Last time on no latency. Take out my aerobic chuckle.
Rominga Support Services How can I help you today?
You realized. Yes.
Did you find something? Well.
Did you say he shot himself? They just have like trained
crocodiles that come and take the bodies.
You don't have to train animals if you're feeding them is the.
Screen supposed to flash. OK, so send it to VV.
OK, I got it. They're using people.
Oh, Van Dale, I think. I like batteries.
The lipstick, they're stacking people.
I don't quite like those lockers.
Stacking 200 at a time. I'm going to sit in the corner
and think about my. Mortal in towers like Spires.
I think these pods are full of people vendale.
Probably little metal octopuses that jump between them.
Vendale you. That's where we sent Jeb and
Vendale. You seeing this?
No, Jeb, it's not. They're using the people as a
battery. They're what?
They're using the people as a bet.
What? Was that Jeb?
Roll Perception. Vendel Also roll Perception
1316. That beats.
Oh, just so just you both hear a scratching both you and Vendel.
While Vendel is screaming at you in this room, it echoes through
the room and drones start to appear on the South part of the
room. Lots of them.
At least seven drones have already appeared, and it feels
like there are more of them. You can hear them clicking up
through these stacks of pods because below you, just between
each of the pods, you can see a grate, and between that grate
you can see even more of these parts all the way down at least
200 A stack. What are you going to do, Jeff?
Van Dale What I think we. Should prop.
Ron. OK, stealth might be useless.
I run out and I shut the door behind.
Us Vendel is the other end of the room and is running towards
you. As you hold the door, the drones
click and scrape their way towards the northern part of the
room towards you and Vendel. And you are watching Vendel
being chased by these things. Vendel roll evasion.
Here we go, 16 Yes, good enough. A dart flies a past Vendel's
head and goes through the doorway, past you, Jeb, and into
a crate behind you. Oh.
Goodness, Oh no. More of the drones appear behind
you. They are cascading out of the
pods and headed like a swarm towards you.
Then they'll get to the doorway. Roll evasion once more.
No, not me. Evasion 16 Then they'll jumps
through the door and slams on the lock button on the security
panel and it closes and locks behind you.
You hear scraping and and skittling of drones behind the
door as you've narrowly escaped even more danger.
Oh God. Call our friends.
You got to come down here. Yeah.
Or we should just leave. I mean, there's that, too.
Iona. Iona.
What? What is it?
It's. People.
It's people. I know.
What? What do you mean tell you what
it was, What people are? I know it's people we found.
We found out the chip you sent us told you told us it was
people. Why do you tell us?
Yeah, we would. We didn't want to worry you.
Oh, well, I guess it's kind of nice, but will you put us in
danger a little bit? Yeah, we found the people.
Oh, that is probably very disturbing.
I'm sorry. And and it's a good thing that
you have a good therapist. Yes, we knew it would.
We knew you'd find them. We found we found 72,000 people
set up like a giant battery. There is no thermal.
It's all a lie. It's oh, oh, is that right?
Oh, I thought. That's what Jeb.
That's what we just found. That's why I was panicking.
You saw that the with the humans in the thing and they're all uh
huh. So This is why all of those.
Bodies, the ones that were complete and used, and battery
drains, completely emaciated. That's them when they're done
being used. Yes, so.
And then and then. Well then.
I don't know what they do, but they got to get rid of them
somehow. Maybe they sleep.
Them. Into the.
Ocean oh giant. Alligator eats them.
Oh, John, you you met a giant alligator.
Yeah, we fought that guy. Yeah, Well, yeah, Well, that's a
strong words. More of a tactical retreat, yes,
if you ask me, but. Talking of tactical retreat,
Jeb, I don't want to be here anymore.
Fuck the exam. I agree.
Where are you guys? Can we come there?
Can we just step in the elevator with you?
I don't like Proctor. Can I be?
I don't like it here anymore. Get out.
There get. Back in the elevator, Come back.
Up. OK, great.
Here, Jeff. Let's go through here.
Let's not go in any other direction.
We're just going to go through the security office, through
that vent, past that dead guy and the other dead guy, and just
get the fuck out of here, right? Yo, yeah, I'm.
I'm right behind you. OK, that's not the way, Jeb.
It's this way. Oh, oh, thank you, That's why I
said. I'm behind you.
And Jeb and Vendel make their way through the floor towards
the elevator. Now you are in an elevator
heading down to B. You can choose to change the
direction of that elevator and head back up to get Jeb, or open
up the elevator for them to come down later.
Should we just ride it back up, make sure they're OK?
Yeah. I greet them at the top.
I agree. Well, I appreciate that.
It's not that I've necessarily heard to say that, but you know,
maybe you just hang up. You hear the thermal elevator
engage as you come up back to storage and security, and you
hear the dinging. They're going to be here in a
few moments. We're we're in the metro.
We're. We're.
We're not. There yet?
So yeah, if you want, I can play waiting music.
I can play waiting. I can sing it.
I can. See it as the music is amplified
by the microphone you have attached to your boom box.
Then Dell and Jem step out of the elevator if it opens.
Are you alright? Yeah.
Is it good to see you guys? Oh yeah.
Yeah, it's good we're all back. Jeb, why are you all wet?
It's a long story. I'm not sure you want to hear
it, to be honest. So you're standing outside of
the B access elevator. OK, let's head down.
Another elevator. Oh fuck.
All right. I know.
Can I? Just real quick, Jeb raises his
hand. Yes.
Oh, what exactly is the plan right now?
Because I was kind of under the impression that the entire well
planned of this facility was to destroy it and or blow it up in
some capacity. Oh, let me.
Look through my notes. There's a cat on my lap.
Hold on. Oh my God, you brought a cat.
It's my it's my comfort animal. Emotional support.
Animal company issue, I'll major.
It's also a hologram look. Oh, right, cool.
Cats aren't real. No cats are real.
We saved one once, although. Cats are real, but not very
many. No, no.
No. We met Mr. Carrigan's cat,
remember? That was fun.
We did meet the Carrigan Cat. Oh, Carrigino.
I do think yes, we were supposed to destroy this place, but does
that seem morally and ethically sound now that we know there's
like thousands of people in here?
Well, can they be safe? That's kind of a big if.
Yeah, I don't know. Maybe.
I'm looking at UVV. I can't.
I'm not a doctor.
I mean, am I supposed to have the the answers of if we should
be able to stop people from being human?
Batteries. I I don't.
Well, one way to stop people from being human batteries is to
destroy the battery. And I like that's a lot of
people. And it's just five of us.
But they kind of seem like they're real close to dead
already. You know what I'm saying?
Now again, if they're if they're able to be safe, then do not get
me wrong, today is certainly the raft thing to do.
A trolley problem kind of situation where we don't know,
like if we should save them or just let them die.
Or just like I I don't know. I'm not philosophically equipped
to answer these questions. We we do need like some of their
tech though. We do.
This is where they make the body frames.
I was just reading, oh, no, yeah, that's OK.
You know, more than I do. I had to go back and read the
documents that I have. Yeah, so I think right now the
plan is to like we found like the entrance to like the R&D
facility. So maybe we can get some answers
or info on like how they were created.
Maybe there is some info on how we can power it down or
something rather than blowing it up and keep potentially killing
thousands of people. That's my thought.
And. If they're worth saving
something too, right? Has it occurred to anyone that
we're in a Biotechnica facility and there has not been a
custodian? Well, I did think that it got,
it was a little dirty down there by, you know, I imagined that
that the custodian died along with all the other people.
I mean I mean like 9 on the list or 7. 01 of the circle box.
One of the circle box, yes, we just, I haven't seen one.
I suppose it is a large facility, but usually they can
transfer from space to space. Yes, they're quite small.
I mean, that one of those would fit through a vent.
If we had nine right now, could scoot around.
Not that I'd bring nine with us. That's a terrible idea.
We should. That's an awful idea.
Terrible. Hand of that guy we know.
What happens when you take him outside?
So using my motorcycle. Oh yeah, yeah.
It's not great. Do do we have an AI core when we
do the? Is there a CAD system here?
That's a very good question. A what?
A CAD system. CAD.
Yes, the thing that makes the makes the note CADS makes the
whole facility. Implode.
Compress and yes, implode. What?
You've done that before. Twice.
Pretty much. Preferred method.
Of solving any problem. Imploding buildings.
Facilities. Yeah.
Jinx Vendo to be. Fair.
I think. I think the the morality problem
for us is much more Gray. I mean, I think we're on the
scoreboard right now for. Are we back to the morality
thing? Yes.
I mean we've we've destroyed 4 buildings of people so far.
With people inside. No, no, no, that's not true.
They. Were bad people.
If there were any people left, they were pretty bad, you know?
Like, 'cause they're always like there was the there was the
place under into the junkyard. There was nobody in there.
Oh, well, there were there was spiders in man.
I mean. Abominations.
And there was There was Retros old.
There was retros old. Landlord Trevor.
Trevor. Oh, the man we still on fire, is
he? Still on fire?
No. No, you had.
Sona cut his head off. Oh.
Yeah, Donald cut their head off. Those were the days.
OK. Well, the other facility, what
was the other one? Well, there was a Steve mansion.
We didn't that didn't have a custodian.
And we didn't blow up the Steve mansion.
Do you need the custodian to, like, initiate this cad's
implosion? No, not necessarily.
Oh. Oh, you don't?
Oh, good. Well.
I don't know usually. Usually what we do is we have to
get a bypass through the AI system or or or what is it Sisi?
Well, I mean, we tell, we tell people it's an SI, but I I have
a feeling that that custodians are very much AI.
No, they definitely are. I just wanted to say the correct
thing. But we have to bypass the AI
core. But it's there's no AI core if
there's no AI. If they're then, then we can do
it for free. Here's another thing.
If there is a CAD system, where is it located and how do we get
out? How?
How old are CAD systems? Are they?
You know, maybe this was made before CAD systems were company
policy. Not according to the documents
we found. Oh, all right.
Well, never mind. That system is usually in the
very base of the of the facility.
I mean, to be fair, most of the time when we find or are able to
get a hold of the CAD system, it's usually at the bottom of
the facility. Yeah.
And we're usually getting pestered by the Guardians, who
to me are not so much AI but more of like STD's.
What? What?
Huh. That's such an antiquated term.
No, it's not studious, terminating detrimental
identities. STDs What?
I'm very confused. I am also very confused by that.
I'm sorry that you all have not caught up to the latest tech
lingo, but we'll get you there. Fair enough.
I only know the medical in lingo and that is very close to
something else. Close to what?
What else would there be? We don't have to get.
Into it. The elevator is open.
Oh, we should probably get in the elevator.
Let's to our. Elevator.
We're in it now, OK? Let's go back up again.
Just ride it over and over again.
The elevator opens to a corridor, and as you enter this
corridor in front of you is just a big wall.
On your left is a door labeled Research Office and your right
is an opening to a corridor that goes West and east.
And a bunch of vendits. Oh look, some vending machines.
You know what that means? Screw the vendits, I'm going in
the lab. Well, I do.
PV As you step up to the vending machine, it's empty.
Everything's gone. Oh.
No. No, it's.
All right, Chuck, Why I? Thought maybe I'd get myself a
snap. That's well, you should have got
it on one of the higher levels where there were Ginger Gisler.
Gisler what I would do. My cue for some Gisler snaps.
You should have got some from the upper levels.
There were Gisner snaps in every Vendent.
Every what? Almost.
Is there anything in that vending machine for me?
No, they're all empty. They're all they're what?
Yeah, they're they're completely empty.
Huh. Were you expecting something?
Well, I mean, vending machines aren't usually empty.
Yeah, and all of the other levels had stuff in them.
And there's a lot down here I don't know.
To be fair, you know, vending machines aren't usually empty.
It is kind of like saying power plants usually are staffed with
people. Yes, also now, now it's like I
now understand why it's cold. I expect it to be warm near a
thermal vent, but obviously what you doing retro?
I'm trying to get in this door. I I thought I made it through at
one point and now I got suddenly booted out.
We but I mean, it's locked. There's computer and everything.
One locked a second ago. It's weird that this lock
magically appeared on the door. I know.
I just keep throwing myself at the door, hoping it'll open.
Oh, here. Metro next to the door you find
a little console and on the console it says lockdown.
I type in by whose authority? It gives you an error Iona do
you type your little code? Sure do 4774.
You know your little code, you little your little 4. 474774
code. There's an error on screen and
it says. Custodian code denied.
Wait. You're the custodian the whole
time, iota. Oh no.
Wait, you're the janitor? They've got an AI in them.
Wait, what? Wait no, doesn't make any sense.
What? No, I don't.
Oh, but the drone has popped out of everybody's head.
Did you? Put drones in US, is there going
to drone that's going to come out of me now?
Maybe. No.
Vandal I'm having fun. You're evil.
Oh, I see. Oh, I was worried.
No, I didn't put drones in your head.
If that doesn't make any sense, I don't work down here.
It just said your custodian code did not work.
We were just talking about who the custodian is and you've been
able to open up every single thing around here.
So you tell me, is there a little Roly Poly somewhere
rolling around in there? I type in 7447.
There's another error. Shoot.
OK, I shoot it. Don't do that.
Oh, you said it. Roll for it.
I mean, I'm just, I'm just following boss's orders.
So what, boss? Where'd he go?
This may be the one of the few times when he actually listens
to Iona. 1917 damage yes it explodes through the the machine
and with your crit success on damage the door opens like
opens. It doesn't unlock.
It flies open, and then before you in this room is a huge blood
stain and a dead body near an exit to the southwest.
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Shoot, shoot the drone since you're trigger happy.
Fine. God, Salt blood.
Oh, and you pull the trigger on your shotgun fires and hits this
drone. Shotgun.
Oh, what's that? It's my assault rifle.
Oh, well, sorry. I apologize.
There is a difference between my K Tech Tech hammer and my
assault rifle. My assault rifle XCOM dash 52.
Which by the way, now after blowing a hole in that door, I'm
renaming to skeleton key. Thank you very much.
It's a pretty good name for gun. Retro fires a hail of bullets at
this drone and it stops trying to clean the ground takes a lot
of damage. Is still up.
Not well going to be honest. It's not having a good time
below half hell. Oh, that's that's not bad,
that's amazing. One of its legs breaks, but
since it has more than one, it still manages to make its way
towards you. Losing a little movement, it
moves towards you. No, that bad drone.
Iona, are you going to attack this drone?
No, I'm chastising it. All right.
You're all persuasion. Face down right now.
Yeah, sure. Am I doing persuasion or a face
down? You should do a face down call
plus reputation, plus one D10 on a cleaning drone.
It's likely this has never happened before, ever, in the
history of Sun. Yeah.
We have fun here. We have fun here.
Super cool. So 16. 17.
Oh, it's 17. That drone rolled 12, which is
pretty good for a drone, let's be honest.
But all the same, it rears back in fear of you.
That bad drone. Giving someone else the
opportunity to take it out. I got it.
Jeb pokes his head around the corner, points his gun at it,
and pulls the trigger, causing 14 damage.
It splits into a bunch of pieces, which cascade across the
floor. Oh.
My gosh. Yeah, I'm getting really sick
and tired of these little guys. Me too.
You got any, I mean, like it's got these guys.
In my experience, all these guys are kind of, you know, usually
hooked up to one kind of central computer or something.
You think we got to find something out that and take it
out? Well, now you've cursed us with
that job. Thank you.
An AI core that we're looking for, right?
Oh, you know that that makes lost sense.
It could be kind of wrapped up into one big thing here.
Well, it's possible that there isn't an AI core if I'm the
custodian. What?
Wait, do you really think you're the custodian?
We don't think that you just put in the number.
I I just thought you were the sleeper.
Do you have loads of titles? Do I need to do that to get
better in business? Wait.
A minute? What the fucks, the sleeper?
Nothing. So you could be the custodian?
I very well could be. How do we?
Is there a way for us to? I don't.
Check now. I'm actually in the What now?
Now I don't believe it. There might be more records of
employment somewhere. Hey, let's why don't we check
that file that we decrypted? Maybe there's something in
there? Sure.
The audio file. No, the file with 72,000 people
in it. Oh yeah, I guess you could cross
reference names. Did you search for our names
when you were control F thing to?
Be honest, I didn't. I was just kind of looking for
my favorites, like. I don't need to know your
favourites for me, Well, I. Mean I was looking for Reeves.
I, I I was looking for Shibari. Steve, Who else was looking for
my professor? Go home.
Well, you could like a a great story retro, but you could just
check our names now. I I am, I'm I'm I'm doing.
I'm doing a search. Oh, look at that 34 + 6 crit.
Yes, you do not find any of those names.
None of the crew are listed. What you do find as part of
looking at the list, is that all of these 72,000 names were sent
to Thermal. Interesting.
So we essentially, but essentially we well, not we the
Proctor had sent Jeb and Vendale to become batteries.
Yeah. Is there like a quota?
Is there like a quota that they need to have to keep power
consistently going? Oh, it's probably right.
I assume so. I can can I calculate on how
long the bodies last until they're just dredged?
Yeah, 98%, yes. That's where they were at.
That's what the battery said, 98%.
But when do what happened? Like how long does it take to go
from 98% to 2%? I I We weren't there long enough
to find out. We got chased by drones.
It was really scary. I'm gonna guess 20 days. 20
days, huh? That's way too short.
Yeah, if. I'm just making a gamble well.
If you. Take the average lifespan and
then how long it goes by. If it just ended up sleeping the
whole time, 7%, They're just trapped in these pods now.
Are they shoving nutrients inside them And you got to use
that to keep it going as well as water and then you got to give
them a little bit of, you know, sunny D So then that way they
keep that vitamin deficiency down South.
Retro No one's been down here for three months, so they're
either not using power or they worked out a way to make this
last a really long time. I think 7 to 2000 is probably a
really long time. Yes, I would agree.
Yeah, I tried to carry. Them They took way too long.
We also have to take into account that people were down
here and weren't sent to thermal.
There are people like VV who got into the Abbot lab.
Yes, I mean and that's I did too, but OK.
Well, yeah. What were they supposed to be
doing? I don't know.
If what were you supposed to be doing with Jeb the capacitor?
Well, yeah, the the smart people were sent to be.
The smart people were sent to be batteries.
And then what were the the dumb people supposed to be doing?
The dumb people were supposed to run the show.
Strange that they do it that way.
That's why everything's all kind of topsy turvy right now.
Oh, because the dummies are running the show.
Yeah. Interesting.
Well, all the dummies are dead. The inmates are running the
asylum kind. Of this dead guy over there on
the ground. Oh, we should probably check
that if if someone of you could do that because I won't be
touching that I will take. A look.
OK, I'll take a look. Oh, not great.
You. Step in some of the blood and it
sticks to the heel of your foot. This is this is pretty gnarly.
You did roll over 13, so looking at the body, you look down at it
and it's scientist. He's been ripped open by much
larger blades than you've seen before on the cleaning drone,
and he's written something on the floor in blood.
Oh gosh, something's written on the floor here in blood.
I'm a little distracted by the nasty blood on my shoe.
It got out. Oh, I saw something else
completely different. Who do you think it is?
Maybe. All the big Gators thing mate.
Wait, wait, wait. This is a scientific facility,
especially with a lot of computer stuff.
This man is a scientist. Maybe it's not it.
Or person. But the IT department?
What if the IT department went nuts here?
The IT department got out. Oh, that could be it.
Retro, it's I can always trust you to lighten the mood.
Look, here we are laughing around a large pool of blood
that VB stepped in. That's so nice.
VB is even comfortable enough to drink.
So do you sneak down here? I thought you said there was no
vent any nothing in the vending machine.
I grabbed one from upstairs. Yeah.
They're able to get the last ginger ale.
Do you mean the Gisner Ale? Incredible the.
Gisner Snap, a branded drink. Inspiration.
Tracy. Inspirations.
The Gisner Ale. It's blocking my view.
There it is. OK, sorry.
I had a pop up block come up on my face.
I got. Maybe you need to check your
phone that is. My agent.
Yeah, something popped up on my Chiron and I was like, get it
off, get off, get off. I couldn't hit the little the
little X. The way they make it really
small and slightly, yeah, I hate that.
And then, like, if you miss it, you automatically click the ad
and it takes you there. It fucking hurts.
Should try. You should turn on that Turn off
intrusive ads feature. I hear if you sign up to the
Patreon, you don't hear any ads at all.
My head must be nice. What's a patron?
You're poor. You wouldn't understand.
Patron. Look, if I wanted to listen to
an asshole, I'd Fart Vendel, OK? Look at you, slap back.
I owner I got a slap back. You don't have one.
You don't have one to give back. Oh, that's right.
Have a roast battle oh oh. I did a Raspberry.
Just furthering the point that you're an asshole blowing farts.
Buttholes all. Right, I'm going to check the
dead body to see if there's any keys or cards or eddies or
pictures of family members or. Role perception.
W twos. I'm assuming there's still W
twos in this world. Is it possible that it is the
research? What is the research?
It's it got out. Word Word got out, I see.
Perception 16. You don't find much on the body.
It's been pretty torn apart. A lot of its abdomen has been
sliced open and a lot of the blood actually sprayed across
the room rather than poured, which is why it's gone so far.
You do find another B pass, which means you can now give
someone else access independently to the elevator
without locking yourself in, which is super useful.
And behind you there is a very thick glass window out into the
depths of the ocean, and there in the distance you see a vent
duct going through the water from one building to another.
There's a vent duct is. There another going from one
building to the other. Is there another building that
we haven't seen or is this like the same?
It looks like this is. Well, it's going to another.
It's it's a vent to something else on this level, but I don't
see where we'd access it from here.
We can just see it out the window.
Maybe one of those pools that. Oh yeah.
Maybe there's another vent. Quick check under the couch.
Or that. There's usually, there's usually
people put a couch over a heating transfer.
Raw perception. 17. 17 is enough.
Just behind the crates you discover a vent.
Oh man, I think I found out where they crawled from.
That gives us this vent behind the crates.
Oh man, I think they found their their old belly button ring
still attached to the belly button.
Gross. Gross.
Are you not going to look through that big door for the
research office? You're right.
Here's the research office. This vent can wait.
Can I-4774 the store? Sure.
You tap the code in and again it says.
Custodian code denied. And then it says lock down
again. All right, you got to you got to
get these computers in line, Mayor.
Just turn and heal. They are not listening to the
boss. Who's the boss here?
You're the boss. Right, you should.
You should. Wait, are you the boss?
You're not, you know, under some sort of.
I make the most money. And that's in our society.
Makes them the boss because they make the most money.
Won't argue with that. That's I think that's just
science. Rendo.
Rendo.
Retro, you should use your new skeleton key gun.
I did and. 19 Yes, you blow the machine off the wall.
And you got to see, You got to see this.
Slides open. Shit, that's a triple crit, my
guy. I just want that.
I just want that at least put on.
What a waste of using that on a door.
I know, right? When you step into this room,
it's the offices of the research level, and as you step in there
are two vending machines to your left, the control panel to the
door, which is now fizzling because you blew it up.
On your right there are three pods and then three desks with
computers and the rest of the room is filled with lockers and.
What is in the pod? You check the pod and they're in
the middle. Pod is a Person Person.
Pod people. Only in the middle pod.
How emaciated are they?
Oh yeah, they don't look like the ones in the battery at all.
That person's like got cheeks that aren't invented.
Vivi, in your medical opinion, do you think that we can save
this person? Boss, permission to unlock their
soul from this hell? Let me take a look.
Damn. OK.
Do I think? I can save them medical.
Tech Eighteen from the outside, looking at some of the readouts,
There's a few numbers that aren't labeled, but you
recognize them with all of your experience.
Recognize that this person's been in this thing for a little
under three months? There's Their heart rate is
pretty low. The machine is producing enough
energy to keep the human alive, it seems.
But the power readout's pretty low and they they do not look
great, but they certainly look better than the other bodies you
have seen. Does.
I wonder if this is like part of the the step process to turn
them into that. So those they're still, they're
not like quite at the level that you know Jeb saw them or that
this is like getting them to that point.
I'm going to try to take them out and see if I can help them
and examine them and see if they can be saved.
I mean, at this point, what else can we do?
I I I don't know about that. I'm I've got I've been getting
bad vibes about this place. Everything has just been really
Uber creepy and like, how are we to know that they don't have one
of them drones inside them? Aren't we past the the?
Drone inside theory isn't like. Yeah, the drones are way too
big. Also, are you just going to
leave this person to die Retro? No, I'm not leaving them to die.
I'm leaving them in protected care and which we can then
anonymously call the authorities and they can handle.
We will not be calling the authorities.
Totally calling the authorities. Phoebe You continue to look over
the machine and you see that the nutrient reservoir is bone dry,
and the readout says it's been bone dry for a few months.
They have not been. They have not been receiving
nutrients, none for months. Then they're probably as good as
dead. But they're.
Probably pretty fucked. I'm I'm going to try to help
them. I'm going to try to get them
out. Rough for it I'm.
Trying to think of what I. Roll like I.
Said. Paramedic 14 you go to disengage
parts of the machine. Don't do it in the order that it
was designed to do so. As you undo the front panel, the
fluid that this person was being held in does not drain correctly
and it starts to spill out the side and pour over your shoes
and the ground. The ground gets covered in this
sort of ever so slightly sticky water that starts to evaporate a
bit like hand sanitizer. And this person is lying there
with a mask over their face that looks like it's got tubes going
down their throat. You can see the tubes undulate
as it pushes and pulls oxygen in and out of their body.
And in this moment, as the liquid settles out, the machine
pulls around their waist. As they sit in this pond, the
eyes pop open and she looks at you.
Whoa. I don't like that.
Maybe I do. I mean, that means she's live.
Right. I I I'm about to.
I'm about to shoot. You you have to.
You have to take out the tubes. Being being incubated like this
and conscious is not easy. Iona, you know more than me.
Yeah, I'm going to try to. I'm going to try to pull the
tubes out and try to help them. Retro is just shaking, starting
to get a bit nauseous and get dizzy.
I'm going to add 2 luck points to this role.
So let's add. 2 to this. 19 Yes, very good.
You pull the cable out of this woman's mouth and she coughs
profusely as this much larger and longer tube comes out than
needs to. She still has some connected to
her skin, but they don't look the same as as the one you saw
earlier. They look like they were sewn
recently by a human rather than installed by a machine, and she
coughs sputters as the final piece of the wire comes out of
her esophagus. Is it all right?
Yes. You're safe.
Oh God. I was so terrified.
God, you killed the Custodian. I looked to the rest of them.
Killed the custodian. Need a regular frame or do we
need one of these like better ones?
You can donate kidneys. You're welcome.
Sometimes you have to spell it out for.
Him Doctor Ombre. You're stealing body parts.
You've really thought about this, haven't?
You. That's reassuring.
At least these people consented to this.
I hope you enjoy these. They were not cheap this.
Whole thing is starting to make me feel.
Sick. What is the custodian?
Which custodian? No, I have not found #2.
Fucking perfect. It's a big lab.
You said there were two. Let's do it.
Let's just do it. And let's go.
Let's get out of. Here can I just take a look at
your pulse really quick? Vivi, are you talking about
drugs over there? I just I I decided I wanted
anime Eyes today. All right.
Oh, I'll get there and I'm, I am stressed out right now.
I think he's suffering from high pressure nervous syndrome.
SPNS. Are you also suffering from his
penis? If he has some of those
recreational drugs. Remy.
Remy, do you have any weed? Did we lose him?
Remy. Yeah.
Wait, where is he? He's not.
In the room. Has anyone noticed he's not in
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