Last time on no latency side quest.
Ahoy ahoy, this is retro. I'm neon pass by the way.
I'm Cargill Ford. Vex.
Lumen, is it OK if I take pictures of?
How long is this going to take? I want one of those.
The day before Chris, this is yes, Neon.
I saved a spot next to me over here.
Oh thanks man bro. You can win real money.
You said you can play with friends.
So this is two things. Do you need those?
I love games a ball. Real money and a couple of
video. Games.
I'm just going to use my mind. No.
I'm I'm good at one thing. It's time for your nudes to show
us it's so. Crazy that now that we can't go
and be. All I want to know is what's
happening in B Shit I'm. Going to pick up my gun and.
My body refuses to work. Hey, who knows how to fix doors?
This is really going to affect us getting paid today, isn't it?
Do you? Guys think the NDA still counts?
Can I film? Can I just take pictures?
It's getting messy, chum. Combat has begun, you can see
this roided out dude holding the other assistant that was in the
room. Kelly got her grapple SMG in his
other hand and he just. Sprayed it everywhere.
Cargill, you just got electrocuted, which is why
you're only rolled A10 on initiative.
Let's make that a reason and vex you.
Feel your instincts in your veins and the first to do
something that might keep these other people alive.
Do that. Is is there a clear shot around
this hostage? You'd have to aim shots of -8
yeah, welcome to size. Is there anyone else that seems
affiliated with it? No, fuck.
OK. Do I have any?
No, I don't have. Oh, actually, while the aim shot
is also -8 if you do take a name shot, there are other there are
other effects if you do end up hitting two.
OK, you know what? Fuck it, let's do it.
I'm stabilized behind the desk. I'm using that.
So I'm going to try to go for the most open part of the body.
So we can say even if that's like they're hamstring, right,
whatever that is, just to try to get something that's going to go
there. If you just want to shoot him in
the body, yeah, that's not a name show.
OK, you can just shoot him, but if you roll badly you will hit
this chick. Well, with my log that's.
Oh yeah, Ryan has legendarily bad luck.
Yeah, He has the record for most crit ones over the years.
It's it's really, Yeah. Can you?
Hold your turn. Maybe this turns around in this
system for you, Ryan. Maybe this is the one, yeah.
Let's let in. Fact I I have an idea.
I don't. I have no idea if it's gonna
work, but it it might it might help.
OK, shoot. No, I'm not.
No, I don't have. A gun I don't give me, give me
the idea. There's a computer on that
table, right? And there are cameras.
There's one outside looking right at our gunman.
Can I use the computer to give Vex a better vantage point just
to see exactly where? Yeah.
Definitely. OK, so Vex, if you hold your
turn, it is actually Lumen's turn next.
Isn't that perfect? OK.
Perfect. That's the only thing I could do
with my turn that would remotely help in this situation.
So security I'm guessing? Electronic security tech.
Basic tech I'm just trying to patch into the cameras.
Yeah. OK, let's check 17.
Very good. Nice.
Done, lumen. Lumen.
You find the grid of all the cameras and you flick through
them and you see that there are no cameras in the X room B,
where the other group was, has some people carrying in the
corner. There's the guy who asked stupid
questions of the presentation. He's foaming at the mouth, and
then you click and there's the hallway.
Vex. Right in front of you is a
really clearview of the cyber psycho in the hallway, pointing
a gun back and forth between two guards and then occasionally
looking at you through the doorway.
OK, I'm going to take that body shot.
You get plus one because of the cameras.
Was that your role? That's this role.
Oh, you roll the fucking. Crit, I think he done did it.
Yeah. That's a great class 6.
You rolled 25. The bullet rips through the room
you rolled 2 fours on. I need to savor that moment.
Can can you say? No, and again you rolled auto
fire. And the curse is good or bad.
You know what that means? Oh fuck.
I don't, yeah. We.
Still playing Cyberpunk, right? I have no clue what I just did.
D DS not your game, it's cyberpunk.
That's the totally wrong genre. Oh, he's counting.
I'm counting. Oh my God, I'm not.
So I'm not used to hearing that I I rolled this well, so this is
a great experience. You're you're used to hearing
critical fail in that critical success.
So is this something where he should give you audio of saying
something like eat hot lead pig or something like that?
You've rolled 25 and to hit this guy is a 20.
Oh shit. So that means that because you
rolled auto fire, which does burn 10 bullets of your ammo, so
make sure to deduct that OK, you do 40 damage so.
That's OK. Holy shit.
Oh shit. Can I, can I ride your coattails
on that one? And just like.
Oh, you need partial credit for that?
Yeah, absolutely. That's it.
Which is. Just a little sponsored by Loom.
Impossible. Assist of the game.
I'll take that. And the dude, you rolled a crip
with this auto fire. And he lets go of this woman and
she falls forward and he takes a step back.
And as you look at him, Oh yeah. And you watch the bullets RIP up
the side of his body. They tear through his leg.
You see his mouth muscle in his leg splay out like a bunch of
tubes out of a train in the early 1930s.
Steam train pipes backing up his leg.
And he screams in fame. And now he has -2 to melee
attacks. I'm happy with that.
Yeah, one of the guards in this place tries his best to shoot
this guy. He rolled a crit 16, but
unfortunately he needed a 17 to hit him at that distance.
And the bullets fly forward. Oh, this guy's going to have to
evade. That's bad.
But.
Not for us. Oh, he dodges.
Amazing. Amazing.
Wow, that's incredible. There's. 3 crits in a row.
Everyone is creating. Everybody is spreading.
The other guy does sketch it though.
Fuck. And he takes 2 down.
You don't want to just shoot me, you dumb fuck.
Oh, I mean, you know, you know, sometimes I just can't shoot
nothing, you know? See.
There's the Scottish one. I.
Knew it. I knew there was one in here.
Next thing we know, he dies just.
Christmas came early. 19 Yeah, so the one of the gods pulls a
pistol out and tries to shoot this buffed out guy with a
busted leg, and the bullet just glances off a piece of armor on
his shoulder and sticks into the wall.
I was meant to win, motherfuckers.
He really wanted that fifty extra eddies.
I look at Retro and I'm like breathing heavy and I'm, I'm
like eyes open. I've never done this before,
what do I do? You got a gun?
Yeah. I pull out a heavy pistol.
Yeah. All right, well, just like that
first person shooter, remember how much it took you to finally
get on the boards and you finally got bronze rank?
Yeah, yeah. Do that.
OK. Just imagine toxic troll aim and
shoot. Got it.
I'm ready. I pull out my agent, hit like a
couple of buttons. It's all set up.
Everything like goes live. All the socials are there.
This crime, this is, yeah. It's like surprise stream, neon
POS, get in here. I pull it up.
Hey, hey everyone, it's neon POS.
I'm here with my buddy Retro. We're just doing a quick cow
patch. Pals meet up real quick.
Got some stuff going on here. So yeah, check it out.
Surprise stream, let's go. And then I'm going to just run
up to the side of this door and just like open fire on this.
Guy and see if I Kevin. Squares so you can move.
That's how far you can move 74. 5-6 I think I can just about
make it. Let me know if.
Agano counts as one, not 3. Oh, got it.
Got it. OK, all for the Subs, right?
All for the Subs Cargill you get a you get a go live notification
on whatever device you. Have Oh my God, Oh my God.
On the side of your on the side of your gun, it says all for the
Subs. Yeah, all for the Subs.
Oh my God, Oh my God. And I go down and I start
watching go oh, I'm in this one. And I hit the donate button real
quick and then I realize I'm here.
OK. Good.
Yes, since you donated, I'm going to say the the donation is
what, 5 eddies? Yeah.
Do you do the 50 you? Just made 50.
You got a new sub? Neon, you you just got a new sub
as you're about to pull the trigger and it gives you a plus
one because money does everything inside the bank.
That's awesome. There's some like stupid like
notification like well, like some anime like thing going off
in the in the stream yes, yes, that's yeah, like Oh yeah, I'm
going to take. I got.
I got too rate of fire on this, so I don't got not any move
left. So I'll just take some shots on
this guy with my with my pistol. Here we go.
Sounds good, 2222. There we go. 22 Yes, you do hit
this guy and your bullet screams across the room.
He takes, he takes a little bit of damage, his armour gets a.
Little bladed. He looks at you.
Oh how the people in Group A winning two and this is fucking
bullshit. Oh shit, we're trying to go for
that Tumblr. We're going for that Tumblr,
everyone. The.
Other past new Tumblr when we get it. 17 not as good.
I want green. This is armor degraded enough
that pedal helped. That is 25 feet you miss and the
bullet flies and hits a sofa and the foam of the sofa puffs in
the air behind this guy. KD.
Within within moments someone has clipped this moment as the
puff goes in and out of the sofa in a boomerang fashion.
OK, Chad. OK, OK, Chad, don't don't clip
that. Nobody.
Nobody typed Keck WS in the chat.
All right. You're just, you're going to
have sound effects, sound alerts going off constantly.
Yeah, yeah. Cargo stops typing GM question.
Hit me. How does being in melee with
somebody have a gun affect their accuracy?
Does it make it real easy because you're so close, or does
it make it harder because you're hitting them in the face?
Are you trying to hit someone with a gun at close range?
I have a weapon if I decide to close in on them.
Right, Melee damage doesn't get negated by armor in the same way
it gets negated by half of the armor because it's melee.
And also almost every single melee weapon is rate of fire to
get hit twice. But everyone gets to evade a
melee attack. OK, he's going to step out 123
to get that closer range and I shoot at him.
I spit hot lead with weapons. No, not hot.
Lead read Hot. Lead, did you have auto fire on?
I did I How do I turn that off? Let me turn it off.
So roll it again. I turned it off.
It's a toggle. OK, I see it now.
Oh, no, I'll. Take the first one this time if
you don't. Mind grip -3 your gun jams and
doesn't fire, and if you want to unjam your gun, you now have to
use the rest of your move to do so.
So you moved three. You had three left.
You'd have to stand exactly where you are and be attacked.
Correct. He runs back inside and around
the corner. All right, you are unfortunately
filmed in your cowardice on Neon Passes stream.
Oh no. Everybody at Cargill.
Cover me, I got to get this fixed.
So that's the one we're trying to go for, right?
That one right there, yeah. Yeah.
More in the middle of the hallway.
Well, Bradfield's feeling just a little more buff since they got
their muscle and lace cyberwear. They're going to walk over
Maggie and they're going to say I'm very sorry, but you're going
to be a hero for this and I'm going to pick up Maggie and
throw it at them. Here we go.
And it's all Phil.
Roll for it. You're going to throw a dead
body at this guy? Yeah.
What scale is that? Yeah.
Cool it. Definitely.
No, we. Need the creds going the other
way. Yeah, it's going.
Bad. Damn it's going bad now.
Retro, you have this moment you like, you flex your fingers, you
go to pick her up and there's just blood on the ground.
You slip on it and you, you fall over me.
Now I will say right that you take, oh, only one damage from
hitting the ground you have bruised.
You a little bum. And melee attack always ripped
R2 so if you want to try that again you can.
Neon, you didn't catch that, did you?
Yeah, I saw it. I saw it.
It did happen. Oh yeah, the chat is just
clipping it. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, chum, I got to make it.
Up. I got to make it up.
I'm gonna try again. I'm gonna try again one more
time. One more time.
One more time I'm. Gonna put two points of luck in
this. Yeah, in 30 and you throw this
woman, this dead woman at the the crazy guy in this hallway,
this cyber psycho and it hits this guy like a sack of shit and
he falls over. He gets covered in her blood.
I'm I'm going to try to. To mimic the voice and and just
go. This is covered in the NBA I'm.
Not a cop, but she's not a bull. 10 damage.
Yeah, it's doesn't cause a lot of damage to them, but you
notice that the body rips a decent part of his armor and he
gets -2 to his armor. Maggie's a hero.
Everybody in chat know that Maggie's a hero.
F in Chad, F in Chad, everyone for Maggie.
No. Good.
Yeah. So he goes this cyber cycle,
goes to shoot the closest target to him which is a cavalry just
across from the door, and he shoots 20 on auto fire, which
three above the required DV of 17.
So that's 30 damage to this guy. Oh and it tears through this
guy. The SMG just.
Bullets RIP across his body, bits of flesh and viscera splat
against the wall behind him, and he falls to the ground, taking a
critical injury as he does, and you hear his rips crack and echo
through the hallway and it sends a shiver up your spine.
Oh fuck. He takes his step back.
Oh, he just had like confetti shoot out of him or something.
Yeah, did. He just come.
What happened? Jesus?
Christ. Don't worry.
Honey, I'm coming home for Christmas.
I mean, that's what happens when I do it.
I don't every. Time I get shot.
Too much about the balls in the Cubs, you know it's.
So it's that confetti. One of the other test subjects
jumps out of test room B and just starts wailing on the guard
on the ground. Well, that's that's new
information. So it's not just this guy, it's
a lot of people in that room, apparently.
Yeah, this guy isn't as bogged up.
He's just a guy with a stick, right?
Put this guy on the ground for two days.
But I I'm just sitting in information wise that I'm
getting now is that it's not just this one guy who's mad that
he didn't get his fifty. It's so far some maybe all that
were in that room that are suddenly just attacking people.
Yeah. Oh no.
Oh. Cup and ball did not go so great
for that. Maybe.
I wonder who the control group was.
There's that missing data. Oh yeah, the security guard
fires auto fire back at this guy and does 6 * 3 damage.
Which is really good. That's 18 damage and this this
crazy roided out dude takes a hit to his body once again.
He's starting to profusely bleed from the holes in his body as
he's just straining so hard you can see the veins of his neck
stick out as he screams and the assistant on the ground who's
still alive crawls towards the remarked X and it specs his
turn. So just before me I just
witnessed an atrocity that happened successfully picking up
a dead body and then throwing that.
So still taking I. Call tactics.
Is still kind of taken back by that.
OK, OK, TV head. Great.
But what the fuck? What?
He stopped shooting. OK, now that's fair.
And you can't deny that Maggie is the hero that stopped the
shooter. So I don't know what you.
Want me to still shooting, Still shooting.
There's there is that argument we can still make that.
But he's confused now. He is.
Confused and as. With the blood of his of the
person that he killed, and he's going to be haunted by that for
the rest of his life if we don't kill him either, so.
No, but that's the goal. We need to shoot him and then
pulls the trigger. 20 yes, you do hit, but you've done very
badly on Wow. That is wow.
It used to hear Matt if you roll your mouse, if you roll your
mouse over the 90 must get hover roll 4 11 it's. 111 ladies and
gentlemen. Welcome.
Home. Hold on, rules as written baby.
Rules as written. You hit for 20, you only do 9
damage, but this guy has less than 9 worth of armour so he
does actually take a hit and you ablade his armour by one as
well, so he's very worth for wear.
He is very low on health, incredibly so.
He is bleeding on the ground, it is dripping from his body as he
continues to scream into the madness of this full way.
Assault rifles rate fire of one. Anything else to say better I'm?
Going to look down at my E banner and I'm going to change
the icons again and it's going to be.
Little. Emotive faces that have exes for
the eyes and a tongue sticking out of smile.
That's cool. Lumen while the body was thrown
through the air. From the body comes Maggie's
side arm. It's engraved with her name.
It also has Maggie, another name on it with her last name, which
seems to be her mother. And it slides to your feet, this
heavy pistol and you notice that the the clip has armor piercing
rounds in it. It's just slid under the desk at
your feet and you're looking at it in the middle of this fight.
Can you pick that up and shoot him already?
I just I so OK, I didn't want to interrupt because all this cool
shit was going on, but the body thing fucked with him just like
Oh my God. And I think under his breath
while the streaming bits going on, it's like Oh no, my KD.
It's like that's a human. Like it's just like you're
shooting a guy. Like it's just like very.
I genuinely think his instinct would be to like either kick the
gun away or grab it and go EW and just like throw it.
Like I genuinely think I'm. Going to ask you to roll resist
torture drugs. Oh oh.
OK. I'm going to see if you can
resist the sentimentality of this weapon.
OK, that's fair. I'm I'm going to tell you that's
not his strong suit. Let's see, that's why I make
roll it. Oh shit, Yeah, you can resist
that. OK, Absolutely.
I guess I don't know. So OK, I can see into this
hallway because of what I did earlier, this is starting to
look like a problem from across the hall, this Group B.
Is there any way I can access the door and lock it from this
room with that computer? Absolutely.
Yep. Oh my God, I would like to try
to do that because I feel like it's.
Great. It was looking great and and now
we have the the stick guys. Not as big a problem as the
Cyber Psycho, but I'd rather not have a bunch of stick guys.
Fair enough. Electronic security deck.
Yes, exactly. Very good 20 Amazing.
Yes, you hear the door lock on the other side and it is now
locked. The last thing he's going to say
is to Vex. I'm real sorry about the gun and
just like just it's like if I could kick it towards you.
But like definitely it's like I don't want.
To no you, you don't have anything.
OK, pick it up. Just just put it in your pocket.
I, I I. Put I and no pick it up.
Put it in your pocket. I can't type if I have if I have
that. Roll a face down.
This is a face down moment 100% yeah Oh my God Corpus reputation
plus 1D10 which you're a media right?
Your reputation is five Vex. Your reputation is 4, so OK,
it's a reputation plus one D 10 so roll AD 10 Agicool and.
Oh God, I really don't want to pick up that gun man I'm sorry.
What's your? My my cool, shitty.
It's 4. So you've got 4 + 5, which is 9,
plus you've got 18 and. 15 plus, whatever my reputation.
So 19. 19. Oh, Oh no.
Wow. Yeah, if all else fails I I
could at least return it to someone.
That's yeah, return it to the dead lady.
That's definitely going to make it.
No, but there's other names on the gun.
I don't want to argue about this right now.
That's the first time he's raised his voice to.
Anyone. His entire life, probably.
Oh my God. What?
Oh, what's this? Right.
So that's. We got a hot and cold episode
here. That's nine damage and the Cyber
Psycho gets filled with bullets. And he is.
So there is like. Almost.
I can't believe he's still alive.
That's incredible. He is on his last legs.
We're on like the lowest of single digits of HP.
My guy is not doing well. The other guard who's being hit
on the ground by this other way less threatening human.
Stick guy. Stick guy, Yeah.
We just call him Stick for sure. It's.
Like his? Pistol and shoots this guy for
14 damage Now this guy has no armor and at a health can I just
tell you he had a health of 15 and the bullet just goes right
through his neck and he's now bleeding out.
He falls to the ground. Stick guy.
He's he's very, very close to death, both of them.
Are ripped stick guy you're willing?
To win. Neon pans away from luminant
decks. There's like so many emotes
going off in the chat, like drama and like crying emotes and
like all kinds of all kinds of shit.
That was cool, wasn't it? Chat awesome.
All right, let's get this cool. And he'll try and shoot at this
cyber psycho a couple more times.
Do do do. I smell a crit.
I don't know in what direction, but it's crit.
Is that what it's love? I love it when you say it like
that. Oops.
I was going to do it again. Hold on.
Yep. Sorry.
Thank you. I'll be there.
Thank you, Jason. Are you a man?
Funny shot missing. That's a a Max fail crit and
your gun jams. You cannot take a second shot
this round. That was supposed to happen.
Chad, no kick WS please. If I get anywhere I'm gonna I'm
I'll. I will ban, I swear I.
Won't ban. You know, time you all out.
So look over our girls like writing lol over and over again
in chat. This is the kind of thing we
have the the the the chat abuses Neon paws whenever he fucks up
the. Knocking point that one didn't
hit was because it was. It was unsponsored.
All right, Cargill was typing lol.
Instead of unjamming his rifle and realizing that he's it is
his time, he drops his rifle and he pulls out just this massive
chunk of metal with a big like hammer on the end.
He just goes charging over at the guy and he's just swings
this big chunk of metal trying to whack him right in the head.
Sure. Yeah, that's not terrible.
That is genuinely, quite literally mid.
I'll take mid, it's been crits all the way around.
So melee attacks are a rate of fire of two.
As you come up to this guy, he easily dodges your first swing.
How doesn't he have a body up? No, he.
The bodies. Fell off.
That fell off. OK, that's right, Swing.
Again, hey now, rule at the table unless they roll a crit
you hit. Alright.
This cyber psycho is hanging on baby and that's crit 23 and he
he dodges the other attack and steps more into the line of fire
of everyone in room at. We'll be tossing out of the room
now. I look at all the people around
who I can toss out. Neon's out for sure.
You're, I'm not tossing my buddy up.
No, I'll, I'll just, I'm going to reach into my Tetramino
backpack. For everybody else that's
watching. It's almost like a scene where
you see a clown pull something that should not fit inside of an
object out of that and you see this large shiny shotgun with a
strange barrel on the bottom of it.
And Retro will see how many squares away is he?
I'll just come up one square away.
Oh fuck, what the fuck are you meant to be?
I enforce the NBA spin and I shoot.
Nice line. So everyone looks at Retro in
the middle of this hallway as he just saunters out in neon.
You're you've never seen Retro in combat before, and the
confidence he has as he steps out, he smears blood all over
the yellow Happy Company logo on the ground, points his shotgun
at this guy's face as he screams and pulls the trigger, blowing
off the top half of the front of his face as it smears across the
ground. He falls, the other person on
the ground takes a little bit of damage from their injuries, and
combat is over. That was smooth as hell.
I think I could have done a better one liner.
I need to think about these better.
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All right, everyone, you signed Ndas, you'll be paid.
Please leave. What about your buddy over there
dying in the corner? I'll fix that.
That's my job. He's not dead.
That's good enough for me. How do we used to have?
People in the other room. Anybody who wants to observe
anything Role perception. Yes, yes, yes.
Perception Awareness. Awareness.
No cargo, you're too busy clipping the fight in chat to
really look around. Not my strongest thing.
Lumen, you're staring at the gun in your hands and shaking.
I don't want it. Vex, you look around and dust
yourself off. You don't find a lot, but you do
find 10 eddies on the ground underneath the desk.
That's brilliant. Because it's above me,
literally. I make it up, I put it in my
pocket and look directly at Lumen.
It was that easy. That's funny Neon, you gain 5
Subs for successfully not dying during this fight and earn
yourself 25 eddies. Hell yeah.
Nice. We're we're close to that
Tumblr, Chad. We're closer to that game.
Subs Tumblr. Get that goal.
Retro on the computer, you can see that the remaining people in
exam Room B are either foaming at the mouth or crying and
huddling from the terror that just happened in this room.
As you look around, you can see Cade on the ground, the other
assistant. She's a little worse for wear,
but still alive, and she's on the phone.
She's whispering something into the phone.
Well, you know my penchant for hating corporate altogether.
So with this computer, it's only video, no audio, right?
Then I'm going to try to do something that I don't think
anybody's done yet, and no latency.
I don't even know if they've ever done it before in
Cyberpunk. It's a lot of build up.
Oh shit. Yeah, that's probably good.
I'm elaborating. Retro you look over at this
woman on the ground and you see her say the words.
Mr. Wise, something happened. Mr. Wise, something happened,
OK. I won't repeat myself again.
You all have to leave. Who's Mr. Wise?
Mr. Wise is one of the head executives of the Hafi company.
Why, Yeah. Where's where are they?
Not in the same building, right? No, I imagine they're at the at
the office. Where's that?
It's. About four blocks.
That way if you have any complaints you can file them
there I suppose. But you can also use the QR code
that will send you in a minute with your money.
Please leave. That's so old school.
QR codes Gross. Hey, Vex.
Yeah. How do I make it spit the
bullets out? I don't want to put it in my my
bag with the the stuff my stuff but like I I'll carry the gun
bit just I don't want any of the bullets.
How do I make it eject the bullets?
You see the little button right there?
That's that's next to the trigger.
If you press that, that's called a.
Save and that's fits the bullets.
Out no. That prevents the bullets from
being spit out, so that way you can just put it in your backpack
if you want if you. I feel like I wasn't clear.
No, hold on. OK, hold on.
What I want just. Stick with me.
If you press that button again, it takes off the safety and then
the little thing that is shaped like the moon, you pull that and
it goes bang. I I feel like you're pandering
to me a little bit. I am OK.
I probably, I probably deserve it.
But what, what I'm saying is I want to return the gun to the
next name on the gun. And I don't think they need the
bull. They could just buy new bullets.
So they don't need any of that. They the gun bit I think is what
they'd like. So you want to steal the bullets
but return the gun? I don't.
Want to steal anything? So then what are you doing with
the bullets? I don't.
Do you want them? Fuck yeah, I'll take them.
OK, thank you. I don't know why this was so
hard. They're armor.
Piercing bullets. So you grab the gun, you push a
button, and the magazine comes out.
Vex, you're holding this, and you know that there's one in the
Chamber. He does not.
He absolutely does. Not Vex knows there's one in the
chamber. If you hit the safety, it won't
fire, but there'll be a bullet in the gun.
He doesn't know that there's a secret hidden extra bullet.
So I'm going to take the the mag out and look at it, look back at
Lumen, look back at it. OK, I thought about doing this
as a little prank because I think it would, I think it would
be very, very funny. But there's one right here.
It's called a chamber that whenever you cock the gun, you
know, Do you know what that is? Yeah.
The the, the floating bed, yeah. Sure.
So as we go with that right if if we pull this then then that
will come out ready what watch watch and he pulls it back.
The other piece of ammo pops out.
Oh, that's. So neat.
And you watch Beck's catch it like he's done 1000 times.
You clip it back into the magazine and now you have 12
armor piercing bullets in a clip.
Sweet. Oh my God that's so cool.
So like if you run out of bullets, there's an extra 1 in
the gun all the time. Yes.
Again, if you could all leave this side question really needs
to move on everyone. We're going, going.
I'm I've already been walking out.
As as we go to walk out, I hand lumen the handgun back, but I
have the magazine. Yep.
Yes, totally wanted. Thank you so much.
And hey, thanks for not playing that joke off man.
I really appreciate it man. And next time, I'll do it next
time. Oh.
No. Just so you know, it's coming.
I'm I'm never holding a gun again.
Yes, he will. I don't, I don't think.
I As you step out of the Happy Company Market Research
building, the door closes and locks behind you.
The smell of blood and the hum of carnage is stilled by the
rushing of the streets and the red sky as it starts to return
to dusk. That was the best fucking stream
I ever did, God damn. You stole my kill.
Me. No, you TV.
Head. I didn't see your name on it.
When was I going to have time to put my name on that?
Oh, well, I mean, you could have you, you did your auto fire.
You could have like shot your initials into them.
I saw, I saw all the bullets. You went there by the way.
I don't mean to. I appreciate that you said mag
instead of clip as its proper terminology.
You know, I get so annoyed when I hear people call them clips
like they don't know what an actual firearm thing is.
So thank you for that. The bullet holder.
So look, I know none of you owe
me anything, Neon. This is going to be completely
up to you if you want to follow. I smell something rotten here at
the Happy Company and I'll tell you this, I fucking hate
corporations, especially when I think they're lying.
During the ball and cup game I noticed that there was petabytes
of data that was missing, which makes me think that they're for
sure is something they're not telling.
US. I think that that's just you
trying to make an excuse for me winning the ball and cup game
and you losing at it. That's.
Funny. I mean, absolutely, yes, that is
my excuse. I would definitely be better,
but no way. No way.
Well look, I'm about to go over to HQ and file a complaint, so
if you want to make a counter complaint to me, feel more than
free Neon if you're interested in getting some more stuff for
your stream. That sounds great, man.
Yeah, I'm, I'm totally down. Let's go.
If I can get another stream like that that I just got, that'd be
amazing. Wait, wait, wait.
Are we going to go, do you mean? OK, we're not going to go do a
stream like that though at the other building, right?
Because I'm, I'm all for following.
I would like to document this. I I, I, I think you're right.
I think they're lying about something.
But yeah. Lumen, since you think they're
lying, do you want to do any investigation in this?
Are you interested enough? I want to listen to this
conspiracy. Now I am yes, after all the
bullets and stuff, yes. I just need.
To but now. Yeah.
After, yeah, after hearing retro talk about it's like, oh,
there's there was a discrepancy in the data that we.
It's like, oh, OK, well, all right.
And that guy seemed to really want us to leave so.
Is that as? Simple as.
I think it is just like rolling. You've rolled streetwise.
Oh, that is an exactly. Well, you can roll rumor, which
will be a little bit of a deeper search on the garden.
Streetwise is what you know. Rumor is what you can find out.
Yeah, Streetwise isn't going to work for me.
Let's try. Yeah, so you can choose a skill
and roll rumors on skill. Oh, what do we think, business?
Oh yeah, so. Business.
Bureaucracy, I think are probably the ones that.
Would work. Yeah, yeah.
It's just, oh, that doesn't look great.
Substantial rumor causing to this, are we going with the with
Yeah, substantial I think 11. Yeah, yeah.
No, I just, I, I, it wasn't automatically a crib, so I
thought I failed. Like that's where the night has
been making us. Sorry to set your expectations
so hot. You look into the happy company,
what you find out is that there's a executive that joined
the company this year called Mr. Wise.
Whys his name is Doctor Merv or Mervin Wise and he has lived in
Knight city his entire life. He was born according to the
records you found because you rolled an 11.
He was born here in Knight City. He had a brother and sister.
They haven't been seen for years.
That's the weirdest thing that you can see about this guy.
His products have been incredibly popular but weirdly
simple. OK, Loomis going to present this
to everybody. And he, he, he heard Retro say
Mr. Wise. So right off the bat, just do
you, do you think maybe he's in the other building?
Like maybe we could just go talk to him.
Maybe no one's asked to talk to him.
Then I got to let us just talk to him.
OK, we know he's picking up the phone, so.
To certain people. Maybe he'd want to clear the air
about what just happened, get in front of the story, kind of, you
know, like, be honest about it. You're going to do a stall, OK,
It's no, no, no. No, no, hold on.
I want, I want people to know what just happened and I would
like it hasn't happened yet. In fact, it's been pretty much
the opposite. But I would like someone at the
corporate level to just just relay everything that happened
and be honest with people. And I I I know eventually if I
ask enough, one of them will do that.
Listen, I've worked for these fuckers, they will not be honest
with you. Wait, but before we go poke in
the bear, if we got paid yet, it's if we check to see if we've
got our eddies. That's a man with.
Enrolled bureaucracy? Not yet.
The QR code asks you to redeem your credit at any Happy company
vending machine. The ones here have locked so
you'll have to go to the office to do it.
They didn't even pay us an actual eddies, they paid us in
corporate bucks. And Lumen, as you're doing this,
your search completes and you find a document that is leaked
from the happy company. Oh, OK.
You can choose to read that out so that everybody hears it, or
you can keep it to yourself and reference it later.
It's up to you. Oh, he would instantly share
these are all his friends now, but he would instantly share
every bit of information he's found, like Vex did not play a
prank on him instantly. We are tight.
All right, well, please feel free to read it out loud.
OK, wait, hold on before we do anything, we are still at the
doors of this place. Should we move down a couple
blocks? Because right there, that's a
camera, and it's right on us. He said we can go to the
building. I don't see why they would stop
us. We can.
Walk. It's only a few blocks away,
yeah. We can walk a tuck.
We can. Walk a tuck.
Let's just yeah. Yeah, yeah.
OK. Yeah, let's do that.
OK, so I got this memo. It's it's OK.
There's something called the Echo Cup project and here it
says that that that it continues to show progress.
Although the level of addiction can be mitigated, it is unlikely
that we'll ever be able to work out those kinks before the huh
before the 23rd of December deadline for shipping.
A new software update is being tested today at our market
research facility. Hey, that's us.
That's what we did. Oh.
We could push this update to devices that are already
packaged, but with the rush and the experimental nature of the
product, it might be wiser for safety to postpone the product
until it has a failure rate of 1%.
Currently, we see incidents at around 15%.
And it's not pretty. It says here, they actually
wrote that it says it's not pretty.
That's the R&D team. Natasha Gray.
Well, maybe we talked to Natasha.
Maybe they're at the other building.
That is the source now that we have.
Now, neon as a media, are you a kind of media that likes to look
up rumors? Yeah, I think he, I think he
likes to look up. I think he goes into like late
night. You do video essays.
Oh, my God, yes, that's what it is.
That's what it is. Yeah.
Totally. Yeah, yeah.
You just have chat throwing all kinds of extra links at you.
Yes, exactly. Yeah.
So when he's not streaming, he does video essays that he's
putting up on on the garden, on his patch.
Yeah, on whatever on like, it's all like scramble brain ADHD
topics of anything. Genuinely some of my favorite
content. Neon, keep going.
That's perfect. Thank you so much.
Yeah, I love that. All right, roll to see if you
can learn more about Echo Cup. Yeah.
You're all a crit success and find a log file for where Lumen
had just found the letter he showed you and you find another
letter. Do you keep it to yourself or do
you read out loud? I realize I've shown that to
everyone, but. Yeah, no, I read it out loud.
I'm like. Oh, oh, hey.
I just found something about that.
I, I, I, I, I was. This made me think of something
from the next essay I was going to do about all this.
Just found a new thing here. Check it.
Check it out. Check it out.
Same thing. Echo Cup Project Run.
This is from Marvin Wise, the guy we're trying to see.
Run your tests. The deadline is the deadline.
Marketing has already promised the data shipping.
We have pre-orders. It ships.
Damn the numbers. I'm sure it will be fine on the
grand scale. Marvin Wise looks like he didn't
have any patience. Yeah.
He was not fine, though. No, it was not.
Hey, what do you use for sources that's I didn't see that my
skin. What did you?
Oh my gosh, I so I've, I've got this great site that that I go
to and it's got all kinds of leaks and it's really great.
I'll show it to you here. And he just like flicks over a
thing to you that's like a page of like, it's like a forum of,
of a bunch of like angry redditers, basically.
It's the equivalent of putting stickers on your phone and you
hand it to him and he's going to hand you like, it's like, OK, so
I used to work for Fennec News and it's, it's really corpo
positive. But like it's, it's, it's all
kinds of deep dives and like leap stuff.
So he's going to hand you like, like actual research and it will
be impenetrable boring so. There's a.
Please. Lumen we got to do this next
video essay together. Next time on no latency side
quest this. Is going to be a great collab.
I I can I can already see. What's the cover story we want
to get in there? They'll listen to that 100 times
before you say you almost got killed.
Yeah, I second that. Oh.
You don't want to come up to me and challenge me.
I will show you. Oh no.
Feel like we're probably going to get into more fights.
OK, this stream is blowing up. I'm going to need a few more.
Whatever keeps your head in the game, hi.
Yes, just like a pocket. Just one.
Big giant smudge, No whirls. We're just going to be here, you
know? We we're just part of.
Product testing. You know what?
No, I'm going to pull out my shotgun again and then I'm going
to be sitting there and wait also.
Seeing symptoms of rage, violence and inhumanity.
And I'm watching the door. If you need me to do something
just tell me I. Don't get why you'd need this
for a ball and a cup. Game, right, but what are they
putting in this game? We know no one's in there.
Let's just go in. Someone's been watching too much
Evangelion. Got it.
He's he's at the door. We're going to use the side
door. The guards gave us the code.
I mean the the streaming you up thing is real bad, but I feel
like the cup and ball thing was over the line.
No, no, no, no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry
I got lost in it. I just want to collaborate.
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