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S2E140 - Clive's Backroom · No Latency

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Last time on no latency. Can we have 10?
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Yeah, sure, why not? Yeah, that would be.
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I knew we should have brought reusable shopping bags.
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Helpful. Oh yeah, that would work
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perfectly. You don't have to poop it out
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at. All here I'm going to give it
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the jab. I'll take it.
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Yeah, no problem. Oh, give me, give me one moment
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when I take out my reading glasses.
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Kind of zesty. I'm tingling a little.
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It's. Probably from the depleted
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uranium. Were you staring at me staring
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at the PPE for this whole time? You seemed really enthralled by
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it. I'm.
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Just wondering how we doing this thing?
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How many grenades you got? Love I.
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Kind of want a jet? Pack looks great Clive.
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Secret thing I. Love secret things.
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Yeah, we have no reason not to trust Clive.
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And you got all my doors. Oh, man.
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Damn, Clive, you will leave. No.
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Open door. We just got played.
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Where's the real Clive? He's he's, he's right here.
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Oh, you just you just. Have to He's around, He's around
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the. Partition.
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Yeah, I see him you have. To have to look around the
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partition, yeah. Oh, Clive got them tied up in
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knots, huh? The red eyes mimic looks at Jeb,
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cocks it's head, hands, head. Roll for initiative.
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Oh man, I was sure we were going to get some sort of like long
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villain monologue, but that's way more straight to the point.
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That's bad, Yeah. This is not OK.
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Rolling an 8 -, 7, that's not no.
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Anyway, Bang Bang, oh, I guess they're up first, damn it.
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Yes, they are Shoot. Oh shit, someone faster than Jeb
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for once. Hey, Wyatt.
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Question. Hey.
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Why? 3 mimic rolls.
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Yeah. 'Cause there were two in the
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bathroom. Oh shit.
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Retro to your right, bathroom door left open by Jeb as he
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haphazardly blasted around this tiny apartment.
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A mimic steps through into the room and shoots.
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Oh God. They're reproducing.
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And they hit you. You're in the bathroom.
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I checked there. For tender.
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Ouch. Oh, what were you checking, Jeb?
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I mean, honestly, I, I was wondering, I was just kind of
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curious. I was like, I don't see a
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bathroom in this place. Does he like have to go outside?
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It was more of a kind of an architectural question than it
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was a look for bad guys thing. But here we are.
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There was a bad guy in there. I'm sorry, I didn't, I didn't
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notice. I wasn't looking for it.
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I mean, I, I can't be too mad at you, Jeb.
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You know, I didn't check the bathroom myself.
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I we weren't expecting this at all.
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Yeah, anyway. It's absolutely like the place
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to be, yeah. Unfortunately the the first
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bullet does from my mouth only about two damage to you and a
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blades your armor by one, but unfortunately the second bullet
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it tries to fire just jams in their gun because they rolled A
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crit fail. Want.
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Want. And they step towards you, but
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don't actually have enough movement to get to you now.
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But they've had to leave the bathroom, and it's Jeb's turn.
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All right, you son of a bitch, stop imitating my friend.
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And I guess how does this work? Do we how much, how much of the
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of the rules of this game do we follow?
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Like do I get a disadvantage of some sort for being right next
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to him and shooting him with a range weapon?
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That's not a thing in in cyberpunk.
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OK, great. You just have to beat the DV.
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Oof, that's a shame. Actually, I guess it would
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actually I would kind of get an advantage if it's close to me by
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the technical rules. Yeah.
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So who are you shooting the one next to you?
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The one. That was the one that led us in
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here. Cool.
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The one that led you in here, you hit with your first bullet
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for a 23 and do 11 damage, which is a lot of damage.
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Yeah. And you watch a piece of its
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armor fall off and clang onto the ground.
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Unfortunately, when you pull out your next pistol, what happens,
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Joe? Ah damn it, I forgot to reload
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this one. Ting Ting Ting Ting Ting Ting
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sound effect of of shells hitting the floor.
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You're welcome. Very good if.
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You want to reload your gun? Yeah, it cost Chaft your
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movement. I I'm going to stand right damn
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here. Great.
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And that's your turn out. Jeb Vendell on the outside just
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knocks on the on the door. Guys, is it bad?
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Guys, there's mimics in here. Vendel, OH.
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No, not plural. Yeah, plural.
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Oh no. Vendel's going to kick down this
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Dang did door. OK, I'm going to try and kick
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down this Dang did door. What power?
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Power Leg 22 doing 10 damage. How much health does this door
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have? How much health does this door
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have? Ah, this door has more than 10
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health. The heck?
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Well that's OK. Rate of fire for the leg is 3,
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so how about another kick? 17 Yes, an inanimate object is
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very easy to hit. It is a DV9.
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The 11 damage is more than risk than is required and the door
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bursts open. I got it open.
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Oh, OK. Nice.
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Yeah, we can. Are we going to kill these guys
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or are we just going to kind of get out of here?
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Well, I I I would use my third kick, but that requires luck.
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Right. Does it require luck?
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No. That's the.
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No, all your third actions require luck.
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It's only a note on my glass sword.
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Oh damn. It so sorry, Vendel's going to
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move to the right here around the corner of the door and give
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this mimic a good swift kick in the nuts Arenos, I'm going to.
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Kick you in the Swift Nuts arena?
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I'm not good at that kind of thing.
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I'm just going to kick them. Hey, yeah, yeah, hey, yeah.
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Ha ha. Create damage, get fucked.
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Vendel kicks this mimic in the nuts and does 23 damage, and
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because it's a melee attack they automatically take half of that
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and so we round that to 12. Because it's a crip, they also
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take a critical injury. That's right, bitch.
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And the crotch section of this mimic has now a large divot in
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it and they have restricted movement and are clutching there
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non existent Jenna Taylor. Good job Fendale, that was a
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very powerful kick. Yeah, don't fuck the mimics.
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No, no, please do not I. Wasn't planning on on it.
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Can't do that with this one now. Broke it.
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Anyway, Retro, it's your turn. I'm I'm feeling a little silly
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right now so I'm debating on whether or not to shoot them.
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Get silly, baby. Get silly all.
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Right, I'm going to point at closest to Jeb because they got
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the most amount of hit points I would say also just because I
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feel bad after watching them get kicked in the groinal area.
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Not the groinal area. Not the groinal area.
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Well, I don't know if they have genitals.
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Doesn't matter. See.
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Hey you, are you able to solve complex paradoxes without
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freaking out? Retro.
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What it say? Retro Your days are numbered.
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Well, it's not an answer to my question, so it's obviously
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ignoring me. Hit him with the paradox.
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Hit him. All right, I'll.
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Tell you what, I'll give you my. Gun, if you can answer my
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question in one answer, it stares.
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Blankly at you. That's I think.
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I think that means that he's in for it.
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That's consent. If my eyes are closed, am I
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either asleep or am I dead? Sleep is for the weak.
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Huh. Wait, I I'm sorry, Rachel, I
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don't get that one. I I don't either.
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Is it like a? Oh, maybe it's because it's
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both, or you don't know, or huh. But you can also be alive and
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no. It's because you you can only
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sleep when you're dead. And then I shoot him in the
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face. Oh.
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Pew. Pew 19. 2 ones. 2 ones.
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Oh, first two ones. Cursed.
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I'm sorry, but I rolled low so the bullet hits.
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Oh, is that a cold shot? No.
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OK, you said in that, but that's fine.
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Could have been. I wait, no, no, we've already
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established this, we have to say called shot.
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All right, all right, That's fair.
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That's fair. And you do 14 damage to this
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minute a blading its armor by 1. You know what?
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Actually, that makes me feel a little bit good, especially
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because now I have proven I'm smarter than the machine.
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And that's a right fire one. But your assault rifle is loud
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in here, upsettingly so. It's a very small space.
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Well, people can't turn off their ears like I can.
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Sometimes I wish I could. Maybe you can.
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Yeah, off the cat ears. Maybe we can set a noise gate
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for your ears when it gets to a certain decibel that it just
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mutes it out. That's.
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Funny. That's not a bad idea, actually.
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That's that. That's some really going to be
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great. Concerts.
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Wouldn't that be amazing? The Cyberpunk's future has great
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music. Wait.
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Wait, you guys don't use those earplugs at concerts?
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No, no, I do. I do.
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But having it built into your head dude.
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But cyberpunk? That'd be cool anyway.
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The mimic you just shot. The mimic you just shot, it
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shoots you back. I.
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Mean I can take. It oh, how does it shoot you
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back? Now it's VV and Jeb are in the
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way. So instead it goes to punch Jeb.
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Jeb Dodger 15. Oh boy.
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Easy cake. You got this.
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Go. Go, Jeb.
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Go. You dodged the first one.
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Where would you like to move? Dodging requires movement.
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I'm going to kind of come back a bit.
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It steps forward and goes to punch Vivi.
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Oh. Crap, I'm not as fast as Jeb.
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Oh. Tries to punch with its left arm
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and misjudges the wall next to it and just full on smacks their
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hand into the drywall because now they're fist because it is a
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crit fail is stuck in the drywall and they are stuck at
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that point in this room you can hear the servos try and break
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the metal rebar that is stuck between the joints of the hand.
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Whoa, they use metal rebar? In the wool.
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For it'd probably be two by fours.
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I just. But it can be.
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It's the cyberbone future. This can be.
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Aluminum 2 by fours. Iona, take him out.
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All right. Excuse me.
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Could you both step aside, please?
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Thank you. Yep. 1 moment. 1 moment.
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I just, I just have to. Shoot, between the two of you.
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There we go. There we go.
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I'm going to brace it on Jeb's shoulder.
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Oh yeah, no problem. Here you go, Jeb.
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Roll something to help oh hinder.
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Well, I hinder and so hold on, I was going to be real still.
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Hindrance depends on what the dice do, but yes.
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Concentration very good. 16 on it, yes.
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Trying to be as still as possible?
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Go ahead. I only you get plus one to this
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shot. Awesome.
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Just make sure you don't hit the rebar.
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That's very important because of all of the earthquake
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protection. All right, I've rolled A-17 on
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that one. Rolled A-17.
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Oh well, I rolled an 11 and so this mimic does not dodge.
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It also gets a -1 because it's hand is stuck in a wall and it
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takes 9 damage. Well.
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Continue not moving, Jeb. Yep, stain steel.
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Oof how does it three that is less and you take your second
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shot also doing mind damage. Very odd.
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How is he looking? Is he starting to spark yet?
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You have literally just pulled it below half health.
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You see a piece of the mimic malfunction as it tries to pull
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its hand back from the wall. The wrist gives way and now it
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only has one hand. All right, Well, that's pretty
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good. We want more hand to go and
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maybe a few feet and you know, his head while we're at it.
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Yeah, probably the head too. I'm going to.
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I'm going to back up. Also.
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I'm just going to move closer to you, Vendo, because your job is
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to protect me. I'll protect you, that's my job.
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OK, so we've all agreed that the head's the last thing we're
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shooting for. I guess, yeah.
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Yeah, it. Depends on how fast you want to
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get this over with. Also, Clive is still tied to the
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bed. Doing good there, Clive.
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We got to take care of the kind of the the issue at hand, right?
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Maybe that's safest for him. Right now, the mimic that was in
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the bathroom jumps into the room, slides up next to Bendel
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and goes to attack. Oh my gosh, I'm not going to be
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able to. Bendel has to dodge and unless
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they roll a crit that's not going to go well.
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No. No, unfortunately not.
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Part of Vandal's armor rips and is now shredded, and they take a
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total of seven damage. Goes to attack again, another
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crit. Oh my gosh.
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What my? Gosh, what's funny?
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We're suing. They're ruining our show.
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Evasion 13, that is not enough. Vendel gets hit for less damage
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this time. Let's still see that their armor
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once again being quite badly damaged.
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Ow, I'm really Jackie, are you? OK.
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I'm fine. OK.
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I've still got the health. OK.
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I have mixed feelings about this.
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VV Finally. Finally, it's been.
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Decades. Decades.
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It's been 20 hours since I. Did an Yeah.
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We do a lot of editing on this. Show maybe twiddling her thumbs,
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finally biting, waiting and ready to strike.
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This one that is in front of her.
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This is the one that no, this is not the one that got stuck in
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the wall. The one that's right in front of
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you is the one that got stuck in the wall.
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Yes, yes. Yes, the one that punched Jeb
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and then punched me and missed. I'm going to take them, take
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them out, take them down. Obviously not going for the
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head, but shooting. It doesn't look like it's doing
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very well. Great.
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Actually, as a matter of fact, I'm going to walk right up to it
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and swing it with my bat. Hell yeah, about 15.
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Oh, I have an evasion button. What have I been doing?
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I've been doing math like an idiot.
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I should be doing math you. Should never do math.
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Gross no. Not even once.
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Oh nice. 14 You hit for 10 damage.
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There's five damage in total. You watch another piece of its
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armor fly off and stick into the ground.
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The. Linoleum.
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Gets scarred by this Shard of metal in front of you.
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You watch the mimic start to glitch and move erratically as
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it's connection is very much dimming.
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Paradox is working. Hold on, I always forget if I
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can go again. Yes, I can.
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Melee's rate fire, too. Oh.
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She. Can Tracy, how do you want to
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obliterate this mimic? With this choice.
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Just a home run, slam right through it's torso.
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Damn, what from bottom to top? I was thinking horizontally.
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Oh wow. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, and just. You just taken out the middle.
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Yes. Damn.
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All right. Sure.
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You swing across the middle, you roll a crit.
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So you managed to bifurcate this mimic.
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It splits into two pieces and the pieces fall to the ground as
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it ceases to operate. The eye is dim to nothing.
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Thank you, World 20, for fixing that problem for us so promptly.
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Yeah, that was nice it. Was a good crit.
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Clive, stand by, we're going to help you.
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We just have to take care of these bathroom mimics can.
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Anyone understand that? Exactly.
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Yep. Oh.
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Phoebe, you have movement still. You only moved.
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You only moved 5 feet. Yeah, let's go toward the
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bathroom. Mimics.
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I'll head over here just and be on standby ready to help.
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Great in in 10 years. And in 10 years.
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But it is my turn again. The first mimic to attack from
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the bathroom is still damaged in the lower area.
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And thus has less movement. They move to the other side of
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the room and at very close range attempt to shoot VV and hit for
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21. What?
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What's your armor right now? Is it high?
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It's fairly high. Because if it's if it's eleven,
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it does nothing to you. It is above 11 so I'm good.
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Your your arm is above 11. I think it's 12.
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God damn. Oh.
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No, wait, it's just 11. I don't know why.
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Yeah, 'cause you got a light armor Jack.
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Yeah, after missing its shot, it cannot move anymore.
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Damn it, I was going to try and hit you in the face.
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I guess I'm not doing that. It tries to shoot again for 23,
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also doing 10 damage. Well.
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So nothing. Again so so once again a bullet
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flies off your very well made Jack.
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Man ricocheted just off my head. Some good armor.
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It's a good armor. Holy crap, you've.
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Got to love that trauma team light armor Jack grades.
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I need to update my damage values, apparently.
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Never mind. We'll do that.
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I'm not going to do that mid fight.
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That's mean. All right, Jeb.
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Well, this one's looking like it's hurting the most, yeah.
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Yep. So that's the one that's going
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to get the the business and of my now reloaded to Grand Pappy's
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Colt 45, there it is. I switched over to the right tab
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Bang Bang. Nice, your two shots ring out a
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28 and a 22. It does have the ability to
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dodge. No, absolutely not.
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That is not enough and you cause six and eight damage
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respectfully. The mimics armour is much lower
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than V VS and although you're 6 does basically nothing, the
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other shot does and you watch it take more damage as sparks fly
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in the room. Sparks fly.
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Do you move? Oh, no, I'm.
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I'm chilling right there. Actually, you know what?
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Yeah, I'm going to move. Why not?
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I'll move over here. Nah, Nah.
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I'm going to go next to my friends.
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Never mind. So you cluster next to your
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friends on the battlefield. I ain't leaving y'all behind.
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Me up to VV. Until these things are dead and
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it's. Van Del's turn.
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Let's go Vendel. Let's go Vendel.
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Vendel how long have you had that rifle on your back?
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This. Yes.
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No, you gave it to me. I just started carrying it.
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I was just, I was just reading about it.
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Very interesting. Well, we might be a little close
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quarters for a rifle. Why don't you just slice them?
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Out sword chink. I'm like Jeb.
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We're going to go for the the mimic directly next to Bendo.
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Not enough. Take it again.
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Try and touch this bitch. Oh oh you did.
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Damn the fuck. Well, I got.
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I hit it once. Good job, Good job, Bendo.
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I do you think I should stand here or should I, should we pin
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some of we we should get to the other side?
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Oh, you are, you are so smart. Yes, yes, go to the other side.
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You got it, boss. And Vendel looks at you, salutes
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and then does a cartwheel backwards.
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You are. You are so cool.
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I'm so cool. Pink guns, Fetro, it's your
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turn. That's too many finger guns
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Vendo shit. Cut back, cut back.
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OK. 3000 miles of open Rd.
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The second the thing in my mind was we're in a gun store.
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Why am I not grabbing something off the shelf?
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But then I also realize we're in the apartment of a gun store, so
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there's nothing really to grab off the shelf.
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And we've already established I have a pretty good understanding
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of how mimics robotic telemetry and.
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You've had more experience with mimics than anyone else on the
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team. Yeah, I'm going to try to cut
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into a panel of its body and RIP its power source out.
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Great. What do you want me to roll for
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that? You can roll brawling.
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Can I get advantage because I have a diamond ring to cut it
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with? And he's just been sliced by
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Vendel. Very true.
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I will let you have +1 but you do not get advantage, no.
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OK. I was like, this diamond ring is
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finally going to come in handy for something other than just
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pulling off. There's a good groove for you to
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cut in thanks to Vendel's cut. Yeah, I know.
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This is just an. This is just an extension of
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Vendel's really. This is really Vendel's thing.
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Teamwork. Did you roll?
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Oh, you did. OK, it didn't roll enough.
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And you managed to bust open this plate on the front of it.
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That's three D6 please, for damage.
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Sweet. I only wish I could find a way
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to like pull on the cables and find it to spin its weapon over
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and shoot the other one. That'd be cool.
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Because you managed to pull the panel off, I'm going to say that
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actually reduces the armor by two and you still, because
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that's still a melee attack, you get another attack, retro and
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what do you do? You know what, I'm going to do
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the thing I said before, I'm going to try to go in there,
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finally pull on cables, and hopefully I can pull the puppet
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maneuver for it to hit the other mimic.
27:24
Sure. I got something for that.
27:27
I got something for that. What are you going to?
27:29
Roll Robotics. Nice.
27:33
Because it's part of the thing I. 2323.
27:38
Science, people, science. So you.
27:42
Reach in and like a puppet you pull on a few cables, cross,
27:46
create a little electrical short, you watch a little
27:48
transistor pop, roll me two D6 for damage, and then roll ME3D6
27:53
for damage. I call this the Jim Henson move.
27:58
Straight up, the first mimic that you're actually controlling
28:06
now briefly as the cable snaps in your hand and you disable the
28:12
arm by reducing it under half health.
28:16
That's very good. As the cable comes loose it it
28:22
takes a step back and falls back slightly.
28:24
The other mimic gets smacked in the face and is pushed and is
28:27
now sitting on the sofa, taking a total of nine damage.
28:33
OK, OK, we're almost done with these bastards.
28:37
Oh hey I I created a little hole for you to shoot in Jeb or VV.
28:43
Yeah, go ahead Vivi, give it a shot.
28:47
Oh I guess but but but let Iona and then a a mimic go first.
28:52
The the mimic that would have that turn is dead now, because
28:55
it was the one that stuck its hand in the wall.
28:57
Iona, what are you going to? Do I'm going to let Vivi take
29:01
that shot. I'm going to make my way over to
29:03
Clive and start cutting him out of his ties, OK?
29:09
You are within touching distance of Clive and the sweaty Welshman
29:14
with various amounts of cyberwear is lying tied up below
29:17
you. Roll sanitization.
29:19
Oh. How long have you been tied up?
29:20
Oh, where is where is my dies? One Knee 10, please.
29:31
Three, yes, you have enough sanitizer.
29:33
Do you want to use some to clean Clive?
29:36
No, that's what his shower is for.
29:39
I'm unfortunately not going to be touching you.
29:42
You have a glean. He is wrapped up in in XLR and
29:49
Ethernet cables and they're pretty thick.
29:52
Well, I'm going to take some nail Clippers out of my bag all.
29:56
Right. And start going.
29:58
To touch moving. Away.
29:59
No, I'm going to put on my my latex gloves squirt my latex
30:04
brides on. God never.
30:07
Your your latest gloves squirt onto your hands and you begin
30:10
freeing Clive from his bondage clip clip and that is your turn.
30:19
The mimic that Retro puppeted is now standing next to Vendel.
30:24
It only has one arm and so instead of trying to fight
30:27
Vendel, it takes a step back towards the wall, points at
30:30
Vendel and shoots. Bendel has to roll evasion 22 or
30:36
take crit damage. Oh no.
30:41
Yeah. No.
30:46
That it's not enough. This is really bad actually.
30:50
This is really bad actually, because you need Bendel.
30:54
I'm right? And like, I don't want to bring
30:57
it up, but they're below half health like pretty bad.
31:04
So seven. Yeah, they are.
31:07
They are not well. Nope, Nope, Nope.
31:13
Nope, Vendel. Unfortunately.
31:14
A rolled, broken leg Vendel's. No.
31:18
Electronic leg. They're cyber leg.
31:21
The knee gives out and they fall to the ground.
31:25
Oh fuck that's annoying. I mean, it doesn't hurt, but
31:30
like, can't move now it has a ray of fire too.
31:37
That's bad, isn't it? Hang in there.
31:42
Dodger 21. Evasion -1.
31:45
Oh my God, could you not? You can't kill Vandel in in
31:52
climbs. Stop please.
31:55
Can you not kill another one of my subordinates please?
32:01
OK, I. Can taste it.
32:02
I could. I could taste the evasion.
32:04
I was so close. You were so close, rolling a 20
32:06
is not enough. Unfortunately, Vandel's armor
32:09
once again is ablated by 1, and according to my math, they take
32:15
three more damage. Oof.
32:19
And a half hell. Vendel, you all right?
32:24
Stand by. I will patch you up.
32:26
After I after I shoot the hole in the sky, I will patch you up.
32:32
Baby, it's your turn. Will you destroy?
32:35
Yes. Destroy.
32:37
I'm no grumpy because I'm fixing my legs can be expensive.
32:42
What we have to fix your leg? What happened?
32:45
My the the minute broke my knee. Oh, oh, that hurts.
32:51
Well, it doesn't actually. It's my cyber like but.
32:54
How? I guess.
32:56
But it's got to hurt, you know? The emotions tried, you know.
32:59
Yeah, yeah, Jeb, also, you watched it happen because you're
33:02
right there. I'm pointing at you.
33:03
Oh, no, I'm, I, I mean, I, I saw it.
33:05
I'm just kind of empathizing. Is that all right?
33:08
No, no, I, I'm, I'm. Empathizing.
33:10
And halfway through Vendel and Jeb's conversation, you hear
33:13
this. Oh, get down.
33:18
Very good, very good that. Was.
33:21
Really good. The bullet flies out and holy
33:25
crap you need to get a damage upgrade on that gun.
33:28
Yeah, what the fuck? What the fuck?
33:30
What did you roll badly? That's bad.
33:34
Oh, did you use armor piercing bullets?
33:38
Oh, what did that? Would that matter for the
33:43
mimics? Fuck, I didn't call it out.
33:48
So for this one I shan't. OK.
33:52
Your first shot does hit the mimic.
33:55
Oh I have to roll it version. I very much doubt that they're
33:57
going to beat you. I rolled Yeah, I the dice just
34:00
happened to also be very, very, very.
34:01
Poor it does not touch. It's also sitting on a sofa,
34:04
which does get -1 because it is technically quote UN quote prime
34:07
and you managed to cause a tiny bit of damage.
34:09
Not a lot because the armor is very loud.
34:11
It has been beaten up. It starts to glitch and spark on
34:16
the sofa. I shoot again.
34:18
Oh, that's a good shot. Are you shooting the one on the
34:23
sofa or the one that just hit Bendel?
34:29
I I think the one on the sofa. Great, that is a very good
34:34
choice because with the damage you have and at the range you
34:39
are at, you blow a hole through one of the eyes and its head
34:43
splits open in the field of sparks and wires.
34:50
There's only one mimic left here.
34:53
Well, all right, I'll take care of it.
34:57
You know what to do. Yep, I think we all know what's
35:00
about to happen as soon as I go over to the rat tab Bang Bang.
35:08
The remaining mimic attempts to dodge.
35:13
The first hit it dodges, stepping towards Vendel.
35:17
The second hit it does not dodge, taking a good hit to the
35:22
chest. Yep, there you go.
35:25
All right. You ready to go down yet?
35:28
Or, or perhaps now would be a good time to, you know, give
35:33
yourself a second, take a breath, maybe do some sort of
35:35
villain monologue. Tell us why you're here, what
35:38
you wanted to do with the with poor old Clav, and what your
35:43
plans were. Anything like that?
35:45
Yeah. OK, not very informative, Van
35:53
Dale, I'm. I'm prone.
35:58
Oh well. I'm right next to them.
35:59
I could hit them, I could hit them, but I it's a problem.
36:03
Yeah, don't make me yank your chain again.
36:07
That's very funny. Did you see that?
36:09
Did you see what they said? That was very funny.
36:11
Excuse me, Mr. Mr. Mimic. And they'll taps them.
36:14
Mr. Mimic, Excuse me? See this sword?
36:16
Yeah. Don't stand next to me.
36:22
The mimic suddenly startled. You almost see it go.
36:26
The sword goes straight through the underside of their rib cage
36:30
and up past their clavicle. Then they'll pulls it out and
36:34
goes for their second hit. What do they do?
36:37
Take them out at the knees. Bring them down to their level.
36:41
That's so good and they'll swipes at the knees, attempting
36:45
to cut and break those almost poetically and is successful.
36:53
The first hit does enough damage that the knees buckle, making
36:56
them a better target. The second hit cuts them off at
36:59
the knees. The face falls down to the floor
37:01
and smashes open like a coconut, spraying wires and metal
37:09
detritus over the floor. It tries to wriggle around but
37:13
ultimately perishes and combat is over.
37:17
Go away. Clip.
37:25
Clip I'm I'm working on it. I'm working on it.
37:30
Hello. Hello.
37:33
What? What happened here, Clive?
37:36
Someone hit me over the back of the head and then I was.
37:38
I've been in bed for like a week a.
37:40
Week. No wonder you're so rank.
37:43
I'm so sorry. My rank oh, I'm sorry, can I
37:46
have a cup of tea? I'm.
37:50
Sure, Like where? Where is your tea in the
37:52
cupboard? In the cupboard, in the
37:54
kitchenette. Have you?
37:58
Eaten. I'm exactly a skinny fellow.
37:59
I think I'll survive. I drank my own sweat.
38:04
It's. Disgusting.
38:06
Guy, I'm going to go make some chamomile tea.
38:10
Thank you, Iona. Sounds lovely, do do you mind
38:12
putting on apart from me as well?
38:14
Absolutely. Anybody else want tea?
38:19
You know what, if you're, if you're, if you're offering, I'll
38:21
take some tea. I'll just I'll just brew brew a
38:24
big pot O chamomile tea. Clive, we should get you checked
38:30
out. You look at Clive and he looks
38:34
grey. Yeah, Clive.
38:37
You. Stand there for a moment.
38:40
I'm going to just do a quick a quick medical check.
38:43
Feel kind of woozy? Yeah, this is not good.
38:49
Thanks for saving me. No idea why he wanted to attack
38:53
me. The mimic man.
38:55
It is strange. Rolled A-23.
38:59
Nice. And you patch up this tiny
39:04
little Welshman with forearms. Or actually, do you know what do
39:11
you want to roll 3D6 to see how much you give him?
39:15
Yeah, let's do that. Nice, you rolled better than I
39:18
did. Good work.
39:20
And you give him 11 health noise back over half health.
39:26
You see him look a little fresher and a little peekier in
39:28
the cheeks. I didn't realize you were a good
39:31
doctor. As opposed to an evil doctor I.
39:38
Mean you do live in Night City, so yes.
39:42
That's true. Yeah.
39:47
I help. I help people, I help this whole
39:50
group. So you should probably and I
39:55
pull out for my bag like a nutrient pack.
39:57
You should probably get some like nutrients like vitamin and
40:01
and stuff in you. You've been malnourished for a
40:03
week so yeah, that's not healthy.
40:12
So this should help. That would be great, thank you.
40:15
Do I do I drink it like a cat does?
40:17
Those little churro sticks. Yes, yes, exactly that.
40:20
It's just basically like liquid, liquid vitamins and protein and
40:26
nutrients and all that good shit.
40:28
Like a yogurt pop. Yes, better than the kibble I
40:32
guess. Not to be mean, but this tastes
40:37
like shit. Yeah, it's not that much better
40:41
than the kibble. Apparently all.
40:45
Right. All right, Clive, I got to, I
40:46
got to go assess the rest of the crew.
40:48
Tracy, you still got that, Chisener snaps.
40:51
Oh, I do have the jizzner snaps. Shinzer snaps my everything.
40:56
I broke my leg. I I have one pack of jizzner
40:59
snaps OK and there's only four in a pack so.
41:05
There's only four now. I I got the travel size.
41:09
Shrink, shrink flashing man, shrink flashing.
41:14
So. We can divvy them up.
41:19
I'm not a jizzner, snap. I love a business, snap.
41:23
I love you. Know if I get one I'll give it
41:26
to Vendale. Those are injured get
41:27
priorities. So yes, there you go, Clive and
41:31
then Adele. Roll to see if you've made a
41:37
good cup of tea. Little kitchenette in here.
41:42
You start making a cup of tea. It could be a nightmare to clean
41:51
up in here it. Is sorry I'm trying to find.
41:55
Robots. Oh, whooping a hole in my wall.
41:58
Is that a? Hand.
42:02
I mean, yeah. You should just feel lucky that
42:05
it didn't damage the rebar inside.
42:08
You're still structurally supported in case any
42:10
earthquakes come through. That's why I had it installed.
42:14
Oh. What this cup?
42:16
Of tea is wonderfully made. Nice, and 11 is pretty good.
42:22
Yeah, I'm not. I just I, I'm not used to this
42:27
brand. I don't know.
42:28
It was just in a tin. I I usually have a little
42:30
packets. Right.
42:32
Did you did you heat the water on the stove?
42:35
Yes. Oh my water cooler has a hot
42:38
tap. Oh, oh, that's.
42:43
Nice. Well, business was easy to
42:45
expense, so you know, that's the see the water cooler down there.
42:48
The GM is really, really proud of that particular piece of prop
42:51
in this thinks the bubble is nice.
42:57
It's. A fine bit of kit there.
43:00
Thank you very much. But this is great.
43:02
I'm going to dip my ginger snap in here.
43:03
Thank you, Vivi. Anyway, what's going on?
43:07
Clive walks into the room and looks over at Vivi who is now
43:09
attending to vendor. I would say Al, but.
43:16
Ow. I guess.
43:19
I mean, I'll be honest with you, I'm mixed feelings.
43:22
Like I'm sad because Vandell's probably like one of the most
43:26
chillest amongst the group. However, that's typically me
43:30
that usually lying over there and I'm just glad I'm not the
43:33
one this time. Yeah.
43:35
I'm on yellow health. This sucks.
43:38
Yeah. Yeah, yellow health plan sucks.
43:41
Yeah, we should probably get you a vivi.
43:45
Do we have a hypo or anything we can give to them?
43:49
I'm searching through my pack as well.
43:53
Yeah, what you need to do, Clive, is you need to upgrade to
43:56
the Little La Vida program. That's what you need to do.
44:01
My health insurance is not not very good either.
44:05
I don't get corporate. Yeah, so we're all stuck having
44:09
to pick between and, you know, of course the Coldplay 1 he did,
44:13
and we're not having having it. Right.
44:20
So Vivi, how do you heal Vendel? Let's see, let me vendel your
44:28
leg. Yeah.
44:33
Let me, let me just take a look. This may require some more
44:47
Ripper dock skills that I have, but I could do my best.
44:51
See. What you can do baby 18?
44:58
I'll just patch up Vendel's leg. I'm going.
45:02
To tell you right now, according to Cyberpunk Red, a professional
45:05
task is ADV 17. You do a professional job of
45:08
repairing this knee. You don't make it any better,
45:11
but you also don't make it any worse.
45:13
And so the knee joint itself is repaired.
45:17
It was mostly items that can be reattached with a little bit of
45:20
medical solder. And the only other thing that
45:24
that you're having to deal with is that Vendel is actually
45:27
physically hurt, but is not complaining.
45:30
While you are taking their pulse, you can feel their hand
45:33
shake a little bit. They're trying not to show pain.
45:38
Did it? Oh.
45:41
Oops, yes I would like to pull something from my personal bag
45:51
to try to help do. You want to use your medical
45:58
pack. Yes, yes.
46:00
Correct. Cool, let's see how much are the
46:07
drugs today? So can I just give like some
46:15
sort of pain meds? Yeah, sure.
46:19
They're 83 eddies. Gosh, I sort of think so
46:25
expensive in Night City. Because Domino pays you a lot of
46:28
money and I have to balance the economy.
46:31
Yeah, I meanwhile I have, I have plenty of eddies to spare, OK?
46:37
You spend 83 eddies and you can heal Vendel for 3D6 plus 1L3D6
46:43
here. You go Vendel.
46:47
That one stings. 7. Not my best, not the strongest,
47:00
but it'll help for now. Thank you.
47:05
Lindell's leg is repaired to normal.
47:09
It's always going to squeak a little bit now.
47:11
So if they have -1 no, they, they, you roll great.
47:14
There's no -1 there's no disadvantage, but there is no
47:17
advantages. Did not gain anything from that.
47:19
And then they'll steadies himself up against a wall and
47:23
starts getting used to the subtle new differences in their
47:26
leg. Wait, which leg was injured?
47:29
The cyber leg or the? The cyber leg.
47:32
The cyber leg. Oh, I can fix.
47:34
I can fix that squeak real quick and pull out a can of WD-80.
47:39
Wow. She this is, this is, this is
47:41
teamwork right here. This is everyone coming
47:43
together. Always carry WD-80 on you give.
47:47
Me give me a give me a spray bro.
47:50
Nice. I.
47:54
Would say that feels cold but I have no doubt anything so yay.
47:58
Oh it doesn't squeak, that's nice.
47:59
That's annoying to edit later so that's good.
48:01
Just. Got to make sure you lubricate
48:06
it every so often. All right.
48:10
Well, now that that's sorted, Clive, we need to buy some
48:15
stuff. OK.
48:21
Yeah, yeah. First things.
48:23
First, NPCS talk to each other for a minute.
48:26
It's my least favorite thing is having to have NPC
48:29
conversations. I hate it.
48:32
I always end up going, I end up just going like and then they
48:35
talk about this and then just move on.
48:39
I mean, I do sell various items. I did overhear the mimic
48:43
promising that there was some kind of secret in there.
48:45
But I'm going to be real with you.
48:46
I think the secret was that I was tied up and they were going
48:48
to try and kill you. Damn it.
48:50
There isn't really anything in here.
48:52
I did remodel, though. I got a projector.
48:56
Oh, OK, cool. For what?
49:01
Watching the videos? Oh, because I like
49:05
entertainment. I'm more of an inside boy.
49:11
Well, that's, that's good for you.
49:12
Just I'm out of curiosity now. You wouldn't happen to have a
49:15
jet pack? I do have a jet pack.
49:21
You. You do?
49:23
Yeah. I tell you what, chap.
49:26
Yeah. Let's go into the main area and
49:28
we'll talk about getting you a jet pack.
49:31
I'd, I'd love that, Clive. I've never been more excited in
49:34
my life. Anything you want.
49:37
Money, usually. Well, I, I just mean like
49:40
wherever you want to do this deal, whether it be right here
49:43
in your living room or outside where you normally do business,
49:46
that's fine with me. All right, let's do business.
49:52
Let's. Next time on no latency.
50:08
I figure I might as well spend every last 80 I got.
50:12
Between your jetpack and my hoverboard.
50:14
So I suppose that we are coming in through the sewer entrance
50:18
then? Sewer people.
50:19
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait.
50:20
Well, we're not stuffed, so maybe we'll be safe.
50:22
Well, now I'm nervous about my head.
50:24
I'm sure you've never gotten any complaints.
50:26
Radiation detected. Confirming radiation?
50:29
What do you mean? You don't have a barcode
50:30
scanner. Oh boy, we're bringing someone
50:33
else in on this. Did we decide on which net
50:35
runner we wanted to go with? Wow.
50:37
Biotechnica doesn't try to break into other corporations stuff.
50:41
Oh, thank you. I was going to say I I don't
50:43
know how good my sewing skills are anymore.
50:46
OK. So we got no information on that
50:48
area. Oh.
50:48
Look at that. See.
50:49
You know, you know, you got, now you got Whisk all over the
50:51
floor. I I think that we're ready.
50:55
We jump on the hoverboard and the jetpack and fly out of
50:58
there. I mean, I'm ready.
50:59
I got my jetpack. I've been ready to go like this
51:01
whole time. How much is jetpack fuel?
51:28
I. Think you should e-mail all 20
51:31
and complain? Yeah, this is not OK.
51:34
It's. Not OK.
51:36
That's rude. Frankly, it's rude, Tracy.
51:38
Rolling an 8 -, 7, that's not no.
51:41
Does it do to the? Does it do this to you when you
51:43
play Vampire the Masquerade on Maggi RPG?
51:45
Shameless plug. No, no it doesn't.
51:50
Oh, does that mean people can enjoy your live streams of every
51:53
week on Maggi RPG? Shameless plug.
51:56
Yes, where we also use. Oh, I don't need, I don't need
51:59
the plug. What's funnier?
52:00
Demi playing? What am I talking about?
52:02
I don't need your damn filthy plug.
52:07
Go watch Maggie RPG. It's good.
52:11
Wow Maggie RPG the greatest right next to us, who are also.
52:17
Great. We're not live.
52:18
That's the wonderful difference We're.
52:20
So cool and great and super duper funny.
52:26
No, I have one best to. Ask about.
52:29
Bathrobe. You went in.
52:31
There. You did go in there.
52:34
They were mimicking the. You rolled perception in the
52:37
kitchen and that moment had not happened yet, so.
52:40
Interesting. So did I, or did I not in
52:44
fiction, go into the bathroom? You looked in the bathroom.
52:49
And I didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
52:51
Well, yeah, they were hiding behind the wall that you didn't.
52:54
They were behind. The Wall.
52:55
The Classic. Hiding behind the doors when the
52:56
door opens, yes, you know, See, I hate when that happens.
53:02
Sorry, honey. I think it's clever being a
53:05
mimic. I would have thought I would
53:06
have mimic something else, but I just used.
53:08
The door. They were the door.
53:12
Not that kind of mimic. Who knows?
53:16
Oh bro you know how many mimics I've used and saved the D8?
53:21
Everything other than a treasure chest is a fucking mimic and I
53:25
will. Always look.
53:26
Somehow. I always fall for the mimics I
53:29
do. Yeah, the floor is a mimic, The
53:33
ceiling's a mimic. The door is a mimic.
53:36
Comet was a mimic. Into the ground.
53:40
The Lanonium can't say that word correctly.
53:42
The plastic ground flooring gets scarred by this Shard of metal.
53:48
Do you want to insert me saying linoleum?
53:59
And that's where that episode ends.
54:00
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54:02
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