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This time, on no latency side Quest, Phoebe's got a job in a
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storm. I have experience, so that's
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good. From a new fixer played by Diana
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of the Rose. I'm Bridge and then also hello
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to the rest of you. With returning friends Chris
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Stormbeard. Hi Miss Bridge, how you doing?
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Hello. And Lamar, the conga.
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Dev, Do you Remember Me? Baby OH.
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Yes. Up Devin They all meet for a job
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on a stormy evening a. Normal thing to see out in
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public. Client requires medical
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container picked up and delivered to the corporate
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district. But things never go to plan.
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Oh my. God so.
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I got them. I got them, yeah.
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They'll have to improvise. Cool guys don't look at
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explosion. This is legally distinct Fast
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and Furious. And make some hard choices.
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Don't let it get hurt. Because this job they're really
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going to take to heart. Shall we begin?
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So saw how's the new cyberwear? Oh, Miss Phoebe.
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It's awesome. You you got to see it in action.
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I can't wait. I can't wait to show you.
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So you have used it already? Hopefully not for like fighting
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people. Maybe just practice, right?
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I mean, a show got a little wild and I had to whip it out and
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even on stage, I, I let, I let the blade come out a little bit
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and it, and it hits the strings on the guitar and it, it makes
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the most vile, grotesque sound. It's amazing.
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And that's a good thing, right? Oh, it's a fantastic thing,
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yeah. OK, well, I'm glad that it's
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working out for you. And if there's any issues with
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the installment, just give me a call.
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And just make sure you know, as with all cyberwear, when you get
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it installed, it does take a toll on your, you know, your
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mental health and. Like.
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I'm feeling a little cold, more than usual, a little like when a
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fight breaks out, I'm, I'm more willing to like, get in there
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versus like standing, standing back.
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I want to use it. I, I, I want, I want to, you
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know. That is the tried and true side
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effect of cyberwear, especially ones of the more violent nature.
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So just be careful if you need to talk to people, make sure you
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seek out therapy to get yourself in the right mindset.
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So you don't, you know, just break out and just.
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Start a pee. Yeah, yeah.
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That, that is the thing where you could talk to somebody about
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how you're feeling and these are like licensed people who can
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help you feel better. It's very important that you
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seek that out after getting cyberware installed is what I'm
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saying. But.
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I just like, I just go to these people and I talk to them about
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like like shredding the guitar and have everyone mosh in and it
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makes me feel good and stuff like that.
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And it's like, do you ever had like maybe a conflict with one
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your bandmates and you need to talk about it with somebody
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that's not them or like you're not sure how to approach the
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situation? They can help.
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It's very important. OK, Miss Vivi.
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OK, Look, I if I'm feeling, if I'm still feeling cold, you
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know, in a couple of days, I don't know, like a week or so,
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then yeah, maybe maybe I'll talk to someone.
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But do you, do you think, do you think Miss Amyophistophiles is a
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therapist? They do say that pets are, you
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know, helpful, but as a doctor? I talk to him all the time.
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I'm I'm sure you do so, but as a doctor I I am required to say
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that your cat is not a licensed therapist and you should
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probably talk to somebody. Oh, OK, OK.
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You hear a truck, A bath, parking.
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The parking lot behind the door opens and closes.
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There's a a cold chill in the air outside as the back door
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swings open. Looking through the back door,
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you can see a familiar face, Phoebe reading a message on his
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agent. You expect to visitors.
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I know, I know. I I didn't get, you know, the
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job for the bounce of the bubble cafe.
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But I can, I can, I can, I can get him out of here if you want.
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Wait a minute. I saw that.
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No, I I know him. Oh, what's his name?
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Dorvan. Devon.
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Devon. Devon.
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Devon. Yeah.
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And I just, like, go out the door and I start, like, waving.
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Hey Dev, do you do you Remember Me?
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Yes, Phoebe. Phoebe.
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Phoebe. Yes.
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Phoebe. Oh yes, Phoebe, the person that
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I definitely I definitely missed all so much.
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How have you been How's the family a bunch of things that
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I'm supposed to care about. How are all those wonderful
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details that I want to know? Yes, the.
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Crew is doing well, Criona is great and I didn't know that you
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were a bubble tea enthusiast. Oh, Oh yes, I.
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I have not seen you here before. Yes, because I actually am here
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to try out Bubble. I don't feel like like Vivi
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actually needs your goddamn help.
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You need help. Yes, I need your help.
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So Devon is going to look around, make sure like there's
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no one actively listening to him as he gets closer to Vivi.
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So you know how business is, you make a a few calls, you do a few
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things. Yeah, hopefully everyone does
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their job and then eventually they screw it up.
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Well, I have. Some parts that are not quite
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here or operational and I need one of two things, preferably
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both. I need access to a good mechanic
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and hopefully I hear that you might have the ends to someone
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who might be willing to invest in a little bit of money
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preemptively before the product is done.
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Does that sound like something someone of your particular skill
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set, caliber, and friendship having would be able to do for
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me today? And before VV can answer, we're
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going to move to a few blocks away where there's a fixer
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looking at that agent concerned. Oh man, OK I do have an internal
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agent. Is that fancy in any particular?
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Way. Yes, you are able to read this
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without looking at your agent if you so require OK.
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I'm kind of just staring straight ahead, but it it looks
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like I'm staring at a piece of art on a wall, which art is
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subjective. It's mostly a piece of graffiti
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that I've just thrown A-frame around for the sake of not
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wanting to repaint the walls again.
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Eyes are kind of darting back and forth over the same
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paragraphs over and over, and I'm just kind of muttering to
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myself. Bridge.
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I've done everything I can, but Calico is rejecting the organ.
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The drugs aren't helping. I can make them comfortable, but
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without treatment she will not last out the month.
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The only treatment left is Hemat 0 developed by Doctor Glass.
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The waiting list is a year long. Right now you'll have to grease
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some wheels if you want to save Calico's life.
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Let me know if you need anything.
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Don't worry, she's comfortable from Sawtooth.
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I just kind of like muttered in myself and then I don't suppose
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I have any connections to Doctor Glass at this moment.
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You don't. Currently, the only doctor you
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know in town is a a man named Sawtooth.
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He used to be a solo. He's a neat freak.
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He might be able to help you. He sent you this message.
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I'm. Going to run over to a couple
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blocks away to my favorite boba shop and just as best I can with
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an intense amount of sweetness to it in order to think for a
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second. Somewhere not as quiet as my
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current workshop. And take a walk through the
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streets. Do you want to make a phone call
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as you do? I will.
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I'll call Satu. Hello.
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How are you? Sawtooth buddy, tell me you were
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stretching the truth in the bad direction here with this
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message. This is a little.
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This is a lot. I might, I might be able to
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stretch her condition to three months, but honestly, like,
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that's the treatment at this stage.
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Organ rejection is a big deal. What is hemat 0 exactly?
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Is it a a a pill? Is it full on like some sort of
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new organ transplant method? That's that's the thing I've
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been trying to work out. I put some swingers out, but
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since it is a very like top secret, mostly corporate
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treatment, it is also extremely expensive.
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OK, you have any idea where to start if I wanted to get it the
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non expensive way? Well, you could try and like, I
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don't know, let me see what I can do.
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I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll just. Get right back.
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Just give me two minutes, I think I've got a lead.
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And he hangs up. OK, do you want any bubble tea
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while I'm out? You can just say no, I'll walk
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faster. After a few minutes receive
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another message still. Walking and not entirely
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walking, watching where I'm going.
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I my lips start moving again and I start muttering aloud.
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Fridge. Good news.
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Doctor Glass needs help. Rumor has it he needs a medical
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container moved. Hush.
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Tropic wires, a Med tech, a van and some muscle pays 12K all
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told. Doctor G must be desperate.
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Everyone has turned down the job due to the incoming weather.
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My chum VV should be game. I hear she hangs out at the
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Bubble Cafe. Tell her Sawtooth say contact
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this dead drop number to confirm the job details will follow from
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Sawtooth immediately. I'm going to instruct my agent
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to call that number or send a quick message.
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Just saying I accept with no further message.
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As a fixer, you know that the full details of the job will
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take a few minutes to receive, but it won't be long.
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And you walk into the Bubble Cafe I.
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Suppose I have any idea what BB might look like.
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You could ask at the desk. I'll upload the desk and kind of
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like stare up at the menu pretending like I don't know
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what I want even though I've ordered the same thing 10 times
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over and just instruct the person kind of working there
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just be like, hey, hi, our credit's still good, right?
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It's not, you know, it's the. All right.
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Yeah. Stellar.
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What do you. Yeah.
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Yeah, Bridge. What do you want?
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And Alex is the person who is behind the counter.
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You can see her name on her name badge, a name you should have
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remembered by now. Oh yeah, it's one of several.
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When it comes to the tier list of names to remember, a bubble
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tea worker is surprisingly high. Higher than you think.
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She's still not all that high. And can I?
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I'm looking for someone, VB I don't suppose.
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You're looking to. I don't.
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Suppose. For VB.
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Yeah, as well as some much extra sweet.
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You know the good stuff. I'll get Reeves on it, but.
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Reeves much extra sweet. Yeah, yeah.
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No, I've got this. Don't.
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Worry. You can see through a little
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hole in the wall. There's a just a tune in there.
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He's like juggling things and having his own time.
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No one's watching him. He's just having a great time.
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And why do you? Want baby, She says.
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I'm looking to work on something.
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You've got a lot of questions for someone who doesn't have a
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food handlers permit anymore here at the Bubble Cafe.
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Like to protect our investors. OK, gotcha.
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It's. If you want her to give you any
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more, you're going to have to roll for it.
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Roll Persuasion. OK.
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First roll. First roll let's.
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Go. It's never been good.
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I believe. I believe it's good.
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Don't go to switch tabs. You rolled at 20.
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Welcome. I'm very.
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Persuasive. They're giving me that matcha
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for free. They're giving me the next three
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for free. Yeah, she doesn't charge you for
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your drink. She smiles at you.
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Your normal jabbing that you do to each other is clear.
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She laughs as she passes you your drink.
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Sticks a straw in the top for you.
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Thanks. That's for asking for a favour.
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I get to do that, Phoebe, somebody here for you.
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Phoebe, who's just. Mid conversation with Devin.
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Just hold on Devin. Yes Oh, oh, oh, hello hi.
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Hey you are you a regular here? Because I usually know like all
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of the regulars so. The hair changes and then I kind
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of like walk up to the group immediately and just without
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asking to pull up a chair and sit down.
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I go as if to motion to stab a straw into the cup and then
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realize it's been done already. And so I just kind of push it in
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front of me. BB I I'm bridge hello and then
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also hello to the rest of you and stick my hand out this.
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Is my friend saw. Saw.
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Hello. Hi, Miss Bridge.
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How you doing? Good.
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I have a good relationship with people named Saw.
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We'll be friends. You know other people named Saw.
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I'll give or take some syllables.
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Don't. I didn't tell you about my doc
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my other doctor friend Sawtooth saw.
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It gets a little confusing, but that's all right.
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This is you guys should fight. No chance.
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This is my exec friend Devin. What's up, Devin?
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Pleasure. Hello Bridge, nice to meet you
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in such a lovely establishment as this it is.
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It is very lovely, you're right. It is very nice.
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Some workers are. Kind of rude, yes, I love it.
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Flip her off. She flips you off back and then
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sticks her finger in her drink and licks it.
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So, bridge, what is this proposal?
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So you know Sawtooth, he's got a job for I guess us now and it's
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pain. I, I lower my voice about 12 K
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where we need specifically a, a Med tech, a van, some firepower,
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some muscle, that sort of thing. And you might know about it
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already. Sawtooth directly sent me.
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I'm waiting on some details but OK, sounds good to you all.
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Not 12 K, OK. Is that is that 12,000?
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I believe so, last time I checked.
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That would be what K stands for in traditional colloquialism.
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There's also ketamine, but I don't know, it's been a while
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since I've seen any of that, if any.
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Well. K.
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Anyway, it seems as if we're lucky enough because I happen to
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have a van with me that I would like to make sure it gets back
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in one piece, but if I can possibly assist with said job, I
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believe that that would be of assistance.
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Sure, I love friends, and I mean, I guess maybe you're in
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charge here. I'm not the.
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Yes, I need to check with Sawtooth on what exactly he has
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signed me up for. We're we go, we go way back.
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Just just give me a moment. Real quick is Sawtooth the one
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that has a television for a head?
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Is that? No, that's retro.
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OK. You know a guy who's got a
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television for a head? Yes.
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Unfortunately, yes. Very skilled but confusing.
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It's. Well, Miss, Miss Bridge, you
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said you needed muscle, right? Yeah.
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Do you have that? She asks.
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And like does not look at your arms or your I'm not looking at
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you at all. Just dead in the eyes, sipping.
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My eyes. Spitting on one of the benches
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inside the Bubble Cafe and he just stands up and he is 6 foot
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eight, 300 lbs of just pure beef and he just cracks.
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Weirdly lean. Yes, yeah.
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And he just cracks the knuckles on his left hand.
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I, I I can do that. If there's one thing I'm good at
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besides playing guitar and singing about dead corpo fucks,
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it's muscle. I like you already.
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I I also did just install a chain RIP in in saw his arm.
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So yes, I think he's well equipped for.
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And as she says that, he pulls up his sleeve and you see this
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grotesque metallic shell of an arm, and he kind of like, twists
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his wrist a little bit and you just hear the revving of a
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chainsaw inside of his arm. That.
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Is that is a normal thing to see out in public?
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It's metal, isn't it, Mr. Devon? Absolutely, literally very metal
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of you. I'm sorry, is it Devon or Devon?
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It's Devon. Devon.
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Devon, my apologies. My apologies, we just met.
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Yes, nice to meet you Mr. Literal Saw.
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Sorry, I'm flabbergasted by everything I've had to witness
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in the last hour. Anyway.
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Yes, do you agree? Just give me a moment I need to
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go. I just need to make a quick call
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and then we will be on our way. So enjoy your your boba matcha
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order another one for the road. I'll be right back.
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Yeah, matcha's are on me. I don't think I've ever had it.
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What is it? It's the best thing you'll ever
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taste. Kibble.
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If you've ever had the matcha flavor of kibble, it's better
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than that. I don't think I've had matcha.
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Missing out haven't lived. Well, if you'll buy it and I'm
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going to drink it. Yeah, just go up and tell them
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that Bridge sent ya, and then I'll sit back in my chair a
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little bit and start slurping very noisily, like the end of a
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soda pop through a straw. Just loud slurping sounds.
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Staring at Anne Alice with your 20 persuasion from earlier
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meanwhile outside. Hello.
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Hi, SA. How's it going?
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It's it's going I just met I I assume a a compatriot of yours
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bridge. Yes.
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Yes, she said. You sent her to me for a job
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that is 12 K. What kind of jobs are you
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getting? So.
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No, I just, I just found the the broker address.
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They're a fixer. They found the job.
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That explains. It the the issue is that they
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they have a a person in I'm going to, I'm going to respect
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HIPPA a little bit here. They have a person who is sick,
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and doing this may enable them to not have that person be sick.
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I see. OK, you could.
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Use persuasion to get more out of me, but that's more on your
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moral compass than mine. Yes, Yeah, OK.
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I just want to make sure like we're not signing ourselves all
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up to be killed. I mean, I have like I've just
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signed up multiple people and I feel kind of responsible if
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something bad happens. Well.
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Baby, it's always good to work with more than one fixer.
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Been a while since you went with someone else.
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Yeah, this is true. Your portfolio and all of that
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jazz. OK, is there any other details
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that you can give me saw like just any?
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I know that it has to be done tonight and the reason no one
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else has taken the job is because it's going to rain
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again. I see.
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OK, I didn't know the weather. Since those two Spires went
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down. Oh, yeah, that that was crazy
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incident that happened there. Yeah.
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So, OK, I didn't know the weather may or may not affect
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this job, but all right. OK, Thank you.
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If anything else comes up I may frantically call you, but this
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is helpful. Thank you.
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You're welcome. She hangs up.
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All right, gang, squad, crew. Are you, I mean, should we like
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negotiate how we're going to like this job?
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Who's getting what out of it? You know, you know, Devin,
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you're good at this. You're the the one who the one
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who's good at like, you know, should we like sign a contract
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or something or, you know, make should make it like official.
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Well yes, we could set up a quick contract.
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I keep a bunch on my agent here, but I believe a verbal
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confirmation is plenty. We can either do an Eva split
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between the three of us, which would be 3000 each, or I can
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offer you all a little bit of an investment which you give me an
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extra thousand of your cuts. So you 2 you all for review get
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2000 immediately and then you invest in me another 3000 and I
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can probably double maybe even triple your money within one to
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two decades. And sorry, what kind of business
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is it that you run again that you need investment in right now
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from a bunch of people sitting at a bubble tea shop?
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Right now it is automotive is what I can tell you out loud
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without more contracts being written.
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Basically, we're trying to invest in creating some vehicles
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for a particular clients that we were going to remain hushed
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about. But we are just a little bit of
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a snafu, a little bit of a inventory issue right now.
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So we need a mechanic, we need a little bit of capital.
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And I'm just saying if you guys would like to get more money in
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the future, which is what people should be doing with their
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money, not just spending immediately.
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So we can either do 3000 each or you 3 can take 2000 and I can
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double it in one to 10 decades. Is anyone going to take this
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deal? No.
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OK, then that means wait, wait, wait, wait.
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Oh. Yeah, he he's saying I can get
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more money. Wait, if you're going to say no,
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you have to roll a face down against each other?
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Yeah, all I'm saying is he said I can get money now and then
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money later. Is that what you're saying?
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Oh. That's exactly what I'm saying.
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That's how. I'm in, I'm in.
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I'll I'll give you I, you give me €2000 bucks and then I give
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you 1000 and then in X amount of time I get more money for free.
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Essentially, that's exactly how investments Who doesn't like?
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Free money? Come on.
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That's exactly what I'm saying all.
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Right. Oh, I did it physically and got
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an 18. Oh, that's cool.
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You got an 18. Oh, Lamar, roll again.
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Roll again. The first crit fail.
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Oh. No.
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That's -8 what's your cool? What's your reputation?
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Oh my cool is 7. Right my.
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Reputation. In. 4. 4:00 So I think a 3, it's
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going to be less than 18. Yes, it is in this face down.
26:01
This fixer looks at you and says.
26:05
So sorry I'm supposed to trust you with vehicular things even
26:09
though you're you. You drove a van here
26:13
recreationally. A rather impressive fan
26:17
actually, if I have to say so myself, if you would like to.
26:20
Inspect. OK, Yeah, sure.
26:22
Here's the thing. I'm the fixer, right?
26:25
Fixer. I think I should get a bigger
26:27
cut. And how about in exchange, I
26:29
give you that mechanic that you've been looking for, because
26:31
I know a handful of them around the local area that might be
26:33
able to help you out with the whatever you need.
26:35
I owe some. I mowed some favors.
26:38
I can pull some strings. And in exchange I get a couple
26:41
more credits. You give me a reputable mechanic
26:45
and you get a few more credits out of my.
26:47
Well, I get you a mechanic. She's.
26:51
Good reputable is up for debate. And well, you're giving me your
26:57
OK, how about this? I'll give you another 500.
27:01
You give me your mechanic and I think that is a good chance.
27:05
So you'll get 35 S here, we'll get 2000.
27:11
And Vivi, are you down with investments?
27:14
Remember, money now is money wasted.
27:18
Devin, I am going to have to decline I.
27:24
It's free money. I think he's going to have a
27:27
mechanic here soon. This is true.
27:29
Think what you could do with free money for the bubble cafe.
27:33
I just invested a lot in the bubble cafe and that's really
27:37
where all of my major financial decisions are.
27:41
Going. I'm just saying.
27:44
OK, look, that's that's that's fine, that's fine.
27:48
If you would like to keep your money and not, you know, look
27:52
into the future where your, you know, retirement and things
27:56
could be more when your body starts to wear out, you would
27:59
have nice little nest egg. That's perfectly fine.
28:02
So you'll keep your three saw and very intelligent man's going
28:06
to keep keep me. I'm going to thank you.
28:08
Thank you so much and so kind of you.
28:11
I enjoy a good smart person and then bridge you will keep.
28:17
You're actually going to make 3 point 5000 credits.
28:23
I've been recording this conversation so this will stand
28:27
up in court in case you guys decide to effort screw up my
28:31
money, but I believe we're all in agreement.
28:34
I provide a van Saul provides the arms bridge is going to fix
28:39
and mechanic and Vivi please save us from dying.
28:44
Yep, that sounds about right. Good.
28:47
I'm so glad I came to this part of the city and stood in a very
28:52
clean and well established establishment.
28:57
And perfect timing. Wait, clean and established.
29:04
Yeah, yeah, clean and established and fully permitted.
29:07
Speaking of which, I got the the info back about the job.
29:10
Let's see, client required. And you can see my eyes are just
29:12
moving in the air as I've reading something invisibly to
29:16
myself. Client requires medical
29:18
container picked up at Med warehouse 94 and delivered to
29:21
the corporate district. District mega building 17,
29:25
penthouse one ASAP. Pay is 12 K.
29:29
Don't take main road sets. The weather may attract
29:32
undesirables to be prepared and a medical professional is
29:35
required to maintain the cryo tank stability.
29:37
Vivi, how do you feel about cryo?
29:38
Tanks. I've worked with them before so
29:45
I have experience, so that's good.
29:49
Good enough for me just like the person behind the bar as
29:53
experience making bubble tea for sure.
29:55
I trust it says we must provide our own vehicle and the price is
29:58
high and we also don't talk after this.
30:01
It says we were never even out tonight so hope you haven't out
30:05
by ready if not several that last part.
30:08
It's up to you if you want to tell them the truth.
30:11
Oh would I, Oh no, I didn't expect to have a major character
30:15
moment this soon, but you can definitely see her lips moving.
30:20
So if anyone has the ability to read lips and wants to try and
30:23
suss it out, I am not good at canonically.
30:28
OK, in that case, you'll see my lips kind of moving a little bit
30:32
and then I'll just go. If you agree, pick up the
30:36
package tonight. Password is and I kind of lean
30:39
in Nightingale. Nightingale, OK.
30:45
So we have to go to this place building.
30:52
Med Warehouse 94 looks like. OK.
30:54
Is there an address or 95 we could?
30:58
Probably find it and I kind of turned to Devin and I go, Devin,
31:01
you got the van. Do you know a way there without
31:03
taking the main roads? I could figure it out, as Devin
31:08
also has like this, deadpan staring to the sky as they're
31:13
trying to contact Jax, their assistant, to get them as much
31:20
information about Med Warehouse 94 as possible.
31:23
Mainly, what the hell is the front of this?
31:27
What's the front of this place, and why and why and what could?
31:32
Possibly be there? Yeah, love that roll streetwise.
31:35
My matches and Saul's going to run back inside and get his
31:38
matches that he ordered. He's paying for those,
31:41
definitely. No, no, no, you said.
31:44
You said they're on your team. He's tipping so much, don't
31:51
worry. About it 80% right.
31:54
That's that's good tip. At the bubble cafe, yes.
31:59
Cool, those drinks cost you 15 eddies.
32:01
Oh. Hey.
32:07
Jess, quickly, yes. What did you what did you find
32:11
about Medical Warehouse 94? They they're like outsourcing
32:17
for medical shit. If you're rich they do weird
32:21
shit with bio stuff and then you you pick it up and then you
32:26
don't say what they don't want people to know.
32:32
From a scale of one to 10, how illegal are we talking about?
32:35
I mean, what's illegal in Knight?
32:37
City. There's that hurts my head that
32:39
that is correct sentence, but let's out from a scale to one to
32:43
10. How deadly illegal is this
32:46
place? To steal Diana's joke.
32:48
Tipping below 76%, that's how much crime there is.
32:52
If you do this, they will kill you.
32:54
I'm joking. No, it's.
32:56
Like. I don't know an 8.
32:59
They're really rich, yeah. Yeah, Yeah, that sounds good.
33:03
Good, good, good. Do me a favor, go ahead and do
33:06
it quick. Little intellectually proper
33:09
name of a search engine. Find a off way of getting there
33:13
from the bubble tea location. All right.
33:18
Send that to my agent. OK, there's not a problem.
33:21
Is that your final destination? Which What is our final
33:25
destination? You ask of bridge.
33:26
I asked. Yeah.
33:27
So we're taking it from Med House where Med Warehouse 94 and
33:31
then bring it to the corporate district and then dropping it
33:34
off at Mega Building 17, Penthouse 1 specifically.
33:39
You see, Devin like face palm to the corporate district.
33:43
You got it. OK.
33:44
Yeah, that's. What, you're not comfy in the
33:46
corporate district? I'm perfectly comfy in the
33:49
corporate district. I am not comfortable smuggling
33:52
anything into the corporate district because I'm going to
33:56
say something that I cannot believe.
33:57
I'm going to admit most of us are assholes and.
34:02
Yeah, that's. True.
34:04
Yeah, and with assholes comes people they pay to be bigger
34:09
assholes around them with guns. And so I don't know.
34:14
It's fine. You know, it's fine.
34:15
It's fine. I'll I'll figure it out.
34:17
But I believe in everyone's here.
34:19
Once again, we have a very intelligent man with us.
34:22
Vivi is going to make sure no one dies and the thing gets
34:26
there and you have fixed a terrible situation I've had.
34:29
So I believe in the four of us being able to do completely fine
34:35
and not problematic plan in any way, shape or form.
34:39
And once again, this lovely, definitely not sticky floor
34:43
establishment. You say as you leave and get
34:46
into your van. OK, so.
34:52
I'm driving. I'm going to drive, I'm the best
34:56
driver, but go get a stair. Roll drive, land vehicle please.
35:03
It is a 10 exactly. Yes, good.
35:07
It beats the basic DB of driving through the basic beach cities
35:11
of Night City and you arrive outside of the warehouse.
35:15
Thunder can be heard in the distance and a little smattering
35:19
of wind has started to pick up. These storms are like getting
35:24
real bad in the city. Haven't seen one like this in a
35:27
while. And you come up to the outside
35:30
of the warehouse that you have the address for, and there's a
35:34
little driveway that you can turn into.
35:39
Look left, look right. Center.
35:43
Take the turn. 10:00 and 2:10 and 2:00 you take the turn, you
35:47
drive into the driveway and there's a little window with a
35:50
tube in it. With a what you?
35:52
Mean a cube person. I'm going to crawl over the
35:57
seats and stick my head past Evan Hey in.
36:01
This bridge, you're crushing me. I have my elbow actively in saws
36:06
clap right now and I go cryo tags.
36:09
You got them. Do you have a backward?
36:12
Yeah, I got a password. Look, I mean, do I look like I
36:14
not have a password? And you can see her zoning out.
36:18
I'm actively going back through my agent.
36:21
Spare. Oh, Nightingale.
36:23
Sorry. Sparrow's bakery in town.
36:24
Nightingale. Cool.
36:29
And she stares into space. She looks at her computer
36:31
screen. You can see her kind of like
36:32
doing that third level look like she's got an internal agent.
36:36
OK, heading to the back and dropping in the back of your
36:38
vehicle. Sweet.
36:40
Good to see you again. Bye.
36:42
All right, well, you know, if I was tipping you, it would drop
36:44
to like maybe 79, right about that, you know, be a little a
36:49
little bit. OK, 78 and I should go back into
36:53
the back seat. This is lovely.
36:58
So far so good, I'm proud of everyone.
37:00
Hey, what's what you mentioned a cryo Shank?
37:05
Is that what you said? Cryo tank, cryo tank, cryo Shank
37:08
is what'll happen if we don't get this job done.
37:10
What's a cryo tank? It's a tank that you use to keep
37:19
things in a certain state for a long period.
37:25
Longer period than it would is meant to be kept.
37:29
Let's. Say, Phoebe, as there's a knock
37:31
on the back of the van, in the back of the van, which you can
37:34
get to the back of the van from the driver and passenger seat.
37:37
There's a little door in it. It's a delivery truck that has
37:41
shelves on one side, and there's even a hookup for power in here.
37:46
The bridge. You're standing at the back of
37:49
the van next to the door, and you hear it bang.
37:52
Hello password. No, you're a man can say the
37:56
password that's not. I just want to see if it would
37:59
work. Nightingale.
38:01
Right, good. Open up the van so.
38:04
We can move this thing. All right.
38:06
Hey, can you can you open the back?
38:07
Do I open the back? Do you open the back?
38:09
You know, vehicles. Son, so you can open it.
38:12
Devin presses the unlock button and the.
38:15
Door is open behind you, excruciatingly slowly.
38:22
They squeak a little bit. They're rusty, just a touch.
38:26
Needs a little oil. Everyone who is interested royal
38:30
perception and at the back after the door is open, there are two
38:36
guards and a nurse and a large box with a cryo tank stuck into
38:42
the top of it inserted like a like a like a wart and a finger
38:49
and it's long. This box is like 6 foot long and
38:52
it's heavy. It's on a it's on a grab lift
38:55
and they shift it into the van I.
38:58
Could see the whole world. In the rearview mirror, you see
39:04
this thing being pushed in. You notice a feeling in the
39:10
space of them just not wanting you to be here.
39:14
The look on their face is mildly concerned.
39:17
And then you notice that the nurse, everyone who rolled over,
39:22
well, yeah, everyone who rolled 15 or higher can see that.
39:25
She puts her hand on the very bottom of the box, and there's a
39:30
bit of light that comes down her arm through some filaments that
39:33
she has installed in her skin. You swear it's data like you've
39:38
seen people send a little message and there must be some
39:42
kind of data storage in the actual shell of this object.
39:47
What you also notice is it's about human sized.
39:52
And because Sauro, the 9, he's trying to fish out the last
39:56
couple bulba pearls in his matcha boba, he's not even
39:59
paying attention. Yeah.
40:01
The loudest flirting sounds. But but 99 is is by definition
40:07
of so Frank Red is a simple task.
40:10
So the thing that you do notice is that there's a 5 Eddie bill
40:15
in the corner of the van, crunched up nice.
40:20
Do you take it? Absolutely, it's 5 eddies.
40:24
From someone else's Van Lamont Devin, you see him take this
40:27
fiver from the back of the. You know, he earned it.
40:35
He made a bit better decision earlier today and that's.
40:40
That's why I'm the smart guy in this operation.
40:42
That's why I'm the smartest person here.
40:45
I see you're. The nurse looks at you concern
40:48
so. If you were smart, you'd already
40:50
be leaving. Is this a rush job?
40:53
Jeez, someone's snippy, Sally. Actually, yes, we are on our
40:59
way. Thank you, Have a good one.
41:04
And bridge. You noticed that the outside of
41:06
this vehicle is armored. Of their vehicle or our vehicle.
41:10
Your vehicle. Something Devin didn't mention.
41:13
He chose not to reveal it to everyone.
41:15
But this vehicle is armored. Like no.
41:18
Armor. Like explosive?
41:19
Yeah, like pretty good armor. And the the you, you put your
41:23
hand against the wall and you feel part of the wall down.
41:28
There's a pipe and at the very bottom, underneath the
41:31
underneath the little box, there's a tank and it has a
41:37
gauge on it. This is 60% and on the side of
41:40
that tank says Nos this. Is fast and furious this?
41:45
Is legally distinct, Fast and furious this.
41:50
Is. Quick in 80.
41:54
Instead of DVD players, we're transporting cryo tanks.
41:59
Way better. Way more data, apparently.
42:01
All right. Sorry, Susan.
42:02
Did you say something about us being sorry?
42:04
I didn't catch that, did you? What was that?
42:07
What I slammed? Over you head over to the cryo
42:12
tank and you noticed that if you're going to keep it at the
42:15
desired temperature, you're going to have to basically like
42:19
babysit this thing for the whole journey.
42:21
Oh, wow. They really weren't joking when
42:25
they said they needed somebody to keep an eye on this that
42:28
knows what they're doing. Yeah.
42:30
If you want to find out more, anybody who saw that data
42:33
transfer and try and garner that as the vehicle leaves you may.
42:36
I'm too busy. Driving.
42:40
That would be electronic security tech and can we have
42:44
Devon roll a driving check as you follow the directions that
42:48
have been sent to you by Jax? God damn it.
42:52
A simple task. You do not find any shortcuts.
42:54
You follow. You rolled a nine.
42:56
That's a simple task. You follow directions exactly
42:59
and you take a little bit too close of a journey near the
43:04
combat zone to avoid a main road.
43:06
You go through a tunnel and you turn onto a street.
43:09
Did anyone roll like I? Tried, it was a nine.
43:14
You rolled a nine I've. Never seen a computer?
43:17
Metal enough. You've never, you don't know how
43:19
to get this data. Frankly, I kind of feel like you
43:22
probably hire other people to decrypt and locate data, do that
43:26
sort of thing. Vivi, on the other hand, you've
43:29
rolled a 19. Would you like to use that role
43:33
to find any logs within this device?
43:37
Yes I'm and I'm taking it more from like a health aspects of
43:44
like any medical info I can find.
43:48
Hey have you guys heard this really old song called I Want it
43:53
that Way from this classical band called The Backstreet?
43:58
No, I've never heard him. Before and.
43:59
We're taking the backstreet. This is perfect.
44:02
What a good thinker. Yes.
44:04
People don't. Really like my oldies and stuff
44:09
like that. Like I found one called Boys to
44:12
Men. There was a lot of infants
44:15
singing in the old days, like boys to men, Spice Girls,
44:20
Battery boys. Yeah, the Jackson 5 which were
44:24
children. That was weird for most then it
44:27
only. Was weird.
44:29
Yeah, that's yeah. And a lot of like groups, boy
44:34
groups, girl groups. What was with that?
44:35
Was that like a trend or something back then?
44:37
I don't, yeah. It was it was a trend for a
44:40
while and it just kind of got a little crazy.
44:43
I guess we do have that now, but I don't know, it's different.
44:48
I feel like I prefer the groups of today, you know, the
44:50
animatronic bands. Five Nights at Freddy's really
44:52
kicked it off and ever since then it's been nothing but
44:55
bangers. Are you like music?
44:58
Yeah, you don't you. Should you should come, you
45:01
should come to one of my shows. I'd love to, what's your band
45:05
called? Corpo corpse.
45:08
Corpo corpse. Yeah.
45:11
Like CORPSE. Yeah.
45:15
Oh, OK, Does the chainsaw get involved?
45:19
Every show, Yeah. Oh.
45:20
Hell yeah. All right, let's do it.
45:23
You got to go to the combat zone though.
45:25
The other one, the 11 up north, uh.
45:27
Oh, you can get in and out of there.
45:29
That's why I haven't gone to any of your shows.
45:32
I've invited you multiple times. Multiple times I told you.
45:36
I'll put you on the guest list. You'll be fine.
45:39
But nobody wants to like, fight their way through like scavers
45:42
and all sorts of other. We sell out almost every night.
45:47
That, that, that. That it's impressive and
45:49
terrifying to. Hear.
45:50
I mean, it's mostly it's all Maelstrom.
45:53
It's all most of our fans on Maelstrom, yeah.
45:57
It's a lot of good night. How come you were basically
45:59
frothing at the mouth when you went for those five underneath
46:01
the seat? So sell out is we got to pay
46:07
for, you know, accidental death and dismemberment insurance for
46:10
the bar, Yeah. It's expensive.
46:15
Actually since I invited you to a show my manager did say I have
46:21
to read this and saw pulls out the something from his leather
46:26
jacket, the internals of it and he goes OK.
46:31
Corporal Corpse is not responsible for any accidental
46:37
death or dismemberment at any of the shows.
46:44
Thank you. Great lyrics so far.
46:48
And, and yeah, I'm required to read that to you.
46:55
You do know that if you just make a song where that's your
46:58
opener, that still is legally binding?
47:00
What? Yeah, If you just make that into
47:03
a song, as long as it's said before anything goes down, it's
47:08
a legally binding contract. There's so many recordings.
47:11
Now I'm still definitely don't write anything down, definitely
47:14
putting that into a recording. Hell yeah, I'd mosh to a legally
47:18
binding argument. I have masterly.
47:22
I'm looking forward to you coming to a shower.
47:24
I'll put you on the list. And it well, at this point
47:29
you've managed to find the log, and as you're about to start
47:33
reading it outside of the vehicle in the rain as it has
47:37
started falling, you hear a voice.
47:41
Help me. Oh no.
47:45
I'm in so much pain. Look at all this blood.
47:48
I need help. Oh no.
47:51
Hold on, somebody in danger? I'm a medical professional.
47:56
If they're in danger, we got to help them.
47:58
Hold on. Yes.
47:59
Wait. OK, Well, well, we're medical
48:01
professionals that are. I mean, one of us is a medical
48:03
professional. You're paid 3K to ignore anyone
48:06
outside of these walls right here, these heavily armored
48:09
walls. Does Devin hear this as well?
48:14
Oh yeah, you're staring at a woman in the middle of the road.
48:18
What there is blood, which? City are we in right now?
48:20
Just tell me after the combat zone.
48:22
Very good Devon VV ropes rides faster.
48:29
Perception, perception, perception.
48:34
Yes, 16, that's enough. It's the same fucking actor VV.
48:38
I was going to say, I feel like I've seen this you before.
48:42
Immediately the acting is better.
48:46
Yes, look. At all this blood I'm so.
48:50
Scared I'm in the. Rain.
48:53
I'm so. Oh, no, Devin, this is bad.
48:56
Keep going. Drive over them.
48:58
What? She's bleeding.
49:00
You insist. Next time on no latency side
49:13
fast. This is a trap.
49:18
Bare knuckle to the steering wheel.
49:21
Let's go. What you get is that like the
49:22
therapy thing you talked about which that being stable.
49:26
I'm going to just focus on moving forward.
49:28
Yes, we need to protect. I let other people do the
49:30
fighting for me. Don't let it get hurt.
49:32
I'm on the dock. Let's.
49:34
Go. I'm just going to lean out the
49:35
window and yell in the general direction of the red car behind.
49:38
Us go bridge all. Right.
49:39
I'm going to try to shoot the driver.
49:41
Yeah, I'm not going to live. It doesn't sound as cool as
49:43
yours. What's what's the heaviest thing
49:44
in this thing? Probably the Cryosic.
49:46
You not throw the God damn tank. I mean, I don't think you should
49:50
do that, but you. Know is this the headers of an
49:53
engine? Block.
49:53
OK, we don't need that. It's the most Mario Party thing
49:58
I've ever seen. Therapy it.
50:01
Therapy it. I'm going to need all hands on
50:03
deck for a moment. Take driving lessons.
50:05
Just do it. Just do it.
50:09
Against all odds. We need to make sure this thing
50:11
does not go to 0 or this job is kaput.
50:41
That's much better. I love this game.
50:44
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