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No Latency - Ep.1 sEnd hELp · No Latency

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  Welcome listener to no latency a cyberpunk red roleplay podcast,
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  let us take you on an adventure in night City where for unlikely
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  acquaintances come together at the most famous bar in night
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  City. You've never heard of no latency
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  after this. Nothing will be the same.
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  Join our four players, I owner the exec.
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  Sano the solo, Jeb, The Nomad and retro the tech is.
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  They find out what happens to one of their old friends and
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  employers fixer called Domino. Shall We Begin
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  once again? The sun in night city is
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  setting. The sky is bleeding red.
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  And the rain is extra sick today.
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  So jebidiah, you and your pet. Vulture Sloan a sitting
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  underneath the awning of a noodle shop in sort of the mid
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  to North part of night City and you pull that message.
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  You've got from real your pocket and you're from out of town and
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  so to get your bearings, check the message and give it a read
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  one cradles Sloan in my hands and I give her Her give her long
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  Nick and hater with gentle caress and a brush up on her.
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  Cybernetic implants on her head there, that give her some better
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  sacked. I get a little vibration on my
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  on my agent. So, I whip that thing out.
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  And it looks like Rafe sent me a little.
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  Some says it Birds pretty beat up.
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  I don't have the parts. You'll have to head into the
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  city. Find a tech called retro used to
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  be a nomad like us. Hangs out at no latency near the
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  city center, Esther ping, you get lost.
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  You can trust this repair is going to cost.
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  You'll likely have to work for city Folk sarchu see you around
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  rave. I'll give a disappointing now
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  and place my mouth agent, Barrett in my pocket.
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  It was sad for looking around, trying to find this no latency
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  Place. Well, the city's pretty busy,
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  you know, we're getting to the point where people who work
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  their regular 9 to 5 hours on the way home.
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  It's an early Sunset. So it's close to read about 7
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  p.m. or so and you can always just try and like check to see
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  if you can see it around yourself.
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  So I think you should roll a 10. What skills?
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  This local expert. Which you do not take a bonus
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  for because you're a local expert of the desert?
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  Yes, I am. Let's give that a go.
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  Do I got - two? I don't know how European
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  possible you rolled a negative 2.
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  How does that happen? I thought that I thought it was
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  ear D. 10, plus years old. No, no.
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  You must have rolled a - so. But how if there's what where
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  does he wrote one you roll again and that number gets deducted
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  from your Base value. So it's exploding but - yeah
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  interesting. Okay well I mean then that makes
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  quite a lot of sense Jebediah. It's not from around here
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  completely. I mean, I'd jeopardize extremely
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  confused and he's not even sure that apparently this no latency
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  places in the city centre, but he's not even sure where that
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  is. Yeah, so you'll stuck in the
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  slightly acidic spitting rain and you look around to try and
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  find the bar as you sort of step out from the awning.
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  To look around your foot slips, you slide forward and you skid
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  into your bike and your bike hits the railing on the other
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  side which it was next to and you've scratched your bike else.
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  One of the exhaust pipes has now fallen off.
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  No shit. It's mostly cosmetic, it'll
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  still run but now your bike makes a lot of noise.
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  I'm gonna pick that up and put that into my saddlebag.
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  We have to fix that later. That's all right.
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  So while you're looking at that, there's a figure Walking
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  confidently down the street and I'm going to invite that figure
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  to be Sano. They're pacing down the street.
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  You've just seen this person. Almost eat shit and then fuck
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  their bike up. Holding a bird, holding a bird,
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  they look completely out of place.
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  Where as how do you look? I have a black hair was kind of
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  a ponytail and the back and to cybernetic arms.
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  One of them has like an aunt of a dragon on it and I have to
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  Titanic eyes that kind of light up.
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  Yellow like a wolf's and I am in semi Asian semi-casual garments.
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  It's like with the sprinkling of asian-ness than it like with the
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  ropes, like bigger sleeves and kind of like, almost like half
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  kimono, but then there's like kind of leathers Top of it as
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  like, a kimono trench coat. Yeah, I guess cool in the
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  future, you know. Yes, it does.
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  It have any, does it light up or do anything like that?
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  Or is it, is it designed to keep you not see how it is.
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  Not have any Tech in it. The only Tech I have where my
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  arms. My eyes.
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  Cool. And I will see that.
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  And I will completely ignore it. Fantastic.
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  All right. Where you headed, where am I hit
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  it? Guess, I'm just going for.
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  Do I have a job as a solo, as a solo in town?
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  You, your job is always looking for a job.
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  Now, over the last few months, you knew of a fixer who you did
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  take a few jobs from and you were handsomely rewarded.
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  Domino. The mysterious fixer that has
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  now disappeared off the face of night City.
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  Just a few months ago. Gone not here anymore.
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  Their contracts got taken over by one of their handlers because
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  no One ever met Domino? No.
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  And so, you know, that one of the best fixes in town is Ping.
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  Now, they've taken over dominoes work and you could go and talk
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  to them to go and find out or you could go and have some
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  noodles or you could help the guy who just fell over and
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  ruined his bike. But ping'an, probably have some
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  work for you if you go and check them out.
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  Mmm, nice. I will not help the guy who fell
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  over on his bike because I don't like people.
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  I will just head straight to talk to Ping because I want to I
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  want to get a job because I wanna get probably kind of
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  pretty broke right now, actually.
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  I haven't had a job in a while, I think so.
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  All right. Roll do local experts.
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  Say, if you know where it is. Oh, cool.
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  Expert your home? You're from the city.
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  So yes, 16 hot damn. So you look up no latency on
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  your agent, just to find the best route to get there because
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  you know where it is you just like what is the best route and
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  also it'll tell you to avoid any car crashes.
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  In case there's been a fire fight break out from it. so it
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  tells you where to go and then out loud from your agent, you
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  here 400 The right directions to no latency.
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  Which you here Jebediah now. Hold on.
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  Just a minute there sir. Hmm.
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  Yeah you will need. Was that a kimono?
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  I suppose it did your little doohickey, say no latency that
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  it did. Well had, I just so happen to
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  look for the same place you mind if I tag along, I do mind.
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  Well, listen, I got it. My friend here.
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  Here Sloan. She's a, she's badly hurt and
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  Sloan gives out like a little like CAW, how mechanize is your
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  bird? How much like take this out on?
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  She got like half of the cybernetic head including one of
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  her eyes which is really where she comes in handy and she does
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  have like a cybernetic foot but otherwise it is most completely
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  bio. Hmm.
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  And the 7 is it Wings right? I think that she has like like
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  at least one of them. I'm not saying that's one of the
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  reasons why they can't fly. Okay.
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  Yes, she's got. She's got like special.
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  It's like a like over wings, like the think of like, six, her
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  wings are actually biological. But like, there's essentially
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  like a b over the top of it that allow her to be more fly more
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  efficiently. And that's the part, that's a
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  little screwed up right now. Not to mention all the physical
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  trauma that she's taken right? Asana will look your bird up and
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  down your birds looks like it is in great pain.
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  No she is Sir. Someone should put it out of its
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  misery. Oh Jebediah gets a little, you
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  know, slowly draws his hand back towards one of his his
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  grandfather's twin Colt. 45 s like slowly starts to pull his
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  His duster back revealing the pearled handle of one of those
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  and he goes no I wouldn't try to think that were you just go
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  about your business and I'll go about mine, kind.
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  You may follow me if you wish, but you may not take a long,
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  I'll keep comfortable distance. Don't you worry and I will walk
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  Goth and I will keep it comfortable distance.
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  You guys keep a comfortable distance, walk through the city
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  as the cars honk as the people move and as you come up to the
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  door of no lien, see it shut as enclosed.
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  It is a big sign up, there's a big sign across the board from
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  across the front that says closed.
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  Until further notice it's dark, and the door is just shut and it
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  doesn't have like a big chain on anything is Just locked.
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  And there's a sign that did have an explanation on it, but it has
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  been graffitied over by some stupid rocker boy.
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  Mmm. Hey, come on.
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  You were listen. I gotta get to a ripper dark or
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  attack or some. Someone's got to help out Sloan
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  here. Do you know anyone in town?
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  No, nobody. Well, and Jebediah starts
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  looking around frantically trying to find anyone.
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  That looks like they may have Have connections, Romeo d-10 and
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  what skill would this be associated with perception?
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  You're looking around her sandwich in, that's not so bad.
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  Okay. So it says, so I have a level 8
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  and a total of 13, so I'm going to roll and then add 13, is that
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  correct? That's a 16.
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  Good? Yeah, you notice that someone is
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  inside of no latency rummaging around, I'ma go over and tap on
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  the glass. Excuse me, excuse me.
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  Hello in there. I'm looking for a pain or a
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  retro. Hello.
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  Anybody just a just a quick word through the dirty window.
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  You see a figure running around with their hands against their
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  head, okay? Occasionally taking a marking
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  pen and drawing on the on the walls and on the different
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  curtains that they've set around up the place.
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  It looks like it looks like they're putting together some
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  kind of convoluted plan. There's bits of cyber wire
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  everywhere, linking Post-its. There's strolled out words
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  across the across the word that you can't really see very well.
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  But this this person looks like they're very involved in the
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  task that they are doing. And you notice them get out of
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  their device and send someone a message. and I owner, That's
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  when you receive a message on your agent, you get a message
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  from who so I blink pretty rapidly because I'm still
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  adjusting to my new Cyber I but it says something has happened
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  to Domino. I don't know what to do.
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  Come back to the bar, please help ping and I'm going to open
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  the audio message. See, you sitting in your
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  apartment and you've just woken up.
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  And you've just got that message.
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  You are waiting today for your new assignment.
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  It's new assistant day, you had a temp for a few months but they
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  got moved to a different division and today you get to
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  meet your new person. I only know a little bit about
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  them. Let's see their profile here
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  says then Del okay. Covert operative.
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  So apparently they're cover for me is my personal, adjust a
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  personal assistant, really? That's what they're going to say
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  is personal assistant. Okay, that's fine.
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  What do they look like? Oh, oh, they're, they're very
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  small for a covert operative. Blunt Black Bob.
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  They seem to have a very large cybernetic implant over there
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  years. I'm not quite sure what that is.
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  I will have to ask them about that, but I have to get dressed
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  right now. Otherwise, I'm going to be late.
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  Where are you headed today? What time of day is it?
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  Just around Sunset. Okay.
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  Yes, waking up from my nap. Hey man.
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  If you said, I don't shame. You've been working on things
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  all night. All right.
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  Well, I will currently they have me operating off of a graveyard
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  system. The work that I'm researching
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  works better at night. I'll get into that later.
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  When I talked to Van Del and brief them on what's going on.
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  I am going to share it, I guess I'm going to grab Vandal from
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  their home. I'm supposed to pick them up.
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  And I guess I'll take them with me to the bar.
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  If they're going to be involved in the project they have to.
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  Also I guess be involved with Peng so I'm going to go do that.
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  Cool. So you go and pick up Bendel
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  from their apartment. Would you like to just pick them
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  up and go straight to the bar? Yes.
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  No. I'm going to Pick up Vandal and
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  on the drive going to to ask the the car to take us through.
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  Take us through us a smoothie, a smoothie joint please I need my
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  my midnight breakfast smoothie please.
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  Otherwise I will just be cranky all day.
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  If I don't get some protein in me right now.
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  Well, van Del, I just need you to tell me more about yourself.
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  Your profile is very lacking. Ying.
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  I'm, I'm really good at being small.
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  I see that honey. You are very small.
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  I see here that you have combat experience, where a lot of
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  compact experience, mostly training mostly training.
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  Yes. Okay.
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  And how long have you been out of training since I was 20?
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  Oh okay. Well I should just I'm I'm so
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  sorry I'm used to having much more opposing assistance.
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  I understand that your last assistant didn't last very long.
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  Correct. I'm not sure.
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  The information that you have on that assistant, previous to the
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  temp that I had working with me on the project.
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  He was a very good man and I we did what we had to do.
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  Well, I'm pretty good at getting out of trouble.
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  That will come in handy. How many does also get math?
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  I like math. It's organized.
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  Wonderful. You can help with the accounting
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  as well. Would you like a smoothie?
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  Does it have the wheat in it? Wheat.
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  Yes, we just so scarce these days I mean I can see if they
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  have it but I mean that's expensive taste.
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  I like you. Okay.
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  Can we do the um to of your brain blasterz?
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  Can you add a little bit more dragon fruit to the first one?
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  And we are feeling yes and we're feeling um, I'm sorry we're
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  feeling a little bougie today. Could you add could you add to 2
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  shots of wheat to that as well? Yes, please Yes, sounds great.
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  And we'll see you. It just flowed from my account.
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  Thank you so much. Why doing post when you can do
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  it now. Great, you drive up to next
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  week, though. You drove up to the next window.
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  And instead of a person there, that job is got replaced about
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  20 years ago. It's a robot arm that sticks,
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  the two drinks out. Each of each drink gets their
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  own arm and you see Vine the window.
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  There's just like 20 arms already to give drinks ready to
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  go. So, it's a quite a quick process
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  and you receive your smoothies. The machine lights up, a little
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  sign. And it says, would you like a
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  turtle straw? Yes, please.
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  Two turtles straws are dispensed out of a little thing and you
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  can take him cool, that's cost. You the journey and the drivers
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  free cuz you got it through your company but the drinks cost you
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  with wheat shots. 25 Eddie's. That's what I said.
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  Yeah, please they sound like they're going to be worth every
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  penny. Vendor will takes out their tile
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  and start doodling and you see them draw a tree with Blossom on
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  it. As they like sip their drink
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  just a little like sketch drawing.
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  I ride the rest of the way to the bar silently.
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  They also get on with a little bit of work.
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  They send a few files but before we get to you arriving at the
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  bar, want to find out what Remy's doing.
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  Well, Remi is outside is storage container apartment with all his
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  gear and a bunch of boxes, as he's been evicted.
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  Now, because I was in the hospital for so long, I have
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  gotten kicked out of my place because I missed my payment by
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  two days. So I have no place to live and
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  so this plant. Nah, I'm good.
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  I don't need a plant. I don't want to play it now -
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  I'm not gonna lie. This is a piece of shit.
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  You what? This piece of shit?
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  No. All right, and I'm just waiting
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  for somebody to I've called up a moving place to try to get me to
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  some other somewhere else. Like a try to store all my
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  equipment. But in the meantime I'm just
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  sitting up on my boxes. With my feet, propped up and I'm
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  playing a old, you know, 80s 90s, side-scroller, game on my
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  television face at the same evening, the future, this is not
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  been fixed. You get a message on your
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  interface and it doesn't pause the game in time and your
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  character dies and your little frustrated.
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  So you open this message from ping, dammit?
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  It was my last one. Yeah, you're gonna have to buy
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  more credits for that game. Now, if you want to carry on
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  playing it'll be five. Eddie's microtransactions even
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  come in the future. So you get the same message that
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  I own a got. Oh, I do and you notice which I
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  own a didn't pay enough attention to it but it is a
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  group message and they messaged both you and I owner, but not
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  Aires because they left town. They made a bunch of money with
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  some of the stuff they got in that and they booked You make
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  sense, okay, I'll go ahead and I'll, I'll I'll read the same
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  thing and I'll listen to the same message.
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  What do you want to do? I guess I'm going to go ahead
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  and head back to the bar. Maybe I'll be able to collect
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  enough Eddie, so I can get a new, a new place.
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  Yeah, I may be paying will be able to help you out.
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  I mean, if you're going to help them, maybe they'll Throw your
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  then. Sure.
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  Oh yeah, I'm going to yell back to to Trevor.
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  Trevor could could watch my stuff for me for a bit.
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  Well, I'm out. And I'll take a piece of shit if
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  you do that. Oh, watch your stuff.
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  Just keep an eye on it. You put the new tub here in like
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  20 minutes. It's not going away.
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  Thank you Trevor. Thank you.
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  And I will make my way to the bar.
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  Walking with a little bit of a pep in my step because maybe,
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  I'll have a new place. Yeah, enough money to buy a new
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  place soon. All right, when you walk, you
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  get the an outside, the bar, a guy in a kimono trench coat, a
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  nomad with a vulture, that doesn't seem to be very well.
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  And you see I own his car at the curb and you see that no latency
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  is indeed shut. Well on my first there will just
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  be a flashing question mark. And then I will just kind of
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  saunter up to the door and I'll give a bit of a knock ping.
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  Ping are already there buddy. Got your message.
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  Knock, knock, knock, knock. Oh, good, finally?
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  I you love playing. Oh, I'm sorry.
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  I'm not talking to you or your creature thing Remmy.
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  Please could you two please move away from the door just just a
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  bit. Please, I'll just want a minute.
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  Hold on. You you there with the the the
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  screen here, you said, you know, pain Yeah, and I know Pingping
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  I've worked for for paying before King runs the bar.
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  It's just a bar while it's all you.
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  Well where can I find this business paying look and a show
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  I I hold up my, my agent, agent agent, thank you.
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  So I hold up my agent, I go I got a message from Talking
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  Dynasty pain. Listen, she's not, she's real
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  hurt and I need to get her fixed show.
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  That message to everyone and now they can see it.
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  Whoo, well, If your creature is, is hurt, it's probably too late
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  for it. You might want to put it out of
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  its misery. Now listen here, she ain't going
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  nowhere, wait, They referred you to me.
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  That's, that's right. Oh, wait a minute.
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  Who are you? I'm I'm Remy Ortiz.
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  Sometimes people call me. Retro Retro, B.
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  That you're just the man. I'm looking for.
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  All right. Well, what, what is it?
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  You need from me? I look at make it quick.
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  That's just what I need your help.
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  Look at her and I hold out Sloan in my arms and just a baby tear
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  starts to roll down my face, but you can't really tell because it
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  is still raining. Yeah.
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  I will I will give the bird a once-over. kind of, slowly pick
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  up a A wing does it flutter at all or jerk away at any moment.
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  Careful, careful. No, she seems pretty.
• 25:20
  She seems, she could tell that I was want to know if it's, if
• 25:22
  it's docile or not. If it flops at me, I'm gonna
• 25:24
  freak. Yeah.
• 25:25
  No, it's, I rolled it's fine. Yeah.
• 25:28
  Well, looks like you're, yeah, it looks like your beta fans
• 25:33
  here. Misaligned probably got a couple
• 25:37
  of Hardware knocking around. Inside it your yeah.
• 25:42
  Looks like the samurai you have done.
• 25:46
  A real piece of work on this wire and that's going to need a
• 25:49
  whole new replacement, man. That's going to take some work.
• 25:52
  Let me. Let's not why we're here, we're
• 25:54
  not here to work on a bird. Okay.
• 25:57
  Ma'am ma'am. I'm gonna need you to take a
• 25:58
  step back, sir, I'm going to need you to take a step back.
• 26:04
  The vehicle is armed. Oh ha ha ha, Iona.
• 26:07
  I don't know, hold on. To be fair.
• 26:10
  Look, buddy. I don't know who referred me and
• 26:15
  I will get to your bird. When I have a moment at this
• 26:21
  particular time, I need to go and see ping because they kind
• 26:27
  of got a first in line and there's no cutsies when it comes
• 26:30
  to live, so sorry, choom, you gotta Have to check it on that,
• 26:36
  you know, hurt. I don't know what it's going to
• 26:38
  take, but I'm willing to pack. Will there be?
• 26:41
  And then she said the way you came, And as you said the word
• 26:45
  ping Remy, you see the figure behind the Dirty Glass spin
• 26:51
  their eyes widen and they run to the door and they swing it open
• 26:56
  and there's pain. And there's paying disheveled
• 27:02
  and they look like they haven't been sleep, haven't slept for
• 27:04
  days. Oh, honey, honey.
• 27:07
  Okay, every strained, tasting, makeup and they look directly at
• 27:13
  Iona. You came.
• 27:15
  Come in quickly. I need your help.
• 27:18
  Wendell, can you bring the makeup?
• 27:19
  Wipes it, grab them from the car.
• 27:22
  Thank you. Absolutely what.
• 27:25
  I'm going to suggest to you, that you possibly go ahead and
• 27:28
  get a crisis. Thank for your birthday there.
• 27:30
  And then once you get a chance, we can work something out and
• 27:33
  I'll take a look at it. All right.
• 27:34
  Why you will standing in the rain.
• 27:36
  We're not what I'm coming and we're coming in.
• 27:39
  I'm coming in. I want to get my my new head
• 27:41
  right up. Let's go back in there, ping
• 27:45
  tense. Jab.
• 27:46
  And what do you want? And the man says, I need a crap.
• 27:49
  I need a crisis tank. You know what?
• 27:51
  That is? Listen, Rave, told me that
• 27:53
  you're the, you're the person to talk to, right?
• 27:57
  Okay. You can come in.
• 27:58
  Thank you. Are you gonna hurt us?
• 28:01
  My use a sixer. I try to be And I'll get to
• 28:05
  that. Come inside.
• 28:06
  Everyone Asana will nod and head inside.
• 28:09
  You will gather inside. And the bar is trashed, it's
• 28:14
  completely overtaken by pings attempt at a plan.
• 28:19
  There are magnetic curtain stapled up on the walls.
• 28:22
  Notes connected, by red string, photos news, clippings in
• 28:25
  various bits of evidence that ping has gathered, but it
• 28:29
  doesn't seem to go anywhere It seems ping in their sorrow.
• 28:34
  May have gone slightly mad. He very much looks like that
• 28:40
  mean, from Always Sunny in Philadelphia, ping, ping, buddy.
• 28:47
  I think you might have spent a little much to time with Harris.
• 28:51
  You're getting a little little down in the dumps of the moment
• 28:55
  and you getting a little media shun me, when was the last time
• 29:00
  you had a drink? I don't need a drink.
• 29:04
  I will give you driving. I think we need your Iona.
• 29:07
  Do you think we need a drink? I think we need.
• 29:08
  Right. Wendell, can you go out and make
• 29:10
  a round of? I'll take a ginger ale, whatever
• 29:13
  anyone else wants. Also, I'm going to sit ping down
• 29:18
  for probably farthest away from the Pepe Silvia thing that they
• 29:21
  have going on and and I'm just going to start cleaning their
• 29:26
  face and their hands. I am using so much sanitizer
• 29:31
  right now. All right.
• 29:33
  Roll. Would you like me to roll?
• 29:34
  Yeah, if you're using it, every time you use your hand
• 29:36
  sanitizer, would you like to tell our audience a fun little
• 29:39
  Homebrew rule for ionis hand? Sanitizer, Ayanna has a
• 29:44
  sanitizer. Spray built into their wrist.
• 29:48
  Kind of like a Spider-Man web shooter that they, they cock
• 29:53
  their wrist and sprayed into one hand and then just rub their
• 29:56
  hands together. But every time that they use
• 29:59
  this spray, they have to roll a d-10 and And as long as she
• 30:05
  doesn't roll a one, she doesn't have to restock.
• 30:09
  But if she rolls a one, that means that she is out of
• 30:11
  sanitizer. Which may cause a problem for
• 30:15
  Iona. Yep.
• 30:18
  I rolled a four, great sound like that.
• 30:21
  Yeah, so ping is cleaned up a little bit, they turn to who to
• 30:26
  someone bring ping a drink or anything vendor will bring ping
• 30:29
  a drink. Okay?
• 30:30
  So vendor brings ping a drink they they bow sit down and kind
• 30:35
  of in a slightly disconnected way completely uninterested.
• 30:38
  Lee carry on doing a little drawing on their tile.
• 30:41
  So constantly drawing away. How is how is Sloan looking
• 30:46
  Sloan's looking. All right, look okay.
• 30:48
  Sloan's going to be. All right like Rave told you
• 30:50
  it's gonna be alright it just Sloan can't fly right now they
• 30:53
  can look around. You could leave them somewhere
• 30:55
  to look around but they wouldn't be happy about it unless you can
• 30:58
  get it fixed, which is going to take some time, a few hours
• 31:01
  maybe even a day you're going to have to be careful with it if
• 31:05
  you want to bring it around with you.
• 31:06
  Okay? So she should so she's she's
• 31:08
  hanging in there. She's just hurt and essentially
• 31:11
  has her wings. Clipped essentially has the
• 31:13
  wings clipped and has a distant site issue currently so they can
• 31:16
  only see about 80 feet. In Focus, everything else is
• 31:20
  just shape. Got it in that case, I think
• 31:22
  that Sloane has a perched on on my shoulder and Jebediah takes
• 31:30
  his cowboy hat off and kind of gives it a shake trying to get
• 31:35
  rid of all that, that nasty City water off from his nice leather
• 31:40
  hat. He takes a seat at the bar so
• 31:43
  you're this paying that. Ravens tell me about yes what's
• 31:49
  so special about you? I was Domino's number one hit
• 31:52
  enter and then these guys They helped me him.
• 31:56
  Help me with pings last job. At least I thought it was the
• 31:58
  last job. It wasn't he made a mistake.
• 32:02
  I got this message from. I think it's Domino.
• 32:05
  You think? And all I've been doing is
• 32:07
  listening to it over over and over again.
• 32:09
  What did you guys do your figures from dumb?
• 32:11
  Domino's, the only person you ever had that number.
• 32:13
  There's no way anyone could have moved.
• 32:16
  Not a chance. How it came through?
• 32:17
  My doll implant has no way. Is there a job here or is there
• 32:22
  not? We need to find Domino.
• 32:25
  Doug knows, God. Domino's in the net buddy.
• 32:30
  Domino left. Stop was a trap.
• 32:33
  That's why you Remmy. I don't know if you actually
• 32:36
  listened to the message, but it sounds like Domino didn't make
• 32:40
  it. And if you remember when we were
• 32:42
  in the arisaka building and we were grabbing the stint, those
• 32:46
  characters did not seem very above board.
• 32:50
  As soon as you mention arisaka, you can see Sano visibly tense
• 32:55
  up in his metal arms. Still not saying anything, good.
• 33:01
  Okay, let's not Arnold out there.
• 33:04
  Come on guy. Calm down.
• 33:07
  You can all me straight edge. That's kind of a throwback.
• 33:11
  Don't you think? Hmm very retro should we call
• 33:15
  you retro? Yeah.
• 33:18
  That sounds more retro than me. I don't understand.
• 33:23
  Your logic that's okay buddy. And I'll clap on the shoulder
• 33:26
  twice and I let my CD disk drive pop out and take a drink.
• 33:32
  And then as soon as you clap him on the shoulder immediately, his
• 33:37
  arm jerks away and you see a katana shoot out of its right
• 33:43
  arm. And he brings it up and right to
• 33:45
  your TV neck and it holds it like right there.
• 33:49
  Oh, shit! Go a fuck.
• 33:51
  I'll drink, Smashes in the Jebediah pulls pulls the to
• 33:57
  court 45s. All right, children.
• 34:02
  Put the weapons away unless you would like to get smoked by a
• 34:06
  real professional life I to Vendo pulls out a knife like a
• 34:12
  magic tricks, things around their head and just point to it
• 34:13
  without looking while still drawing at, at Remy.
• 34:18
  Now what we've got here is a bit of a classic Mexican standoff,
• 34:23
  if I so put the weapons down and puts it away with a with a
• 34:27
  flourish, but sticks it into the table because I'm drawing don't
• 34:31
  Touch me Jebediah holsters the to Colt 45 s understand messel
• 34:38
  man you got Samurai. All right.
• 34:41
  Slow. And I think hisses at a at say
• 34:46
  no, Sana Sana. No hisses.
• 34:49
  It's Otto you'll put away his Katana into his metal arm and
• 34:54
  readjust it. Like he kind of strained it a
• 34:56
  little bit and he will cut get back to his calm demeanor during
• 35:01
  The fight ping didn't even look up, they just sank more and
• 35:04
  started weeping. yeah, where he's going to slowly back up
• 35:10
  till he's behind the bar, a good distance between and Monsanto
• 35:17
  Ping ping. There's no no.
• 35:20
  I'll take to the arisaka building.
• 35:22
  Which we took the case, we what was your case, we got the star,
• 35:29
  we downloaded Domino. I was the star.
• 35:33
  It said star on it. Yeah, definitely says star on
• 35:38
  it. It said star, let's roll back
• 35:43
  the tapes, I do have an audio agent and I did have that audio
• 35:47
  agent at that time. And I want to roll back to the
• 35:51
  recording with Dash so there is a thing, ping, the
• 36:09
  briefcase I had a little funky design on it, so the design said
• 36:20
  S.T Dot A yeah, tiny little. I what And then an R.
• 36:32
  But the, I the, I was similar to a DOT.
• 36:34
  So it was like, it was supposed to say star, they wanted it to
• 36:38
  say star, but they needed it to artistically and aesthetically.
• 36:44
  Still include the I so catchy promise was black.
• 36:49
  There was nothing on it. I had to put varnish on it.
• 36:52
  In order to smuggle it out of the midnight Market.
• 36:55
  I don't know that wasn't the star.
• 36:58
  Star stands for sentient transport.
• 37:00
  Armored repository. What did you what did we put?
• 37:03
  Domino in goddamnit. Dash goddamnit, Dash, I'm so
• 37:08
  fucking glad you're dead. And you faintly hear the sound
• 37:13
  of Dash screaming as he died. Those were the days.
• 37:19
  That man has done nothing but fuck me over from birth until
• 37:23
  death. Yeah, yeah.
• 37:25
  Yes. I am so sorry panting, I'm not
• 37:30
  from around here but Domino means something a lot different
• 37:35
  from where I come from. Domino is the name of a person.
• 37:39
  It was so scary, uncas, Domino, why don't you roll to see if you
• 37:44
  can remember, Romi A d-10 wilderness survival now I got
• 37:48
  that. No Romeo local expert, but
• 37:51
  you're not from around here. So I'm going to have a I've got
• 37:54
  a TV in my head, okay. So just A local expert.
• 37:59
  Got it just just adding my intelligence that there is a
• 38:05
  hearty hearty 747. All right.
• 38:11
  At one point you know that Domino got you through a solo
• 38:20
  because you hired a solo to get you a fuel delivery and it was
• 38:23
  successful but it's only like an.
• 38:25
  Oh yeah, that was the fix that. The did that job?
• 38:27
  You more. Remember, the solo than the
• 38:28
  fixer. You just know that Domino's a
• 38:30
  fixer and that's it. Now wait a minute is this the
• 38:33
  same dumb? One old it works with the with
• 38:37
  the solo. Katherine how am I supposed to
• 38:42
  know what solos Domino works with pink?
• 38:44
  Does that Catherine? Yeah, no I know because rent.
• 38:48
  Okay then yes and this fixer is Is an AI?
• 38:52
  Well, I never heard anything like that.
• 38:55
  Yeah, take a drink my whiskey that I assume someone brought me
• 38:58
  peeing. Yes.
• 39:00
  Is there a job? Or is there not?
• 39:03
  There is a job. Tell us the job when Domino
• 39:05
  left. Domino had a lot of resources, a
• 39:10
  lot. Don't worry, I'm going to pay
• 39:13
  you. We've got to help Tom and her
• 39:17
  before that. I've got to find someone else.
• 39:19
  First. Got to find stranger next time
• 39:32
  latency. He used to have this like little
• 39:38
  Shack just out in the Badlands is just outside the city limits.
• 39:43
  I'm sorry. Did you say the Badlands?
• 39:47
  That's just outside that you won't get hurt.
• 39:52
  No, I'm not going out there. Well, why don't we fix birds?
• 39:57
  So she can help us find your plan.
• 40:01
  Okay? See, that's going to take me,
• 40:02
  time to go home, peace out, whatever that is.
• 40:04
  And then we don't know how much they cost and you how much money
• 40:07
  you got. You got, you got 10,000 Eddie's
• 40:09
  on you because it cost that much.
• 40:10
  I'm not sure we working together or are we not talk about domain?
• 40:18
  See, if they got a vehicle that can take us, Badlands.
• 40:23
  He gives you this look of pure distaste. as you just kind of
• 40:31
  cocks his head to one side, I would prefer if we end this
• 40:36
  conversation. Send help.
• 40:59
  Hi, just your friendly neighborhood, cat cleric, odd
• 41:03
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• 41:05
  sponsor, save the date. In Tales of Legend, there are
• 41:18
  stories of Heroes who stand for the good of the people fight,
• 41:22
  back the dark Forces that defile the land, and bring peace to the
• 41:27
  world. Yeah, my friends, let me get
• 41:32
  stabbed while I'm sleeping and then there's these assholes gods
• 41:38
  don't exist. Yeah, this kiss me, it was meant
• 41:41
  to be okay. At dinner table, we don't talk
• 41:43
  about religion. Okay?
• 41:45
  That is never stopped you before every Thursday.
• 41:49
  I'm sorry. You're gonna let it Crackle.
• 41:50
  Have a flaming sword in one hand and a singing sword in the
• 41:53
  other. Have you thought this listen?
• 41:54
  I asked as a courtesy. I don't need any of y'all
• 41:58
  permission. Listen, as a group of absolute.
• 42:03
  Maniacs, try and save the world. There are two minutes ago.
• 42:09
  Yes, there are. We release.
• 42:11
  We release a 900 mimics into the form of species into this room.
• 42:20
  Yeah, these are the adventures of save the d8.
• 42:28
  We've done over 100 hours of this podcast and we still
• 42:31
  managed to have Dumber conversations every week. 900
• 42:12
  mimics into the form of species into this room.
• 42:20
  Yeah, these are the adventures of save the d8.
• 42:28
  We've done over 100 hours of this podcast and we still
• 42:31
  managed to have Dumber conversations every week.