Last time on no latency. I guess we're just kind of going
in, huh? Oh.
No, this is a place of business. Dear God, you're gonna.
Die clown. Time to start shooting.
Listen, clowns, why don't you tell us why you're here, and
then we can decide whether or not we're going to kill you is.
That the name of our crew or just the place where we hang
out? Jeb.
Shut up. Oh, sorry.
Is that all of our boats that they just exploded and didn't we
need one of those? Jeb, don't eat the clown.
I'm not gonna. Ate the crown.
Do you all hear that? What the fuck you just call me
do? We look like bozos.
Oh, are you pirates? I get the joke.
You are. We are indeed.
It's an oil rig that we're looking to go to.
Did somebody have coordinates? Oh, I have coordinates.
Probably will take me till a little bit after Halloween.
That's fine. We're probably going to need a
bigger boat. Happy Halloween, everyone.
What's everybody? Dressing up as.
Oh shit. Is that today?
Yes. Yeah.
Everything. Day every year.
I Why do you think I came in costume?
I was. I thought, you know, you gotta
do some weird stuff. I didn't know what you guys are
into. I decided to be, you know, the
stereotypical sexy nurse. Because I'm a doctor, you know?
Gotta play into the stereotype. I get it.
Well, I'm going to have to whip
something up real fast. I'll be right back.
It's it's weird that Jeb didn't say anything about me wearing a
duster and a cowboy hat. Yeah, I mean, I also came as
Jeb. I think you look great, Iona.
I'm a Jeb. Yeeha quit.
Your fault, Jeb. This is going to get confusing.
OK, hold on. Who brought?
No, no, no, no. I've.
Got an idea? No, I've got an idea.
Give me a second, I'll be right back.
OK, Retro, show us off the costume.
What? You can't tell just the I got.
It's all white, with the three little black poof balls on the
front and a little pointed. Clown hat on top of my face is
completely painted white with crying tears.
Pagliacci I own another. I'm very cultured.
Do you think I wouldn't recognize Pagliacci?
Well, I was gonna go as Iona, but I couldn't get the corporal
thing right, so I think I got pretty close.
Why is Jeb working with Glass? Ha meow.
Damn it. I found a dusty corner
downstairs and I just rolled around because, I mean, and I
put a pillow underneath in the belly because like strangers,
basically just a fat version of Jeb that's obsessed with cats.
I love it. Vending machines meow, damn it.
And Jeb? And Jeb comes back in wearing
exactly what he had was wearing before, except that now there is
a CRT screen that has the the glass punched out of it and he's
wearing it as like a helmet. I'm I'm retro.
I like drugs and I can hacky hacking stuff.
Sorry. It's bitch.
I could do with some sort of notice.
Where did where did you get a television?
Well, there's one in the in the basement.
Is that my spare? Oh.
I mean, I wasn't labeled. You gotta label your stuff down
there, folks. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait
wait. When did when did the workshop
turn into the fridge? Rules.
I was as being I've been taking stuff from there ever since we
started living here. That's why I'm wearing Marigold
gloves. Because strangers got, like,
gold hands. Everyone rolled wardrobe.
Let's see how good we are. Oh, that is, I'm not good at
that. I better.
Crit exploding dice this. OK, so the only person who
rolled really well is Spoon, and as a satire of retro at 15, it's
actually pretty good. Oh, thanks.
Appreciate that. No, that's the GM saying it.
Thanks. God appreciate that.
But everyone else rolls pretty mid, so you all look like quite
serviceable imitations. But unfortunately, Vivi.
Your knowledge of medication and how much you've been a doctor at
this point kind of just bleeds through in the body language.
Yeah, I guess I I look pretty generic, that's OK.
Or or maybe you've all you've been a sexy nurse this whole
time. I'm I'm about to to touch new
your breasts. You are allowed I consent I I
unbutton one more button. Roll, wardrobe and style.
Come on. Baby, I want to put.
Luck points into this. No, no Iona.
Rolls, wardrobe and stuff. Oh.
OK. Because they're the one doing
it, yes. Well, you know what I'll put?
Look put luck points into it for you to do.
It this is important, I will, I will.
I'm going to put two luck points in there.
There you go. 15 Yes, Now now V. Now I'm a sexy nurse.
Now you're a sex. Nurse.
Hello. Nurse.
See, I I always say that you should undo one more button than
you're comfortable with. I really think this stood the
trick. Movies like looking at a mirror.
Vendel undoes one more button and it adjusts the chest wig.
No, damn it. So I don't know if my duster has
buttons, but I have them completely unbuttoned.
There's nowhere to go. Do your pants have a button?
Oh shit. Show us your bum.
I'm kidding, no. This vest This vest has one
there. We go ping comes from out the
back. Oh, guys.
I. I got a I got the information
about that brain dance place. Great.
We should do that. Vivi, you wanted the Brain Dance
place. For Claire.
Yes, we want to get some BDS to help her out a bit if we can.
Well, there's a BD lounge about, I don't know, ten blocks from
here. It's called Brain Dance Palace.
And. I got you guys a coupon.
Oh sweet. Yeah, let's let's stop by there
and see what we can pick up for Claire.
She's having kind of a tough time still.
Yeah, she's actually sleeping Vanna White.
So. All right.
What's Pink dressed up as?
What am I dressed up as? Yes.
Oh, I'm in a. Dress up as Catwoman.
Oh. No the.
The the sexy. One with the stitches.
Ah yes, nice leather leather bodysuit.
Yeah, the. Heels are a nightmare, the.
Stitching's Neon. Check it out and they flex their
hand and it changes rainbow. Wow.
That's. One nice edition is A great
thing about being a bartender is that no one sees your feet and
you're already very tall. Oh, I know, but like.
They make me feel nice. That's a huge choice.
Right. Also, when I walk it, does the
clack clack listen the most attractive sound in the world?
That's right. That's this one and I cock my
gun. Well, here's the place and the
address is just there in the back.
OK, let's head out. Too bad this is a virtual
invitation and I can't flip it over.
The, the. The.
Coupon only works today. It's a Halloween thing.
So that might be a good idea. Yes.
And then tonight when you guys get.
Back we'll just have the. Should we just?
Have a Halloween in and we love that actually.
Not being funny, but like the last.
Yeah. Domino's kid took over.
And then? Vivi, you weren't here, but the
one before that, like. A hand dryer at.
Biotechnica tried to kill everyone.
It was bad. You all have good luck around
Halloween, it seems. I know, so I've officially.
Closed the bar tonight, Joy's. Doing trick or treaters?
But it'll just be us play a board game.
Or something. I think that's a good idea.
Sure. What?
What are we playing well? We can.
We can talk. About that later.
Corpos and ladders. I love.
Corpos and ladders. I'll stop 3D printing it.
Perfect. When ping goes off downstairs.
Clark Clark. Their tail is also cybernetic
and it's sort of lashing around and it grabs the back of the
door and swings it shut and you will pile into Vanna White and
drive off towards Brain Dance Palace.
Claire is in the back of the van asleep.
Well, I suppose it's a good thing that Claire's already
here, because then we can just pop it right in.
Is this one of those places where it's take out or can we
lie down? Have it in.
Sorry. Yeah, I don't know.
I've never done a brain dance before.
I've never been to this place. I wanna be honest, I'm not sure
what your D is. I'm not sure I can even do it.
It's like a virtual reality thing.
If you don't have the implants, they can do it through your
cornea and through like any chip slot you've got or.
Yeah, that kind of stuff. So what's?
Left. Yeah, so you're like playing the
video game. Yeah, something like that.
So we wanna when we get there, we wanna find ones that are kind
of more like therapy and self-care and help mental health
help for Claire, so. Yeah.
Claire. Yeah.
Sorry, I didn't mean to. So take a move.
Where are we going? We're going to the Brain Dance
place to get you some brain dances.
Oh, thanks. You gonna dance tonight away?
Whoo. Yes.
We'll find you a nice tango and maybe a waltz.
Maybe a place they're joking about the tango in the waltz.
Can I do that one where I just beat everyone up?
That's. Cool.
Like a square dance. Yeah, square dance is.
Under Yes, Claire has been finding some good outlets in
fighting and punching, so we should find them some ones that
help fight and punch, but actually fighting and punching
people. That would be good.
I'd really appreciate it. So where are we going?
The place is called. I.
Just had the invite up BD Brain Dance Palace.
Oh, Brain Dance Palace. I mean, that sounds royal, I
guess. Yeah, I'm sure they have a good
selection, so. It's got 4.7 stars pretty good
and. And we get 50% off with the
coupon because it's Halloween. This coupon.
Yeah, the one that Ping gave us. Ping.
It's a Halloween special. Yeah.
What, Jeb? Just.
Said. Kind of like this episode.
Oh, wait. Roll Roll a driving check for
me. Sure, I bet you're going to have
them roll from meta, roll from meta.
Roll for. Me, that's that might be the
biggest roll I've ever seen. 31 + 9 I don't even know how that
happened. Immediately there, we've
teleported. You have arrived.
You've avoided traffic. And Oh my God, it's the best
parking spot in the entire neighborhood.
You've managed to park right outside the front of this place.
It's a it's what we would say in the British business, a cushty
spot. You see?
Yeah, it has. It has a sign that says
reserved, but you see you got to take a look at those signs
because if you look underneath says reserved from 7:00 to 8:00
and it's 802. You have found the most amazing
parking space anyone has ever seen.
But even better than that, as you park the vehicle, you manage
to stop a Eddy card and it slips just under the front wheel and
stops dead and you find yourself 45 eddies.
Oh well, go ahead. Today's really coming up, Jeb.
This might be the best Halloween ever.
I agree. There's like nothing that could
go wrong. Today so far nothing has gone
wrong I. Mean I know I'm in a sad clown
outfit, but I'm actually doing pretty good right now.
Well, who's going in first? I will.
I'm the cowboy.
Oh, that's right. We're doing, we're doing our
character voices, alright, hey. How's it going?
It's going good. Nice place you got here.
It's sure is shiny. I like your couches.
Jeff. How do you do this?
It's a lot of. It's a lot of not really caring
what anyone else thinks. Damn it.
Now, the person behind this desk does actually look pretty
confused. I don't, don't, don't.
You worry I can hack into. Jim, can you drop the accent?
Drop the accent. You'll be more convincing.
Y'all got any computers that you need hacking?
No. Are you guys here for the
Halloween special? We sure are.
I was going to say meow, damn it, but that's not me.
Meow. Damn it.
That's my job. Yeah, we got this coupon.
And vendel puts the coupon down on the top.
Says 50% off all purchases today.
That's a Halloween special. Yep.
That's, that's the Halloween special.
Yeah, so. We've got a bunch of stuff on
sale. We've got takeout stuff in the
vending machine. This stuff in there like, you
know, skill B DS and things for sleep like low level therapy B
DS. There's some, you know, X-rated
ones at the bottom behind the black sheath.
And then we offer two different things.
We've got a BD therapy room or a private BD room.
They're both basically the same thing, but we wash them down
each. Time and so you can take your
therapy, have a nice bed, lie down, and then we have a group
Halloween Special B. D Well, we're definitely
interested in like the the low level therapy B D's.
I don't know. I mean, it might be worth doing
a big old group thing, you know? I listen.
Like I said, I ain't never done anything like this before so
might be nice to do it with friends.
I mean, sure, we do have this Halloween coupon.
So I guess now is the best time to do it.
If I might make a suggestion, we have Claire here, and we have us
here. And Claire.
You could try out the therapy room while we do a group session
and then we can pick up whatever we need out of the vending
machine on our way out. That sounds great.
Do you have any Battle Royales? Yes.
Actually, we do. That's kind of the whole premise
of the the Halloween one, you know, whoever wins a surprise.
I was thinking Claire might be interested in something like
that as well. No, that's what the group thing
is that the there is the there's a bunch of combat therapy ones
that we have essentially punching bag where you get to
feel like, you know you're in the Morpheus versus neophyte,
that kind of thing. And then you get to do most of
the movie, You know, it's kind of cool.
How? How does that sound clear?
Only if it's the trilogy plus the extra movie they released
that, you know, I thought it was really good.
What about the Animatrix? That's pretty good, I.
Was going to. Say, oh, can you?
Add that. Yeah, no.
I can do the full matrix experience if you want.
Oh wow. That's.
Like that's like a while. Isn't it?
Yeah, yeah. Be be.
Differently in the BD zone. Not, not in, not in the matrix
one. You have to watch that full time
because it's premade content. But like the Battle Royale, all
of that stuff you'll be in for like 15 minutes to an hour,
depending on how long you take you.
Like 15 minutes. You know what?
I'm you know what I'm saying? You know, is it or is it going
to be like, wow, we've been in here for an hour, but we get out
and it feels and it's actually only been 5 minutes.
Yeah. Time dilation is like a huge
part of doing a BD. Absolutely, yeah.
He's never done one, so forgive the stupid.
Also, the private rooms are super comfortable.
You can set the air conditioner to whatever you want and you
lock, you lock it and you can just be in there.
We've got someone in one of the rooms right now, so I've got one
room free. So I mean this, this the one
who's not wearing a costume, does she want to do the.
We should get you started, yeah. Yeah, I know.
I'd. I'd like that.
I'm actually fairly excited. I haven't.
Done a BD in A. While I actually have the
implants, I'm into it so. You shouldn't have.
Might be dressed up, though. You know, just because.
Jeb, it's Halloween. Jeb, fuck you all.
Right. I'll take that.
All right, well, the therapy BD is 520 eddies, but guaranteed
results, so. So 260.
Yeah, Okay. Well, let's let's, let's put
that on the tab, yes. Thanks.
Where is it? Oh, it's behind me.
Through the door and into the left.
There's a cabinet to put your clothes in.
Lie down and you've got attachments, so just plug right
in there. And Claire walks.
So she'll be in there 9 hours. Is this for medical reasons?
Yes, yes. Okay.
You an actual doctor? Yes.
Yeah, I know the it's the ironic thing, huh?
Right. Yeah, it's hot thing.
Quickly, I have the the. Papers here, the official form
and everything. If you need to see like her, you
know. All right, Okay.
Doctor's. Note and everything.
Yeah, she can have a doctor's note off work.
None of this is covered by insurance.
In fact, if you use this insurance, it'll cost you 40
more Eddies. So we're just going to say
Claire doesn't have insurance and we'll just take it as it is.
Yeah, I can give you the doctor's note for work if you
want. That's perfect.
Thank you. Sure.
Better to have it not needed. But do you have a script pad?
None too. Yeah, I have a really bad doctor
signature for all my notes that I have.
To give you guys make. Sure that it's different than
the one you signed your checks with?
Yeah, of course all. Right.
Oh. Look at that.
You're 100,100 K customer, 100,000 crazy.
Wow. How long have you been out
before? Oh, you know, about two years.
Juice is good. Yeah, not bad.
Well, I mean, I mean for that you've got to try, you've got to
try the beta version of this, this, this, BD it's.
It's really cool. What is it?
Oh, it's a spooky battle Royale. So you have to you will jump
into this room and you have to blast them all with these guns
that materialize in your hands. And then, if you don't shoot
them soon enough, they turn into historic members of Night City.
We call them Watchmen. They're really spooky, so
they'll like explode and turn into people from like the Bozos
or from Maelstrom, or from a bunch of different places like
Danger Gal has talked about all of these people.
It's like a tie in with some of their new info.
Sounds really useful, yeah? And you guys all get XP and in
between each round there's like a like a you you pull a loot box
and you get a few things from that.
You might get like a armor pissing, not armor pissing,
because everything's one shot kill, but you might get like a
double shot where the bullet splits and there's even a few
extra lives in there too, like. Radius.
I love that retro game. Yeah, yeah, it's super.
It's super arcade. It's really fun.
We're hoping that it gets popular and because we're pretty
boudoir. I don't know if you'll see in
the room. Come, you guys, come with me.
We've got a bathroom over there if you need it, but over here in
the hallway. Come on guys.
Everybody. All right, I'm going.
I'm just going to open the door to Claire's room.
You can see inside of Claire's room.
Hi, Claire. Hello, I'm going to start her BD
in a second, but this is one of our private suites.
We've got all this space. So if you were doing a BD with a
partner, you could share a bed. And if you know for your medics
medical needs, there's plenty of space if you have like
respiratory problems or whatever.
And then down here at the end, please excuse me one second.
Sorry, Pardon me, Pardon me. Excuse me, pardon me, excuse me.
Excuse me, do you made a certain like place?
These look like just regular beds.
This is something you can just do it on.
Yeah, anybody can do this. So we use a subdermal little
attachment to sort of the very base of your spine.
It's like getting an injection and we're able to sort of ride
on your cerebral cortex. Then you wear a visor and then
your brain basically thinks you're there and that sort of
suppresses your movement so you don't thrash about or hurt
yourself. And then when you're done the,
the set it if you take wears off and unless you've got a BD
implant which shuts down your body.
So we sort of help you get along, but we've got comfortable
beds in here. It looks like we've got enough
for one for each of you, which is great.
Yeah. So are you guys interested in
that? I mean, that sounds pretty
spooky and thematically appropriate for the time.
Well, we have lots of time to kill.
I mean you. But you'll be in there for about
an hour, and the winner gets a coupon for one free item from
the vending machine outside. There's a prize involved, which
is kind of fun. We thought that'd be fun for
Halloween. Yeah.
What's the high score? So far the high score is around
about 100,000 is. That a lot?
Yes, it is a lot. Multipliers help.
So if you manage to destroy more than one enemy in a round, you
get bonuses. So I mean you've all, you've
you've all seen battle Royals on on streams and stuff before,
right? Yeah, yeah, you can get like
special weapons from the vending machines, and if you check all
the rooms, you can use them to your advantage.
This one isn't free for all. You guys are all on a team, but
the individual with the biggest score will win.
Okay, that sounds like fun. Yeah.
So it's sort of PVE, but with an MVP for your BD.
There's a lot of PS. Yeah.
Well, normally that's 600, but obviously that'd be 300 each.
300 each. Yes, obviously that not only
covers all the sedatives that you'll get, it also covers the
price at the end. So in the end you get a any
price. Take home BD and this experience
so. All for half off.
That's wonderful. Yeah.
So normally it's 600 each, but it's only 300 each.
Yeah. So then Pali wise up, That's
2060 Eddies, Yeah. And that's how we've been around
for like 2, yeah. I've already picked my bed.
I'm all good. This is comfy.
Oh yeah, memory phone is. That memory phone, that's what.
I say it. Feels like it.
Look at you. Yeah, even.
Contours the shape of my television head, yeah.
If I could feel it, I think that would be feeling nice.
Oh, Speaking of Doctor, we're here.
Yes. Sorry, I was just making sure
Claire is OK. I'm just going to gingerly take
off the cowboy hat and blow the dust off of it because it's
already getting dusty and I don't like that.
Put that next there, all right. I'm going to go and process your
payment and I'll be right back. I'm also going to put, I'm going
to, you know, help Claire Jack in, so I'll be right back.
I haven't taken this behemoth off my head.
You know, that thing is heavier than it seems I'm you got.
You must have some real beefy neck muscles there.
I don't have a neck anymore. It's just all pure muscle.
Oh, I thought I was going to. I thought I was going to say
like, you don't got a neck. It's like on like a Lazy Susan
or something. What do you mean?
And then my head turns 180 degrees.
Oh, that is very disconcerting. So please don't do that, you
know. Come to think of it, I don't
think I've ever seen you tilt your head up and down.
You kind of just tilt from the waist to look up all right.
So if you put on your helmet, the back of the helmet should
give you a little bit of a pinch in the back of the neck.
That's just it connecting to your cerebrum.
If you have a chip slot, you can use the chip slot attachment
instead. Disengage the injection by
pushing on the red button at the very back of the helmet.
OK, that that one. And then I'll just shove it,
slip it right into the chip slot there.
OK. That's an interesting feeling.
It should tickle and then everything should go.
Yeah, I'm not really sure what I'm feeling.
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awaken on a battlefield, a digital battlefield.
Iona in your hand is a laser blaster.
It glows with your favorite color.
Orange Happy Halloween and behind you as you look around
there is this incredibly. Tall creature with a long white
face and a tongue that sticks out, and two tiny horns these.
The watchman snarls at you, and its mouth moves in an unholy and
disturbing way. Oh my God.
I. Think it's terrified?
It looks like the Slender Man, except its face is like.
Got the scream mask the ghost face mouth.
It does. It does look like that.
And it looks like it's kind of got some crazy broken fingers or
something, yeah. All its fingers are broken for
some reason. That's.
Terrifying. Holy shit.
And I shoot it 24. The laser fires out and it hits
this. Creature.
He flies back and turns into a cloud of pixels and falls to the
ground. You have a second shot.
Vivi, I'm. I'm sorry.
Excuse me. Pardon me.
I have to get behind you. There's a there's a vending
machine right here. If you could you just move your.
Yes. Sexy little bum over this way.
Move that bat ass of yours, that delicious dumper.
All right. Taking it a little far reach the
line. Keep going.
Hell yeah. Keep going.
Sorry I won't keep going, but the rest of the crew feel free
too. Well, I bend through this
machine. Boop roll AD 10/9.
Oh wow. Yeah, you get a grenade.
Great. I'm going to pocket that.
Can I still take my second shot? Yes.
I see past retro and Vandal in a far corner is a small little
tiny. This one, this tiny little one
over here. I don't even see that one.
You don't seem tiny to me. It's perspective 23.
Yes, you hit him square. He stumbles back, and a huge
chunk of his shoulder turns into pixels.
First he looks at it in horror and disappears into a cloud of
ones and zeros. Well, if this is easy, go ahead
Brendel, you try. And above you, Iona, a little
thing chimes, and it says. Times 2.
I don't understand how many points I have.
You killed 2 monsters in one turn.
So what does that mean for points?
You got 20 points. OK.
I'm keeping track. Vendel, go ahead.
OK, I'm going to slide over here and shoot that guy.
Oh my God, Vendel. Yeah, that's right.
I rolled A crit and the bullet hits this watchman over Vv's
shoulder. It ricochets off a wall and hits
another watchman for that crit. They managed to kill two as they
flumped to the floor. Then, Dell, you have another
shot, I believe. Just got double points.
I'm gonna slide over to this vending machine and roll for it.
I've got. I have so much to do.
One fuck nothing that sucks. And Vendel does a cartwheel and
kicks this watchman at the top in the face.
Hey, yeah, that's a crit as well, and the watchman flies
into the back and explodes and a coin flies off the watchman and
Vendel catches it. That's a free go with this
vending machine next to me and they elbow it and get to roll
again. Roll AD 10/3.
Oh, brilliant. I got got a muffin.
It's yellow. I guess I'll.
I'll eat this yellow muffin I brought us 3.
Is it a corn muffin? No, it's made of pixels.
Come on, what does it taste? Like a metallic.
Oh really? Is that 40 points for vandal?
No, that is 30 points for Vandal.
So who's keeping track of points?
I assume we have to do it ourselves.
How many points is a kill? Each kill is five.
If you kill more than two, you get double points.
Heard. Thank you.
I go in between this crate and I guess the wall here and get a
clear path to shoot this other watchman.
And I shoot them. I roll them nice.
He gets struck against the wall as the laser, like lightning,
bolts through the watchman's body, pulling him apart like
he's being exploded from the inside and he falls to the
ground. That was sick.
This game is dope. This is kind of fun.
I am liking this. Phoebe, you have another show.
Let's try for ooh, that other one right on down the line here.
Nice. Let's see what I get.
Ooh 20 The watchman sees you aim at him and he starts running
towards you. His mouth gapes open wider and
as he starts to try and scream, you blow a hole through his
mouth and he disappears head first.
Whoa, times two appears above your head and you get 20 points.
Do you do anything else? I.
Think that's it. OK.
There's another one and more. OK.
Here's the thing I'm I'm seeing. Can't see much without moving.
All I can see is this guy down here.
And this guy over here. And then maybe this is something
right here, but I can't really see from this angle, so I'm just
gonna go ahead and take a shot of this bad boy right here.
Shoe. Shoe was right.
You see a watchman step in front of another watchman in this side
room that you're shooting into and you roll 30 + 7 and your
laser bolt goes through both of them and they disappear and D
res before you. You get a double hit bonus.
Oh, and. Looks like there that was a 2
for one. Do you guys see that one?
Yes, that was very good. I'm gonna go ahead and run over
here towards the vending machine.
And what's that over there? It's another one roller D10.
That's a six. You get a grenade.
Oh look, a grenade. And I immediately pull the pin
and just toss this 17. Yes, it goes off and hits.
Both of. Them.
All right. Yeah.
So you get 40 points for this round.
You know, I think the way the math turns out is that you
actually want to kill just two people every round.
I think that's the optimal way to do the math, because
otherwise you kind of lose as long as you get to every time
you're optimizing. Your your kills.
Wait, hold on, let me let me just double check the math
there. That's wrong.
Never mind. And it's retroste.
Oh, hey, OK well I'm, I'm a run up next Jeff and flap myself up
against that vending machine there 1010, you get an extra
life. Why I?
Have an extra life. I don't see why we would need an
extra life. It seems like we're making quick
work of these fools. Maybe it'll help later, but I
I'm happy I got the extra life and then I'll shoot this one
right here. Do it 24.
Yes. You hit the watch when you
smacks against the wall. And.
You explodes into a cloud of glitter and pixels.
Ooh, that's fun. They can see the second one
right here too, right? Yeah.
I'll shoot that one as well. No, Your gun goes off in your
hand, it explodes into a shower of pixels.
And you also done. Your extra life kicks in and
suddenly you come back to life and your gun.
That was, that was horrifying. I'm not even.
Sure, what happened? It was like nothingness.
Oh. God, oh, Retro Crip fails are
really punishing in this game. They are very punishing in this
game. I saw the abyss again, and it
stared back into me. Oh shit, One of the Watchmen
steps out. You see his head flick back and
he screams so. Loudly and you all feel this
scream to the very. Core of your bones, it reminds.
You of the scream from last. Halloween that stopped.
You, in your class, everyone rolled.
Resist torture. Bros Oh no, you.
Know this thing's getting pretty, pretty scared.
You guys, everyone manages to shake off the chills except
Iona, who now can't move from where they're standing.
You grab onto the vending machine and you feel your legs
turn to Jelly. No, I'm here.
It's fine. It's I, I I'm just going to
stand here for a little. I'm sure the rest of you can
probably take care of that. Yeah.
Yeah, and more of the Watchmen spawn around you and suddenly
they all pause and a box appears in front of you.
Every single one of you. There is a a golden crate just
floating above you in front of you.
Oh, this is the the the loot box thing.
I'm going to do it and Vandal just punches right through the
box. Wait, hold on.
It could be and a bunch of images start to cycle.
We've all got to do it. I thought.
It was going to be a trap. Never mind.
You're fine. I open up the lid to a loot box
every every one of you will starts to ching, ching, ching.
Ching ching chick, chick chick. Chick.
Chick Chick. Yeah, yeah yeah.
Bendel just touches it and then image starts.
Everyone, roll a detail. Oh yeah, 7986.
Awesome. Iona, you got a super jump.
Super jump. Jeb, you got the Megafist.
Wow, that's rare. And Retro got a Spreadshot, Cool
Spreadshot. And Vivi you got like a one time
like Projectile Reflect Shield. And I got two lives.
Wait, I have three. That muffin must have been a
life. Try life.
That's so dope. Well, try not to have to use
them, Vandal. Right.
Yeah, I'm on my second life. I hear that didn't go very well.
Deep. What the fuck?
Fuck was that? I think we're malfunctioning.
It's quite my heart, so Weld goes.
I only you've gone black. And white.
But you've gone black and white, and you all appear in the BD
room as the program projects an error straight on your screens
and the game is unfortunately over after just one.
Round Vandela gets up from the bed.
That was fun. Oh, I'm.
I'm sorry. There was a power surge.
I haven't put in the, the the, the power protector in here yet.
This room's new. I'll go and check on Claire.
I'll be right back. This is what GFCI's are
important. Well, we should get our money
back. Yeah, the battery backup in
Claire's room is fine. I'm not going to interrupt her
service. Of course, you know your tickets
are free. I'll get this sorted.
If you want, you can come back in a few hours and try it again.
I can, you know, work out the bugs.
I guess. I was having a good time.
I mean, it was a little scary there, but I did enjoy myself.
Do you think we could keep the same power ups that we had from
before? Oh yeah, it remembers who you
are. Oh, good, good.
Because I'm really looking forward to using that.
Super. Punch, right?
Yeah. No, it's really cool.
All right, well, I've got to fix this.
It's kind of a big job. So if you want, I mean, the
Bubble Cafe is like 3 blocks down.
Just come back in like an hour. Yeah, I mean, what is it?
We got 8 hours left until. Claire's done.
Yeah. You should be done just before
you know about like 9:10 PM, right?
About time you could go to a Halloween party or something.
There'll still be time. Like bowling around here or
something. I I don't, I don't really know.
I'm kind of like. Mini golf.
Maybe some, yeah, maybe some mini golf or something.
Mini golf would be fun. Can can we go to the Bubble Cafe
though? Absolutely.
Let's go. I would love to that'd.
Be great. I've never had Bubble Cafe.
What's Bubble Cafe? That's a window, not a door
window. Sorry.
Bubble tea. And it's very delicious.
And sometimes they even put drugs in them.
Step outside, there's this, this really loud, screeching, driving
noise. You hear a honking.
You hear laughter. And Iona, you and Vendel stepped
out first. I need Vendel to roll evasion.
But Iona can't evade because my reflex isn't that high.
Yeah, 19, not a crib. You sound so sad.
From around the corner, a vehicle full of bozos shaking
their baseball bats and guns out the side and on the front of
this big vehicle is a big red boxing glove, and it launches
from the front, comes careening towards you and Bendel, and with
all the evasion they have, they push you out of the way and it
hits them and it's made of a ton of bricks.
That fist blasts across the courtyard.
Oh no. It's the Mega Fist and presses
Vendel's whole body against the wall.
You can hear bones crack and blood pour from their mouth as
they're pinned to the wall, and as the car comes fleeting into
the area, the bozos all jump out and it careens into Vendel as
well, crushing them. Vendel screams.
Holy fuck. Oh my God.
I've I've I've run over there turns.
Out. Who sent in the clowns?
I jump out of there too. Oh no.
I push. I push past all clowns.
I'm I am just going to the now. Next time on no latency.
It's going to be OK. I'm going to take care of you.
We're going to get you out of here.
We're going to go. It's a Why aren't you helping
me? Bendel.
Why aren't you helping me? I'm here to help.
Is everyone all right? I can't see anything.
Vivi, you have to do something. I'm going to help.
Where are you? Where are you guys?
Bendel. Who is that?
Hello. OK, can you hook into vendel?
Can you check on Vendel? Wait, what do you mean there's
two lives left? We don't know where Vendel is.
I'll be honest, I'm starting to, like, kind of freak out a little
bit. Whoa.
Did you? Did you just?
Yeah, what? Vendel.
Vendel, can you hear me? Wait, there's a big door where
you're at too. Is it dark again for everyone?
Shit, there's more of them. Yes, yes, that lever.
Yes, go ahead. That's Plan 2.
Is Plan 2 all the way after Plan Z?
All right, be ready to be sacrificed.
What? I'm gonna smoke a J Where's
where's my joints? Yes, if you could, if you could
clear that. Oh, I need to find Vendel.
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