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Last time on no latency. What do we have for this body
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they were making? We know about the parts we need
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and we know where skin is, but that's about it.
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Have you been interacting with Claire?
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I should really go check on Claire and do medical checkin.
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Is Claire doing OK? We should probably go to
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Claire's place sometime, like soon if possible.
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We're not doing anything now, right?
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Just a drink, and we should definitely just go to Claire's
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apartment. Sober as hell and I feel like
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shit. Don't they have the ticket there
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that we need? Correct.
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So we're doing this pro bono. Now we know that we can just
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accept it, no matter what it is. If you would like to preach and
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clear, now is your time. Preaching clear.
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Preaching clear. Preaching clear.
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Preaching clear. It's one liner.
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There it is. The one liner lock and load.
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Classic. Oh shit.
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There's a lot of people in here. Where, where, where should,
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Where should we stand with all of?
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Literally anywhere that doesn't get you shot.
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Well, I'm in the hallway with Iona.
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Well, then, you're doing great. Me, on the other hand, I gotta
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get out of here. I'm out in the open.
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I am a sitting duck. Well, shoot them.
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Jab. Oh, right and.
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Then I shoot. No, it's not your time.
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Oh, Walker. Who?
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Me. It's my turn.
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I'm going to shoot you now. You.
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Asshole. You're the asshole.
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Oh, I'm the asshole. Oh, you're the one shooting
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first. You also kicked in a door.
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OK, did you check? That I was here.
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Did you? No.
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We didn't know you were here. Well, I suppose that's bad luck
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for you. OK, so that one's pretty good.
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See, that was a good one. Hey, see, as far as your well
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ladders go, you're getting. Fat out?
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Seriously, you're you're it's like you're you're trying to say
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like you're not doing it, but I really do think you're doing it
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on purpose. Oh really?
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Okay. He takes his hand into his leg
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and pulls out an SMG as the skin solidifies back over his leg
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again. He points it at Jeb, full of his
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quips. No, my.
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This is what you get. Oh damn, when he saw Jesus.
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The spirit of that, I thought. Evie, you didn't get your
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bulletproof shield repair. Yep, but we could have.
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You could look up Remy to fix it in the van, but now bullets are
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flying. Remy's too busy debating with
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Jeb on the way here, yeah. Magic Eye pictures when he
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should be fixing your shield exactly, baby.
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I wasn't asked, and it's important to understand that
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Magic Eye is bullshit. This all happening while Jeb?
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Really. Not, I'm telling you.
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Jeb, you take 12 damage, which I imagine is only one HP damage
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overall with your armor being man.
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You know, actually damn good on robot.
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That's that's that's good Jeb. It looks like he only had a rate
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of fire of 1. Yes, I.
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Only had a rate of. Fire of 1, you.
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Piece of shit. One of the other guards in the
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room jumps over the sofa. 12 Yes, he gets over the sofa and
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takes a shot at Jeb, just following the lead of his
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leader. This heavy pistol, he shoots Jeb
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16 Jeb, do you have a reflex of above 8?
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Yeah, I have an 8. Be to 16 how do I do?
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You met and when you meet you do not pass so you try and dodge
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the bullet. You almost get it.
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And the clips your arm just a little bit, causing 14 damage.
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Overall Jesus. See look, that was pretty cool.
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The little tumble over the the sofa, that was pretty neat.
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Hey big big guy, what's your name again?
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Me I'm Walker. Walker.
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Maybe we take some cool points from your from your goons there.
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I've got another shot, boss. And he shoots you again.
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Beat 14. Oh yeah, you dodged that bullet.
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Oh, all right. Well, I mean, you know, the
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first time you did pretty good, but the second time you missed
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me, just like your boss misses his one liners.
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That was that wasn't great. I'm sorry about that.
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You're doing great job. You just got shot.
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It's OK. I think I got a good one here.
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Remember earlier I said about the pulling the rug out from
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under you? Well, this is like pulling the
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rug out, except putting the bullet in your face.
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And that's your face. And you hit with 25.
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Walker does not dodge that, and they take 10 damage.
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That's a good hit. How's this one?
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What's that for one the other cheek?
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Well, looks like someone's got a a good shot.
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You see these one liners? They're hard.
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See, he's forcing it now. He's so forcing it.
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Yeah, you just got to relax and just think of the first thing
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that comes to mind. Here.
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I'll give you. I'll give you another.
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I'll give you another option. There before I shoot you again.
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No, nothing. All right, fine.
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No. You.
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Shot me again. Damn.
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Ow ow fuck. Why did they program me to feel
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pain? Don't make no sense.
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No, I understand. Absolutely.
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Not and you caused 2 pretty good hits on this guy.
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Do you do anything other than shoot?
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You are standing in the way of the door in the open.
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Yeah, so listen, here's the other thing about fighting.
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And that is you're going to want to get behind cover.
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So do not or. But you do not just stand out in
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the open. I'm looking at you guy on the
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left. You're standing in the album
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there. It's not great.
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Look, what you're gonna want to do is you're gonna wanna shoot
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and then retreat back into cover.
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And Jeb, you head back into the hallway, where you see Iona,
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Fendel, and VB. Retro, though, is still standing
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in the doorway. But it's Fendel's turn all
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right, so I have this great idea for Fendale.
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OK, what's your idea, Iona? Well, there's the guy on the
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left that Jeb is so blatantly pointed out.
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He's out in the open, right? I think.
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And I take a little peek around the corner.
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I think you could probably pull him.
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Oh, that's not a dusk, is it? That's a treadmill.
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Turn it on and throw him onto it.
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OK, that's a great idea. So I'm going to grapple him,
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throw him onto the treadmill and then like, try and fuck him up
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with a treadmill. Yeah, Rd.
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Burn his face or whatever. That's cool.
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It's like fucking up to the tempo, but with Rd. burn.
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Yes. I'm not good at one liners
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either. Yeah.
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That's all right. Your entire identity is not
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built. We need some work.
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It's it's OK. OK, I should roll for it.
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I am going to roll for it. Yay bro. 19 Yes, good.
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I rolled a 15, so Vendel rushes into the room.
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That guy is. Huge.
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That's that's what Vendel says. Well, you're a big guy, but I
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have this leg. And they do this handstand with
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one hand. Twist their mechanical leg
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around the guy's neck. Flip him onto the treadmill,
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pressing him down onto the treadmill.
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They turn the treadmill on and start rug burning in the face,
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doing 2 D 6 -, 1 damage, 5 damage directly to their face,
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which is their face. This bypasses their armor
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because their face is just getting rug.
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Now this is the model that has real tarmac on it.
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That's like pressing your face against a road That's fucked.
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The human crayon, they call that.
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Probably. Probably do something else while
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I hold him down with my Cyberfoot.
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Shall I shoot someone? Tap your belt and shoot someone.
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So they tap their belt there. Shield fizzles around them.
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They point their gun, the guy by on the couch.
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The other guard in the room and they pulled the trigger. 20 yes.
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Hitting him square on the guy has no cover.
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Hits him square on causing 15 damage.
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Nice. See Vendel.
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The training is paying off. The training is paying off.
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Fuck you too. I've got your buzz, yeah.
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And it's at this moment in the battle where you're all kind of,
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like, really excited about how good Vendel did, where you hear
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a growl. No, no.
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But nothing else happens quite well, I understand, I I don't
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quite know. But I'm going to follow the lead
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and I run in. I don't.
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Have a dog. We're going to try that.
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A dog. There wasn't.
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There wasn't a dog here last time.
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Maybe Sue's been turned into the dog?
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No, Claire's at the apartment. You're you're not still drunk
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yet. There's no way.
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The apartment? No, I'm just trying to think.
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Why are you talking about a dog? And I run in and I kick the
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chair that's next to the couch at the guard that's hiding
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behind the couch. Yeah, I'm.
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Going to kick that for fun. I'm just going to roll
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athletics. Sounds good 13.
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I roll the four. Yes, you did very well.
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The chair goes flying towards him.
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What do you want it to do? I wanted to distract him so I
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can pop pop a shot off. This.
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You. Know.
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Pushing that chair gives you plus one to hit.
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Well, I don't need plus one to hit.
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Oh, you know what? You know what?
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Maybe if I use something else. No, I'm just going to use my
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very this super duper gun. 20 to hit, causing 16 damage.
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The guy falls back against a crate behind him and is pushed
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by a chair, which means on his next turn he also won't be able
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to move from this spot. His armor gets abladed by 1:00
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and you see pieces of it rip off onto the floor.
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Nice. Work Iona or Vandel that would
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that would. Iona wasn't ready to use me.
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Oh, I trust my ankle a little bit.
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It's OK. And I and I I'm behind the.
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Couch I just. Drew off the floor.
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So are you prone? Yes, it's fine.
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I'm about to roll under this couch fair.
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Enough. Actually, you know what?
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I roll under the couch. And Iona rolls under the couch.
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That's a tall couch. I'm rude.
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That's Remy's turn. Is there anything near me at all
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that I can use for cover or like the bits and bobs?
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As you come into the room, to your right is the kitchenette
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which to your your memory tells you that that is a one way
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entrance. There is nothing else in there
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except a kitchen. There is a sofa that Iona's gone
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under this big dining room table and behind the behind Walker are
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two doors, one that's open where he came from, which was the
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bathroom, and a door behind him that is closed where the bedroom
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is. OK.
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Remy is going to run to the table here and drop to be prone
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as well, and I don't know what we're doing, but I like it.
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You see Retro on the ground now from underneath the sofa.
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Remy's going to shoot Walker's feet.
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All right, that's a nice shot. That's a cold shot, dude.
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That's aimed. Well, I can shoot from
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underneath the table, but OK. Still an aim shot?
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Aim shot to minus 8. Do you want to use?
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Any luck? Yeah, I use three luck.
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Oh, wow. OK.
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You can't dodge bullets, so you you already know that because
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you shot at him and he didn't dodge.
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He didn't dodge. 2120. 4. 24 -, 8 Yes you hit.
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Wow, well done. The bullet flies underneath the
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table and hits him. What?
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What part of the body you hitting for?
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I'm even for his feet. All right, so you hit his feet.
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For 12 damage. I blow off Walker's boots,
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they're no longer made for. Walker asshole.
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Ow fuck, that's my butt and. He's supposed to get. 1 foot
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now. Ow, God, why did they?
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Program me to feel pain. Because they hate you.
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And then I'll shoot again. No.
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Is that another aim shot at the other foot?
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I'm just shooting. You just shoot.
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And then I can see it with a high fat. 18 Yes, that also
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hits, but if it's been aim shot you would miss nice causing 14
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damage. More of his armor blows off of
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his leg and you actually see the skin try and grow back over the
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wound. Unfortunately that is a lot of
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damage and you bring Walker under half health.
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Let's do the thing. Table of Death 5. 6740.
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1-234-567-8910 11/12. I know that ha.
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Get this, I roll the Nate. Hey.
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That's broken leg. So you you hear like the sound
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of metal and bone crack as his leg that he was hopping on get
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blown essentially in hard. Tendrils and.
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Fleshy skin that's trying to pull the leg back to his body
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are attempting to heal him, but it's going to take longer than
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just the in between of turns, probably taking some of them in
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turn. But he is now has minus four to
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move for the rest of the back. Did I shoot him in both legs or
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just one? You shot him in one leg, which
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he picked up, and then the other leg he blew part of his shin
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off. So does that mean he falls down
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on the ground then? Because legs, I blew his other.
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Leg. The other leg, the other leg, he
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can still stand up, so he's standing mainly on that one leg
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now, while the other leg. Sort of sluges, that's what I
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was saying. I was envisioning he's on one
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leg hopping up and down, and then I blew off that other leg
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that he was holding his hand. She is prone, so Walker falls to
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the ground after you shoot your second leg.
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Ah. Fuck.
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Guess I'll have to call you crawler now.
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That's. You.
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God fuck I. Really want to fucking.
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Kill you guys? Wow, that's really good retro,
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see? It's not forced, you just gotta
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let it. You just gotta go for.
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It. The guy with his face against
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the treadmill as it sort of continues to wear, tries to push
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back at Bendel. Bendel needs to roll.
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Brawling, rolling, rolling. Let's go, Bendel.
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Let's go oh. No, Bendel slips.
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God gets thrust back down to out of the treadmill.
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It thrusts him into the center of the room and he lands onto
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the rug and gets up. You should see his face has just
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got Rd. burned across the left side.
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Fuck. You.
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And he points his gun at Vendel. Because, I mean, Vendel, just
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put Who do you think they'd shoot you?
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Vendel I was just, he's right in front of me now, so I was
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scared. But yes, you shoot the person
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who just. Brushed their faces as a
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treadmill. I don't know who you think you
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are and they pull out their heavy pistol and shoot.
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Does Vandal have a reflex on the boat 8 Yes.
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Yes they do. Damn.
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OK, but it does not. Touch the bullet.
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It hits them hard but only does 6 damage because the damage
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rolled really low. So.
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Ow, ow. Puck, it really sucked.
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You played my armor by 1. And that's it.
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But that's not the point. Well, I I could chew again.
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Yeah, B 19, damn it. NET 19 so it hits you.
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Ow, fuck, that's 10 damage. Again, only I blade my armor by
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one, but like, good effort. I pressed your face against a a
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treadmill. You know, that's one way to get
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some cardio, huh? Did I do it?
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Was that a good one? Like, it was really good.
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I'm under your window. It was really good.
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Oh, hi. Yeah, it's Dusty down there.
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Are you okay? I will.
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I I will be fine. Why did you have to tell me
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that? I'm sorry.
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I just thought it'd be funny narratively.
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I didn't know about it. It's Phoebe's turn.
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We'll deal with that later. I yeah.
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So can you not shoot at my friend?
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And I'm going to walk up and hit this guy.
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He's fucking. In front of you, yeah.
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The guy who just shot Vendel is not paying attention.
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You hit him square across the face for 13.
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He's not paying attention, so it's minus two for his of of.
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Of. Oh, it wouldn't matter because
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he rolled an 8. Nice.
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You smack him across the body, he takes 9 damage.
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It's a melee attack, so he actually takes half of that,
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which is pretty impressive. And then I swing again. 17.
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Dodge this. I didn't dodge 0.
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Fuck. Oh, you really caught me that
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time. That was 12 damage.
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Oh, oh. Good, Mark.
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Oh. No, that's really bad role.
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I roll. I'm older than eight.
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I also have a broken leg. You hear his leg crack in half,
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except he doesn't have any of that skin stuff, so just he just
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bleeds all over this really nice rug.
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That. 10 My face and my leg hurts.
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Like leg injuries, broken legs, the worst to recover from just
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when. You're a medical.
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Oh, you are? Oh fuck.
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That means you're telling the truth.
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Yeah. Down the Hippocratic Oath.
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Do you do anything else? Nope, that's it for me.
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I'm just going to stand over This guy was broken leg on on
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the rug. You you've broken his leg.
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He's in a lot of pain. I'm going to say he is also on
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the ground. Right.
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Everybody's prone. Walker's now on the ground.
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He's facing retro underneath the table and he looks at you retro.
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You know, that's one thing that I can do without my legs.
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That's a lot of things because I have two hands.
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I'm going to shoot you now. And he shoots you with his SMG.
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You're almost there, Walker. Honestly, I really thought you
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had that one. Bullets hit retro while you're
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saying this, Jeb. And it does 13.
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Oh, they hit my shield. Oh yeah, your shield fizzles
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around you and it takes 13 damage.
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I hate when it happens like that, but.
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It's a good thing we have those. Those S&G's are only rate of
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fire of 1, so he can't really do anything else and he.
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Crawls halfway towards the bathroom.
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And it is the guy who's pinned behind the chairs turn the guy,
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pushes the chair and slides it back to where it was as it
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slides across the room. The chair was enough of a
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distraction where he doesn't actually know why Iona is.
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You're under the sofa, so he shoots.
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I'm going to roll the dice to see if he shoots either Vendel
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or VVVV. Odds or Evens?
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Evens. Odds you get shot.
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You know, that's what happens. That's a hit Crit 22 + 7.
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Ouch. That hits you for 11 damage.
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The bullets fly across the room while you're celebrating your
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hit on this guy on the ground, not realizing there's a guy
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pointing a gun at you. Well.
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That's right. Well, it's a good thing I got
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armor. Because.
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Does it? Does it take this second shot
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I'm just going to hit you with for a 15?
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Yeah, that that'll hit. It's 10 damage.
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Like that. OK, that you know what?
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All right, this isn't funny anymore.
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Ow. Well, you know, there was a
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whole lot of talking about what was going on over there, and I
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didn't see a goddamn thing because I'm behind this door, so
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I'm going to rock back in front of it.
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And you have those one Niners doing over there for you.
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Walker. Oh Walker, man, you lost your
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legs. Yeah.
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No, no. Just one of them blew in half.
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I'll cry back, don't worry. Yeah, well, I'm just, well.
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Retro, did you already do the crawler joke?
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Yeah, I I you. Already took care.
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Of that, yeah, I did. All right.
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Well, I got another for you. Except for this bullet.
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Bang. That's pretty big.
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Yeah. That's a 28 + 7.
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It's 35. So that's 35.
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Amazing. You hit for 12 damage.
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Walker gets hit so hard it actually skirts him across the
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floor. Oh, by the way, I also have this
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one for you. What?
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And you hit him again and he gets pushed back towards the
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wall even more. You can see he's in a lot of
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pain, he does not have a lot of health left and he's scrambling
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to try and get to the bathroom. That you could.
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He's really. Trying to get into the bathroom
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like, a lot. Good luck.
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Fuck you. Vendel's to.
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Vendel's going to take two shots at the.
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Guy who was trapped is no longer trapped.
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Bendel hits for 19, causing 13 damage.
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The bullet shears off a full shoulder plate off this guy.
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That's a good thing. They have two shots.
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The second hit hits true, but doesn't do a lot of damage.
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The armor is pretty low so they still lose a little health and
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they go just below half. This guard is not doing well and
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I just rolled an 8 and that is the theme of this.
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A broken leg. It blows through the dude's knee
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and his leg looks like that of an ostrich.
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His knee is now backwards and he falls to the ground, now with a
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-, 4 to move and in a lot of pain.
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Oh fuck. I didn't want cycle eggs.
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Fuck. And I need them now.
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Yes, I'm aware of that. Thank you for your medical
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advice. You get better one liners than
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my boss. At this moment when you hear
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Vivi laugh at this, that you hear a growl and there's just
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this claw that comes around the bathroom door, grabs Walker and
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pulls him into the bathroom. Unfortunate, quite disturbing.
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Roar and the door slams shut. Anyone else see that?
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I did what? Was that was smoking creepy?
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Oh, you know what I'm going to do?
22:59
What? What are you going to do?
23:01
I'm going to roll out from underneath the couch.
23:02
I'm going to pull this electric whip off of my side and I'm
23:07
going to wrap it around this guy's neck.
23:09
That's also prone next to me. Oh shit.
23:14
Oh shit, that's fucked up. Dude, you just be quiet and die.
23:20
Die gently. No.
23:22
Kill me? No.
23:24
Roll for it. Oh God.
23:27
Do you have inspiration? Let me check my notes here.
23:32
I do not. I have zero inspiration.
23:35
Well, you're you get 2 Malay attacks, but your first Malay
23:39
attack, your first attempt to get this whip around this guy's
23:41
neck fails and he skirts away from you towards the television.
23:46
Crawling as fast as I can, I'm going to crawl on top of him and
23:51
try and wrap it around his neck again.
23:53
All right. But this time I'm going to put
23:55
some luck in it. Here have four luck.
24:02
Full luck. I really want to strangle this
24:04
guy. 12. Plus.
24:09
Is 16, Yes. You get the the the whole thing
24:12
around his neck and you hold him down and you have the option to
24:16
push the button and electrocute him.
24:18
Which I will do Cool. You hit him and he he lights up
24:23
like a Christmas tree. All the cyber wear that he's got
24:25
on his body. He just lights up and he starts
24:29
to convulse. How much damage does that thing
24:33
do? 2D6, that's 10.
24:36
That's a lot of. That's a lot of.
24:38
Damage. That has a lot of damage.
24:41
You see bits of his armor fry and fall off.
24:43
He is not doing well. Stay down.
24:47
Just stay down. How heavy is this table in front
24:56
of me? It's very heavy.
24:57
Extremely. I don't have any.
24:59
Well, I have some grenades, but not grenades that I can just pel
25:03
the pen and blow up. Jeb does, though, in that jacket
25:06
I gave you. Yeah, I don't know if blowing up
25:10
Claire's place is a good idea. I want to push the table up
25:15
against the door and flip it so that way it blocks off the
25:18
bathroom door. Wait, that's annoyingly good.
25:26
Fuck. Bathroom door does open inwards.
25:32
You said it was. It was pretty decently heavy
25:34
though, so yeah. It's pretty decently heavy, yes,
25:37
but you need someone else's help.
25:40
I could definitely use a hand please.
25:43
I'm going to say it takes both Remy and Vv's turn, so you can
25:49
you guys can do your turn together, skipping the cavalry
25:51
underneath VV. Yeah, OK.
25:53
Yeah. If you give me a hand, then
25:55
we'll both grab this table, push it over to the door, and then
26:00
flip it onto the sides. That way the legs are sticking
26:04
out towards us and the front of the table is up against the
26:06
door. OK.
26:08
OK, I think I got that all right.
26:10
Let's do it. Oh God, I don't.
26:16
Know if this catches my steps. Heavy.
26:19
What's the? Table made out of.
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Metal. It.
26:22
Looks like an actual and shattered dreams.
26:25
Oh, what we rolling for this? Not a damn thing.
26:30
Oh, good. Roll me a D10 and as long as you
26:34
don't crip fail, this happens. God damn it.
26:37
Well, Athletics roll of 14 is fine.
26:39
It still counts. Remy, Remy.
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No, I used hold on, hold on, I said.
26:47
I was using my other two bits of luck.
26:50
Okay. Technically, that's a three.
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God all. Right.
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You get this table up against this door and you push it right
27:00
up and as you get close, you hear a growl.
27:04
We sure clear this and have a dog.
27:07
She didn't mention it. I.
27:09
Don't think. Maybe she doesn't remember too
27:14
soon. How do we encounter oh gosh, I
27:17
just got that. That wasn't delayed, Sorry.
27:22
I'm not very good at comedy, I'm.
27:25
There's gallows humor, the dark humor.
27:27
It happens. It's fine.
27:29
Have we not encountered enough creepy animals like in the past
27:33
week or so? Yeah.
27:36
I'm I'm. I'm not okay with this.
27:40
What room is this, by the way, that we?
27:43
You're in the you've. Push the table up against the
27:45
bathroom door. OK.
27:47
OK. It's the bathroom.
27:48
OK, that's fine. I've got my back against the
27:52
table to the wall as well to help possibly price some of it.
27:56
The guy on the floor in the rug who is bleeding out, who's not
27:59
doing very well. He attempts to shoot VV from the
28:04
ground in the back. Go ahead.
28:07
Make my day. Another one that's there.
28:12
That's a good one line at that was great.
28:15
And they hit you 21 for 9 damage.
28:20
Ow. Yeah, that's right.
28:24
Fuck. At least I don't have a broken
28:26
leg. Fuck.
28:27
You, He shoots. You again and it fails and it
28:29
misses and it pings off the wall and sticks into the back of the
28:32
sofa with an uneventful thud. I'm hoping whoever hired you all
28:36
didn't tell you to break a leg and you all took it literally.
28:39
That's. Not funny.
28:40
I mean, it's it's all right. It's pretty funny.
28:43
I went that song from the elevator.
28:44
Pretty funny. I know you're just getting into
28:46
hurtful territory. You hear a growl from the
28:50
bathroom as there's a shift of noise and the door rattles, and
28:58
you see Walker from the other side of the door crack the door
29:03
open ever so slightly. There in the room, as you're
29:07
looking just over the table, you see that he's resting his arm on
29:11
a Savannah Panther that's in the bathroom.
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You motherfuckers. I wasn't so damaged.
29:16
I set this fucking thing. On you, I tell you what I am
29:18
going to do. And run like a fucking Pussycat
29:21
and he clambers onto the Savannah Panther and him and the
29:26
Savannah Panther burst out of the bathroom window into the
29:30
street high up above Night City and four.
29:34
Out into the urban wasteland, man man, he keeps.
29:39
Getting away. I swear to God, I feel like one
29:42
more time and we can just not fight him next time because we
29:46
just know he's going to get what?
29:48
He seems like a recurring enemy. He seems to be more powerful
29:51
though, from last time. Oh, great.
29:54
But we fucked him up because we also got more powerful because
29:56
of the whole. Power creep.
29:58
We should kill these guys though.
29:59
There, we should. We should kill these guys.
30:01
The guy underneath Iona tries to get away be to 15.
30:07
Great. The guy tries to struggle, but
30:09
you hold him down even more, causing two more damage to him.
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You're. Not going to say anything.
30:17
I'm expecting you to not say anything because I'm strangling
30:20
you. Yeah, but we're just going to
30:26
blast this, these guys or? They did try and kill us, Jeb.
30:30
They. Well, everyone's asked to kill
30:32
us. They shot Phoebe.
30:34
Ah, fair enough. Bang.
30:39
You hit for 24, causing 12 damage.
30:42
That's a lot of damage, dude. One more time, just be safe.
30:47
Oh, that's double sixes too. He only had seven health.
30:51
That motherfucker is dead. Tell me how you kill this guy.
30:54
I mean, it was it was a blast to the head.
30:57
Which I and he was twitting a little bit so there was just
31:01
another blast to the hand. I'm trying to get it.
31:03
Trying to take him out as peacefully and.
31:07
Humanely as possible attempting that.
31:11
Unfortunately you splatter brains across this very nice
31:13
rug. Now this rug is ruined.
31:16
He is very dead. Extremely.
31:19
There's only one God left, and he's underneath Iona.
31:22
Ooh Ooh. And it's Vandel's turn.
31:29
But do do I keep him alive? Do we question him?
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What do I do? I don't know.
31:33
I've never strangled anyone before.
31:35
Really. Oh, that's a personal question.
31:36
Anyway, continue. Do I keep him alive?
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Group vote Creep Vote. Kill him.
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Treadmill. Treadmill.
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Treadmill. Treadmill.
31:50
You heard him, Vandel Treadmill. OK.
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And Vendel comes over to you and drags this guy over to the
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treadmill and hovers his face over the tarmac as it's spinning
32:02
at full speed now. Are we Are we doing like a talk
32:06
or you'll die or we just fucking killing him?
32:09
It would be really cruel to not give him a chance.
32:16
Is is it me or Vendel? Vendel.
32:17
Are you? Are you persuading or am I?
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You're you're the one with the with the whip around his neck.
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I'd say it's you. You're also I'm terrible at
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social things. You're right.
32:26
Talk or die. Talk or die, bitch.
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I will find this. He's doing great.
32:33
Thanks. Tell us where Walker's going. 21
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That's a good role. He's going to be really scared.
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No, I'm really scared. No, I'm walking went to.
32:44
Well, he just meets us at the Bubble Cafe and then we came
32:47
here. So I actually don't know,
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honestly where he is. And that's the truth.
32:51
I promise. Please don't kill me like you
32:53
kill. And ruined that rug.
32:54
That rug was nice. Find out who hired him.
32:57
Who? Who hired you?
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Mrs. Walker? I mean, he's normally a boss,
33:03
which I just got hired by a PMC called the Cavalry.
33:06
I just show up. It's just a job.
33:09
Are you do? You believe in magic Guy it.
33:11
Was about Magic Guy. I do.
33:15
If I believe in Magic Eye, do I get to live?
33:18
If you promise not to hold a vendetta against us, I will let
33:20
you live. No, I think I'm kind of done
33:22
with trying to people in that city.
33:24
It really took you fucked up Everyone.
33:26
That guy over there is dead. Walker's like, I'm genuinely
33:30
sure he's not human, but he pays very, very well.
33:33
But I don't want to fuck with that.
33:34
I'll just pretend I'm dead. I can thank my own death.
33:38
I'll just find a medic. I'm I'm good with that.
33:40
Does anyone have any? No color.
33:42
I just know I'm good. I'll just leave no city.
33:45
I'll go to Texas or something. This is fucked.
33:48
This is way too much work. My mom said I wasn't turned out
33:50
for this. I don't want to.
33:52
His face is all fucked. I would just like to let
33:55
everything. My leg hurts.
33:57
You electrocute me and you can stop.
34:00
I promise. Sorry.
34:01
He still hasn't answered my question.
34:05
Tell him you believe it, not your guy.
34:07
I believe in magic. I kill.
34:08
Him. Kill him now.
34:10
What? No, no, He's.
34:12
Don't kill him. Don't kill him.
34:14
Don't kill. Him I I only.
34:17
I only listen to Iona. I'm not going to.
34:19
We're going to let this one go team.
34:25
Great. That's that's.
34:25
I unwrap the the whip from his neck.
34:28
Vendel pins the guy to the ground with the cybernetic leg.
34:32
Don't fucking move. Is that right?
34:37
Yeah, yeah, I was just. Going to let them go scared.
34:39
Yeah, it was, really. Scary.
34:40
Well, I mean, Iona, I don't mean to point out the obvious.
34:44
I mean, combat's over. But like, why were they here?
34:47
Why were you here? Turn the treadmill back.
34:50
On. No, no.
34:52
We we we just came here to try and find Claire's computer.
34:58
We couldn't find the one in the belt in the bedroom's been
35:00
deleted and it's really dusty. Weird.
35:02
What information did you need? Any.
35:07
It's a Recon job. That's vague.
35:09
There's a guy on the balcony. Here currently.
35:13
Yeah, there's a there's a guy on the balcony.
35:17
One of the girls. Soundproof.
35:18
So he definitely didn't hear the fight, but there's a guy on the
35:20
balcony. Well, he did not even hear One
35:22
blocker jumped at the window was on.
35:24
The other side of the building, my city is loud.
35:27
True. Jeb, why don't you go check that
35:30
out? I'm just.
35:33
I don't know if. OK, fine.
35:34
I'll kill him. Yeah, I mean, you don't have to
35:38
show him. Wait, I don't have to do it?
35:40
If he renounces his cavalry ways and moves to Texas, I gesture
35:46
all right, regularly. To the oxen.
35:49
My friend Jeremy, if you tell him everyone's Walking Dead, I'm
35:51
sure he's a massive pussy and we'll definitely just ask to
35:55
leave. Also, he could Take Me Home.
35:58
We could go to Texas together. You could.
36:03
I would like to not die. And I understand the
36:06
relationship between you and Jeremy, my friend.
36:09
No, Little no. Thank you.
36:12
Where is he again? Which way is out back?
36:16
The door over there. This one.
36:21
Yeah, yeah, at the back. I can't move.
36:23
I'm stuck. OK, sorry, I got stuck on that
36:28
chair. I did two earlier actually.
36:31
It's just collision. You open the door and you head
36:37
into the bedroom and there through the window.
36:40
You can. Just if you head over to the
36:42
window, you can just about see that Outback.
36:46
There he is, guy standing on the balcony.
36:51
Oh wait, this is the balcony. Yeah, you can see the balcony
36:55
and out on the balcony there's a guy facing out having a
36:57
cigarette looking out in tonight city.
36:59
It's mid afternoon at this point.
37:01
I, I knocked on the door. Knock, knock, knock.
37:04
Hello. He puts a gun at you.
37:06
Oh, whoa, whoa, hold on, Jeremy. It's all it's all good my.
37:10
Name Wait, that's bad. I.
37:12
Think no, no, it's actually good for you.
37:16
Because listen, I've been told to let you know that you are the
37:22
lucky winner of a chance. To not die?
37:28
Yeah, your buddy in there. I've forgot his name already.
37:31
Max. Max, is that it?
37:33
Is that the one that you two are close?
37:35
Well, you know Max is on the verge of death, but don't worry,
37:39
he's he's he's not dying. Not in our watch.
37:43
As long as you and him start a new life without weapons and
37:49
violence and move to specifically the Lone Star
37:54
State. Oh, is he really going to go to
37:56
Texas? As we say us.
37:58
And he did hand over his guns. So I'm going to need you to hand
38:02
over yours and then leave that city and.
38:07
The I'd like to keep my gun, not to.
38:10
Shave you is not because. Of the of the previously
38:13
mentioned Lone Star State, I'll tell you what Role Persuasion
38:17
20, I will leave. Painter.
38:20
Your name? Really good.
38:21
I was. I was just, I was just hanging
38:23
out on the balcony. Yeah, but.
38:25
But again, like, I've got to walk through Night City.
38:27
I'm going to protect my friend who is hurt, I'm assuming.
38:30
And I can understand that, but you're going to have to do it in
38:33
a pacifist kind of way, because I'll, I'll.
38:36
Put my gun away. I was.
38:38
I was slacking off on the balcony.
38:39
I've almost finished my cigarette.
38:40
You want. One No.
38:42
But I will take your gun. No.
38:43
No, no, you'd have to roll 24 by that.
38:46
Well. Yeah, Sir, I'm sorry.
38:48
I'm not going to trust you to get to get out of here and
38:50
restart your life in a pacifistic, nonviolent way if
38:55
you have. Not seen without a piece.
38:57
Are you fucking nuts? It take her to leave.
39:01
It that is like 24 or above my guy.
39:03
Let's roll. I'm I'm just.
39:05
I'm just laying down the the rules of the deal.
39:09
Either rock out of here with the.
39:10
Rules of the role. That is how this is happening.
39:13
So you can take my gun from my cold, dead hands?
39:17
So be it. Oh shit.
39:20
You're shooting Jeremy well. Listen, he is.
39:26
I've been, I've been. I'm not gonna let him shoot me
39:28
in back just because. That's fair.
39:30
Yeah. Yeah.
39:31
Yeah. He's.
39:32
He wasn't gonna. He wasn't gonna.
39:34
I don't believe him. Right, you hit him for remember,
39:37
he's got full armor, you hit him for a little bit of armor blinks
39:41
off and he takes 0 damage because his armor was.
39:46
Was 11, so just a bit of a time that falls off and flies off the
39:49
balcony. I said I wasn't going to shoot
39:52
you. And you're still not doing it.
39:54
I'm just going to take Max. Well, you know what?
39:57
And I host my gun. I walk over to them and I shake
39:58
his hand. I said.
40:00
That was a test. New past, Great work.
40:03
You know, I'm just really proud of you.
40:05
For. For immediately staying true to
40:07
those new beliefs of yours, pacifist and nonviolence.
40:12
Love is the answer. No more more lazy than anything
40:17
else. I usually walk into the room if
40:19
there's any like serious stuff afterwards, like, oh shit, did
40:22
you guys do it? That's been my MO for the last
40:24
few weeks. Well.
40:26
Regardless of how you get to your destination, if the
40:29
destination is Pacificity, then I consider you a good ma'am.
40:35
Whatever lets you leave without me dying?
40:37
That sounds fine. Did you kill the Panther thing?
40:39
Nothing's fucked. You don't have to worry about
40:41
that. OK.
40:42
And he walks with you back into the rest.
40:44
Of the apartment. Oh, hey.
40:46
Hi everyone. Oh, Max, you look really fucked
40:49
up. I'm.
40:50
Really fucked up. Oh, hey, Jeremy.
40:52
I love you. No, I I love you, too.
40:55
We should go to Texas. You guys need anything else?
40:57
I'm. I'm going to take him.
40:59
This is nice. Please take him.
41:02
Do we have anything for Max to eat?
41:06
Anything. Yeah, for A doctor in the house.
41:09
I suppose I could help out. That would be nice considering
41:14
I'm assuming you shot him and you all you guys.
41:19
Yeah, it. Was a.
41:20
Team Team Effort I. Mean.
41:22
To be fair, they shot us first. Yeah, well, I mean, they pay us
41:26
up front, so we're going to take that money and run.
41:28
I've done like 3 jobs for them. I've got like some cash.
41:32
So won't be a good life for us. We and Max, thanks.
41:38
You know, just for the record, not every God wants to die in
41:41
battle. I certainly didn't.
41:45
Yeah, So I'm I'm. Can I just take him?
41:48
I'm just going. To go, yeah, I I believe so.
41:52
Yeah, I patch you up real quick and.
41:56
Should be. Good to go.
41:57
Thank you. Oh, you wrote Medical Check 17?
42:00
Oh, yeah. No, I healed a little bit.
42:01
I think I can put some weight on this light now.
42:05
OK. Thank you for not killing me, I
42:07
guess. Oh man, that rug is so fucked
42:09
up. Well, you know, I think we
42:11
should get, you know, wipable surfaces in our place.
42:15
That's a great idea. You can hear the Get into the
42:17
elevator. That's so nice.
42:18
I really love you. No, I love you.
42:20
So it's. Going to be OK and the elevator
42:24
door closes. You're left alone in Claire's
42:27
apartment. That was weird.
42:29
I know that was strange. But we were talking about doing
42:35
good things and I think not killing everyone we come across
42:38
might be a good thing. Yeah, you know what?
42:42
That was that's a good. It's baby stamps.
42:46
Yeah, I mean, I'm sorry that I said kill him.
42:51
That wasn't very good for me. There is a dead guy in the
42:54
middle of the room. Yeah, that one's.
42:56
It's too late for that one. No, obviously he's dead.
42:59
And one liner threw himself out the window with the Panthers.
43:02
So yeah. Wow, we're going to see that
43:05
again. It's like 2, right?
43:08
Or am I just hoping well? I bet you they didn't know about
43:11
Claire's secret room. There's a secret room.
43:13
Yeah, Jeb behind the mirror in the bedroom.
43:16
I was like, I'm behind here. That that's what I mean.
43:20
Bendel, are you OK? What do you mean?
43:23
Well, you said apartment when we went bar, and then now you're
43:26
calling me Jeb. Did I call you Jeb?
43:28
I didn't mean to. You need some water, that's all.
43:30
Yeah, I'm going to go to the kitchen and get some water
43:34
Retro. Do you want to go and check the?
43:35
Yeah, I'll go check this mirror. Scope out this mirror over here.
43:41
There is a secret tour in the corner that you've already
43:45
found, so you know it's there and it's.
43:48
Locked. I unlock it.
43:51
I press the button. Sure, Open Sesame.
43:55
And it unlocks now. Going back into this little
44:00
room, you can see a whiteboard with which you've already
44:03
examined in the past. It hasn't had anything new put
44:06
on it. There is a computer in the
44:08
corner which you've searched before.
44:10
There's a draw in the desk and there's a cabinet in this room
44:13
as well. I'm just gonna, let's see here.
44:17
So I've gone through the computer, I don't think there's
44:19
anything there. And then we've already taken
44:22
pictures of the whiteboard. Well, I'm gonna go ahead and.
44:27
Rustle through everything else then.
44:28
So I'll go through the desk and I'll go through the drawers.
44:32
Roll Perception 12. Yes, Good. 12 was the DV.
44:36
Well done. Yay.
44:38
Yeah, right. Rubber Drummer.
44:40
Drummer. Drummer.
44:41
Rubbish. Let's see.
44:46
Keycard something. Let's see.
44:50
I'm going to walk back out to the living room with everybody
44:52
else. I didn't find any tickets or
44:54
anything in there, but I found this keycard.
44:57
Says the market in binary so well.
45:03
That's probably the ticket for the night market.
45:06
Oh, yeah, that's right. We were looking for the night
45:08
market ticket. All right, does.
45:10
Anyone think that we should take the computer?
45:13
The computer. Oh, the one in the.
45:15
Room. Yeah, there's a computer in
45:17
there, but we searched that when we were here, I think.
45:22
But other people want the computer.
45:23
And if we just leave it in Claire's apartment?
45:26
They're brown to come back. You know what?
45:28
Let's take it. That's really small.
45:30
Take the whole thing. Sort of thing that gets you
45:33
inspiration. Didn't think about that.
45:37
And one last thing that I want to do before we leave and I look
45:43
under the bed. And there, folded neatly, is a
45:49
simple blue blanket that smells like sandal.
45:53
This is it. This is.
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What she was looking. A blanket?
45:57
Yeah. What's that you got there?
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This is Claire's. Her dad gave it to her and she
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asked if I could get it for. Her.
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Something like that, yes. I I hope this helps her feel
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better. Well.
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That does carrying the computer. I've got the computer.
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OK, I'm just going to go to the washroom and.
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Clean all of this off of me because I realize that I'm
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covered in dust. So we're sure we're not getting
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paid for this one. We're good people now, Jeb.
46:38
We're good people. Next time on no latency.
46:57
There's only a handful invited to this exclusive event.
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It's. Sure to be a night.
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To remember. They don't take stances, they
47:03
just give us the facts. If you knew April, you might not
47:06
say. That people have been trying to
47:07
murder me for pretty much my entire adult life.
47:09
What does this ticket say? Kerrigan we know will be there.
47:13
Yeah, it's a knockoff. I would love to find the real
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thing there. Ooh, those are really nice.
47:18
I mean, we could probably find nice things for all of.
47:21
Now here's the thing. Do we take?
47:23
Them the right way or the wrong way?
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Yeah, I found the minibar. Just checked if and L it is.
47:28
Right. I did hear about that.
47:30
I'm sorry, what? I wasn't listening.
47:31
Jeb, I take offense to that. I'm in a very chic business suit
47:35
that I made myself. Wow, that one is so.
47:38
Cool. It's a first edition, yeah.
47:40
Yeah, I think I won't buy that in an.
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Event of a lockdown, there'd be no ins or outs.
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I'll slip in business card. Neurosurgeon, actually.
47:48
The fuck. That's a really wordy way to
47:52
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