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S2E69 - The Investors · No Latency

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Last time on no latency. It was a spacious train.
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Gangers. Heck, normal.
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That's probably not a good idea. I don't want to have a freak out
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before we get to the market. Oh no, we forgot to get
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sanitizer. Shut up, shut, shut up.
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Oh, you kind of smell like meat. Just.
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Shut it. Here we go.
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Why are they standing up now? Iona they they didn't, they
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didn't meet it. Please, please don't do it.
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I was so graciously letting you sit here because in fact you are
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on my train car. Please stay back.
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I'm kicking him in the balls this.
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Is this is dangerous? The one place that they didn't
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grow him up. Hurts doesn't.
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It that guy's having a bad day? Yeah.
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He's not doing too great. We're.
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Going to patch you up. You're going to be OK, don't
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worry about it. I.
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Really didn't want to have to do this.
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It'll be quick and bind less bang back.
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All right, throw him off the train.
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What was that word you? Just used defenestration.
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What was that like? When you throw somebody through
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a window. We've made it.
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So where? Where do we go from here?
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I guess we go shopping. Because of the vending machines,
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Yes. All right, and let's check out
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the vending machines. But also we are, you know, going
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to a night market. Oh, we are.
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We are going. Yeah, but I'm, you know, I got a
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bit of a sweet tooth and I can go for some ginger snaps.
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Wait, no, that's not what you're called.
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Gisner snaps. Yes, those are canonically
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sweet, right? I.
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I was going. To say I mean.
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Or salted. I was going to snap it exactly.
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It's, it's a bit like salted caramel, you know, as if that
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now that if you look at the packet, it says now with extra
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jizz, it's that lovely sort of salty, sweet white stuff on top.
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They're they're frosted. The frosting's the best part.
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I just need to know if the jizzner snaps are going to
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satisfy my sweet tooth. I think so.
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You'll have to look at the vending machines.
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Let's take a look. All right, you can look at the
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vending machines by rolling AD 10.
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Each of you can look for three things.
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Just roll 3D10. Very nice.
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Oh, so I had to use the restroom.
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Good. Roll me.
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So Jeb, you find a full row of spoiled boost, so it's dead.
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Most of the cans are empty that some of them have burst and it's
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kind of stained that side of the inside of the vending machine.
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Then you find a an armour Jack little jacket for 150 eddies and
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inside the other vending machine you look in you find a
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disposable raincoak for 10 eddies.
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Now, is this a train station that we're in?
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Like is it does not get a lot of foot traffic?
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Why? Why is all this?
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Spoiled Jeb. You look to your right hand side
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and you see that the foot traffic entrance to this station
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has caved in. The only access to this station
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is via train or if you were brave enough to walk through the
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tunnel. Now meaning that this over here
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is a tunnel or or the tunnel itself being the train tracks.
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Yeah, I think, I think the GM means the train tracks.
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Yeah, that's that's OK Din Tunnel.
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That's why. All right.
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So this this is just rebel. That's no, no way in or out.
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Yes, got it. Oh, look, there's kind of a face
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in the rubble if you look. That's accidental.
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That's funny. Oh yeah, I see it.
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There's this. Mouth I love how creative you.
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Are and then his forehead. Yeah.
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But I'm, I'm really good at drawing, so I, I see the I see
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the silhouette. Oh, Vivi, what did you find?
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Vivi, you've found 10 ammo for 20 eddies.
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You found a trank dart, and you've found another armor Jack
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for 150, but because you rolled A10 you can roll again if you
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like. All right, five, you find a
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Taser boy plushy. Oh my.
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Gosh. It doesn't hurt anything, it's
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just adorable. It's the little Taser boy mascot
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holding a little Taser that has a little piece of neon in it
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that lights up every few seconds.
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It's adorable. Oh my gosh, it's so cute.
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There's a little Taser boy plushy in there.
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It's 69 eddies. 69 eddies that's.
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Nice. That's so expensive, but I kind
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of want it. You have to have it.
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I do. You're right.
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All right, You know what 69 eddies it is.
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And you charge 69 eddies and it gives you the last Taser boy
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plushy in the whole set of vending machines.
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Anybody need a tranq dart or ammo or anything?
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I mean, the important thing is I got this plushy, but you know,
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there are some other useful things in here.
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Iona has found a one shot Taser from the Taser Boy brand for 100
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eddies. Another row of spoiled Boost and
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as you look all the cans of boost in these vending machines
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seems to all have exploded and has expired.
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And then you found another tranc dart, so there are two and you
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get to roll again to roll the 10.
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How much is the tranc dart? 75 They come with a little
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pocket firing module so you can fire it through your pocket if
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you wanted to and you rolled a nine.
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So you have the choice of finding either another armour
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Jack or another clip of ammo for the Taser.
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Taser ammo and you get Taser ammo.
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How much? How much is the Taser ammo?
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Taser ammo is forty 80s. All right, so I guess I'll pick
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up the Taser. Taser.
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Ammo. Cool so the Taser is 140 plus?
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Did you buy the track darts? No.
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OK that Taser boy. Plus she is so cute I.
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Mean it's a great, it's a great brand.
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What does Taser Boy look like? It's very akin to Fallout's
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Fallout Boy. Oh.
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Boy. Yeah.
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That's so cute. So that's all from the vending
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machines then, I guess little coast bike shopping, little
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decompression, that's good. Yes, quick question, GM yes.
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How was it just two charge? Two charges?
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So the one charge of the Taser and then the the.
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Taser has four shots per clip. OK, eight Taser shots.
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But you'd have to reload after four, obviously.
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Is there a show off button? Yes.
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It's government mandated. Oh man, that's just show off
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button right? You're not just flashing with
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people. No no no, just a show off
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button. I don't actually think it Tases
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you, so I hit the show off button and put it to my hand.
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Roller D 10. OK, we're about to find out.
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Nine, it does not. It's like, it's like putting
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your hands through a safety flame.
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Did did you want to be fake tased?
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I want to be yeah, do it. All right, show up button Buzz,
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buzz. No, I feel it.
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It's electric. Hey, wait, you didn't roll for
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that one? I should probably roll acting.
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Is that too much? Do I need to?
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I mean, I, I think that it was fantastic.
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Thank you. I was, I'm, I'm working really
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hard on lying. I mean acting 15.
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It was very convincing. Jeb, you turn around and you can
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see just Iona electrocute in Vendel and then it looks.
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Like what are you doing? No, Jeb, it's a joke.
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Look. Vendel takes it and puts it up
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against Jeb's chest and pushes the button.
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Now let's see if they push the right button.
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Am I rolling for this? Yes, you should roll for this.
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I should roll. For this.
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Roll. What should I roll?
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Just a straight up D10 eight. No, no, it doesn't.
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It just, it tingles a little bit, Jeb.
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I'd like to think that I mean, if, if there's a gun like, you
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know, Jeb has canonically very quick reflexes.
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So does Bendel. I feel like he would try to like
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that's true, like grab it. Yeah, OK.
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All right. Roll, roll something and no roll
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Evasion is what you have to roll.
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And I guess, I guess Vendel has to roll brawling.
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Sure, it's fucking credible. So you watch.
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You watch Jeb and Mandel both have a reactive matrix fight
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just for a second. Oh, no, wait.
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No, Jeb, I'm kidding. Why are we?
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Oh my God, it's a joke. Jeb, Look.
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It's you can't just, you can't just pull a gun on me.
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My God, man. And then you slide away from
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each other. Ah, it's a joke.
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Look. Jeez, my heart's racing right
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now. I mean, I mean just like a like
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a mule at a, at a Coke festival. What?
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It's a show off button. I've never seen a mule at A at a
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Coke. Festival before festival.
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Well, this has been weird, so we're here.
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We are. I mean wherever here he is.
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Station 0. Oh, I thought this was anywhere.
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No, the train kept going so. Is there?
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A train going anywhere? Then where are we?
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Station 0 The The thing starts in 10 minutes.
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Oh I mean there is a big zero spray painted on the wall over
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there. Yeah, there is.
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See. Oh, I thought that stood for Oh.
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No. I don't.
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I don't see it. Jep's doing Theatre of the Mind
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in a really great. Job let me take my glasses off
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real fast. Oh, I'm not wearing any glasses.
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Glasses. Are you going to take your
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glasses off to look to, to make sure you see it all right?
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No, I was going to, I was going to like clear my glasses.
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You thought you were maybe wearing shades indoors.
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No, it was a joke. That might look cool, Iona.
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Sure I I I take the the shades out of my bag and put the shades
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on. So now our owner is wearing
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shades inside. It's well lit enough that you
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can still see Jeb. You move over towards the
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abandoned bathroom door, step inside and you see it's filled
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with a few sinks and a bunch of stalls for bathrooms.
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And some of them are glowing. Yeah, the doors are.
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Don't go to the one all the way at the far right.
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I blew that sucker up. Oh, thank you for the warning.
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I will not get in there. Yeah.
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Jeb, do you want to look around the bathroom?
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Not really. OK, so.
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I'm going to go ahead and come back out.
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There's nothing in the bathroom. Jeb takes a tertiary glance at
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the inside of the bathroom and returns to everyone at a door
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that just says STAFF only. It's unusually clean, unlike the
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rest of this room. It's found itself just in the
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corner, the very South of this large train platform.
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Well, there doesn't seem to be any other way out of here.
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So vandal, you want to just kick this bitch?
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Yeah, jab. Go for it.
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Kick it. Oh no, Vandal's the one with the
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robot. Like I think they should do it.
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That is fair. You're.
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Going to give vandal the breach and clear.
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That's well, they'll get the breach, I'll get the clear.
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Do we? I mean, we've got a pass.
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Oh, oh do we. Is it?
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Is there like a little scanner here I'm?
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I'm not, no. I mean, we could knock up.
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I suppose. All right, that.
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Doesn't make sense. Staff doesn't knock.
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I'm knocking. I knock.
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I own a knocks and you hear a voice on the other side and a
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little slat opens and there are a pair of eyes looking at you.
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Hello. How can I help?
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I I'm here for the market. Oh, you have one of the past
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things. I do I pull out my pass.
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Name. Iona Popescu.
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He points a little laser thing through the hole and it scans
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your pass and you can smell that it lets off a little of the
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blood into the air. Jeb, you were quite enamoured by
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this smell and it makes you think of bacon.
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I only see the guy look at this thing through the slot all.
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Right, only two guests. Let me know when you've made
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your decision. Just knock again.
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Well, I suppose I'll be waiting for you guys out here.
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And Jeff goes over and sits on the couch.
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He knows he won't be a chosen. Well, we do need to think about
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what we need. I mean, heist wise.
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Oh. That's right, should we step
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away from the door so they don't hear our plan?
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Probably yes. So you will gather around Jeb,
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who's sitting on one of these sofas.
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All right, well, who wants to come with me?
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Well, I mean I admit I would like to be involved, I just know
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that more than likely won't be too much help.
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In the past I've been bit of a nuisance.
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Well, how are we going to get it out?
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Have we considered that? Domino said it was in a vault
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and then that this was an old train station.
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So maybe there's a way to disable the security system they
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talked about, because there's like security here, I think.
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And there'll be like a bunch of like executives because it's a
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bunch of executives from different companies, right?
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Right. So we're probably going to have
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to have a way for the executives to be distracted long enough
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away from the objects so that we can sneak into where the object
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is and take it, you know, basic heist shit.
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So we've got Sneaky team and. Distraction team.
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And so for distraction I vote either VV or Jeb.
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And then I need retro. Well, maybe, maybe whatever team
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goes in, you know, traditionally through the front door, maybe
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they can keep a lookout and see if there's any sort of back way
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in and then let the other team know how to get in from a
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different why. I was going to say that I would
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suggest that Jeb would be on the Sneaky team because Jeb is the
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sneakiest of us all. This.
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Is very true. Well.
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Thank you. I appreciate that.
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I. Don't think anybody can stealth
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as well as Jeb in in the team. All right.
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So I'm picking Remy and VV. Is that correct?
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And then Van Dell and Vendel and Jeb Dream Team.
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Hell yeah. And Dale.
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Have to. Oh, I mean again.
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Yeah. That's what I thought you said.
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Hell yeah. I thought you'd leave retro
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because it. Sounds like to disable the
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vault. OK, but what if we need tech
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things? That's why you got your job.
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You're smart. Wow, that's.
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Why we got you, Van Dale? You can.
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You can like kick it with the robot lag.
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Right. Kick.
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It with the butt leg. Yeah, whatever tech is in our
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way, if it's not cooperating, you can kick it.
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I'm. Like, yeah, sure, reserve the
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right to call retro and do remote things.
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We're in the city now. We can use our satellite and
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stuff. That'll work.
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Call my friends. With your leg first, but no.
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Don't even look, guys, it's fine.
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I'll be on Team Jeb. I'm not.
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I just, I wanted to see what the investor meeting was like and
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I've got biotechnical and I look, but it's fine.
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I'm gonna, I'm gonna record it. Don't worry.
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I I can also do I have a cyber eye?
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Yeah. I do, I just I always forget.
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I never use it for anything. Vendela, I can broadcast to you.
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It's it's, it's fine. Like you guys have fun in the
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room and it there's probably a lot of characters in there.
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It's probably best I go with Vendel.
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It's fine. You are Vendel.
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I mean, Jeb, sorry, it's just my subconscious wanting to go solo.
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Solo mission window. We're going to have a great
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time. High 5.
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I'm going to turn on the broadcast feature of the Cyber
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Eye so Wendell can see their own face.
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I'm just going to leave the video on and if you need my
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attention I'm going to mute it. All right.
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I like to think that there's some sort of overlay like a
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Twitch stream. Like what does yours say, Iona?
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It says ello Corpo and. And underneath it says
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confidential and it keeps flashing.
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And every time you every time you donate, a little Remy pops
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up and does a dance. Who donates?
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Am I meant to donate to this park?
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You get a you get a 10 Eddy donation from Vendel.
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Oh no, that's cute, that's funny, I like that.
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I don't. I don't fully get what the baby
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Thanos joke is, but it seems very funny.
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Jeb. Jeb like donates so that his
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message can read, can be read out loud and it just says is
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this where I type in the message?
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Is this where I type in the message?
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You know that plays in my ear, right?
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Oh oh. And it cost you 5 eddies.
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Yeah. Oh, it's a donation.
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It's straight up. You get my 5.
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Eddies. Yeah, that's it.
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It's bits. It's straight money.
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Cool. And you're streaming to two
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viewers. Wow.
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It doesn't include yourself things.
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I mean, it's good that it's two viewers.
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Let's be honest, Phoebe, unless you guys are going to watch,
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that's weird. You're going to go in there,
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aren't you? You guys have fun.
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Bye. Hold on.
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Well, we separate. Yeah, Team Jeb, what's the rule?
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I mean, there are a lot of rules.
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Which rules you're talking about specifically?
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We don't press buttons. Unless they are labeled, yes.
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All right. Unless close enough.
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Right, we don't press buttons. Full stop, Jeb.
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I'll push buttons. Man, I mean, I would really
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appreciate it maybe if you could just tell me which buttons to
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push because I. Find you can push one button 11
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button. Yeah, that's all I'm asking.
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I'm all I just want to get out of my system, you know, I see
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problems, I will want to press them buttons.
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Yeah, I'm sorry. I've got anxiety.
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The last time I went alone with you, we found a battery made of
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human beings. Yeah, it was eventful, I'd say.
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Eventful. Anyway guys, I'll see you later.
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I'm going to go to the bathroom. Have fun both y'all now.
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Bye. Vendel goes off to the bathroom
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to cool off. I want Vendel to roll perception
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because they're in the bathroom and then you guys will get a
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message whether they find anything and then you can go
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back up to the door. Perception 14.
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OK. You'll find out soon.
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All right. Knock knock, knock.
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Hello. I have my 2 guests.
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All right, show your pass again. I hold up my pass.
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He points the little laser thing.
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Careful, it's close to my eyes. You're going to be fine.
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All right, That's you and these your two guests.
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Correct. Good.
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All right. A panel on the door opens and it
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takes a photograph of the three of you quite quickly.
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You will feel the flash a little bit and then it closes.
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The door opens. Jeb is out of frame, so it does
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not see Jeb or Vendel. Just as we plan.
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All right. Welcome investor and you step
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into a large room. Across from you is a makeshift
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bar tended by 1 bar person. There to your left is a woman
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sitting at a desk, and then to your right is a large conference
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table with three seats and five people already seated, meaning
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there are only three spots left. That's us.
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Check in with the desk. Oh, bless you, miss.
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Sorry, that was a big sneeze. I was three in one.
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It's. Crazy.
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Totally. Fine, Miss, Sorry you had three
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sneezes. Sorry, I'm Scott.
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I can mute my own sneezes. Well, well, well.
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How are you all It's? Nice to meet you.
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Welcome to the investors. Thank you.
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I'm miss fruits. It's nice to meet you.
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Hello, Miss Fruits. I facilitate this particular way
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of doing business. Wonderful.
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Now the item tonight, oh, I've got the sniffles.
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Oh, pardon me. Now the item tonight is the
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nuclear heart indented by some shut in somewhere in middle
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America. We killed him and we took his
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tech and now one of the corporations can invent it for
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good PR, you know, normal R&D. Yeah, totally getting past the
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patent system. Very clever.
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Register, find the invention before they register it, or find
22:07
a crazy person who's invented something fantastic and milk it
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for all it's worth. Where do you think the orange
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squares came from? I mean, that's genius.
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Making sure that they expire before they even have a chance
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to put it into the patent makes it so that way that tech is
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completely open to anybody at that point.
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Except the person who buys it tonight, obviously.
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Well, then, 'cause you get a patent, of course, that's the
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kind of point protection of it, right?
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You buy, you get the patent for it.
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Yes, speaking to you, Mike Patent.
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I thought I was. No, you were not.
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Am I now? Yes.
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Yeah, if you could just turn your speaker up a little bit,
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Remy. All right, test it.
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Well. Zoinks.
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You can help yourself to a drink at the bar or the drink's
23:04
complimentary, of course, as a full set of drinks that we're
23:07
selling tonight. And then if you would like,
23:09
before we start, I can show you the security arrangements.
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Can we see the heart before we begin?
23:21
I don't see why not. Perfect.
23:24
Would either of you like to grab a drink before we are?
23:27
These are these two assistants or buyers?
23:30
Assistants, right? Well, they're welcome to take a
23:33
drink and I can bring over all of our investors to look at the
23:37
item before we start. I see.
23:40
Yes. Good.
23:42
Cool. Ladies and gentlemen, days and
23:45
dens, we're going to be viewing the item before the investment
23:49
starts in just a few minutes. The gaggle of people behind you
23:55
quietly line up. Quite a few of them are checking
23:58
things on their chyrons, but they all look very, very
24:02
business Y. Sure, people want to get their
24:05
drinks before going on such a lengthy walk.
24:08
Everyone else already has drinks except Iona.
24:11
I'll just grab it. I'll walk over to the bar.
24:14
Excuse me, bartender. Yeah, yes.
24:18
May I please have a ginger ale? We have Gisner Ale.
24:22
I would love a Gisner Ale. You got it.
24:24
And they pull a can from underneath, wipe the top with a
24:27
sanitary towel, throw it away and crack the top.
24:29
As requested. Can I have that in a glass?
24:33
You can. She pulls out a glass from out
24:36
of the bar. It pulls out of a hidden
24:38
compartment as it washes, and then a hologram covers back over
24:44
the holes so you'd never know. She sets it down and fills the
24:47
glass. Do.
24:48
You want to ask? I would love ice.
24:50
Thank you and. They clink 3 cubes of ice into
24:52
your glass. Very good.
24:54
Thank you. I I tipped the five eddies that
24:58
Jeb just donated to me. Excellent.
25:03
I'm watching. I'm I'm laying back.
25:05
I'm just waiting for Bendel. So I'm laying back on the got my
25:08
feet kicked up on the couch just watching on watching the stream
25:12
on my dial. Should we stay at the bar?
25:15
I mean, I'm going to let them all go first and then kind of
25:18
death behind. I got to see what this system
25:21
is. Otherwise it's not going to be
25:23
what was the point of me coming in here?
25:24
You might as well just send jab. OK, Should I go with you?
25:30
Sure, Yeah, we're just going to let this Legion of Doom go by
25:33
first. And have you seen these people?
25:35
I mean, you've got a straight up 1980s Soviet guy with the
25:39
monocle Nathan Fillion, several anime protagonotrophy.
25:47
Do you want to roll to see if you know who these people are?
25:50
Yeah. Yeah, I.
25:51
Should probably do that. What are you?
25:53
Doing. Now do we?
25:54
Know who these people are. Everyone roll local experts for
25:59
Night City. Telling that one on the right
26:01
doesn't look like a JoJo antagonist.
26:03
It does. The Wild outfit tomato.
26:06
The one underneath looks like Tracy.
26:08
Yes, actually it looks like. What's her name?
26:12
That actress that everybody says I look like.
26:15
Reba. Reba, young Reba.
26:17
Very good. Oh God, that's it.
26:20
Rears local. The local expert you said it
26:22
was, Yeah. All right, so Iona, you
26:25
recognize a few people who live in Knight City.
26:29
You recognize Vance Lester, who's the guy directly to your
26:32
S, He works for Ziggurat. And you recognize the woman next
26:39
to him, Jezebel Sive, who works for Continental Brands, because
26:44
you're in a meeting with them once retro.
26:46
You recognize both of those people from a few sheets as well
26:51
as Zeal Mastic because his name has been on some sheets for some
26:57
of the tech that he has brought to Petra Chem and his name has
27:02
sometimes been on your gas bill. Fucker.
27:04
Celine Basque is who you recognize.
27:08
Vivi. Celine Basque works for Rockland
27:11
Augmetics. Celine Basque Rockland Well.
27:18
You know rock. Yep, poof, a lot of big suits
27:23
here. Retro man.
27:26
That one over there works for rock.
27:29
They do like all like you know the.
27:31
Cyberwear and all that stuff, which, you know, it's pretty.
27:34
Cool zeal or zeal? That's Zeke.
27:37
Zeke, Boulder. Oh, I thought it was Zeal.
27:42
Zeke Boulder. OK.
27:43
Well, yeah, we should. We should probably just wait for
27:45
them to, you know, do their little thing and stroll off and
27:51
then just. Fall behind where you know, give
27:54
that professional courtesy. Of course.
27:58
We probably should have a drink while we get the chance.
28:00
Yeah. You watch the crowd move off
28:02
into the hallway as Iona is guided along with the rest of
28:06
these people by Miss Fruits. And you look at the table, you
28:11
look at the bar top, and there's actually a menu on a floating
28:14
hologram screen. And it says they have a few
28:17
things. They have glow gin.
28:19
I have void martinis, giznit ale, real water, dark glaze
28:23
whiskey, and green glow martinis green glow martini.
28:28
So the green glow martini and the glow gin will make your
28:30
mouth glow. Glow gin will make your mouth
28:34
glow white. Green glow martinis will make
28:37
your mouth glow green. Void martinis are made out of
28:42
fake squid ink and are blacker than night.
28:46
Wow. So it's very thick, viscous,
28:49
alcoholic fluid, but it's probably delicious because these
28:53
people are rich. Yeah.
28:57
And as a side of food, there's synth caviar and crackers.
29:00
Oh. This is a fancy place.
29:06
I feel a little out of my element being so fancy.
29:08
What do you order as you follow them in?
29:12
Can I get a dark and stormy? I can only make what's on the
29:15
list. Fuck, give me give me the glow
29:21
martini. Green Glow Martini coming up.
29:24
They pull a glass out of the bar with a little flourish, whack it
29:27
on top, shake one out in a pre made cocktail shaker, crack the
29:33
top like a brand new water bottle and pour your drink in
29:36
and then add some little flourishes.
29:38
Uh huh. There you go.
29:40
Thank you. I'll tip them half of whatever
29:43
it's supposed to cost. So 10 eddies.
29:46
Sure. Twenty 80s Damn, that's.
29:49
A fancy drink that makes your mouth glow for makes your mouth
29:51
glow if you drink it for an hour so.
29:54
Well, I I sip on it. All right, well, your mouth will
29:57
now glow for an hour. What do you want?
30:00
I was going to get the same thing.
30:02
Green glow martini. Green glow Martini and some of
30:05
those synth. What was it, the synth caviar or
30:08
whatever? It's caviar.
30:09
Yeah, a little. Synth caviar.
30:12
It's a little canopy tray for you.
30:14
Thank you. It's.
30:15
Personal canopy tray. It'll attach to your glass with
30:19
this little hook thing. It's pretty.
30:21
It's pretty cute. Lovely, I know.
30:24
And so your martini glass can like slide into this little
30:27
entree tray just at the base. It's quite adorable.
30:30
And there's a little spoon for the caviar and a little slot for
30:33
about 5 crackers. So you've got like a little sort
30:36
of adult lunchable, I suppose, attached to your drink.
30:40
This curve too. A high class Lunchable.
30:43
Yeah, I mean, what is a security board if not a lunchable for
30:47
adults? It's more expensive.
30:51
Wait, do they have make your own pizza security boards?
30:55
You say as the crowd moves towards the end of the corridor.
30:59
Well, now Retro is going to become a millionaire for that
31:02
idea. And here we have our security
31:05
system. Says Miss Fruits to Iona and the
31:08
group of people. The hallway is guarded by guards
31:13
and we have one guard in front of the vault.
31:16
He is not allowed to move because if he does, he might
31:19
activate the system. Absolutely.
31:21
We are told to stay absolutely still.
31:24
Now, the guard at the front of the vault in our current
31:28
situation is unaware of some of the security measures.
31:31
He's just been told to stand still, right?
31:35
I'm going to turn off the system that is a three.
31:40
And he turns off the system and a bunch of the there's a laser
31:45
that you can see in front of you and it disappears and you can
31:50
hear the the guard in the hallway call out.
31:54
Is it all right now? Can I move not?
31:57
Just and you hear a laser go off and then gunfire.
32:03
Oh. But as you might be aware, our
32:08
system is incredibly efficient. But we may have one less guard
32:13
for the night, Madam. Oh well, you're stupid.
32:17
Wasn't. He incredibly so.
32:20
OK, well maybe we should up the IQ requirement for these jobs in
32:26
the future. Absolutely, Madam, but at least
32:28
it is proof that the inside of this hallway is incredibly
32:31
deadly. Indeed, that is a very good
32:33
observation. Also, don't talk to me like this
32:36
again. And the guards do their best to
32:40
shimmy past you as you will run single file into this hallway.
32:46
And here is our defensive hallway.
32:50
As you can see, we have turrets on the ground, and this man over
32:55
here was shot to death by these turrets.
32:58
So that's interesting. When she goes up to the computer
33:01
and unlocks the door and it pops open and there in the room you
33:05
can see the part floating on a little platform.
33:10
It's being held a little magnetically floating plinth for
33:15
you all to see at the end of this corridor.
33:17
I can't let anybody inside if you wouldn't mind.
33:20
One of the guards has shimmied his way up to the front to stand
33:23
beside the door, I guess. I'm I'm going to be starting
33:26
here now. I know about the lasers, though,
33:27
so I know the way that they go. So nobody's going to come in.
33:31
If you wouldn't mind stepping back from the door just a little
33:34
bit so everyone else can see. Thank you very much.
33:38
So when I originally began to step into the room I I made sure
33:44
to do like a full pan of the room before they told me to step
33:49
back. Fair enough.
33:51
Good roll for me. Something to get that
33:54
information. Well this says I only have two
34:00
luck. That's sucks.
34:02
You spent some on the train. I did spend some on the train,
34:05
and you know what? I'm going to spend the rest
34:06
right now because I need this information.
34:11
Yoink. OK, what can I have done?
34:15
I guess we'll just do perception.
34:17
Sure, +2 with your luck. Oh.
34:23
Thank goodness. And that's why I use luck.
34:25
Exactly. That's 15 even with your crit
34:27
fail, which is enough to get a full picture of the inside of
34:31
the room. But you only manage to get the
34:32
visual spectrum, not the infrared spectrum.
34:35
So the image will not have any of the lasers placed in the data
34:42
whatsoever. So you know the layout of the
34:44
room, but not necessarily how the defences work.
34:46
So they may have to work that out themselves.
34:48
There are lasers in this hallway, there are lasers in the
34:51
vault, and we keep everything in there secure, including some
34:55
other investments for other markets that may happen.
35:00
But tonight is obviously about the nuclear heart.
35:05
Is everyone satisfied that it is indeed an object?
35:08
I am satisfied. Ma'am says that they're
35:10
satisfied, so they're satisfied. It is the only one in existence
35:15
being the prototype, and I imagine examining said object
35:18
would be enough to create a fleet of them, thus improving
35:22
said companies. Wow, stock prices and then we
35:26
will all invest and benefit from it.
35:29
Oh absolutely, I love that idea. Fuck this.
35:32
People start making their way back to the main room.
35:37
The crew seem to door door slightly.
35:41
Did we see what we needed to see?
35:43
I say to Rummy and Vivi. Retro Do you do anything before
35:47
the door shuts? Well, I did a deep scan inside
35:50
there to see what I could see. I couldn't see much.
35:53
I did see one or two interesting things and sent a message to
35:57
Iona VMI Chiron, but that's about it.
36:00
Cool. Did you want to roll for any of
36:02
that information? Sure. 13 You discover with just
36:08
your tertiary glance with your cameras two of the lasers.
36:14
So you now know where some of the lasers are with just your
36:17
tertiary glance. So in my mind, from the glance
36:21
that I'd taken, create a digital image inside my head and
36:25
recreate it to have the lasers in where I perceive them to be
36:29
at. What?
36:30
What do you mean that you send a message to Vendel with the
36:34
pattern of those lasers? I mean, when we were ready to,
36:36
it was going to. I was just letting you know that
36:39
I. May have memorized the lasers.
36:41
In a digital format in my head. All right.
36:43
So you've saved the position of the lasers as a file.
36:46
I get it. Cool that you.
36:47
Could have said I know where they are.
36:49
I know where. Thelasers.jpg.
36:54
No, no no, not a jpg, a PNG. Jpegs can for sure lose
37:00
distortion, PNGS not so much. VV Do you do anything to the
37:05
dead body in here? It feels like VV life.
37:10
Or are you trying not to play the the medical professional in
37:13
this particular moment? Yeah.
37:18
Can I like try to examine it? Yeah, yeah.
37:26
Examine it as you walk by to see if you can learn anything.
37:29
Yeah, I would like to just examine this, this dead body,
37:33
see if I get anything from it. Let's see.
37:39
I'll defer. 16 Yes, that is high enough to recognize that the
37:45
bullets in here from these guns are armour piercing.
37:50
OK. You recognize from the wounds
37:52
that they can rip right through our mouth so that's they can do
37:55
damage. We hate armour piercing.
37:57
We hate armour. Well, not when we have it.
38:01
Are you all ready to come with Of?
38:04
Yes. Yes.
38:07
So you leave the hallway, the lasers reactivate, you head to
38:12
the table. I'm sitting at the table, I'm
38:16
responding to Remy's message and sending out a message to Vendel
38:21
while, you know, while the security isn't around.
38:25
And then they'll send you back a message with their perception
38:29
they rolled much, much earlier, that there's a vent in the
38:32
bathroom and then they'll comes out of the bathroom towards Jeb.
38:36
Jeb. There's a vent in in the
38:40
bathroom. Jeb is you know how like
38:43
sometimes when you're laying on the couch and you're watching a
38:47
stream and you just get tired and so you fall asleep and
38:50
you're tile rather your phone, I suppose in real life, just like
38:53
falls on your face and you're that's that's Jeb.
38:56
Jeb is just literally passed out like the his tile on his face.
39:01
Just. Jeb, wake the fuck up.
39:07
Oh shit I missed the last like 30 minutes of the stream.
39:11
There's no way. There's no way you missed the
39:13
last 30 minutes. I was only in there for like 15
39:15
anyway. Dude, dude, dude.
39:18
Yeah, what? There's a vent in the bathroom.
39:20
There's a vent in the bathroom. There's a vent in the bathroom I
39:24
just sent. I just sent Iona a message.
39:26
They can send me anything back. Can they send me anything back?
39:29
I wonder if they can. You think there's a firewall?
39:31
What's going on? Are you OK?
39:34
It's probably the firewall I heard I learned about them
39:38
retro. No, the GM said.
39:39
We could talk. I've sent a message.
39:41
Oh oh. I.
39:44
Yeah, well, it's probably because you got through the
39:46
firewall. I relay the message that Remy
39:51
sent to me about the the corners of the room glowing with the
39:57
same glow as the bathroom stalls.
40:00
It. Does yeah.
40:03
Anyway, I I basically the message I really is that I think
40:05
you can get in through the bathroom.
40:07
Oh, we can get. In Iona thinks we can get in
40:09
through the bathroom, which is great because I was worried we
40:11
were going to explore through the tunnel and maybe get hit by
40:13
a train. No, yeah, that's dangerous.
40:15
You you don't want to be walking on train tracks.
40:17
Yeah, so glad the GM gives us multiple entrances to the things
40:21
we need. Yeah, otherwise it would be
40:25
we'd, I feel, shoehorned into doing exactly what he had
40:28
planned. Right, exactly like like
40:31
especially with you saying chew, chew, motherfucker.
40:33
I really expected to have to dodge a train, but now we won't.
40:36
Hopefully if we can get the vent open.
40:37
So, Jeb, come on. I'm right behind you and.
40:40
Bendel and Jeb make their way into the bathroom.
40:44
All right, we're here. Yes, we are.
40:46
Oh fuck, where's the vent? I don't know.
40:48
Roll perception. You're the one that said you
40:50
found it. I'd left you roll perception.
40:53
I don't know where it is. Sure.
40:56
And and now I rolled an 11 on perception.
40:57
I've completely forgotten where it is, but you were older 19
40:59
clarity. Wait, hold on, hold on.
41:02
I smell a bit of a draft. It's coming from right, right
41:08
there. I see it.
41:09
Oh, there it is, in this incredibly obvious corner
41:12
between these two toilets. I should have seen that.
41:16
Oh, I see. It wasn't a stall, It was just a
41:20
secret entrance. Yeah.
41:22
There's no toilet here. OK, All right, so we're going to
41:24
go in this vent then what? Well, I mean, I suppose it
41:29
depends on where this event takes us, don't it?
41:31
It's going to be an event for sure.
41:34
It is locked though. Well, that's a Gray 1, Van Dale
41:37
High 5. High five, yeah.
41:39
Van, Dale and Jeb are best friends now.
41:43
Yeah. All right, well, I guess I'll
41:46
oh, I locked on accident. That's.
41:49
All me you should unlock it. You should.
41:50
You should do the thing with your manliness and also because
41:55
you're in front of me. Right open.
41:57
Yeah, well, how are you going to do it?
41:59
Sure. It's a vent.
42:01
I whip out the the combat shovel, kind of extend it and
42:05
flip it over to its, you know, full length.
42:09
And I stick the the the spade end of it into the in between
42:13
the wall and the vent and just. Roll for it.
42:17
Athletics 18. Yes, you unlock the vent.
42:20
Clatters to the floor. All right.
42:22
Hopefully you nobody heard that. All right, Jeb, you first.
42:27
Sure, yeah, I'll get in there. I've been been into worse.
42:33
Oh, it is a little tight. Just be aware.
42:37
Oh boy. We're immediately looks like we
42:41
are immediately given choice between going left or right.
42:45
Right. Well, if my internal compass is
42:50
correct, I think we got to go take a ride.
42:52
OK. So.
42:54
Lead the way all. Right, let's keep crawling
42:57
through here like John Mcclane on Christmas.
42:59
And like MacGyver. Well, kinda, I guess.
43:03
And oh, oh, Bend, you quiet, quiet.
43:09
There in the vent you see a little grate that leads to the
43:13
whole way. And I see a bunch of anime
43:17
protagonists and antagonists. You see Miss Fruits from the
43:22
stream talking to a guard. We can't really make out what
43:25
they're saying, but they're having a conversation.
43:28
Can we try? Can Vendel try?
43:30
Yes, absolutely, Jeb. Can you read lips?
43:35
Yeah, she's saying. She's saying she's.
43:39
Saying 16. Follow me, there's many apples.
43:45
Get out of the way, I need to see.
43:47
And then they'll pushes you out of the way to read the lips.
43:51
What would you say, Bendel? What you say?
43:53
They said if the power shuts down that the the whole system
43:56
shuts down for like 5 minutes and locks down the whole thing.
43:58
I think, but also that if that happens and they let anyone move
44:01
anywhere near it, that that that woman will kill that guard.
44:05
OK, so this seems to be the right way.
44:09
Nice job Van Deal. Looks like we'll make progress.
44:13
Making making progress. Wait, what?
44:15
What's that? What's the floor say down there?
44:17
Automated defences. Oh, OK.
44:23
So we're definitely on the right track.
44:25
Oh wait, Jeb, come back to the vent.
44:27
Have a look. Yeah.
44:30
Oh, it's kind of. Do you see that in the hallway?
44:33
Oh, it's kind of, it's real tight.
44:36
Is that is that some sort of gun?
44:39
Yeah, those are turrets. There are turrets, they're much
44:42
bigger in person. On the video they did not look
44:44
that big. Oh yeah, 'cause they're, you
44:46
know, they're shrunken down to the size of your tile when you
44:49
look at it. Right, that's gonna be OK.
44:51
So there's turrets in there. That's bad.
44:53
I. Suppose I mean, no, I'm, I'm not
44:55
going down there. Yeah, why would?
44:56
We. Yeah, exactly.
44:58
Let's move away from the turrets.
45:00
Agreed. All right, let's keep going down
45:03
this way and we we can find get some more clues.
45:07
And I mean, I, I at this point, I figure that we're going to
45:12
wait on the rest of the team to let us know when to drop down
45:17
and I'll make our move. Exactly.
45:20
OK, So what? What have you got in front of
45:22
you? Hold on.
45:23
Let me just pop open. Quiet, quiet.
45:27
Pop open. That's great.
45:28
Is is it? Is the great locked?
45:29
Yeah, God damn, it's locked. Oh shit.
45:32
Well, you you could just do the the the thing again.
45:34
Oh, oh, gosh, It's going to be real tight.
45:37
It's going to take my backpack off here.
45:39
OK. Can you move over to the side a
45:41
little bit? I need a little bit of.
45:42
Room. Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm taking a
45:43
step back or two. I'm back here.
45:45
Yeah, and it's, oh, God, it is tight, I tell you.
45:48
You know, they they don't make these vents for people.
45:50
They make they make it for air most of the time.
45:53
OK, I think I got it. Stand back.
45:58
Go me, Stand back. 17 Absolutely yes, you break open this great.
46:06
Oh, oh, oh, wait a minute. And do you step out yes or no?
46:10
I just want to stick my head out kind of like you stick.
46:12
Your head out and you see a turret and it detects motion and
46:17
turns towards you. OK, back up, back up.
46:20
Back up. Back up, back up, back up.
46:32
Next time on no latency. Every once in a while I
46:39
accidentally stumbled into a good play.
46:41
I'm going to throw a luck in here for Bendel.
46:44
Did he stutter? Just in case.
46:46
Oh God damn it. I chalk it up to both of us.
46:50
So good. Back into the van.
46:51
Back into the van. I don't answer the call.
46:53
I'm not sure it's if it's a stupid question or not Island,
46:56
so I'm go ahead and just ask. What?
46:58
I don't have anything to say to these people.
47:00
What's going? On what could go wrong with a
47:02
nuclear operated power source is.
47:06
A spicy. 115,003. 100,000. That was spicy.
47:11
Just wait till the Tapasco about to get dropped on this bitch.
47:14
They're really bitten up fast. The lowest bidders. 500,000.
47:18
There it is. Good.
47:19
Holy shit they. Were the highest bidders.
47:21
It is a disappointment, but look at the opportunity we have here
47:24
today. Better than what I think's about
47:26
to happen. Now.
47:27
Now what? Oh.
47:28
My gosh. Yep, Yep.
47:31
No, I I got that. My butt felt that.
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