Last time on no latency. Here's 700 that is.
That was smooth sail. Ben Dale, did you take notes?
I didn't know retro had it in them.
Bye, Knox. That's how flirting work.
Good chatting up that librarian there, Retro.
I don't know that I've ever seen a more successful flirt.
I don't mean to say this in a mean way.
You are a serial dater. I wouldn't say serial dater I.
Think they're going to burn down the library?
Keep books in schools. I was just looking forward to
looking at more of those picture books on the back.
A time frame. Roll for time frame.
Expansive rare book. With everyone's social credit
looking like. That we could, maybe?
And we can kill that guy, can't we?
He can't just check the book out.
This guy isn't exactly the brightest, is he?
No, he really isn't. Yeah, you're not really having
to do much for this. Big your vibes.
Yeah, tell us about him. And now you'll get to remember
her, because we're going to get you that damn book.
OK, that seems like a good deal. So now like, you don't even have
to deal with the other guy. Yeah, tell us about him.
He's, you know, he's just a guy. You know, he, he, he's put on
all this like big old, like chim costume, but I'm not meant to
tell anybody what he does. But he's he's a teacher.
He's a teacher. Like here.
So the Dean hired you and a teacher from here to do this.
Yeah, but he's dressing up like a, you know, a vandal.
And then like, for me, getting a reputation to like burning a
building or whatever, not a big deal.
It's actually pretty good for business.
But for him like, you know. Yeah.
I mean, what, what wouldn't have a little mayhem in in this line
of work look good on your resume?
Yeah. But also your deal sounds better
and less effort, so I'm done. Cool.
Yeah, when were you? Yeah, we can do a deal.
I usually do like a holding fee just in case.
So I'll give it back to you when you give me the book.
Sure, yeah, but this one's for your mom, you know?
Yeah, I know. And the money is for rent so
like 2K3. Sure I I transfer 2K.
Cool, here's my card. If I don't hear you hear from
you in like an hour and a half, I have to do the gig.
So look, hey. Ram said.
You didn't answer me if you wanted if you wanted a side gig.
Oh, I didn't hear you. I'm sorry.
Let's see how this job goes first.
Well, I kind of, I kind of need it now.
So since you're not doing anything, sure, sure.
I hear my proposition first. Sure.
I am in need of somebody to go and raid the dumpsters of the
engineering and science buildings and bring me back any
decently put together projects because now we have to take care
of this. That was my original plan, but
now I can't do that. So you go and get that.
You know where Tunas is at. Yeah.
Yeah, you drop that all off at Tuna saying care of Retro.
And then when you come, when you come find me, say, you know, a
day or two from now, I'll I'll, I'll, I'll give you a free
hookup on a on a weapon or a cyberwear for you.
How about that? OK.
I usually charge a holding fee so like 500.
I will give him one of the rings that I have.
Oh, gold band ring that I have all.
Right. There you go.
Sure. And he pops.
You know, you know who's that is?
Yours. Yeah.
It's yours now. What's mine now?
All right, here's my card. If I don't hear from you, I hear
from you in like a week. I'm selling this he.
Puts it in his pocket. You know, Ram said.
I just got to say, it's been an absolute pleasure working with
you. Is there some way that we can
like, give you a rating or something like something, you
know? Oh yeah.
After the job is completed, I send you like a follow up
message and I double check that you're satisfied with your
service. I use this like back end thingy,
it's pretty cool. Yeah, absolutely.
You know it. So it's it's I really appreciate
just how candid and straightforward you are.
No funny business, just straight to the.
Point if you've got money and you pay me like yeah I'm yours
and since you paid me so much, if somebody tries to counter
bribe me and you have holding money, I will let you know and
we will. Be.
Nice, Oh. Oh, hold on.
Whoa, whoa. I love that.
Love that for me. Does that mean that you are
going to go talk to the Dean and and do the same thing to him?
Did he give you holding money? No.
Oh, thank God. No, he, he, he, he just offered
me the job again, you know? And that's why you always paid
the deposit. Exactly.
Very good. Yeah.
But you know, he said he was going to pay me 10 grand, so
that's why I took the job. Yeah.
Like even the big regular kicks at Night City only pay like 2.
Anyway, I'm going to go get some trash and shit, drop it over at
2 news and I'll be back here in about an hour, so please.
He walks away. Well, that went swimmingly.
Exactly. See how easy that was?
We know people. We know.
People. Yeah, sometimes talking to
people and and you know doing it the non violent way, sometimes
that is better, huh. Hey, can one of you remind me to
make sure to contact him within that time frame before he sells
that ring? Yes.
Because I'm pretty sure that that ring's connected to one of
the people that we've demonetized, and I'm pretty sure
the cops will probably come after him for that.
Oh shit OK so half the threat to the library is paid off.
We have to find out who the teacher is, steal two books and
then punish the Dean or like disgrace him or something.
We could prepare him in front of the whole school.
Oh indeed, some exposure. We could put him on probation,
double secret probation. Or maybe we could find, I mean
like he did try to or rather is trying to burn down the the
library for insurance money. I imagine if we can find some
sort of dirt on him and like leak to the press or something,
that might take care of that right there.
Pretty heavy scandal. While they were talking to him,
I was trying to still scout out this guy who is with the teen.
OK, I'm going to keep. I was.
I'm going to continue to spy on them.
OK. And see if he leaves at all or
is he staying in the room or is he?
You if you want to peek back through the window, you'll have
to Did you go with everyone to the other the other courtyard,
or did you stay behind? No, I stayed behind.
I like watched them while they were going but I just I stayed
behind to keep an eye out. Great if you want to peek
through the window and see if he's still in there.
Because he didn't come out the front door with Ram's head.
Ram's head came out on his own. Stealth 15.
Yes, that is enough. You peek through the window and
he's not there. Shit.
And you're looking at the the back of of the Dean's head.
Where did he go? Did he leave?
Rob Perception 21 As you peer into the room, you see a few
things. You see the Dean's desk, He's
got some like stuff on his desk computer.
There are two chairs in front of it for people to sit down.
There's some sofas, a bunch of cabinets and a back door as well
as a front door. He might have gone out the back
door. I'm going to peer around the
corner and just take a peek at what's around the corner.
Great. If you want to do it quietly,
we're all stealth. Yeah, let's see what did.
You get. 15. 15 Yes, that is just enough to peek.
As you peek around the corner, you see a guy who's taking off a
bunch of his gear, packing it into a bag, looking around kind
of nervously, and he sort of straightens his tie.
He looks like a professor, fairly young.
OK, yeah. I don't trust this guy's gonna
not do something. I am just gonna like sit on this
bench, pretend I'm like reading a book and just if he goes
anywhere, I'm gonna try to, I'm gonna try to follow him,
basically. Cool.
He walks past you with your stealth and your little being.
Conspicuate. What?
What is it conspicuous? Inconspicuous.
Being inconspicuous as you sit there on the bench nonchalantly
doom scrolling on your agent. He walks behind the library.
He looks around, and then he walks further into the shadows.
I'll get up after he makes a bit of distance and I'm going to
just send a message to the others guys.
I got eyes on the other guy, the teacher.
I'm going to follow him. I'm tailing him.
Oh damn it. That's cool.
That's real cool. You don't need any backup.
I'm good for now. OK, well.
I think it's a novel idea. Go ahead.
Oh my God. Take take a picture of him, we
can use it as dart. Oh, it's not a bad idea.
All right, just. Pretend I'm continuing to doom
scroll in my agent and then pull it up to snap a few photos as
I'm watching this guy. He's now walked to the very
other end of the building and you are lightly filming him.
If you do not want him to notice you are filming him, you have.
To go for it. Yep, I'm gonna add 2 luck to
this one. OK, OK, so I got a 20 you.
Got a 20? What you grab as he goes around
the corner is him pulling out a grappling hook and disappearing
around the corner. You hear the distinctive noise
as it flies and clanks onto the roof, and then you hear the
retraction of said grappling hook and some struggling.
We're supposed to put this thing on the roof, right?
From my understanding are. You asking me or the crew?
Actually, I'll ask the crew. Hey, gang, we're supposed to put
this thing on the ceiling, right?
Or on the roof? I'm sorry, on the roof.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We need to get it on the roof.
It needs to have an unobstructed access to.
Yeah, I think the teacher guy just went to the roof.
He grappled up there. What?
I grabbed. I could do that.
You could. You could because he is up there
right now as we speak. Should I go do that?
I'm gonna go down this. I'm gonna go do that.
OK, any excuse where? Was it?
Where did he go? Where did?
He go, he's he went to the down to that end, right over here and
all the way at the other end and grappled up.
Like like right right here or a little further?
All the way at the end of the library.
OK, OK. I mean, if you want to follow
him directly, are you? Oh yeah, yeah.
You know what, go ahead. You want that way as.
Good as he be because he kind of sounded like he struggled a
little bit so. More perception.
Perception, you said? Yes.
Please. OK one SEC I have to reopen my
character sheet perception. 19 Excellent.
Yes, you hear the distinctive wearing of a observation bot as
it comes into the alleyway where you are to investigate the
various footsteps and activity. Oh.
Shit, OK, check this out. He, he had to struggle, right?
We all heard that. We all heard him struggle.
Check this out. Stealth 22 you make it on top of
the roof in silence, but in order for the bot to not see you
do that because you did not go around the corner of the
building, BB has to do something about the bot.
Oh, OK, got it. I, I am going to act like I am
totally distracted on my phone, like those Dang kids on their
phones. Vivi's looking down and just
walks right into the thing just oh shit, sorry, oh sorry.
And just like bliss, acting blissfully unaware and just like
acting OK, Oh boy. Acting.
Wait wait wait. Can I make a suggestion?
Yes. Feign concussion and then use
medical because you're, you know, some different concussion.
Well, acting. I'm also going to add 2 luck to
this because my was not very good.
Burning the luck today? Oh no.
God, I knew my luck.
As you roll into the bath, you fall over and it falls
underneath you. There's a crash as it splits
open underneath you and causes. Oh no, A.
Call to NCPB. Yep. 10.
Damage 10 damage and since it's a a a melee attack, technically
it causes 5 actual HP damage to you and the remaining pieces of
it set off an alarm. The alarm is now going off
underneath you in the remaining parts and you're pulling out
bits of metal from your jacket and the the alarm's going off
and there's just loads of noise. What do you do about it?
Oh shit, oh, I'm so crap and I'm just going to keep up this act
and. Oh.
Damn it, I'm so sorry. Librarians of the back door.
Oh of. Denny's office is the Dean of
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Hello Professor. Sorry, I just, well, you know,
us, US kids, you know, we can't get off our agents.
We're always distracted. He pulls a little remote out of
his pocket and points it at the pile of scrap underneath you and
oops it it turns off below you. Is this like scrapped unit?
I'm sorry about that. Look, I know there's a fine for
everything, so just let me know what the fine is and I'll make
sure to add it to my constantly incurring student debt.
Honestly, Bebe you haven't changed a bit.
You're still a klutz. Yeah, that.
That, that that artery you nicked in first year?
Jesus Christ, God. All right, let me see.
He looks through his agent. How much was this damn thing?
What was? It was.
What was it listed as? A drone taps away a little bit
more. No, not that one.
No, that was the one with the cool colours.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I thought.
You see the? Problem is. 4000 Eddies so. 1000
Eddies. That's one of the worst crit
fails you've ever had, God. So look, we can do a payment
plan, but honestly, you know, the university really needs the
money. We've had a lot of outgoings
recently since you left, faculty included.
OK, well I mean I I do have 4000 eddies, VV says internally in
her mind. Has has Iona and I come back
yet? It's.
Up to you, have you? I feel like after we got done
having our discussion and having ramps head go give me that scrap
that we need, we wouldn't head her back to to them.
Sure. Oh.
Shit, look who it is with Phoebe.
Phoebe's struggling. Iona, did you ever You didn't go
to to you here, did you? No.
OK, so you never met Professor Dick Head?
No. Vivi looks to be a little.
Distressed. Flustered.
Yeah. Do you think we should?
Do you think we should go help them?
Sure, absolutely. Yeah, well, let's let's head on
over to Vivi. I'm just going to walk up and
hey, Vivi, good to see you. And oh hey, it's everybody's
favorite professor. No not did you end 2 end up
being friends? That tracks.
Yeah, that's what happens, you know, when you are, you know, a
good person, you make friends with people in Knight City.
And people like you. Who really should charge for
alumni connection? Shouldn't we?
I'll write that down. Oh my God, writes a down noise
agent. Well, Richard?
You're looking pretty good, like you seem a little taller.
Did you eventually grow a spine? No, I broke both legs.
A huge insurance payout. What's what's what's seems to be
going on here though? Like well.
You're like this alumni has broken a piece of university
property. Vivi, you broke.
You broke property. I was not paying attention and
accidentally walked into this thing and the professor's
telling me it's 4000 eddies to get a replacement.
He's. Going to cover your medical of
up to 4000. Shit, yeah.
Oh my gosh. My back you are.
Bleeding. You are bleeding.
You are literally bleeding. Professor, from what we can see
here, they seem to be bleeding from your drone, which supposed
to have Oh. My.
Gosh back problems as good that drone should be having safety
parameters to make sure that nobody.
Can. Oh my gosh.
So if you cheaped out and didn't get, that means.
That that doctor over there, the accomplished medical
professional, seems to be bleeding because of university
property. Hmm.
It sounds like university negligence to me.
Yeah, it does. Both I am and I have to roll
acting. I'll roll Zendel.
I'm bleeding. Thank you.
Thank you Bleeding. Where is acting?
Performance probably. Yes, underperformance there it.
Is it's on? It's Oh, it's the only one.
There. Oh nice, let's go.
Oh my gosh. Vendel's performance is perfect.
Iona's is very good as well, but Vendel rolled a crit 28 and
Vendel looks at VV. My darling, I can't believe
somebody hurt you. And just starts bawling.
I'm going to have to tell my lawyer father and his judge
cousin about this and all my friends of the NPZD DVD74 which
is a new thing I just made-up. But it's bullshit because
really, I can't believe you hurt.
Someone I love. Oh my God.
You see, you see Iona like welling up behind them, down.
It's times when people are. Close to death.
We have to tell. Them these please, are you are
you OK? No.
Oh. Yeah, you.
Should be asking I mean. If I forget to come come with
me, I'm going to go some of them now.
So professor, their partner, their partner's right be after
Docket 674-D9 from Arasaka versus all foods from when their
own exec got injured on the floor, it came out to being that
the person that owns the property is liable for damage.
Right, yes, look, if you can just repair this piece of shit
then I'll let it slide. If you need to clean up, there's
a bathroom to the east. I know I'll marrow that on
property, but I would prefer it if you all just didn't come back
after tonight. I have a business to university
to run. Sure, I'll fix it for you.
And the performance from Vendel is so good the the Dean goes
back into his office and just watches you through the window.
Now The thing is, he can't hear you at all now.
I well, actually, no, they heard, they heard Jeb saying he
was going to go on the roof because I was going to tell them
Jeb is on the roof. Yeah, Jeb's on the roof.
But yeah, I would just thanks. Thanks Retro and thanks Vandel.
That was really good. I don't know where that came
from. It was amazing.
Remember to breathe and and find, breathe and then find.
Find a place to recenter yourself and be who you are.
Yeah, Yeah. There you go.
I think I'm getting a hang of this stuff sometimes.
So, Vivi, do you want to patch yourself up?
You're bleeding. Oh yeah, I probably, I probably
should, Yeah. One SEC guys, I'm going to grab
some gauze and the antiseptic or whatever the any.
Antimicrobial. Antimicrobial.
Yeah. Yes.
Disinfectant. Disinfectant.
That's the correct term. I have salad sanitizer if you
would like that. OK.
That would sting a lot. Sting Yeah.
Do you want Iona's help? If you use Iona's help, this
will cost you less money from that pack.
Yeah, you know what? I'm ready for it to sting.
Iona, go ahead. Let's How about we How about we
use hand sanitizer first to clean our hands before we apply
the disinfectant? There you go, I've helped.
All right, Roller D 10. I own a Roller D10.
Excellent. I own a roller D 10 all right.
You're all a real 1, I don't mind.
Roll. A10 roll it again.
OK. Exploding.
You roll a 13 nice and your sanitizer nozzle changes shape
temporarily to get out a different viscosity of the
sanitizer, which has a much better cleaning effect.
This causes Vivi to only have to spend like 20 eddies to repair
all of her injuries. Oh.
Thank goodness. The sanitizer has gained kind of
a sticky texture and it it turns out that the sanitizer and super
glue work really well together and they seal up your wounds and
you gain 3 HP back. Great.
Wow, Iona that, that thing's pretty pretty awesome.
And you feel incredibly clean. That's I.
I might need one of those. That's great.
It's a it's custom cyberwear and Iona made it up.
Wow, we're gonna have to. We should market that.
That that's awesome. Anyway, I feel a lot better.
Thank you. Good.
Should we join Jeb on the roof? Don't worry you guys.
Retro kneels down in front of the drone and starts to work on
it. Yeah.
Cool. You start to tinker with that,
which will take a few minutes. And so in the meantime, we're
going to go and check out what's happening on the roof.
With Jeb. Meanwhile, Jeb 's got up onto
the roof. Nash and Sneaky.
Nobody knows he's there except for all of his friends, and he's
looking around. He's looking around to see if he
can find that motherfucker who just went up not what, 10
seconds ago to him, which was 8 minutes ago in real life or
whatever. He's looking, he's looking.
What's he see? Let's find out.
Let's click Awareness and then click Perception. 20 Yes.
You don't see him, but you do hear him.
He's somewhere on the roof with you and you hear like a
tinkering light drilling noise. Light drilling noise.
I'm going to sneak up on him. Well, I'm going to sneak around
to like right here and see if I can kind of peek my head around
the corner and see what he's doing.
All right, roll Stealth. Yes, Sir, 18.
Yes, very good. I mean, you know, I figure if I
can, if maybe he's like planting something, right?
Yes, because if I can if. I can just stop the the if he
plants a thing that's going to burn down the library and then
he goes and fucks off, then I can just stop it from going off.
And then we got ourselves a success, I'd say.
Right as you peek around the corner, you see there is a guy
in kind of he's now put his costume back on and then you can
see this one buckling up the collar and then he's finishing
off attaching this object to this large air conditioning
machine that regulates the temperature of the book section
of the library. I'm going to see if I can snap a
quick picture and send it to retro, see if he knows how to
disable this thing. Retro your tiles.
Going on, Yeah, Hold on. What?
What is it, Jeff? I'm going to send you a quick
picture. Did you get it?
What does the picture show me? You see the guy in the teacher
finishing drilling like this box, and it has these two tubes
that have been attached into the side of a large air conditioning
and humidity control unit. OK, do I recognize a teacher?
Roll for it. Perception 19.
Yeah, it's a firebomb. It's going to pump fire into the
duct system and set the whole book collection on fire
directly. Yes, but do I recognize the
teacher? Ah, do you recognize the teacher
19? Yes, yes you do.
It's Professor Blaze. Professor Allegris, OH.
Shit, Jeb, that's that's a firebomb.
It's my favorite teacher. Shit.
Oh shit, that's that's Professor Allegris.
God damn it. He used to be so cool.
OK, well now he's going to burn this motherfucker to the ground.
So do you know how to stop this? The thing?
Yeah, one, don't let him break
into the Freon lines for the humidity control so he can pump
that in, and two, just get the get the bomb away from him.
You know I don't. Know something like he's.
Run, grab it, hook it, something.
OK, well, I think I know what I have to do.
And Jeb comes around the corner and says this is a stick up.
Did you? Did you not hear me?
This is a stick up. What?
This here's a stick up.
Oh my God, he puts his hands up. Sorry, we're not on video, I
forgot about that. He puts his hands up and he
looks at you. OK, great.
Go ahead and take 3 full steps back.
OK. OK, good.
Yep. Now I'm going to I'm going to
move right here where you were just placing that thing and my I
have it on good authority that it's a firebomb and not to touch
the freeze on that goes and I suppose makes things cold.
It's a good name. Nice.
Good job, Yeah. You.
Buddy, buddy, Yeah. Why don't you just go ahead and
take a seat while I figure out how to not make all the books
burn? Roll something to keep him
still. Persuasion 21.
He shrugged. OK, kid, whatever.
You know what hold on. Let me just take a look at my Oh
my God. Got anything here?
Oh well, look at that. I've got one left.
Actually, do me a favor. And Jeb just walks over, takes a
grenade out, pulls the pin and hands it to him.
Like with the with the with the the the clip still on it.
Go ahead and hold on to that. OK, so.
Yeah. The average timer of your
average grenade is 4 1/2 seconds.
So there's like a pin and then there's a yeah, there's like a
no. No, I, I I understand.
I'm just in order to fix my anxiety, I am thinking about
this like a classroom problem. OK.
OK, so theoretically, oh, that's.
A good point, that's I see. I think I know where you're
getting at and I'm going to try to slice at his legs with my
beak knife. No, no, no, no, wait, wait,
wait, wait. And he, he like, holds the
grenade of his head. No, no, no, no, wait, wait.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You rolled high on persuasion.
I'll just sit here. I'll sit down, I'll hold the
grenade. You're good, you're good.
And he sits down really carefully.
It's OK. OK.
But just just to make sure, I am going to go ahead and just tie
your legs together. That cool.
It's it's listen, I don't, I don't want that thing to go off
as much as you do, but I am going to need you to tell me how
to turn this thing. Off OK, so.
You're a teacher, you should be good at explaining how to do
things. Absolutely.
I'm I'm professor. I shouldn't tell you my name.
That's a stupid. Idea.
Yeah, don't do I'm. Professor, let's go with that.
So today we're we're working on how to uninstall a homemade
bomb, which is one of my favorite dissertations ever from
one of my students. It was really good.
Who was it? It was a good student.
Oh, something Ortiz. He wrote this big old paper.
It was like loads and loads of pages and it was really well
formatted. And he wrote this paper about
how to disarm a pawn. So he said always second guess
the color coding. All right, yeah, so so double
check you got like 4 wires. Over there, right?
Uh huh. Blue, red, yellow, green and
orange. Exactly which one do you think
is the dangerous one? Probably the red one.
It's always the red one, right? No, but that's the thing.
In his dissertation, it showed that a lot of people think it's
the red 1, so they don't use the red wire for that.
Fascinating, right? Oh, OK, you're telling me.
All right, so just like every like thousandth grenade is a
dud. I wouldn't take those odds.
No, I'm not going to just statistically speaking.
Right, OK. So you want to cut the wire?
That seems this the the safest, but that is not.
Brain wire? Exactly.
Because that's how I wired it and I'm scared to die.
So good, following that logic and and that dissertation, if
you, if you think about the next logical step, I've got 2 cables
and there's a lot of Freon running through that machine.
Which one do you do you remove first?
The one that pushes it in or the one that pushes it out?
Oh geez, I don't know. I was never good at school.
Out, out. Chip, I forgot, I forgot to tell
you, whatever you do, don't engage the professor with
anything scientific. He's really good at reaching out
to kids that have like, you know, issues and you know, like,
like bad backgrounds and such and like really, really like
makes an effort to teach them and like break everything down.
So if you don't want to have like an hours like lecture
session on something, just don't.
Don't use anything technical with them.
Gotcha. OK, nothing technical will do.
So teach when you say push and pull out how?
How does that work exactly? Well, one side will it takes
into the machine and one to inside takes out of the machine,
right? Uh huh, uh huh.
And and it's all connected. Yeah, 'cause I was going to take
the Freon in, change the composition of the chemicals so
it's flammable, and then send it out with a spark.
Wow. OK.
Conservation of energy and time. That way I didn't have to bring
up a big tank of flammable shit. Wow, that's real smart of you
man. Afterwards.
Me and some guy the Dean hired we.
Oh shit, I shouldn't be explaining all this shit.
Oh, oh, oh, don't worry. About it, it's AI really I've
I've been been loving our little lesson here.
You know, I actually, I actually know a guy whose last name is
Ortiz. Maybe he knows maybe he knows
the guy who wrote that that dissertation so many years ago.
But anyway, so you were saying either in or out, and I think
after your lovely explanation of things, I'm going to say out.
Exactly. Well then, you know, I think he
did. Really.
Well, you know, I always. Remove this.
Remember, it's going to be blowing like a.
Fairly toxic. Gas out of it and you don't want
to breathe it and with the machine disabled it was not
flammable but it is not breathable.
So hold your breath and make sure you turn off the shut off
valve after you pull it off. OK, so we're going to pull it
out. Don't breathe and then turn off
the valve. Yep.
OK. Do we like countdown or or just
do it? I'm holding a grenade, so that's
on you. Right, follow me on that.
Yep, got it. I guess I'll just, I'll just
pull it out. It spews this this air, it spews
this gas out and it's blue as it sort of smokes out and you do
your best to not have it blow into your face.
Roll evasion and then to shut off the valve roll basic tech or
brawling evasion 20. Yes, you manage to manipulate
the tube so it makes rings instead of a straight shot.
Oh, you hit the the valve and it snaps off and now it's
constantly spewing this gas everywhere.
Oh, now you're going to have to like tie it off like a, like a
loaf of bread. Tie it.
Off. Oh jeez.
Get. Fucking drunk and.
You succeed but take 4 damage. Oh, it is a metal.
Pipe. Oh God.
Oh, oh, that stuff is. It's kind of sweet.
Don't breathe more of it in and now all you have to do is pull
the other valve and. Then let me go.
Oh, OK. Last valve.
All right, Well, thanks, Professor.
And it's gonna. And now this one, The last one,
I was way, way too strong. It took more of a deft hand than
kind of a force. Brute force.
Machine. OK, OK.
So I should be slowed here. Oh well, that makes sense when
you put it like that. Just kind of deftly take this.
Down and you unscrew the other side, turning off the outside
access panel, and you've removed the firebomb from the top of the
library. Whoo.
Well, all right, great. Now, actually, if you could just
come right over here just to right, right where this thing
was. Yeah, just right next to me.
Yep, Yep. Yep, right over here, right over
here. OK, now keep holding that
grenade, obviously, obviously, and I'm just going to kind of
place this firebomb thing now that's kind of loose.
I'm just going to kind of place it right here on this little
shell. OK, stand right there.
I'm just going to take a step back and snap a picture.
All right, great. Go ahead and just hand me that
grenade right back. OK.
Thank you. And put that pin back in.
Roll for it, it's easy. But if you fuck this up.
I mean, I suppose there's another deft deft stealth
situation. Sure, yes you managed to save
the grenade and it is because you rolled a 22 like new.
The pin cannot fall out all. Right, put that back in here.
All right, Well, honestly, it has been an absolute pleasure.
Now, obviously I do have dirt on you.
So why don't we just go ahead and have you go back to making
inspiring the next generation. And I think we're all, we're all
set here 00. And if you could go ahead and
also send any information that you've gotten from the Dane,
send that to to to me. Here's my Here's my number.
But now, But now the but now he's going to hire the other guy
to kill my mother. Oh, no, yeah.
Oh, shoot the other guy. What do you look like?
Well, he had a huge tattoo on his chest that says Ram's head.
Oh, man. OK, we'll, we'll make sure that
we, we, we protect your mom. Don't, don't you worry about it.
As you can see, we are clearly the good guys in this situation.
Promise extra credit. Oh, of course, I mean, I I
wouldn't want any harm done to to your mom there or to you to
be quite honest, so. Do you pinky promise with him?
Oh absolutely. Get in here bud.
And he goes to grab your finger. Retro.
This is where you remember something about this professor.
He also teaches martial arts. Yeah, it does make sense why he
was a big fanatic on martial arts movies, but I mean, Jeb
wouldn't take him on, right? Bang Bang.
Getting here. He goes to grab your finger.
Roll Brawling. Oh, that's it, That's it.
Oh, that's a little tighter of a grip that whoa.
Roll brawling Brawling 16 does not beat 20 and he knocks you to
the ground. He has his foot under your neck
and you are now restrained. He also has your tile in his hat
that's really good that he can. Teach me that sometime.
Maybe. Hello friends.
Now I must apologize, but your friend is now in my grasp.
Yeah, he's teaching me how to do this one, don't worry.
About it. Who pushes your jaw shut with
his toe? Now, I'm not normally a fighter.
I don't really like doing this, but if I don't do this, not only
does he kill my mother, he also blackmails me.
I don't want to get into what he knows about me.
I would prefer if no one ever found out.
I just want to teach. Hello.
Next time on no latency. I would like to use my access
now with this drone. Oh man.
This is probably the best photo I've ever seen of you.
Yeah, well, he is a teacher of both, so.
Yeah, I could see that. Yeah.
Honorifics are important. Very excited about the.
Book on fire today, Vendell. You ever saw a man's mouth?
Shut. Oh dear.
Have have fun. It would probably be painful and
require sedation. Phoebe and I.
Yeah, that, that's the thing. So go and confront the
professor. Did you want me on team?
You're going to have to hold them down.
Outside of the room I can do that.
Yes. Randomly sticking objects and
orifices in his body at work. I mean, come on.
No. I'm going to stand outside the
room and hear it apparently is what I've decided I'm going to
do. We're actually doing this.
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