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Last time on no latency. You look different, I'll.
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Take my chances. Oh my God, didn't even see it
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back there. I, I know I've, I'm really
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stealthy today. Not very fashionable for a
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vampire. He's just gone full super
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villain Jeb. There is a computer over here.
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Can't hurt, you know. I arm myself.
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Whoops, I immediately throw it at.
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Him damn bridge and glare. They were good when they seemed
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interesting. It didn't have to be this way
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these. Are about you get crazy.
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Oh no. But you chose.
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Oh boy. No.
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Thank you, thank you. I don't usually make my shots,
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so that felt good. Get them.
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And you chose poorly. I'm sorry, Doctor Glass, I don't
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know what to do. Are you sure we shouldn't lack?
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I don't know. He's dead, Jeb.
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Eternal life really had a limited time offer on.
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It he's gone. I'm not going to drink that
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blood off the ground. It's the reason for the season.
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Sounds good, Jeb. Network 54 with the Daily Night
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City with April Anonymous and Harry Hayden Packer.
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Hello Night City. I'm April Anonymous and this is
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Network 54. This city size relief this
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November as the Halloween Werewolf Killer has been found
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with loose ties to XNCPDPI Detective Ralco, who was found
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dead and red after attacking A Ripper dock in Pacifica.
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Clues and a trail of blood lead Night City authorities to the
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remains of the real Werewolf killer, Ralco's accomplice, a
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once part time hot dog vendor Arthur Flonum, now also
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deceased. The case has been closed by the
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NCPD with some help from Biotechnica.
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Someone was left red, but this time it wasn't ketchup.
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No further comment was offered. When asked if we should expect
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less cyber wolf man psycho like dangers in our city streets, PR
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agent for the NCPD Sergeant Bella Copper stated no comment
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and left me on red. What a bitch.
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Locals say a guy with ATV for a head, a doctor, a ball and a
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Birdman saved some of the victims during this rampage of
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woven October duos. No leads on these Halloween
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costume heroes whereabouts or where they may have disappeared
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to at time of this broadcast. More as it develops.
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In other news, the season is upon us and soon Shelf will be
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stocked with products for you to buy to hold up our failing and
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unfair economy. Part of this broadcast is
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sponsored by Mimic. Mimic get something else to do
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it. The nights are getting colder
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and I'm getting bolder. Someone is getting the cold
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shoulder Max in our city Night City here on Network 54.
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Harry my Co host will be after this with the weather.
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I'm April anonymous. This is network 54.
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We'll be right back after these seasonal messages.
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Fate. History of the stock.
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It's the moment be. Responsible October has passed.
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It's been about a week since you've been at Doctor Glass's
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apartment. His penthouse you left in ruin
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with access to the computer. You had enough time to use fresh
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to delete any record of you being there, and since Retro
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rolled so well on the elevator, you're able to leave with almost
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no trace whatsoever. The only Pi that was interested
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was Roscoe anyway. That's true.
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Did. VV Go.
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Through with this cat. Yes, OK.
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Yes, VV did get some new cyberware installation.
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So Phoebe now has permanent that is, they can only.
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Sell. The fan art digital.
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Ones. Or they double up like those two
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cats that have 4 ears. Oh my.
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Gosh yes do they? Do you have 4 ears now or?
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They are amplified. They are classed as amplified
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hearing. They cost you 450 eddies for the
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installation and they give you plus one to wardrobe and style.
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Cool. It's only one D6 to roll against
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your humanity. Please roll.
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Oh. It's stuff that they do at the
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mall, like Claire's. Awareness where is.
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Actually you. Humanity loss three.
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You got maximum humanity loss. Cheers.
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Shit. It's only three though, we'll be
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fine. It adds +2 to your perception
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skill with checks that include hearing.
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He installed a cyber audio suite for free.
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Oh, did you go for therapy too? No, sorry, I I accidentally
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clicked on the human. You want to.
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Go for therapy, you can count. It if you want.
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It's expensive. I think VV is going to need some
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therapy, especially after not just with the cyber ears, but
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what happened with Doctor Glass I think has kind of messed her
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up mentally. So I think VV is going to go go,
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go, go get some therapy. All right.
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Did you do regular therapy or extreme therapy?
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You definitely went with sore tooth.
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Sore tooth. You got a therapist for if you
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want. Extreme.
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It always makes me laugh. Extreme therapy is expensive,
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but it will with that role give you and.
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Sorry, how much it was? You said it was 350 eddies. 450
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eddies for the ears installation and the actual hardware itself.
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Pretty good deal actually. One thing about Rudy that you
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found out is that prices are very reasonable.
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They they, everybody who gets cyber usually gets more than
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one. So if your guy was good, you'll
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go back. So he ends up making more money
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in the end. What's the rate for extreme
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therapy? In our world, have anything from
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1000 to 1500? I'll go for regular therapy.
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All right, that's 700 eddies. Seven.
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OK, let's let's go with Rick. Let's just stick to the regular.
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Regular therapy all right you regain 5 you talk to source
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tooth it's a really nice conversation he's.
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Also a therapist, bless him. He's like got every level
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doctor. Theory.
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He's not your record doc anymore if you want to read Rudy.
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What level? How many levels of doctor are
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there? Because he's everyone.
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Sawtooth is a level 7 doctor. I believe so.
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You gain. 5 back and you walk into the bar refreshed, smelling
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of saline for the next day or so.
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Unfortunately. Oh no, you didn't do extreme
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therapy. Never mind, you do.
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Not smell. But you now have upon your head
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a pair of ears that light up and give you +2 to checks with
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hearing. You have to remember that I
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would write it down. Hey guys.
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Hello. Oh, look at your ears.
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What? I ended up going back to what's
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his name and I got myself some new cyberwear.
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Permanent cat ears. I'm one step closer to becoming
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Danger Gal themself. Wow.
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Well. Meow they look good.
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Yeah, thanks. Meow.
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Wow. I think that's that's better.
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I should sit there. I think it goes with the whole
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look you know? I mean IAA Dr. with cat ears and
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colorful hair and a cute gun like style over substance.
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Do they still have? Their.
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Style I can I can hear a little better something you you.
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You kind of you kind of feel your way into them mentally and
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they turn on a little light. So you have a hands free light
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now as well? I got a light, I look better.
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So I think you know, if somebody if we need to do some get into a
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club or something, I should be the face.
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I I agree. I.
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Mean I you are one of the faces. Did anyone else go to Rudy?
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Never heard of him. The guy we met the Ripper duck
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with the five dead people in the lobby.
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With the we shot. That Pi.
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Oh, oh, I remember him. Yeah, the.
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RIP Duck that installed all the Wolvers on Doctor Glass.
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And yeah, the other guy who died.
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He sounds maybe problematic. No, no, he didn't know.
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He didn't know. What he's?
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Just. A guy, we can't make a judgement
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on that. He didn't have any context, it
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was just someone giving him money to do his job.
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I. Suppose that's true.
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Maybe. Also he he seemed really nice
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and his map was really cool. OK, if he seems cool, he's
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probably fine. I didn't see another Ripper doc,
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but I did he did he. Spoke to him.
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No, I meant I didn't go and see Rudy.
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Oh, I see what you mean. Sorry I I misunderstood.
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I didn't go and see a Ripper dock.
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I did make a a a minor augmentation to my cyber arm.
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Yeah, what'd you do? So a while back I had found a a
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heavy pistol, the Magnum opus Hellbringer, Yeah, And I decided
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I wanted to install it into my arm as a, as a concealable
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weapon slash shoot from my arm. Oh cool, sure.
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Would you like? Me to roll for that.
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Yes, I do. Yes, please do roll for.
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That says Vandel. That sounds cool.
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Upgrade 24. Yeah, that's very high.
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That's literally incredible. And you raise your arm and the
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barrel of the gun comes out and then slips back in.
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It can hold three shots but has the same damage as the Opus can,
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only has a rat of R1. Luckily though, because my body
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is 10 it doesn't have the jamming problem.
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Reloading that requires removing the barrel from your arm.
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It is not a simple task. You have to do that out of
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combat. Fair enough.
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Please mark that down as well. I'm doing it right now but it
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took me all week to do this. It took him the entire week, but
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you look at this cool arm gun thing and it is cool.
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Cool. Arm thing is cool more and I.
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I'm ever closer to becoming Alex Murphy.
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It's just sitting around the map table.
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You have these two points. Now you have a point at the
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Hillview and a point at the biotechnical building.
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Domino comes up the stairs. Hey.
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Domino. Good afternoon Vivi.
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Your work at the Hillview and some of the other events that
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happened over October were valiant, but I'm worried that
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we're getting a little bloody. Getting a little bloody, like in
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general, like just like being kind of violent and all of that.
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Yes. Yeah.
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It doesn't look good to leave a trail of bodies.
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That's a good point. I would agree we.
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Should do our best to mitigate that in the future.
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You hear that, gang? We can't.
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Well, means it. Can't.
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We shouldn't just kill everything on site.
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I don't think we'd do that. I mean we at least give it some
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sight and then decide to kill it.
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It's true, a lot of people in Height city are just very
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hostile to be so real. Yeah, that's true.
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I mean, I feel like most of the time that they aren't giving us
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much of A choice. You.
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Know like I saw them reaching. Well, your next task to install
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the final transponder. Hopefully we'll acquire less
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violence. Well, I mean, if they resist and
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we're going to shoot them, that's just how it goes.
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No, I just recommend you don't do it because I'm sending you to
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the NCU. Oh, not City University.
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It's right there on the coast, in the University District on
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the West side of my city. Just here.
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So where in NCU are we installing?
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Somewhere higher up I'm on top of the library.
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Library trip. Well, I do like libraries, you
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know, I I my reading comprehension isn't super high
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to be honest with you all, but I do like looking at the pictures.
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Jeff, weren't you just talking about a library card?
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Well, yeah, I like I said, I like to look at the pictures and
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there's a lot more you can do with the library.
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That's what I'm saying. We should get everybody else a
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library card. That's a great idea.
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And I'll, I mean, I just really like the vibe of a library.
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You know, it's nice and quiet. You can focus on whatever you
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want to focus on. And, you know, sometimes it's
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good to kind of get away and be surrounded by people who are,
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for the most part, helpful. That's wonderful.
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I'm glad you have a a place of peace, Jeb.
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Do you still have your? Library card VV I do actually.
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From your student days. Yeah, I wonder if it expired.
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No, it's not that long ago. Yeah, I still have mine.
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Cool, hopefully you don't have any late fees.
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Late fees for VV Late VS. Ha ha.
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So we so we just have to install the transponder transponder.
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I went, I went Swedish for the reason.
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So we only have to just install somewhere like high up like on
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top. Of the library, yes.
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How do we get it through the library?
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That you'll have to work out. Vivi is familiar with the
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campus. I believe Retro is too, at least
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for a few classes. What?
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Yeah. Sorry, I was polished in my
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Canon, I didn't know what what's going on.
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We're installing a transponder at the university library, and
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you and I probably are the most savvy.
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I got library fines. I don't know if I can do this.
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Oh, it's fine. Don't.
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Worry they don't recognize. Oh we just pay our fees.
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We should probably pay our fines to the library anyway.
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How much could it be? I still cut to library.
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Night City. If you look at a map of North
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America, somewhere on the western edge you'd see an inky
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black dot with fingers pressing into the side of the continent.
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That's where you find Night City.
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And somewhere in the middle of that inky black dot is a giant
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smoking hole, like the universe itself drew iron and shot
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straight through the city. Radiation turned the sky red.
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But our story starts a little further South, in a dive bar the
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shortstop. Welcome to Night City and
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welcome to Cyberpunk Edge of Extinction.
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Infinite Sided Dice presents Cyberpunk Edge of Extinction, a
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Cyberpunk Red actual play. Watch now at youtube.com slash
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at Infinite Sided Dice catch you later chums.
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I've arrived outside in the university quad.
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There's this little courtyard area just off the street.
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It's got a holographic fountain that makes no noise but
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illuminates the centre area quite nicely.
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There are a few sets of orange benches here in the courtyard in
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front of you. To the north there is the
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faculty office, to the North East is a bathroom building, and
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to your West is the large library building for the NCU.
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It is pretty late though, so to your very E there is a sign to
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the lecture halls, but that area is closed.
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Well, obviously we can't go to the lecture halls guys.
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They've got a little placard like stand up that says close
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for cleaning. Damn it.
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Sorry guys, can't go there. Got to respect the school rules.
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Yeah, I do. I respect higher.
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I respect institutions of higher learning.
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I never got to go myself, but as we now don't respect people that
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took time out of their lives to try to get smarter, you know,
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that's good for them. Well, I mean.
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We don't need to go to the lecture halls anyways, right now
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we're headed to the library. We just probably had a.
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Role perception, Anybody who wants to look around as you walk
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through. My old stomping grounds.
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Let's see what's changed. 18. Very good.
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Retro You fall into the holographic fountain and somehow
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still get wet. Well, they never clean it out,
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right? It's still there's still like
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actual rainwater in there. Roll.
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Me AD 6. Hope you don't get a 10.
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Great rolling, rolling like fire tonight.
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Five, it is not urine. That's good God.
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Vivi, on the other hand, rolls an 18 on perception and you look
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around and there are these four sets of benches and it looks
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like there are sort of four different things going on on
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each of these benches. To your W, you have two people
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A, they seemed like they're on a date.
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Doesn't look like it's going very well.
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To your right to the east, there's a group of four students
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all sitting around a bench in a very cool college kind of way.
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You know, they're sitting on the back of it, that kind of thing,
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and then looking over to the northwest and muttering to each
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other. To your northeast there is 2
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tombs. One of them's looking really
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timid with big, big spectacles on, and the other one looks like
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a kind of a fashion Easter and they're having a conversation.
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Doesn't seem to be going well for the nerd.
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And finally, to your northwest, with the attention of the gaggle
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of students to your right, you see someone who has chained
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themselves to a bench here in the courtyard with a bunch of
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signs around them and put a piece of duct tape over their
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mouth. Oh, is this some sort of
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protest? Some kind of protest I'm.
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Curious. I'll just kind of take a a
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gander over toward the protesting student just to see
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what it's all about. I will go with you.
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I, owner and VV head over to the protesting student.
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As you get closer, you can see there are signs that are
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complaining about the budget cuts to the library and the new
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administration and how they're dealing with university funds
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and resources. I climb out of the fountain.
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I I'm just as ignore that here. I'm from funnies going on on one
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of the sides retro climbs up I'm.
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Just sitting over here as I was in college originally, nobody
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even laughed. That's sad.
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Well, you told us not to laugh at you last time.
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We can't do anything right. Welcome to live Fendale.
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Oh damn, help getting out of the fountain.
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Here you go. Thank you.
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OK, so there's some issues with budget cuts and funding and
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things at the library. OK, nothing new.
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What are they doing to the library?
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Why would you put duct tape over your mouth?
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If you were going to respond to questions, why would you do
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that? Did somebody else do that for
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you? Did somebody else put that over
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your mouth? Sounds like they did it
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themselves. Would you like us to take the
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duct tape off? They nod all.
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Right, well, there you go. I latex my myself up.
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Excuse me? I take a step back.
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They shake the heck they they, they roll perception.
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Let's see if you can, you can read their what they're trying
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to say to you. Oh.
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My gosh, sorry, one second I'm going to pull that back.
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Up. Oh, you have?
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Enhanced hearing. You could probably understand it
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right? Oh right, I do have enhanced
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hearing. Wow.
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It came in handy already. I know, it's crazy.
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Isn't it? 22?
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Yes. The exasperation you heard was
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the student going, oh, that was cool because the the mechanism
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for the latex glove was really cool.
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Oh great. OK, I'll RIP the duct tape off.
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How? How?
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Oh, that's one way to get rid of a moustache.
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I suppose I wanted, but thanks, honey.
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Please tell what? Call me honey.
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OK. A.
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A. A simple MAM will do.
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OK, ma'am, honey is the new slang.
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Right now I call everybody honey.
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Who's cool? Oh stick with ma'am for me
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please. What are they doing to the
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library? Well, they're cutting bunch.
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They've they've cut a bunch of budget cuts.
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They've cut a bunch of money from the library budget.
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The the access to the book room is, is heavily restricted now
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and you have to get like a professor's approval.
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And for some reason, even though we're in budget cuts, the
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university's just put out for a huge insurance policy on all of
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the books, but they weren't letting anyone touch them.
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What's the point? What I was, what am I paying
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for? I'm going to be in debt for
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three lifetimes. Just be a doctor.
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This is what I signed up for. They changed the Dean after I
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joined the university. This guy's a prick.
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It's like I'm reliving my own previous years prior years.
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Do you know who Dean Grindwall is?
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Is he new? Do I know who that is?
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He was your least favorite teacher.
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He was not Dean. While you ain't here, he's the
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Dean. Do I know him?
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He went from professor to Dean. He's also your least favorite
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teacher. He was such an asshole.
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Oh, I hated that guy. He's he was a professor.
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Oh, Oh yeah, that was the that was the guy that like gave
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everybody homework but never but like was like you have to write
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an essay and but never told you what it what what the essay
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needed to be on. Yeah, and then he never even
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read them. He just he would give an.
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English professor ever. Yeah, how do you, how do you
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know all this retro well? I I went to school here too.
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Oh, right, like. I have two of my degrees come
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from it come from Night City. Well, OK, so he's the Dean now,
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which, yeah, that does suck. There was that rumor that he
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took a bribe from a rich student a few years ago so they could
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pass. What?
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Well they've been saying that for years.
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I just thought he was such a great ass kisser that eventually
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he got it. Yeah, the last team retired
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early. Why?
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Moved into a really nice apartment, got loads of money
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for somehow. Mm hmm.
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Mm hmm. You know, I do seem to remember
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him constantly saying that he could make this place much
25:50
better than the way that it's run.
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Always saying things like how bigly and how great everything
25:57
was. Yeah, also he smells and I don't
26:02
like him. Got him.
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Hey, tell it how it is, you know?
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That's what else you're. Saying Is that First Amendment?
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Right specific smell. An annoying boy.
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Man. He does smell like old man and
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farts. Yeah, like Ben Gay.
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Yeah. Bengay.
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Yeah, yeah, the the, the muscle. Yeah, the therapy stuff.
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Icy Hot stuff. It smells like a really bad
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version of Old Spice. With cinnamon in it.
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Sullen. Pass Also icy, icy warm, you
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know, Yeah. Anyway, that's what I'm
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protesting, that I've I I've already paid my tuition and now
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they're changing the goal posts and it's not.
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It's not fair and they paid for stooping stupid observation
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drones that fly around all the time.
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One man out of battery and hit me on the head.
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That's bad. You could probably sue for that.
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No, I signed an NDA thingy. Oh, that makes we.
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All have to sign NDA. When we come in, there's like a
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whole. On campus they don't give a
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shit. That kind of stuff.
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Yeah, by by stepping into the campus you technically sign an
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NDA, but you can't sue them anymore.
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It's been written into the bylaws of Knight City.
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Yeah, that that hologram isn't water.
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It's fine print. Literally, you can read it,
27:24
yeah. Also, my name is Sandra E.
27:28
Sandra E. Nice to meet you, Sandra E Can I
27:32
call you Sandy? True.
27:35
And I'll sound like tied to a bench and I'm I'm, I'm here to
27:38
fight the man. Yeah, why tie yourself to the
27:41
bench if you're going to fight the man?
27:43
Because they don't like it when you tie things to things.
27:46
So I did it anyway. Why would you tie yourself to
27:49
it? I mean, to be honest, if you're
27:51
here to fight the man and you want to protest and so forth
27:53
like that, tying yourself to the bench doesn't really do anything
28:00
except stop anybody else from potentially needing to use the
28:03
bench and also like prevents you from actively being able to do
28:09
an action to stop them from doing it.
28:11
You have literally chained prisoned yourself to said bench.
28:15
Do you even have like somebody to bring you water and food and
28:18
stuff or have a key to unlock you?
28:20
Yeah, my boyfriend. And where is he?
28:23
He's going to be back tomorrow morning.
28:25
I'm doing a sitting. I'm getting I'm.
28:27
Getting more people aware of it. Hey, I'm not not to be that guy,
28:30
but like, what on you? It sure did.
28:34
You know about it now. Can you help us?
28:37
Do you have money? No.
28:40
Do I look like I have money? A little I just have a way.
28:46
I you know what, there are a few things I would like to say, but
28:49
I just, I'm not going to because it just feels mean and isn't
28:52
going to be helpful. Thank you SO.
28:56
What do you do next? I guess we get into the library.
29:03
Sure. There's way at the Bay is the
29:06
protest. This is not helpful.
29:11
Retro just leave it. You know, you know how, you know
29:14
how students are. Yes, we all think that we know
29:17
the world and then once we get in the world realize Oh no,
29:20
everything is not how we thought it could be.
29:23
Yeah, but don't break the bubble.
29:24
It was nice while we were in higher education, they.
29:27
Need to know now let. Them let them know.
29:31
I don't know. I've never been.
29:33
I've never been to a higher education.
29:35
Yes, we know, Jeb. OK, wait, is that obvious?
29:40
No comment. That's a smart thing to say.
29:46
Thanks, Jeb. Do you open the door to the
29:49
library? Yeah.
29:52
Cool. OK.
30:01
You step into a large open room. There are a bunch of tables set
30:07
up for people to do their various university work.
30:12
While they're here. A bunch of different people sat
30:15
at them. You can try and see if you see
30:17
anything in those people in a second.
30:19
On the wall to the North and South are a bunch of cabinets
30:23
filled with little digital storage disks full of tons of
30:29
medical information. General information, genuinely
30:33
using local expert or any kind of look up in this room gives
30:38
you a + 4. This library is very detailed on
30:41
its digital side for medical students.
30:46
However, any of the books, because of licensing, can only
30:49
be used by one student at a time, so it does cause some
30:52
problem causing some students have to stay up really late for
30:55
long waiting lists. To your N is a large glass wall.
31:01
In the middle of the wall there's a large glass panel, and
31:04
through it you can see shelves upon shelves of actual real.
31:10
Books. Sealed in a special room, you
31:15
can see rows and rows of books. And you know, Vivi, that this is
31:21
one of the largest collections of books in the entire city.
31:25
Not just medical textbooks, but books of note.
31:28
There's even a First Folio in there.
31:30
It's a pretty good collection and it's one of the things that
31:33
the university borrows against when it needs money because it
31:36
has that much value. Wow, holy shit, is that the
31:39
Gutenberg Bible? Yeah, look, this, this, this
31:51
library, actually, it has a lot. It's, I guess, one of the crown
31:59
jewels of Knight City University.
32:02
I mean, yeah, it's, it's very rare to have a book where the
32:06
saviour of the religion is Steve Guttenberg.
32:11
Absolutely. The librarian looks at you.
32:13
I. Help you.
32:22
We weren't expecting interaction with them.
32:29
No, we're just browsing student. Here or alumni or.
32:35
Alumni. Can I see your your card?
32:39
Oh no, yeah, he he's an alumni too.
32:43
Cool, can I see both your cards? Here's my library card.
32:51
OK. And she she's really peppy.
32:53
She seems cute and fun. She's got a little ponytail that
32:56
bounces up a bit, like somebody who's really into horses.
32:59
She's so petty. She's great.
33:02
She scans your card and you. Maybe make that noise that
33:07
mechanics make? Excuse me?
33:13
You know when you're at the mechanic and they open their
33:15
engine and they look at something expensive and they go,
33:18
that's what I just did because I looked at how much is on this
33:21
list. I think you said I thought you
33:23
miss Mechanic in a different way.
33:25
My bad. No.
33:27
What other way is there? Mechanics are the game that
33:29
we're playing. I've rolled a. 900.
33:32
Eddies. 900 Eddies. I turn my head and go, yeah.
33:42
How is that possible? Well, you still have a copy of
33:51
Martin Shorts Anatomy for Dummies.
33:54
Oh, that's a. Good.
33:56
One, I took that out freshman year.
33:58
Come on. Well, and you held onto it for a
34:02
year and a half and here in the notes because you liked the
34:05
forward. It was funny.
34:10
I can't believe you take these notes on when I take out books
34:13
all right, all right, all right, all right.
34:15
I'm. Really sorry, I shouldn't do
34:17
that, should you? No, no, no, I'm just kidding.
34:20
No, that was hilarious. All right, 900 eddies.
34:26
OK, Can we do? I just went to therapy and it
34:29
was really expensive. Can we do some sort of payment
34:33
plan? It is at this moment that you
34:35
get payment for putting in the transponder for Domino and you
34:39
make. You all make.
34:41
That's not a law, but it is a decent amount.
34:47
You make it. You all make 1000 eddies each.
34:48
Oh. There goes, Oh yeah, look at
34:53
that. Well, there goes all of my 90%
34:58
of my funds from our most recent job.
35:03
All right, I'm pay. I mean, I'm going to pay this
35:05
debt. I'm not.
35:05
I'm not having a library debt over my head.
35:08
Oh, that means I can I can give you back your library
35:10
privileges. Oh, the.
35:13
Only thing over your head is going to be those years.
35:17
They are cute. And they've already come in
35:18
handy, so. You know, if if you just want to
35:22
pay it straight up, that's fine with me.
35:23
Just swipe your card. All right, all right, all right.
35:26
I'm just going to pay it. All right, you pay 900 eddies
35:29
and now you have full access to the NCU library.
35:33
Retro. Do you scan your card?
35:35
Well, yeah, they called me out already.
35:38
God damn it's easy. I really want to know.
35:40
Well I want to know retro. Owes I just rolled 14 retro owes
35:48
1400. For what?
35:56
Who checked out the Gutenberg Pop?
36:10
Next time on no latency. A cleaning fee?
36:16
Excuse me? Yeah.
36:18
When you're old for flirting. Very, very smooth actually.
36:21
How's Thursday for you? Ben Dale, did you take notes?
36:24
Asking for a favor has a different connotation.
36:26
I don't know that I've ever seen a more successful flirt.
36:29
I don't mean to say this in a mean way.
36:30
You are a serial dater. I date on occasion.
36:33
Yeah, I was I. Don't smoke unless it's I have a
36:36
pipe I. Think they're going to burn down
36:38
the library? Pretty evident as soon as we
36:40
found out they took out an insurance policy.
36:42
That's the new Dean. I'm invigorated with the
36:46
knowledge that surrounds me. I was.
36:48
Just looking forward to looking at more of those fun picture
36:51
books on the back. And now I'm going to take off my
36:53
gloves and burn them so. What's everyone's social credit
36:55
looking like? More fines.
36:57
See me in the streets and they say hey, it's jam and I'm like.
36:59
I'm going to go eavesdrop, frankly.
37:02
What? What are we taking?
37:04
OK, we got a little bit of time. This guy isn't exactly the
37:06
brightest, is he? Do they have them here?
37:09
Hey Ram's head, let me ask you a question.
37:11
The originals. That's worth a lot of money.
37:14
Yeah, it is poo, poo, pee, pee, Dicks and
37:38
birds. Nice.
37:40
How much could it be cut to library?
37:45
That's a great ad break. That's just a great ad break.
37:48
That's where it is, but that area is closed because I haven't
37:54
made the map yet. Well, obviously we can't go to
37:58
the lecture halls guys. They've got a little placard
38:00
like stand up that says close for cleaning.
38:03
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