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This time, on no latency side, Quest Retro and VV attempt to
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have a nice night. Oh, this place.
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Think one of my gal pals is gonna be here.
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Hello. Returning once again is Coyote,
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played by Anayas Morgan. That's my best friend.
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Coyote. But Night City always has other
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plans. Let me answer.
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Let. Me answer, I've gotta help.
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Glad, Vivi, you finally admitted this is all for love.
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There's blood in the bathtub and Vivi doesn't have a lot of time.
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Hey, we're here. They're gonna have to be quick
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on the wheel. Hey, now.
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It's a nice van. And even quicker on the trigger.
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Alright, I guess I'll just have to hand crank it.
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It was just gonna be a little outing.
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Don't press that button. That looks sick as hell, but now
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it's something much, much bigger.
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Come out to the bubble tea, we'll get together, have a few
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laughs. Phoebe, stop it.
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Just let him die. We better get out of here.
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Oh man, I have been. I have been wanting bubble tea.
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So. Badly.
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I think it's a problem. I don't know.
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I mean, I think it's a good idea, to be honest.
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Like, I'm starting to get bored of just drinking mostly liquor
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and not getting enough of vitamins and minerals.
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I mean, and I'll just pull out a joint at this point.
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I mean, you know, I'll get much that I can from Mother Earth
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here, but it's not everything. Yeah.
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You know, I guess there are worse things that you can be
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addicted to. It just sucks that we have to
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walk. You know, where?
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Wherever Jeb took Vanna White. I know it's half.
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Mine don't walk. Hulk don't walk.
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Hulk, don't walk. Hulk.
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Hulk don't. Whoa.
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Hulk. Hulk.
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It must be alright. Trauma team, calm down.
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It's probably somebody who's got Premium walk.
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Speaking of Trauma Team Retro the Trauma.
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Team. Trauma team tower sirens, baby.
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No, no, no, no. Sirens ain't going to win this
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year. It's all about Cordonato.
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Cordonato. Roosters.
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Roosters. No.
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Go. Come on.
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Come on. We're going to win this year,
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all right, Derby champions, ours.
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The Sirens have well first of all I mean trauma team obviously
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is going to win. I I don't know.
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I don't know what what your why you chose Coronado is beyond me
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when you have a medical person in your crew.
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Look, don't get me wrong, all right?
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Trauma team's got some skill, but trauma team also, anytime
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somebody gets a nick immediately pulls their people out and
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starts bandoring them up. And that's not going to work,
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right, Roosters, we're strong, we're wild.
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We go crazy. You know, fan wise, like it is a
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family together. We all go out there with that.
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You know, I put on that orange Mohawk that I got right, We
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spike it up, we wear it. We don't paint faces white and
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red. We all go out there and like
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we're just all together. We are the we are the coupe, OK?
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We are the coupe and we will run this out, all right.
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I mean, look, sirens, they're not nobody to laugh at,
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especially because, you know, they're pretty nice at, you
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know, after game healing and such, but you know, like
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motorboards, what are you going to do with them?
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You know, Pacifica Seashells, I mean they could be something to
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worry about. Hammers, I'm kind of a little
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nervous about, but I mean, what is it?
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We got the biohazards, Biotechnica biohazards up first.
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And I mean, you know. Look, I mean, I'm sure Iona is
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secretly cheering for the biohazards.
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I don't even. Think they know who they are?
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Yeah, I don't think they're really into into roller Derby,
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no. They ain't into roller Derby,
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but. And as you walk up to the Bubble
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Cafe, you can hear it's funky music pulsing through the walls.
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My beloved, we're here. Oh, this place.
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Yeah, this place that almost, I don't know, got completely
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annihilated and we saved I've, you know, I've, I've, I've saved
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this place quite a few times, I gotta say.
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We should make you a partner by that point then, right?
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Look between us I think it's a goal of mine to like become like
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an investor or something in in the in the business and maybe I
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don't know maybe like build out some chain, you know additional
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place. We don't have to have it in just
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one district in Night City. We can have like, but that's the
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I'm not I'm not a I'm not the, you know the exec.
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So not really my specialty. I'm just a Med tech, you know?
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I mean, you know, I guess there's some points you can get
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from Iona from that, but, you know, I mean.
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We'll see. I don't know.
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Look, I'm interested in seeing what they're going to have on
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the palate. I remember last time that we
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were here, there was like a lavender bubble tea that I
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remembered like sipping from somebody else's Have you ever
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got a chance to give my own bubble tea?
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By the way, Retro, I think, my friend.
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I think one of my my gal pals is going to be here.
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Coyote. She sent me a message.
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Do. You have friends outside of us?
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I do actually. Well, you know what that means?
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You're just that much. That just is just like another
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one more point of wholesomeness, more than you have for us.
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Because I can't really think of any friends I have of us outside
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of us. Well, no, I take that back.
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I'm sure I'm sure you have some. I well, you know, I've got, I've
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got quite a few that we had talked about from last Christmas
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after the acid rain debacle and and then you know there are my
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online friends that we play Alpha M online.
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So you know, but I don't get to see them all that often.
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So I mean, as I used to you, to be able to go out and see people
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more often than just the crew. So do they?
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Do they know or is this going to be one of those, like I have to
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explain everything? They know some stuff about, you
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know, us, the group. You know what I mean.
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Are they expecting to see my head or what?
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Oh, that that might be a bit of a a shell shock.
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You might have to explain the whole thing.
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No, no, no. You're going to take over.
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Explain them for it. I get tired of doing it.
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Gosh, I don't. OK.
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You're. Your friends, you're the one
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that's going to have to be the better one.
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I don't know who they are. It's going to be better.
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Welcome to the Bobble Cafe. How can I?
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Oh, hi. Hi.
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How are you? Long time no see.
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TV head guy, nice to see you. Hello.
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How are things at the cafe? Bubbly.
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That's what I like to hear. What can I get for you?
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Good question. What what am I in the mood for?
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Oh, you got don't you guys have like the nicotine bubbles?
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OK. So yeah, the watermelon flavor
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with the, you know, the little, the little tapioca thingies with
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nicotine and then please. Thank you Do.
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You want Vapor Licious. Yeah, here.
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You go, there's some vape foam on top.
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I'll bring that to your table. That'll be look.
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Oh, look at that. That you eat today 7 Eddies. 7
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Eddies all right. Oh, no, it's all right.
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I got you on this one. Oh, I got you on this one.
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What's for you, Shiny? Well, you know what I would like
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to know what your seasonal special is?
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What your seasonal? Special is Dandelion and Burdock
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I. Don't know what any of those is.
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What are those? Welsh flavor.
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The Clive asked for it. Welsh.
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Yeah, Welsh. It's like root beer, but like if
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it was near a sheep. Oh, is there alcohol in it?
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No, but it tastes like cough syrup.
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Oh, oh, actually, but. Like in a good way?
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I'm interested what add-ons do you have?
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Do you have like mixins and such?
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We have, we've only got 2 today. We've got nicotine and boost.
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I don't feel like any boost today and nicotine is a terrible
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drug to get addicted to, so I think I'll be fine.
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I'll just take the the season. We've got the Sorry, I thought
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you're just asking for the unhealthy ones.
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I've got like vitamin C I've got full on double caffeine and I
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have a weird head high. It's not really a drug.
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You just feel kind of like light headed for about 20 minutes.
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You know what I love? A good head high.
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I'll take the head high. Yeah, give me that head high.
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But weirdly safe. Even better.
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That means also your drink can be any color you like,
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regardless of flavor. Can I get it to be white with
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streaks of orange? Kind of looking like a A a A
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coxcomb. Yeah.
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And you wanted Dundon antibiotic?
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Yes, please. OK, at 7:50.
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All right. I'm going to go ahead and give
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you 15 Eddies with an additional 3 Eddie tip.
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Oh, that's nice, Phoebe. I approve.
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Yay. Thank you.
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Do you? Want anything for?
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Coyote. Yes.
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And you turn your head and they're sitting at a table in
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the middle of the room, vibing to the music with cool
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sunglasses on, is Coyote. It's cold of you to assume that
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I'm sitting because Coyote. Say it loud at Coyote.
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Coyote is dancing around with her new glow sticks and notices.
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Vivi, it's my best friend. Hello.
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Hello. It's good to see you.
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I haven't seen you in like a million years, so he's going to
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see you. You know, a couple of weeks,
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it's. I mean, it's been two months
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actually. So you know, he's counting.
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That's crazy. Well, what's the part?
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Is there like a rave going on? What's the no.
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So you look down and you see Coyote is definitely trying out
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some some new looks because we all deal with grief in different
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ways. So she is dressed quite quite
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ravish with some brightly colored popped collar
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windbreaker vibe and some pink shades and she's got some glow
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paint just like on her. You're not sure if that's
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purposeful or not. And then she's vibing with her
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glow sticks and she's like, no, man, I just, I'm trying to find
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like like my joy, like my center in life.
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And what I say is like, if it makes you happy, just fucking do
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it. And I feel like this is this is
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making me happy. This is a good new look for me.
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I would say it's not the craziest look I've ever seen.
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And at that point, she turns to the person with ATV head.
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Hello, my name is Coyote. It's good to meet you.
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Yes, Coyote, this is Retro Retro Coyote.
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Oh, whoa, you're real. I thought you were a segment of
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my imagination. Hi I'm re put my hand out to
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shake. Cool.
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Hi, nice to meet you. Once the grass panned, I'm going
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to pull you in close for a hug. I love a.
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Hug. Tuck it.
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In. Tuck it in right there.
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Yeah, tuck it. Yeah, I got you.
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I love a hug, brother. Thank you.
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Phoebe, You want in on this? Hug.
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Yes. You know what?
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Yes. 3 way 3 way. Hug.
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Let's go 3 way. Hug.
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Oh, I feel closer to you guys already.
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Oh, this is great. I have AI have a nicotine and I
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have a weird head high that has no name yet and.
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Reeves. Oh, what is up?
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How's it going? Yo Mr. TV Dude, what is what is
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shaking? I've do it just great raves.
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I'm about to test this new no name head high.
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Yes, I have made it. I hope you enjoy well, I'm.
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Going to give it a taste right now.
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Hold on. Excuse me, Really cool Tiny rave
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Cowboy person. Would you like a beverage?
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Yeah, absolutely. Any friend of Vivi and the retro
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is a friend of mine. I freaking hope so.
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What would you like? I will go and make it in the
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kitchen with my own 2 cybernetic hands.
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Well, no one cybernetic hand, but it was cooler to say too.
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Give me, give me that, that green tea.
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Hold the tannins. Add some extra cortisol
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balancing additives. Do you want bubbles with that?
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What's? I don't know.
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I just did AI did a dry January. I'm a little worried about.
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Just no, no. The bubbles we just put like
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vapor in it. So I can like, add a flavor that
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pops because it's not boba, right?
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Oh. All right, yeah, yeah, bro, give
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me that. That Taro bubbles?
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Then give me that. You got it.
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Do you want do you want Taro flavor or would you like rainbow
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Weird cybernetic flavor? I'll I'll you know I'm going to
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take the Taro. OK, no worries.
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It's like sherbet, but makes you numb.
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You can't be quirky every day, yeah.
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Anyway, so I'll get your drink and I'll be right back, Deuces.
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And we just buck us off. Oh shit, I forgot he worked
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here. Yep.
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This is like one of like 17 jobs ruse has.
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Look, live in a night city ain't cheap.
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Of course I'll be. Honest.
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No, I mean that's it. Like, really, truly.
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As free going as Reeves is, they are on the grind.
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Yeah, so. What have you been up to?
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What? I mean, what's going on?
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Vivi, I missed you so much. I can't believe.
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I can't believe we haven't seen each other in so long.
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Hold that thought. Cody, Chad, Caller ID.
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Oh, Chad. Chad, Do you remember the guy
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Coyote that we last, you know, saw where he was like kind of an
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ex, but not really dated like once and then like I took his
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hoverboard because. I remember the hoverboard.
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Yeah, remember that? Why?
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Why is he calling me right now? I'll.
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Answer. I'll answer free.
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I'll tell. I'll tell him to fuck, right?
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Off OK. You don't want anyone, I'll
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answer. I I can't answer.
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I don't want to talk to him. Please let me answer.
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Let me take the agent. Take it.
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This is Vivi's agent Coyote speaking.
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How may I help you? Listen, my friend Vivi really
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doesn't appreciate dudes or ex situation ships calling her
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unprompted, and Vivi's my best friend and I would do anything
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for her. So if you could just, like, keep
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your Dick in your pants and, like, cool it because she's not
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interested. OK, well, that sounds like a you
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problem. I know A great.
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All right. OK, help.
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I feel like this is really needy of you.
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I just. Help.
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Vivi is there, but she doesn't want to talk to you right now.
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That's why I'm talking to you. I I am dying.
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I think. You're dying, good looking
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reddits. Hold up.
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Did you say he was dying? I am.
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Very much. Dying, I pull the phone away
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from my face to cover the microphone.
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I don't know, he seems like some kind of sob story, like he's
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trying to crawl his way. I've I've dealt with people like
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this to get back to your life and pretend that they're dying.
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Hold on, Coyote. Be them dying over not having
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you to love. I'm just saying, if he if he's
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if he was a jerk to you, maybe we should just let him die.
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Maybe he deserves it, you know, it seems like out of sight, out
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of mind. No contact.
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That's my rule. Coyote.
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OK, OK, I think I heard that. I think he's actually dying and
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and I'm a doctor. So.
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And so. I'm just saying if he doesn't
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treat you right, then I I feel like this is his way of crawling
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back and you're like why doesn't why isn't he friends with
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another doctor? Why does?
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He even heard of Chad either. Why?
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Why is this the first time I get to hear of Chad?
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What's going on here? Because.
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We're the best friend, she only tells me.
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And here is your beverage. Oh, thanks.
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Reeve, can you make these to go? Can we get Can we get to go
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cups? Yeah, he pulls 3 to go cups from
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his belt loop like a cowboy. I'm going to see if he does
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this. Well, that is.
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A2 takes Retro's drink and spills half of it all over his
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head. Good.
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Shit. Sorry.
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Wait, wait. Yeah, it's.
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Cool. Yeah, it's cool.
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No, no. I rolled an egg, so everyone
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else's drink is cool. So it's fair, right?
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I tell you what, man, the the Cowboys drink is on the House.
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Hell yeah. That's what I like to hear.
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This is my man. Fist bump.
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Fist bump forever. Hell yeah.
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Guys, I I I think we should go check on Chad.
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Oh my God, VV. If you just always do what they
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ask, they'll never learn. No.
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You know what I've you know what here's the thing let's let's go
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ahead. Let's go see this Chad guy.
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So VV can like either do one of two things.
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One, they can either put this to and get Chad to just stop.
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Can you confront them head on? All right.
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Or two, maybe they are dying, which then, you know, enacts the
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V protocol and then we have to take care of it anyways.
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So either way, like, it's just something that's going to happen
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otherwise. I mean, you know, as the best
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friend if somebody heard V is just going to.
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Jump along, I'm still here. VD's ex and maybe once and soon
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to be future lover again unknown at this.
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Particular point, not a future lover.
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Unrelated question, who's cool van in the back?
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Oh, that's mine. Sick mural, dude.
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Thanks, Dave. You have a van.
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Yeah, duh. Well, color me interested.
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Let me go check this out. Chad can wait a second.
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How's that head hide doing? You rolled a 15, so it's just
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pleasant. You're just pretty happy.
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And for the next for the next two hours, you have +1 to
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Persuasion because you just feel nice.
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Yeah, it's. I mean, it is.
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It just really feels like sativa.
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It's just a good sativa, really. So you walk out and you see the
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van and you see it's been upgraded and it's painted a
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little bit better than it was before.
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And now you see three mermaids lying on a rock, which is pretty
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sick in like there's like a Technicolor kind of sea
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happening and there's like a dancing octopus around.
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And the three mermaids. What?
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Do you ask? What color is that that you've
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got all over the whole thing? All of the above, baby.
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No, no, I'm like asking. What color is all over it?
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Yeah, What's like the main base color of your vehicle?
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There's all sorts of colors I guess, like blue.
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I don't know. This is all.
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Blue that is too cool. I see it now.
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So it's blue and it's got this. Technicolor.
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OK. I like to look at your beautiful
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faces. So it's got this Technicolor
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ocean and there's a giant octopus dancing.
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And the three mermaids do absolutely slightly resemble the
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trio of gals from the Girls Night and.
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It's. It's gorgeous and it's radical.
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The other side still has the buff wizard riding a wolf
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howling at the moon. Put it on it that.
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Would look good on a T-shirt. That's what I'm saying.
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Right. We should go to business.
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I'm like, you know. Super entrepreneurial.
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You make that a. T-shirt.
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I'll wear it on my show. Hell yeah.
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Well, you know, I'm just looking at your mural in this light, and
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I'm just wondering. Roll.
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For it, roll. For it, roll.
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For the. Mural Roll for the mural.
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Good thing I spent my to see how on it pretty it is.
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To see how pretty it is that is correct, Vivi let me.
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See. Do you DM as well you're?
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Just going to talk in the reeds voice for the rest of.
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Them. I like talking to players in
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character voices rather than as the GM.
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That's why Bendel, this is such a main part of our show.
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I got a nine. I I really like your mural, but
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I kind of the hands aren't right.
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Yeah yeah, I used AI to generate.
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The minute you said that. You used AI Which?
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One, it's different the way I do it, I actually, I put all of my
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own original pieces into an AI machine and so all of the AI is
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trained off of my art. But this is the future drawing
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hands, so. That's fair.
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I'm bad at drawing hands as well.
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That's why I usually cut people off at, like, the waist, you
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know, their shoulders. Or you can turn them into
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mermaids. You don't even need to worry
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about the bottom. Hey man.
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Let's not even get into legs, you know what I mean?
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Legs, man, That's. Or didn't you say your friend
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was dying like bleeding a? Lot A friend.
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Oh my God, Yes, Yes. We need to check on Chad.
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Chad. It's it's an it's an obligation
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for me. I I have an oath, an Hippocratic
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Oath, to help people and knowing that he might be dying right now
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bleeding out to death and he doesn't have trauma Team
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Platinum. So I've got to help.
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Dude, that's so cyberpunk. Night City.
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If you look at a map of North America, somewhere on the
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western edge you'd see an inky black dot with fingers pressing
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into the side of the continent. That's where you find Night
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City. And somewhere in the middle of
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that inky black dot is a giant smoking hole, like the universe
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itself drew iron and shot straight through the city.
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Radiation turned the sky red. But our story starts a little
23:23
further South, in a dive bar. The shortstop Welcome to Night
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City and welcome to Cyberpunk Edge of Extinction.
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Infinite Sided Dice presents Cyberpunk Edge of Extinction, a
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cyberpunk red actual play. Watch now at youtube.com slash
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at. Infinite sided dice.
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Catch you later, tunes. You got a creepy More people in
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van? Yeah, Windows in the back this.
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Is a mural. Even if there was a window, it
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has been painted over so you cannot see out without some kind
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of modification to the vehicle. I just restocked the mini fridge
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back there. If you guys get hungry.
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There's also some cable packs I think, but I only like the
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Strawberry Shortcake kind recently.
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My favorites. Can you please roll a driving
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check? Oh sure, I guess so.
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I guess so. Sorry this app like updated and
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I don't know how to read anymore in the roll 20.
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Wow, that's a one implode. Oh, another one.
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I guess it's fine if it's a Did you roll over?
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Did you roll in traffic 16? All right, so unfortunately,
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when you get to the Soville Apartments, you do not find good
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parking and it costs you 30 edges.
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Oh my God. So it's a very minor crypt Fail.
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Still sucks. What the fuck are we doing in
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front of my apartment? Do you have resident a resident
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parking spot? Can I just like instead of
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paying for it, can we like? Can we?
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No, no, no. That apartment does not come,
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does not come with resident parking.
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The only personal resident parking is Penthouse and it is
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empty because it's too expensive.
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That's true. But at the same time, maybe you
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should fix the fucking elevator. Elevator only for people who pay
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rent. You pay brunch.
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You can use elevator. I'm paying rent.
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There's a lot you read you. You use elevator.
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I don't like cow. Use elevator because he fart.
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It's not nice. That's true.
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Not this cowboy. Other cowboy one with tall and
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bird. Oh, right.
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We have two Cowboys. But, you know, kind of.
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Like now there is only one the one with the glow sticks.
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Hello. I'm the Technicolor cowboy you
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can call. Technicolor cowboy, I like that.
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That could be like fun. Like what you call like ET
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Amtrak, you know? That's what I'm saying,
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honestly. I've been really into painting
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right now. But what if I started making
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music? You guys, I have some big ideas
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I feel like. About those people who run
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through with like pot. We.
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Yes. What happened?
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I I've been called a a a medical emergency has been called in.
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I'm. I am a doctor.
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Here is Kim well. There, say that again.
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The Eris. Eris.
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Yes, the Eris came, they came through, they took, they go.
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I have, I do not want to have a problem with Iris.
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So I say, OK, Iris? The IRS.
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You go in. I do not.
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I don't care about warrants. There is no they do not have to
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abide. So I just go OK because they
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have. Gone.
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And I'm like, oh, so I, you know, come in and they're like,
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well, the hell is Chad? And I was like, hey.
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Are you upstairs? Oh gosh.
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Gone. I'm like I have video.
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But it's shit and I cannot download till tomorrow, so you
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cannot see. Oh, OK.
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That's OK, all I see is black right now.
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Oh shit. That's not good.
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I will address that after. I know.
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Yeah. Oh, I literally wasn't looking
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at the thing. OK, Can you please take me?
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Actually, I know where the room is.
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Yes. Chair department upstairs.
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But the TV man can use elevator, I suppose.
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If you are nice to me, I will let you use elevator.
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That's that's OK. Honestly, I'm in kind of a
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health kick right now, so I should probably just take the
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stairs. Yeah, I like you.
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Thank. You.
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Technicolor Cowboy How's work ethic?
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I like this. Good.
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Thank you. I'm.
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Taking the elevator. I will clean blood tomorrow.
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I suppose I will also take the stairs.
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That is good. It's.
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A good party, yeah. Yeah, if I get there faster with
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the stairs. Athletics.
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Athletics. How hard are you breathing when
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you reach the top? Do you want to race them,
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Rachel? I mean, not really, but it
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sounds fun. So I need you to roll something
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to make the elevator go a bit faster.
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And VV and Coyote, You roll Athletics of course.
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Absolutely. Well.
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That's another one, bro. I rolled another one.
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And another one. I'm not going to use this dice
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anymore. That was crazy.
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OK, nine, so retro as you see TV and Coyote running up the stairs
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with a little bit of joy as they race you to the top.
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Weirdly, because Chad did say he was dying, Coyote stops halfway
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up the stairs just to try their shoe and that doesn't hurt them
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because again, that was a -. 2 is the lowest crit you can get
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to. Just slows you down.
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Sorry. I usually wear cowboy boots.
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I just I like kind of out of practice with tying shoes.
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But you say to no one because VV is blasting up the stairs As the
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only person who didn't crit fail because Retro in his excitement
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keeps on tripping the door closing.
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Door to door closing. Door opening.
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Door opening. Door opening.
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Door opening. Closing.
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Door closing. Fucking thing never work.
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It pinches a hair off the side. Wrenches it.
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Out of your skin. Out of your skin as well.
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How to pull a hair from my fully clothed body?
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There's a rip in your jacket now.
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Motherfucker. Oh God, I've made it.
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And VV wins. Chad.
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I run to his Oh my God. I run to the door and break it
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open. All right.
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Burst into Chad's apartment with Coyote and Retro in turn.
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Just behind you and there is the room in front of you.
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The door is unlocked. It looked like it was left
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unlocked. It was slightly ajar and as you
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step in you can see blood on the ground.
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Oh, God. All right, everybody.
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Just step around the blood because it might be evidence.
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Royal Athletics. So many rolls.
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Oh, get used to that. Area 18 Finally some good
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fucking rolls beautifully over the blood as you wiggle your
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glow sticks in the air. Coyote VV.
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You also make it over the blood and so does Retro.
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Oh. Yeah, we're used to this now.
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Where are you? OK, I'm coming in.
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I'm coming in. I pull my gun out.
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I'm going to point it at Chad when I see him.
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And you step into the bathroom of this apartment and there is
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Chad in a bathtub full of ice. What happened?
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I didn't make my payments. You didn't make your payments.
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Do I need both kidneys? Technically, you don't.
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OK, well I need them both back because I don't have to.
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I have none. What they took both of them.
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What? They gave me these things but I
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tried to remove them and then I bled a lot and now I can't move.
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Wait a minute. Who's they the?
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The thing. The thing and.
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He points across the room. Behind Retro is a little armoire
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in this bathroom, and sitting there on top of the arm wire,
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there's a little letter. I'll just reach for it.
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Let me see what it says. Here.
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Oh, the heiress. Yes, I said.
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IRS. Yeah, you do like I.
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Oh no. From the internal repossession
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service. Oh boy.
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Dear Subscriber, Dear to Miss payment of your organs, You have
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been repossessed if the organs in question were vital to your
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continued existence. A temporary locked tea organ has
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been put in its place. Do not tamper with the installed
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tea organ. Payment is required before any
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permanent organ can be put in its place.
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Tampering of the tea organ could result in more fees, delayed
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claims and death. If your tea organ is
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malfunctioning, please make an appointment at the IRS office.
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No appointments will be provided over the phone.
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IRS is not responsible for any injuries sustained while the T
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organ is installed to organize an agreed Rep protection device
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and agreed with your organ Compact pavement plan payment
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claim of KO5681 Dash Chapter or the IRS Team 378 Hegelia Ave.
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Knight City. I didn't.
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No, no. They put T organs in you.
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Oh gosh. Yeah, And I, you know, I'm a
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medical professional. And so I tried to remove the
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left one and that one's still. OK, they're not joking when they
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say don't tamper with them. I need you to roll a perception
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check. Phoebe.
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Oh dear, yeah. 20's enough, He's seizing.
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All right. OK, one moment, everybody.
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And I pull out my medical bag and try to somebody.
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Coyote, help me hold his head so that he doesn't hit it.
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OK, I don't like it, but I'll do it.
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OK, and I am going to try to help him, probably like try to
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stop him from seizing and then like fix his tea organ.
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Let's see, Paramedic medical tech?
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To stabilize him you will need to do a basic like medical check
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please. Yes. 23 Yes, you pull out an
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adrenaline hypo from inside of your jacket and shove it into
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his heart. It sends enough adrenaline
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through his body that it brings him back to a more stable state
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and he opens his eyes, blinks a little bit, has a lot calmer of
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a breath and looks at you oh. Thank you.
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I mean, oh. Man, they really can't believe.
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They really. They took both?
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Yeah. You really.
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You really must have been in the hall.
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Well, they gave me a deal. I I got, I got rid of my
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original. What?
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They didn't work very well. I got a lot of kidney infections
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and. Stuff.
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So I I just traded them both out because I was like, well, fuck
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it, you meant that too. You know, it costs more after
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six months, apparently. I didn't read that.
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And and I and and now I can't install different kidneys.
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There's also a kidney shortage. You heard about that.
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I'd like what any Well, a lot of internal organs actually.
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Kidneys and lungs. And all three very important
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vital functioning organs for the.
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Human body find one. It's hard to find one right now.
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I'm. I'm sure, I know that they're
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probably going to the rich elite and us are all, you know, stuck
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with the the fake ones, you know?
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My bathtub looks like fruit punch.
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It does it's. Pretty nasty in here.
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Yeah, should we, like, clean up or like?
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It's still bleeding, you know. You just stopped me from
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seizing. You know, I'm sorry.
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Yes, I should probably help with that.
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Yeah, one SEC. Chad, just just hold still for a
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minute. I'm going to try to help.
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Don't worry, I have an extra tie dye T-shirt that I made last
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night. Yeah, this one can be yours.
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Scanner activated. Scanning patient was recently
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bleeding and seizing. Vitals stabilized.
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Patient has missing kidneys. Kidneys have been replaced by a
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T organ, an external internal organ.
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Temporary. Please seek medical attention.
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T organ connection confirmed. Tampering with either will cause
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both to cease function. Normal shelf life one week.
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Warning. Tampering detect.
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Oh boy, Well. Tampering is against the terms
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of service. Oh dear, the GN is rolling.
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That's a lot of once. Today.
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Patient has 72 hours to live. Please locate kidneys and
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reinsert. Scan complete.
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Well, the good news is you're all patched up and and stable.
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The bad news is, for now, meaning I know what.
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That. Means, yeah, prognosis.
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You're probably. This only looks like it's going
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to be a couple of days here. Fuck.
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Like. Three days.
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How am I going to get 15 grand? That sounds like a you problem.
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Honestly, I appreciate the struggle you're going through
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right now, but if you dare imply that VV gives you money, that is
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financial abuse and I'll shoot your ass.
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I don't know. I've been working in the middle
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for the field for really weird, really long time, and I do find
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it weird that the shortages are kind of seasonal.
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I find it kind of weird you've been working in the medical
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field a long time and you had to call someone else for help.
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It's a little bit embarrassing for you, so I'm more.
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Of. A driver so.
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OK, well, sure you are. We'll see about that.
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I don't know. Well, you fixed this, Kidneys.
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Time to go. Let's get out of here, guys.
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Could. You go not to be like, politely
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obvious about what I need, but could you get my kidneys back?
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This guy, he's using you, Phoebe, He's using you.
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Don't you have some fucking dude bro friend?
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Some scumbag tomb on the street you can get to do your dirty
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work and not this sweet, beautiful, amazing friend?
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You're very kind, Coyote, but we need to help him.
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Oh, we can't just leave him to die, He he probably isn't going
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to last more than 72 hours. I.
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I I don't want this blood on my hands.
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There is blood on your hands that is.
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But don't worry, I have another tie dye T-shirt.
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Yeah, I am going to need a new jacket and everything.
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I've got like 6 more of those. Look.
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What? I honestly, what the Eris, what
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the IRS is doing is also not OK. They're exploiting people for
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their organs, like one of us could be next, yeah?
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Traumatism would never do that. Ever.
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Yeah, there, there's got to be. Look this.
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I think we should look into this well.
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The address. Is in the bottom of that letter.
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I'm gonna. Puts his hand down the side of
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the bathtub and grabs a set of it.
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Do you need anything else? Because I need to.
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No, I think just just knock yourself out.
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Gives you a thumbs up, pops the pill and then punches himself in
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the face, which successfully knocks himself out.
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Oh great, the first non one. Look, Retro Coyote, I I hate to
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ask for for help, but would you guys help me look into this?
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VV You know that I would blindly follow you to the end of the
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earth, and I really admire your grace and your mercy and your
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moral compass, so of course I'll help you.
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But if that fucker treats you bad, I pull in the head.
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Look, those kitties won't have a chance to kill him.
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The last time we helped him I got his hoverboard, so.
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We can rob him next time on no latency side quest.
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Oh, that's some cream trauma team gear right there.
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Well, I mean, he seems to be pretty good at pilfering.
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I mean, he pilfered this. I mean, he probably pilfered
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this money. Maybe.
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Is that true? Has he pilfered?
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Your heart. They took his organs.
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They're putting all this effort into this guy.
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I mean, come on. 378 Hygia Ave. I don't know what you want to do
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about that takes two years to drive.
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Somebody with a gyrocopter. That looks sick as hell.
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Gyrocopters are not really common.
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Right up against the window. Yeah, retro showing a pothole.
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Oh my God. Alright, I guess I'll just have
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to hand crank it. Get him closer.
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Oh God, no Sunday drivers. He's in here.
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Get him out. Get him.
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Out me now. It's a nice van.
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Get him out. I do live in here.
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So sweet. Seems as if they were exhausted.
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Hey, we're here. But I'm bad at coming up with
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plans, though. Which is why you need the
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experience. Please, I've been waiting.
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I've come back here every day. I.
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Pull a gun out. We're here for the organs.
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