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S2E119 - Leaving a Mark · No Latency

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Last time on no latency. People at this freaking place,
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Iona, they are insistent. Somebody help me?
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Wendell, are you anywhere near fresh?
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We're so back. I don't know how you work here.
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I'll say that actually went better than I expected.
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I'm sure I have fresh's number. I'm going to, I'm going to call
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fresh. We're so back.
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Is there a way to turn off my eye connection before we crash
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and then go blind? I don't know.
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I didn't do it. Great, good chat.
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Yeah, we don't want that. In honor of Mr. Locate, Yeah.
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Did you not get the announcement at the fee free?
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Let's install the transponder. So you're going to escort me
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out? I'm going to use my upgrade
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expertise. Well, just right here, just just
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kind of grab him. I'm going to throw the duct tape
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at Mark's head. Oh, you want help now?
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Are we in an elevator? You said, is it baseball bat
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time? Oh.
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It's baseball bat time. The elevator doors close and
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you're standing in this elevator and the guard starts talking to
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you about how much trouble you're going to be in.
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Keeps going over. It kind of starts to mansplain.
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You've been communicating with the others using your like,
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internal stuff. But he continues to drone on.
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Yeah. So, you know, it's, it's
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actually pretty serious. We're going to take your
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photograph and then identify your face.
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And the way we do that is we use something called a camera.
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Cameras can take pictures. Oh my God, I look at him and I'm
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like. Which is funny because there's
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not a camera in the elevator. That's so stupid.
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You know, you know, I don't think we're going to do any of
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that. Use cameras.
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No, no, we have to. We're going to do a full 360
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scan of your head. No, no, no, no, no.
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I think, I think we're going to do something different instead.
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And if you like, cracks her neck.
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You're OK, you might need to get that looked at.
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It's not in health. Very normal.
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She get her head looked at because she's going off the
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rails. Look, you crush on Domino a
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little bit and suddenly you you turn in too.
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Suck the bath, start it out loud.
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So Vivi cracks her neck, she pulls out the base, she takes
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the baseball bat, and she looks at him.
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Look, only one of us is getting off this elevator.
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Oh, cue the action music. I'm thinking I'm.
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Bat Yeah, I'm thinking I'm bat. I might go in.
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Bump, bump, bump. Bump.
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Bump. Bump, bump, bump, bump, bump.
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Great. Music.
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He he, he takes a What's your initiative?
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What is my initiative? That's a great question.
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Well. That's worked out.
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It's fresh back from getting food, and it's now pumping
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action music into the. It's not had enough time my.
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Reflex is 7. It's a.
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Half an hour lunch. Oh, at least I still do that
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there. Oh.
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My God, my God, he's. So I rolled A crit fail so he.
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Huh. He's mansplaining so hard that
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he's looking out the back window of this of this, looking like
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not really at you. He's sort of explaining it so
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much. He's got really into explaining
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how cameras work. So there's a prison mirror and
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then the way that that used to work is we'd use like actual
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film. Now film is this process of
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using. And while he's trying to
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mansplain what film is to you, you rolled A14 on initiative,
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which means you get to do the first thing, which is, I'm
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assuming, try and knock him out. Mm Hmm.
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With my baseball bat. Holy moly.
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So you can do that because I really fail and I basically have
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no legs to stand on. And soon probably this guy won't
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either, right? OK, good.
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That's great. OK, you catch him off guard.
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And because that crit fail, I'm not going to let him roll
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evasion. That is his penalty.
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And so you hit him very hard for 12 damage.
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You did roll 2 ones in that damage.
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I'm really sorry about that. Damn.
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I know, but you do cause a decent amount of damage he
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takes. He takes a massive hit and takes
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a step back. Fuck.
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You could just say you're not interested.
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Fuck. Of course.
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Melee attacks fire 2IN it. Yes, it is.
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Oh dear. Oh.
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It's always, it's always the backswing.
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It's always the backswing. And as you, as he as he's gives
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you this offended look that you don't want to hear his
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explanation for something. The bat hits him clean on the
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chin and you watch his whole face in slow motion swing to his
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right as his jaw moves at a different rate.
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His eyes look at you, roll back in his own head, and because of
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your crip he just falls flat on his ass, completely knocked out.
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Lord, that was enough. And I just stand in the elevator
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with this body. You know, I should probably do
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something about it. So I'm going to try to once it
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Dings to the bottom, I'm going to get the body off and just sit
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him in a cubicle somewhere. OK, so turn around to the panel
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on the back of the elevator and it hasn't moved yet because he
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was too busy mansplaining too. Yeah, so do do the actually did
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the floors like say what's what floor like floor 11 I well,
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there's probably going to be cameras all over this place.
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So if there's like. Well.
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This is unfortunate. I knocked a guy out in an
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elevator and and the biotechnic at HQ.
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I need to take him so or I could just leave him.
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I'm going to go all the way down to like the garage level, like
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lower, OK, lower, lower level. Just just a quick pit, pit stop.
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Cool. Yeah, yeah.
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Great, great, great. You take the elevator down, roll
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me a perception check and or a stealth check.
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Never mind, you're good. Yeah, you you pick the perfect
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moment to open up the elevator in the garage by chance?
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There's no one around. It's pretty quiet down there.
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You can see that the valet is off parking someone's vehicle,
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so there's a little bit of time down.
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What do you do to hide the body? That's two crits in a row,
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Tracy. Well done.
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I would like to find like a large maybe pillar in this
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garage and just like lay him up against that.
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Like he just got, he passed out. Obviously it looks like he got
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knocked out, but I'm just going to leave him somewhere
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inconspicuous behind a large garage pillar or something like
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that. Or, or a car between two cars.
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Yeah, roll stealth. Do you want to check on this
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guy? You are a medical professional.
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Yes, good good reminder that I am a medical professional.
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Yes, I probably should. Just make sure you know he
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doesn't have any head trauma. I always get a die.
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Yeah, why not? You roll a 17, which is
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definitely enough to hide him behind a pillar in a dark corner
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of this underground garage. You have successfully rolled.
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Very well, by the way. You have success and rolled 22
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on first aid. All right, there's enough
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showing off Phoebe. All right.
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Thank you. You're wasting them.
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I know. You examine this guy and you
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realise he's going to be a he's going to be knocked out for
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probably about 10 more minutes but not much longer.
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He is a guard like he pretty stocky guy, but you have also
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like fractured his jaw pretty badly.
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So he's going to have probably some sort of speech impediment
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and that means, but it will take longer for him to explain what
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has happened to him. So you probably have 15 minutes.
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OK, well we better get out of here in 15 minutes as Phoebe,
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like runs back up to the elevator to go back up.
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Great. Yeah, you take the elevator back
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up with your crit successes so far.
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I'm not even gonna make you roll for that.
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You sneak back into the elevator and take it back up to floor 62.
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It Dings and the elevator doors open.
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Yeah, I'm back, bitches. Do you want to?
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Do you want to do other things or shall I move to Nope, I'm.
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Going to look for the gang, so if you want to.
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OK, Phoebe is out looking for the gang.
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Meanwhile, on the outside of the building, Jeb is looking at Mark
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Zeiger hanging off a ledge. Mark, Mark you.
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You're right, bud. Come here, come here.
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Come here. Give me your hand.
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You, you know my name. You, you pushed me off.
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Well, that's probably right. Don't.
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Come on man. Fine.
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You guys my hand, I imagine. Yeah.
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And I like start to pull him up. And then I said give me the
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other hand. Come on, come on.
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You're almost up. You're almost up, bud.
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And and he hesitates a little bit.
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We're all persuasion. Too many windows open.
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Yeah, it's always the same in it.
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I don't think Zeiger's been doing enough upper body in the
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gym. No, he has not. 19.
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Great. Yeah.
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All right, you're almost there, man.
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Come on. And oh, God, look at that slip.
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Oh, geez. And.
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He grabs on to the side again, rolling.
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Hey, I wrote a 10. Hell yeah.
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All right, that's a crit +2. So yeah, he manages to hold on
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to the you. Fucking asshole I'm.
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Clammy here. That's fucking funny.
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Oh man, that is that is just a bummer.
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Listen, looks like we're a bit of a predicament here.
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You understand that there's really only two ways out of
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this. Either you fall to your death
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and I make it look like an accident.
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Maybe retro in there kind of busts out a, you know, makes it
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look like you, you tripped out of a, a window that that broke
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open or something. I don't know.
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We're working on that, right? We're working on that retro.
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Why'd you say champ? Yeah, we're working on that.
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And of course, option 2 is that I do help you up here for
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realsies, and you don't tell a goddamn soul what you saw, who
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we are, or what we're doing. Roll a face down, cool, plus
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reputation plus one D 10, so roll AD 10.
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You have very high reputation, so you're at a distinct
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advantage, Jeff. Yes, let's see my reputation.
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Is I think you can roll it on the sheet now.
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Reputation. Oh, there it is.
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Yeah, 17 What did you roll? I rolled reputation.
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No, you rolled 2. Nice.
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Oh. Yeah.
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Oh, cool. Plus reputation.
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Plus one's your D10. Yes, see.
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You rolled it thing. All right, so I rolled 4.
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His reputation. Yeah, pretty famous job.
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Well I rolled A12 in total so unfortunately he looks at you as
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the wind batters the side of this building.
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Fine. Just don't fucking kill me.
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Sorry, just to clarify, fine to which option?
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To living I used. To All right, yeah, no problem.
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Grab my handle. Great.
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Awesome. Yeah, and there you go.
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All right. And just to make sure you're
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not, you're not carrying any weapons or nothing with you, any
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recording devices of the sort. I don't like that.
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I don't like that noise you made.
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No, I'm I'm back out. I'm I have nothing at all.
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It's Mark. Mark, what are we doing here,
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huh? You hear a clicking noise.
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God damn it, I wanna, I wanna do a, a, you know, human
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perception. Yeah, 13, not enough.
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You're not sure where the clicking is coming from.
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It's sort of echoing weirdly out of here, and you look around.
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When you turn back, Mark Zucker has a gun pointed directly to
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your face. Mark, what are we doing here?
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You tried. I thought we had AI, thought we
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had a bit of a understanding. Fucking kill me.
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You were, we had an understanding, we came to an
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agreement as as man we, we grabbed hands.
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If you think about it, we kind of shook hands because I had to
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help you up and you grabbed my hand and there was some shaking
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involved in the lifting process. So it was a gentleman's
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agreement, you. And Iona and.
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That doctor, you're all up to something fucking weird, Mr.
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Cowboy. You and I.
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Have already met. I have a super ballsy idea and
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tell me if this is fucking crazy before I do it but I'm thinking
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of grabbing him and jumping off the ledge with him and then
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shooting my gravel gun onto the side of the building to say.
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To myself, Jeff, I'm not going to stop you.
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Are you going to kill this man? Is that your solution to Mark?
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How it is? Iona, you can you, Oh, you can't
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see this happen because he's around the corner.
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I can. See, I can see Vendel looking at
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me. Oh no, I have a better idea.
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Rather, I have AI have one more deal before I have to go
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nuclear. OK.
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And I don't know any of this is happening, right?
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You can hear it. You're you're quiet.
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You're like 20 feet away. But Yep, you called animal
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handling. You called for Sloan.
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Sloan. So animal handling, please.
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Which is weirdly, I believe, I think under, Yeah, it's under
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education. Yes, it is 18.
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Holy crap, yes, that is enough. Sloan sails into the airspace
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around you, and you can hear very faintly on the wind.
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A distinctive core, Yes. What do you want to do?
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I'm hoping that Sloan will see that I'm in danger and you know,
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activate contingency plan Alpha, which is claws and or beak to
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the face. Fair enough.
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Mark Zeiger rolls a three and he gets a new hat because a vulture
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lands perfectly on his head and he's still pointing a gun at
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you, but he's now got a bird on his head.
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Sloane looks at you. Yeah, if you could just go
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Sloane. I think he wants to learn how to
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fly. Hopefully, with Sloane's help
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and a mule kick, kick him off the platform.
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Hopefully this time for good. You're just going to kick it.
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You're just going to kill Mark, OK, that's fine.
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Fuck. Mark.
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Fuck Mark. Frankly, he had.
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He had. He had his.
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Chance. He had it coming.
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I was. Going to ride out there.
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I think. I think hey don't.
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Worry about it, I got under. Control Sloan is now pulling
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Mark off the building by his hair, his very nice hair.
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Mark does roll a nine though, so he grabs Sloans leg with his
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other hand and now his gun is like flying wildly as he's
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pulling. He's, he's trying to, he's, he's
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going to try and shoot Sloan. Yeah, this is where I'm going to
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do the kick. Okay.
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Brawling. Brawling 22, That's really good.
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Slow, strong if she's able to hold up Ziger.
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She's drunk. She's just.
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Pulling him. She's not lifting him off the
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ground. We, I just went to AI, just went
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to the Field Museum in Chicago after my conference and there
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was this huge exhibit of like every bird.
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Like. Taxidermied bird, every bird
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pretty much. And there was a vulture there
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and I was like, holy shit, vultures are huge.
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Yes, they are very big. Yes, you chose a very big
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animal. Yeah, you roll 22, which is in
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this distraction enough, and you kick Mark Ziger off the
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building. That's the goal.
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OK. No.
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You are successful. Mark flies off the side of the
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building with Sloan still attached, and you see them
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plummet. At this height, Mark Zeiger will
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almost definitely reach terminal velocity and die on impact.
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And as he sails down, you hear a.
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Bullet go off. And then you hear Sloane, and
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Sloane is now sailing downwards. Less likely to die from this
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fall as the bullet seems to have hit them here.
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Roundabout floor 30 or 20. But now Sloane is at the base of
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this building, injured, next to the spattered remains of Mark
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Zeiger. Sloane no What?
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Was that? Noise.
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That was weird. Jeb is going to do is going to
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spend the rest. He's immediately going to go
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towards the elevator or somehow get down from is it?
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Is it closer to go up to the sky vehicle or to the elevator?
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You are closer to the sky vehicle, but the sky vehicle, I
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think that it would take longer to go upstairs, get in the
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vehicle, fly down, find a place to land, grapple, take longer.
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So you're just going to grapple down this building?
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I fight. I mean, I imagine I have a
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pretty good sense of how much like.
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You're 62 floors up. There is some.
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Floors there is the also platform for cleaning the
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windows that we were using as well you.
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Could take that down. Oh.
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Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna hop onto that and like hit the
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little lever like zinc. So it's like all right, Jeff.
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So I just. Pretty much run, You run.
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You run down the side of this building all the way around the
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West side to where the window cleaner elevator is, and you
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jump in and hit the down button and you're streaming down the
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building. Oh, come on, girl.
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Come on, girl. You're going to be all right.
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You're going. To be all right, Pop is coming.
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Pop is coming. Night City.
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later tunes. I don't know what the fuck's
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going on. Jeb just disappeared outside.
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Did Jeb shoot Mark? It's I heard, I heard a gun.
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Yeah, it was like it. Was like the screaming of
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someone falling like the doctor. Effect like that.
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You know. Oh.
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Iona roll resist torture drugs because as Vendel tries to
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demonstrate that they do move their head around erratically
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and you start to dizzy. Dizzy dizzy dizzy dizzy is what
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I meant. Resist torture drugs. 14 yes,
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that's good enough. You managed to stay stable.
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So was it Mark then? Well, I look up, I I look around
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but I can't see anything because my nails not moving their head.
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I'll go to the window and see if I can see Jeb out there.
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Is he? Can I see Jeb about the window?
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Nope, he's gone. Vendel, what's down there?
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Jeb, I'm calling Jeb on the intercom.
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Jeb. Jeb, did you fall?
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If you did, don't answer. This is something that I would
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have to, I have to like, pick up, right?
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It's not something that you just like.
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Yeah, I have to make, if I'm honest, you're currently sick.
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It's not a fast elevator. The window cleaners elevator,
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it's going down, but it's not fast.
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So you're holding the down button with one hand because
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it's like a little cable. About how many floors of cable
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do I have on my that grappling gun, would you say?
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It actually says in the wait. No, I'm in more distress.
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I'm, I'm not. I'm I'm searching the the
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grapple gun in my hand to see if it has any sort of indication of
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length of cable. And this is assuming that every
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floor is about 10 feet. Three floors, 3/4.
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Meters say 30. OK.
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So you are currently at a roundabout floor 30, but you
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cannot see Sloan because it's around the corner of the
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building? Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm.
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It's gonna be alright. It's gonna be alright.
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He's like talking to himself but also talking to Sloan at the
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same time. You pick up the phone.
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No. It rings.
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No, I'm not answering. OK, I.
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Barely hear it cognitively. Jeb doesn't pick up.
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Well, Jeb's not picking up, so high chance they could have been
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the one that fell. Fendo, could you tell from the
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sound of the voice? No, it didn't sound like Jeb
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falling. It sounded like.
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Was it Mark, Mark, Mark? Yeah, probably him.
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What can you could you could you look for me so I could?
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Vendel does exactly that. Walks through the office, steps
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out to the outside of the building and then looks down.
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And then using their cyber eyes, they zoom.
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And they're at the very bottom of the building, in a white
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concrete courtyard with a fountain that was far too over
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designed and is also digital. There is the spattered remains
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of a human being who, because they seem to have fallen from a
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very high height, I'd say about 62 floors.
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And next to them, around about 3 feet to their right is Sloane
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laid out on the ground leaking blood.
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Is that looks like a. Bird.
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Is that Sloane? Is, is is is is is is that a
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duster? Is is is the pile wearing a
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duster? Raw perception or human
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perception 19 Yes, you realize that it is Mark because you've
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seen Mark recently. It is the clothes he was
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wearing. All right.
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Well, that's not Jeb. That's definitely Mark.
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Do do we know where our Jeb is? No.
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He's not answering the phone. But also, if Mark's dead, we
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should probably leave. I have a meeting to be in but
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but if we leave soon then I don't have to be in the meeting.
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That's very true. You can work that out pretty
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easily. Vivi, Vivi, we're in Office 62.
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OK, I am on my way. There's there's a dead guy now
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a. Dead guy.
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Yeah, you say as you walk into Office 62 and close the door
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behind you. Iona.
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You are mildly startled as Vivi's voice suddenly is behind
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your left ear. Then Dale, turn around please.
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Vendel turns around from the other side of the room, stepping
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back inside, and you see yourself standing slightly in
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front of Phoebe. I turn all the way around so I'm
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not facing Phoebe. How did you do?
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Good. I took out a guard who was
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escorting me down to get like, I don't know, like write me up or
26:58
something and. They were probably trespassing
27:02
you. Yeah, he said.
27:03
I was going to be banned from Biotechnica forever.
27:05
So. Did you kill him?
27:07
I just knocked him out. Oh, OK, good.
27:11
So we so we genuinely don't have much time here.
27:14
You know, this is I Iona you I whenever I move my head, you
27:17
wobble. We should probably disconnect
27:18
this. All right.
27:20
Unless you want to keep it but. I blink really hard.
27:25
I don't know how to turn it off. I found him.
27:28
We had a medical professional nearby.
27:30
Vivi and I turned all the way back around.
27:34
But she slightly misses the mark and Ion is now talking to the
27:38
door and not quite to Vivi. Vivi, could you?
27:42
Vivi, could you figure this out? Figure.
27:46
I'm I'm connected. It's like from my Chiron eye to
27:51
Vendel's cyber eyes. To right.
27:55
See through Vendel's eyes and I cannot see.
28:00
Yes, I might be able to help. Cyberwear isn't usually my
28:08
specialty, but eyes are. So you're an.
28:13
Optometrist, I didn't know that about you.
28:18
I took a couple of, you know, classes.
28:21
And be the optometrist. And there was a time where I
28:26
wanted to be an eye doctor, you know, So it's just I had a
28:30
phase. Just a little bit of a Phoebe
28:33
lawyer. OK, so you can't see and we need
28:40
to transfer. Yeah, we need to disconnect you
28:49
and then transfer the vision to Ben or to Iona.
28:54
OK, I can help. Roll Cybertech.
28:59
God. Oh is it 1 of Vivi's weak
29:03
skills? Interesting.
29:09
But you still rolled A-17? Honestly this isn't fair.
29:11
You're rolling really well today.
29:12
Well done. Yeah, I am.
29:14
Will end soon, I will find time. Scary GM voice.
29:25
You fiddle around with Iona's Chiron and her cyber eye
29:32
connection. You see that there's a little
29:34
rerouting going on that fresh put together and you managed to
29:39
disconnect it. You however did not roll a Crip.
29:42
So although Iona now is not looking through Fendale's eyes,
29:47
Iona immediately goes blind. Oh.
29:50
Wait, it didn't work. And in front of you, Iona,
29:54
there's a a digital timer of 5 minutes, Huh?
29:59
Not fair because you said one minute before I wrote it down.
30:03
It says one minute blind when I crash.
30:06
OK, fine. In front of you is a timer for
30:09
one minute. You are blind for one minute.
30:12
Rules. Lawyer rules.
30:13
Lawyer you. Know, I know you're OK.
30:18
You're doing that. I can't see thing.
30:20
That's because I can't see anything except a timer.
30:23
That's not good. 47464544 I don't know what do I see again
30:32
when it's over? Maybe that's when the transfer
30:35
is complete, you know? 3847.
30:41
How about this, ladies? Would you please go ahead and
30:46
head downstairs? I'm assuming that if Jeb is not
30:50
the one that died down there, they're probably on their way
30:53
pretty quickly, so you should probably meet them down there.
30:56
I'll handle the meeting and I guess I'll have to handle the
31:00
vehicle upstairs, I guess, but I'm gonna need you to go now.
31:06
OK, time to go. All right. 765 4321 Happy New
31:19
year. Can I see?
31:20
Can I see roll? Roll perception, OK.
31:26
I I think I might know more. This is now. 16 Yeah, your
31:29
vision is a little blurry, and you'll have a -1 perception for
31:32
the rest of this episode. My head you have.
31:36
A bit of a headache. My head hurt.
31:37
Yeah. That, that that'll go away.
31:40
That's obviously, you know, it's temporary.
31:42
You'll be OK. You don't sound very confident,
31:50
Phoebe. Why?
31:51
You're like smirking and like defying what is happening.
31:57
I like, it's been a long day, OK?
32:03
I just want to get out of this damn biotechnical building.
32:05
We should go. We should definitely go.
32:08
Can we take the fire escape? So you're just going to leave
32:10
Retro to deal with the? That's a threat.
32:13
That's a threat and. Walter, I mean, you don't.
32:15
It's fine if you want to do. That yeah, yeah, he's got it.
32:24
OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
32:27
We should take the fire escape though.
32:29
Yes, yes, I, we do not need any more guards If I, if I have to
32:35
hear one more of these guys try to mansplain a camera to me.
32:43
I don't. Know how?
32:44
Johnny Silver. Hand this.
32:45
Building now. Bebe how a camera works is that
32:50
light comes into a prism. Retro, all right.
32:55
You're right, You're right. It's isn't the time.
32:57
I'll just tell you back at the bar.
32:58
Let's just let's just go. All right?
33:01
I can't get started till you you all get out of here.
33:07
Iona, Vendel and Vivi, now the Iona can see, leave the building
33:12
and head downstairs to find Jeb and Retro is left alone in this
33:17
office. Is there a waste paper basket in
33:20
there? Yes.
33:22
Is it full of files? It has like a little bit of
33:27
trash in it but not a lot. OK, I would like to raid the
33:30
desk for anything that is flammable and shove it inside
33:34
the waste sweeper basket. OK, sure, do it.
33:39
All right, I do that. I open the desk.
33:41
I take every piece of paper. Anything that looks like it
33:45
could be set aflame, I shoved in the waste paper basket.
33:48
Meantime, I'm still smoking this joint while I've been doing
33:50
since I always smoke while I work and I'm going to stub it
33:53
out of the desk. Do you want to try?
33:54
And I mean you could search the lockers for some stuff too.
33:57
Yeah, sure, I'll search the lockers in there as well.
33:59
Sure. What do you want me to roll?
34:03
Roll me one D6. 6. You get, you roll A6, you get 3
34:09
items. That's funny.
34:12
I got a bunch of paperwork. Bunch of paperwork files, that
34:16
kind of thing, and you find 50 ODS.
34:21
I'm going to actually keep, I'm gonna, I'm, I'm just gonna grab
34:25
some of it randomly and just shove it into my jacket, but
34:31
still use the rest to shove inside the basket.
34:34
I'm then going to set the waste paper basket on fire right next
34:41
to the stubbed out joint neatly left on the desk.
34:46
And I'm hoping that's gonna get right underneath where the fire
34:49
suppression systems at, and then quickly make my way to the
34:53
elevator to head towards the roof fair.
34:56
All right, roll something to do that.
34:58
OK. I'm going to roll electronic
35:01
security tech is because you said that Fresh had already
35:04
given me access to most of the systems.
35:06
I'm going to try to use that to black out any of my movement
35:10
coming or going from the office of the elevator or elevator to
35:13
the roof. 29 Yes, the fire alarm goes off and you head up to the
35:20
top of the building and are now outside the flight vehicle.
35:23
I will as calm as I can into the flight vehicle and take off and
35:30
I at least for getting it off the ground and in the air, use
35:36
air vehicle tech as I would assume that I know how it works.
35:40
I OK, here's the deal I'm going to make you if you use air
35:43
vehicle tech, you're going to have to take more time to do
35:46
this and it will be harder. Do you want me to tell the tell
35:50
you the DB for flying the vehicle?
35:54
All right, to fly the vehicle out of this place, it will be a
36:01
17. If you use air vehicle tech, you
36:05
can take more time to do this. So it'll take four times longer.
36:09
So people might come upstairs. I'll roll for that.
36:13
But you will get a + 1 to your you to your role.
36:18
I'll be honest, I'm gonna have to do it that way because I only
36:21
have a six in vehicle pilot so even if I was to Max it, I could
36:25
not meet that DV. Interesting.
36:30
Well, I mean, I'm I'm happy for you to be creative with it.
36:35
I'm going to do I'm going to do the air vehicle tech but but I'm
36:42
hoping that because the fire alarm system got set off and I
36:46
was able to use the elevator before it was set off, I'm
36:48
assuming all elevators would then be shut down and most
36:53
people would then be leaving a building if a fire was happening
36:56
as such as a fire alarm going off.
36:59
I see what you're saying. So then those that took the fire
37:02
escape would kind of seem like the rest of the crowd going out
37:05
in a, you know, release of a fire.
37:08
System, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got it.
37:11
No, that's good. I like that.
37:13
That's good. I'm gonna go with tech because
37:15
yeah, I can't. I don't think it's going to be a
37:18
very, very jockey ride. No, don't forget to come get me.
37:24
The other people are coming to get you.
37:26
That is a 27. Yes, I'm going to give you
37:29
because that's really high. I'm going to give you +2 to Air
37:32
vehicle tech, which means you have to roll A9 or A10 otherwise
37:37
you damage this vehicle as it takes off.
37:41
Don't do that. Oh really?
37:43
It's I'm not so worried anymore. If you if you fly this vehicle
37:47
and you roll and you don't roll terribly, you still get it off
37:49
the ground, but you do damage it and you will have to pay for
37:51
that. Oh, I'm sorry.
37:52
You want me to roll the pilot? OK, Yeah.
37:55
Roll air pilot now, Yeah. OK, sorry I rolled.
38:02
Pilot air vehicle +2 makes that 14, so you fly it like an
38:08
everyday person and smack it into the ground.
38:12
It's you don't initiate rotors by order and unfortunately you
38:18
completely scuffed the paint job on this thing on the whole side.
38:22
You hear it? Scream it and.
38:25
Scream as you get it out it's it's scraping against an aerial
38:28
you did not check for and you. Get off the ground.
38:33
Because that's way above it. However, it's not great for
38:37
that. It's very scratched up and it
38:39
it's the kind of stuff that, you know, Tune is going to be pissed
38:42
off. You can feel him being pissed
38:44
off already. Yeah, Jeb's going to have to pay
38:52
for that. Jeb finds himself in the
38:58
alleyway behind the biotechnical building, and there on the
39:01
ground is a huge blood splatter. Can you see this, Jeb?
39:05
Yes, I do. Cool.
39:07
And next to that blood splatter is a sprawled out cyber vulture
39:14
with a huge bullet hole through one of its wings.
39:19
So no, no, no, no, no, no, baby, baby.
39:21
It's all right. It's all right.
39:22
Hey, hey, hey, hey, me girl. Hey.
39:25
You know that Joe starts kind of like petting her, her, her
39:29
feathers and and gingerly like tries to like, you know, take
39:33
the wing that has that has been shot and kind of like take a
39:36
look at it slowly, kind of oh, oh, I know, I know, I know, I
39:39
know. It's all right, It's OK.
39:40
It's all right, big girl. It's OK.
39:43
It's all right. Papa's going to patch you up,
39:45
OK? He knows.
39:46
He knows. Just the doctor take care of
39:48
you, all right? She's she's real bad.
39:50
Jeb, roll resist torture drugs. Don't you?
39:53
Fucking. You're standing next to a giant
39:55
pile of blood roll. Resist torture drugs.
39:59
I'd like to add some luck to this.
40:02
OK. Where's my luck?
40:05
You're standing next to a dead body.
40:07
You are rolling resist torture drugs.
40:11
OK, yeah, I'm going to add 2 luck to this.
40:15
OK, yes, yes, that is enough. The prevalence of blood around
40:20
you was ADB 17 and with your +2 you're all in 18.
40:25
And you managed to ignore the blood on the ground around you
40:28
and the blood pouring out of your pet Sloan.
40:31
Takes a quick glance over at the at the gore next to him and he
40:36
he like gingerly picks Sloan up as as as best he can without
40:41
hurting her and like looks around to try to find where Vivi
40:47
could possibly be coming from. And behind you, Iona, Vivi and
40:52
Vendel pop out of the back of the building.
40:56
Vivi, Vivi. Jeb dead sprints towards her.
41:04
So stones with shot. Stones with shot.
41:06
What can you do? Do you got any, anything?
41:09
Anything. She's hurting.
41:11
She's hurting real bad. OK I I can try my best.
41:15
I don't have much animal medicine, but there might there
41:20
might be something I can do to help.
41:22
Anything for the pine, Anything for the pine.
41:24
I mean, I know you can't can't be doing anything around on the
41:25
street right now, but just just just give her something for the
41:28
plane doc. OK, let let me here this, this
41:33
should work on both humans and animals.
41:36
It it should help. And I just find some sort of
41:39
like aspirin or something that I'm like, I, I know that there
41:44
are some drugs that animals could take.
41:48
Everybody at home. Everybody at home do not.
41:53
This is a This is a make believe game we play with dice.
41:55
Please do not make this as medical advice.
41:57
You're veterinarians. Animals.
41:59
Yes. Having a veterinarian in the
42:02
family, I do know that animals can take hydrocodone.
42:07
OK perfect. So I was about to Google it.
42:11
I'm. I I am I am Googling.
42:15
This should work on both humans and animals.
42:18
Here's some hydrocodone. Alright.
42:21
I just just. Who sees it can be all right.
42:23
It's gonna be OK, OK It's gonna be OK.
42:26
It's gonna be all OK. It's.
42:30
All right, all right. Roll for it, 21.
42:35
Yeah, great. You stem the bleeding on the
42:38
wing. It's now wrapped.
42:40
You have rolled high enough that Sloane feels comfortable, but
42:44
it's now kind of balled up and it's like hugging itself like it
42:46
would in cold weather. The rain has started to spit
42:51
onto the ground and is mixing with the blood next to you.
42:55
You hear a siren in the distance.
42:58
Sloane's going to be OK. Looks.
43:01
Looks like you. Looks like you.
43:02
You clipped your wing there, huh?
43:04
Oh big girl. Well.
43:08
I well, I know I we definitely shouldn't be standing next to a
43:11
dead body, especially one that's in a million pieces, right?
43:16
Well, I mean, all that blood. Guess it's going to leave a
43:22
mark. Next time on no latency.
43:40
Yeah, just give it to me straight, Doc.
43:41
Is she gonna be alright? Not easy to repair.
43:44
I didn't even get a chance to thank him.
43:46
Did somebody say cocaine? Happy Halloween.
43:49
The Collector got you a present. Oh.
43:52
Yeah, we're gonna be cost. Did you say you're going out
43:54
with Sawtooths? Maybe we could do a group on
43:56
this year. Last year we all did our own
43:57
thing, OK? You got an idea?
43:59
Oh, have we done the go as each other thing yet?
44:01
I think I know who I'm going to ask.
44:02
Fireworks. Get drunk on rich people.
44:05
Champagne. Sounds like a good evening then.
44:07
They come in like a Wrecking Ball, but.
44:09
Oh, I've accidentally just ripped.
44:11
Guys, I'm glad it's not a nurse vibe, you know, a doctor vibe is
44:15
so much better. Listen, I remember red goes with
44:16
red, blue goes with blue, but with the green.
44:19
Thank you. Help me with the ball.
44:20
Please you. Guys got like 4 minutes.
44:22
Maybe. I guess that means you and I
44:23
just get to hang out inside until the fireworks go out, do
44:27
they? You think they're pumping in
44:28
those spooky sounds or what? Because it honestly, it kind of
44:32
felt like it was perfectly timed with the rest of the show.
44:59
I wanted. You to have it.
45:01
It's so good. And that's the end of this
45:03
episode. Great.
45:05
Fuck it, wanted it take. It so good.
45:08
Yeah, nice. Good work everyone.
45:11
That was that was I didn't expect any of that.
45:18
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