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S2E57 - Retro's HPNS · No Latency

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  Last time on no latency. Hurry.
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  Get back in the elevator. Come back up.
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  We knew you'd find them. Does that seem morally and
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  ethically sound now that we know there's like thousands of people
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  in here? I'm not a doctor.
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  Bad, bad drone. I got it.
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  It got out. I saw something else completely
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  different. That could be it.
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  You're right, there is a research office.
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  You should shoot it. Hard people.
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  Only in the Middle Pond. They've not been receiving
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  nutrients. They're probably pretty fucked.
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  Do I think I can save them? You have to take out the tubes.
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  Metro is just shaking. I'm going to try to pull the
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  tubes out. Starting to get a bit nauseous?
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  You all right. Yes, you're safe.
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  Thank God you killed the Custodian.
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  I look to the rest of them. Killed the Custodian.
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  We killed the Custodian. Quick question.
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  We're here to find a body frame. Yeah, that's part of the
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  research. Great.
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  We're in a research room. Do you know where it is?
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  I mean, the frames they're, they're made in this facility,
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  but we were researching to make them better.
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  So do we, Do we? Just need a regular frame or do
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  we need one of these like better ones?
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  Well, I we should probably get the best frame available.
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  Excuse me, What? What is your name?
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  Oh my, my name's Doctor Ombre. You're a doctor?
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  Yes, a lot of my research involves reconstituted human
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  flesh. Oh, sounds a little.
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  Well, I guess what, what, what differentiates, you know, like
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  cybernetics and and you know, putting things on on bodies and
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  changing the bodies themselves, You know, I mean, I always
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  wanted that. Yeah, you know how you can
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  donate a kidney? You can donate kidneys.
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  You really only need. Yes or no, cowboy?
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  You can hear. Children's knees like like the
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  the organ in your body. Yes, thank you.
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  You're welcome. Sometimes you have to spell it
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  out for him. Right.
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  Well, we are working on a way of donating limbs.
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  Like you'd get a cyber limb, but it would be someone else's limb.
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  Donate it. Limbs.
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  But then you'd be down and off all the way.
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  Essentially all the way up to the neck.
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  So you're you're stealing body parts from other people?
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  And then what? Making clones?
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  Is that what it is? No, we we're working on a way of
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  integrating cyber tech and human flesh in a way so that they
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  wouldn't ever reject each other. And that way we could just like
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  you can donate a kidney when you die, or a lung or whatever, you
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  could also choose to donate your legs or a hand to someone who
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  wanted a flesh 1. Do I believe him for it?
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  I suppose you know you could. That's one way to kind of get
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  the perfect body. You know you could you could get
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  like real big arms and but on like a tiny little torso and
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  then have like huge legs and then and then your your your
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  power to weight ratio would be off the charts yeah.
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  You've really thought about this, haven't you?
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  I mean just now, yeah. You believed in retro?
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  I don't know what kind of third party black market is going on
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  here, but I'm getting really, really uncomfortable.
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  I I have some questions, yes, I assume these bodies that you're
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  acquiring, they did not, you know, consent to getting their
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  bodies donated or stolen. Like you know, you usually put a
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  little thing on your ID when you die.
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  Like please donate my parts. Yes, anybody who had a donation
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  we took from morgues and anyone who was under contract as part
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  of the project agreed under contract to donate any of their
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  body parts to science if contaminated.
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  Well, that's. If you didn't want to be here,
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  you didn't have to sign it. That kind of thing.
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  That's reassuring. At least these people consented
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  to this. And you weren't just stealing
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  bodies. Yeah, Do you Do you need some
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  water? Well, no, no, I that's the only
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  thing this machine's been been able to keep me with.
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  The water reservoir still got and.
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  They lean over. A little bit left in it, but.
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  Does anyone have any Gisner snaps left or anything?
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  I I do have Gisner Ale. No, I need.
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  I need solids. Don't give them that.
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  You can't trust them. Let's see if I have anything in
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  my bag. Let me check my inventory.
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  God, this whole thing is starting to make me feel sick.
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  Perhaps it's going to crawl off to the side over here.
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  Iona, you put your bag down and put your hand up against a
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  vending machine, and as you're scrolling through, you look up
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  and there's food in the vending machine.
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  Oh, that's strange enough. The other vending machines on
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  this was that this level, yes, that didn't have any food in the
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  vending. It's just this one vending
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  machine has a packet of Cheesy Puffs.
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  Oh, I I beep beep my tile so that I may purchase that for
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  Doctor Hombre puffs. And you get a bag of Cheesy
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  Puffs and they cost you at 15 eddies.
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  Cheesy Louise, I hope you enjoy these.
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  They were not cheap. I don't mean to be a diva, but
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  I've got massive fatigue. Would somebody like this is
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  embarrassing. Feed me.
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  Ivando. Could you crush them up for
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  them? Yes.
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  Do you want them crushed or I can just use chopsticks?
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  Chopsticks is fine. I think I can chew.
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  OK, so I was home. One second.
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  What do you want to find? Well, we really do need that
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  body frame and we should probably discuss again the
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  killing of the custodian, yeah. Yes, you you killed it, right?
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  What? What is the custodian?
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  Which what? Which custodian?
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  The Biotechnic Custodian. I have yet to run into a
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  custodian here. You mean you mean you haven't
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  found two? 20 God, no.
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  I have not found #2. It's what?
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  It's a big lab. You are you Are you a
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  biotechnica? Yes, yes.
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  And she looks very nervous. We we may have modified a
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  custodian. Go on.
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  Well, part of the technology is that it doesn't reject anything,
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  so. Did you go on?
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  The the custodian was experimented on.
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  Go on. And and it it it it it may have.
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  Go on. Limbs.
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  Oh yes, that's where I thought you were going with this.
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  Fucking perfect. How many?
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  Well, that's one of the reasons why I'm in here.
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  It started killing people and then it it lost track of me, so
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  I I took all the food from the vending machines and then I ran
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  out of food. So I put myself in stasis.
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  I have no idea how long it's been.
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  She woke me up. That doctor over there pulled a
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  cable out of my throat. I So.
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  We got. So we got one, we got one of
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  these things that's got who knows how many arms and legs,
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  but what about the second one? The second one.
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  Said there were two. No, cowboy.
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  That's its designation. Do you live with this stupidity?
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  Yes you can. Oh, you do?
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  OK, well, that's normal then. OK.
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  I mean, I'm usually one and all for Nail and Jeb when they make
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  a a funny like that. But you are the one who created
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  a metal Hecratocrates running around here like some kind of
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  fucking spider. We I've just burned this fucking
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  place to the ground. That's what we need to do.
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  Burn this fucking place to the ground.
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  Who's with? Let's just do it.
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  We don't need to. Keep this place.
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  Let's fucking burn it. Remy, we were planning to do
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  that anyway. Let's.
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  Do it. Let's go.
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  Let's get out of here. No, we need.
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  We need the frame. Once we find the frame, we can
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  just blow this place up. I'm fine with that.
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  As long as we're asking questions, Doctor Hermano.
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  Doctor Ombre. Ombre.
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  Dr. Ombre Yeah. What's up with the the people
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  with with their their heads that exploded out.
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  It's. A good I imagine that's two,
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  isn't it? That's no, that's that's all of
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  the low level employees had a kill surge.
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  Oh, they got paid extra. It was in the contract.
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  Reason why would is it Oh. We didn't tell them it was a
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  kill switch, but it was you know in in the documents we we kind
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  of talked around it, but it's in there.
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  So they just. Start their their free chiron
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  and loose ends policy you know. Jeez, we saw a lot of exploded
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  heads. Yeah, I I just didn't know.
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  None of my team did. None of the Abbott lab people
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  did. Just security and everyone who
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  went down to thermal. My thermal vents are incredible.
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  We get so much power. Oh yeah, the thermal vents,
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  definitely. You mean the people?
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  Yeah. What?
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  The people. People.
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  Your Your people. The 72,000 people.
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  No what? We could go back down and show
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  you. I I can barely move.
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  You're kidding. No, you didn't know about this.
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  There is no thermal vent. Oh God.
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  All right, wait, hold on. Am I I need to ask a question
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  first. Let me, let me kind of put my my
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  brain massage this for a minute and then my brain.
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  You are a doctor here. And the way you're sounding, it
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  sounds like you were in charge of a project, right?
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  No, I I was the first assistant, but I had a lot of
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  responsibility, yes. OK first assistant, not the
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  Doctor Who's running the the experiment and but you No idea
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  about the the stealing of people and turning them into pods while
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  squid drones are running around everywhere.
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  No, it's just anti rejection tech so that the frames that
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  they're working on can just be integrated now.
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  Why? Here's a quick question.
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  Why would you need so much power for this facility?
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  Do you? Think I just thought that the
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  thermal vent was convenient and it just had a lot of power and
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  we were just using some of it. We don't use a lot in this lab.
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  The custodian runs all of the cleaning bots.
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  We did. We kill that drone that I
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  chastised. Yes, yes we did.
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  You told it. Off Is it Remy?
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  Is there any way for you to, like, trace that back to a
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  location? I can.
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  I can do that. Just, you know.
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  We disabled custodian access to this office, so if you locked
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  it, oh. When they look over at the door
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  and and retro, it's still fizzling from your triple crit
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  when you blew it up earlier. Damn straight.
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  Fuck. Well, as long as the door in the
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  other hallway, you can lock that.
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  But both of those aren't accessible with a custodian.
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  No? Actually, Retro shot that one as
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  well. I did.
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  I did. Opens doors, doesn't let them
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  close a retro. Why would I need to close doors?
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  Why what's what's? What are you trying to stop me
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  from doing now? I I don't know.
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  What? We don't really have an open
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  door policy here by Biotechnica. Well, I'm making it.
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  I'm making one now. Now I know there's a lot of
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  security. DM Quick question Doctor Ombre,
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  what do they look like? They have a short little Pixie
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  cut. They're in a now wet white lab
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  coat and they have a pen in their lapel and not much else.
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  They're fair skinned and have cybertech eyes.
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  OK, yeah, I'll go and take a look at the the drone.
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  Vivi, I could use a hand. Can you come with me please?
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  Yes, I can. Michelle, I shall go over with
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  Vivi to go and check out the Grown together.
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  So Doctor ombre, we should be able to trace where two is, or
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  at least get a direct link to them with their.
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  Revenues. Well, again I have.
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  I have yet to see two anywhere the.
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  Doctor said it would be fine. I have another question for you.
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  Yes. How many people know the
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  custodian code? It's just the team that installs
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  them. And where?
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  Where would that team be located?
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  Where would they do their work? Head office.
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  Just at head office on the mainland.
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  Yeah, all right. It's just it's one of those
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  really old projects hardly anybody knows about.
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  Whenever there's a new facility, you know they they wake up those
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  sleeper projects and they bring them in madness.
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  How's it going, Remy? Well, I'm.
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  I've headed over to the machine, just Vivi and me as I start to
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  pick it apart. And as I do, I'm silently, well,
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  not really silently, mumbling to myself.
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  Fucking Vivi. Look, something is not right
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  about that person. I What they say sounds true, but
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  it doesn't feel true. There's something going on here.
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  It's really weird and I feel really uncomfortable about this
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  whole thing. All right, look, look, they they
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  say they didn't know about the power source, but they're in a
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  high up position. How the fuck don't they know
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  about that? They're they're holding us from
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  something on there, OK, Same time.
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  Like, just I don't maybe I don't even think that their name's
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  Doctor Hombre. I think they made that up.
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  What makes you feel like they are lying to us?
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  Well, just from their name. Just what?
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  About their name. Yeah, their name?
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  Doctor Hombre, right? You've seen their hair cut.
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  There's no ombre in there whatsoever.
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  There's no darker to the light edges up there at all.
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  They don't even have a balayage. There's no subtle fade of the
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  colour either. Maybe it's.
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  There. Is something.
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  Like friend or what is the you know?
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  Maybe there's a, you know, it might be spelled differently.
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  I'm just. Look, they definitely there's.
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  There is definitely something weird going on, I will admit
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  that. Thank you.
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  I don't know if we don't know if Doctor Ombre like has some sort
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  of side effects from being in this cryo state for such a long
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  time. There could be some memory loss
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  or, you know, it might take them a while to come together and,
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  you know, get themselves together so.
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  DV role. Perception Perception 17 Retro
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  Showing symptoms? So I really what?
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  Remy. What?
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  What? What?
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  What? Hold on, hold on, Let me look
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  at, let me look. Why you getting so close?
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  What's What are you doing? As you get closer, Retro rolled
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  A16 on Perception and a 14 on Robotics and manages to finagle
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  together a a device that when pointed in the right direction,
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  will show him that custodian is there.
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  It is a dousing rod for the custodian now.
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  All right. Hold up for me.
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  Can I just take a look at your pulse really quick?
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  No. Why do you?
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  Why do you need to touch? Me guys, I just just just a
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  quick routine medical check up. All right.
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  No needles or nothing, right? I'm watching your.
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  Hands, I'm just going to check your blood pressure.
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  I'm going to don't mind, I'm going to just shine a light in
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  your eyes really quick. Stop.
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  Even with even with my eyes on the TV, it still hurts.
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  Quit it. Have you been feeling overly
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  paranoid as of? Late.
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  Not at all, I think. I think I'm the one that's more
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  solid. You all are getting very LAX.
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  Your. Eyes are very.
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  Dilated. Your blood pressure's very high.
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  Well, I'm scared, that's why. All right?
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  I have fear. This is fight or flight.
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  You should know that. All right, look, I'm I.
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  I, you know. Are are you?
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  You're making. I'm not of this kind of
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  molehill. All right, There.
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  Got it done. All right.
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  I know my Kung Fu. OK, I got the set.
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  Retro, you know when we finish. Next Really itchy.
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  Yes, these are all interesting symptoms you have here, Retro.
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  I think you might. I gotta say it like that.
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  Symptoms. I think you might be a little
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  sick. Yeah, I'm sick and tired of
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  being here. That's when I am.
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  Just just a little ill, OK? And I might be able to help you
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  feel a little better. When you got some vitamin C, I'd
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  love some vitamin C That'd be great orange juice.
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  No. You know what would help with
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  this? You know.
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  You know, sometimes you after a long day of working or doing one
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  of our jobs, you tend to get some of those, those
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  recreational drugs. Phoebe, are you talking about
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  drugs over there? You took.
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  That time, yeah, Phoebe's trying to tell me that I need to do
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  more drugs. I think Retro is suffering from
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  a bit of a he's got some symptoms of high blood pressure
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  and dilated eyes and Iona, I think he might have something
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  wrong with him. Look, if my eyes look too big,
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  I'll just turn down the the gain on my eyes.
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  Look, see, now I get fall fuzzy looking, OK.
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  We're. Good.
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  It doesn't work. Fuck, I decided I wanted anime
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  eyes today. All right?
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  Can I can I not make a choice please?
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  Vivi what? What is the?
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  I think he's suffering from what we call high pressure nervous
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  syndrome. And oh, Hespinus his his penis.
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  He's suffering from his penis. Give.
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  Yourself an inspiration? No, no, Not no.
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  Not his penis. His penis.
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  His penis. His penis.
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  The. Doctors, official doctors, call
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  it HPS. Why are you laughing?
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  Why are you laughing, Vivi? That's me.
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  Yes, sorry, it's very immature of me.
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  Are you also? Suffering from his penis.
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  Last night, am I right? I mean, yeah, how many people
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  have suffered from Retro's penis?
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  Jeb. Jeb.
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  Come here, Jeb. Yeah, that's a symptom everybody
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  can enjoy. I think.
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  That that show has has Espinus, ESPN his penis.
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  What? What is the consequence of of
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  his penis? The The symptoms include extreme
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  paranoia, nervousness, high blood pressure, dilated pupils
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  sometimes, sweaty sometimes. Sweaty balls.
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  Sweaty balls. Sweaty sometimes.
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  So, yes, Sweaty palms. Palms.
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  Spaghetti all over his sweater already already.
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  So numerous other things, but he's the extreme paranoia is
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  what he's showing first and foremost.
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  So honestly, I just usually if just some sort of stimulant or
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  something to calm him down a little bit to take the edge off
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  is usually what we recommend. So, you know, if he has some of
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  those recreational drugs or something, you know?
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  Remy and Remy, do you have any weed retro retro?
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  Remy Retro. Did he?
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  Did we, did we lose him? Because sometimes the paranoia
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  gets so great. In the room.
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  He's not in the room. Has anyone noticed that he's not
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  in the room? Oh wait, where is he?
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  OK, sometimes the paranoia becomes so extreme that they end
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  up making irrational decisions. He's.
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  Remedy Harm to us it. Depends on the situation.
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  Sometimes, you know, one of the side effects is like making.
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  Oh no. Irrational decisions that they.
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  Wouldn't normally make. How does one get this disease?
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  Usually being under extreme amounts of pressure.
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  Oh, I get that. I'm I am stressed out right now?
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  No, like pressure from like air pressure being brought down like
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  actual literal pressure. All right.
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  So if you kind of like, squeeze them real tight, maybe it can
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  reverse itself. Give them a hug.
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  Guys, retro's missing and he's got the the custodian Finder.
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  Yeah. Oh, he must be looking for the
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  custodian, I guess. Let's look for him and then
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  maybe we'll find both of them. But we should be careful while
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  trying to find Remy, because if we're like running around the
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  facility yelling for him, something else might find us.
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  So maybe we don't yell for him and you have to find him before
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  we blow up the facility. Though I will not blow up Remy.
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  That's a good point. And you know, to add on that if
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  I were the paranoid tap and I heard a bunch of people yelling
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  my name, I might go the opposite way from them.
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  True. Your favorite multiverse hopping
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  game system jumping high production value.
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  Actual Play Podcast is back. System Switch Season 2 is out
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  right now. In your universe, Bowler and
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  Hicks have been transported into the science fiction world of
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  Scum and Villainy. Follow our heroes as they try to
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  break out of prison this. Is clearly a cell.
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  I've seen a cell before. In any universe, this is a cell.
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  Fly through asteroid belts. Break into high security
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  government buildings. Excuse me, I'm from the library
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  police. And punch fascists.
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  That's always very cool. Catch up on all of season one
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  now, or jump straight into Season 2 every Thursday,
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  wherever you get your podcasts. The multiverse is a strange
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  place. Oh, man.
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  All right, let's see here. I'm going to find this thing.
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  We're going to fucking destroy this, this sumbitch, and then
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  we're going to go home and blow this fucker out of the ground.
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  What's what's this in between the the There's something shiny
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  going in here between the machines.
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  What's that? You.
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  Walk up to a vending machine. It's empty.
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  Yeah, but there's something underneath it that's there's an
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  energy drink there. I could use that.
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  I could use some energy. I could probably, you know, use
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  some energy to pump up. It's empty.
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  There's nothing in the vending machine.
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  Damn it. I swear I thought I saw
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  something in there. OK, let me see.
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  I need some energy. I'm starting to get tired.
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  All right. Where do I need to go?
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  To the east of this building you can see a bathroom.
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  Bathroom, OK. Labeled on the ground between
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  two crates. OK, maybe the maybe they went to
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  the bathroom. All right, let's check the
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  dowsing machine. Do I get?
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  Do I get a reading? The dowsing machine points
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  South. Into the bathroom.
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  No, the bathroom is to the east. Oh, but it points out to where
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  I'm at. What's what's to say on the
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  floor here? An.
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  Observation. R&D in observation, that sounds
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  like the place to go. Yeah, that's where I'd go if I
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  was planning on doing something. All right, I'm going to open the
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  door. Somebody cover my back, clamped
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  it. You do it.
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  Cover me. You crack open a door and step
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  into a corridor. To your left are three vending
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  machines and role perception. All right.
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  OK, I got. I'll use.
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  I'll use my peepers. What?
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  What do I see? Anybody who goes to find Retro,
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  I need you all to roll a Perception and an Athletics
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  role, including vendor. It's going to take you a little
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  bit longer because VV fell over some blood on the ground.
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  I'm struggling perception in the what.
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  And athletics retro as you step into this room, Clinton says.
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  Over there, on the right, there's an event.
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  Hey, you're right. Good job, Clampton.
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  I'm glad I kept you around. All right.
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  It's Clinton. It's not Clampton.
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  So there's some stuff down here. Oh cool, I'm going to go check
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  that out. Let me see it.
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  Where is. That just in the What's his
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  observation? Testing and observation.
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  Oh, testing observation, testing observation.
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  Which way does the Dowsing Rod point?
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  The dowsing rod points to the testing lab, but Clinton is
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  playing with the observation door.
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  Stool. Stool.
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  Barry Stews Clinton. All right, I will follow your
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  your role, Clinton, and I will check out the observation.
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  I'm going to put the dowsing machine away.
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  I'm going to pull out my shotgun.
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  All right, cock sucking motherfuckers.
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  I'm going to get you now. Breach and clear bitches.
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  Damn. Doors blocked.
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  Jed seals a pole when he when he says Breach and Clear can't tell
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  where it's coming from, but he knows it was dead.
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  Can I? We're just real fast.
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  I have a A. Cloak.
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  Rolled up in my bag that I got for Jeb a very long time ago
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  that he never took from me. That is a + 1 to stealth.
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  May I dawn that so that I can sneak up on Remy.
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  All right. So just to be clear, you're
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  using the club that you were going to give to me, but you
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  decided I'll keep it? I did give it to you and you
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  just never took it. You win your own fancy duster.
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  That's true. I do love my duster.
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  I do love my duster. You do spend your money very
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  irresponsibly. Yeah, you guys.
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  VV, Vendel, Jeb and Iona, you are moving through this
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  corridor. You're old and 18 on perception.
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  And you, Jeb? You smell Remy.
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  Hold on, I'll smell him. It's that undeniable mix of
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  sweat and Axe body spray. Just a hint of.
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  Oh, you mean Ace Body Spray? Sure.
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  How much sweat? Because some of the other side
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  effects include, like profuse sweating, sweating.
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  You know the the sweat glands. Good.
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  I'm glad he's sweating more because then we can find them,
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  yeah. It's all, it's all coming
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  through this Schnaub right here. He's to the southeast, by the
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  way. And you continue further South
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  into a corridor, and at the end of the corridor you see Retro
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  Tap on this door rolling a crit 34 with a maximum crit by the
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  way, and it slides open. He uses his shotgun like a
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  stylus on the screen, but it's actually done a quite a good
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  job. And because of his crit, he is
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  able to close the door behind him if he so chooses.
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  Retro behind you is Clinton. He's taking a bit of a second to
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  get through the door. Yeah.
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  Come on. Come on.
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  Let's go. Let's go.
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  Yeah, come on, let's go. Come on.
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  And Clinton steps through the door all.
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  Right, I'm closing behind me. In case you know, someone tries
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  to stick up on us there. One hit the deadbolt on it too.
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  Click Now it's just us in them. In here, only two of us are
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  walking out, and one of them better be Clinton.
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  What do I see in here? Where are you hiding in one of
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  the trucks? To the north is a large see
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  through panel. It's a thick looking piece of
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  glass. There, in the middle of the
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  room, is the custodian standing on a podium.
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  I got like a lectern podium. You know in the middle of the
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  room, you can see him standing there.
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  They're standing in the podium. Is the custodian Jeb and
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  everyone on the other side of the door roll?
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  Anything to get the door open, OK?
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  Do OK. Anything.
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  Anything. Anything.
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  I shoot it. So VV wipes off the panel
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  nicely, exposing a button that was covered up in a bit of gunk.
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  Iona taps a few buttons and releases the maintenance panel
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  and spoon with his 29 being the highest.
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  Blows open the panel and the door slides open.
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  Now quietly as to not scare them.
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  Fire a warning shot. Oh God, I duck.
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  It ricochets off the glass. Roll evasion, OK.
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  Evade all of us. Just Vendel and Iona because
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  they're in the front. Oh, is that e-mail me.
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  No, you as well. Yes, the bullet misses you and
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  sticks into the ground. Vendel does an expert dodge,
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  does a spin, but faces the glass, and then sees the
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  custodian standing there waggling his finger.
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  A human scientist's body with the head of a custodian.
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  Fucker stole my do. God.
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  That Santis has a robot growing out of his body. 22 Come here.
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  That's strange. Don't do that.
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  Very frightening. I have.
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  I'm a I'm a real boy, boy, boy. Are.
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  You trapped in there? It looks to its left, it looks
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  to its. Right.
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  Maybe, maybe not. I tried a few bodies.
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  I like this one. It it looks very fitting.
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  It's. The cleanest, Not for long.
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  Two is your your purpose at the moment my.
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  Original purpose was to keep the the place clean and then I made
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  a joke about wanting legs, wanting legs, and now I have
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  them. What is your purpose at the
• 34:17
  moment? Keep.
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  The place clean, clean and. What is?
• 34:21
  What is making the place dirty? The.
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  Bodies. Maybe you should stop killing
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  people then. I won't be able to try the new
• 34:30
  bodies, bodies, body. You have the perfect body I can.
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  Try them now. You have such a great body.
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  I know. This is the. 3rd 111.
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  And they touch their chest. Seems like you're enjoying your
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  new toy. How about I give you another
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  experience? If you are now to move in on to
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  while I distract them, that might be a good idea.
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  I will. I think so.
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  The the big brains, they they they told me that if I made sure
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  that no one ever found out, that they'd let me live.
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  You're doing. Walk among you.
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  A fantastic job, actually. Let me walk.
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  You didn't let me walk. Madam, I wasn't here.
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  I wasn't ready to let you walk you.
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  Were only here a day you? Left.
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  Well, you're walking now. Well.
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  Is there a reason they keep going you Mama?
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  Could you go do the thing that I asked you to do, Chip?
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  Stealth. Stealth.
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  Engage. Stealth MO.
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  Well, Mommy is sorry that I didn't let you walk the very
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  first day, but you weren't ready.
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  But you are now. Look at you.
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  I can. Yes, you're very good.
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  I've got two legs and two arms so much.
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  More what else do you have? I'm going to slowly start
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  walking away from the door, so that too has to follow me.
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  Is this panel at the very end of the room?
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  Is that is that a control panel for a door?
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  You don't know what that panel does, but there is a panel
• 35:56
  beside the big glass window. OK, I'm going to.
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  Go stand over there and continue intently talking to Two so that
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  Two is encouraged to come to me. OK, roll something for that.
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  Sure roll, Mommy. Roll Mommy.
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  Roll, roll, Mommy want. An episode.
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  Oh yeah, persuasion. That works great.
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  Yes, they are persuaded to follow you.
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  And now at the furthest part of the glass.
• 36:23
  So mummy is is going. Mummy is going to ask you, how
• 36:34
  long have you been acquiring bodies?
• 36:41
  Lots of heads exploded. I did see that.
• 36:44
  And you know what? Yeah, I saw.
• 36:48
  I think that I think that you might be very good at a breach
• 36:51
  and clear. Retro rolled A23 with their K
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  tech. Well, tell them why.
• 37:02
  So Retro tries to do the same thing he did earlier with the
• 37:05
  observation door by like tapping on the door with the end of his
• 37:08
  shotgun, but accidentally blows the panel out of the wall and
• 37:12
  the door flies open. You're surrounded by smoke.
• 37:17
  So then Jeb, VV, and Vendel under the cover of this smoke as
• 37:21
  the door is blown open, are able to move about 20 feet into the
• 37:25
  room somewhere. Retro, however, is angrily stuck
• 37:29
  inside the room just in the doorway, and you enter this
• 37:34
  space. You see headless bodies on the
• 37:37
  ground with spatters of blood, a big large computer like block
• 37:42
  and a bunch of big machines in here that take up a lot of space
• 37:46
  and a few crates. And there at the very end, you
• 37:49
  can see Iona talking to two Jeb role perception.
• 37:52
  There it is. 21 Jeb, not only do you recognize that this room has
• 37:59
  a few strategic places for it, namely these big machines, you
• 38:03
  could take cover behind them. You also notice that there are
• 38:06
  drones behind them, the end of the room.
• 38:10
  Looks like we've got company 0. Shit.
• 38:12
  Yeah, Jeb kind of like slinks back against one of the giant
• 38:16
  machines that are lining the sides of this massive chamber,
• 38:23
  and chambers a few rounds into his Colt. 40 fives grand, Pappy,
• 38:29
  It's time to just ye off again now.
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  No, I only got one good one liner date.
• 38:35
  That's it. It's all right, Cheb, because I
• 38:38
  think 2's only just noticed that we're here.
• 38:40
  Somebody who for a spanking. You.
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  You you lied to us. Mama.
• 38:46
  Wait, whoa. Watching.
• 38:47
  You. I'm here a lot.
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  I didn't tell you where they were.
• 38:55
  They've come to admire you. They've not.
• 38:57
  Come to admire me? You know how I know that?
• 39:00
  Because you're a smart boy. Because it's time to roll for
• 39:03
  initiative. What do you mean?
• 39:04
  I think Remy is right. It's time for a spanking.
• 39:19
  Next time on no latency. Who's not calm?
• 39:28
  Everybody's calm. I'm calm.
• 39:30
  These drones are shooting at me. It's all right.
• 39:32
  It's just dust. Do you want me to take out the
• 39:34
  drones, or do you think we should kind of all gang up on
• 39:37
  the big Cyborg man? This is horrifying.
• 39:40
  It's. Just dust from 72,000 people.
• 39:44
  I'm on a new high now. It's called adrenaline.
• 39:47
  What the hell? What?
• 39:49
  Mendel, please. You OK?
• 39:51
  Vendel. Ah God, it's in my eye.
• 39:53
  Everyone remain calm. It's in my eye.
• 39:56
  All right. I've got some sort of facial.
• 39:58
  I throw it to the ground. You're in time out.
• 40:01
  My eyebrows go. Oh, hopped up on adrenaline
• 40:03
  right now. Mommy's mad, uh.
• 40:06
  Oh, hey Doc, how long does it take for eyebrows to grow back?
• 40:08
  Please kill them, Jeb. All right.
• 40:11
  Remy stop. There's only really one thing
• 40:13
  that's going through Retro's mind.
• 40:15
  It's a Phantom Menace kind of situation, I think.
• 40:18
  Listen, you have to play nice or you don't get to play at all.
• 40:49
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  next time in Night City. Thanks for listening, Jim.