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Last time on no latency. Carrots.
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Lots and lots of carrots. Sure.
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Don't rub it in. I didn't know.
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Whoa. My vision is Vendel's vision.
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So you are going to have to be the guide here, OK?
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God, Ayanna, do you mind if I just like, grab your shoulders?
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All right, well. Could you put your hands in
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front of mine real fast? Sanitize me, Captain.
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At what? Point do we get this your table?
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I need someone to be able to get in and, you know, get that
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window open. You said this was an optional
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meeting and. Well, they're going to open the
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window. I am a doctor.
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I actually wasn't here for the optional meeting, but we're
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busy. So they got to.
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Open and I take her and I shove her through the vent.
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And yet they're still leaving streets.
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Sorry about. That it's the last time I'm
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going to say it. Ain't good at this.
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We'll see you in the meeting. Tell him we found the rat.
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Pull her back in. You didn't hear?
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And you told me. I did so you can save.
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Rob, bureaucracy. OK,
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wait, wait. You rolled A crit fail.
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Somebody help me? Does anyone have an inspiration
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for Iona or is she going to fail her first ever bureaucracy role?
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Man, we're not rolling great tonight.
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No. I don't.
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I don't normally roll great. But I mean.
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Technically you. I mean, you tell me, but I
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technically used my inspiration yesterday.
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Oh, and then? I, I I.
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Did. Gain an inspiration.
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But I. Take that to come here.
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Yeah, I'm sorry, Iona. That's all right.
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I can't believe that you would tell your assistant for me.
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I'm their boss. That's fucked.
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God, you're both assholes. And she heads into the it's the
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conference room, reopens the door.
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I'll. See you in 15.
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Yeah, 15. She slams the door, schlams it.
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Oh my gosh, the people at this freaking place.
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Iona there insistent. I'll say that actually went
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better than I expected. I don't know how you work here.
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Worked here. Technically still do work there.
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And outside, Jeb and Retro are attempting to move east along
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the building. All right, I guess.
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OK, so Iona's having a fight I think I I'm sure that VV and
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Iona will be fine. It's office 62 is is 3 rooms
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over from the bathroom. So it's the third room over from
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the bathroom all. Right, Sure.
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OK, so we got to get by this HR office.
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Oh yeah, it's way past HR. And then there's Office 61.
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That one. That one shouldn't be too tough.
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Linda's Linda loves staring out the window, so you're going to
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have to be stealthy, OK? Or or.
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Yeah. Wendell, are you anywhere near
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Fresh I? Mean I have fresh is right
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behind me in the hallway. I could.
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I'm right at the door to to Mark's office.
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Can. All right, hold on.
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I'm sure I have fresh's number. I'm going to I'm going to call
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Fresh. OK, Fresh, pick up the phone.
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Come on. Hello.
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Sorry I'm I'm trying to waft blue smoke.
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Only Adam Savage could see that. Can you get me into the intercom
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system of the building? Oh.
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Sure, Yeah, let me roll into face.
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The silence of player panic as James looks for precious
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character sheet. Hold this mean.
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Everything. I've definitely rolled in her
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face several times, so we'll see what happens.
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OK all. Right, one more time.
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No, still didn't. Work.
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Oh fuck. Oh, never mind.
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I never mind. Hold on.
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Oh. Chris success we're still a
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snack. You're so back fresh as.
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Oh yeah, let me. Metro, I'm jacked in.
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Jacked in and my other favorite thing.
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And you know, everyone loves a back door.
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Oh yeah. I'll be your back door, baby.
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I've been left. I've been letting the the back
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door. It's a.
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It's a tight squeeze with the code I've got, but I I've made
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it in. OK, then, all right.
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If that's if that's the case, then fresh then you can possibly
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do probably one of the coolest and best pranks ever.
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What's that in Biotechnica? OK, what's that?
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So what I want you to do is I want you to give me access to
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the the intercom system and I'm going to send out a message.
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And then what I want you to do is I want you to take down the
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the class protections on the executive cafeteria and make it
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completely open for anybody to take whatever they want
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completely free. I'm having a RIP eye.
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Fuck this. That's a 77's a lucky fuck you.
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And fresh hacks he gets you into the intercom system and you can
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and he rolled really well so you can make 3 calls in the intercom
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system with that crit as well as adjusting the cafeteria to let
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anyone have even the expensive food in the cafeteria for free
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today done I'm. Going to make a call on over the
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intercom. Mm hmm, I'm going to try to
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change my voice as best I can. Roll acting.
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Acting. Yeah.
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How about persuasion? Here's the thing.
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If you roll acting, if you roll acting, it's a 15.
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If you roll persuasion, it's a 21.
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Yeah, it's all right. My acting is 6, so I'm not very
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confident on that. How about what Perception is?
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Or Persuasion is 14? I need 21.
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Yeah, You know, I think that would probably be better.
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Oh, wait a minute. Hold on.
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No, Wait, wait, wait. Can.
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I'd like to be able to alter my voice using a piece of cyberwear
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that I thought would be able to be used at one point whenever
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because it the cyber audio of the of the Scrambler de
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Scrambler. I would like to use that to help
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vox my voice. Holy shit.
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Like Scrambler? Deez Nuts, the best I could do.
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Sorry, that was bad. No, no, no, it was.
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It was a good 1.1. That's fine by me.
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That's fine by me. Yes, absolutely.
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You get, let's say +3. Yeah.
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So it's not like a recognizable voice.
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No, it's just that like intercom recognize.
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Voice Joe. OK.
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Let's roll this reason. That's great.
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Fail, I mean. Well, I was just trying to
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disguise my voice. I guess I'll just have to know
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what my voice is. Yes, they will know what your
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voice is now. OK, so I will call over the
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intercom and then, yeah, pretty much anyone who will know me
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will then be able to recognize my voice, but they'll just hear.
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Ladies and gentlemen of Biotechnica, it has come to our
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attention that it is the birthday of our beloved CEO,
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Nicolo Logegia. And in honour of Mr. Logegia, we
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would like to go ahead and offer free lunch to all of our
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employees. The cafeterias are completely
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open for anybody to get whatever they'd like, no cost.
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However, you only have 30 minutes to put in your order.
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Thank you and enjoy Mr. Logegia's gift.
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I had free lunch. And you watch Linda leave her
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office. To a potential swarm of office
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drones running to the cafeteria. A few of the assistants leave
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behind Bendel. That's three of them.
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I would, should I go as well? I like lunch.
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Yeah, fresh. Yeah, definitely.
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Go get yourself that rib eye you're talking about.
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Retra, I'm not stupid. It's not real.
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Yeah, but in case it is fresh. Fresh I I thought it was real in
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Biotechnica. You guys have the real shit.
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Well, yeah, I mean, I like, I mean, I can go and eat, but
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like, if I get caught because it's not real, right, I'll get
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in trouble. But.
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But so is everybody, so it's not you.
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Oh, point. All right, Well then I'm gonna
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fuck off. I'll see you in a bit.
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Yeah, and if you don't mind if you just give me a set of fries.
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Save us a plate. I'm sure I'll get some fries.
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I'm going to get in this elevated with these executives.
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It's going to be really hello. It's going to be really Hello.
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Yeah, I'm talking to myself. It's an assistant thing now.
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I do like your pants, too. I'm going to.
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Then he hangs up and you have cleared HR Well done.
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Damn straight, nothing that's going to get people out of an
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office faster than a free lunch. It has been 13 years since the
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world nearly split in two. Those of us that knew of the
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cataclysm at the time have tried to move on.
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was only ever a matter of time before something terrible
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started to pay attention. But who will stand at the gates
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for us? Why 4 employees at Thorn
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Investigations of course at. Least I can do for you know all
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that you do for me. My reflection looked back,
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distorted. There's absolutely nothing
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normal about this. This wasn't right from the
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Just be ready to be scared. And you've moved past HR on to
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the next office. You peer into an office to your
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left. You move along the wall.
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There is an office with a person sitting at a desk, facing away
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from the mirror. This is Office 61.
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Shit, they didn't go for a free lunch.
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What's wrong with them? Oh, are they?
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Are they a brown bagger? Gross.
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You watch them pull out a bag from their desk, open it, and
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pull out a sandwich. Wow, no.
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Sometimes the Sometimes the best lunches are the one prepared
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with love. Oh yeah, you can't hear it.
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It's Windows 100. Doesn't make sense.
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Hold on, let me put my ear up against this one.
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See if I can hear what she's eating.
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I suppose it's. Going to make me all.
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Right. All right, This is a She's
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eating her lunch. She's facing away.
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This is not a difficult stealth role.
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You don't have to do anything special.
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Just just a straight up stealth. Roll just a straight up stealth
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roll. I'm, I'm just going to take it
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with confidence and I'm going to be as stealthy and yet
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confidently walking to have that mindset.
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Jab, jab me, jab. You rolled a quick 33 on Stealth
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and you effortlessly make your way to the other side, giving
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you a view into Office 62. You slide right across the ledge
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on the outside of this building. You now have the perfect view of
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Mark sitting at his desk. Retro hasn't rolled Stealth yet,
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so we're waiting for that. Well, I mean, I mean, if, if, if
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Jeb can do it, I can do it. You just slide over here. 20
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excellent work. Yes, it's not a crit, so you
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don't make it to the other side. Other side.
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Fuck. But you aren't near the Hatch in
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the wall that is currently locked but would lead into the
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office. All those hatches into the
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office. Yeah, like vents.
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That's what DD pushed that executive out of.
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Also holy shit. To like outside and just pull a
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RoboCop. Pull a RoboCop.
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Hung them off the side of a building.
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Yeah. Because Vivi's a fucking.
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Batty now, Truly. Like seriously, I don't think
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I've ever done anything that vicious.
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You've. Done some fucked up shit.
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Shut the fuck up. You've done some messed up.
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You all have. We had a job to do.
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OK, we have a job to do. Yes, you do, and Retro and Jeb
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are now perfectly placed behind Office 62.
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Vivi and Iona, where did you head off to while the meeting is
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happening? Because you got rid of Rachel.
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Where did you then? You didn't go in the conference
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room. Where did you go?
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No, I think we're just going to go through the office.
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We really just need to find somewhere where nobody's going
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to bother us, right? Yes.
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I would like to try to get us to that closet.
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I don't know how far it is. It's right across from the
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elevators. You saw the sign glowing on the
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ground as you enter. So it's pretty far.
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I mean, you, you in that time, you definitely can walk the the
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length of this floor. It's not a massive floor.
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I would like to walk Iona down the hall basically.
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Great, you walk. Iona down the hall down to back
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where the elevators are. There are a few guards hanging
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out. Roll perception for me. 20 yes,
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one of the things you notice as you're walking down the hallway
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that you haven't really noticed before is that there are vent
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ducts in the ceiling of this place instead of having ceiling
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tile, they've just like laid to the bottom of the vent to save
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on ceiling tiles. So you can actually see the
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pattern above you in the foreground layer here on roll 20
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that there's this like, oh, that's.
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What? That is OK.
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Interesting. You're rolled high enough that
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you noticed this and you say out loud.
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Interesting. And Iona has no idea what you're
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talking about. Interesting, I have no idea what
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you're talking about. Oh just I didn't know that you
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guys have like these long ass vents on the ceiling.
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That, yeah, it's a large building.
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We need a lot of circulation, yeah.
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And you get to maintenance, the maintenance door is locked and
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you're standing next to a vending machine are.
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There, there are people watching us.
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I mean the guards are talking to each other, so no, not really.
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OK, I'm going to try to subtly. Actually, no.
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The guards went to have lunch with the rest of the
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motherfuckers because he rolled high.
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Oh, right, because. Yeah, yeah.
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I thought that like it would be a mass influx of everybody
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running. I think on some of the other
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floors, you have to remember this is floor 62.
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So a lot of people are in here are high execs.
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It's mostly just the assistants that took the office and
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obviously Linda in HR. Yeah, but anybody who's not a
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high exec would be like, oh, this is my chance to get high
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exec food and not have to pay for it.
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Yeah, but I, you know, I think getting rid of two guards is a
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good gift. You didn't actually roll a crit
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success, so that's what you get. I mean.
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I did in my heart. In your heart but.
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Yeah, you know, if the coast is clear on here because
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everybody's getting free food, might just hang out here while,
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oh, maybe not. Try, I should try and get a
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lunch before a double fucking fire.
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And you watch Ted go over to the elevators behind you.
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He has not noticed you. Goodbye, Ted.
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I don't say that. Yeah, I I mean, you know, I
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might. Well, no, no, no.
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Let's let's break open the janitor closet.
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Vivi's gonna just try to like, is this like a she's gonna try
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to break open the door. You.
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Rolled it you? Yeah, Yeah, that's, yes, sure.
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This is a very, this is like no one gives a shit about the
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maintenance room. This is not a high security door
17:30
in any shape or form. It is a fire door.
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So there is, it protects you from a fire, but other than
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that, you're 19 in brawling. You go, you take out your
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baseball bat. Oh yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, maybe. Like what would you use?
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Like the what? What bit of it would you use to
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sort of like cook it off? This is like a nice little quiet
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because you do it nice and quietly.
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It's not a big deal. Like the handle end of it OK.
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Cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Into it. Yeah, you.
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Take you take the baseball bat out of your your bag and Iona.
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You hear the distinct sound of a door knob breaking off a door
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and it creeping as the door knob rolls on the floor.
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And then you feel a metal object boop your right foot.
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Vivi, that's you figuring out the door, right?
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Oh yes, yes, Yep, we are. That's just the doorknob.
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We're going to go into the janitor closet now for some
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privacy. Sure.
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And you drag Iona into the room. Do you pick up the doorknob?
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Yeah, I probably should. Just OK, you pick up the door
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knob, pick. Up wow, it's a nice janitor
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closet there's a there's a couch in here there's.
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You have found the janitor's break room.
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Normally this is Ted's break room, but Ted has gone to lunch.
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Inside this break room is a big red sofa, a bunch of janitorial
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closets, little wardrobey things.
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There's a vending machine in here, a big table.
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Roll perception. Reception. 17 Yes, that is
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genuinely enough. You see between two of the
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cabinets to yourself a little shaft of light in a a small vent
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in the wall, and above you a hatch that leads to the vent
19:14
system man. So there is a a path into the
19:19
office below and a path into the vents above.
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Huh. What's the way to get into the
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vents in here? Interesting.
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I I'm. I'm sure that the the fence are
19:30
very dirty and I do not want to go in there.
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Yeah, probably. OK guys, I'm outside of office
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62. What do I do?
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Do I go in? Yes, at first you're just going
19:45
to allude that he's done something wrong, OK, and that
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you know about it all. Right I'm.
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Just going to open this door confidently, right?
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Yep, Yep, do it. Cool.
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Jackie Masons. Vendel walks in.
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Excuse me, Mr. Zeiger. Rob Persuasion, Vendel, they're.
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They're doing great. How are you?
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Persuasion crit fail minus 4A6. My name's Vendel Fuck.
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My name is Vendel fuck. And I am here to say that I
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don't like some of the things that you are.
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Shit VB shit shit. VB shit.
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Shit, shit. Oh my.
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God, this is going great. I I'm wearing an oversized
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jacket and I. Tell him.
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Tell him you know what he did. I know What You Did Last Summer
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is a great movie. No, I mean I.
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I'm. Deep breath.
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Take a deep breath. Take a deep breath.
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Oh my God. Oh my God, why can't I not stop?
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What? Time What is What is Mark doing
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right now? Marky's staring at Vendel,
21:04
looking at them very confused. Eating a protein bar.
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Great. OK, who the?
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Fuck are you? Did you say Vendel?
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Wait. Do I know who that is?
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Chokehold. Vendel Chokehold.
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Vendel lock in what? What?
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Do you mean chokehold now Chokehold, chokehold.
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All right, roll, roll athletics. Yes, I will perhaps roll
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athletics or maybe brawling. Brawling 18 Mark is is an exec
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so he's not very strong. Oh, I rolled A9.
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Mark can't have a 10 in brawling.
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He doesn't have a 10 in brawling.
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You are absolutely correct. And Vendel puts Mark into a
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headlock. And as you you see Vendel get
21:58
behind Mark as they flip the jacket onto the ground, jump
22:02
over the desk and grab Mark from behind in the headlock.
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And you see through Vendel's eyes as they look back across
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the room. And Dell left the door open.
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Oh the the the doors open. Vivi vivi go.
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Shit, I could, I could run just. Go.
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Just go. Just run.
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OK, I'm zooming. You leave Iona alone in the
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janitor's closet and and you hear Vivi leave the room and
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you're just looking out of Mark's office into the hallway.
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As you step out into the hallway, Vivi down the hallway
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you see a guard walking towards the view of the open door, the
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guard that saw you earlier, the one that you called coffee on
22:47
for fresh, and you can see them moving.
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Shit, I haven't got much time. What are you going to do?
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The free. Food the free.
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Food and Phoebe just says running, did you not?
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Get the end. Draw Persuasion.
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One moment. Fuck.
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No, no, I've already eaten. No, it's it's who there.
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Wait a second. Shit, fuck.
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Shit. Who are you?
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And he kept walking towards you. Did.
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You not. Get the announcement.
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Of the free, free food, I'm sorry, I, I, I've.
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Excuse me, do you have a pass to be here?
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Fuck. I'm very sorry this floor is not
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open to the public. I'm going to have to ask you to
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leave. And he guides you towards the
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elevator. Vendel, I need you to listen to
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me very carefully, I need you to back up to the window and I need
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you to hold him out the window. OK.
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Well, at least this. Distract our our are Jeb and
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Retro there. They're outside the window,
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right? Yeah, they're outside the
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window. Yeah, we've been holding.
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Timed out? Yeah, first I can see what's
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happening. Clean windows door about us,
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right? Yeah, great.
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Just smoke, smoke in a Jay. What do you think's going on in
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there? Give it give, give.
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Give him to Retro and Jeb. Give him to Retro and Jeb.
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Please take him away, OK? Retro.
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Fendel's now like banging on the on the glass with their elbow.
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What the mouthing open the? Window.
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You want me to open the window from outside?
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Open, open, open. Use.
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Your. Feet.
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Their wheels. Their wheels.
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Use your wheelies here. There we go.
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Pick lock. Yes, it opens.
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You said it was locked. Yeah, it was locked, Yes.
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You've unlocked it from the inside by sort of sneaking your
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way onto the inside. You unlock it and it's open and
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Vendel swings mark outside Roll brawling.
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That's a three. So you're going to do very well
25:19
for Vendel Roll Brawling. But you're asking me to do it.
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Tell drops. Mark gets free and isn't thrown
25:36
out the window. Mark is moving back.
25:38
Fucking get off. Get off me.
25:39
What the fuck? I would like you to.
25:42
I would like to react to that. OK, do it.
25:44
I'm I'm going to pull an ancient martial arts secret that I
25:49
learned back when I was a kid, right?
25:52
It's taught to me via through video form mastered by ladies of
25:56
the reality series. I'm gonna do the hair pull.
26:01
Nice. I'm gonna reach in with my hand
26:02
and grab him by the hair and pull him towards the vent.
26:05
I'm done. Damn.
26:07
Roll for it 19, all right? All I got to hope is that he's
26:11
not wearing Roll them through. Yeah, you've, you've grabbed
26:14
Mark Bendel has fallen over and hurt themselves.
26:19
Oh. Well, getting 4 damage from
26:21
smacking their flesh leg against the desk in here.
26:24
Ow fuck. Oh, oh, I.
26:28
Only have one funny. Bone.
26:29
That was really ah. Oh.
26:35
And you now have Mark Zeiger held outside the building Retro.
26:41
By his hair. By his hair, Vendel gets up to
26:45
close the door of the office. OK, we've got Mark Zeiger.
26:50
Jeb. Come inside and we're going to
26:52
do this. All right, let's do it.
26:54
I got the cable all. Right.
26:57
What do you mean Cable and Mark's now held by the hair
27:02
outside. Don't you worry about it all.
27:05
Right, so you've got Mark trapped now.
27:07
You've held him. Jeb goes inside to drag the
27:09
cable in there. He doesn't know what he's doing.
27:11
Iona, you're now watching Vendell close the door to the
27:14
office and is now facing Mark as he's hung off the side of the
27:17
building. What do I What do I say now,
27:19
boss? I say you come get me.
27:23
Probably. OK.
27:26
You watch Vendell move through the the slightly empty floor as
27:31
everybody's gone to this lunch and they walk up to the
27:34
maintenance office. And you, as you look through
27:37
Vendel's vision, you see that Vivi left the door open to the
27:42
maintenance office, and you've just been standing in the
27:44
doorway. Hi.
27:47
Oh, hello. Come, come with me.
27:50
Vendel, could you also tell me what time it is?
27:53
Why? I'm supposed to be somewhere in
27:55
15 minutes. Oh yeah, I think everybody left
27:59
for lunch. Oh, we've probably got more
28:02
time. I.
28:04
Say as they drag you into your old office.
28:07
Even through Vendel's eyes, you have a sense of nostalgia and
28:10
comfort to this room. You always kept it extra clean.
28:13
One of the things you know about this room without rolling is
28:15
that as part of the sprinklers in here, you had sanitization
28:19
things put in every night at around about 1:00 AM.
28:24
This room gets sprayed with sanitizer, so even after you
28:27
left, it would always be clean. This is the cleanest office that
28:31
isn't as part of a clean room in the entire building it.
28:36
Does does smell a little still now but still clean a retro?
28:46
Is there a way to turn off my eye connection before we crash
28:50
and then go blind? Yeah, we don't want that.
28:53
I don't know. I didn't do it.
28:55
Great, good chat. Let's install the transponder.
28:59
All right, Retro Jeb, you're outside with the cable now
29:03
you've you've draped the the other end of the cable in
29:05
through the the vent as part of the wall and you're now looking
29:09
at retro holding mark by the hair get.
29:12
Off. Motherfucker, as I'm holding
29:15
them by the hair with my robotic right arm, I'm going to reach
29:21
off to my side. I'm gonna pull off one of my
29:26
rolls of duct tape. Nice, yeah.
29:29
All right, Jeb, hold on. I'm gonna, I'm gonna physically
29:33
twist his hair even more so that way he's gonna not really be
29:37
able to pay attention to what I'm saying, 'cause he's right
29:40
next to me, all right? I'm hoping that the pain's gonna
29:43
make it so that we can't really hear understand what I'm saying,
29:45
OK? Make sure you put A tag on there
29:48
with the grey duct tape that says do not touch will break
29:54
Internet. OK, Just just write on layer.
29:57
Just kind of slap it on there. Yeah, just slap it on there.
30:00
That way if anybody gets curious about what it is, they won't
30:04
touch it right because they refuse to talk to IT people
30:07
anyway, so they'll just leave it alone.
30:10
Roll Athletics or Evasion to swap the holding of Mark from
30:15
Retro to Jeb, both of you. Am I wrong?
30:18
Either evasion or brawling or athletics to hold on to this
30:22
chimp. Oh, Jeb.
30:26
Oh Jeb. Oh.
30:28
Just right here, just just kind of grab him.
30:30
Jeb, you go to grab Mark and he gets free and starts running
30:36
down the side of the building. Help.
30:38
Help. Did you chase after him?
30:41
Yeah. Wait, wait.
30:42
He's outside of the building. Yeah, Retro had an ELD outside
30:45
of the building. What we were trying to do is
30:47
trade him from Retro to you and he's.
30:51
Running. He's running around on the
30:52
outside of the building. Yes.
30:55
Then fuck it, whatever, what's he going to do?
30:59
Get in through the other vents and then get security on you.
31:03
There, I'm going to throw the duct tape at Mark's head, all
31:06
right? Roll for it 28 Yes, you hit him
31:10
square. What are you trying to do with
31:13
this? I'm trying to knock him out, but
31:16
if it just so happens that it hits him and he loses his
31:19
footing and falls off, it's not my fault.
31:22
He doesn't crit fail so he doesn't fall off, but he does
31:25
lose balance and is now hanging off the side of the building.
31:29
Fuck. OK, OK, OK, OK.
31:31
OK. Please, please help me.
31:33
Help. Help.
31:33
Help Eddie. Help.
31:34
Help. Help.
31:36
Oh, you want help? Working on your isolations bud.
31:40
Man, I'm really hungry. Do you head into the office?
31:43
I I do head into the office. Iona, you see Retro step into
31:48
the office through Bendel's vision, and in the office, Retro
31:52
you see that there are a bunch of cabinets in here.
31:56
They line the walls of a little side area and there's a
32:01
computer, a desk and a chair and two plants.
32:05
OK, I'm going to move this this plant over here.
32:15
OK, a little out of the way and using my tool hand, I'm going to
32:19
cut a hole into the drywall so I have access to the power source
32:25
and data. I'm assuming that's what we need
32:27
for it and splice it together to the cable.
32:33
Great. Roll for that 29.
32:37
Yes, you splice the cable and the transponder into.
32:40
It's pretty big, so it doesn't actually fit in the wall cavity,
32:44
so you're going to have to hide it in the underside of this fake
32:46
plant. Great.
32:49
I'm going to try to use my field experience or no hold on
32:56
upgrade. I'm going to use my upgrade
32:57
expertise, OK, to upgrade the dish to become look to become
33:05
like the plant. And so it just looks like the
33:08
plant. Oh.
33:09
Oh, so that you're like reinforated?
33:10
Into the. Plant to look like part of the
33:12
plant. Oh, that's nice.
33:12
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I really like that inspiration.
33:14
Very good. Roll for it. 21.
33:17
Yes. You've now no one's going to
33:21
ever look at and no one ever waters it.
33:23
Ted keeps his job. He's never going to clean it, so
33:27
no one will ever notice that there's a transponder in here
33:30
that you've snaked through the wall with a cable that connects
33:32
to a dish on the roof. Everything in this room has been
33:35
sorted out. Mark is now on the outside.
33:37
You'll probably have to deal with that in a minute.
33:41
Meanwhile, Phoebe's in trouble. Because.
33:43
She's alone in an elevator with a guard.
33:48
Yeah, so you're going to escort me out?
33:51
Yeah, I'm sorry. Rules are rules.
33:54
You know the past. You'll be blacklisted for more
33:56
biotechnical buildings, meetings, etcetera for the next
34:01
year as standard first time punishment.
34:04
Oh, that sucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
34:09
We haven't taken a picture of you yet.
34:10
They're normally one of the assistants does it, but a lot of
34:12
them are on lunch for some reason.
34:14
Yeah, the I was excited about the free food, but.
34:18
You don't work here so. OK, well, yeah, I, I, I, I guess
34:26
this is fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
34:28
I mean, you know, until we get downstairs, the only person who
34:31
knows about this is me, so. Are we, are we in an elevator?
34:35
You said Yeah. Yeah, we're you're in a better.
34:37
He hasn't pushed the button yet to go downstairs.
34:39
He's about to. He's just sort of nonchalantly
34:40
chatting with you. And it's just us in the
34:44
elevator. Yeah, why?
34:47
OK, as the elevator door closes, I'm going to do a a John Wick
34:56
and just beat this guy. Oh.
35:01
My God. Is it baseball bat time?
35:04
It's baseball bat time. Get him.
35:06
It's back. Oh.
35:07
My God can let this happen to me guys.
35:12
What you got there? It's baseball bat time next time
35:25
on no latency. I'm thinking I'm bat.
35:32
We're going to do something different instead.
35:35
I don't think Zeiger's been doing enough upper body in the
35:37
gym. I'm back, bitches.
35:38
Mark, Mark, we better get out of here in 15 minutes.
35:40
You you're right, but. No, give me your.
35:42
Hand, I can see Vandel looking at me.
35:44
Yeah, he said. I was gonna be banned from
35:45
Biotechnica forever. So.
35:48
Fuck Mark. Mark, what are we doing here?
35:50
Frankly. Slow.
35:52
I think he wants to learn how to fly.
35:53
That all right out there. I look around but I can't see
35:56
anything because Vandel's not moving.
35:57
Their head, yes. You don't worry about it.
35:59
I got uncontrolled. I might be able to help.
36:03
Was that a gun shelf? Sloan No.
36:05
Well, Jeb's not picking up so. Doctor VV, The optometrist.
36:10
OK, I am on my way. I guess I'll have to handle the
36:14
vehicle upstairs. There might be something I can
36:16
do to help. Slo No no, no.
36:18
No, no, no, no, baby, baby. It's all right.
36:20
It's all right. Hey.
36:20
Hey, hey, hey, me girl. Hey.
36:23
Breathe, Breathe. It's going.
36:25
To be OK, it's. Going to be OK.
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