Last time on no latency. What do we have for this body
they were making? We know about the parts we need
and we know where skin is, but that's about it.
Have you been interacting with Claire?
I should really go check on Claire and do medical checkin.
Is Claire doing OK? We should probably go to
Claire's place sometime, like soon if possible.
We're not doing anything now, right?
Just a drink, and we should definitely just go to Claire's
apartment. Sober as hell and I feel like
shit. Don't they have the ticket there
that we need? Correct.
So we're doing this pro bono. Now we know that we can just
accept it, no matter what it is. If you would like to preach and
clear, now is your time. Preaching clear.
Preaching clear.
It's one liner.
There it is. The one liner lock and load.
Classic. Oh shit.
There's a lot of people in here. Where, where, where should,
Where should we stand with all of?
Literally anywhere that doesn't get you shot.
Well, I'm in the hallway with Iona.
Well, then, you're doing great. Me, on the other hand, I gotta
get out of here. I'm out in the open.
I am a sitting duck. Well, shoot them.
Jab. Oh, right and.
Then I shoot. No, it's not your time.
Oh, Walker. Who?
Me. It's my turn.
I'm going to shoot you now. You.
Asshole. You're the asshole.
Oh, I'm the asshole. Oh, you're the one shooting
first. You also kicked in a door.
OK, did you check? That I was here.
Did you? No.
We didn't know you were here. Well, I suppose that's bad luck
for you. OK, so that one's pretty good.
See, that was a good one. Hey, see, as far as your well
ladders go, you're getting. Fat out?
Seriously, you're you're it's like you're you're trying to say
like you're not doing it, but I really do think you're doing it
on purpose. Oh really?
Okay. He takes his hand into his leg
and pulls out an SMG as the skin solidifies back over his leg
again. He points it at Jeb, full of his
quips. No, my.
This is what you get. Oh damn, when he saw Jesus.
The spirit of that, I thought. Evie, you didn't get your
bulletproof shield repair. Yep, but we could have.
You could look up Remy to fix it in the van, but now bullets are
flying. Remy's too busy debating with
Jeb on the way here, yeah. Magic Eye pictures when he
should be fixing your shield exactly, baby.
I wasn't asked, and it's important to understand that
Magic Eye is bullshit. This all happening while Jeb?
Really. Not, I'm telling you.
Jeb, you take 12 damage, which I imagine is only one HP damage
overall with your armor being man.
You know, actually damn good on robot.
That's that's that's good Jeb. It looks like he only had a rate
of fire of 1. Yes, I.
Only had a rate of. Fire of 1, you.
Piece of shit. One of the other guards in the
room jumps over the sofa. 12 Yes, he gets over the sofa and
takes a shot at Jeb, just following the lead of his
leader. This heavy pistol, he shoots Jeb
16 Jeb, do you have a reflex of above 8?
Yeah, I have an 8. Be to 16 how do I do?
You met and when you meet you do not pass so you try and dodge
the bullet. You almost get it.
And the clips your arm just a little bit, causing 14 damage.
Overall Jesus. See look, that was pretty cool.
The little tumble over the the sofa, that was pretty neat.
Hey big big guy, what's your name again?
Me I'm Walker. Walker.
Maybe we take some cool points from your from your goons there.
I've got another shot, boss. And he shoots you again.
Beat 14. Oh yeah, you dodged that bullet.
Oh, all right. Well, I mean, you know, the
first time you did pretty good, but the second time you missed
me, just like your boss misses his one liners.
That was that wasn't great. I'm sorry about that.
You're doing great job. You just got shot.
It's OK. I think I got a good one here.
Remember earlier I said about the pulling the rug out from
under you? Well, this is like pulling the
rug out, except putting the bullet in your face.
And that's your face. And you hit with 25.
Walker does not dodge that, and they take 10 damage.
That's a good hit. How's this one?
What's that for one the other cheek?
Well, looks like someone's got a a good shot.
You see these one liners? They're hard.
See, he's forcing it now. He's so forcing it.
Yeah, you just got to relax and just think of the first thing
that comes to mind. Here.
I'll give you. I'll give you another.
I'll give you another option. There before I shoot you again.
No, nothing. All right, fine.
No. You.
Shot me again. Damn.
Ow ow fuck. Why did they program me to feel
pain? Don't make no sense.
No, I understand. Absolutely.
Not and you caused 2 pretty good hits on this guy.
Do you do anything other than shoot?
You are standing in the way of the door in the open.
Yeah, so listen, here's the other thing about fighting.
And that is you're going to want to get behind cover.
So do not or. But you do not just stand out in
the open. I'm looking at you guy on the
left. You're standing in the album
there. It's not great.
Look, what you're gonna want to do is you're gonna wanna shoot
and then retreat back into cover.
And Jeb, you head back into the hallway, where you see Iona,
Fendel, and VB. Retro, though, is still standing
in the doorway. But it's Fendel's turn all
right, so I have this great idea for Fendale.
OK, what's your idea, Iona? Well, there's the guy on the
left that Jeb is so blatantly pointed out.
He's out in the open, right? I think.
And I take a little peek around the corner.
I think you could probably pull him.
Oh, that's not a dusk, is it? That's a treadmill.
Turn it on and throw him onto it.
OK, that's a great idea. So I'm going to grapple him,
throw him onto the treadmill and then like, try and fuck him up
with a treadmill. Yeah, Rd.
Burn his face or whatever. That's cool.
It's like fucking up to the tempo, but with Rd. burn.
Yes. I'm not good at one liners
either. Yeah.
That's all right. Your entire identity is not
built. We need some work.
It's it's OK. OK, I should roll for it.
I am going to roll for it. Yay bro. 19 Yes, good.
I rolled a 15, so Vendel rushes into the room.
That guy is. Huge.
That's that's what Vendel says. Well, you're a big guy, but I
have this leg. And they do this handstand with
one hand. Twist their mechanical leg
around the guy's neck. Flip him onto the treadmill,
pressing him down onto the treadmill.
They turn the treadmill on and start rug burning in the face,
doing 2 D 6 -, 1 damage, 5 damage directly to their face,
which is their face. This bypasses their armor
because their face is just getting rug.
Now this is the model that has real tarmac on it.
That's like pressing your face against a road That's fucked.
The human crayon, they call that.
Probably. Probably do something else while
I hold him down with my Cyberfoot.
Shall I shoot someone? Tap your belt and shoot someone.
So they tap their belt there. Shield fizzles around them.
They point their gun, the guy by on the couch.
The other guard in the room and they pulled the trigger. 20 yes.
Hitting him square on the guy has no cover.
Hits him square on causing 15 damage.
Nice. See Vendel.
The training is paying off. The training is paying off.
Fuck you too. I've got your buzz, yeah.
And it's at this moment in the battle where you're all kind of,
like, really excited about how good Vendel did, where you hear
a growl. No, no.
But nothing else happens quite well, I understand, I I don't
quite know. But I'm going to follow the lead
and I run in. I don't.
Have a dog. We're going to try that.
A dog. There wasn't.
There wasn't a dog here last time.
Maybe Sue's been turned into the dog?
No, Claire's at the apartment. You're you're not still drunk
yet. There's no way.
The apartment? No, I'm just trying to think.
Why are you talking about a dog? And I run in and I kick the
chair that's next to the couch at the guard that's hiding
behind the couch. Yeah, I'm.
Going to kick that for fun. I'm just going to roll
athletics. Sounds good 13.
I roll the four. Yes, you did very well.
The chair goes flying towards him.
What do you want it to do? I wanted to distract him so I
can pop pop a shot off. This.
You. Know.
Pushing that chair gives you plus one to hit.
Well, I don't need plus one to hit.
Oh, you know what? You know what?
Maybe if I use something else. No, I'm just going to use my
very this super duper gun. 20 to hit, causing 16 damage.
The guy falls back against a crate behind him and is pushed
by a chair, which means on his next turn he also won't be able
to move from this spot. His armor gets abladed by 1:00
and you see pieces of it rip off onto the floor.
Nice. Work Iona or Vandel that would
that would. Iona wasn't ready to use me.
Oh, I trust my ankle a little bit.
It's OK. And I and I I'm behind the.
Couch I just. Drew off the floor.
So are you prone? Yes, it's fine.
I'm about to roll under this couch fair.
Enough. Actually, you know what?
I roll under the couch. And Iona rolls under the couch.
That's a tall couch. I'm rude.
That's Remy's turn. Is there anything near me at all
that I can use for cover or like the bits and bobs?
As you come into the room, to your right is the kitchenette
which to your your memory tells you that that is a one way
entrance. There is nothing else in there
except a kitchen. There is a sofa that Iona's gone
under this big dining room table and behind the behind Walker are
two doors, one that's open where he came from, which was the
bathroom, and a door behind him that is closed where the bedroom
is. OK.
Remy is going to run to the table here and drop to be prone
as well, and I don't know what we're doing, but I like it.
You see Retro on the ground now from underneath the sofa.
Remy's going to shoot Walker's feet.
All right, that's a nice shot. That's a cold shot, dude.
That's aimed. Well, I can shoot from
underneath the table, but OK. Still an aim shot?
Aim shot to minus 8. Do you want to use?
Any luck? Yeah, I use three luck.
Oh, wow. OK.
You can't dodge bullets, so you you already know that because
you shot at him and he didn't dodge.
He didn't dodge. 2120. 4. 24 -, 8 Yes you hit.
Wow, well done. The bullet flies underneath the
table and hits him. What?
What part of the body you hitting for?
I'm even for his feet. All right, so you hit his feet.
For 12 damage. I blow off Walker's boots,
they're no longer made for. Walker asshole.
Ow fuck, that's my butt and. He's supposed to get. 1 foot
now. Ow, God, why did they?
Program me to feel pain. Because they hate you.
And then I'll shoot again. No.
Is that another aim shot at the other foot?
I'm just shooting. You just shoot.
And then I can see it with a high fat. 18 Yes, that also
hits, but if it's been aim shot you would miss nice causing 14
damage. More of his armor blows off of
his leg and you actually see the skin try and grow back over the
wound. Unfortunately that is a lot of
damage and you bring Walker under half health.
Let's do the thing. Table of Death 5. 6740.
1-234-567-8910 11/12. I know that ha.
Get this, I roll the Nate. Hey.
That's broken leg. So you you hear like the sound
of metal and bone crack as his leg that he was hopping on get
blown essentially in hard. Tendrils and.
Fleshy skin that's trying to pull the leg back to his body
are attempting to heal him, but it's going to take longer than
just the in between of turns, probably taking some of them in
turn. But he is now has minus four to
move for the rest of the back. Did I shoot him in both legs or
just one? You shot him in one leg, which
he picked up, and then the other leg he blew part of his shin
off. So does that mean he falls down
on the ground then? Because legs, I blew his other.
Leg. The other leg, the other leg, he
can still stand up, so he's standing mainly on that one leg
now, while the other leg. Sort of sluges, that's what I
was saying. I was envisioning he's on one
leg hopping up and down, and then I blew off that other leg
that he was holding his hand. She is prone, so Walker falls to
the ground after you shoot your second leg.
Ah. Fuck.
Guess I'll have to call you crawler now.
That's. You.
God fuck I. Really want to fucking.
Kill you guys? Wow, that's really good retro,
see? It's not forced, you just gotta
let it. You just gotta go for.
It. The guy with his face against
the treadmill as it sort of continues to wear, tries to push
back at Bendel. Bendel needs to roll.
Brawling, rolling, rolling. Let's go, Bendel.
Let's go oh. No, Bendel slips.
God gets thrust back down to out of the treadmill.
It thrusts him into the center of the room and he lands onto
the rug and gets up. You should see his face has just
got Rd. burned across the left side.
Fuck. You.
And he points his gun at Vendel. Because, I mean, Vendel, just
put Who do you think they'd shoot you?
Vendel I was just, he's right in front of me now, so I was
scared. But yes, you shoot the person
who just. Brushed their faces as a
treadmill. I don't know who you think you
are and they pull out their heavy pistol and shoot.
Does Vandal have a reflex on the boat 8 Yes.
Yes they do. Damn.
OK, but it does not. Touch the bullet.
It hits them hard but only does 6 damage because the damage
rolled really low. So.
Ow, ow. Puck, it really sucked.
You played my armor by 1. And that's it.
But that's not the point. Well, I I could chew again.
Yeah, B 19, damn it. NET 19 so it hits you.
Ow, fuck, that's 10 damage. Again, only I blade my armor by
one, but like, good effort. I pressed your face against a a
treadmill. You know, that's one way to get
some cardio, huh? Did I do it?
Was that a good one? Like, it was really good.
I'm under your window. It was really good.
Oh, hi. Yeah, it's Dusty down there.
Are you okay? I will.
I I will be fine. Why did you have to tell me
that? I'm sorry.
I just thought it'd be funny narratively.
I didn't know about it. It's Phoebe's turn.
We'll deal with that later. I yeah.
So can you not shoot at my friend?
And I'm going to walk up and hit this guy.
He's fucking. In front of you, yeah.
The guy who just shot Vendel is not paying attention.
You hit him square across the face for 13.
He's not paying attention, so it's minus two for his of of.
Of. Oh, it wouldn't matter because
he rolled an 8. Nice.
You smack him across the body, he takes 9 damage.
It's a melee attack, so he actually takes half of that,
which is pretty impressive. And then I swing again. 17.
Dodge this. I didn't dodge 0.
Fuck. Oh, you really caught me that
time. That was 12 damage.
Oh, oh. Good, Mark.
Oh. No, that's really bad role.
I roll. I'm older than eight.
I also have a broken leg. You hear his leg crack in half,
except he doesn't have any of that skin stuff, so just he just
bleeds all over this really nice rug.
That. 10 My face and my leg hurts.
Like leg injuries, broken legs, the worst to recover from just
when. You're a medical.
Oh, you are? Oh fuck.
That means you're telling the truth.
Yeah. Down the Hippocratic Oath.
Do you do anything else? Nope, that's it for me.
I'm just going to stand over This guy was broken leg on on
the rug. You you've broken his leg.
He's in a lot of pain. I'm going to say he is also on
the ground. Right.
Everybody's prone. Walker's now on the ground.
He's facing retro underneath the table and he looks at you retro.
You know, that's one thing that I can do without my legs.
That's a lot of things because I have two hands.
I'm going to shoot you now. And he shoots you with his SMG.
You're almost there, Walker. Honestly, I really thought you
had that one. Bullets hit retro while you're
saying this, Jeb. And it does 13.
Oh, they hit my shield. Oh yeah, your shield fizzles
around you and it takes 13 damage.
I hate when it happens like that, but.
It's a good thing we have those. Those S&G's are only rate of
fire of 1, so he can't really do anything else and he.
Crawls halfway towards the bathroom.
And it is the guy who's pinned behind the chairs turn the guy,
pushes the chair and slides it back to where it was as it
slides across the room. The chair was enough of a
distraction where he doesn't actually know why Iona is.
You're under the sofa, so he shoots.
I'm going to roll the dice to see if he shoots either Vendel
or VVVV. Odds or Evens?
Evens. Odds you get shot.
You know, that's what happens. That's a hit Crit 22 + 7.
Ouch. That hits you for 11 damage.
The bullets fly across the room while you're celebrating your
hit on this guy on the ground, not realizing there's a guy
pointing a gun at you. Well.
That's right. Well, it's a good thing I got
armor. Because.
Does it? Does it take this second shot
I'm just going to hit you with for a 15?
Yeah, that that'll hit. It's 10 damage.
Like that. OK, that you know what?
All right, this isn't funny anymore.
Ow. Well, you know, there was a
whole lot of talking about what was going on over there, and I
didn't see a goddamn thing because I'm behind this door, so
I'm going to rock back in front of it.
And you have those one Niners doing over there for you.
Walker. Oh Walker, man, you lost your
legs. Yeah.
No, no. Just one of them blew in half.
I'll cry back, don't worry. Yeah, well, I'm just, well.
Retro, did you already do the crawler joke?
Yeah, I I you. Already took care.
Of that, yeah, I did. All right.
Well, I got another for you. Except for this bullet.
Bang. That's pretty big.
Yeah. That's a 28 + 7.
It's 35. So that's 35.
Amazing. You hit for 12 damage.
Walker gets hit so hard it actually skirts him across the
floor. Oh, by the way, I also have this
one for you. What?
And you hit him again and he gets pushed back towards the
wall even more. You can see he's in a lot of
pain, he does not have a lot of health left and he's scrambling
to try and get to the bathroom. That you could.
He's really. Trying to get into the bathroom
like, a lot. Good luck.
Fuck you. Vendel's to.
Vendel's going to take two shots at the.
Guy who was trapped is no longer trapped.
Bendel hits for 19, causing 13 damage.
The bullet shears off a full shoulder plate off this guy.
That's a good thing. They have two shots.
The second hit hits true, but doesn't do a lot of damage.
The armor is pretty low so they still lose a little health and
they go just below half. This guard is not doing well and
I just rolled an 8 and that is the theme of this.
A broken leg. It blows through the dude's knee
and his leg looks like that of an ostrich.
His knee is now backwards and he falls to the ground, now with a
-, 4 to move and in a lot of pain.
Oh fuck. I didn't want cycle eggs.
Fuck. And I need them now.
Yes, I'm aware of that. Thank you for your medical
advice. You get better one liners than
my boss. At this moment when you hear
Vivi laugh at this, that you hear a growl and there's just
this claw that comes around the bathroom door, grabs Walker and
pulls him into the bathroom. Unfortunate, quite disturbing.
Roar and the door slams shut. Anyone else see that?
I did what? Was that was smoking creepy?
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Oh, you know what I'm going to do?
What? What are you going to do?
I'm going to roll out from underneath the couch.
I'm going to pull this electric whip off of my side and I'm
going to wrap it around this guy's neck.
That's also prone next to me. Oh shit.
Oh shit, that's fucked up. Dude, you just be quiet and die.
Die gently. No.
Kill me? No.
Roll for it. Oh God.
Do you have inspiration? Let me check my notes here.
I do not. I have zero inspiration.
Well, you're you get 2 Malay attacks, but your first Malay
attack, your first attempt to get this whip around this guy's
neck fails and he skirts away from you towards the television.
Crawling as fast as I can, I'm going to crawl on top of him and
try and wrap it around his neck again.
All right. But this time I'm going to put
some luck in it. Here have four luck.
Full luck. I really want to strangle this
guy. 12. Plus.
Is 16, Yes. You get the the the whole thing
around his neck and you hold him down and you have the option to
push the button and electrocute him.
Which I will do Cool. You hit him and he he lights up
like a Christmas tree. All the cyber wear that he's got
on his body. He just lights up and he starts
to convulse. How much damage does that thing
do? 2D6, that's 10.
That's a lot of. That's a lot of.
Damage. That has a lot of damage.
You see bits of his armor fry and fall off.
He is not doing well. Stay down.
Just stay down. How heavy is this table in front
of me? It's very heavy.
Extremely. I don't have any.
Well, I have some grenades, but not grenades that I can just pel
the pen and blow up. Jeb does, though, in that jacket
I gave you. Yeah, I don't know if blowing up
Claire's place is a good idea. I want to push the table up
against the door and flip it so that way it blocks off the
bathroom door. Wait, that's annoyingly good.
Fuck. Bathroom door does open inwards.
You said it was. It was pretty decently heavy
though, so yeah. It's pretty decently heavy, yes,
but you need someone else's help.
I could definitely use a hand please.
I'm going to say it takes both Remy and Vv's turn, so you can
you guys can do your turn together, skipping the cavalry
underneath VV. Yeah, OK.
Yeah. If you give me a hand, then
we'll both grab this table, push it over to the door, and then
flip it onto the sides. That way the legs are sticking
out towards us and the front of the table is up against the
door. OK.
OK, I think I got that all right.
Let's do it. Oh God, I don't.
Know if this catches my steps. Heavy.
What's the? Table made out of.
Metal. It.
Looks like an actual and shattered dreams.
Oh, what we rolling for this? Not a damn thing.
Oh, good. Roll me a D10 and as long as you
don't crip fail, this happens. God damn it.
Well, Athletics roll of 14 is fine.
It still counts. Remy, Remy.
No, I used hold on, hold on, I said.
I was using my other two bits of luck.
Okay. Technically, that's a three.
God all. Right.
You get this table up against this door and you push it right
up and as you get close, you hear a growl.
We sure clear this and have a dog.
She didn't mention it. I.
Don't think. Maybe she doesn't remember too
soon. How do we encounter oh gosh, I
just got that. That wasn't delayed, Sorry.
I'm not very good at comedy, I'm.
There's gallows humor, the dark humor.
It happens. It's fine.
Have we not encountered enough creepy animals like in the past
week or so? Yeah.
I'm I'm. I'm not okay with this.
What room is this, by the way, that we?
You're in the you've. Push the table up against the
bathroom door. OK.
It's the bathroom.
OK, that's fine. I've got my back against the
table to the wall as well to help possibly price some of it.
The guy on the floor in the rug who is bleeding out, who's not
doing very well. He attempts to shoot VV from the
ground in the back. Go ahead.
Make my day. Another one that's there.
That's a good one line at that was great.
And they hit you 21 for 9 damage.
Ow. Yeah, that's right.
Fuck. At least I don't have a broken
leg. Fuck.
You, He shoots. You again and it fails and it
misses and it pings off the wall and sticks into the back of the
sofa with an uneventful thud. I'm hoping whoever hired you all
didn't tell you to break a leg and you all took it literally.
That's. Not funny.
I mean, it's it's all right. It's pretty funny.
I went that song from the elevator.
Pretty funny. I know you're just getting into
hurtful territory. You hear a growl from the
bathroom as there's a shift of noise and the door rattles, and
you see Walker from the other side of the door crack the door
open ever so slightly. There in the room, as you're
looking just over the table, you see that he's resting his arm on
a Savannah Panther that's in the bathroom.
You motherfuckers. I wasn't so damaged.
I set this fucking thing. On you, I tell you what I am
going to do. And run like a fucking Pussycat
and he clambers onto the Savannah Panther and him and the
Savannah Panther burst out of the bathroom window into the
street high up above Night City and four.
Out into the urban wasteland, man man, he keeps.
Getting away. I swear to God, I feel like one
more time and we can just not fight him next time because we
just know he's going to get what?
He seems like a recurring enemy. He seems to be more powerful
though, from last time. Oh, great.
But we fucked him up because we also got more powerful because
of the whole. Power creep.
We should kill these guys though.
There, we should. We should kill these guys.
The guy underneath Iona tries to get away be to 15.
Great. The guy tries to struggle, but
you hold him down even more, causing two more damage to him.
You're. Not going to say anything.
I'm expecting you to not say anything because I'm strangling
you. Yeah, but we're just going to
blast this, these guys or? They did try and kill us, Jeb.
They. Well, everyone's asked to kill
us. They shot Phoebe.
Ah, fair enough. Bang.
You hit for 24, causing 12 damage.
That's a lot of damage, dude. One more time, just be safe.
Oh, that's double sixes too. He only had seven health.
That motherfucker is dead. Tell me how you kill this guy.
I mean, it was it was a blast to the head.
Which I and he was twitting a little bit so there was just
another blast to the hand. I'm trying to get it.
Trying to take him out as peacefully and.
Humanely as possible attempting that.
Unfortunately you splatter brains across this very nice
rug. Now this rug is ruined.
He is very dead. Extremely.
There's only one God left, and he's underneath Iona.
Ooh Ooh. And it's Vandel's turn.
But do do I keep him alive? Do we question him?
What do I do? I don't know.
I've never strangled anyone before.
Really. Oh, that's a personal question.
Anyway, continue. Do I keep him alive?
Group vote Creep Vote. Kill him.
Treadmill. Treadmill.
You heard him, Vandel Treadmill. OK.
And Vendel comes over to you and drags this guy over to the
treadmill and hovers his face over the tarmac as it's spinning
at full speed now. Are we Are we doing like a talk
or you'll die or we just fucking killing him?
It would be really cruel to not give him a chance.
Is is it me or Vendel? Vendel.
Are you? Are you persuading or am I?
You're you're the one with the with the whip around his neck.
I'd say it's you. You're also I'm terrible at
social things. You're right.
Talk or die. Talk or die, bitch.
I will find this. He's doing great.
Thanks. Tell us where Walker's going. 21
That's a good role. He's going to be really scared.
No, I'm really scared. No, I'm walking went to.
Well, he just meets us at the Bubble Cafe and then we came
here. So I actually don't know,
honestly where he is. And that's the truth.
I promise. Please don't kill me like you
kill. And ruined that rug.
That rug was nice. Find out who hired him.
Who? Who hired you?
Mrs. Walker? I mean, he's normally a boss,
which I just got hired by a PMC called the Cavalry.
I just show up. It's just a job.
Are you do? You believe in magic Guy it.
Was about Magic Guy. I do.
If I believe in Magic Eye, do I get to live?
If you promise not to hold a vendetta against us, I will let
you live. No, I think I'm kind of done
with trying to people in that city.
It really took you fucked up Everyone.
That guy over there is dead. Walker's like, I'm genuinely
sure he's not human, but he pays very, very well.
But I don't want to fuck with that.
I'll just pretend I'm dead. I can thank my own death.
I'll just find a medic. I'm I'm good with that.
Does anyone have any? No color.
I just know I'm good. I'll just leave no city.
I'll go to Texas or something. This is fucked.
This is way too much work. My mom said I wasn't turned out
for this. I don't want to.
His face is all fucked. I would just like to let
everything. My leg hurts.
You electrocute me and you can stop.
I promise. Sorry.
He still hasn't answered my question.
Tell him you believe it, not your guy.
I believe in magic. I kill.
Him. Kill him now.
What? No, no, He's.
Don't kill him. Don't kill him.
Don't kill. Him I I only.
I only listen to Iona. I'm not going to.
We're going to let this one go team.
Great. That's that's.
I unwrap the the whip from his neck.
Vendel pins the guy to the ground with the cybernetic leg.
Don't fucking move. Is that right?
Yeah, yeah, I was just. Going to let them go scared.
Yeah, it was, really. Scary.
Well, I mean, Iona, I don't mean to point out the obvious.
I mean, combat's over. But like, why were they here?
Why were you here? Turn the treadmill back.
On. No, no.
We we we just came here to try and find Claire's computer.
We couldn't find the one in the belt in the bedroom's been
deleted and it's really dusty. Weird.
What information did you need? Any.
It's a Recon job. That's vague.
There's a guy on the balcony. Here currently.
Yeah, there's a there's a guy on the balcony.
One of the girls. Soundproof.
So he definitely didn't hear the fight, but there's a guy on the
balcony. Well, he did not even hear One
blocker jumped at the window was on.
The other side of the building, my city is loud.
True. Jeb, why don't you go check that
out? I'm just.
I don't know if. OK, fine.
I'll kill him. Yeah, I mean, you don't have to
show him. Wait, I don't have to do it?
If he renounces his cavalry ways and moves to Texas, I gesture
all right, regularly. To the oxen.
My friend Jeremy, if you tell him everyone's Walking Dead, I'm
sure he's a massive pussy and we'll definitely just ask to
leave. Also, he could Take Me Home.
We could go to Texas together. You could.
I would like to not die. And I understand the
relationship between you and Jeremy, my friend.
No, Little no. Thank you.
Where is he again? Which way is out back?
The door over there. This one.
Yeah, yeah, at the back. I can't move.
I'm stuck. OK, sorry, I got stuck on that
chair. I did two earlier actually.
It's just collision. You open the door and you head
into the bedroom and there through the window.
You can. Just if you head over to the
window, you can just about see that Outback.
There he is, guy standing on the balcony.
Oh wait, this is the balcony. Yeah, you can see the balcony
and out on the balcony there's a guy facing out having a
cigarette looking out in tonight city.
It's mid afternoon at this point.
I, I knocked on the door. Knock, knock, knock.
Hello. He puts a gun at you.
Oh, whoa, whoa, hold on, Jeremy. It's all it's all good my.
Name Wait, that's bad. I.
Think no, no, it's actually good for you.
Because listen, I've been told to let you know that you are the
lucky winner of a chance. To not die?
Yeah, your buddy in there. I've forgot his name already.
Max. Max, is that it?
Is that the one that you two are close?
Well, you know Max is on the verge of death, but don't worry,
he's he's he's not dying. Not in our watch.
As long as you and him start a new life without weapons and
violence and move to specifically the Lone Star
State. Oh, is he really going to go to
Texas? As we say us.
And he did hand over his guns. So I'm going to need you to hand
over yours and then leave that city and.
The I'd like to keep my gun, not to.
Shave you is not because. Of the of the previously
mentioned Lone Star State, I'll tell you what Role Persuasion
20, I will leave. Painter.
Your name? Really good.
I was. I was just, I was just hanging
out on the balcony. Yeah, but.
But again, like, I've got to walk through Night City.
I'm going to protect my friend who is hurt, I'm assuming.
And I can understand that, but you're going to have to do it in
a pacifist kind of way, because I'll, I'll.
Put my gun away. I was.
I was slacking off on the balcony.
I've almost finished my cigarette.
You want. One No.
But I will take your gun. No.
No, no, you'd have to roll 24 by that.
Well. Yeah, Sir, I'm sorry.
I'm not going to trust you to get to get out of here and
restart your life in a pacifistic, nonviolent way if
you have. Not seen without a piece.
Are you fucking nuts? It take her to leave.
It that is like 24 or above my guy.
Let's roll. I'm I'm just.
I'm just laying down the the rules of the deal.
Either rock out of here with the.
Rules of the role. That is how this is happening.
So you can take my gun from my cold, dead hands?
So be it. Oh shit.
You're shooting Jeremy well. Listen, he is.
I've been, I've been. I'm not gonna let him shoot me
in back just because. That's fair.
Yeah. Yeah.
He's.
He wasn't gonna. He wasn't gonna.
I don't believe him. Right, you hit him for remember,
he's got full armor, you hit him for a little bit of armor blinks
off and he takes 0 damage because his armor was.
Was 11, so just a bit of a time that falls off and flies off the
balcony. I said I wasn't going to shoot
you. And you're still not doing it.
I'm just going to take Max. Well, you know what?
And I host my gun. I walk over to them and I shake
his hand. I said.
That was a test. New past, Great work.
You know, I'm just really proud of you.
For. For immediately staying true to
those new beliefs of yours, pacifist and nonviolence.
Love is the answer. No more more lazy than anything
else. I usually walk into the room if
there's any like serious stuff afterwards, like, oh shit, did
you guys do it? That's been my MO for the last
few weeks. Well.
Regardless of how you get to your destination, if the
destination is Pacificity, then I consider you a good ma'am.
Whatever lets you leave without me dying?
That sounds fine. Did you kill the Panther thing?
Nothing's fucked. You don't have to worry about
that. OK.
And he walks with you back into the rest.
Of the apartment. Oh, hey.
Hi everyone. Oh, Max, you look really fucked
up. I'm.
Really fucked up. Oh, hey, Jeremy.
I love you. No, I I love you, too.
We should go to Texas. You guys need anything else?
I'm. I'm going to take him.
This is nice. Please take him.
Do we have anything for Max to eat?
Anything. Yeah, for A doctor in the house.
I suppose I could help out. That would be nice considering
I'm assuming you shot him and you all you guys.
Yeah, it. Was a.
Team Team Effort I. Mean.
To be fair, they shot us first. Yeah, well, I mean, they pay us
up front, so we're going to take that money and run.
I've done like 3 jobs for them. I've got like some cash.
So won't be a good life for us. We and Max, thanks.
You know, just for the record, not every God wants to die in
battle. I certainly didn't.
Yeah, So I'm I'm. Can I just take him?
I'm just going. To go, yeah, I I believe so.
Yeah, I patch you up real quick and.
Should be. Good to go.
Thank you. Oh, you wrote Medical Check 17?
Oh, yeah. No, I healed a little bit.
I think I can put some weight on this light now.
OK. Thank you for not killing me, I
guess. Oh man, that rug is so fucked
up. Well, you know, I think we
should get, you know, wipable surfaces in our place.
That's a great idea. You can hear the Get into the
elevator. That's so nice.
I really love you. No, I love you.
So it's. Going to be OK and the elevator
door closes. You're left alone in Claire's
apartment. That was weird.
I know that was strange. But we were talking about doing
good things and I think not killing everyone we come across
might be a good thing. Yeah, you know what?
That was that's a good. It's baby stamps.
Yeah, I mean, I'm sorry that I said kill him.
That wasn't very good for me. There is a dead guy in the
middle of the room. Yeah, that one's.
It's too late for that one. No, obviously he's dead.
And one liner threw himself out the window with the Panthers.
So yeah. Wow, we're going to see that
again. It's like 2, right?
Or am I just hoping well? I bet you they didn't know about
Claire's secret room. There's a secret room.
Yeah, Jeb behind the mirror in the bedroom.
I was like, I'm behind here. That that's what I mean.
Bendel, are you OK? What do you mean?
Well, you said apartment when we went bar, and then now you're
calling me Jeb. Did I call you Jeb?
I didn't mean to. You need some water, that's all.
Yeah, I'm going to go to the kitchen and get some water
Retro. Do you want to go and check the?
Yeah, I'll go check this mirror. Scope out this mirror over here.
There is a secret tour in the corner that you've already
found, so you know it's there and it's.
Locked. I unlock it.
I press the button. Sure, Open Sesame.
And it unlocks now. Going back into this little
room, you can see a whiteboard with which you've already
examined in the past. It hasn't had anything new put
on it. There is a computer in the
corner which you've searched before.
There's a draw in the desk and there's a cabinet in this room
as well. I'm just gonna, let's see here.
So I've gone through the computer, I don't think there's
anything there. And then we've already taken
pictures of the whiteboard. Well, I'm gonna go ahead and.
Rustle through everything else then.
So I'll go through the desk and I'll go through the drawers.
Roll Perception 12. Yes, Good. 12 was the DV.
Well done. Yay.
Yeah, right. Rubber Drummer.
Drummer. Drummer.
Rubbish. Let's see.
Keycard something. Let's see.
I'm going to walk back out to the living room with everybody
else. I didn't find any tickets or
anything in there, but I found this keycard.
Says the market in binary so well.
That's probably the ticket for the night market.
Oh, yeah, that's right. We were looking for the night
market ticket. All right, does.
Anyone think that we should take the computer?
The computer. Oh, the one in the.
Room. Yeah, there's a computer in
there, but we searched that when we were here, I think.
But other people want the computer.
And if we just leave it in Claire's apartment?
They're brown to come back. You know what?
Let's take it. That's really small.
Take the whole thing. Sort of thing that gets you
inspiration. Didn't think about that.
And one last thing that I want to do before we leave and I look
under the bed. And there, folded neatly, is a
simple blue blanket that smells like sandal.
This is it. This is.
What she was looking. A blanket?
Yeah. What's that you got there?
This is Claire's. Her dad gave it to her and she
asked if I could get it for. Her.
Something like that, yes. I I hope this helps her feel
better. Well.
That does carrying the computer. I've got the computer.
OK, I'm just going to go to the washroom and.
Clean all of this off of me because I realize that I'm
covered in dust. So we're sure we're not getting
paid for this one. We're good people now, Jeb.
We're good people. Next time on no latency.
There's only a handful invited to this exclusive event.
It's. Sure to be a night.
To remember. They don't take stances, they
just give us the facts. If you knew April, you might not
say. That people have been trying to
murder me for pretty much my entire adult life.
What does this ticket say? Kerrigan we know will be there.
Yeah, it's a knockoff. I would love to find the real
thing there. Ooh, those are really nice.
I mean, we could probably find nice things for all of.
Now here's the thing. Do we take?
Them the right way or the wrong way?
Yeah, I found the minibar. Just checked if and L it is.
Right. I did hear about that.
I'm sorry, what? I wasn't listening.
Jeb, I take offense to that. I'm in a very chic business suit
that I made myself. Wow, that one is so.
Cool. It's a first edition, yeah.
Yeah, I think I won't buy that in an.
Event of a lockdown, there'd be no ins or outs.
I'll slip in business card. Neurosurgeon, actually.
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