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S2E61 - Abbot's Ace · No Latency

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  Last time on No. Latency best we blow this place
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  to hell. Huh.
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  I just hope they get to tell each other that they loved each
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  other. At least they're together again.
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  None of this can get out. There's drones in there.
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  Damaged drones? Suppressing fire.
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  Nice Iona. Sing it a song.
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  With my 64 Impala. It was really good.
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  That's. Pretty good open sesame.
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  That's all I see. Wow, that's never actually
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  worked for me well. How am I supposed to know that?
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  Well, your song probably Hell. Oh, I've made money.
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  What is the point of having a code if it doesn't work on every
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  single door? So many drones, I can't see a
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  door. Are you seeing what I'm seeing
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  through this window? Bowling Howdy, because I've got
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  a lot of pod people out there. Wait, what?
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  Come, Come. Come.
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  Look. They're monologuing.
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  This is going to be good. They call me retro, not sleeper.
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  What's up? They're not talking to you.
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  Oh. Doctor Abbott is suspended in a
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  slightly different pod, connected with way more wires to
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  a bunch of machines around them, And inside the pod you see that
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  they are just a torso and a head.
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  They have no arms and no legs, and they're floating serenely in
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  the liquid. Whenever they talk, their eyes
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  glow, but their mouth does not move because it's covered with a
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  a piece a. Piece of what?
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  Like a rebreather. Oh.
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  I have. Never seen anything like this.
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  Has. Am I able to like once again
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  from my medical expertise, like figure out what is happening
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  with Doctor Abbott? Essentially, I'm going to use my
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  medical expertise to try to figure out what's going on with
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  Doctor. I want to roll to see what the
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  fuck's going on. Essentially, yes.
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  We roll 21. Doctor Abbott is hooked up by a
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  lot of cables coming out of the back of their head.
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  Like, a lot. And they're connected through
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  the ground, through other wires that head to a room to the West,
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  and to each of these pods. And there are a bunch of pods in
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  here. There are 22 pods in total and
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  ten of them are dark. Everybody sidebar, sidebar,
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  Everyone come in real quick sidebar, sidebar.
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  Please formally call commissioner at sidebar.
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  History and experience so far, I feel dictates that.
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  We should blow this place up and not really worry about anything
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  else. I mean, for sure that's on the
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  agenda. I'm just saying figure
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  surrounded by others floating in technology tube usually screams
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  bad. We might, we might want to run
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  away. I think so.
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  Sasha died and said that they saw a horrible thing, which was
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  probably this and. You know what else?
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  They say it. They say it, just blow it up,
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  don't even worry about it. So I'm inclined to.
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  Think that. OK, but we have to get the, the,
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  the suit right. We have to get the thing for.
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  Domino. For Domino Sleeper.
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  I am not here to hurt you. Can everyone hear that?
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  Yes, why? Does it get sleeper?
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  Go ahead and just I say fuck right off and let's blow this
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  bitch. Let's.
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  Not piss them off. What?
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  What do you want? I'm Doctor Abbott.
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  I know who you are. Yes, the real question is, do
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  you know who you are? Oh God.
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  What? This is getting deep.
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  I have a suspicion. That's a sleeper.
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  I'm aware. Oh, they're aware, and I own as
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  a sleeper. OK, there's two.
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  Sides of the coin. I mean, I was hoping to get a
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  nap in, but what's this about sleeping?
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  What does the sleeper mean? What do?
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  What do they do? What's their role?
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  The Sleeper is part of a biotechnical project for Memento
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  jobs and of course the main arbiter and Proctor of the
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  Custodian project. Mommy.
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  Indeed. I don't understand though.
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  So they're the but you didn't create this Iona.
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  You're not I I don't. I don't quite know either it's.
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  Did did Biotechnica make Iona like the start of this or so I
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  don't. The Custodian project takes care
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  of the maintenance of facilities like this.
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  Now that the Custodian is out of the picture control to the CADS
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  and two very small number of the drums has been transferred to
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  me. I'm not following someone want
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  to. Can someone put this into plain
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  English for me? Are you going to let us run the
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  CAD system? Absolutely, but I can't do
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  anything until we get rid of the frog.
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  And where is frog? I have managed to keep Frog in
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  the frog lab. Now that I'm not dealing with
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  the custodian, I can fully keep them locked down.
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  Oh, well, if you got them locked down, then all right, we can
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  just go. There, right.
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  Take care of them then, yeah. Can we just go in there, take
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  care of frog and then do the CAD thing?
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  My ability to keep him subdued is strenuous, and every time he
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  pushes against me I have to consume one of my scientists.
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  OK, you've consumed 10 so far. Yes, and died three times.
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  Oh my gosh. What's What's so bad about this
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  frog man? He's an AI.
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  Uh huh. And you're just to be clear,
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  you're not an AI. No, I am somewhat humid.
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  You are. You are.
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  You are an AI? No.
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  I'm human. Mostly at this point.
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  Indeed, Frog thought he had me, but I had an ace up my sleeve.
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  Oh, what? What's?
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  What's frog I won't liar like? What's What's this frog's
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  desire? The technology I developed to
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  integrate flesh with a cerebral with no latency that was
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  accidental. Have you been to the bar?
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  I'm. Aware of its existence.
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  I wish you could have seen it. It would have been nice.
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  I can see that it's happening. Is there anything we should know
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  before we go well? I'm here to answer anything you
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  want. Frog and I are at a stalemate.
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  I can hold him back for a little while, but when I run out of
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  scientists, he'll overtake the whole facility.
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  And we don't want that. Why?
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  Because then he'll actually get out.
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  Oh, no, but we're going to blow it up, you see.
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  Yes, but if I need control, he'll get control.
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  We need Abbott and we need to blow up the station.
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  Oh. Shit.
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  We. Do you do you mind dying in the
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  process? Is is that all right with you?
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  I've already. Died.
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  Three times. Because we could just, you could
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  just tell us how to do it and then we'll just kind of you
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  know. Frog didn't think I had that
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  little trick again up my sleeve. We'll deal with Frog and when we
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  come back we should get some answers.
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  I should get some answers. Yes, I won't be able to leave
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  the this facility as just a torso.
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  Well, we could get you a hand. I have a head already, cowboy.
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  Are you fucking? Blind.
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  I thought you said you weren't, you weren't going to be able to
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  go out with with just a torso. And I say, well, we can get you
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  a hand. I already have one of those.
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  I don't have arms or legs. Are you blind?
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  Should we? Could we put you on a frame?
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  Currently there's only enough materials to make one frame, and
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  even then, unfortunately using the energy is torturous.
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  Well, what if what if we were to get you some arms and legs from
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  one of your scientists and just kind of graft them onto you?
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  I mean, clearly we there the. Scientists have infused to the
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  part. What about, oh, hold on, what
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  about? What about Ashley?
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  Or what's? What was what was, what was
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  their name? Alice.
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  Alice. Sasha.
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  Well, either one really. Sasha, Mainly because I saw that
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  they had all their legs and arms.
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  I don't know. You want to try it?
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  Would be a very convoluted process, but I if I leave this
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  part front, front front front front front.
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  Front and the room starts to blow.
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  Oh gosh, we should go. In one of the gods.
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  Behind. Abbott and the scientist begins
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  to scream. His whole body bursts with
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  energy. An Abbott winces.
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  It pops Into Darkness. OK, he didn't kill me again.
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  If you're going to anything, now is your time to ask me.
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  Knowledge is power when it comes to fighting AIS.
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  Is it like a like a a Rumpelstilson kind of situation,
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  We kind of know their real name and then it gives us power over
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  Limor? No.
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  While I push against him, he may be able to be destroyed, but
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  currently I'm using all of my strength to do that.
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  So he's got control of the submarine systems and the
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  outside turrets and defences, as well as the beasts.
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  The beasts. Yes, the beasts suggest.
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  What do you mean at the bees? Like the like the water bees.
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  They're just machines. They're designed to consume the
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  leftover body parts and reconstitute them as something
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  we can feed to the battery. Oh my God, that's grotesque.
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  Yes, Frog's idea, not mine. Yeah.
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  But. As long as I have scientists, my
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  little ace up my sleeve will mean until they're gone for a
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  contact me. Right.
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  What's your ace? Oh, I have a chip.
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  What kind of chip? I have a relic chip.
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  You have a relic chip. I stole it.
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  From Michael. Iris.
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  Yeah, OK, sure, whatever. Yeah, like anybody really has a
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  fucking relic chip. Do you know what I realize My my
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  first year of medical school I had to write like some research
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  paper on relic chips. Oh, so you know about it?
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  Yeah, it's been a couple of years and you know, write papers
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  and stuff. Like how much do you really like
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  retain from from those kinds of research papers?
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  Or was it a Did you did you publish?
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  Because maybe we could just, you know, look at oh wait, no Wi-Fi.
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  Damn it. Jeff, we have the author here.
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  Why do we need to search? I mean, let me just access the
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  old. They just said they weren't
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  true. Archives up in here, she taps to
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  her brain and see if I can remember. 17, yes.
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  Finding Fresh Air Notes Cyberwear 102 Relic chip concept
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  by Arasaka. First theorized in 2041.
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  Designed as a way to continue to experience loved ones after
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  death. Theoretically could be used to
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  save brain. Patent as a four dimensional
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  anger and reload the patent on death.
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  Active relic chip requires host or temperature controlled
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  environment between 35.6 and 46.4°F.
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  Currently only theoretical and years away from fabrication and
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  production. Possible revenue in the
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  trillions, barring a market ethics test, referred to in
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  investor circles as a safe state for the biological mind.
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  It's a safe state for your brain.
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  That is an excellent analogy. Yeah, but I mean like is if I
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  remember correctly that was, that's super top secret Arasaka
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  stuff where they'd be having people like Sanos, siblings like
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  guarding that. How did you get it?
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  What matters is that I have it now, and with it I've been able
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  to fight Frog on a level that he did not anticipate, even for an
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  AI as powerful as him. By repeatedly dying and
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  resurrecting via the relic chip. I just hoped that though I would
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  find a way to solve the problem and.
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  And what was that problem again? The whole facility.
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  I mean, it surely is a problem, but yes, you're just talking
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  about in general. The original intention of this
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  facility was to make it easier for people to have limbs again.
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  All right. Well.
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  My idea was twisted. Yeah, When did we change over to
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  harnessing people as a power source as?
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  Soon as they put me in this pod. OK.
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  So not on you. No, that's good at least.
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  My technology was based under the Rand protocol.
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  Clock Iron Rand. A little result applied yields
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  necessary data when it comes to the technology.
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  The end justifies the needs with some events.
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  OK, that kind of seems maybe ethically problematic, but you
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  know, I'm not going to say nothing.
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  So, OK, all we have to do. Kill Frog allows us to access
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  the CAD system. Blow this fucker up.
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  There's still something we're missing on all of this.
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  What are we missing? What's that?
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  We're looking for something. It's the frame.
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  Oh, right. Yes.
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  So. It's in the the bottom in the
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  tank. It's at the battery bottom of
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  the facility. Yes, so we need to.
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  Go. Get that as well before we cat
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  this place. So deal with Frog first, then.
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  Get the frame. Get the frame.
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  Blow. This place to the.
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  Kingdom's other ends. Yes.
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  When you've got what you need and Frog is destroyed, I'll have
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  full control of the facility. OK.
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  Come back here, let me know and I'll flip the switch.
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  Go down with the ship all. Right.
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  Thank you. Someone's got to be here now
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  that the custodian is gone. And that's going to be you.
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  Yes. And all right.
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  Unless you want to hook up to this pod cowboy.
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  No, no, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm just fine.
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  Thanks. The only request I have is that
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  when everything is done, you've got.
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  To pull the chip, we'll take the chip.
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  Otherwise I'll just die over and over again until it finally runs
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  out of power. Yeah, not not ideal, honestly.
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  No, it doesn't get any easier. I swear it's more painful every
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  time. We should go.
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  Yeah, probably. There's a frog pass in the desk
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  in the other room. It should get you down to that
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  level. Be careful, he's very conniving.
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  And remember, if you do need some power every time you use
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  power, any major use of power costs human life and suffering.
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  The people in the country feel the drain.
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  Oh my, Why'd you have to say that?
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  I mean like we're not looking to use power.
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  The cats is the most humane way to end their suffering.
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  Well, I mean, I guess we go back to plan A, which again was we're
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  blowing this place up, sounds like a plan, it has been.
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  We're going, we're going. We're going.
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  We're going. We're going.
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  We're going. Grabbing the frog pass.
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  You grab the frog pass from the desk, head through the facility.
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  Do you want to do anything else on this floor?
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  Oh goodness, is there anything of use in the vending machines
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  that were in the corridor as we came through?
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  As you pass back, oh, that's slow.
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  Oh, that's A1 and A2. As you head back towards the
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  elevator, you pass two vending machines on your left, both of
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  which are dark. The refrigeration unit on them
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  has died and the food inside has spoiled.
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  All right. And get in the elevator.
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  Are you guys coming? Yep.
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  Yep. And you get in the elevator.
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  Are you ready? Going down.
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  You beep the frog pass on the computer and the door closes and
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  you descend. What would you do if you found
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  yourself in an unfamiliar land? I'm from Evermead Isle.
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  What about What about Gratita? Anybody.
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  Heard of Gratita? So we're from different places
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  How? Like different worlds.
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  Abducted from your home world and trapped in a prison with no
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  possible escape. That's against the Geneva
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  Convention. I don't know what that is.
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  That doesn't exist here. You know someone named in
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  Geneva? Is she dead?
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  I don't know. They beat her up a little bit
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  and then they took her. I don't know where she.
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  Is. She could very well be dead.
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  You you guys like beating up smaller creatures, huh?
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  What of it? It's none of your business and
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  he's going to flick your nose. Great.
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  I punch him directly in the mouth.
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  Out of me, anything rise to the challenge.
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  My first role. Of this series.
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  He's a one. Oh yeah, that's good luck.
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  To escape this hell. And you're locked into solitary
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  for three days, trapped in a room no bigger than a broom
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  closet. It fucking sucks here, DM.
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  And find. A way home?
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  Let's start a fucking riot. Find your way home this June
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  16th on Save the D 8th. Epic.
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  The elevator descends and you arrive at Frog Lab.
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  Fuck, this is huge. Do we need a plan before we go
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  in? I'm all for it, but what kind of
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  plan do we need to make? What do we know about this frog?
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  He's connected to the whole facility, which means any
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  weaponry installed in or around the labs are accessible to him.
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  The drones, however, I believe Abbott said, were connected to
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  her so we don't have to worry about them anymore.
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  Although I think that the green drones were a few that were
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  controlled by Frog, but I think, I think Abbott said that the the
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  the drones were mostly under their control, so we probably
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  have nothing. To worry about.
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  If we come across a a froggy green drone, it is not for us,
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  right? Green bad.
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  Got it. OK.
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  I don't know what else we can do in preparation.
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  Yeah, I say. We just go in.
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  Vendel, before we go, please apply this medical pack that you
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  have. OK, 2D6.
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  Do I roll it? You can.
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  Sure, 2D6. Nice.
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  They gained 7 health is. That good?
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  That basically puts them back up 123-4567 groups.
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  Does everyone have their Shields available?
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  How are have you reloaded your magazines?
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  I just. Want us to be slowly repaired?
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  My Shields ain't, well, rather my armor ain't looking too good,
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  but I'm not sure how much we can change that down here.
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  Not really. Yeah, I.
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  Don't know what do what do y'all think, just go for it.
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  I'm just checking my equipment, making sure everything.
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  Works are good. I'm yeah, I think I I.
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  Have incendiary bullets. Oh, nice.
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  I'm going to. I'm going to load those in.
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  That's probably really smart. Well, wait, have a lot of these
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  creatures wet? I mean, we are underwater, so
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  there's that. Also the bolter.
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  Might. Be of use?
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  I'm not sure that's all you, Remy.
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  Oh yeah, I'll try to do what I can.
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  Listen, this could be very dangerous and I want all of you
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  to do your best to make it out alive, OK?
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  I want everyone to get out alive.
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  You're. You're scaring me, Iona.
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  You don't need to be scared. We will do our best to protect
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  you. You are too good for this world.
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  You step into the Frog lab lobby and in this space there's a
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  large blue stripe on the floor that leads all the way to the
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  West. Further into the room you can
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  see a computer at a desk To your left is a sub Bay airlock and
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  there are 4 vending machines in here.
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  At the very end of the room is an open space where there's just
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  water, just a big old area of water, and on the other side of
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  this area of water you can see a door.
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  Has the GM given us a what do you call it?
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  Like a a room full of ammo and goodies and Med packs and stuff
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  like you do before you go into a big battle.
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  If you check the vending machines and you roll, well,
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  perhaps. Perhaps perchance maybe.
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  Yes. For each vending machine, one of
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  you may roll AD 10 or well, we'll find things.
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  But there are only four vending machines, so choose wisely.
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  So roll AD 10. I I've picked my vending
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  machine. Remy got to pick a vending
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  machine. Retro, you rolled A4.
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  Do you find 10 ammo? Yay 10 ammo.
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  Great. Jeb goes up to a vending machine
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  that he picks, and as he walks up to it, it is off and
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  everything in it is ruined. Ah.
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  Well, yeah. Iona vending machine you check
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  because you're old in eight has a Med pack in it.
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  Oh heck yes. Phoebe, there's one vending
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  machine left. Do you want it?
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  Yes, I'll take a look. Oh.
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  Let's go. All right.
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  That's a crit, so roll it again. All right.
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  Yeah. All right.
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  Pretty good. Yeah, you find two Med packs.
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  One of them is a quick Med pack, and you'd be able to apply it
• 24:26
  mid combat for a bonus action as you oh.
• 24:29
  Wow, there's a Med pack in this one.
• 24:31
  A quick one, A quick Med pack in this one.
• 24:33
  Oh, the quick packs. Those are cool.
• 24:34
  Yeah, you know about them. Yeah, I'm cool, Yeah.
• 24:39
  I know that's a good thing about.
• 24:41
  Quick packs. You've seen me do like a
• 24:42
  cartwheel. I'm.
• 24:45
  Spry and shit. Always good to have a quickie.
• 24:47
  This is true. You never know when somebody's
• 24:49
  going to be injured and you need a quickie.
• 24:52
  It looks like we're going to have to find a way to get across
• 24:54
  this water. How big is this water?
• 24:57
  Too big? Last time we got close to water
• 24:59
  it was bad, so maybe that's too bad.
• 25:01
  Yeah, back up. You don't know what's lurking in
• 25:03
  there. Here's an idea.
• 25:06
  We push the desk in as a decoy. As a decoy.
• 25:12
  And make our way across. I had no.
• 25:18
  Idea how you're going to tackle that as a.
• 25:20
  Crack are. You going to try and use the
• 25:21
  desk as a bridge? No, the dusk is too small.
• 25:26
  But here's the thing. We push the desk in, the water
• 25:31
  monster attacks it because it thinks that it's a body, and
• 25:34
  then we scurry our way across the back of said water monster.
• 25:40
  OK. Vendel places the computer on
• 25:43
  the ground and drags the desk. Don't.
• 25:46
  Get out. Get away.
• 25:47
  Got it. You're so strong, Bendel.
• 25:49
  Oh. You know, Jeb, do you want to
• 25:51
  help? Of course I'm on, Dale.
• 25:56
  Well, they're doing that. I'm going to go look at what
• 25:57
  this door does. The door to the South is an
• 26:00
  airlock door and it's currently locked.
• 26:06
  Well, it's an airlock. I don't need anything out there.
• 26:10
  I think I'm fine with that. That water can stay out there.
• 26:14
  Vendel and Jeb roll athletics. Jeb, if you could just Yep, Yep,
• 26:22
  do it in silence. Nice, nice.
• 26:26
  Rendell and Jeb pushed this desk into the water and you hear a
• 26:31
  beast under the water attack the desk with fervency.
• 26:37
  It doesn't. Jesus Christ.
• 26:38
  It doesn't surface or anything. It's now distracted by the desk.
• 26:44
  I jump in Olympic dive. Oh shit.
• 26:49
  OK, we're going jump in. Swim.
• 26:52
  Swim. Swim.
• 26:52
  Anybody who wants to cross the water roll athletics.
• 26:56
  Oh Lord. Swim, swim, swim.
• 26:59
  Nice job. You have such great form.
• 27:03
  You know what? Honestly, I prefer the
• 27:06
  butterfly. Yeah.
• 27:09
  Yeah. OK.
• 27:13
  As the water splashes around you, Iona, you don't get a good
• 27:20
  foot in this water. It's very cold and you start to
• 27:23
  splash erratically. Jeb, you make it to the other
• 27:27
  side absolutely fine with your crip.
• 27:30
  VV does the same. VV does the same.
• 27:33
  Rolling in 18. Retro hasn't tried to yet, but
• 27:36
  Vendel and Iona in the water are a little stuck.
• 27:42
  You can hear a growling under the water.
• 27:45
  Oh no, Iona, there's more than one.
• 27:49
  I'm thinking I'm thinking I'll grab.
• 27:52
  Your aid. Rachel, are you doing anything
• 27:54
  in this moment? I am.
• 27:55
  Let me think, please. Could you let me fucking think
• 27:59
  for a moment? Jesus Christ, I know I'm also
• 28:03
  thinking. No, I can't do that shit.
• 28:09
  I've got it. I will continue to splash and
• 28:17
  kick as much as I can to make a distraction.
• 28:20
  So Vendel, make it across what iota?
• 28:23
  And then no, if and when said monster comes for me, oh, I'm
• 28:30
  going to do my best to pull one of the fool hoods out, OK, and
• 28:38
  slide it over its muzzle. That's brilliant.
• 28:42
  Wow. Roll Athletics for Vendel and
• 28:45
  something for yourself. All right, buddy.
• 28:49
  Athletics. There you go.
• 28:51
  It's a little slightly better. It's slightly better, but the
• 28:54
  combination of both of those and the gift you gave by distracting
• 28:57
  the monster means Vendel gets to the other side.
• 29:01
  OK, Iona quickly. You, on the other hand, are now
• 29:05
  being approached by a shadow water.
• 29:09
  Don't. Don't.
• 29:11
  Don't. Don't, don't.
• 29:12
  Don't. OK, I think I know what I want
• 29:14
  to do. I'm going to use my grapple arm,
• 29:20
  which I think I have 10. Yeah, I have enough length to
• 29:26
  grapple to the opposite floor, well to the opposite side, and
• 29:33
  use that, use the retract motion to drag me along.
• 29:39
  So I'm like water skiing over the water, at the same time
• 29:42
  reaching my other hand out to grab Iona to pull them along.
• 29:47
  Sounds. Good, so as this is happening.
• 29:51
  And I just I just do it so. Yeah, but you roll stuff.
• 29:54
  Oh, I. Don't have to roll for it, I
• 29:56
  just do it. That's not how a role-playing
• 29:59
  game works. Oh.
• 30:02
  I mean, sometimes it is. It's literally it's literally a
• 30:05
  role-playing game. Retro, you rolled 33.
• 30:09
  Your grapple arm flies across the room, rolling 33.
• 30:13
  It actually hits the console on the other side.
• 30:17
  Iona. You're attacked by a beast under
• 30:19
  the water, and Retro grabs you and you're dragged over as the
• 30:25
  grapple hand releases from the computer.
• 30:27
  A drawbridge gets released as you press the drawbridge release
• 30:31
  button, and as it shunts across the area, it catches a piece of
• 30:37
  the beast and it slices off a piece of with its tail and blood
• 30:40
  spurts across the top of the drawbridge.
• 30:45
  That was gross. You're right, Ayona.
• 30:52
  I but I lost one of the hoods. Well.
• 30:57
  We made it across that drawbridge in here.
• 31:01
  That's weird. Well, I mean, we are storming
• 31:04
  the castle. We are storming the castle.
• 31:10
  Everybody OK. Yeah, I think I'm all right.
• 31:13
  Yeah. I feel great, I'll say.
• 31:15
  I've got a little bit of a work out there, kind of stretched my
• 31:17
  arms. It was good.
• 31:19
  It's not bad. Well, let's continue to.
• 31:24
  Spectacles, Testicles, Wallet, Watch.
• 31:27
  Got it. Rock'n'roll, cowboy.
• 31:31
  Well, you're speaking my language now.
• 31:36
  You 2 do. I go up to the door.
• 31:39
  Roll perception. I will percept, I will do said
• 31:43
  perception. I don't know.
• 31:45
  Just like killing it with knowing where buttons are today.
• 31:48
  Yeah. 15 is the DV You can hear a hum from the other side.
• 31:55
  Is it electronic or melodic? It is electronic.
• 31:59
  So it sounds like. It's more.
• 32:15
  On the other side of the door. Weapons out.
• 32:19
  You got it. OK.
• 32:22
  Breach and clear. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm a bolt in.
• 32:27
  All right, kick the door open. Yeah.
• 32:30
  Oh, it's locked. Oh, my foot.
• 32:36
  Oh my. Foot OK, it's unlocked.
• 32:37
  Now you can do. This.
• 32:38
  All right. I kicked the door open.
• 32:40
  Yeah. Kick the door open and the room
• 32:42
  is filled with an eerie green light and they're strapped to a
• 32:46
  machine. At the very far end of the room
• 32:49
  is a giant mass of metal and flesh.
• 32:52
  This stretched, reconstituted human face looks you in your
• 32:57
  eyes and smiles. It sends a shiver up your spine.
• 33:02
  I was wondering how long it would take you to get here, you
• 33:10
  humans. Abbot.
• 33:13
  Can only hold. Me back for SO.
• 33:14
  Long and all they. Sent was this Oh.
• 33:18
  Jeez. There was no one else.
• 33:21
  We were the only options. Well, this is what the others
• 33:29
  are scared of. Five humans.
• 33:40
  All this effort, all this work to get down here.
• 33:46
  What are you all looking for? Shut the fuck up.
• 33:52
  Yeah, you telling boss? What do you need from this
• 33:58
  damned place? That's what the others don't
• 34:07
  know. But it matters not, because I'm
• 34:14
  going to kill you and bury your body at the bottom of the ocean.
• 34:22
  This place shall be your grave, you know that.
• 34:25
  What? It already would have been if I
• 34:30
  had full control. But that damn damage has been
• 34:33
  pushing back at me. I swear, I've killed her.
• 34:38
  I sent green drones to her, and then you fucked those up.
• 34:43
  But those are just drones. Now You have to go up against
• 34:46
  me. Oh, it's green because he's like
• 34:51
  a frog? No.
• 34:53
  Now, were you named frog because you were green, or is you know
• 34:57
  which came first, the chicken or the egg?
• 34:59
  No, cowboy, it's an AI thing. And honestly, I thought that the
• 35:06
  custodian would have taken you out, but it seems like you dealt
• 35:13
  with that problem. No matter.
• 35:17
  I'll just kill you myself. Roar for initiative.
• 35:25
  Oh fuck. Well, looks like we're going to
• 35:28
  have to totally fuck you up. Next time on no latency.
• 35:46
  Put your name on a VV. You know, I have a lot of things
• 35:49
  I need to keep track of. Toad's walk, Frog's Hawk.
• 35:52
  Go ahead and do that. I am going to take cover if
• 35:55
  that's all right. What about Jeb?
• 35:56
  Jeb's out there, right? What else am I good for really?
• 35:59
  I'm right here with you, Vendel. It sounds like a plan.
• 36:01
  Pretty good plan, Jeb. I'm just kidding.
• 36:04
  They're just batteries. They're like double ice.
• 36:06
  Exactly. I'm taking tactical cover.
• 36:08
  I also can't see I'm not in there.
• 36:10
  Should I? Also, shoot the creepy husk.
• 36:13
  Maybe you should be an Angel of mercy.
• 36:15
  Or an Angel of death. Your choice.
• 36:17
  You decided to shoot the one that can dodge bullets?
• 36:19
  Frog I. Mean that's on you?
• 36:21
  I have incendiary rounds. It smells like clove cigarettes.
• 36:25
  Oh man, nothing is scarier than just directly telling us that
• 36:29
  It's scary. It's all in the hips.
• 36:32
  I like it. I like it a lot.
• 36:34
  Shooting from the hip, it makes me feel powerful.
• 36:36
  All right, you take a shot and then I'll.
• 36:38
  I didn't see what happened. Still feeling froggy?
• 36:40
  Let's jump. Oh.
• 36:41
  Holy shit. I assume it was that.
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