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S2E89 - Blood in the Van · No Latency

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Last time on no latency. Some say gross, some say
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delicacy. Yes, also don't.
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Did you check out this PC? Oh damn.
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It I saw your skeleton there for a little bit just.
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Run for our lives, shit. Oh, a deadfall.
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I'm running for my life. That was.
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Too close, Steve Zero knows that Jeb's are coming.
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He's going to walk directly into a trap.
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All right, Jeb, I. Really want to jump in and just
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feel my tongue. You would think that this would
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be like the short restroom. It got me some paint and it got
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me some fuel. There's one he's he's in here.
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We got to get it. Oh.
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I'm almost at a corner. Retro, do not take any more
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bullets. Wow, sorry buddy, you're not
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going to last much longer. Well, talk into the face.
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Trick or treat? All right, so what's up first?
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Who needs patching up? That's a good question, I mean.
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Retro. I can go for a little bit more.
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Oh shit. Retro.
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Are you OK? Retro.
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That's fine, I just. Well, Jeff, do we need to pull
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over? I mean, listen, I've had worse
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days, I've had better days. But as far as I'm concerned, you
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know, let's keep the mission up front so we don't got to pull
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over if we don't need to. I, I, I do think that we should
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probably pull over retros kind of leaking out of the, the
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television and but that I haven't seen that in quite some
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time. So we should probably stop.
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Should we get a? Should we get a Sawtooth?
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We might need to so see that is going to be.
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Rich. With the amount that we see him.
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We only mean we we get hurt, which is a lot.
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Which is impressive for a group that walks around with a medic.
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I you know what? I'm not going to say anything.
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Too much shape. I'm sorry it's so much worse
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after murdering that guy Vigel. You've changed, OK.
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I'm sorry. What has Biotechnical done to
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you, unfortunately? They've raised me.
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It's really. Bad.
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Well, I think we should probably go to Sawtooth.
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I can maybe fix you Retro. That did not sound very
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confident. Let.
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Me fix. You.
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Oh, oh, I'm, I'm fine. I, you know, I'm fine.
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I'm fine. Stop the car.
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Stop the car. Yeah, maybe this looks.
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Yeah, we should probably pull over.
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Jeb, where do you? Where do you?
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What do you do, Jeb? Do you do you keep right now or
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do you stop? Well, I'm if everyone wants me
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to pull over, I'm going to pull over.
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I didn't say to pull over. Well, most people seem like it's
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like it's happen to pull over, so we're going to go ahead and
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do that. Jeb, you pull over.
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Romeo driving. Check.
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For a drive Romeo, just pull over check.
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Anytime you do anything with a car changing lanes is a scale.
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Trust me, loads of people don't know how.
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To do that, Romeo changing lanes check.
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Romeo check to stop driving. Whoa. 20. 8.
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I stopped driving really good. You did.
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You did so good, Remy. Are you?
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Are you comfortable to do you need?
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Are you warm? Are you?
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Old space over here on the your driving is.
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Incredible. Literally, by Cyberpunk Red
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definition. So incredible.
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As you stop, A5080 Bill smacks into the windscreen of the car
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and then slips into the air vent and smacks you in the face.
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Oh, Oh well, well, hey there, your mom's fan.
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Do pocket that called dibs. All right, this looks as good of
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a place as any retro. Why don't you step out, get some
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air for a minute, and let's check your balance.
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OK. And I'm not going to make you,
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you know, this isn't like pulling you over and making you
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take a breathalyzer or anything like this.
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But like, I just want to make sure, like all of your, I just
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want to make sure you're OK. Sure, it's a little stumbly, but
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it OK, go ahead and put a joint in their drive.
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OK. You can see when they smoke,
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there's actually a little bit of smoke that comes out of some of
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the holes in their body. Oh, I think my lung capacity has
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dropped down a bit. I think I need to get back to,
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you know, strengthening my lungs Here.
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I'll start now. One lift, two lifts.
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Oh yeah, that's a lot better. Oh wait, you, you squirted a
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little bit out of that one. Yeah, All right.
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Let me run a diagnostics really quick.
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I'm pulling out my Med scanner. Like I see the holes and I'm
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just like. This.
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This doesn't look good. I can I can fix the holes look
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and I'll just I'll just start kind of ripping my costume from
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the the leather of the, you know, BDM suit just starts
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stuffing the holes with it's like yes, there.
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You go, OK, no, no, you shouldn't do that.
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Maybe. One leak fixed.
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And here, in the light of the sunrise on this day after
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Halloween, you see the red sky cascade shadows across the car
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and dart its way through the buildings.
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And you're overcome by this weird beauty that the city has.
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Phoebe, the darkness changing to light.
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And in this moment, you step out of the vehicle, slip on some
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blood phone for flat on your face.
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Roll 1D6 damage. Oh.
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Sorry, I didn't realize I was just spilling everywhere.
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My bad. You take 4 damage because you
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have armor on. I guess is 2 damage.
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Technically, yeah. So you take 2 damage, which is
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the result of your crit fail on a paramedic.
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But you did roll a 13. Even with you a -, 9, which,
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let's be honest, means that you're just a really good
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doctor. Even in moments of
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embarrassment, you can see that Retro is really fucked up.
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He's lost about 3/4 of his health.
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OK, sorry, I just give me a second to get myself up.
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That's all right. You know what?
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I I I might be right. You know, I maybe I've been a
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little too stubborn. Look, I'll admit it.
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I've cotton mouth for sure. Beside that, I think everything
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else is fine. We're good.
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I could use some. You got something to drink?
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I'm really, really, really thirsty.
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You are losing quite a bit of Sorry, I put my head out of
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Vanna White. You You are still losing a bit
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of blood from your your left chest hole, the lower one.
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Yeah, yeah, it's quite a bit of retro coming out of that one it.
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Does the color of the sky right now?
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Does everybody else see that? It's a red sky.
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It's always a red sky. I mean it's.
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Beautiful, honestly, Is there a problem you think that's due to
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the to all the pollutants in the air?
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It's a. Blood casting a shadow.
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It's actually the after effects of the Aristoc bomb that
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happened 20 or so years ago. We're still facing the side
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effects unfortunately and so. What is the pollutants in the
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air? Yeah, I remember.
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When it was red or. It's kind of a downer.
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Yeah, yeah. OK, Retro, really what what we
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need. I'm first.
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Yes, I think we just need to just patch up a couple of these
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spots here. But I think more than anything,
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you just need a good night's rest.
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Yeah, yeah. Good night's rest.
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That's all I need. I don't even see, I don't think
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we need a doctor or anything like that.
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I mean we you could probably use some pretty strong methods to
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recover faster. Are you saying painkillers?
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They need painkillers. Something more than painkillers
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you're going to need like. Like what?
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Amphetamines. My brain is farting.
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No opiates. Does it start with an M?
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My brain is farting. And my brain is farting.
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Well, it's really early in the morning.
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It has been a long night. OK, we're.
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Both suffering medical effects right now, so.
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We did just have a very dramatic Halloween.
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So you told you told him to trick or treat and and it was
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the last thing he heard. He doesn't know whether he got a
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trick or a treat. He'll never know.
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He's dead. Thanks guys.
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When? You put it that way.
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No. OK, I don't have the stuff that
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will fix you quickly. So if you want that, we can go
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to Sawtooths. If you want to just rest for the
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night, you won't feel 100% tomorrow, but you might do a
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little, you know, a little R&R probably won't help or probably
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will help. That's my, that's my
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suggestions. Should we stop at Sawtooths or
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should we? Do we want or should we just go
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home and rest for the night, for the morning?
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What's the D6 for Richard? That's for me making a decision.
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What's? OK.
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I don't know if it's my humbleness or just, you know, my
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brain getting all socket, but everything's getting a little
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WAVY and shimmering, like I had too many snakehead mushrooms.
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And yeah, I think maybe the doctor is going.
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To. Be in OK retro will just
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collapse. Oh.
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Oh. OK, this is a lot worse than I
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thought. OK, you.
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Should probably take them and then rat dog.
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Somebody help me lift him. Of.
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Course, yes, go ahead. No, no, I'll, I'll, I'll do it.
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Retro. Come in, come in, come in.
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Retro Could you could you go? Yeah.
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We're still ticklish. Don't make me use the smelling
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salts. Oh God.
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Everything really, really hurts. Vendel and VV both roll
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athletics. Jeb opens and holds the door.
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Yep, Yep, come on. Carefully.
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Gingerly. Is it supposed like I don't have
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as much pain anymore, but everything's really, really
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cold? It's really cold.
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Is it like, is it because we're getting into winter time now?
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No, just just retro. Whatever the version of keeping
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your eyes open is, do that. I haven't rolled that plastics.
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Yet are you? Oh shoot, do you?
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How cold are you? Are you very cold?
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If we're on a scale of 1 to 76, I'm a 35.
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What all? Right, understood.
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I'm going to take my jacket off and lay it over at me.
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Vendel slips in the blood as well as they fall into the van,
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not hurting Retro because VB rolled high enough.
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Yeah, yeah, sorry. Someone should put a someone
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should put a slippery when wet sign out there.
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Probably a hard idea. Oh, are you alright?
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Yeah, it's only two D6 damage. Oh sorry, it's only two damage.
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I was going to say, still hurt. All right, everybody get in a
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van and one door. I'm going to close the door.
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Thank you for putting that jacket on, Retro.
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Jeb. Yeah.
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How does Jeb feel in this moment?
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I mean, I think that I'm a little nervous because my one of
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my good friends seems to be way more hurt than he was letting
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down. But there is a doctor in the
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group. And so I'm feeling a little bit
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like looking over to VV like what, what are we doing next?
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What what are we, what are we doing?
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What are we doing? I'm a little, I'm a little shook
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us. We should go to Sawtooths all.
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Right. All right, everyone there, I'm
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hitting the gas. VV not to get excited but trauma
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team style. Just like the old days.
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If you're awake, do you have a siren in your bag?
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If not, I can make the wee woo sound.
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I would almost prefer that. Their bag and no, no, oh, I got
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AI got a 360 spinning lamp. Hold on.
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And they'll just take the extra blood and just wipe it on one
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side. There you go.
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That's that should work. Now we have red and white.
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And and retro loses another HP but makes an assignment.
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, it's what? Oh, I, I will.
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I, I've leaned out the window and I'm going to put this on the
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top of the van, right? It's magnetic, it just.
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Great. I'm literally at a quarter
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health now. OK, my.
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Wee woo wee woo wee woo wee. Woo and you drive off Jeb.
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This is one of those moments where your driving checks
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actually fucking might help. So fucking move.
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Retro was bleeding up. Oh wee woo, wee woo.
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Can I try to at least that while we're wee wooing?
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Like. You hatch?
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Yes, one of his. Please, please fix the wee woo.
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Yes, and not roll badly. 1 moment.
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Oh my goodness, I keep rolling. Chris Phils.
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Retro loses another HP. Oh, don't.
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Don't. Don't put a finger in the hole.
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That hurts more. The car, everything.
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I'm just I'm. We're almost there.
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Clearly I can't help you. Jeb, roll again, all.
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Right. Drive faster, Jeb.
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I'm going as fast as I can. So 9 HP Oh my God.
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Try Trace Dragon and you just can't seem to catch.
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Stop. Keep looking at the light.
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Make sure dragon. There 27 yeah, you dodge an
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intersection cutting through a gas station nobody notices doing
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a power slide around a corner there is an opportunity here for
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a yeehaw, et cetera OK OK well there's.
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Some quick having a great time right now, but I gotta keep,
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gotta keep it going. Just gotta keep OK.
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Just faster, please. We're gonna.
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He's losing more blood. All right, VB.
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I think all the blood rushed to my legs now.
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Try again. All right, come on, stay with me
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around the table. I haven't.
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I'm clearly not trained in years working in the back of a
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vehicle. OK, better.
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Vivi It's like riding a bike. And what everyone forgets about
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riding a bike is the first time you do it again after a long
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time, you do. You are a little wobbly.
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And so whereas last time the rhythm of the road caused you to
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stick your finger in a wound, this time the rhythm you're used
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to, like surfing etcetera. And you managed to patch up one
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of his wounds, which means he doesn't lose any HP at this
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point in the journey to. OK, I think I've managed to stop
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the hemorrhaging. Retro.
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You feel better. I feel as good as a half bottle
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of you, John. You you get the feeling back to
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a part of your body you may choose.
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Well, I'm going to stick away from the obvious.
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My wieners. Let's go with my legs.
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Jeb, Roll the driving Jeb. We're coming.
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There's another one. Guys. 25 Jeb, you are, you are
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driving like a king. I'm I'm going.
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You take the. Wrong way round a roundabout.
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Skid past a bus. Narrowly avoid a cyclist.
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What the hell is he doing in the left lane?
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What the Get out of the row? Come on now.
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Hey. That's your entrance.
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Snap at the right. Way and after this next medical
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check you will be outside sawtooths.
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Oh, dear. All right, just one more. 15.
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Ignore it that I was nervous and clicked twice.
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No, you're fine. You can be nervous.
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That's glad and you don't heal him anything, but again because
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you are competent enough by rolling A15A difficult task, you
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manage to stop retro from losing any more blood in the vehicle
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and the vehicle screeches outside of sore tooths.
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Oh, my. OK, all right, everyone careful.
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Now let's let's nice and careful and get him in there.
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I I, I I'm running and I, I open the Sawtooth store and I like to
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hold this lighty hermetic door open.
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So Iona, it's 2:00 in the morning.
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Yes. The door is locked, but The
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funny thing about this door is when you put your hand on it, it
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detects your fingerprint and opens.
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Mouth. Great.
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And as you step inside, Sawtooth is dancing to music in a rope.
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Oh yes, I am the dancing high. Don't pretend I'm not here.
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What you shouldn't do, what you should do, is know that Retro is
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here and I motion everybody to drag in his body.
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Oh. My oh, that's a lot of blood.
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Retro. Are you OK?
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That's probably a silly question, Doctor.
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Do you? What's going on?
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What's the prognosis? She is hemorrhaging blood very
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badly. Right.
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Why? It's it's complicated.
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Let me ask you something. It's an Avril Lavigne.
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Got it. Let me ask you doc, trick or
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treat. Oh yes, Halloween.
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Do you? Do you like my Do you like my my
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costume? Yes, cool.
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With the glasses, I'm holding a White Russian.
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It's pretty good. Yeah, I'm some guy.
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Best Uncle Bond I've ever seen. Great, you aren't delusional.
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I like there's some guy costume. It's yeah.
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No, no, I'm the guy. You know the.
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Guy the guy, the guy does. Yes, the guy does.
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Indeed. Get one, get one with your guy.
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Right. Sorry.
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Enough of this Halloween banter. That's over, isn't it?
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Bring him into the medical room. Put him on the table.
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Let's save this man. And everyone can ignore that I'm
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not wearing pants. I trust doctors more when they
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admit their. Mistakes.
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It's honestly, it's just kind of nice to be free, you know?
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Who needs pants? Free.
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Right Retro, it's time for you to to go on.
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We have to like genuinely operate on you, me and VVVV.
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Get the gloves snap itch. OK, it's it's yes.
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Well, he's got under 10 health, so I'm going to say that out of
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all times on this on in this in your times as a crew, this is
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one of those times where someone needs fucking surgery.
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This is. Very serious.
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You're right. I'll get the gloves all.
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Right, well, I'll be these in that I'm going to grab the doc
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and pull them in close. Oh.
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Goodness. I'm going to whisper something
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into their ear. I'm going to have the surgery.
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Might as well. Right.
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Good. Yes, good.
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Right. Well, if this surgery goes well,
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maybe. If this surgery doesn't go.
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Well then, what's the point? Exactly.
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Let's just heal you up first. You know what you should?
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You know what this man needs? Everybody.
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A song. No, some drugs.
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Oh, thank goodness. Oh, yes.
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I mean, yeah, I would imagine that our dying friend here is
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probably in need of some very heavy drugs, Yes.
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So I'm I'm going to start with gas because gas is.
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Oh mate, pretty good. So where do I?
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Where is your most? I'm listening.
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I'm listening to you, Remy. I mean I I.
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Don't know yeah, if this is going to be my last day before I
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die. OK?
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Please just let me have my little bit of synth coke left
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before I go out. I disposed of that.
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What? That will probably have effects
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with the anesthesia, so no. Retro, not gas.
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Oh, gas. Retro just faints.
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Like almost as if it's not like a flat line.
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Like you told me that now Richard is like, what's worth
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living in anymore, Dad? Oh.
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God Retro No. No.
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Remy. Remy No.
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There's no reason anymore. Retro.
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I have other drugs. They're very good.
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Smell this gas. Where do I put it?
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On your face? Right there.
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That'll work. Breathe in.
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Yeah, does this work on ATV head?
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Let's see. I know, isn't it great?
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That's the good stuff. Retro if you want to stay awake,
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a role resist torture drugs. If you want to give in to the
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drug, you will fall asleep. No, I'm going to give in to the
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drug because the the player does not like being awake during a
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surgery, so and. Retro passes out on the medical
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table. All right, VV, let's both.
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Roll surgery. Oh dear.
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OK, this is like way more nerve wracking when you're doing it on
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somebody who's a friend. Yes, I know.
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How do I get to be as chill as you sawtooth?
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Oh, about everything. I used to be a terrible,
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terrible solo. I killed people for a living.
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Is that before or after you became a doctor?
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That was before I became a doctor, Jeb.
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Now I'm just going to. Oh, you.
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Vivi. My goodness.
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Look, this is Retro's life. I'm not messing around.
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That's a great success. 22. Holy shit I haven't seen
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stitching work that good in years.
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I haven't even touched him and he's already gained shit.
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I gained. Shit, I.
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Don't know, I'm rolling dice from the Edge Runner's kit.
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Hold on. Oh.
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I mean, if I gain shit, that means things are OK because that
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means that my body's processed and normalized.
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So true. They won't let you out of the
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hospital until you poop. Is that true?
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Yes. What?
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Really. You have after severe trauma
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like this, Yeah, your body, your body can get lepsis.
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Yeah, shit. Why?
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Not they wouldn't let me exit the hospital until I pooped
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they. Won't they won't give you
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laxatives. Either I was going to say, can
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they give you? Something no your body, your.
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Body has to naturally process. Retro has, in the process of
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this crit success, gained 27 health.
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I know. That's too that's that's too
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health from my my, my Mac. And he looks way better.
25:40
Now I'm going to say this to you, Vivi Retro asked me to
25:44
install something while he was under.
25:47
He asked you to install something.
25:50
Yes. What is it versus?
25:54
His doctor. So doctor patient
25:56
confidentiality doesn't fucking want it.
25:59
You guys not to listen? La La la.
26:03
La La, la. I'm definitely not listening.
26:08
He wants grafted muscles and bone laced cyberwear 2 grafted.
26:13
I'm assuming arms. Did you say arms?
26:15
Let me see, so he wants 2 grafted muscles around the
26:21
spinal cord to sort of give him a little bit more lifting power,
26:24
that kind of shit. Simple eye surgery.
26:27
As long as you have the parts, yes.
26:31
For it I do. Yeah, yeah.
26:32
No, I do. Let me see.
26:34
Retro wants to do. I mean, is this lively normal
26:37
like a Ripper doc would do? That's fine, we can.
26:40
I mean, I I've done RIP a doc stuff, I've I've installed
26:43
Vendel's leg. That was me.
26:45
Yes, it was true. I'm not listening.
26:48
Yes, this is fine, I can help. Great, if you could just flip
26:54
him over. It's just that button just
26:55
there. What is it just like a?
26:58
It literally flips you around. And yeah, it just flips you out
27:00
like. All right, And there's just.
27:06
The. There's just the the let's see.
27:10
OK, that'll be 1000 eddies. That's actually 2000 Eddies,
27:14
Sir. So that's 2000 eddies please.
27:19
Me. I.
27:21
Shouldn't you be billing it him point to under unconscious?
27:29
Tracy, when you when you point to retro, somehow just from
27:35
their pocket, you hear a Ding and you see their Eddie card
27:38
just pop out. Good.
27:40
Excellent. I'll.
27:41
Charge that how much do. You think is a fan tip?
27:44
What are we thinking 25%? Tip.
27:47
Tip your doctor. Brilliant.
27:50
That's 2500 eddies. Fantastic.
27:53
In cyberpunk, I believe that. Do you want?
27:56
Do you want some tip? You know what he.
27:59
Pulls out the card reader and pulls out your cards and swipes
28:01
both and retros card deposits into your account in.
28:08
The dark future. 9 eddies. Oh yeah, let's go.
28:16
And you guys begin to operate on retro more than you were before.
28:23
Hey guys, we're going to need another like 40 minutes in this
28:26
procedure, so if you wouldn't mind just waiting on the couch
28:29
for a bit longer, we'll be done shortly.
28:32
I yell out to everybody else. I I can heal everybody in the in
28:36
the time between this and the next thing that happens.
28:41
I mean, that would be great. I'm still, you know, still got a
28:46
little bit of shrapnel in me from that explosion that I, I
28:49
lived. Through.
28:52
But you know, obviously Retro's laugh is a little more important
28:56
than my little wounds here. In fact, actually, if you just
29:00
give me a little bit of human flesh, I might be able to kind
29:03
of do it myself. I have a DIY.
29:07
There's a there's a dumpster in the back, Jeb, only from the red
29:11
shoot. Understood.
29:17
Oh fuck. Oh no.
29:19
Oh dear. All right, so it's a 15 which is
29:22
enough to install the cyberware, but it's a crit fail.
29:26
So in the process of doing this, retro takes 6 damage and feels
29:31
it. Oh that's going to be a rough
29:35
sore spot waking up from this I wake.
29:38
Up in the front of a surgery. Oh, that's my bad.
29:41
More drugs than you can 99 oh. Man, this is.
29:46
This is my night. It's early in the morning.
29:48
Maybe you should have ruled. That one.
29:51
Probably retro. How are you feeling?
30:01
Pretty melancholy right now. Well, might take a bit of time,
30:07
but your procedure's done, so you just got to take it easy.
30:14
I can't, I can't move. I don't know what happened, but
30:19
I can't move until whatever I'm done healing with is like I'm
30:26
I'm stuck here. I if it wasn't for Jeb I
30:30
changing my bedpan, I don't know what else I could do at the
30:33
moment. Seems to be a little bit
30:35
traumatic. I haven't even had a cigarette.
30:38
I haven't had a joint. Well, my soaked up is.
30:43
Forever gone. Your body is healing.
30:46
This is normal. Yeah, well, what happened, dude?
30:50
I, I we're just, we're just getting.
30:52
It was. I thought we were just patching
30:54
you up. Just patch you up M Retro
30:58
Sawtooth told me about your extra requests while you're
31:01
under. What extra requests while I was
31:04
under? What are you talking about?
31:06
I'm also your doctor, so your secret is our confidentiality is
31:12
mutual here. Baby, I can't remember anything
31:16
since the red sunrise. What the fuck are you talking
31:18
about? Vivi, you know that his
31:21
cyberware hasn't been activated yet.
31:23
It had to be turned off while he was healing.
31:25
That's why he can't get up. You have to activate.
31:31
Does this ring any bells? And I turn on your new.
31:37
Can you? Just do it straight away.
31:38
OK, cool. Yes.
31:42
What the fuck was that? Everything Like, I I I felt like
31:46
I got shocked. Like, have you ever, ever
31:49
touched a live wire before? All right.
31:52
Whoa. Yeah.
31:55
Shit, what the? Fuck what?
31:56
What? The fuck is that?
31:58
What? What did you do?
31:59
What did you do, Retro? Because were you truly in such a
32:03
delulu state last night that you don't remember asking Sawtooth
32:10
for you to get new cyberware installed?
32:12
Yeah, baby, I want you to, I want you to think about this.
32:15
I know there are times that I don't make sense, but typically
32:17
when things get serious, I'm usually pretty like on the nose
32:21
for stuff. So I want you to think right
32:23
now, did it seem like I was high or did it seem like I was high?
32:32
Oh my gosh. Well.
32:36
What the fuck is this? You can see now like retro
32:39
getting up because now that they've you've, you've given
32:41
this, they now actually look a little bit more muscular and a
32:45
little bit bigger. Oh my gosh, did you?
32:48
Get tall you. Did you give me like 3 inches?
32:51
That's just on the biceps. I don't even know how tall I am
32:54
now. What the fuck did you do to me?
32:57
I'm like looking up. Good morning, everyone.
33:01
Quick, no. What?
33:02
Remind me what? What was it that we installed?
33:07
I didn't write it down. Oh, grafted muscle and bone
33:10
lace. Grafted muscle and.
33:13
Jeb walks in with the bedpan at this point empty.
33:16
Retro It is good to know that your bowels are moving.
33:22
Hi Jeb, is there a reason you're still in character the day after
33:28
the day after Halloween? He's doing it for me because I
33:31
found it really funny, so he wanted to make me feel better.
33:34
Yes, I turned on the the accent and now it does not turn off.
33:40
Again. Big mistake.
33:42
I thought we fixed that. I don't know what to say, only
33:46
that I want to suck your blood. See, that's the only thing that
33:51
sounds good. Jeff Jeff saying my grand
33:56
pappies caught 40 fives. My grand pappies caught 40
33:59
fives. It sounds so shit.
34:01
It does not have the same ring to it.
34:05
No it doesn't. Oh my gosh, I think I'm going to
34:07
lose it. Well, chip, why don't you just
34:10
take the chip out? Iona.
34:14
Is that an option? Right A.
34:17
Slight problem, I cannot remove the chip my the skin has formed.
34:27
Over well. We could do another procedure to
34:33
get that lifted and removed. How, How can it be?
34:37
You just kind of put the knife all right here and sleep.
34:41
I can try. It in Are you doing that?
34:43
Are you doing that right now in front of everybody with a knife?
34:47
I'm. Going to try.
34:49
Jesus. OK, Vivi, you're now watching
34:51
Jeb pull a knife out to his own throat, to the side of his neck,
34:55
to cut open this thing. You can try and roll to stop
34:59
him, but I have a feeling he's going to try and do it anyway.
35:04
I will try to stop him. Let's see, what did you guys
35:06
just roll? Surgery.
35:08
Where's surgery? Under technique, which you might
35:10
not have because it might be a Med tech only skill.
35:13
No, no, you're just doing first aid.
35:16
First aid, OK. Yeah, because you're using the
35:18
knowledge you have. Can I try to distract Jeb so
35:21
maybe? You can try.
35:25
Hey, Jeb. Garlic.
35:27
I am not literally a vampire, it is just a what?
35:30
What? Do you mean you're not literally
35:31
a vampire? You said you were a.
35:33
Vampire Jeb is looking over at Retro VV in this moment.
35:37
Flicks the knife out of Jeb's hand, rolling in 18 athletics,
35:40
which is higher than the 12, and the knife sticks into the wall
35:44
and makes a cool shadow. Noise.
35:46
You could accidentally hit an artery.
35:48
You have very sensitive arteries in your in your in your neck and
35:52
kill yourself. You should know that you're a
35:54
vampire. Yeah, but.
35:56
If you know if I. Cut too deep.
35:57
You can just put me under. Stitch me up, doc.
36:02
No, this would be a lot easier if you just give me a moment.
36:05
I will apply a numbing solution so you won't feel a thing and I
36:09
will take it out. Probably.
36:12
It's probably best that you don't have to feel a thing.
36:16
Gosh, and I don't know. Yeah, great.
36:20
You do it. Last night, while Retro was in
36:23
delulu hours, he requested additional surgery.
36:30
All right. You keep saying that.
36:32
That's what happened. You asked for cyberwear for
36:38
grafted muscle implants and bone lacing.
36:43
I asked for muscle grafts and bone lacing.
36:46
Yes, you asked. For muscle grafts and bone
36:49
lacing? For what reason?
36:51
Remy. That's what I'm wondering.
36:52
I don't remember. I lost, what, 3/4 of my blood?
36:57
I almost was on the door of death.
36:59
And you took advantage of somebody who definitely was not
37:03
in the right mind and was like, oh, yeah, they've asked for
37:05
something like that for sure. Let's just do that.
37:09
I apologize this was an oversight on my end and perhaps
37:17
Sawtooths as well. I'm sorry because I mean, I
37:22
mean, look, I didn't ask for it, so I'm not paying you back.
37:24
Maybe if we need to go and take it back, I'll tell you and take
37:26
it back. But.
37:28
I think in the long run this could benefit you, so there are
37:32
positives. I mean, I do feel a little more,
37:37
you know, that's not the right word.
37:39
Just going to say cocky. Did you even?
37:41
Say a word well. I was about to say cocky, but
37:44
that's not the right word. I wanted to say confident
37:47
because I mean like, you know, I don't have those.
37:50
I know the biceps of Atom Smasher, but like.
37:55
Yes, but as with a little. Good.
37:59
The downside to this these. Actual muscles.
38:03
They're probably implants. It's like they're not actually
38:07
real. It does not real muscle.
38:09
No, no. It's grafted in there.
38:13
It'll help you, yes. It'll probably boost your
38:16
confidence because you're a bit stronger and and tougher.
38:19
It comes at the cost that you may as as with most risks, and
38:24
usually these are things you discuss with your patients
38:26
before you make a decision like this.
38:30
You may feel a little out of touch with the world, your
38:34
humanity. Let's find out.
38:36
Oh. Dear.
38:40
You forget that during that fade you all did therapy, so do that.
38:46
Right, but I got 2 so. You got two I'll.
38:49
Roll for therapy, then. Yeah, once I got all right.
38:52
So what do we roll for therapy? There's a therapy button.
38:57
Oh, where it is cool therapy. Holy shit.
39:03
Nice. Yeah, that's cool.
39:06
I'm in touch with. Oh.
39:08
Extreme therapy. Extreme therapy.
39:12
That's cool dude. So I'm going to say that you get
39:17
14 back because of the Creek. I'm maxed out now.
39:21
Sick. There you go.
39:23
Although I didn't change my. Humanity.
39:24
Anybody else who wants to roll therapy, Bendel should should.
39:28
Yeah, Bendel should. Yeah, I also roll some therapy.
39:33
It's been sure. Everybody wants to roll therapy
39:35
has to pay 250 eddies because that's how much it cost.
39:38
Dang therapy. Yeah, also.
39:41
Expensive. Yeah.
39:42
Therapy. Therapy we did last night was
39:45
not expensive. You're rich now.
39:49
So I am rich. I have to remember that since
39:52
hanging out with you guys. We make the money.
39:55
The bank, yeah, we've got so much money.
39:58
We we should go shopping. I mean, we have to buy a bunch
40:01
of stuff for Domino anyway. We.
40:05
We probably should. Oh shit Iona, you gained 16
40:09
humanity back. Here's Here's Vandel, not a
40:13
crit. Not a crit but they did do
40:16
extreme therapy so it is a 13. You know, that does bring up a
40:20
good point, Vandel. It is Thursday.
40:24
It is Thursday. You know what Thursday means.
40:28
Oh, the the crystal place or whatever the glass.
40:32
Market Glass market. That's what it was called.
40:35
Where I got my danger gal ears? They're so cute.
40:41
And that one guy, sleazy guy, that vendor.
40:45
Was nice after everything looked really good for your costume.
40:49
Thank you. They were authentic 1 of 500
40:52
rarity collectors item. And we could all go.
40:56
We could. But we could because we did a
40:58
job and and we say this, we should all treat.
41:01
It's, it's treat yourself, right?
41:03
Is that how they say it? Yes, that is part of the therapy
41:06
perhaps. Oh, doctor's orders, Jeb, Jeb,
41:10
Doctor's orders. Jack.
41:13
Doctors or. No, I've got too many voices.
41:17
In my ear. You've still got the chip in, so
41:19
keep going. Doctor's orders.
41:22
Jeb, you can take the chip out now.
41:25
Oh, that's right, one in the moment like.
41:27
There we go. It's.
41:29
And you know what, Jeb, now that you've got that slot, I mean,
41:32
we're going shopping. You could get some skill chips.
41:36
Oh my God, what the hell do you want to be doing?
41:41
Skill chips we could. Get skill chips and then we
41:44
could go on the way we could get we could get some bubble tea and
41:49
and and have the whole time. That would be that would be
41:52
nice. Does everyone feel like having a
41:54
nice time together as a group? That would be nice, watching
41:59
Retro almost die. It's really stressful.
42:01
It'd be nice to just do something easy, yeah?
42:04
We could go next. Wait, why did my voice get
42:06
lower? What the hell your?
42:11
Voice. Box got stretched out during the
42:13
surgery it looks like. Wait, try.
42:16
I need, I need a break. I'm going, I'm leaving.
42:21
I'm going to the glass market. Let's not tell tonight.
42:23
We'll see you then. Bye.
42:25
Bye. Phoebe leaves at the bar.
42:31
They'll meet you later at the Glass Market.
42:34
That was a little, that was a little funny.
42:37
I made him think that I was going through second puberty
42:39
again. Oh, hold on.
42:44
Somebody's calling me. Oh, Hoy, Hoy, this is retro.
42:48
What's that there's a charge for, motherfucker?
43:06
Next time on no latency. I'm going to need something to
43:14
carry this in. Well, that's nice.
43:16
OMW, see you there. All right, I never leave the
43:20
house looking for a fat clang. Oh no, is that foreshadowing?
43:26
Right Domino, yes, this isn't all about about me.
43:29
I have 10,000 eddies for domino stuff so we can.
43:33
Do a lot of shopping. I'm doing it currently.
43:36
I hope we don't get robbed. Bubble Tea's.
43:38
On the way back. What?
43:40
Why are you at the merch desk? It's I love glass market.
43:43
He's. Only like 3 years old.
43:45
I mean, this is the glass market, but it is still a night
43:47
market. If anything, I might
43:49
overestimate it. Iona is pretty good at this
43:51
actually. That's exactly right.
43:53
He pretty much nailed it right on the head.
43:54
Thank you, Clive. Pleasure as always.
43:56
Then you probably know where. To go.
43:57
I think that makes sense. It's.
43:59
All free right now, no longer talking like a vampire.
44:02
No. Retro.
44:05
Retro, Retro, What are you doing?
44:06
Sir, what are you doing to me? Why are you threatening me like
44:09
that? How much, motherfucker?
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