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  Last time on no latency. We got to find tuna.
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  Where is he? Yeah, I guess he just went right
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  on in. Everybody's gone, right?
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  It's. A bit morbid, but that's the
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  case. I will keep that in mind.
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  Thanks Tuna. We should.
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  Get in the van and go to the side.
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  I'm driving. That's copilot stuff.
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  What do I feel Remember? What do I still gaslight me?
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  And like anything old gaslight, it definitely takes us 15
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  minutes just to get to a door. Oh no, Bang Bang jab.
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  No bang. Bang, we're gonna get whipped.
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  Whipped. Yes, when you put it that way.
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  That's a lot of damage. I'm in.
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  Problem solved, mission accomplished and.
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  Jeb, did you just shoot? Who shot in here?
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  We. Thought we had a rule.
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  Anyway, what are we doing here? Strange.
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  Usually our security is a little tighter than that.
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  Do we? Recognize the voice.
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  Steve 0 as your creations forget to breathe.
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  I hang up. Answer me.
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  Why'd you do that? I panicked.
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  Can you still like trace it? Potentially, but it's going to.
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  It's just going to make it more hard.
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  I could have tracked the IP code on that.
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  Well, that's what that's what I'm thinking.
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  There's probably message exchanges or emails.
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  Couldn't you like find the IP from that and the locate
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  triangulate the location? I mean, you've already got a lot
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  of the data, couldn't you use that too?
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  Yeah, I'm, I'm with you on that. I just from what I heard when we
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  were walking in was that they were trying to take some kind of
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  compound and I wanted to know what it was they're trying to
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  take well. I We.
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  Would have been able to have more information.
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  Well, if you put two and two together, they're using body
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  fuel skin, that's probably they need more of that compound and.
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  This is the way they. Conceived.
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  Yes, we we also need it. So we we should.
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  We, we should. Oh yes, OK, yes, stealing is
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  probably the best point here. So nobody knows that I took it.
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  I I wouldn't know. I I don't steal anything from
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  Biotechnica. I love stealing.
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  It's, it's kind of like one of the best things.
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  It's one of the things I'm good at.
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  That and racing. Yeah.
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  That and racing and I'm making friends for life, am I right?
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  And I. You are right.
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  Stick out of hand to Vandel. So with all the information that
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  you've gathered retro, you've got the three different signals
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  from these three different receivers and the extra data
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  from this tile on the lap of this inanimate Zeve.
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  You rolled a 26. And I'm going to tell you right
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  now, this triangulation check is a high DV.
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  It's a DV of 18. But we did decide here in the
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  little House of GM that there is 4 different outcomes to this
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  choice. Oh.
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  Yeah. And as you click into this
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  signal, you actually hear a little bit of the signal over
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  your radio in that static with your with your 26, which I'm
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  going to consider a crit success, even though it isn't
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  actually a crit. You can hear, you can hear Steve
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  0 complain. They know.
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  That we're coming. Well, now.
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  Now they know that I'm. I know.
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  That they're, they're going. To come here, maybe it'll just
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  be a matter of time before they find out so you keep an eye on
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  the ping signal. God.
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  All right, it's time. It's gonna be OK, all.
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  Right, so. Make sure you activate all the
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  traps and don't forget the poison dart lot 1 like you did
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  last time. What do you mean it's broken?
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  If you want to, if you want to have insight on anything that
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  was just said, please roll human perception.
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  Otherwise, deduce yourself. Wow.
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  Was it on loudspeaker? Yes, it was.
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  Oh, no, Yeah. I mean, yeah, it came out of my
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  face. Of course it's on loudspeaker.
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  I have a question. Yes.
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  Because all tiles have cameras and Remy Rolda current success,
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  is it possible that it was also access to the camera and it
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  played on his face? On Retro's face.
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  Yeah, like, like, like the your CIA agent that's assigned to
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  watch your your phone. Yeah, they didn't put the
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  privacy cover over the camera for it.
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  All right, well. Yeah, because, because Remy's
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  receiving it in their head, right?
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  Yes, unfortunately I just rolled A9 very, very high, and so that
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  means all you really get is an upshot of Steve Zero's chin and
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  a ceiling. But the ceiling is made of green
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  shipping container material. The other thing that you get
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  with this signal, by the way, is the location of where the signal
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  is coming from. You're all 26.
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  Of course, you know where that is.
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  It's in North Knight City, on the outskirts of the corporate
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  district. Yeah, yeah.
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  So we got quite a bit of good information on that bit then.
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  Iona, as you look at the video, you also notice a pimple.
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  Oh, that's it's, It's postulating.
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  What? What's postulating?
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  Oh just T 0 is needs a face wash.
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  I can understand, kind of. There was a time when my face
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  just broke out all over. I was young.
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  So this I was young. To be young.
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  This Steve 0 What's what's his deal?
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  Oh. Phoebe you don't know anything
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  about this. Phoebe.
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  So do you remember the the gold guys that were running around
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  ruining everything? Yes.
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  The Steeves. The the Steeves, yes.
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  So they they were clones. I don't know if you know that.
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  I assumed they were all copies of somebody named Steve.
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  Well, this is the original, the OG that's.
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  The Ogi thought like he was dead or something.
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  He was imprisoned. By us.
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  And we may or may not have let him out on accident, kind of.
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  We did not let. Him out, we forgot.
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  Let him out, we just forgot. Which is.
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  OK, yeah, we made a mistake and we we grow and we learn.
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  And everybody makes mistakes. I didn't realize it was like Pat
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  Rawls. But also we we had a button that
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  made his legs go all floppy, but it's not working anymore.
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  It was very funny. No, it was fun.
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  That was fun, I will admit. So what's our goal with this
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  Steve Zero? He is faux.
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  We do not want to. He is foe, that's for sure.
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  He's foe. I'm not sure why we even kept in
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  to begin with. I think that was kind of early
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  in our careers and we kind of thought that maybe we could keep
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  him as a pet or something. Not exactly sure whose idea that
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  was. You were supposed to feed him,
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  Jeff. It was because he was an expert
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  on clones and we needed his advice.
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  No. Well, yeah, remember, because we
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  need to. Because of you know that our
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  friend who had. Some some clone business.
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  Issues. Yes, some business with clones
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  and so we, we we cause Sawtooth used to work with them.
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  So they worked together to to to work out more things about
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  clones. Right.
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  Yeah. But but he's kind of served his
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  purpose by this point, so we could probably dispose of him.
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  I think so. That's kind of what I'm saying
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  is that there is no reason at all to keep him around any
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  longer than he already has. So we're going to demonetize
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  them then? That's correct.
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  Yeah. I think that's completely fair
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  to do at this point. Hope for a callback.
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  That's A Season 1 callback and a half.
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  I haven't barely said that anymore.
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  I try to. I try to sprinkle it in every
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  once in a while. Like on copies?
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  If you like on cupcakes. Especially when you eat the
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  whole wrapper, it's really something else.
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  When you eat the whole thing, you know the The best part is if
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  you take the top of the cupcake where the icing is, flip it,
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  tear it in half, flip it upside down so it becomes a sandwich
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  and. Then you just put the.
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  Whole thing in your mouth. The whole.
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  Like wrapper and all. Yes, did.
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  You just did. You just teach me how to make a
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  cupcake sandwich. Yes, they did.
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  It was something my grandma used to do.
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  She also ate the wrapper. I think that's probably where I
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  got it. I mean, it is very fabrous, so
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  it's not the worst thing. It's it's also good luck if you
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  eat the whole thing. If you if you you only get one
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  cupcake. That was the rule.
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  So you better make the most of it is.
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  That how you make your luck get up.
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  I just use a long rest. It's a long, long rest.
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  Well, as we debate about cupcakes making our way back to
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  the making our. Way.
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  Downtown. Vanna White I'm assuming we also
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  got what we needed from here. No, I can't pick it up because I
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  I need plausible deniability. So if one of you could do it.
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  This tank over here please Retro.
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  Fine. I'll go over to do it.
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  Jeff can't. Jeff can't grab it because he
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  might drink it. That's true.
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  It's happening. Against me, you, you, you both,
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  actually all three of you are my witnesses.
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  I have not stolen anything. That's fine, but but you're
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  probably going to have to hold that against you because it's
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  really heavy. And so it's going to.
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  Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
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  Do the shuffle. That's good.
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  Do the shuffle. That's good.
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  Get careful in the stairs. Retro.
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  Careful, Careful. Stop.
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  Stop pointing out. Don't.
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  Double step with the only canister of Bobby body feel
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  skin. Holy.
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  Crap. Do you need help retro?
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  No, I need you all to pivot yourselves out of the room and
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  let me do this. Oh yeah, easy.
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  I get it. Yeah.
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  Because we're mates. Because we're an accent from
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  that show, mates. Mates polycule.
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  It's super weird anyway. I mean, yeah.
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  Where are we going? Retro No one is helping you with
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  this canister and you've dragged it out to the car.
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  Now put it inside. I hi offered.
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  Well, you need to have plausible deniability like other people
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  do. I see.
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  That's all right. You're all going to get yours
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  later. That's that's for fair.
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  All right, we got this thing. I know we should remember to
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  call for clean up. Oh, shoot.
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  Oh, so right. Should we, should I just do that
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  now? Yeah.
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  Yeah, just just, you know, call. You can do it via text.
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  We don't have to do like a an NPC bit or anything.
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  Just roll for bureaucracy. But what if I wanted to do it?
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  You can if you want, I don't mind.
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  No, it's OK. I don't want to.
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  I actually don't want. I really don't want thank.
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  You you called me on my bluff DM.
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  I actually really don't. Want to do?
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  It I've already spoken to the receptionist from Ghostbusters
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  once this month, I don't need to do it again. 21 Yes, you get a
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  text message confirming that the location cleanup has been
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  registered. You gained points for clean,
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  working at work clean, and then of course the cleaning itself
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  was charged to your account and it cost 240 eddies.
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  It also places me here. I did not even think about that.
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  So I dragged this out for nothing.
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  High enough that although you do have to pay once the payment
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  goes through, you will not be listed as the person who called
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  it in since the line is anonymous.
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  But you still have to pay because you rolled over 21.
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  I will give you that. Yeah, you don't have like dark
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  money accounts. Offshore accounts.
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  Not that you know of. No, we don't.
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  Everyone get in the van. I say it.
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  Was very SUS. Yeah, it's not SUS, baby.
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  I don't know what you're talking about.
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  I really like your costume. Did somebody say that they were
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  talking to a receptionist? It looked just like Annie Potts
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  because I would be very interested.
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  No, it was. It was.
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  I'm not sure who any parts is, if I'm be straightforward with
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  you. Yeah, you wouldn't.
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  She'd probably just ghost you anyway.
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  Let's go away. Not sure what that means.
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  It's a. Ghostbusters joke, Jeb.
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  That's why that's funny. Oh, I still don't get.
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  It it's OK, we shouldn't really cross the streams anyway.
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  Rummy if you could copilot for Jeb and put in the coordinates
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  that he needs to go to since he can't do it himself.
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  Oh, OK, I'll all right. I'm going to put it on Jeff mode
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  and just really and big in the screen and put it in Comic Sans
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  and just like follow the line. Follow the line.
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  See, that's the thing they don't, they don't tell you is
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  that you can be great at driving and be terrible with directions.
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  Actually, I I've also input like a little Vanna white with Jeb
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  sticking out. So every time that Jeb makes a,
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  a, a proper turn, you get to, they get to see a little Jeb go,
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  yeah. That's adorable. 28 basic tech
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  Yes you set up this projection sat NAV in Vanna white.
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  That's way better than the regular 1 giving giving Jeb a +
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  1 to his driving check if he wants to arrive to this compound
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  silently. I suppose that I do.
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  We we definitely do because when I overheard the doc, they were
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  saying that that we were coming and coming and coming and coming
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  and I don't want them to know what.
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  What? Did they say what is OK?
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  That's a 20, which is a 25. Yes, you arrive outside of the
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  Zeve base. Zeve Base.
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  The Zeve base you've. Come in silent.
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  It is a collection of shipping containers that have been welded
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  and stacked together. It almost feels like Zeve
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  created this to try and hold you back for as long as possible,
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  but you're standing outside the front of it and there's a door
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  and that's it. OK, first, Jeb, don't touch the
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  door. Also, we know there are traps
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  because Iona found that out. Yeah, that was that was.
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  Thanks, Vidal. Yes, very good.
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  You. I'm glad you were paying
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  attention to the video. Do you remember which traps they
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  were? Vendel.
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  All I heard was that the poison trap doesn't work well.
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  They were trying. To get to fix.
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  They might. Yeah, they might have gotten it
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  fixed by now. Poison darts, I think.
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  Poison darts, OK. Phoebe, do you have anything for
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  poisoning? I do have an antidote, yes, but.
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  That's good. I have one.
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  Better than none. I also have ginger.
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  I also have ginger ale so if gisner.
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  L. Yeah, I have Gisner L, So if any
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  of us get upset timings from it, we we could we'll be OK with
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  that. Or, or if we get a, you know,
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  just a thirst for a delicious drink.
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  It is very delicious. Jeb is right, yeah.
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  Also true. All right, so how are we doing
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  this? Reaching clear, I believe no.
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  I was going to say usual reaching clear the huge, the
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  huge. I don't think Dell thing is
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  necessary here. Oh, you don't.
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  Oh, no. Because they know that we're
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  they, they, like they said, they knew.
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  They know that we're coming. And now we've came.
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  We're here. We're all, if you think about
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  it, we all came together. Yes, as one.
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  Vivi, What's so funny? Vivi's just.
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  Like giggling like. Vivi, have you ever Have you
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  never? Have you never come?
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  No, no, Vivi's come over plenty of times.
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  Yeah, she's. I feel like I feel like both me
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  and Vivi have come together plenty of.
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  Time. I really feel like, I really
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  feel like your costume's incredibly becoming.
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  Please stop. That's what they said, Phoebe.
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  'S done. Like personally, I think it's
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  important that whoever you're with.
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  Phoebe, hold on. I got to.
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  I'm going to do a first aid check.
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  Are you OK? I feel like you've kind of been
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  like affected by something because you are laughing way too
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  much. Sorry, sorry, sorry.
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  OK, Stop everybody. Stop making me laugh.
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  Just come over here. Yeah, come on, people.
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  God, please, we're going to break our cover.
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  OK, OK, OK. Come on.
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  Baby, you're an adult. Do we?
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  Do we knock? And then just when they come
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  down to the door, you know, do the thing.
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  Yeah, just just bust on in there.
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  Yes, this is your specialty. I'm.
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  I'm waiting for your direction, Jeb.
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  Nothing. I'm ready.
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  I'm ready when you are. I'm ready to pull the.
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  Trigger. Yeah, lead.
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  Go ahead, lead. OK, All right.
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  I mean, usually I like it when the people I'm with come first,
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  but I guess I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll go, I'll go in.
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  We're right behind you, Jeff. We're coming right after.
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  You Bridge and Blair. Jeff, you launch into a room,
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  thrusting yourself in there. You step down the stairs and
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  there is a Zeve on the other side of the room just looking
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  at. You well, Dan, do we, do we even
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  bother shooting these guys or do we just try to find the
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  transceiver firstly? I think we just go right for the
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  transceiver. I think you're right.
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  Let's get it. And I run in.
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  I can't run very far, but I get about halfway through the room.
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  And Jeb. No, no, Jeb, I need you to roll
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  evasion, because as you get about halfway through the room,
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  the floor opens up. Oh.
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  around the table. So you need to roll high because
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  you said you went to the the you went, you went to this position
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  here. Yeah, you're in the trap.
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  Your momentum is forward. So you need to make a 20 foot
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  gap. Oh shit, I is there.
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  Is there coyote time for a moment?
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  Do you have mirthful Leap? Unfortunately, no.
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  Athletics evasion, whatever you want.
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  There it is, shit. Woof mate, woof.
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  Oh. Jeb.
• 21:51
  Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, I've I've I've got some sad news for you.
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  The DV for avoiding the strap was 21 and you rolled an 18.
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  You fall in this pit into the darkness and at the very bottom
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  of the pit. The darkness.
• 22:07
  As you land on something soft and gross, there are two red
• 22:15
  headed boomer thieves in this pit with you, and the one right
• 22:21
  next to you looks at you, smiles a little bit, and begins to
• 22:25
  tick. You don't have long.
• 22:27
  You're standing right next to one of the most explosive
• 22:30
  enemies you've seen for any Halloween ever.
• 22:39
  Watch out Jamie. He's coming right for you,
• 22:41
  Jamie. Be careful.
• 22:43
  Don't worry, I'm going to. I'm going to take out my, my
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  bladed, my, my fucking my car, taking up my combat shovel and
• 22:51
  I'm slicing his head off and then I'm going to try to throw
• 22:55
  the head up to you guys. So just be aware it's coming.
• 23:00
  You have a grappling hook, OK. Yeah, but I forgot about that.
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  I yelled it. Well, I didn't hear that.
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  Shovel, yes, 22 but not a crit so you don't manage to get the
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  head above the pit, instead it falls over to the other side of
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  the pit. Yeah, Oh geez.
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  Separating. From the body, but you did not
• 23:22
  separate the head from the aerial and it explodes.
• 23:27
  I have to roll this loading. Double explosion all the way
• 23:31
  across the sky. Wow, you really popped that 10.
• 23:37
  All that's bad, All that's bad. Oh, Oh no.
• 23:42
  Oh, that's that's a that's a crit 18.
• 23:44
  And when they roll an 18, it means that they do two rings of
• 23:48
  explosion around them, not one. Jeb, you have an evasion.
• 23:53
  You have a place to go. There is space in this pit for
• 23:56
  you not to get hurt, but in order to do that, you have to
• 23:59
  roll an evasion that beats an 18.
• 24:04
  I recommend using Luck well. I've I've too, but also come on
• 24:09
  jabs. Luck.
• 24:10
  Otherwise you will take. You will die. 66 damage Oh.
• 24:16
  Fuck 6. I can survive that.
• 24:18
  That's no problem. That's.
• 24:20
  But also I'm gonna use two. I'm gonna use two.
• 24:22
  I'm gonna use two. Luck.
• 24:24
  Don't you worry about it. Don't you worry about it.
• 24:26
  How did that stay so I can this? Oh fuck.
• 24:33
  Do it hit? Me.
• 24:35
  You won't, Jeb. You won't Jeb.
• 24:37
  You have an inspiration. I gave it to you last week.
• 24:39
  Yeah, that's right. Just pointing that you won't.
• 24:42
  You're going to use your inspiration here.
• 24:44
  I know you are. Yeah, I'm going to use my
• 24:46
  inspiration here. But that is start telling.
• 24:54
  The story right now? Oh.
• 24:55
  My God, Oh my God, that's another great fail Jeb.
• 25:01
  You get hit with 21 damage, which in total is 10 damage,
• 25:06
  singing your your armour, ablating it by three in the
• 25:11
  process and you have taken a hit.
• 25:14
  It flings you to the corner of this pit, and the two boomers
• 25:17
  Eves in this pit with you die in an explosion in the corner.
• 25:23
  That wasn't even 1/4 of my health.
• 25:25
  I'm fine. But it was a very big chunk of
• 25:28
  your armor that was like 3 rounds of wear and tear.
• 25:33
  Yeah, all I'm saying is that you can hit me harder.
• 25:36
  Come on. And you're lucky.
• 25:38
  You're lucky that first one threw you over because the other
• 25:40
  one crit rolled a crit success on their explosion.
• 25:44
  But they're further away from you, so that explosion doesn't
• 25:47
  come near you. It just singes you as you smell
• 25:51
  the bodies beneath you slightly crisp and get crisper with the
• 25:56
  fire that cascades open. That one also was an exploding
• 26:01
  dice too. It doesn't matter though, he's
• 26:02
  nowhere near it, and you're now sitting in the pit, covered in
• 26:07
  in in flicks of blood and singed piece of armor, and there's a
• 26:11
  little bit of quietness in the bottom of the pit as everyone
• 26:14
  steps into the room to look down upon you.
• 26:17
  Jeb Oh, are you? Are you all right?
• 26:22
  No. All right, OK, We're we're
• 26:26
  coming. We're coming.
• 26:26
  Don't move. Don't move too much.
• 26:28
  Oh, Jeb. Oh man, this is going to be a
• 26:31
  rough one to patch up. Yeah, someone throw down a rope
• 26:34
  or something. Aren't you OK to come up by
• 26:37
  yourself? Do you need help?
• 26:40
  Should we put you on a stretcher?
• 26:41
  How bad? Hold on, hold on.
• 26:43
  Do you guys? You guys must have forgot that I
• 26:46
  had AI have a graveling hood. We forgot just kind of stand
• 26:54
  just to make sure that it, you know, latches on to the to the
• 26:57
  lip of the this hole. Yeah.
• 27:04
  You have to roll for it now. It doesn't like to be.
• 27:07
  Oh, oh, OK. Because you roll, it rolls your
• 27:10
  handgun skill. Handgun skill Great that I like.
• 27:16
  Yeah, 27, where was that earlier?
• 27:18
  Yeah, you get out the pit, but you are still on the wrong side
• 27:22
  of the pit along with everyone else.
• 27:24
  On the other side is a Zeve that seemingly is not paying
• 27:27
  attention to you. He is looking at the wall and
• 27:31
  you're just in the first room of this Zeve base with a singed
• 27:36
  Jeb. Oh my gosh, Jeb.
• 27:40
  You. This is going to take a while to
• 27:45
  patch up. Jeff got really singed down
• 27:49
  there. Yeah, you really?
• 27:52
  You really? Popped off that that's what he
• 27:54
  gets for coming first. Yeah, man, I I exploded a little
• 28:00
  early down there. I'm sorry about that.
• 28:03
  Could we push the other Zeve into the pit?
• 28:07
  That's a good. Idea to do that?
• 28:09
  Yeah, I'll just take, I'll just fire off my grappling hand and
• 28:13
  just pull them into the. Pit.
• 28:15
  That's fabulous, yeah. That's a great.
• 28:17
  Idea That's really fun. I like that a lot. 31 yeah.
• 28:21
  You snatch him and he gets he gets thrown into the pit.
• 28:27
  So now all of the enemies in this room have been dealt with
• 28:29
  and they are in the pit below you.
• 28:31
  The pit is still open though you can see him on the ground trying
• 28:34
  to get up. I think I'll just walk around
• 28:38
  these obviously outlined edges. In order.
• 28:42
  To. Do that.
• 28:43
  If you want to do that, you still have to roll up athletics.
• 28:45
  You could try and close the the floor, but to get around the
• 28:49
  sides, although it looks like a full square, I just did that for
• 28:52
  movement. That is, you have to, you have
• 28:55
  to roll athletics together around the side.
• 28:56
  It's not difficult, but if you're all badly, you will fall.
• 29:00
  I don't know where the where the mechanism is to turn it on or
• 29:03
  off. You could roll perception and
• 29:04
  try and work it out. Yeah, but I'm high.
• 29:07
  When, when has that ever stopped Retro from looking around and
• 29:10
  and figuring it out? Also, when is that ever not the
• 29:13
  case? I just wanted to say yeah, but
• 29:17
  I'm high. Well, it's your job, retro.
• 29:21
  Figure out the tech stuff. That's the thing that you do.
• 29:24
  Fine. You roll A-17 and you see a
• 29:26
  computer console on the other side of the room that has a wire
• 29:31
  that runs along the ceiling towards the pit trap.
• 29:33
  It is the controller for it. OK, so that means that I am
• 29:41
  gonna have to get across to do that.
• 29:47
  OK, before I do, is anybody else good with computers and also
• 29:53
  probably have a better sense of centre of gravity than retro
• 29:57
  does? I should do a wall run with my
• 29:59
  sweet feet. That won't go bad.
• 30:02
  That that's kind of cool, but yeah.
• 30:04
  It's a little. Dangerous.
• 30:05
  Pretty sweet. Is that a no?
• 30:07
  Well, I. Mean the the the boomers are
• 30:10
  dead, so we don't have to worry about that.
• 30:11
  Yeah, I could fucking. Just fall into.
• 30:14
  If they do, they'll just fall back into the fleshy pit below.
• 30:17
  True, no Vendel, I think you could wall run.
• 30:19
  Let's do it. OK, I've got enough space in
• 30:21
  here. 15 feet's enough to get a run up right?
• 30:25
  Yes, I would say. So let's see what what would be.
• 30:28
  Let me just look at your sheet real fast Vendel.
• 30:33
  Skate fast, turn left. Skate.
• 30:37
  Fast turn left. Skate fast, turn left.
• 30:39
  Well, since you are emulating roller Derby, let's roll
• 30:44
  brawling. OK.
• 30:47
  So move fast, move heavy. That's what they say.
• 30:52
  That's what they say. I'm pretending yes 16.
• 30:57
  You know, I don't know roller Derby.
• 31:01
  Oh, nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 31:04
  I rolled A2, so that's great. Yes.
• 31:06
  Mendel presses up against the back wall of this room, right
• 31:11
  where you entered, pushes off the ground three or four times
• 31:13
  with really good angles and rolling A-16 skates across the
• 31:18
  side of the wall. As the skates run up and down
• 31:21
  these tiny ridges on the shipping container, Go, go, go,
• 31:24
  go, go, go, go, go, go, go gets the other side lands and even.
• 31:27
  Does just a little. Grind on the lowest step that
• 31:31
  leads into the next area, stopping shy with a little bit
• 31:34
  of a spark on the ground next to the computer.
• 31:37
  Do you know what that's called? The little bumps in the side of
• 31:40
  a shipping container. No.
• 31:43
  It's. It's corrugated metal.
• 31:46
  Corrugated metal? More like cool looking ramp for
• 31:50
  Vendel. Wow, that will actually, I feel
• 31:52
  like that played. I feel like that played.
• 31:54
  Really I'm. Probably terrible.
• 31:56
  At that, at first I was like, I don't know how they're going to
• 31:58
  get through this one. And then, yeah, you really
• 32:00
  brought it home. Well, you really did.
• 32:02
  Well, I mean, Retro's already pointed out the computer.
• 32:05
  So if I just push this button that says close pit, that's.
• 32:08
  Yeah, that's part of the path. Oh.
• 32:12
  Awesome. That works, yeah.
• 32:13
  Good job. Good job, Vendel.
• 32:15
  I got a leg over that. I see what you did there.
• 32:18
  It's all right, everybody. Let's leave that Zeb trapped in
• 32:22
  a pit forever. Oh.
• 32:25
  Oh. It it won't be alive for very
• 32:27
  long. That's true.
• 32:28
  I mean, they're also not people, right?
• 32:30
  And haven't we decided? That I don't know, Deb.
• 32:33
  We had a long conversation about that before our clones people.
• 32:38
  The world may never know anyway. This conversation continues as
• 32:43
  Vivi and Iona step into the next room.
• 32:46
  All. Right, this room probably also
• 32:50
  booby trapped. Wrong perception.
• 32:52
  I mean, looking at the floor of this like an indent, I could
• 32:56
  percept that you're right. Let me just take that back.
• 32:58
  No, no, you're allowed to. You can say what you see.
• 33:00
  That's that's that's passive perception.
• 33:01
  But if you want to know more about it, you roll for.
• 33:03
  It great. Yeah, I can.
• 33:04
  I can see there's a a depression here in the floor which I assume
• 33:09
  is another. Booby trap, Phoebe, you rolled
• 33:13
  18. Now what's funny is is you're
• 33:16
  the medical professional so you recognize this easier than
• 33:20
  everyone else. Everyone else would have a
• 33:22
  higher DV in this room, but you realize that these walls are
• 33:27
  covered with modified syringe injectors for a poison dart
• 33:33
  trap. Modified syringe.
• 33:36
  So it would fire syringes through the room that are poison
• 33:39
  darts. Yeah, this is this is just a
• 33:44
  nothing but poison darts. We take one wrong step, we're
• 33:51
  going to get darts flung at us from every which way.
• 33:56
  Oh man, wait. Wasn't this the one that said
• 33:57
  that wasn't working? Well, who could be?
• 34:01
  They fixed it. Do you want to test it?
• 34:05
  Because I would say not to I'm. Not fast enough.
• 34:10
  What if he'd throw something in there?
• 34:11
  Jab. Jeb hobbles.
• 34:14
  In. From behind you.
• 34:17
  I don't really have much. Oh, we're not.
• 34:20
  We we're not. He's not looking good.
• 34:22
  Sacrificing Jeb. I'm not.
• 34:24
  No, it's no, I've prefaced Jeb. Jeb's obviously the fastest one
• 34:28
  of us here. We said.
• 34:30
  Sloane in That's messed up. Well, you know, no, no,
• 34:34
  Absolutely no. I didn't say that.
• 34:38
  No, because I if we do send Sloane in, Sloane can fly.
• 34:43
  It's the line of syringes is. How far is that from the top of
• 34:51
  the from the seal? There are three parallel to each
• 34:57
  other, sort of high, mid and low for every like 5 to 10 feet.
• 35:02
  Vandell. Yes.
• 35:04
  Vandell, do you still have those?
• 35:09
  I can't remember if they were knives or shuriken that I bought
• 35:13
  you a while back. Yeah.
• 35:17
  Could you use those? And we, because this is a this
• 35:22
  is a, a metal container, right? You climb up the wall and then
• 35:27
  since it has a Ridge ceiling, you use that and you crawl along
• 35:30
  the top. That way you have you can use it
• 35:33
  to bounce your feet off of and then you could just crawl over
• 35:35
  the top like that so you don't set anything up.
• 35:37
  It looks like across the way there's another computer that
• 35:41
  probably controls this or whatever is next or.
• 35:46
  I mean, I mean that makes sense. You want to have a computer to
• 35:50
  in case the trap doesn't work properly so you can troubleshoot
• 35:54
  it. It's not like someone would just
• 35:55
  leave a an easy way to turn a trap off right off the bat.
• 36:00
  You know what kind of mad crazy scientists would do that?
• 36:03
  So totally. So I'm, I'm, I'm going to dash
• 36:06
  through the room. Is that what you're saying?
• 36:07
  No, you're going to crawl over the top, use the knives to stab
• 36:11
  into the ceiling, and then since it's a Ridge ceiling, you can
• 36:15
  put your feet on there and use that to push yourself forward.
• 36:17
  And give it a shot. That sounds really hard.
• 36:19
  That reminds. Me.
• 36:21
  What about if you like super jump?
• 36:25
  Oh yeah, that's right. I'd only make it what, 5
• 36:28
  squares? 12345 What if you get a running
• 36:33
  start from the other room on your skate that.
• 36:36
  Would be a really high demon, I think.
• 36:38
  I think I'm I'm, I'm I'm. It sounds I'm going to have to.
• 36:41
  Legendary. It sounds legendary.
• 36:43
  I'm going to have to be like a what is that, a 21?
• 36:46
  Pretty legendary. I think it's a 21.
• 36:49
  I sounds like some. Superhero moves right there,
• 36:51
  Vendel. You know what?
• 36:52
  I'm, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm, I'm coming to Vendel.
• 36:55
  Wait. Wait one second before we do a
• 36:57
  jump. Let me check.
• 36:58
  One other thing. Just the mad scientist in my
• 37:01
  brain is picking. I'm going to open up a ginger.
• 37:03
  I'm going to open up a ginger ale.
• 37:05
  I'm sorry, a Gizner ale. I'm going to take a sip.
• 37:08
  It's refreshing. I'm.
• 37:09
  Not going to. I'm not going to swallow it.
• 37:10
  I'm going to hold it in and then I'm just going to expirate it
• 37:15
  into a cloud of mist. Oh great.
• 37:19
  Nothing happens. Expectorate.
• 37:22
  OK. What does that?
• 37:24
  Do expectorate. Nothing happens.
• 37:27
  Cool, so there's no lasers? I just hawk 2 afterwards.
• 37:31
  All right, so I I go to Vendel. Wait, one more thing.
• 37:34
  Oh. My gosh.
• 37:38
  Just let me do this one more thing and then I'll go one side.
• 37:40
  Damn more thing. You've checked.
• 37:41
  For lasers, which was very smart.
• 37:45
  I'm going to down half of the Ginsen rail.
• 37:49
  There's still weight in it and then I'm going to throw it in
• 37:52
  the middle. You throw it, I need you to roll
• 37:55
  athletics. OK, you'll see why.
• 37:57
  For throw. Yes, you roll it and as you flip
• 38:01
  the can in the air in the air it does a full spin and then lands
• 38:05
  perfectly on its ass in the middle of the room.
• 38:09
  You you did a bottle flip and no darts fly out.
• 38:14
  Nothing happens. The room is dead.
• 38:18
  All right, what do you? Mean the room is dead.
• 38:20
  As in like the trap doesn't work.
• 38:22
  It hasn't been set off by him spitting in there or throwing a
• 38:25
  Cam. What pens aren't very heavy?
• 38:28
  But he did a bottle flip that was really cool.
• 38:29
  Well done, Retro. It was really cool.
• 38:32
  And that is the thing that's most important.
• 38:35
  It's the flare. OK, more than happy to go ahead
• 38:38
  and have Vendell go ahead and try, but if you don't feel
• 38:41
  comfortable, I'll just walk across.
• 38:44
  Why don't you just start there? Walk across Retro.
• 38:50
  I'm a walk across. Retro walks across the area
• 38:54
  effortlessly, picks up his can on the way, finishes the rest of
• 38:57
  his drink. The trap was disabled.
• 39:01
  Wow. All right.
• 39:02
  Because he rolled that crit success earlier that had that.
• 39:07
  This is the trap that was disabled, yeah.
• 39:10
  Wow, OK. Actually questioned the end,
• 39:14
  when I perceived before with the trap in the last room, did I
• 39:19
  notice that the cable only ran to the trap and nowhere?
• 39:24
  Else each of the traps are a single entity.
• 39:26
  Damn, OK all. Right man, it was going to be
• 39:29
  really cool when Vandel jumped all the way across with the
• 39:31
  Super jump because Vandel's like super jump status super high, so
• 39:37
  it would have been pretty cool we.
• 39:39
  Can save it in case we need it later.
• 39:41
  Yeah, I like that. Yeah, save me good rolls.
• 39:45
  We God knows Vendel doesn't get very many of them.
• 39:49
  Come on Jeb, there are no darts you can come through.
• 39:52
  Oh, I'm all. I'm all the way there.
• 40:06
  Next time on no latency. I'm so sorry, I don't mean to
• 40:15
  laugh at your pig. You think if they eat one of the
• 40:17
  Zeves they'll still heal? Up might not be a good idea.
• 40:20
  Some say gross, some say delicate.
• 40:22
  All blood leads to the door. Why would there be blood on the
• 40:27
  ground just. Run for our lives.
• 40:29
  Looks like this hair is the shitter.
• 40:31
  All right, I'm running for my life.
• 40:33
  Now I'm sober. That was.
• 40:35
  Too close. Well, no, because he's going to
• 40:38
  walk directly into a trap. Fuck.
• 40:41
  Steve Zero knows that Jeb's are coming.
• 40:44
  Oh my God, that is. This is a lot.
• 40:49
  Oh no. You're saying that's your last
• 40:50
  one? If this were like a a fantasy
• 40:53
  world or perhaps a a digital game or or a brain dance of
• 40:59
  sorts, you would think that this would be like the short
• 41:01
  restroom. Do you know what I mean?
• 41:04
  Yeah, hold on a second. I I got a pilfer through these
• 41:06
  lockers first are. You ready to breach and clear
• 41:08
  Jeb? Shock under the face.
• 41:11
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