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Last time on no latency side quest.
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Ahoy ahoy, this is retro. I'm neon pass by the way.
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I'm Cargill Ford. Vex.
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Lumen, is it OK if I take pictures of?
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How long is this going to take? I want one of those.
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The day before Chris, this is yes, Neon.
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I saved a spot next to me over here.
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Oh thanks man bro. You can win real money.
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You said you can play with friends.
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So this is two things. Do you need those?
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I love games a ball. Real money and a couple of
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video. Games.
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I'm just going to use my mind. No.
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I'm I'm good at one thing. It's time for your nudes to show
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us it's so. Crazy that now that we can't go
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and be. All I want to know is what's
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happening in B Shit I'm. Going to pick up my gun and.
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My body refuses to work. Hey, who knows how to fix doors?
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This is really going to affect us getting paid today, isn't it?
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Do you? Guys think the NDA still counts?
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Can I film? Can I just take pictures?
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It's getting messy, chum. Combat has begun, you can see
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this roided out dude holding the other assistant that was in the
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room. Kelly got her grapple SMG in his
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other hand and he just. Sprayed it everywhere.
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Cargill, you just got electrocuted, which is why
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you're only rolled A10 on initiative.
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Let's make that a reason and vex you.
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Feel your instincts in your veins and the first to do
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something that might keep these other people alive.
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Do that. Is is there a clear shot around
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this hostage? You'd have to aim shots of -8
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yeah, welcome to size. Is there anyone else that seems
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affiliated with it? No, fuck.
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OK. Do I have any?
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No, I don't have. Oh, actually, while the aim shot
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is also -8 if you do take a name shot, there are other there are
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other effects if you do end up hitting two.
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OK, you know what? Fuck it, let's do it.
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I'm stabilized behind the desk. I'm using that.
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So I'm going to try to go for the most open part of the body.
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So we can say even if that's like they're hamstring, right,
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whatever that is, just to try to get something that's going to go
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there. If you just want to shoot him in
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the body, yeah, that's not a name show.
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OK, you can just shoot him, but if you roll badly you will hit
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this chick. Well, with my log that's.
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Oh yeah, Ryan has legendarily bad luck.
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Yeah, He has the record for most crit ones over the years.
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It's it's really, Yeah. Can you?
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Hold your turn. Maybe this turns around in this
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system for you, Ryan. Maybe this is the one, yeah.
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Let's let in. Fact I I have an idea.
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I don't. I have no idea if it's gonna
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work, but it it might it might help.
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OK, shoot. No, I'm not.
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No, I don't have. A gun I don't give me, give me
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the idea. There's a computer on that
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table, right? And there are cameras.
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There's one outside looking right at our gunman.
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Can I use the computer to give Vex a better vantage point just
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to see exactly where? Yeah.
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Definitely. OK, so Vex, if you hold your
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turn, it is actually Lumen's turn next.
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Isn't that perfect? OK.
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Perfect. That's the only thing I could do
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with my turn that would remotely help in this situation.
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So security I'm guessing? Electronic security tech.
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Basic tech I'm just trying to patch into the cameras.
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Yeah. OK, let's check 17.
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Very good. Nice.
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Done, lumen. Lumen.
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You find the grid of all the cameras and you flick through
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them and you see that there are no cameras in the X room B,
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where the other group was, has some people carrying in the
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corner. There's the guy who asked stupid
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questions of the presentation. He's foaming at the mouth, and
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then you click and there's the hallway.
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Vex. Right in front of you is a
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really clearview of the cyber psycho in the hallway, pointing
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a gun back and forth between two guards and then occasionally
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looking at you through the doorway.
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OK, I'm going to take that body shot.
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You get plus one because of the cameras.
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Was that your role? That's this role.
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Oh, you roll the fucking. Crit, I think he done did it.
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Yeah. That's a great class 6.
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You rolled 25. The bullet rips through the room
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you rolled 2 fours on. I need to savor that moment.
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Can can you say? No, and again you rolled auto
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fire. And the curse is good or bad.
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You know what that means? Oh fuck.
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I don't, yeah. We.
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Still playing Cyberpunk, right? I have no clue what I just did.
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D DS not your game, it's cyberpunk.
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That's the totally wrong genre. Oh, he's counting.
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I'm counting. Oh my God, I'm not.
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So I'm not used to hearing that I I rolled this well, so this is
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a great experience. You're you're used to hearing
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critical fail in that critical success.
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So is this something where he should give you audio of saying
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something like eat hot lead pig or something like that?
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You've rolled 25 and to hit this guy is a 20.
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Oh shit. So that means that because you
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rolled auto fire, which does burn 10 bullets of your ammo, so
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make sure to deduct that OK, you do 40 damage so.
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That's OK. Holy shit.
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Oh shit. Can I, can I ride your coattails
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on that one? And just like.
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Oh, you need partial credit for that?
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Yeah, absolutely. That's it.
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Which is. Just a little sponsored by Loom.
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Impossible. Assist of the game.
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I'll take that. And the dude, you rolled a crip
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with this auto fire. And he lets go of this woman and
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she falls forward and he takes a step back.
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And as you look at him, Oh yeah. And you watch the bullets RIP up
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the side of his body. They tear through his leg.
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You see his mouth muscle in his leg splay out like a bunch of
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tubes out of a train in the early 1930s.
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Steam train pipes backing up his leg.
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And he screams in fame. And now he has -2 to melee
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attacks. I'm happy with that.
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Yeah, one of the guards in this place tries his best to shoot
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this guy. He rolled a crit 16, but
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unfortunately he needed a 17 to hit him at that distance.
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And the bullets fly forward. Oh, this guy's going to have to
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evade. That's bad.
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That's bad. But.
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Not for us. Oh, he dodges.
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Amazing. Amazing.
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Wow, that's incredible. There's. 3 crits in a row.
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Everyone is creating. Everybody is spreading.
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The other guy does sketch it though.
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Fuck. And he takes 2 down.
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You don't want to just shoot me, you dumb fuck.
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Oh, I mean, you know, you know, sometimes I just can't shoot
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nothing, you know? See.
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There's the Scottish one. I.
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Knew it. I knew there was one in here.
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Next thing we know, he dies just.
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Christmas came early. 19 Yeah, so the one of the gods pulls a
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pistol out and tries to shoot this buffed out guy with a
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busted leg, and the bullet just glances off a piece of armor on
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his shoulder and sticks into the wall.
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I was meant to win, motherfuckers.
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He really wanted that fifty extra eddies.
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I look at Retro and I'm like breathing heavy and I'm, I'm
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like eyes open. I've never done this before,
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what do I do? You got a gun?
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Yeah. I pull out a heavy pistol.
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Yeah. All right, well, just like that
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first person shooter, remember how much it took you to finally
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get on the boards and you finally got bronze rank?
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Yeah, yeah. Do that.
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OK. Just imagine toxic troll aim and
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shoot. Got it.
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I'm ready. I pull out my agent, hit like a
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couple of buttons. It's all set up.
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Everything like goes live. All the socials are there.
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This crime, this is, yeah. It's like surprise stream, neon
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POS, get in here. I pull it up.
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Hey, hey everyone, it's neon POS.
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I'm here with my buddy Retro. We're just doing a quick cow
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patch. Pals meet up real quick.
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Got some stuff going on here. So yeah, check it out.
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Surprise stream, let's go. And then I'm going to just run
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up to the side of this door and just like open fire on this.
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Guy and see if I Kevin. Squares so you can move.
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That's how far you can move 74. 5-6 I think I can just about
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make it. Let me know if.
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Agano counts as one, not 3. Oh, got it.
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Got it. OK, all for the Subs, right?
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All for the Subs Cargill you get a you get a go live notification
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on whatever device you. Have Oh my God, Oh my God.
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On the side of your on the side of your gun, it says all for the
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Subs. Yeah, all for the Subs.
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Oh my God, Oh my God. And I go down and I start
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watching go oh, I'm in this one. And I hit the donate button real
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quick and then I realize I'm here.
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OK. Good.
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Yes, since you donated, I'm going to say the the donation is
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what, 5 eddies? Yeah.
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Do you do the 50 you? Just made 50.
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You got a new sub? Neon, you you just got a new sub
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as you're about to pull the trigger and it gives you a plus
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one because money does everything inside the bank.
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That's awesome. There's some like stupid like
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notification like well, like some anime like thing going off
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in the in the stream yes, yes, that's yeah, like Oh yeah, I'm
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going to take. I got.
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I got too rate of fire on this, so I don't got not any move
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left. So I'll just take some shots on
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this guy with my with my pistol. Here we go.
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Sounds good, 2222. There we go. 22 Yes, you do hit
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this guy and your bullet screams across the room.
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He takes, he takes a little bit of damage, his armour gets a.
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Little bladed. He looks at you.
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Oh how the people in Group A winning two and this is fucking
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bullshit. Oh shit, we're trying to go for
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that Tumblr. We're going for that Tumblr,
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everyone. The.
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Other past new Tumblr when we get it. 17 not as good.
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I want green. This is armor degraded enough
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that pedal helped. That is 25 feet you miss and the
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bullet flies and hits a sofa and the foam of the sofa puffs in
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the air behind this guy. KD.
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Within within moments someone has clipped this moment as the
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puff goes in and out of the sofa in a boomerang fashion.
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OK, Chad. OK, OK, Chad, don't don't clip
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that. Nobody.
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Nobody typed Keck WS in the chat.
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Nobody typed Keck WS in the chat.
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All right. You're just, you're going to
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have sound effects, sound alerts going off constantly.
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Yeah, yeah. Cargo stops typing GM question.
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Hit me. How does being in melee with
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somebody have a gun affect their accuracy?
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Does it make it real easy because you're so close, or does
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it make it harder because you're hitting them in the face?
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Are you trying to hit someone with a gun at close range?
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I have a weapon if I decide to close in on them.
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Right, Melee damage doesn't get negated by armor in the same way
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it gets negated by half of the armor because it's melee.
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And also almost every single melee weapon is rate of fire to
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get hit twice. But everyone gets to evade a
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melee attack. OK, he's going to step out 123
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to get that closer range and I shoot at him.
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I spit hot lead with weapons. No, not hot.
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Lead read Hot. Lead, did you have auto fire on?
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I did I How do I turn that off? Let me turn it off.
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So roll it again. I turned it off.
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It's a toggle. OK, I see it now.
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Oh, no, I'll. Take the first one this time if
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you don't. Mind grip -3 your gun jams and
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doesn't fire, and if you want to unjam your gun, you now have to
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use the rest of your move to do so.
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So you moved three. You had three left.
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You'd have to stand exactly where you are and be attacked.
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Correct. He runs back inside and around
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the corner. All right, you are unfortunately
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filmed in your cowardice on Neon Passes stream.
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Oh no. Everybody at Cargill.
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Cover me, I got to get this fixed.
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So that's the one we're trying to go for, right?
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That one right there, yeah. Yeah.
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More in the middle of the hallway.
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Well, Bradfield's feeling just a little more buff since they got
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their muscle and lace cyberwear. They're going to walk over
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Maggie and they're going to say I'm very sorry, but you're going
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to be a hero for this and I'm going to pick up Maggie and
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throw it at them. Here we go.
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Here we go. And it's all Phil.
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Roll for it. You're going to throw a dead
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body at this guy? Yeah.
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What scale is that? Yeah.
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Cool it. Definitely.
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No, we. Need the creds going the other
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way. Yeah, it's going.
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Bad. Damn it's going bad now.
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Retro, you have this moment you like, you flex your fingers, you
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go to pick her up and there's just blood on the ground.
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You slip on it and you, you fall over me.
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Now I will say right that you take, oh, only one damage from
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hitting the ground you have bruised.
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You a little bum. And melee attack always ripped
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R2 so if you want to try that again you can.
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Neon, you didn't catch that, did you?
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Yeah, I saw it. I saw it.
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It did happen. Oh yeah, the chat is just
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clipping it. I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry, chum, I got to make it.
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Up. I got to make it up.
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I'm gonna try again. I'm gonna try again one more
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time. One more time.
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One more time I'm. Gonna put two points of luck in
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this. Yeah, in 30 and you throw this
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woman, this dead woman at the the crazy guy in this hallway,
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this cyber psycho and it hits this guy like a sack of shit and
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he falls over. He gets covered in her blood.
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I'm I'm going to try to. To mimic the voice and and just
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go. This is covered in the NBA I'm.
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Not a cop, but she's not a bull. 10 damage.
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Yeah, it's doesn't cause a lot of damage to them, but you
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notice that the body rips a decent part of his armor and he
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gets -2 to his armor. Maggie's a hero.
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Everybody in chat know that Maggie's a hero.
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F in Chad, F in Chad, everyone for Maggie.
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No. Good.
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Yeah. So he goes this cyber cycle,
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goes to shoot the closest target to him which is a cavalry just
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across from the door, and he shoots 20 on auto fire, which
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three above the required DV of 17.
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So that's 30 damage to this guy. Oh and it tears through this
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guy. The SMG just.
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Bullets RIP across his body, bits of flesh and viscera splat
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against the wall behind him, and he falls to the ground, taking a
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critical injury as he does, and you hear his rips crack and echo
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through the hallway and it sends a shiver up your spine.
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Oh fuck. He takes his step back.
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Oh, he just had like confetti shoot out of him or something.
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Yeah, did. He just come.
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What happened? Jesus?
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Christ. Don't worry.
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Honey, I'm coming home for Christmas.
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I mean, that's what happens when I do it.
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I don't every. Time I get shot.
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Too much about the balls in the Cubs, you know it's.
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So it's that confetti. One of the other test subjects
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jumps out of test room B and just starts wailing on the guard
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on the ground. Well, that's that's new
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information. So it's not just this guy, it's
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a lot of people in that room, apparently.
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Yeah, this guy isn't as bogged up.
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He's just a guy with a stick, right?
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Put this guy on the ground for two days.
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But I I'm just sitting in information wise that I'm
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getting now is that it's not just this one guy who's mad that
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he didn't get his fifty. It's so far some maybe all that
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were in that room that are suddenly just attacking people.
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Yeah. Oh no.
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Oh. Cup and ball did not go so great
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for that. Maybe.
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I wonder who the control group was.
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There's that missing data. Oh yeah, the security guard
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fires auto fire back at this guy and does 6 * 3 damage.
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Which is really good. That's 18 damage and this this
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crazy roided out dude takes a hit to his body once again.
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He's starting to profusely bleed from the holes in his body as
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he's just straining so hard you can see the veins of his neck
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stick out as he screams and the assistant on the ground who's
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still alive crawls towards the remarked X and it specs his
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turn. So just before me I just
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witnessed an atrocity that happened successfully picking up
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a dead body and then throwing that.
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So still taking I. Call tactics.
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Is still kind of taken back by that.
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OK, OK, TV head. Great.
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But what the fuck? What?
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He stopped shooting. OK, now that's fair.
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And you can't deny that Maggie is the hero that stopped the
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shooter. So I don't know what you.
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Want me to still shooting, Still shooting.
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There's there is that argument we can still make that.
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But he's confused now. He is.
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Confused and as. With the blood of his of the
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person that he killed, and he's going to be haunted by that for
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the rest of his life if we don't kill him either, so.
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No, but that's the goal. We need to shoot him and then
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pulls the trigger. 20 yes, you do hit, but you've done very
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badly on Wow. That is wow.
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It used to hear Matt if you roll your mouse, if you roll your
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mouse over the 90 must get hover roll 4 11 it's. 111 ladies and
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gentlemen. Welcome.
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Home. Hold on, rules as written baby.
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Rules as written. You hit for 20, you only do 9
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damage, but this guy has less than 9 worth of armour so he
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does actually take a hit and you ablade his armour by one as
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well, so he's very worth for wear.
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He is very low on health, incredibly so.
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He is bleeding on the ground, it is dripping from his body as he
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continues to scream into the madness of this full way.
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Assault rifles rate fire of one. Anything else to say better I'm?
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Going to look down at my E banner and I'm going to change
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the icons again and it's going to be.
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Little. Emotive faces that have exes for
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the eyes and a tongue sticking out of smile.
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That's cool. Lumen while the body was thrown
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through the air. From the body comes Maggie's
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side arm. It's engraved with her name.
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It also has Maggie, another name on it with her last name, which
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seems to be her mother. And it slides to your feet, this
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heavy pistol and you notice that the the clip has armor piercing
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rounds in it. It's just slid under the desk at
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your feet and you're looking at it in the middle of this fight.
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Can you pick that up and shoot him already?
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I just I so OK, I didn't want to interrupt because all this cool
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shit was going on, but the body thing fucked with him just like
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Oh my God. And I think under his breath
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while the streaming bits going on, it's like Oh no, my KD.
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It's like that's a human. Like it's just like you're
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shooting a guy. Like it's just like very.
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I genuinely think his instinct would be to like either kick the
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gun away or grab it and go EW and just like throw it.
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Like I genuinely think I'm. Going to ask you to roll resist
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torture drugs. Oh oh.
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OK. I'm going to see if you can
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resist the sentimentality of this weapon.
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OK, that's fair. I'm I'm going to tell you that's
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not his strong suit. Let's see, that's why I make
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roll it. Oh shit, Yeah, you can resist
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that. OK, Absolutely.
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I guess I don't know. So OK, I can see into this
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hallway because of what I did earlier, this is starting to
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look like a problem from across the hall, this Group B.
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Is there any way I can access the door and lock it from this
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room with that computer? Absolutely.
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Yep. Oh my God, I would like to try
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to do that because I feel like it's.
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Great. It was looking great and and now
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we have the the stick guys. Not as big a problem as the
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Cyber Psycho, but I'd rather not have a bunch of stick guys.
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Fair enough. Electronic security deck.
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Yes, exactly. Very good 20 Amazing.
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Yes, you hear the door lock on the other side and it is now
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locked. The last thing he's going to say
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is to Vex. I'm real sorry about the gun and
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just like just it's like if I could kick it towards you.
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But like definitely it's like I don't want.
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To no you, you don't have anything.
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OK, pick it up. Just just put it in your pocket.
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I, I I. Put I and no pick it up.
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Put it in your pocket. I can't type if I have if I have
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that. Roll a face down.
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This is a face down moment 100% yeah Oh my God Corpus reputation
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plus 1D10 which you're a media right?
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Your reputation is five Vex. Your reputation is 4, so OK,
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it's a reputation plus one D 10 so roll AD 10 Agicool and.
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Oh God, I really don't want to pick up that gun man I'm sorry.
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What's your? My my cool, shitty.
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It's 4. So you've got 4 + 5, which is 9,
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plus you've got 18 and. 15 plus, whatever my reputation.
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So 19. 19. Oh, Oh no.
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Wow. Yeah, if all else fails I I
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could at least return it to someone.
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That's yeah, return it to the dead lady.
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That's definitely going to make it.
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No, but there's other names on the gun.
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I don't want to argue about this right now.
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That's the first time he's raised his voice to.
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Anyone. His entire life, probably.
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Oh my God. What?
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Oh, what's this? Right.
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So that's. We got a hot and cold episode
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here. That's nine damage and the Cyber
25:30
Psycho gets filled with bullets. And he is.
25:33
So there is like. Almost.
25:36
I can't believe he's still alive.
25:37
That's incredible. He is on his last legs.
25:42
We're on like the lowest of single digits of HP.
25:45
My guy is not doing well. The other guard who's being hit
25:49
on the ground by this other way less threatening human.
25:55
Stick guy. Stick guy, Yeah.
25:59
We just call him Stick for sure. It's.
26:02
Like his? Pistol and shoots this guy for
26:05
14 damage Now this guy has no armor and at a health can I just
26:10
tell you he had a health of 15 and the bullet just goes right
26:14
through his neck and he's now bleeding out.
26:18
He falls to the ground. Stick guy.
26:22
He's he's very, very close to death, both of them.
26:25
Are ripped stick guy you're willing?
26:27
To win. Neon pans away from luminant
26:32
decks. There's like so many emotes
26:34
going off in the chat, like drama and like crying emotes and
26:38
like all kinds of all kinds of shit.
26:41
That was cool, wasn't it? Chat awesome.
26:43
All right, let's get this cool. And he'll try and shoot at this
26:51
cyber psycho a couple more times.
26:55
Do do do. I smell a crit.
26:57
I don't know in what direction, but it's crit.
27:00
Is that what it's love? I love it when you say it like
27:02
that. Oops.
27:03
I was going to do it again. Hold on.
27:05
Yep. Sorry.
27:06
Thank you. I'll be there.
27:10
Thank you, Jason. Are you a man?
27:14
Funny shot missing. That's a a Max fail crit and
27:18
your gun jams. You cannot take a second shot
27:22
this round. That was supposed to happen.
27:24
Chad, no kick WS please. If I get anywhere I'm gonna I'm
27:31
I'll. I will ban, I swear I.
27:33
Won't ban. You know, time you all out.
27:35
So look over our girls like writing lol over and over again
27:40
in chat. This is the kind of thing we
27:43
have the the the the chat abuses Neon paws whenever he fucks up
27:48
the. Knocking point that one didn't
27:50
hit was because it was. It was unsponsored.
27:56
All right, Cargill was typing lol.
27:59
Instead of unjamming his rifle and realizing that he's it is
28:04
his time, he drops his rifle and he pulls out just this massive
28:09
chunk of metal with a big like hammer on the end.
28:13
He just goes charging over at the guy and he's just swings
28:20
this big chunk of metal trying to whack him right in the head.
28:23
Sure. Yeah, that's not terrible.
28:27
That is genuinely, quite literally mid.
28:31
I'll take mid, it's been crits all the way around.
28:35
So melee attacks are a rate of fire of two.
28:37
As you come up to this guy, he easily dodges your first swing.
28:41
How doesn't he have a body up? No, he.
28:45
The bodies. Fell off.
28:46
That fell off. OK, that's right, Swing.
28:48
Again, hey now, rule at the table unless they roll a crit
28:54
you hit. Alright.
29:01
This cyber psycho is hanging on baby and that's crit 23 and he
29:07
he dodges the other attack and steps more into the line of fire
29:11
of everyone in room at. We'll be tossing out of the room
29:18
now. I look at all the people around
29:21
who I can toss out. Neon's out for sure.
29:25
You're, I'm not tossing my buddy up.
29:29
No, I'll, I'll just, I'm going to reach into my Tetramino
29:32
backpack. For everybody else that's
29:33
watching. It's almost like a scene where
29:37
you see a clown pull something that should not fit inside of an
29:40
object out of that and you see this large shiny shotgun with a
29:46
strange barrel on the bottom of it.
29:48
And Retro will see how many squares away is he?
29:52
I'll just come up one square away.
29:55
Oh fuck, what the fuck are you meant to be?
29:59
I enforce the NBA spin and I shoot.
30:02
Nice line. So everyone looks at Retro in
30:12
the middle of this hallway as he just saunters out in neon.
30:15
You're you've never seen Retro in combat before, and the
30:18
confidence he has as he steps out, he smears blood all over
30:23
the yellow Happy Company logo on the ground, points his shotgun
30:27
at this guy's face as he screams and pulls the trigger, blowing
30:31
off the top half of the front of his face as it smears across the
30:35
ground. He falls, the other person on
30:39
the ground takes a little bit of damage from their injuries, and
30:43
combat is over. That was smooth as hell.
30:49
I think I could have done a better one liner.
30:51
I need to think about these better.
31:03
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All right, everyone, you signed Ndas, you'll be paid.
32:04
Please leave. What about your buddy over there
32:06
dying in the corner? I'll fix that.
32:09
That's my job. He's not dead.
32:10
That's good enough for me. How do we used to have?
32:12
People in the other room. Anybody who wants to observe
32:16
anything Role perception. Yes, yes, yes.
32:22
Perception Awareness. Awareness.
32:27
No cargo, you're too busy clipping the fight in chat to
32:31
really look around. Not my strongest thing.
32:35
Lumen, you're staring at the gun in your hands and shaking.
32:41
I don't want it. Vex, you look around and dust
32:44
yourself off. You don't find a lot, but you do
32:46
find 10 eddies on the ground underneath the desk.
32:48
That's brilliant. Because it's above me,
32:50
literally. I make it up, I put it in my
32:52
pocket and look directly at Lumen.
32:55
It was that easy. That's funny Neon, you gain 5
33:05
Subs for successfully not dying during this fight and earn
33:08
yourself 25 eddies. Hell yeah.
33:11
Nice. We're we're close to that
33:13
Tumblr, Chad. We're closer to that game.
33:15
Subs Tumblr. Get that goal.
33:19
Retro on the computer, you can see that the remaining people in
33:22
exam Room B are either foaming at the mouth or crying and
33:26
huddling from the terror that just happened in this room.
33:30
As you look around, you can see Cade on the ground, the other
33:34
assistant. She's a little worse for wear,
33:36
but still alive, and she's on the phone.
33:39
She's whispering something into the phone.
33:41
Well, you know my penchant for hating corporate altogether.
33:47
So with this computer, it's only video, no audio, right?
33:51
Then I'm going to try to do something that I don't think
33:53
anybody's done yet, and no latency.
33:57
I don't even know if they've ever done it before in
33:59
Cyberpunk. It's a lot of build up.
34:01
Oh shit. Yeah, that's probably good.
34:04
I'm elaborating. Retro you look over at this
34:07
woman on the ground and you see her say the words.
34:10
Mr. Wise, something happened. Mr. Wise, something happened,
34:16
OK. I won't repeat myself again.
34:18
You all have to leave. Who's Mr. Wise?
34:21
Mr. Wise is one of the head executives of the Hafi company.
34:24
Why, Yeah. Where's where are they?
34:26
Not in the same building, right? No, I imagine they're at the at
34:29
the office. Where's that?
34:32
It's. About four blocks.
34:34
That way if you have any complaints you can file them
34:36
there I suppose. But you can also use the QR code
34:39
that will send you in a minute with your money.
34:41
Please leave. That's so old school.
34:43
QR codes Gross. Hey, Vex.
34:50
Yeah. How do I make it spit the
34:52
bullets out? I don't want to put it in my my
34:54
bag with the the stuff my stuff but like I I'll carry the gun
34:58
bit just I don't want any of the bullets.
35:00
How do I make it eject the bullets?
35:02
You see the little button right there?
35:04
That's that's next to the trigger.
35:06
If you press that, that's called a.
35:07
Save and that's fits the bullets.
35:09
Out no. That prevents the bullets from
35:11
being spit out, so that way you can just put it in your backpack
35:14
if you want if you. I feel like I wasn't clear.
35:17
No, hold on. OK, hold on.
35:18
What I want just. Stick with me.
35:20
If you press that button again, it takes off the safety and then
35:23
the little thing that is shaped like the moon, you pull that and
35:27
it goes bang. I I feel like you're pandering
35:33
to me a little bit. I am OK.
35:36
I probably, I probably deserve it.
35:38
But what, what I'm saying is I want to return the gun to the
35:44
next name on the gun. And I don't think they need the
35:47
bull. They could just buy new bullets.
35:49
So they don't need any of that. They the gun bit I think is what
35:52
they'd like. So you want to steal the bullets
35:55
but return the gun? I don't.
35:56
Want to steal anything? So then what are you doing with
36:01
the bullets? I don't.
36:02
Do you want them? Fuck yeah, I'll take them.
36:04
OK, thank you. I don't know why this was so
36:06
hard. They're armor.
36:08
Piercing bullets. So you grab the gun, you push a
36:10
button, and the magazine comes out.
36:12
Vex, you're holding this, and you know that there's one in the
36:15
Chamber. He does not.
36:17
He absolutely does. Not Vex knows there's one in the
36:23
chamber. If you hit the safety, it won't
36:24
fire, but there'll be a bullet in the gun.
36:28
He doesn't know that there's a secret hidden extra bullet.
36:31
So I'm going to take the the mag out and look at it, look back at
36:37
Lumen, look back at it. OK, I thought about doing this
36:40
as a little prank because I think it would, I think it would
36:42
be very, very funny. But there's one right here.
36:46
It's called a chamber that whenever you cock the gun, you
36:50
know, Do you know what that is? Yeah.
36:54
The the, the floating bed, yeah. Sure.
36:56
So as we go with that right if if we pull this then then that
37:02
will come out ready what watch watch and he pulls it back.
37:08
The other piece of ammo pops out.
37:10
Oh, that's. So neat.
37:12
And you watch Beck's catch it like he's done 1000 times.
37:16
You clip it back into the magazine and now you have 12
37:20
armor piercing bullets in a clip.
37:22
Sweet. Oh my God that's so cool.
37:24
So like if you run out of bullets, there's an extra 1 in
37:27
the gun all the time. Yes.
37:30
Again, if you could all leave this side question really needs
37:33
to move on everyone. We're going, going.
37:37
I'm I've already been walking out.
37:39
As as we go to walk out, I hand lumen the handgun back, but I
37:45
have the magazine. Yep.
37:47
Yes, totally wanted. Thank you so much.
37:50
And hey, thanks for not playing that joke off man.
37:52
I really appreciate it man. And next time, I'll do it next
37:55
time. Oh.
37:56
No. Just so you know, it's coming.
37:58
I'm I'm never holding a gun again.
38:01
Yes, he will. I don't, I don't think.
38:04
I As you step out of the Happy Company Market Research
38:07
building, the door closes and locks behind you.
38:12
The smell of blood and the hum of carnage is stilled by the
38:19
rushing of the streets and the red sky as it starts to return
38:23
to dusk. That was the best fucking stream
38:25
I ever did, God damn. You stole my kill.
38:29
Me. No, you TV.
38:31
Head. I didn't see your name on it.
38:33
When was I going to have time to put my name on that?
38:36
Oh, well, I mean, you could have you, you did your auto fire.
38:43
You could have like shot your initials into them.
38:47
I saw, I saw all the bullets. You went there by the way.
38:49
I don't mean to. I appreciate that you said mag
38:53
instead of clip as its proper terminology.
38:55
You know, I get so annoyed when I hear people call them clips
38:58
like they don't know what an actual firearm thing is.
39:00
So thank you for that. The bullet holder.
39:07
The bullet holder. So look, I know none of you owe
39:12
me anything, Neon. This is going to be completely
39:16
up to you if you want to follow. I smell something rotten here at
39:21
the Happy Company and I'll tell you this, I fucking hate
39:27
corporations, especially when I think they're lying.
39:30
During the ball and cup game I noticed that there was petabytes
39:36
of data that was missing, which makes me think that they're for
39:40
sure is something they're not telling.
39:43
US. I think that that's just you
39:46
trying to make an excuse for me winning the ball and cup game
39:50
and you losing at it. That's.
39:54
Funny. I mean, absolutely, yes, that is
39:56
my excuse. I would definitely be better,
39:58
but no way. No way.
40:01
Well look, I'm about to go over to HQ and file a complaint, so
40:06
if you want to make a counter complaint to me, feel more than
40:10
free Neon if you're interested in getting some more stuff for
40:13
your stream. That sounds great, man.
40:15
Yeah, I'm, I'm totally down. Let's go.
40:18
If I can get another stream like that that I just got, that'd be
40:23
amazing. Wait, wait, wait.
40:26
Are we going to go, do you mean? OK, we're not going to go do a
40:30
stream like that though at the other building, right?
40:32
Because I'm, I'm all for following.
40:34
I would like to document this. I I, I, I think you're right.
40:36
I think they're lying about something.
40:39
But yeah. Lumen, since you think they're
40:42
lying, do you want to do any investigation in this?
40:47
Are you interested enough? I want to listen to this
40:50
conspiracy. Now I am yes, after all the
40:53
bullets and stuff, yes. I just need.
40:56
To but now. Yeah.
41:01
After, yeah, after hearing retro talk about it's like, oh,
41:03
there's there was a discrepancy in the data that we.
41:06
It's like, oh, OK, well, all right.
41:08
And that guy seemed to really want us to leave so.
41:12
Is that as? Simple as.
41:13
I think it is just like rolling. You've rolled streetwise.
41:18
Oh, that is an exactly. Well, you can roll rumor, which
41:21
will be a little bit of a deeper search on the garden.
41:24
Streetwise is what you know. Rumor is what you can find out.
41:29
Yeah, Streetwise isn't going to work for me.
41:32
Let's try. Yeah, so you can choose a skill
41:37
and roll rumors on skill. Oh, what do we think, business?
41:44
Oh yeah, so. Business.
41:46
Bureaucracy, I think are probably the ones that.
41:48
Would work. Yeah, yeah.
41:50
It's just, oh, that doesn't look great.
41:55
Substantial rumor causing to this, are we going with the with
42:01
Yeah, substantial I think 11. Yeah, yeah.
42:05
No, I just, I, I, it wasn't automatically a crib, so I
42:08
thought I failed. Like that's where the night has
42:10
been making us. Sorry to set your expectations
42:15
so hot. You look into the happy company,
42:18
what you find out is that there's a executive that joined
42:22
the company this year called Mr. Wise.
42:26
Whys his name is Doctor Merv or Mervin Wise and he has lived in
42:33
Knight city his entire life. He was born according to the
42:38
records you found because you rolled an 11.
42:41
He was born here in Knight City. He had a brother and sister.
42:46
They haven't been seen for years.
42:48
That's the weirdest thing that you can see about this guy.
42:54
His products have been incredibly popular but weirdly
42:58
simple. OK, Loomis going to present this
43:02
to everybody. And he, he, he heard Retro say
43:07
Mr. Wise. So right off the bat, just do
43:11
you, do you think maybe he's in the other building?
43:14
Like maybe we could just go talk to him.
43:16
Maybe no one's asked to talk to him.
43:20
Then I got to let us just talk to him.
43:23
OK, we know he's picking up the phone, so.
43:26
To certain people. Maybe he'd want to clear the air
43:29
about what just happened, get in front of the story, kind of, you
43:32
know, like, be honest about it. You're going to do a stall, OK,
43:38
It's no, no, no. No, no, hold on.
43:40
I want, I want people to know what just happened and I would
43:44
like it hasn't happened yet. In fact, it's been pretty much
43:48
the opposite. But I would like someone at the
43:51
corporate level to just just relay everything that happened
43:56
and be honest with people. And I I I know eventually if I
44:00
ask enough, one of them will do that.
44:03
Listen, I've worked for these fuckers, they will not be honest
44:06
with you. Wait, but before we go poke in
44:09
the bear, if we got paid yet, it's if we check to see if we've
44:12
got our eddies. That's a man with.
44:15
Enrolled bureaucracy? Not yet.
44:18
The QR code asks you to redeem your credit at any Happy company
44:25
vending machine. The ones here have locked so
44:27
you'll have to go to the office to do it.
44:30
They didn't even pay us an actual eddies, they paid us in
44:33
corporate bucks. And Lumen, as you're doing this,
44:37
your search completes and you find a document that is leaked
44:41
from the happy company. Oh, OK.
44:45
You can choose to read that out so that everybody hears it, or
44:48
you can keep it to yourself and reference it later.
44:50
It's up to you. Oh, he would instantly share
44:53
these are all his friends now, but he would instantly share
44:56
every bit of information he's found, like Vex did not play a
45:00
prank on him instantly. We are tight.
45:04
All right, well, please feel free to read it out loud.
45:06
OK, wait, hold on before we do anything, we are still at the
45:12
doors of this place. Should we move down a couple
45:16
blocks? Because right there, that's a
45:19
camera, and it's right on us. He said we can go to the
45:24
building. I don't see why they would stop
45:26
us. We can.
45:26
Walk. It's only a few blocks away,
45:28
yeah. We can walk a tuck.
45:29
We can. Walk a tuck.
45:30
Let's just yeah. Yeah, yeah.
45:31
OK. Yeah, let's do that.
45:32
OK, so I got this memo. It's it's OK.
45:39
There's something called the Echo Cup project and here it
45:44
says that that that it continues to show progress.
45:47
Although the level of addiction can be mitigated, it is unlikely
45:51
that we'll ever be able to work out those kinks before the huh
45:56
before the 23rd of December deadline for shipping.
45:59
A new software update is being tested today at our market
46:02
research facility. Hey, that's us.
46:04
That's what we did. Oh.
46:06
We could push this update to devices that are already
46:09
packaged, but with the rush and the experimental nature of the
46:12
product, it might be wiser for safety to postpone the product
46:15
until it has a failure rate of 1%.
46:19
Currently, we see incidents at around 15%.
46:23
And it's not pretty. It says here, they actually
46:25
wrote that it says it's not pretty.
46:28
That's the R&D team. Natasha Gray.
46:30
Well, maybe we talked to Natasha.
46:32
Maybe they're at the other building.
46:33
That is the source now that we have.
46:36
Now, neon as a media, are you a kind of media that likes to look
46:40
up rumors? Yeah, I think he, I think he
46:44
likes to look up. I think he goes into like late
46:48
night. You do video essays.
46:51
Oh, my God, yes, that's what it is.
46:53
That's what it is. Yeah.
46:56
Totally. Yeah, yeah.
46:57
You just have chat throwing all kinds of extra links at you.
47:00
Yes, exactly. Yeah.
47:02
So when he's not streaming, he does video essays that he's
47:05
putting up on on the garden, on his patch.
47:07
Yeah, on whatever on like, it's all like scramble brain ADHD
47:13
topics of anything. Genuinely some of my favorite
47:16
content. Neon, keep going.
47:20
That's perfect. Thank you so much.
47:22
Yeah, I love that. All right, roll to see if you
47:25
can learn more about Echo Cup. Yeah.
47:28
You're all a crit success and find a log file for where Lumen
47:34
had just found the letter he showed you and you find another
47:40
letter. Do you keep it to yourself or do
47:42
you read out loud? I realize I've shown that to
47:43
everyone, but. Yeah, no, I read it out loud.
47:46
I'm like. Oh, oh, hey.
47:48
I just found something about that.
47:49
I, I, I, I, I was. This made me think of something
47:52
from the next essay I was going to do about all this.
47:56
Just found a new thing here. Check it.
47:58
Check it out. Check it out.
48:00
Same thing. Echo Cup Project Run.
48:02
This is from Marvin Wise, the guy we're trying to see.
48:06
Run your tests. The deadline is the deadline.
48:09
Marketing has already promised the data shipping.
48:11
We have pre-orders. It ships.
48:14
Damn the numbers. I'm sure it will be fine on the
48:17
grand scale. Marvin Wise looks like he didn't
48:21
have any patience. Yeah.
48:23
He was not fine, though. No, it was not.
48:27
Hey, what do you use for sources that's I didn't see that my
48:30
skin. What did you?
48:31
Oh my gosh, I so I've, I've got this great site that that I go
48:36
to and it's got all kinds of leaks and it's really great.
48:43
I'll show it to you here. And he just like flicks over a
48:46
thing to you that's like a page of like, it's like a forum of,
48:52
of a bunch of like angry redditers, basically.
48:56
It's the equivalent of putting stickers on your phone and you
48:58
hand it to him and he's going to hand you like, it's like, OK, so
49:01
I used to work for Fennec News and it's, it's really corpo
49:04
positive. But like it's, it's, it's all
49:07
kinds of deep dives and like leap stuff.
49:09
So he's going to hand you like, like actual research and it will
49:13
be impenetrable boring so. There's a.
49:20
Please. Lumen we got to do this next
49:24
video essay together. Next time on no latency side
49:38
quest this. Is going to be a great collab.
49:45
I I can I can already see. What's the cover story we want
49:47
to get in there? They'll listen to that 100 times
49:50
before you say you almost got killed.
49:51
Yeah, I second that. Oh.
49:52
You don't want to come up to me and challenge me.
49:54
I will show you. Oh no.
49:56
Feel like we're probably going to get into more fights.
49:58
OK, this stream is blowing up. I'm going to need a few more.
50:00
Whatever keeps your head in the game, hi.
50:02
Yes, just like a pocket. Just one.
50:04
Big giant smudge, No whirls. We're just going to be here, you
50:07
know? We we're just part of.
50:09
Product testing. You know what?
50:10
No, I'm going to pull out my shotgun again and then I'm going
50:12
to be sitting there and wait also.
50:13
Seeing symptoms of rage, violence and inhumanity.
50:17
And I'm watching the door. If you need me to do something
50:19
just tell me I. Don't get why you'd need this
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for a ball and a cup. Game, right, but what are they
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putting in this game? We know no one's in there.
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Let's just go in. Someone's been watching too much
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Evangelion. Got it.
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He's he's at the door. We're going to use the side
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door. The guards gave us the code.
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I mean the the streaming you up thing is real bad, but I feel
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like the cup and ball thing was over the line.
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No, no, no, no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry
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I got lost in it. I just want to collaborate.
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