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S2E123 - Do Not Fear the Ripper · No Latency

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Last time on no latency. Maybe he did a bunch of killing
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and and. He's munching carpets right now.
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Oh, that's good. I don't see anything wrong with
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that. It's not hurting anyone.
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I. Wasn't eating the carpet, I was
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slurping the. Carpet.
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Does this look like cyberwear? What the hell was that?
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Well. Yeah, what the fuck is?
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That like a voice recorder. Hungry what?
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About cyberwear was going to make him hungry.
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Wait you guys gave body fuel bad to me?
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I keep asking that question. Why would we do that?
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Doctors can be vampires. Did we check to see how he died?
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Turn off the. He.
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Can't know where in here. How do you do and look in Lou,
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look what I found everybody. It's an address we should
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probably get out of the apartment with the dead body.
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You couldn't have known that you can't hold yourself responsible
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for something like. That sometimes you have to live
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with those choices and it just kind of sucks.
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Well, my fellow debutantes, should we just go ahead and head
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inside then? Do we go in like, you know, guns
1:15
blazing or are we, are we going to like try to talk to this guy
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or what's the plane? Well, I don't think that we
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necessarily need to go in with guns of blazing, as you've put
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it. We might want to do a more
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diplomatic approach, my friend. Although I would say it might be
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very wise for you to keep a hand on one of those grand pappy
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pistols just in case something potentially could go off.
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It's always nice to be prepared. I.
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Mean you know me. I've always got my My Grand
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Pappy's Colt 40 fives right here on my hips where they blow.
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Yeah, I suppose just trying to talk to them makes sense.
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Probably would be best to have Mademoiselle Vivi to go ahead
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and lead with the question since you are probably the most
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knowledgeable than the rest of us here for any kind of medical
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questions that we would have. Unless again, our debutante Miss
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Popescu here thinks that they could add anything from there
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time at the Biotechnica. Well, we will see.
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We, we still have to take the time to, I don't know, discover
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what he has to say. What exactly are we hoping for
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here? Are we, are we taking him in?
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Are we? You know.
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Taking him in a way or like to the police.
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I don't know to that guy that was investigating this whole
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situation. The four higher.
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Detective or do you just like repo his heart or something?
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I I don't know. Well, Jebediah, I believe that
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we're trying to see if there's any information that could have
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somehow LED Doctor Glass to Arthur, and maybe a link for us
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to find said doctor before he goes on another murderous
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mutating clothing spree as he did before.
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I mean, whatever it takes to stop them, I suppose.
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I mean, in this way we could, you know, help resolve the guilt
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that Mammozelle VV has for their past indirect discretions with
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said doctor, as well as create some kind of community goodwill
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for our own depravity that we tend to spill around here in our
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acts. Yeah.
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I'm not sure what he just said there.
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That last bit I'd, I'd, that was a little too poetic for me.
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I mean, just shoot straight, you know?
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Think it's like community? Service.
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Yeah, a way for me to atone for what I've done.
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Yeah, I guess I can lead with questioning, but yeah, I'm not,
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I'm not quite sure how to approach this either.
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Do we just ask him straight up? Have you seen Doctor Glass?
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What happened with this guy? I honestly think that honesty
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and directness are probably the best policy.
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OK. And if they get a little or
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finicky, we have the heat to back it up.
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OK, all right, let's let's do this then.
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That's what the kids are calling it now, the heat.
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The heat. Ladder port window, All right.
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Shut in. The door to the Ripper Docks
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building is slightly to the South of where you are.
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Don't forget you can use arrow keys if you have your token
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selected to move and all. You bet your ass out of an arrow
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key and all the time let me go VV.
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You enter a little courtyard outside the front.
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There is a large advertisement that glows blue and it shows off
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the Ripper dock and some of his prices.
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He seems pretty reasonable and pretty.
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No. Respected.
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That this is nice. Looks like this is a well
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reputable Ripper dock. Usually they, pun intended, RIP
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you off. This is Ripper Rudy.
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Ripper, Rudy. Inside this little alcove,
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there's a glass awning above you and you can see a little bit
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into the night sky. The moon is still hanging and it
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reflects off the glass. Across from the front door of
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this place, there's a orange bench and a woman asleep,
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slumped over, snoring. She's alive, but seems like
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she's a little high. The area the the Ripper dock may
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be great. The area is not.
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So we just, well, we just wait until they show up or.
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Hello, Ripper Dock Rudy. You turn to your left and you
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see there's just a front door. It's open.
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Oh, that, that door. But all right, I guess we'll go
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in. You enter into sort of a foyer
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room. There's the Ripper's logo on the
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ground, a few vending machines, some.
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Clients. Some clients waiting and at the
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very end of the room on the right North East of the room,
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there's a glass door and a little bell that says ring for
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service. I'll go ahead and ring it.
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A voice comes through the intercom.
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Hello. Hi, looking for Ripper doc Rudy.
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Rudy's with a patient. Would you like to come and make
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an appointment? When's the next available
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appointment I. Don't know 10 minutes.
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Oh yeah, that's fine. We can wait.
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All right, if you're going to have to come through in here, we
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need to make a verbal agreement. OK.
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Look, it's it's October, everyone's getting weird.
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So if you would just like, refrain from having any gun in
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hand, please holster your weapon.
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Do you agree to these terms? Yes, we agree to these terms.
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Do you also agree to not haggle with me in any shape or form for
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treatment? Yes, awesome.
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She buzzes the door and lets you through.
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Can I bring my friends? Yes, by the word.
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If you've heard these words, they're a finding contract.
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No guns in hand, Please holster your weapon.
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I mean, they're holsters. They're holsters.
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Yeah, I'm a holster on that. You know as Iona steps into this
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foyer room, it is dirty and they have to sanitize clinic.
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It's a RIP a duck clinic. The people in here are dirty.
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You just pass someone who's done drugs.
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It's not nice. Well, Remy does drugs.
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And and he's also dirty. Everybody does drugs, he does
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drugs. Excuse me?
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You roll the five. You're fine, Phoebe, as you walk
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through the little airlock area with two vending machines in it.
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You walk up to the receptionist, who's sitting at a desk.
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Hi. Hello.
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Rudy be done in a minute. He's replacing some guy's hand.
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Oh, OK, we'll just wait over here.
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What's in this vending machine? Roll for it.
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Roll me D6. D6. 4 you find 2 items.
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Find a can of smash and a medi patch for 250 eddies.
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A medi patch 250 eddies. Cures 3D6 health instantly. 250
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Eddies. That's cheaper than your Med
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pouch, by the way. OK, you know what I'll get?
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I'll get that Med patch. Cool, you pay 250 eddies for it
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as the vending machine shines and thanks you with a cute but
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glitchy voice. The door to Rudy's office and
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also his operating room opens and a man steps through holding
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his hand. No thanks Rudy, I got, I got to
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stop drewing that knife trick, but with a gun.
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Jesus. God know what that means.
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Thanks for putting me in early man.
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Rough clientele here. Here's the 750 eddies that cost
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me. Hey pro tip, don't shoot
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yourself in the hand bro my. God true pro tip a real pro
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information there. All right, let's.
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Get this over with. Before we head inside, may I
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make a deduction check just to see if there's anything weird in
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here? A deduction.
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You roll a crit fail. You discover absolutely nothing.
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You also fall over and look stupid.
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Everybody point and laugh and I try.
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It's really funny when you feel over like that.
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Well, I well, well, well, I say, I say I understand then of how
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this is going to be if you view me as some lower treater treater
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trash that you've already told me as.
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TV guy, why are you dressed like a beige Charlie Chaplin?
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Well. Halloween I was trying to throw
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in a bit of style, but fortunately, in some people's
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eyes, I'm nothing more than just a dirty piece of trash on the
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streets. I Ivy Mendel.
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Whatever, dude. I'm Rudy.
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Who's next? I'm next and this is my crew.
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Entourage best friends. Here for moral support.
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Oh, hi. Hi, can we come in?
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I I guess what, what treatment are you coming in for today?
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No, that's, that's the bathroom, Yes.
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I'm. I'm over here.
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Hi. Come into my office.
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It's in. It's in here.
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OK, this is. You step into Rudy's operating
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room and office. There are a few refrigerators,
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which has some pieces on ice. There's a large operating
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machine, bunch of things along the wall roll perception.
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Perception. Oh, I.
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Actually did. Click twice I'm.
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I'm I'm Tracy. I'm just going to give you that
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crit because. It's yeah, yeah.
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So you roll a crit 33 and what you discover on the far wall is
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part of the trash system. Part of the trash system is
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there's this hatch in the wall that that pretty much is
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seamless, but you see it on the South wall.
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It is a an exit to the outside if.
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Of course, Locked noted. And also with your high crit,
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I'm also going to give you a human perception for free.
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Rudy seems pretty cool. He seems kind of chill.
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He's a chill guy. He gives you good vibes.
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Hi. So what do we do?
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What do we get done? Hi.
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News cat ears. Actually, oh, oh, oh, you know,
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that's all tempting, but actually cat ears would be
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really cute. Yeah, actually, what's the cost?
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Sure. It's not why we have the.
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FBI. I'm just curious what the cost
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of cat ears are. I'm sure jumping the rain,
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jumping the. Cat ears into the into the
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compendium. It gives you nothing.
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Well, they're part of a amplified hearing suite, which
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is only 100 eddies for the equipment.
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So I'd say like what, 3:50 to get them installed?
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If you want them to have like, cool light, there'll be another
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100. Oh, oh man.
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OK, no. Average humanity loss of about
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30. That's.
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Nothing. I know.
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OK. And.
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And if you get the light stuff put in like wardrobe and style
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goes up by like 1. Man this would go so good with
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my my whole look guys. +2 to Perception skill checks, which
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include hearing. That's pretty bad enough.
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OK, actually, I'm sorry, Ripper. Rudy, we actually, we are here
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not for any installments. We actually just have some
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questions on a there's been an incident involving potentially
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one of your. This is Night City, so questions
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cost money. Is that still cool?
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Yeah, that's fine. I guess we're technically.
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Reasonably. But like information is power.
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You know what? I.
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Mean, yeah. And I know we have an
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appointment and this is your time.
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I get it. Fine.
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OK. Get that from another medical
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professional. Thank you, Doctor.
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Appreciate. It we there may have been an
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incident involving one of your previous clients by the name of
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Arthur. UPI.
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No, we just have a personal investment in this.
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Oh. Personal investment.
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That's funny, 'cause that also I put the eye.
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That's very good. I like that.
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I am I am genuinely impressed and that was very quick.
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You get an inspiration. I just.
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Literally did enough that was. So good.
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OK, Arthur. Arthur.
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Anything significant about him? Wolf Guy.
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Wolf Guy? Oh yeah, someone who gave me
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that poster. And he points on the wall, and
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on the wall is a a poster of a wolf howling at the moon.
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It says it says or born to be an alpha.
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Born to be an alpha. Weird guy where guy gave him AI
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gave him a wolf jaw. Yes, yes.
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I'm going to be his payment was was weird.
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What was his payment? He would go to pay me and then
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the payment would decline. Then I'd immediately get a value
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for the same amount. By somebody else or OK, so.
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This this guy came in and he was like, he, he was here with this
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other guy and they came in and they were like, hey, you just
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treated this guy called Arthur something.
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And I was like, yeah, my please pay me for my time just like
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this, right? And then he paid me like 2000
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eddies for some of the guy's blood.
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So I gave it to him. OK.
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And this person that came in asking for the blood, did they?
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And I would describe Doctor Glass, did they look like a
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doctor? Yeah, no, I got a picture of him
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after I because so he so I gave him the blood.
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He went to the bathroom, he came back in, he looked a little
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flush and then he asked me to install some cyberwear and I and
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I did that and then gave me more money.
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Nice guy. Wait, he asked you to install
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some cyberwear into him? Yeah.
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Oh, what did he get? Nothing crazy.
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He got vampire fangs, he got wolvers, and he brought in like
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the coolest thing. But I also installed the third
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thing. What was the third thing?
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Sounded busy. Big penis I.
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Got. I got those they're they're very
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common, especially near Halloween and surprisingly
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Halloween and vampires night got a brain Valentine's Day as well
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as as well as the Super vulva. It's just there.
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No, we are not looking for any Mr. Stids.
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What's? The Super vulva.
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It's a regular vulva, but better.
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That there is an installment for for femme and mask parts, yes.
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Does it like light up? Because that could be fun.
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Yeah. Yeah, LEDs.
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Yeah, yeah. And there's a there's a little
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neon sign that helps you find. I was going to say, is there a
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SO? There an indicator.
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Light. Like it blinks.
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Red. I know.
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Oh. Wait, is it?
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Technology. Am I right?
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Is it true that I hear that it's also made of synth velvet?
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Yeah, since skin, it'll vibrate in seven different ways.
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It'll undulate its self cleaning and it has a it has a timer.
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Aren't the aren't the natural ones also self cleaning?
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I I mean, I don't know, I. Don't know they are but like a
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real 1 does not. It doesn't have a built in
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digital watch so. Oh, that's nice.
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Then you can check easily and. See how long you've been down
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there. Is it machine washer safe?
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No, no, absolutely. You can bathe.
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I would hope so. It also has a has a little pouch
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for bloody for example. Nature's pocket.
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This has gone on far too long, I don't even know how much.
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Less and this. Is why you pay in the episode.
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This is all Patreon exclusive stuff right here.
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No, it's no, it's Halloween. You're welcome everyone.
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Halloween. Nurse.
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Dick Dick in Virginia jokes. So yeah, I.
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Halloweeners. He was.
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He was. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That guy.
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That Yeah, yeah, that guy, that guy, yeah, we're pretty sure
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that he he. That's what he looks like.
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There you go, right there. Oh.
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That is Doctor. Is that Doctor Glass?
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That's that's Doctor Glass, Yes. Question for you Rudy.
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I've heard that question for you, Rudy.
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Did you happen to install Cyber Fangs into Doctor Glass?
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Yeah, yeah, no, I said that. Cyber fangs.
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Oh my, I'll be honest. And son Divisian is what he
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said. Oh.
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The OH. Yes.
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My memory just deleted like whatever happened 3 minutes ago,
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which was which was. That.
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I got. I got distracted.
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Yep, I got it. I got it.
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They're they're, they're really cool.
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And I that means we just have to find Doctor Glass.
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Did did this Doctor Glass say like anything about where he's
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from or where he's going or what he was doing next or any
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anything like that? No, but the the guy who was with
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him was. It was weird.
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Oh, there's a guy with him. Yeah, OK.
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Why was that guy weird? Well, you just, you kind of felt
21:14
like a cop. And as you hear those words, you
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hear at gun shop. Oh.
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Oh. And there through the window at
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the end of the end of this office, which is one way you now
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discover that advertisement you were looking at.
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Rudy could see you and you're looking through and there's
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Roscoe and he's just shot the woman on the bench dead.
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He walks over to her and you're now watching him through this,
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through this, this one way glass.
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He picks up her body, pulls her neck wide and bites into her
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neck, drawing blood into his mouth, and then he drops her
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body on the ground. Can I go ahead and launch my
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cybernetic arm with it's hand attachment through the window
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and pull him through? Night City.
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If you look at a map of North America, somewhere on the
22:21
western edge you'd see an inky black dot with fingers pressing
22:25
into the side of the continent. That's where you find Night
22:28
City. And somewhere in the middle of
22:30
that inky black dot is a giant smoking hole, like the universe
22:34
itself drew iron and shot straight through the city.
22:37
Radiation turned the sky red, but our story starts a little
22:42
further South in a dive bar the shortstop.
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Welcome to Night City and welcome to Cyberpunk Edge of
22:49
Extinction. Infinite Sided Dice presents
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Cyberpunk Edge of Extinction, a Cyberpunk Red actual play.
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Watch now at youtube.com slash at Infinite Sided dice catch you
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later tunes. I'm, I'm sorry, hold on, maybe,
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maybe I blacked out, but have you always had a like
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retractable cybernetic arm? Yes.
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We've had it since going to space.
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Gracolam. Oh, do you?
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Remember his gracolam? And then he could like make the
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hand move on its own if it was attached still.
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He's like Big Boss. Oh my gosh. 26 on Cybertek. 26
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on Cybertek breaking through this wall was a 29, which is
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listed as a legendary action. Yeah, so unfortunately your hand
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bounces off the glass. You don't hurt yourself, it just
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makes a noise and it there's a moment where you see him as he
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gets the door where he stops and he looks directly towards where
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you are through the window. You're rolled high enough that
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he doesn't realize it's one way. He shakes his head and he
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carries on walking inside. You hear 3 gunshots and a
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scream. Well, that was second
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embarrassment of the night for me.
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I would say Mazur Rudi, it would probably be best for you to
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bring your employee as well as anybody else inside there,
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inside here before said mass murderer comes walking through.
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Yeah, we should. Yes, you should get your
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employees in here ASAP. Oh, OK.
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We should and just take cover. We'll, we'll take care of this.
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Sally, it's a 10140. Fuck me should I lock the
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airlock thing? Lock.
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The airlock thing. Lock the airlock thing.
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There's 2 doors that kind of make an airlock, should I lock
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that in as he walks I can see him now he's coming towards Hi.
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Hi, how are you? Can you lock him in there?
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I guess yes, I can. Somebody said do should I do
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that? Yeah, that.
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Sounds like a genius idea that you're all righty.
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Oh, he does not seem happy about that.
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This is not very bullet. Oh, he's Yup, he is shooting.
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He is shooting the OK, I'm going to fucking leave.
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Oh shit. Oh pretty.
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There's a the guy with. Yeah, no, I know.
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There's a guy with a guy. We watched him.
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A fucking murkid. Murkid person.
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Yeah, we're fucked. Just just.
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Shit. And he starts fumbling with the
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with the trash chute. Come on, fucking.
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Help me out. And they're trying to open it
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and they're not having a good time.
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Jeff, I would say it's probably best for you to go ahead and
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probably unholster a pistol by now.
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Oh, I got my hand. Remember I said that you
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couldn't earlier? You fucking?
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You totally fucking can. I mean, what are you going to do
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about it? Like, sue us, we're going to
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shoot. People.
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That's exactly what I'm saying cowboy.
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You're allowed to do it. Now I am giving you permission.
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You. Is he always this dumb?
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Yes. Yes, he is.
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Press permission to shoot. There you are.
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OK, unholstered. Right retro?
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Do you help them with the trash shoot at all?
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Why yes, I would be happy to assist these people as they did
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not call me trash like other people that I thought were
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friends of mine. I didn't call you trash, I said
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you did drugs. And your your your cohort also
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called me dirty. Lots of things are dirty, not
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just trash. Well, addition of both has come
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up to that conclusion. Well, you know what?
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You know what else is dirty? A mind.
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And you know what else is a mind?
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Strong, smart, deductive. That's you.
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Retro rolls a 28 and manages to get this hatch open and now you
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have the back entrance to the building open.
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I think you've seen too much, says Rothko.
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You see him standing next to the desk where the receptionist was.
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He's covered in blood from his mouth down as it drips down
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across his jacket and shirt. Daddy Glass has called in all
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his favors and now it's time for you to bleed.
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He's coming towards the room. I would like to make my way over
27:59
to the what was that called Vulva Max?
28:05
Yes, sure, but. I'm going to make a way over to
28:08
yes, I'm going to make my way, way over to the Vulva Max Pro
28:10
Plus, make my way and just throw it at his face.
28:18
OK, sure, it lights up on the way.
28:24
What you roll? Oh.
28:27
You pick it up and it gets stuck on your hand.
28:29
Oh. Man.
28:31
So you now have a a Cybertek piece of cyberwear stuck on the
28:36
top of your hand. Everyone is now gathered around
28:40
this this hatch area and Rothko is coming towards you covered in
28:46
blood. What do you do?
28:50
Retro can't do anything. He's dealing with a vagina.
28:53
I don't know how to win these. No wonder he's single.
28:59
And he's not in the airlock. No, no, He broke out.
29:05
You had it out? Yeah.
29:06
The airlock gave you enough time to open up the door at the back
29:08
of this room. You can run.
29:11
Maybe we just, I'm just going to try to shoot him.
29:14
Sure. I will pull out my San Rue Hello
29:18
Kitty Ultra K assault pistol and.
29:22
Shoot at him. Sure.
29:28
Hell yeah, Doug, the bullet flies out of the doorway.
29:33
His reflex is not above 8. He does not have a scent of
29:36
vision because he just doesn't. And you hit him for 13 damage.
29:42
You watch the bullet breakthrough his fairly mediocre
29:45
armor, if I'm honest. Did you do armor piercing or
29:48
not? No, I did not use armor
29:52
piercing. All right.
29:54
And he loses a decent amount of health.
29:56
That's 13 damage. Very, very good.
29:58
Did you cause a crit? No.
30:00
And he keeps walking towards you.
30:02
Do you shoot again? Yes, I will shoot again.
30:05
Oh yeah. Hitting him for 21 you only
30:11
cause 6 damage. You've played his armor though,
30:14
because he didn't have very good armor to begin with, and he
30:18
takes a little bit more damage walking towards you.
30:26
He's creepy. Well, he's he's a vampire.
30:29
So what do we? Do well, he he's he's he kind of
30:34
made himself a vampire. It's a it's a little different,
30:37
right? Right.
30:38
Get. Jeb, you can't take him out.
30:40
Jeb. Yeah.
30:41
Jeb, you're just holding guns. Bang Bang.
30:44
I mean, I was just, I was just waiting.
30:46
Everyone else was doing something I didn't.
30:47
Want to Bang Bang Jeb? Bang Bang really should have had
30:54
this closer. There it is. 24 and 28
30:59
respectively. Yeah, you hit him enough that he
31:02
goes under half health and you watch as you are 7.
31:07
Oh. One of your buttons, one of your
31:09
buttons, one of your bullets clips through the door frame, a
31:12
bit of the door frame. This metal piece spins off and
31:16
then jabs into his shoulder and he falls down from.
31:21
Oh, you little shit. He tries to shoot you.
31:24
Oh boy. From the ground Dodger 17.
31:28
Evasion, right? Yeah.
31:30
Where is that? It's in under fighting.
31:32
Don't worry, I got it. 23 Yes, you dodged the first bullet.
31:36
Very well done, Very very good. He goes to shoot you again.
31:40
Crit 23 Not enough. He rolled A crit.
31:43
You have to roll a crit to evade a crit.
31:45
You can hit 4 you your armor gets abladed by 1 and you lose 1
31:52
HP. So not right.
31:54
Ow. He rolled really bad on damage.
31:57
Look at that 2 ones. It happens.
31:59
Iona or Retro, either of you may go next.
32:02
I'll let Iona. Oh whoop.
32:04
How? What?
32:08
OK, whoop. How?
32:09
22 You hit him for 12 damage, he takes a bullet and he bleeds out
32:15
more on the ground. You know he'll kill you.
32:18
You know he'll get you, he'll take you, and he'll eat your
32:21
flesh and drink you bone dry. OK, he.
32:24
Should do again. You hit him the 21, he has six
32:31
health left and you blow a hole through his heart.
32:35
Blood pours around him and he dies on the ground.
32:41
I immediately covered Jeb's eyes.
32:43
Jeb, Rob, resist torture drugs. You should have plugged my nose.
32:47
Well I still have. I'm full of a Max on my hand.
32:50
Can he just smell that? Honestly, it smells great.
32:54
You do, you roll 16, you do not have to eat any of this flesh.
32:58
And there is now and and this my miniature combat is over.
33:02
You have killed Roscoe and he is now covered in red blood.
33:10
Well, that was I'm, I'm, I'm just going to say it easier than
33:14
I thought. Yeah, fuck you, sparkles.
33:16
Yeah, get him. You know what, Ripper?
33:20
Rudy, I feel like that, you know, we just saved your
33:24
establishment here. Maybe we can consider that
33:29
payment. Sure.
33:32
Good. Here's your former Max pack.
33:39
Thank you because that would be mine.
33:45
Wow, well I guess I can close this so.
33:48
When you close this to the trash here.
33:50
Thanks for opening. Appreciate it a gentleman.
33:53
Anything to do of course, right. By the way, Ripper, Rudy, you
34:01
wouldn't happen to have any kind of paperwork or any kind of
34:07
receipt that potentially could give us information of said the
34:13
vampire here. Or Doctor Glass says he's been
34:17
nomenclature that accompanied this cyber cycle here.
34:21
He didn't fill out his address on the form.
34:26
You'd have to look it up. Or, I mean, if any of you've
34:29
ever already been to his apartment, they'd probably know.
34:34
I have been to his apartment. We could.
34:37
I remember how to get there. You've been to his apartment.
34:41
Yeah, that's where I performed this whole operation on him.
34:47
Oh, OK. What are you hoping to find
34:50
there? Him maybe?
34:53
Or at least some information that would lead us to another
34:57
potential hideout you might have had.
34:59
Yeah. Phoebe.
35:02
Yes. Are we going to kill the
35:04
vampire? I I think we need to kill the
35:08
vampire. Phoebe can get their Doctor
35:10
Helsing on. Yes, actually, yeah, maybe I
35:17
transitioned from Doctor Frankenstein to Doctor Van
35:21
Helsing. I think we need to put an end to
35:23
this. I'm right behind you.
35:26
OK, so we could go to his apartment.
35:30
Is there anything else we think we need to do or get?
35:37
I mean are we for serious treating this like as if it is a
35:40
real vampire and following the Lord said for that and we need
35:43
to buy sticks and silver and such.
35:49
What do you do you think is he going to like heal?
35:51
That's a good point, though, I didn't even think about that.
35:53
But is he do we do we know is is he?
35:57
I mean I I hate to use the word infected but is he infected with
36:02
body feel bad or or? Body fuel.
36:05
Scan or something. Oh.
36:07
I have no idea where you guys are.
36:09
No, no, no. It's all right.
36:09
This you probably shouldn't listen to this.
36:11
We we're gonna we're gonna go to the band.
36:14
Thank you. Thank you, Ripper.
36:16
Actually, can I schedule an appointment for next week for
36:22
cat ears? Oh, 100% yeah.
36:24
Yeah. No, after this adventure, come
36:26
on down. Thank you I'll.
36:29
Give you a discount for for for saving my receptionist.
36:32
Thanks. Thanks, Ripper.
36:34
Rudy, we'll be in touch. Cool.
36:36
I'm going to call the morgue because there's some dead people
36:41
and you guys have a great Halloween.
36:44
Thanks. Happy Halloween.
36:46
Yeah, my, I'll see you after Halloween for those years, so
36:50
good. Good luck killing this guy I
36:53
guess. Before we go.
36:54
I'm going to not tell people that that feels like a thing
36:57
that I shouldn't tell him, right?
36:59
Yeah, no, I'm not going to tell anyone.
37:01
They're not actually listening to us.
37:03
This is fading, isn't? It before we leave, I would like
37:07
to check the body. Potentially there is a clue
37:11
there for us. We're all for it.
37:14
What's the clue? I don't know, I'm looking for
37:17
the 10. Oh, oh, I see.
37:19
So my mistake, you didn't know what the clue was here.
37:22
You find a little E paper note tablet.
37:27
He's been writing notes about Arthur.
37:29
He's been following him for a while.
37:31
He was not employed by a family to find the hot dog guy.
37:34
He was employed by Doctor Glass to keep an eye on him.
37:38
You also find an apartment key. He had an apartment in that
37:41
building. Oh, the same building as Arthur
37:43
was. Yes.
37:45
OK, well there is a second place we can always check if the one
37:49
for Doctor Glass doesn't work out, but let's just.
37:51
I hope we don't have to. What are we doing?
37:54
Just all standing around. Let's go.
37:55
Let's head into the van. I said I was right behind VV and
37:58
VV haven't started moving yet. I'm.
38:00
Sorry. You step through the rest of the
38:02
building. In the foyer, all three people
38:06
who are waiting are dead. Their blood was sucked from
38:09
their body. Oh.
38:12
So there are 5 dead bodies here. Oh, is that all?
38:15
No, no, no, that's not all. No, it's right.
38:17
We the I made a little speech earlier to you VV about only
38:22
being able to be judged with about you know, on the
38:24
information that you had. This ain't us right that no.
38:29
Jeb, did you know that they were a vampire?
38:32
No, I didn't know that. Did you know?
38:34
I mean, I knew. I mean, I did know that they
38:36
were outfitted with things that would make them appear as though
38:40
they were a vampire, but oh, this might be bad, that those
38:47
deaths might be on us. I didn't know any of that, so I
38:51
feel in the clear. I'll just get inside now, OK?
38:54
We'll pile into the van and BB inputs the Doctor Glass's
38:59
apartment into the SAT navigation of Vanna White.
39:04
It's in the corporate district. You're going to have to go all
39:07
the way N Jeb, roll the jargon check there's.
39:11
A 29. 29 do a great job driving through the streets, avoiding
39:17
any ambushes, any traffic. You shoot your way across a
39:23
river, across a bridge, and park yourself outside this
39:28
ostentatiously tall building. It is flat, stone like, and
39:36
there are two elevators on the outside of the building.
39:38
That's it all. Right VV, Why don't you lead the
39:43
way? What units are you in?
39:45
Yeah, let me. It's been a bit.
39:48
I let me jog my memory. You check your notes on your
39:53
little agent and you remember that he had the penthouse of
39:56
this building. Both elevators go up.
39:58
There's elevator one and elevator 2.
40:01
All the way at the top, we got to go to the penthouse.
40:06
So. Oh, either one should take us up
40:08
there. Both.
40:11
Oh, so both of them do OK. OK, let's go up.
40:18
Sure, elevator, what it is? You push the button on the
40:22
elevator and it beeps saying that it's locked.
40:28
Last time, Vivi, you were expected.
40:32
OK. I didn't think this part
40:35
through. We might not be able to get up
40:38
there unless we're invited. Unless.
40:43
We like a vampire. I get it.
40:49
Yeah, except reverse. Unless there's a way we can just
40:53
override this elevator, I look to our dapper friend.
41:02
Oh, oh what? Why is everybody looking at me?
41:06
Cause 'cause you're the you're the professional nerd.
41:09
Cause you are a very smart individual lad that would be
41:16
able to help us. I'm trying to get in your
41:22
character and I'm failing horribly.
41:24
I think you're doing a great job.
41:25
I I. Think you're doing a good job at
41:27
the? Moment too, Sir, good Sir, if
41:29
you wouldn't mind just taking a look at the panel here and
41:32
perhaps your whimsical ways might be able to override it.
41:38
Yeah. Only for you, Mademoiselle, just
41:41
because you have treated me with respect compared to most of the
41:44
others around here. Do my best.
41:51
A Crit 38. Wow.
41:54
Now here's the thing that you've got retro As you fiddle around
41:58
with this machine, you discover that there is a drone in one of
42:02
these elevators. You look through the camera, you
42:06
can see there's a little cleaning robot sitting in
42:09
elevator #2 elevator one. However, it's open for business.
42:15
There's nothing in it. And with your 38, you've also
42:19
managed to get access to this elevator without letting anyone
42:23
know in the building that you have done so.
42:26
Which means at the moment, Doctor Glass has no idea that
42:31
you are here. You also find that there is a
42:36
staircase as well. It is electronically locked and
42:40
sealed perfectly on the outside of this building, but you can
42:43
get access to it if you decide. Well friends, I have found that
42:50
there is a drone in elevator 2. It just so happens to be sitting
42:54
there, which does seem a little scrupulous at the moment.
42:58
However, elevator one is unlocked and able for us to get
43:01
up. Nobody knows that I've been able
43:03
to get in. I've also found that there is a
43:06
secret stairway that leads all the way up to the penthouse as
43:09
well. jabba.com. Yep, it might work in our favor
43:17
to have a stealthy rogue asset to climb said stairs to to do a
43:28
pincer attack, as you might say on the Fair Doctor.
43:35
Well, I am known to be quite good at climbing stairs so.
43:43
The stealthiest, like the night. You look at to be you open up
43:49
the stair door, Jeb, and you look at the sign that tells you
43:52
what each of the floors has and you look at and there's like,
43:56
you know, regular residence floors one to 10, advanced
44:00
residence 11 to 20, Super deluxe 21 to 40.
44:12
And. Mega Deluxe.
44:13
Cool. Yeah.
44:15
Mega Deluxe Super Corpo Edition, 41 to 60.
44:25
And 61 gods. 6061, 360 apt 360 apartments, they all have a 360
44:35
view that rotates and very, very above all of that at the very,
44:41
very top it says Penthouse 69. Nice.
44:45
Nice. Nice.
44:48
Boop. Wait, no, I'm, I'm not.
44:50
I'm not going to take the other. I'm I'm going 69 floors up on
44:53
the stairs. Are you going to climb 69?
44:56
So those those would be useful on the way down.
44:59
That would be useful. Hold on.
45:00
Actually, I got an idea. Grapple.
45:03
Grapple gun. How?
45:03
How? Far is the grapple gun.
45:06
It goes, I think we talked about it was like 30-30, something
45:08
like that. So it's just to say like 3
45:10
stories. So I'm just going to go three
45:12
stories at a time. Sure.
45:15
Fucking what? I'll I'll let you do that 30.
45:19
You roll it 3 * 3 times. I'll let you roll it three
45:24
times. So roll your grapple gun three
45:28
times. Let me give you 1 because you've
45:30
been missing one for a minute. The grapple gun, yeah, I just
45:33
always just roll my my heavy pistol.
45:37
Yeah, let me get it. Wait, hold on.
45:39
A regular Stairmaster Jeopardy. 2327 and 28, you do a fantastic
45:46
job of shooting your way up and it'll take you about the same
45:50
amount of time as it will take them in the elevator.
45:55
Shoot, shoot bad, Shoot bad. That's that's a slow ass
45:59
elevator. You will pile into this
46:04
elevator. Bendel, VV, Iona, and Retro get
46:08
in the elevator and you ascend up to the penthouse.
46:13
As the elevator rises, you can see Jeb over the radio, making
46:20
athletic noises as he skips and jumps and grapples his way up
46:25
the stairwell. Can I get a couple of those?
46:27
Yeah, those are. By Athletic.
46:33
Places and in the elevator as you ascend.
46:36
This is a very tall building, and as it ascends through the
46:41
mist of the evening, it passes through that thin red haze,
46:46
pushing through the clouds themselves.
46:50
There you see the city below you, bits of it poking through
46:55
the mist as the full moon reflects off the top of the
46:58
glass buildings of the north of Night City.
47:02
At this height, the sky is very clear and you ascend to the top.
47:14
When we get to the top, if he's there, we ask questions first.
47:22
We don't just kill him. I think we deserve some answers
47:28
as to why he's done all of this all.
47:33
Right, baby. And then we should kill him.
47:40
Yeah, I, I, I also agree with Mademoiselle VV because from
47:46
what we've had to deal with this particular nasty doctor, who's
47:50
to say that there isn't some kind of alternative plan that
47:54
they might have that as soon as we kill them goes into action.
47:58
We have now no idea how to be able to stop it, much less the.
48:04
I think we go for the heart, his heart.
48:08
Yeah. We have to take out Glenn's
48:10
heart. I mean we are treating this as
48:13
if they are a vampire correct? But refresh me on vampire lore.
48:19
If I was to say destroy the brain would that also work?
48:22
Or does that do they still live? Well, the if if we if we were
48:28
looking at body fuel bite, we have now learned that to kill
48:30
someone with body fuel bite, you have to drain all their blood
48:33
so. Or the the brain will grow back.
48:37
Maybe. I mean, that would make sense,
48:41
wouldn't? It no, no, that's.
48:44
Virus in the blood that that re forms.
48:49
You'd say virus, I say symbiotic destruction.
48:55
Well, construction, as long as you've got there to feed it.
48:58
Says Vandel as they step out into the into the hallway.
49:01
As you get there, Jeb, it's not in the hallway, Jeb.
49:05
You have found yourself at the top of the stairwell and the
49:07
door at the top is locked. Well, I guess we can try to do
49:11
this the the quiet way and if not, then I'll just have to
49:16
breach and clear. So let me just get.
49:20
In Jed, remember we're being quiet, so don't do anything
49:24
crazy. Vandell I was working on a quiet
49:27
bit. I'm just saying if that quiet
49:29
didn't work then I'm prepared to do what's necessary to get.
49:34
Just come up here, what's the problem?
49:37
Are you guys already in there? Well, we're in the hallway.
49:39
Where are you? I'm on the side door.
49:43
Are you in the? Stairwell.
49:44
I'm on the stairwell. Retro.
49:47
Queue. I walk over and I open the door.
49:49
It's locked. Wait, hold on, hold on.
49:53
Am I is the door that I'm in front of lead to the You don't
49:59
know. You don't know.
50:00
OK, OK, OK. Well, I unlocked the door.
50:03
All right, roll for it. 22. Yes.
50:06
Pick lock. You open up the door silently
50:09
and the door opens and you see Jeb in the doorway, sweaty.
50:14
Well, hey, Jeb. Oh.
50:16
Hey, Oh well, I guess I could put my my lock pick away.
50:22
So yeah, I. Thought this would have led to
50:24
the the place you know directly, not.
50:28
Not to the hallway. Well, you know, now we know we
50:32
probably should have taken a look at the little plaque that's
50:34
on the side of the stairwell that has the evacuation route.
50:37
Probably would have told us, but I'm just going to be honest.
50:41
Well, I mean, I, I thought there was a black.
50:42
Usually there's black. I didn't see one.
50:46
Oh well. Did any of you see a?
50:48
Plaque there that said that. Someone should have reported
50:51
them to, you know, breaking code.
50:55
You got to have those evacuation wraps in case of a fire.
50:58
You ever heard of the Triangle Shirt Factory incident?
51:02
Yes, Jeff, we all know of the Triangle Shirt Factory incident.
51:05
It's something that we're all taught back in what was it,
51:10
elementary school? All right, everybody, let's try
51:12
and be quiet outside this place. Do.
51:16
Do we? Should we just knock?
51:20
I think we should try to just enter in slowly and quietly.
51:25
OK, stealthy it is. To the north of the hallway,
51:32
next to two vending machines, is the door to the penthouse
51:35
apartment. Oh, maybe.
51:41
Yeah. That's not good.
51:43
Not the best stealth. Oh, there you are, not the best
51:47
stealth. No, you fall over the rug and
51:50
you take 4 HP damage as you feel.
51:53
It's very embarrassing and you and you make a noise and you
51:57
hear someone in the apartment move.
51:59
Freak. I think I heard somebody in
52:01
there OK. I'm going to go help Phoebe get
52:08
up just because I know the embarrassment when that kind of
52:12
happens and everyone just kind of sits and laughs at you all.
52:15
Right, you, you. As you get up, you look up and
52:17
there is now a security camera pointing at you and Phoebe.
52:21
You are now in the view of the doorway security camera.
52:25
OK, I think our cover is blown. They haven't seen me, Iona or
52:29
Jeb. Just maybe the two of you knock
52:34
and then as soon as he opens the door, we bust our way in.
52:39
Look, he knows me, so if it is him, maybe I'm just here to
52:43
visit again. I did perform surgery on him.
52:46
So like, I guess I'll just, I'll just pretend I'm here to visit.
53:00
Next time on no latency. And then we'll be on the other
53:07
side of the door like, you know. I'll.
53:08
I'll knock. Jeb, it's all all right.
53:11
I'm I'm back here too. I'm just behind the vending
53:14
machine. So they don't know that Iona
53:18
Bendel or you Jeb are outside there's.
53:21
A lot going on right now, Van Dale.
53:23
It didn't have to be this way. We.
53:24
Fucked up my suit. Though man gotta sprain my
53:27
ankle. They're trying to kick this Link
53:28
we. Should probably think of some
53:29
other strategies. Shoot ahead of where you think
53:32
they're going to be. Doctor Glass is unaware that I
53:35
am there. Great shot, Iona.
53:37
Told you some of that shit was shoddy.
53:39
Thank you. Thank you.
53:39
I don't usually make my shots, so that felt good.
53:41
Oh. Shit.
53:43
You got to tell me what was in that dark.
53:45
He's going to heal himself and this is not going to be as easy
53:49
as we think. I don't know what to do.
53:50
Can we like RIP his head off or something?
53:53
I I also like the head approach. We take his head.
53:55
All right, I guess I'll do the smashing then.
53:57
All right, he's not looking good.
53:58
Someone smash. Someone grab.
54:00
Cut his head off, you've got a sword.
54:03
Oh no. We've got a stored.
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