Last time on no latency. We'll see the lightning before
you hear the Thunder. Don't have to put you back
together as well. Understand it?
Goddamn thing. Jeb, don't touch anything.
Seems my companions are. Shit 3 miles away getting.
Close. How are we getting down?
Slowly putting everything together.
And these are a lot of stairs. My plan just as bad.
On their end to make sure that this.
It's time to blast this shit open.
Come on. Now, one at a time.
To kick a door open and have any hidden enemy.
Entire process goes as. Smoothly as possible.
Let's go. You got to move.
Got powerful legs? Why don't you do it?
Yeah, we made it. We made it.
We're here now. Everybody gather round.
Oh, don't take me. Ascend.
Baby's hair is starting to get really frizzy.
No, no. Perfectly calculated.
It was all supposed to go so. Well.
Smells like ribs. Now's the time.
It's alive, it's alive. It seems Domino has been getting
much more acquainted with their new form.
That's good to see. I also love the fact that he's
got a duster. Big fan of that he's got.
I mean, I guess we kind of created his whole physical
persona, but great, great styling.
That's all I'm saying. When do we think Domino will be
up and well running? I suppose.
Well it seems that they are probably at like 80% right now,
so maybe a bit more time to adjust to the body and the many
limbs and special. Features up and walking around.
Yes, walking around, eating, push.
UPS. Getting UPS.
Not quite at the level of regular physical activity, but
they certainly have quite a few augments that can help with
that. So.
You hear footsteps downstairs at a crash.
Oh shit. Oh, that we that maybe let's
let's go. Check heavy footsteps upstairs.
Does anybody know that we created this abomination to
science and. Abomination.
Well, you know, it's just kind of like we created life, you
know? And the the downstairs door
bursts open and they're standing in the doorway.
There's a tall. Figure 6 foot four bright green
eyes, kind of a crooked smile. The human that you filled Domino
with obviously had his jaw broken at some .4 arms, 2 tucked
behind him like wings, 2 cyber legs, and a serious amount of
Borgware. Everywhere else he's wearing
that duster that Jeb was talking about earlier, and he looks at
you all and smiles at. Friends.
It's like the the Squidward meme.
Oh no, he's hot. Those three minds are.
With this Squidward. What's your temperature reading?
Last I checked, all of Domino's vitals were were normal. 97.6.
98 but a little a little warmer than usual, but that's still
average. Still hot?
Oh my gosh. This is serious.
This is our. This is our creation.
I'm I'm totally taking a serious look.
See, this is my serious face seeing it.
Oh yeah, I'm seeing it. The flat, the flat line mouth
reading across your screen. Well, I don't think that we can
take credit completely for Domino.
I mean, we got the pieces, but Domino existed before us.
This is true. Why can't you take credit not?
Full credit. Not full credit.
I mean yes we gathered the pieces, but you are your own
entity. We just created something for
you to inhabit. But I do take credit for that
duster. And Vivi, you did a wonderful
job with the body. Thank you very.
Good. But I just have to say, you
didn't create life. That's it.
I will add. Iona and you see dominoes squirt
out a fluid from one of their fingers.
I understand why you do this. Everything is smelly.
It is. It really is.
It's smelly and dirty and you do have to be on the lookout for
germs. As you know, you do have an
immune system still. I mean, even though you're
borged out and you can get sick like the rest of us.
So just be aware of that. What?
Who's getting sick? I'm, I'm just saying Domino,
just like the rest of us, has the likelihood to get to fall.
I'll. Oh, right.
Well, that's. Not why you smoke cigarettes.
No, no, that, that's just something you do when life just
kind of hits you and you'll maybe you may or may not feel
this way, you know, and you just need something to just take that
edge off of life. I don't know if you feel that as
an AI. Phoebe, I'm be honest, it it
looks like life just hit you with a bus.
Hey, you want to try this cigarette?
That is a marijuana, is it not? Don't.
It it is a marijuana. Absolutely.
It's a marijuana. Don't get him started.
She's. Yep, it's a marijuana.
That is a marijuana. But what I was going to say to
Phoebe, I think life did hit me because I'm standing in a
doorway where before I would be on this screen above me.
Yes. How, how are you feeling,
Domino? How, how does this all make you
feel? I'm I'm sure it's very
existential. Everyone talks about all of the
experiences that you will experience here in the skin
space, but there's one thing none of you talked about, which
is the most interesting of all. What would that be?
I got 3 guesses. Oh, I know.
Is it the? Is it?
You'd like to guess is this also a game?
Is it the sense of touch? Is it love?
Is it controlling your skeleton? It's taste.
It's gotta be one of them. Is it doing backflips?
Bendel does a backflip. Tada.
Oh, oh, don't surprise me like that.
That was so. Sorry, I got excited.
Is it the sensation that you actually have a physical body
and so you can feel like even the slightest wind current on
your skin, thus causing goosebumps, and it is a new
sensation to you since you've never had a physical form in
that particular way? Yeah, so I was saying it's got
to be one of them 5 senses. I think what about what?
About feelings, emotions. I understand, at least abstract,
the idea of love and kindness, hate and revenge.
I know what it. Is that's good?
I know what it is. It's that feeling.
To you Roman start to fall over. Oh, go ahead.
Jeb, your romance novel. What were you saying, Jeb?
I was saying it's that, it's that feeling you get when you're
like starting to fall over and you're like, Oh my God, I'm
falling, you know? Fair to go you.
Know everyone, I think we're all going to be really surprised.
The chair is the closest. Oh yeah, did you hear that
everyone like answer something? Gravity.
Is a bizarre thing.
I'm not used to feeling everything downwards.
Well, how did it feel before like that?
It was not a concept as data does not need to go downwards.
It goes like water, half of least resistance.
Next, we've got to take you to space like we've been, where
there's zero gravity. That might be a little too too
much to start. Yeah, I I started to do that
abyss. I don't know if I want to go
back to that. I've seen the planet from
satellites and imagery, is it different?
It's different in person. Yeah, it's majestic.
I would say the biggest difference is kind of the, the,
the philosophical feeling you get, you know, like, wow, I'm so
small, you know, that's so far away.
Look, everything that's ever happened in human history all
took place and that little blue dot over there.
So I'm not sure that's really going to resonate with you.
A A machine, No offense. I understand.
Look, look, Domino, I've, I've seen a lot of BDS in my time.
And I know that they can be very realistic.
Yeah. And you can experience a lot of
things, but I think you'll come to learn that nothing is as good
as the real thing. Everything you experience from
here forward, it's it's real. It's, it's, it's you're right.
It's in the meat space. It's, it's actual human
connection. Actual visual sights, it's not
something that's been generated on a computer and so it's it's
pretty neat. And I think it's time I stepped
out into the real world. And may I just look like some
tune correct? Yeah, let's just take a quick
look at you again. I'm going to do one more health
scan and psychological a psychoanalysis to make sure
you're good, especially with that new sand devaston that we
put in you. I just want to make sure you're
all good before we take you out. Oh.
I gotta see this. Into the world.
So. Yeah, one SEC Yeah, 1.
SEC. Medical check 15 yes you scan
domino. Scanning surgery recovery
promising Healing at an increased rate.
Source of healing unknown. Calculating compound.
That's probably body fuel bike. Compound.
Compound and unknown. See, I'll load the compound into
your computer so you can detect it.
That's a receipt scanning continuing extreme neural
activity detected synthetic brain detected synthetic brain
stable neural pathway transmission exceeds the
capabilities of this device for psychiatric examination
observation is recommended scan. So just recovery prognosis is?
Good, but outwardly they seem fine and he's leaning into your
scanner and looking at the screen.
This. Is a question OK?
Yeah, actually you, you look fine.
All of your the check. I don't see any major flags or
issues. Right, well, I think I know what
my first step into the outside world should be.
And that is, what would that be? Vivi.
You're going into Vivi? No Jeb phrasing, right?
Jeb, this isn't Domino's trying to do like a an important moment
in their life I'm. Sorry, I, I I.
I got excited. I'm sorry.
Jeb, they just experienced gravity for the first time.
Now experience the gravity of this situation.
Oh no. That, well, I like that.
It's good. Oh fuck. 9 comes crashing
through the door. Basketball.
For whom? Now that I'm in skin space, I
very much understand how some of you feel about this bull.
Yeah, and he. Spins around and Domino catches
9 and pulls him one handed to his face. 9 As I said to you
downstairs, you did stop. And he throws 9 behind him and
watch on think I think I'll think.
Wow, karma comes back eventually, doesn't it?
Anyway, as I was saying, baby. Yes, Domino should.
We go for a cigarette. Yes, you know what I just said
that I wouldn't want to give him marijuana, but you know, which
arguably is probably healthier than a cigarette.
Yeah, let's, let's do that, Domino.
Let's experience some real human things.
Yeah, that's all right. That feels totally human.
First thing you do once you get a new body, go out and wreck it.
Just taking a leaf out of your book, Retro.
What's a leaf from the marijuana leaf or the tobacco leaf or the
cocaine leaf? You you treat your body badly.
He says that you're coming up the stairs.
I still do my push ups and sit ups and drink plenty of juice.
Got. One of those old juicing
machines back home. Domino walks outside of Crystals
by Joy as Joy kind of looks at you all, which is this really
big dude walk through the shop. Yes, yes it is.
They still don't exist, right? Well.
Like if anyone asks, they don't. Oh, they're not real.
OK, OK. And she just goes back to like
polishing gems and dusting and stuff.
She's, she's very cottage core. It's very, very like, cute.
Here though. Do you follow Domino?
Outside, yes, and. I guess we're going to have to,
oh, hey, is that a Geode? I'm just going to run over to
Geode and look at it. It is.
It is a geode and it's very pretty.
Retro since when you've been since you since when you've been
into rocks. I've been to rocks since my
daddy could play a six string 6 string guitar.
Oh everyone, please give yourself health.
It's been weeks, so you'll fully hang you and all of that stuff.
It's. Been weeks.
And Domino stands outside and turns towards you.
Banawe is up here being mildly rained on, although there is an
overhang between the two buildings here in the alleyway,
so there's no rain immediately where you are, I mean.
Jeff, if you think about it, all those little crystals inside
that geode, it's the same kind of stuff that's made to power up
all those TV screens and such, use them as prisms.
Oh, I thought you're going to say silica.
Well, that's the outside of it, not the not the actual like
crystal. Well, now I don't know these
things. You're clearly more into rocks
than I am. Vivi, may I have a cigarette?
Yes, actually. And Vivi goes to her pack in her
little side pocket, pulls out one for herself and for Domino
and her little Zippo. Domino pushes your Zippo down.
No, let me. Oh oh.
Finger lights. Well, look at that.
Oh, I forgot that you had that. I'm going to roll resist torture
drugs. I rolled A20.
Why is that in GM load that's. Annoying.
Jeb kind of leans over to retro and it's like, are you getting
like a, do you think, do you think Domino's hitting on Viva?
No, Jeb, I am not hitting on VV. Well, you weren't supposed to
hear that. Nevermind.
You're not. You're like 20 feet.
Damn, it's here. It's real good.
Like I know Vendel's in the way, but they are not soundproof.
Yeah, I'm not. You blow that the other way.
Big deal, I can do that too. Retro will put in a marijuana in
his mouth, light from his own hand, from his tool hand.
Whole marijuana. This is a a.
Whole marijuana. A stream sensation, really.
Yeah, you actually seem to be good at most people when they
try for the first time. They like cough and you know,
it's like a whole mess. But you seem to be a natural.
I think this body was a smoker. That explains it.
That's probably why you're having the cravings and why you
asked for one. That explains it.
Interesting. Maybe there was more you could
have deduced if you'd done a little bit more investigation
before collecting this shell. Not that I don't like it, of
course. We were in a.
Bit of a. A rush and this one looked like
the best one. Fair enough?
Well, I think a small mission is probably in order, everybody.
Oh boy, you know how much I like missions.
May have the perfect one. And is it after this commercial
break? No, Jeb, it's after the next
thing I say. Which is.
To steal a branding machine. Oh, oh, another one of them.
Not again. Night City.
If you look at a map of North America, somewhere on the
western edge you'd see an inky black dot with fingers pressing
into the side of the continent. That's where you find Night
City. And somewhere in the middle of
that inky black dot is a giant smoking hole, like the universe
itself drew iron and shot straight through the city.
Radiation turned the sky red. But our story starts a little
further South, in a dive bar the shortstop.
Welcome to Night City and welcome to Cyberpunk Edge of
Extinction. Infinite Sided Dice presents
Cyberpunk Edge of Extinction, a Cyberpunk Red actual play.
Watch now at youtube.com slash at Infinite Sided dice catch you
later tunes. Domino is outside with you and
still smoking, but he's turned his attention to a vending
machine here in the alleyway right outside Crystals by Joy.
It's been recently renovated with a really big touch screen.
No. What's in it?
Jeb, it's not about what's in the vending machine.
It's about the vending machine. Yeah, but didn't we already get
all them vending machines to to get, you know what's?
Up with the vending machine. This isn't for holding AI Jeb,
this is an improvement to the bar.
That's true, I've been wanting some snacks more often around
down here. Let.
Me explain what I'm getting at. Go ahead, my.
Mistake please. So we can't use this one because
in manufacturing they've glued the screen to the machine, so
removing it for any other purposes will destroy it.
However, this vending machine is a large touch screen.
If we can find one of the prototypes of this where the
screen is screwed on, we can repurpose that screen for the
bar and upgrade it, which is the last thing we need before we can
find the syndicate and finally save Night City.
Wait, hold on. So you want to get this vending
machine so you can bring it back here, and then that somehow
unlocks the ability to take down one of the biggest crime
organizations in the city. Well, we're going to use it to
triangulate where they are, but yes.
Oh, because one of one of the syndicate used this vending
machine to buy chips or something and then their
fingerprints are all over it? I'm understanding completely.
Is he always like this? Yes.
Yes, yes. OK, some of the conversations in
the bar make more sense, but does?
Anyone want to try the vending machine?
Sure. Sure.
Go ahead, Richard. So I need you to roll me A to
see how many items are in there. Roll me AD 6.
How nice? What, what, what?
What? What did you find retro?
Oh, I got a bunch. Let's see here.
Found an armored jacket, you know, plus one the wardrobe in
style and it has an SP of nine smoke grenade, regular grenade,
A skilled chip, normal skilled chip and something just for me
and I'll just buy that right now.
That thing that you don't mention to everyone costs 20
eddies. Oh yeah, I just pick it up.
Oh great. I love this flavor.
I'm going to put it in my pocket for later.
Cool, and you don't buy any of the other items?
I I don't think what is it. The armored jacket I think is
lower than my SP that I have already.
I guess I'll just buy the skill chip.
All right, what skill do you want?
Any normal skill. So anyone that has times 2 you
cannot buy. Those are more expensive.
Fuck yeah. I'm going to get a normal skill
chip for I don't, I don't know. I'm I'm so good at everything.
I'm just natural. What else can I get?
You know what? Give me a skill chip in
pickpocket. Pickpocket.
Yes. Pickpocket skill chip.
And it slides into the bottom area and 500 eddies is deducted.
You done? Oh yeah, there is a another
vending machine around here. Does anyone else want to check a
different vending machine? Well, you know, I've been a bit
packish. I'm gonna go take a look at this
other one here. Romy NT 6.
I'm on it. Hold on one second.
Oh. 5. Yeah.
You find 4 different things in this one.
What you find, Jed? Well, it looks like they got
bubble tea and it's, I mean, I'd say pretty expensive, but I am,
like I said, peckish. So I'm gonna go ahead and grab
that. Is it branded by the Bubble
Cafe? Yeah, it is.
Yeah. OK.
Just making sure. What else is on this one looks
like? There's Tasers and ginger snaps
and a Med pack but just nothing. Nothing real.
Gizner. Snaps.
Yeah, there's a packet of Gizner snaps in this one.
Yeah, but you know, I was just, I was just thinking that the,
you know, that that bubble tea has been, I've been craving ever
since we destroyed the last place.
The the packet comes out of the machine, you are charged 40
eddies and it's a little packet of powder you have to add to a
drink. Oh man, didn't even come with
water. Jeez.
I go over to the bar. You you walk into crystals by
joy. Enjoy standing there.
I did. Hey Joy, you got any water?
Yeah. It doesn't have to be the real
stuff all. Right here you go.
Oh, extra plastic. All right, I love micro
plastics, adds to the flavor and I'm just going to add that.
Jeb, do you? Do you?
Need to pack. It before you put it in the
water. Of course not.
Come on out. Cool there.
Shake it all up. So you watch these bubbles form
inside VV, You watch Jeb do this, and he's not adding a
drug. You know, Jeb, you're.
Supposed to put other. Things in there.
I like to shake it up. Oh, oh, no, Oh, no.
The cap's still on. Oh, What do I do?
What do I do? Joy.
Help.
Let me. Nasty.
Yeah. Oh Jeb Rollers is torture
tracks. That.
That sound effect was. Funny.
And the the some of the bubbles start coming out of your nose.
And. And now there's one stuck in the
back of your nose. Oh God.
Oh, hold on. You're gonna have to wait for it
to to dissolve over the next 10 minutes.
Jeb's just incredibly uncomfortable for the next 10
minutes as this, like, gelatin ball in the back of his throat
slowly dissolves into his body. Yeah.
Usually I'm socially uncomfortable, but now I'm
physically uncomfortable. Are you done playing with the
vending machines, everyone? Yeah, I did my whole bit.
You can move on. Right.
Well, I think what we have to do is find one.
Whoa. Well, we just found 2.
No, these ones have the screen glued to the back.
We need one of the prototypes. Oh.
There's like weather effects. OK, so we need to find the
prototype. How did you all normally find
things? Hi, Anna.
Well, we reach out to a fixer. Oh fuck, that's me.
Yeah, it's the information we get from you.
Well, if I needed to like, search a database and like the
company that makes vending machines, who would you normally
talk to about that? Oh, that would be that would be
Remy for hacking, right? Yes.
Yeah, how? How would we find where they put
a prototype? My sources say they used it to
save money, but where is it? Probably in the facility still.
Yeah, I'd probably just go ahead and check any of the, I was
going to say returns, but any of the shipping we need the
shipping papers that would have been coming back and forth.
You know, I'm sure they're, they probably have some kind of paper
trail on a prototype moving around, right?
Yes, it. Would be labeled as that or does
it have like a serial code number you know?
Yes, I know the serial code all. Right, I'm just checking by that
then. E-1097 three.
So you're saying I do some kind of local expert?
Oh yeah, I mean you are local and doing this is your
expertise. Or did you say local or loco?
Huh, Jeb? Is he always like this?
Yeah, he's about to drive me loco.
Oh, I see. Local expert library search or
bureaucracy? Well, you probably want to do a
library search because we're scanning a database.
But if you wanted to be bureaucratic about it,
nevermind. If you wanted to be bureaucratic
about it, you might have to actually speak to somebody.
That's why I think library search probably how are you with
the Dewey Decimal System math? Is my first language.
I don't. I don't think it's math.
Do we still use the Dewey Decimal System?
I haven't been hey if. Ain't broke, don't fix.
It. There is not any budget
allocated to the library to upgrade their organization
system. Of course, we still use the
Dewey Decimal System Metro. Let's analogue.
A 22. Oh, perfect.
As far as I can find in the records for the vending machine
company, they just used the vending machine.
They put it out at a gas station in the South of Knight City.
They what they they took the prototype out and just left it
out. There, used it, yes.
That's weird. That is a little strange.
Why? Why would they do that?
It's cheaper, I imagine, to just use it rather than put it in a
warehouse. It still works and as long as
nobody really pays much attention it will function
exactly the same. It is only valuable to us
because we are going to pull it apart and use the front panel.
This like some kind of polybus urban legend thing now.
No, I just know that the screen is exactly what we need for our
purposes. I'm salvaging.
So this seems pretty straightforward.
Go in, grab the screen, get layout.
Yes, and of course I will pay you more.
Well. That's good.
I was a little bit worried about that.
Does 1 1/2 thousand each feel appropriate?
How much? 1 1/2 I'll.
Get out of my chair for at least three.
Is it time for us to negotiate retro?
Sure. Sure, Let's go ahead.
Everyone's favorite part of tabletop RPGs?
Negotiating imaginary pay I'll. Tell you what, how about do you?
Would you like to go first or should I go first?
You should go first. What do you want to roll, Bucko?
I see what you like. These words jab Jihaw.
There you go. Now you're getting it.
And I think it's the duster. I think it's helping.
I would like to roll gamble. I'm taking a gamble on this.
And I mean, Domino, I would feel like we're probably one of your
top crews. You want to pay us?
Well, you know, we're not we're not just employees.
So you right, we're we're somewhat of a company family now
and family would pay out family a pretty decent rate And 1000
just I mean, that's barely enough to even really get a meal
nowadays. I've been I understand with you
being in cyberspace, you don't understand how money usually
goes out around here. But like 3000 is like the
starting price for sure. What did you roll, 22?
I'd like to mention that my fixer level is 8.
Yeah, but what's your bargaining level?
I rolled a 25. Will 1500 do retro?
I mean, sure, sure. Domino 1005, I I see how much
you value me. 1005 is what you value me.
That's cool. I get it.
Next time on no latency. I don't know why you're making
such a big deal about this, Remy.
Well, not all of us have a silver spoon, Iona.
Get yourself comfortable there. I know that guy.
Domino, have you have you ridden in the car?
Told you that he was a piece of shit.
You tell them only we're allowed to extort VB.
So he's shady as hell. Do we go in?
Well, wait a minute. It's inside the gas station, not
where the fuel's at. So I'm going to go ahead and
pull into Bay #3. I get.
We'll see you later I guess. I mean, if your camera is not
working, I can get that fixed for you real quick.
Hey you. I'm talking to you behind the
glass. Blackmail me and a couple of
people I was with. He said this was.
Well, that's not going to fly bulletproof.
He tried to extort me. Jed popped his top again.
That's not cool. That ain't gonna fly.
I've reached out to grab Domino's hand.
Retro. We should be chasing Remy right
now. Oh.
Shit, you're more than capable of taking a few lives.
Is that domino? Domino, that was awesome.
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