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S2E117 - Assistant Insight · No Latency

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  Last time on no latency, smells like.
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  Napo. Yes, I'll make, I'll make the
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  call right now. Well, I did tell 2 now I was
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  going to buff that out so. Ione and Vendel.
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  I mean, I guess I could be a part of it too, yeah.
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  Our boy Retro here would just give you a step by step
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  instructions. I can tell I'm moving from floor
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  to floor. Or somebody died because of your
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  weed. You know, you might want to get
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  a lawyer before bringing that stuff up to HR.
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  Where are we going to be during all this?
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  It is locked. We can break in.
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  Can Biotechnica double fire someone?
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  Oh, it's like fire in the next. Side you're doing it himself.
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  We didn't even have to ask, really.
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  He's got our number. While we hide in the closet and
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  make sure that everything goes well.
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  You got a little rolled get high at some point.
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  Listening in. Yes, I need to be able to see
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  into the office that I used to occupy.
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  Oh, Office 62. Yes.
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  I mean, in theory it'd be way easier to just like, hack into
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  Vendel's Chiron. Oh, do that.
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  Oh. Oh great.
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  Oh, I love much. Wait, hold on.
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  And fresh holds the table and has a moment.
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  Why are you OK? I don't know.
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  I mean, sorry, Miss Babescu, you just, you actioned my feedback.
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  I know that sounds a little corporate, but I feel very
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  validated. Well, because you had a
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  suggestion that was really, I mean, hacking a camera in a
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  corporate building in one of the central buildings for
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  Biotechnical is an incredibly difficult hack and would take me
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  ages and I could actually get like physically hurt because of
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  the jacking in and stuff. But hacking into someone's
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  eyepiece there with their consent is like really easy.
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  Don't. Rub it in.
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  I I Of course I didn't know. No.
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  But you took my, you took my advice.
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  What I'm saying is in the kind of matter way.
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  Also, you get a point for giving a shit about your assistant.
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  Aw. I, I I do.
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  Listen, Philip, yes, you are special.
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  I know. And I've always thought that.
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  Oh, in a nice way. Oh, that's nice.
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  OK. I've, I've always known that.
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  Why do you think that? I, I, I took you on.
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  Yeah, I was. I don't.
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  Immediately. Yeah, I don't like normal Steve
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  things. I know that's because you're not
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  Steve. Yeah, also they're all dead now.
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  Fingers crossed. Now you killed them twice, it'd
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  be mean if we brought them back again.
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  That seems like extra punishment they don't need.
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  Plus you killed the dad, didn't you?
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  I mean, also, you killed the dad, didn't you?
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  I'm alright, yes, but who knows? Vibes.
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  Anyway, yeah, let me just do a little hack.
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  Just roll into face because I don't want to accidentally shock
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  Rendell. Hi, Rendell.
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  I'm fresh. Don't laugh at me, Retro.
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  I can hear you with a call. Fresh rolls.
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  What did you What did you actually roll?
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  9. Five yes, that is fine yeah,
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  because it's again, this is like a a simple task because that
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  actually even passes on the difficulty.
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  A simple task is a nine literal DB9 because Vendel is consenting
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  so that is very different. So you you watch fresh do
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  something you've never seen him do before.
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  He puts his hand under his desk and he checks outside of his
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  cubicle and he looks at you. VB.
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  VB If someone comes nearby, say something.
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  What's up, What's up, What's up? Safe word.
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  How about coffee? Coffee is great.
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  Really. I really need a.
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  Coffee. Okay, good, good.
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  As fresh as he like scoops his own nose and looks at you.
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  Okay. Great.
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  Awesome. And you watch him like shrug his
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  shoulders a little bit and a draw on and latches from the
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  underside of his desk and he folds it in front of him and
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  it's covered in like little trinkets and electronics, all of
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  his little like net runner gear that's like not allowed.
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  He hides underneath his desk in this lexical compartment.
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  Cool, right? And he rummages through it, and
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  he pulls out a little transponder.
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  Tiny, tiny little thing, right? Right, this won't hurt because I
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  rolled mid. And he jams it into Vendel's
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  neck. And then he pulls out a
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  filament, plugs it into his device, takes out another
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  filament and hands it over to Iona with a skill chip
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  attachment. Iona, do you take it?
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  Will you plug in? Absolutely.
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  And I I, I take, I take the plug.
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  I take the plug, you plug it into your slot, roll resist,
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  torture drugs. As long as you don't quit fail,
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  you take no damage from there. That body.
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  Yes, yes, oh, that was a great role Look at you 14.
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  Yes, excellent. You take no damage.
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  There was genuinely a chance of taking humanity damage here, so
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  you avoid that because it's side wet.
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  All right, start programming and padding it and you see the
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  little red light turn green and then your eye twitches.
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  Oh, that's fun. And then you you see your vision
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  blur and now there's like a minimized window in your Chiron
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  that just is titled V. Perfect.
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  All right, should. Work.
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  And then Philip unhooks the filament.
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  Right. Should work wirelessly for four
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  hours. Plenty of time the.
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  The thing is, after four hours there'll be a, it'll crash, so
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  you'll go blind for like a minute, I don't know what.
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  Do you mean you don't know? Oh dear.
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  What didn't you tell us beforehand?
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  Well, you didn't roll very high and you.
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  Didn't even. Consult a doctor either you can
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  ask Vivi. True.
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  Well, Vivi, how do we stop it? How?
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  How do we stop ourselves from going blind?
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  It's only for a minute. Sure.
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  Carrots. Lots and lots of carrots.
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  Yeah, I have no other medical recommendations.
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  Only, only dietary suggestions. That's.
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  Right, that's what they. Get from not asking the doctor.
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  And also. Getting me to do sideways stuff,
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  that was a terrible idea. I didn't crit fail, but I'm not
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  very good at it, so there are consequences.
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  Isn't that terrible? I hate my actions have
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  consequences. Isn't that?
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  Terrible. And as you you, you the the
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  window pulsates and it wants you to open it.
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  Oh. I wink.
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  It opens, and now you can see through Vendel's eyes.
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  Whoa. Whoa, is it both my eyes or just
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  one? It's an overlay that you can
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  pull over both. It's like a virtual overlay.
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  OK, A Vivi, at at this moment my vision is Vendel's vision.
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  So you are going to have to be the guide here.
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  OK, cool all. Right.
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  Roll Evasion to get out of this cubicle without bumping into
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  something, because you've now basically lost all that
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  perception. Evasion.
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  Yes or acrobatics. It's up to you, Vivi.
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  You. You look at Iona go from like
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  her normal expression of determination and leadership to
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  a completely blank stare, like off into the distance as they
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  suddenly sway with everything that Vendel's doing, because
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  Vendel's sort of swaying nervously.
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  And you watch Iona rock back and forth a little bit and try and
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  hold themselves against a locker as they sort of bang around,
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  suddenly blind. OK, Iona, you just stay put for
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  now. I can do that.
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  You can do it. Did you guys hear that?
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  Yes, it's it's going to be OK. Yes, I can't see anything but.
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  No, I know talk, nothing that's going.
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  To be your eyes just. I'll try not to sway.
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  I'm. I'm really sorry.
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  I'm sorry about that. Yeah, you shouldn't.
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  Sway, of course. Weird cyberwear VR sickness?
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  What's the technical term? OK, so now I'm going to pretend
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  to be an exec for Mark Ziger. My God.
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  And hopefully we can install the transponder without in finding
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  out. Iona, please roll Athletics or
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  evasion. Fresh is kind of amused as Iona
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  is trying to like, push themselves out of the cubicle
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  and you're, you're amused by this yourself, Phoebe.
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  And then you hear footsteps behind you.
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  Oh. Man, I could really use a
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  coffee. What?
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  Oh shit. Watch fresh very, very quickly.
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  Try his best to hide the items in his drawer.
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  I assume that was like a a person.
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  Yeah, it's a God. There's a God.
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  Behind it, OK. And he slams the the thing shut,
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  rolling a 14, which is enough to hide it, but you do hear a
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  crunch. Oh no, that sounds expensive.
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  Oh. Blue smoke comes out from under
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  his desk. Oh no, that's bad.
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  The blue smoke's not toxic. That's a, that's a that's an
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  Adam Savage reference. Things break when the blue, so
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  it's smoking. We're.
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  Going to find that very funny. It's not.
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  That no one. 'S made a danger.
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  You're like. Do we have to evacuate the
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  building? No, I'm just a nerd.
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  Not wanted to put. An Adam Savage reference into
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  the show. It's.
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  Not dead. You you are baffled by this
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  terrible joke that Fresh tells. BB just like not responding at
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  all. OK, that is Oh yeah, 18 and Iona
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  does not fall over. Fantastic.
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  Good. OK.
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  Step out of the cubicle, but now are essentially blind and need
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  VV to guide you around. Yes.
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  And so you, you, you guide Ayona off into.
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  I thought Ayona was just like does it didn't need to move.
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  You know what? Ignore me.
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  There's not really a lot of space in that cubicle.
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  You could stand stand there, but with the with all the swaying,
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  this is the other thing is the reason why I'm mentioning that
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  you see Iona swaying around is Iona isn't moving, but Vendell
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  is. And so that means Iona is
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  suffering from VR6, OK, and you have to tend to her.
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  I see. So that she does not make a big
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  distraction. OK, got it.
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  VV is going to Aiona. Do you mind if I just like grab
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  your shoulders just for balance just in case you look a little?
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  Could you just, could you put your hands in front of mine real
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  fast? Yeah, oh right, sanitizing,
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  right. Yes.
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  I'm like, I'm going to score sanitizer.
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  I am a doctor, I could just put some medical gloves on.
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  I wouldn't that be strange though?
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  True. All right.
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  Sanitize me. Ching, Ching.
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  Sanitize me, Captain. Seven, you are sanitized.
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  OK, I. Even the sanitizer machine gives
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  up a chiming moins. I put my freshly sanitized hands
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  on Iona's shoulders to help guide them.
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  Good, you, you. Steady Iona as she continues to
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  sway a little as Vendel walks towards Office 62.
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  Meanwhile, Jeb and Retro are on the outside of the building
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  holding a cable. All right, well, at what point
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  do we get this here? Cable, you know, tucked inside
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  the building. Well, we probably should go
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  ahead and start, you know, cleaning windows so we don't
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  seem conspicuous. We've been doing that.
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  We could you, you showed me you showed me how to do it with the
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  with the newspaper and the. And the sweet jeans, Yeah.
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  So I guess what he's waiting for, waiting for the for them
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  inside. Yeah, Team Iona to let us know
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  when to kind of slip this this here cable.
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  And he grabs the cable and kind of like dangles the the end of
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  it around this here cable and just get inside there.
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  Yeah, I need someone to be able to get in and, you know, get
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  that window open. Now here's the question, did you
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  bring the the glass cutter or are we going to have to do find
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  find some sort of entrance? Well, I mean, I do have a glass
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  cutter, yeah, but at the same time, it'd probably be better to
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  have a window actually open. We could.
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  I just figured it'd be pretty cool to do a, you know, kind of
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  a fun little glass, you know, circle cut out thing like they
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  like, like you see in them old, old films.
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  Yeah, the the, the reelies. The reelies, yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, the reelies. Jeff, I just, I, I want to bring
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  to this point for you. If you came up to Vanna White,
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  opened up the passenger or the driver's side door, and you saw
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  that there was a big circle of glass missing in the in the
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  window, what would you think? I would think damn someone got a
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  glass cutter. And then entered in right.
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  And then, yeah, obviously. Oh, I see what you're saying.
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  I see, OK. I see it now.
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  I see it now. Is that the picture?
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  Yeah, we should probably find an open window.
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  Well, they're going to open the window.
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  We will. Yeah, but it has to be open from
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  the inside, right. So they so they got to open it.
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  I see. Well, I guess.
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  Jeb, you need to pay better attention.
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  You're you're starting to leave streaks.
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  Look at that. Sorry.
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  Oh yeah, I see. I see it.
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  It's right squeegee then and then and then it's kind of an S
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  rotation then back up like you said.
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  You watch, you watch Chip do this on just a straight up wall
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  that's not actually a window because you guys are in the
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  corner of the building. And yet they're still leaving
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  streaks. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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  I ain't good at this. You're the one that has all the
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  experience. It takes practice.
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  I made the same kind of mistakes as well, but if you also realize
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  when you got to pay attention. Yeah, tell me, tell me.
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  I was, I was trying to multitask and I don't have the, I don't
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  have the skill set quite yet. Once you once you get the skill
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  set and you've like almost mastered it, that's when you can
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  start multitasking. You got to, you got to train
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  first. You can't when when you're when
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  you're driving, right, You don't just focus on one thing, right?
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  No, of course not. You.
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  Got to focus on a lot of things. That's right.
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  Right. But when you first started
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  driving, did you just focus on everything all at once, or did
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  you kind of kind of get good at one thing and then get better on
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  with everything else as you started to master that because
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  you knew you had the skill and the confidence to do it?
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  Well, you know, when I drive now, I feel like I'm 11 with the
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  with the vehicle. Like my hands have almost
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  started to to to become part of the steering wheel, my my senses
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  start to extend outward into the wheels, into the ground itself.
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  I almost lose myself in the vehicle.
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  So like you and the vehicle become one.
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  That's it. You're just you and the vehicle
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  are one like. Like being Vanna White.
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  Yeah. Inseparable.
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  What do you say? In disguise.
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  One. Yeah, one human.
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  One machine connected together. Robot in disguise.
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  That's. Well, so well said.
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  You should market that. That's good.
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  That's good, yeah. So do you 2 move further down
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  the building? Yes, as we're going to move down
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  into slow pace, making sure that we do a good job.
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  All. Right, I'm going to try to
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  convince Jeff that this new philosophy with their vehicle
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  should be some kind of self help book so that way they can make
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  some money on the side. That's funny.
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  You can call it Titania. Oh, not bad.
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  Move your tokens between you not see.
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  Oh, I see. OK cool.
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  I. Just I don't know where to move
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  it to. Oh, to the door.
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  I guess we don't really know. I, I mean, I, I imagine that we
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  have a kind of general sense of where the other team is an exact
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  location. And so I imagine we're kind of
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  just kind of like, OK, we'll just take, you know, keep your
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  eyes peeled. You know what Mark looks like.
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  I know what Mark looks like. Yes, so does Retro.
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  I do not. You do not.
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  No, no, I was not. I was not there for for Mark.
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  You were not there for Mark, you were there for the other guy.
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  Yes. Hot dog guy.
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  Yes, yes. Well, perception as you walk
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  further to the east. OK.
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  Retro As you get closer to the window, take two more steps
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  forward. That that all right.
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  You see a person pacing in the reflection of the glass.
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  Jeb, you rolled A-15, which is higher.
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  And so you actually get to see a lot more of this person and you
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  are watching them walk back and forth inside this room and
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  obviously talking to someone. But the the nature of the
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  outside of this building means that you cannot hear inside the
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  rooms. They are soundproof.
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  But she is moving back and forth and shouting at someone to the
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  nose. I put my ear to the to the glass
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  to try to hear it a little better.
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  Didn't lip reading no. OK.
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  Nope. Roll something for trying to
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  listen through a foot thick wall.
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  There's a window here. Yes.
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  Oh, you're going to press your head against the window?
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  Roll stuff. Oh no, where's stealth?
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  I'm just going to shut up because I'm going to take all
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  the fun out of this. Yeah, 19, yes, you are able to
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  somehow stick your ear against this window and listen to this
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  conversation. Oh yeah.
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  Oh, they're a corporal. They're not really paying
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  attention. Anybody that's not famous,
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  they're kind of like, that's just, that's just window
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  dressing. Not like us, as a wise man once
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  said. And not like what you hear
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  through the wall through the muffled sound is basically
• 21:44
  Linda. What do you mean you can't find
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  his weed? You know how?
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  Hard it is to. Fire someone in a union, find it
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  or I'm. Firing you.
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  Because thank God there isn't an HR union.
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  Get it? Done.
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  Or you're out. I'll double fire you as well.
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  She storms out. What you discover from this is
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  that there is someone called Linda who works in HR who is
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  sitting in that room across from the window.
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  Looks like Linda's having a bad day.
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  Sounds like Linda's having a case of the Mondays.
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  Case of the Mondays. That's so funny.
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  Did you come up with? That.
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  Oh my God. 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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  However, as the lines between worlds start to thin again, it
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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
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  all that you do for me. My reflection looked back,
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  distorted. There's.
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  Absolutely nothing normal. About this, This wasn't right
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  from the. Start so why don't?
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  You tell me the bits you're leaving out.
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  Just be ready to be scared. Phoebe, you're standing next to
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  Iona in on floor 62. You watch Vendel walk up to
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  Office 62 on floor 62 and they're standing in front of the
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  door and Vendel looks at you. OK, I'm.
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  Going to go in. Whatever you do, don't draw too
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  much attention to. Yourself, OK.
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  Uh huh, where are you? I'm talking to Vivi Iona, don't
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  worry. And also you can see that
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  because I'm looking at you through Vivi's eyes.
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  Hello me. Oh my gosh, I really do have
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  huge tits. God, these things are.
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  Incredible. You hear a voice, Vivi, coming
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  from the east. Is that Iona?
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  Yes, and she's busy right now testing out some new prototypes.
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  I'd recognize those gigantic tits anywhere.
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  How are you, darling? Hi.
• 25:08
  Just just so good. I I I am as my my medical
• 25:14
  advisor here. Yes, we're doing some tests for
• 25:18
  new prototypes for Oh Chyra and Eyes So.
• 25:26
  Sick. Yeah, I love it, Nova Nova
• 25:30
  tunes. But it's so great.
• 25:31
  Iona, I know that you don't always make it, but it's so
• 25:33
  great of you to come to the optional meeting anyway.
• 25:36
  Follow me this way. The conference room is over
• 25:38
  here. Then.
• 25:39
  You're watching. You're watching VB panic through
• 25:42
  Bendel's eyes. You're now watching yourself go
• 25:44
  through this moment in third person.
• 25:45
  Iona. Yes, we'll be be there at least
• 25:49
  you know, Iona will. I just really need to make sure
• 25:52
  that we finish these tests and then.
• 25:56
  The problem is the meeting's already started.
• 25:58
  So. If you could, if you guys come
• 26:02
  in. Yes, a quick a quick 15, sorry
• 26:05
  we. Love Iona's PowerPoints.
• 26:09
  We love the presentations in the slides.
• 26:10
  She always is so prepared. And of course, we want to hear
• 26:14
  how the custodian project is going because records show you
• 26:17
  checked out a few of the custodians.
• 26:19
  You know, it's a real shame we had to trash #9 and 1 and I
• 26:25
  think 3 as well. But there was just some out
• 26:27
  there. And I know that you've been
• 26:28
  working on it, but we like, we, we totally gave you the project
• 26:31
  after all that stuff that happened.
• 26:34
  So in order to keep paying you and keeping all of your
• 26:37
  assistance paid. Hey, Fresh.
• 26:39
  Hi. We're gonna obviously need some
• 26:42
  kind of feedback if you understand what I'm saying,
• 26:44
  Iona. And you can hear her expression
• 26:48
  fall in the tone of her voice. Oh, absolutely.
• 26:51
  I I do understand at this time I do not have that outlined
• 26:57
  PowerPoint ready for you. You said this was an optional
• 27:01
  meeting, and I actually wasn't here for the optional meeting
• 27:04
  I'm here for. For.
• 27:06
  My. Testing.
• 27:09
  Well, I mean, you're here right now and you know, Dave's
• 27:11
  probably heard me say your name a bunch.
• 27:13
  Wouldn't look very good, Dave. Great.
• 27:17
  I'd love to sit in and hear what Dave has to say.
• 27:20
  Great. So you guys follow me, little
• 27:24
  blind mice. Thank you, doctor.
• 27:26
  You're a doctor, right? You're not a fucking nurse, are
• 27:28
  you? I am a doctor and as you can see
• 27:34
  we're we are extremely busy in medical testing and so I'm
• 27:40
  sorry, you can write us up for insubordination or whatever you
• 27:43
  want, but we're busy. Yeah, VV got their doctorate.
• 27:52
  Shut the hell up. Doctor's orders.
• 27:56
  What can I say? Oh well, core plus reputation
• 28:03
  plus 1D10. This actually works with your
• 28:08
  VV's, helps people what's? Well, that's not good.
• 28:12
  Yeah, it's. Not my best.
• 28:13
  Wait, that says plus zero. It says you rolled a 00.
• 28:18
  Wait, no A2? No, it didn't.
• 28:19
  No, no. There are extra things you can
• 28:22
  add I'm. Going to use one of my re rolls
• 28:26
  from yesterday. Oh, from the live stream we did
• 28:29
  yes on our YouTube channel like and subscribe such a long time
• 28:34
  oh. No, I made it worse.
• 28:39
  You you last episode I was kind to fresh and you gave me an
• 28:44
  inspiration. No, no, I gave you plus one to
• 28:48
  your your relationship with fresh.
• 28:51
  Oh, I thought you was an inspiration.
• 28:52
  No, your relationship with Fresh because he was very touched and
• 28:55
  you hadn't done that very often and so he liked it.
• 28:58
  It would make him feel good. Did you not earn a reroll at the
• 29:03
  during the live stream? No I I earned A1D6 and I used it
• 29:08
  during the battle Royale. Well, I rolled A4.
• 29:14
  They have a reputation of five, they're an exact and they have a
• 29:17
  cool off 6 so that's higher unfortunately.
• 29:26
  Also you could. 13 isn't it? Yeah, but like, her legs aren't
• 29:31
  broken. Nurse guys with Dave's waiting.
• 29:35
  We really should go. Come with me.
• 29:37
  Go ahead. Grab.
• 29:38
  She grabs UVV by the arm. Bring out the bat, bring out
• 29:42
  the. Bat is is Vendel behind me?
• 29:45
  No, Vendel's you're watching you're you're now you can see
• 29:48
  where Vendel is on the map, right?
• 29:50
  You're watching from that angle. Oh.
• 29:51
  Right. Oh, OK, so I'm watching myself
• 29:55
  walk across. All right, yes.
• 29:57
  And be dragged by Vivi as you get pulled along towards the
• 30:00
  conference room all. Right.
• 30:03
  Do you do anything in this moment?
• 30:04
  Because I'm going to be real with you.
• 30:06
  Vivi's kind of dropped the ball. I don't think that could fail.
• 30:13
  Yeah, I have a question. Who is this person?
• 30:16
  Loading Digital assistant. Excellent question.
• 30:19
  Great question. This this this is.
• 30:23
  Rachel, she she She is a bloated assistant, No notes, extremely
• 30:29
  obnoxious. She is the assistant of the
• 30:31
  Assistants. She's got a Rachel cut.
• 30:34
  So she's one of the few execs who don't really have their own
• 30:36
  assistant. They really run the assistant
• 30:38
  department. Rachel's obnoxious.
• 30:41
  Right, I understood that. Cool all.
• 30:44
  Right. Rachel, Stop.
• 30:47
  What you. Stop for a moment.
• 30:49
  What? I don't, I don't know why you
• 30:53
  have always been so cruel. What is it about this, this job,
• 30:58
  these people that makes you so fucking mean?
• 31:04
  You don't work here anymore. I I don't and I'm the better for
• 31:11
  it. Do you know how few positions
• 31:13
  there are? Work from home here?
• 31:18
  Why do you think everyone? It do be rough.
• 31:22
  Gives you a dirty look because somehow you never come to the
• 31:26
  optional. Sorry, hold on.
• 31:28
  And she puts her pen in her pocket and raises her hands and
• 31:31
  does the quotation marks. Optional meetings.
• 31:36
  Everyone who's in the office has to go to these fucking things,
• 31:38
  and Dave's waiting inside and he's such a fucking.
• 31:40
  Asshole. And I'm fucking done and I just
• 31:43
  want someone to tell him some good news so he doesn't make
• 31:46
  that fucking face like someone shit the bed.
• 31:49
  OK, Knock my dice everywhere. I can tell you're.
• 31:55
  Going and I don't give a fuck if you're blind or if you have your
• 31:58
  nurse with you or if you're you're you're losing a pint of
• 32:02
  blood. She's a doctor, Rachel.
• 32:04
  Rachel, it's your, it's your job to pay attention to things.
• 32:07
  So pay attention to me for a moment.
• 32:09
  They they failed on a face down, I can say whatever I want.
• 32:13
  I shove her into the janitor closet.
• 32:17
  Right, so in the corner you're in, there isn't a janitor
• 32:21
  closet. Shit, I'm going to grab her and
• 32:24
  shove her and and shove her into the janitor closet.
• 32:30
  So I'm going to OK, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
• 32:33
  I have something for you. Roll perception.
• 32:35
  This is dependent OK. Roll good.
• 32:42
  As you're standing there VV you're kind of you are very
• 32:46
  pissed off because you have indeed been beaten in a face
• 32:49
  down. Iona standing next to you blind
• 32:52
  arguing with Rachel and Vendel is out of shot so Iona can't see
• 32:58
  what's happening. As you're looking at this woman
• 33:00
  like have an emotional outburst behind her, you see that the
• 33:04
  wall is actually a door. It's a vent to the outside and
• 33:11
  it's not locked. A vent.
• 33:14
  It's a vent like a fence to the outside to let air in and out
• 33:19
  and she's standing. I I'm not even kidding.
• 33:22
  I didn't even that's genuinely been there on the map.
• 33:24
  I didn't. I'm just saying you rolled 21,
• 33:26
  which means you see it. That's professional.
• 33:28
  It was hidden. I take.
• 33:30
  You can put if you push her. I let go of Iona for one moment.
• 33:34
  Iona, you are now blind and can only see through Vendel's eyes
• 33:37
  and have no contact with the outside world.
• 33:38
  And I take her, and I shove her through the vent.
• 33:41
  Fuck. Do you hold on to her as you do
• 33:43
  this? I hold on to her.
• 33:45
  All right, roll athletics and don't mess it up.
• 33:51
  Oh, 14? Nice.
• 33:53
  That's a two. I fail.
• 33:54
  Oh, that's bad. All right.
• 33:57
  As you push her, she is forced out of the door and leaving Iona
• 34:02
  on her own. You now hang her off the edge of
• 34:04
  the building, holding her by her jacket.
• 34:06
  Oh fuck. What the fuck are you doing?
• 34:09
  What are you fucking crazy? Look what the fuck?
• 34:13
  Is wrong with your nurse. Like I said, go ahead and write
• 34:18
  us up. I don't give a shit.
• 34:21
  Just we're busy right now, OK? And you are insistent about this
• 34:26
  goddamn fashional meeting? Fuck.
• 34:31
  Go to the meeting, Iona will be there in 15 minutes, 15 minutes
• 34:35
  late, if that's OK. Sorry about that.
• 34:37
  It's the last time I'm going to say it.
• 34:40
  And I pull her back in. Interrogation 90 Well that's
• 34:45
  one. So I could fail.
• 34:47
  How much does that explode? 6 - 6 OK, I'm using my fun dice
• 34:51
  today I rolled an 8. So she is very much
• 35:00
  interrogated. You have intimidated her to the
• 35:04
  9th degree and you pull her back through.
• 35:06
  Do you close the vent behind her?
• 35:09
  Yes, I closed the vent. All right.
• 35:10
  You shove the vent behind her, intimidating her even more as
• 35:14
  you slam the metal shut next to it.
• 35:19
  Sorry, Doctor. We'll see.
• 35:21
  You in the meeting in 15. Yeah, uh huh.
• 35:26
  Rachel, just one, one note you said Dave needs good news.
• 35:29
  Yes. Tell him we found the rat.
• 35:33
  What? What the fuck does that mean?
• 35:38
  You didn't hear? You found the rat.
• 35:42
  Someone has been releasing R&D secrets.
• 35:46
  What the? Fuck.
• 35:47
  No way. Her demeanour completely changes
• 35:52
  baby. You see her whole body vibrate
• 35:55
  with excitement. Rachel, the The thing is.
• 35:59
  Wait. Someone is is.
• 36:02
  Who knows about this? The four of us and my assistant.
• 36:07
  So the three of us and my assistant.
• 36:12
  And you told me. I did.
• 36:26
  Next time on no latency. Somebody help me?
• 36:35
  Oh my gosh, the people at this freaking place.
• 36:38
  Iona there. All right, I guess.
• 36:40
  I should. OK, so we got to get by this.
• 36:42
  Insistent. Wendell, are you anywhere near
• 36:44
  fresh? We're so back.
• 36:46
  I would like to try to get us to that closet.
• 36:49
  Nothing that's going to get people out of an office faster
• 36:51
  than a free lunch. It's a large building, we need a
• 36:53
  lot of circulation. Sometimes the best lunches are
• 36:56
  the one prepared with love. I.
• 36:57
  Seriously, I don't think I've ever done anything that vicious.
• 37:00
  We had a job to do, OK. Vendel, I need you to listen to
• 37:02
  me very carefully. This is going great.
• 37:05
  All right, let's do it. Is there a way to turn off my
• 37:08
  eye connection before we crash and then go blind?
• 37:11
  Yeah, we don't want that. I.
• 37:12
  Don't know, I didn't do it. Great, good chat.
• 37:15
  I got the cable. Let's install the transponder.
• 37:18
  Did you not? Get the announcement at the fee
• 37:19
  free food. I'm sorry I.
• 37:20
  I'm going to throw the duct tape at.
• 37:22
  Well, just right here, just just kind of grab them.
• 37:24
  Wait, no, no, I'm telling Judd to do it.
• 37:25
  So. I'm going to use my upgrade
• 37:27
  expertise you're. Going to escort me out.
• 37:29
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• 37:31
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