit, Windows Update again, no. No, they normally do this right.
• 43:17
  They they load and they update and then they restart
• 43:20
  themselves. Yeah, wait five more hours.
• 43:24
  For it to restart, I don't think that's going to happen.
• 43:27
  No for all the updates. That might be true.
• 43:30
  You got to choose. You do have to choose also.
• 43:33
  Very immersive. Very, very immersive.
• 43:37
  I'm immersed. Where'd all these stickers come
• 43:41
  from? Now we have to go get some
• 43:42
  fucking gooby gone now. I mean, I don't mind.
• 43:46
  It kind of adds to the whole aesthetic.
• 43:48
  You know, we could start putting our own stickers down there and
• 43:50
  it kind of reminds us of all the missions that we've been doing.
• 43:53
  What would be the sticker for the last mission?
• 43:56
  Oh, like the maelstrom symbol, but like, bloody.
• 44:03
  That's pretty good. What?
• 44:05
  What else could we make into? A what else?
• 44:10
  What else could we make into a sticker like the Vanna White
• 44:14
  would make a great sticker. Oh, absolutely, yeah.
• 44:18
  Just as long as we don't do one for a body fuel bite we don't
• 44:20
  need. To be No, I kind of veto that
• 44:23
  one. Now, as as you're talking over
• 44:26
  it, it finally boots up and there in the middle of this
• 44:29
  table is a map of Night City. Domino touches it once and a
• 44:36
  display shows up of all of your districts telling you the
• 44:40
  various locations of Night City. OK, I'm seeing it.
• 44:47
  We are here. Domino touches a little corner
• 44:54
  of Little Europe. Chicks out.
• 44:58
  Yeah, that's where I thought we were.
• 45:00
  That's us. And our various other friends.
• 45:05
  Clive's The Bubble Cafe. OK.
• 45:12
  Sorties. Yeah, uh huh.
• 45:16
  Taylor's every location we've ever been to is here on this
• 45:24
  table. What?
• 45:30
  So, So what you're saying is like you just kind of recreated
• 45:37
  Agps? Yes, in a sense.
• 45:42
  OK. And and and how is this
• 45:44
  different than like our our data pad?
• 45:48
  This is something that we can use dynamically to locate our
• 45:53
  ultimate enemy. Despite my level of power,
• 45:58
  discovering the location of the Syndicate has eluded me.
• 46:05
  Like God's eye. Exactly.
• 46:11
  This is how you locate things. This is how you locate things.
• 46:15
  We're going to have to triangulate the city.
• 46:22
  Oh. What?
• 46:26
  Oh, OK. In order to find out where
• 46:29
  they're hiding, we'll have to set up some sort of device in a
• 46:34
  few places in the city. We'll have to agitate an AI
• 46:40
  somewhere and get them to send a signal, and then we'll finally
• 46:48
  have our revenge. OK, I think it's brilliant.
• 46:52
  Is that brilliant? I can't tell.
• 46:53
  Is that brilliant? It's brilliant.
• 46:55
  OK, yeah, I love that. But also this table is now prim
• 47:01
  as fark. That well, hey, that's true,
• 47:07
  Very true. Next time on no latency.
• 47:23
  I don't see it. You know, as long as we got
• 47:26
  three of them up somewhere, we're good.
• 47:27
  They are smarter than we fear. Narrow it down, potentially
• 47:32
  later. Like, are they able to be subtle
• 47:34
  or do we think that they're like over the top?
• 47:37
  Finding them is going to be harder than you think.
• 47:39
  Put their machines in them places.
• 47:41
  DV grabs one too and and lights one in the.
• 47:44
  Bar. Oh, clandestine.
• 47:47
  OK, Jeb has occasionally used a big word like that.
• 47:50
  That sounds like a plan. Oh.
• 47:51
  Do you hear that? It gets a bonus.
• 47:53
  Nice. Dingle Lingle Jingle Ling slot
• 47:55
  machines slot machines. I don't know.
• 47:57
  Are you? Are you alright?
• 47:58
  Excuse me, let's get in there. You should come have a shot of
• 48:00
  moonshine with me. Yeah, I'll take one.
• 48:03
  Wow, yeah, look at that. No.
• 48:06
  You know, I really thought you're going to get something
• 48:08
  there, Iona. That is a tough one.
• 48:09
  Again. Again.
• 48:11
  Full of shit. You're full of shit.
• 48:13
  I'm back to looking over your shoulders.
• 48:14
  Yeah, best to play it safe. Knock people.
• 48:16
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