Last time on no latency. It was a spacious train.
Gangers. Heck, normal.
That's probably not a good idea. I don't want to have a freak out
before we get to the market. Oh no, we forgot to get
sanitizer. Shut up, shut, shut up.
Oh, you kind of smell like meat. Just.
Shut it. Here we go.
Why are they standing up now? Iona they they didn't, they
didn't meet it. Please, please don't do it.
I was so graciously letting you sit here because in fact you are
on my train car. Please stay back.
I'm kicking him in the balls this.
Is this is dangerous? The one place that they didn't
grow him up. Hurts doesn't.
It that guy's having a bad day? Yeah.
He's not doing too great. We're.
Going to patch you up. You're going to be OK, don't
worry about it. I.
Really didn't want to have to do this.
It'll be quick and bind less bang back.
All right, throw him off the train.
What was that word you? Just used defenestration.
What was that like? When you throw somebody through
a window. We've made it.
So where? Where do we go from here?
I guess we go shopping. Because of the vending machines,
Yes. All right, and let's check out
the vending machines. But also we are, you know, going
to a night market. Oh, we are.
We are going. Yeah, but I'm, you know, I got a
bit of a sweet tooth and I can go for some ginger snaps.
Wait, no, that's not what you're called.
Gisner snaps. Yes, those are canonically
sweet, right? I.
I was going. To say I mean.
Or salted. I was going to snap it exactly.
It's, it's a bit like salted caramel, you know, as if that
now that if you look at the packet, it says now with extra
jizz, it's that lovely sort of salty, sweet white stuff on top.
They're they're frosted. The frosting's the best part.
I just need to know if the jizzner snaps are going to
satisfy my sweet tooth. I think so.
You'll have to look at the vending machines.
Let's take a look. All right, you can look at the
vending machines by rolling AD 10.
Each of you can look for three things.
Just roll 3D10. Very nice.
Oh, so I had to use the restroom.
Good. Roll me.
So Jeb, you find a full row of spoiled boost, so it's dead.
Most of the cans are empty that some of them have burst and it's
kind of stained that side of the inside of the vending machine.
Then you find a an armour Jack little jacket for 150 eddies and
inside the other vending machine you look in you find a
disposable raincoak for 10 eddies.
Now, is this a train station that we're in?
Like is it does not get a lot of foot traffic?
Why? Why is all this?
Spoiled Jeb. You look to your right hand side
and you see that the foot traffic entrance to this station
has caved in. The only access to this station
is via train or if you were brave enough to walk through the
tunnel. Now meaning that this over here
is a tunnel or or the tunnel itself being the train tracks.
Yeah, I think, I think the GM means the train tracks.
Yeah, that's that's OK Din Tunnel.
That's why. All right.
So this this is just rebel. That's no, no way in or out.
Yes, got it. Oh, look, there's kind of a face
in the rubble if you look. That's accidental.
That's funny. Oh yeah, I see it.
There's this. Mouth I love how creative you.
Are and then his forehead. Yeah.
But I'm, I'm really good at drawing, so I, I see the I see
the silhouette. Oh, Vivi, what did you find?
Vivi, you've found 10 ammo for 20 eddies.
You found a trank dart, and you've found another armor Jack
for 150, but because you rolled A10 you can roll again if you
like. All right, five, you find a
Taser boy plushy. Oh my.
Gosh. It doesn't hurt anything, it's
just adorable. It's the little Taser boy mascot
holding a little Taser that has a little piece of neon in it
that lights up every few seconds.
It's adorable. Oh my gosh, it's so cute.
There's a little Taser boy plushy in there.
It's 69 eddies. 69 eddies that's.
Nice. That's so expensive, but I kind
of want it. You have to have it.
I do. You're right.
All right, You know what 69 eddies it is.
And you charge 69 eddies and it gives you the last Taser boy
plushy in the whole set of vending machines.
Anybody need a tranq dart or ammo or anything?
I mean, the important thing is I got this plushy, but you know,
there are some other useful things in here.
Iona has found a one shot Taser from the Taser Boy brand for 100
eddies. Another row of spoiled Boost and
as you look all the cans of boost in these vending machines
seems to all have exploded and has expired.
And then you found another tranc dart, so there are two and you
get to roll again to roll the 10.
How much is the tranc dart? 75 They come with a little
pocket firing module so you can fire it through your pocket if
you wanted to and you rolled a nine.
So you have the choice of finding either another armour
Jack or another clip of ammo for the Taser.
Taser ammo and you get Taser ammo.
How much? How much is the Taser ammo?
Taser ammo is forty 80s. All right, so I guess I'll pick
up the Taser. Taser.
Ammo. Cool so the Taser is 140 plus?
Did you buy the track darts? No.
OK that Taser boy. Plus she is so cute I.
Mean it's a great, it's a great brand.
What does Taser Boy look like? It's very akin to Fallout's
Fallout Boy. Oh.
Boy. Yeah.
That's so cute. So that's all from the vending
machines then, I guess little coast bike shopping, little
decompression, that's good. Yes, quick question, GM yes.
How was it just two charge? Two charges?
So the one charge of the Taser and then the the.
Taser has four shots per clip. OK, eight Taser shots.
But you'd have to reload after four, obviously.
Is there a show off button? Yes.
It's government mandated. Oh man, that's just show off
button right? You're not just flashing with
people. No no no, just a show off
button. I don't actually think it Tases
you, so I hit the show off button and put it to my hand.
Roller D 10. OK, we're about to find out.
Nine, it does not. It's like, it's like putting
your hands through a safety flame.
Did did you want to be fake tased?
I want to be yeah, do it. All right, show up button Buzz,
buzz. No, I feel it.
It's electric. Hey, wait, you didn't roll for
that one? I should probably roll acting.
Is that too much? Do I need to?
I mean, I, I think that it was fantastic.
Thank you. I was, I'm, I'm working really
hard on lying. I mean acting 15.
It was very convincing. Jeb, you turn around and you can
see just Iona electrocute in Vendel and then it looks.
Like what are you doing? No, Jeb, it's a joke.
Look. Vendel takes it and puts it up
against Jeb's chest and pushes the button.
Now let's see if they push the right button.
Am I rolling for this? Yes, you should roll for this.
I should roll. For this.
Roll. What should I roll?
Just a straight up D10 eight. No, no, it doesn't.
It just, it tingles a little bit, Jeb.
I'd like to think that I mean, if, if there's a gun like, you
know, Jeb has canonically very quick reflexes.
So does Bendel. I feel like he would try to like
that's true, like grab it. Yeah, OK.
All right. Roll, roll something and no roll
Evasion is what you have to roll.
And I guess, I guess Vendel has to roll brawling.
Sure, it's fucking credible. So you watch.
You watch Jeb and Mandel both have a reactive matrix fight
just for a second. Oh, no, wait.
No, Jeb, I'm kidding. Why are we?
Oh my God, it's a joke. Jeb, Look.
It's you can't just, you can't just pull a gun on me.
My God, man. And then you slide away from
each other. Ah, it's a joke.
Look. Jeez, my heart's racing right
now. I mean, I mean just like a like
a mule at a, at a Coke festival. What?
It's a show off button. I've never seen a mule at A at a
Coke. Festival before festival.
Well, this has been weird, so we're here.
We are. I mean wherever here he is.
Station 0. Oh, I thought this was anywhere.
No, the train kept going so. Is there?
A train going anywhere? Then where are we?
Station 0 The The thing starts in 10 minutes.
Oh I mean there is a big zero spray painted on the wall over
there. Yeah, there is.
See. Oh, I thought that stood for Oh.
No. I don't.
I don't see it. Jep's doing Theatre of the Mind
in a really great. Job let me take my glasses off
real fast. Oh, I'm not wearing any glasses.
Glasses. Are you going to take your
glasses off to look to, to make sure you see it all right?
No, I was going to, I was going to like clear my glasses.
You thought you were maybe wearing shades indoors.
No, it was a joke. That might look cool, Iona.
Sure I I I take the the shades out of my bag and put the shades
on. So now our owner is wearing
shades inside. It's well lit enough that you
can still see Jeb. You move over towards the
abandoned bathroom door, step inside and you see it's filled
with a few sinks and a bunch of stalls for bathrooms.
And some of them are glowing. Yeah, the doors are.
Don't go to the one all the way at the far right.
I blew that sucker up. Oh, thank you for the warning.
I will not get in there. Yeah.
Jeb, do you want to look around the bathroom?
Not really. OK, so.
I'm going to go ahead and come back out.
There's nothing in the bathroom. Jeb takes a tertiary glance at
the inside of the bathroom and returns to everyone at a door
that just says STAFF only. It's unusually clean, unlike the
rest of this room. It's found itself just in the
corner, the very South of this large train platform.
Well, there doesn't seem to be any other way out of here.
So vandal, you want to just kick this bitch?
Yeah, jab. Go for it.
Kick it. Oh no, Vandal's the one with the
robot. Like I think they should do it.
That is fair. You're.
Going to give vandal the breach and clear.
That's well, they'll get the breach, I'll get the clear.
Do we? I mean, we've got a pass.
Oh, oh do we. Is it?
Is there like a little scanner here I'm?
I'm not, no. I mean, we could knock up.
I suppose. All right, that.
Doesn't make sense. Staff doesn't knock.
I'm knocking. I knock.
I own a knocks and you hear a voice on the other side and a
little slat opens and there are a pair of eyes looking at you.
Hello. How can I help?
I I'm here for the market. Oh, you have one of the past
things. I do I pull out my pass.
Name. Iona Popescu.
He points a little laser thing through the hole and it scans
your pass and you can smell that it lets off a little of the
blood into the air. Jeb, you were quite enamoured by
this smell and it makes you think of bacon.
I only see the guy look at this thing through the slot all.
Right, only two guests. Let me know when you've made
your decision. Just knock again.
Well, I suppose I'll be waiting for you guys out here.
And Jeff goes over and sits on the couch.
He knows he won't be a chosen. Well, we do need to think about
what we need. I mean, heist wise.
Oh. That's right, should we step
away from the door so they don't hear our plan?
Probably yes. So you will gather around Jeb,
who's sitting on one of these sofas.
All right, well, who wants to come with me?
Well, I mean I admit I would like to be involved, I just know
that more than likely won't be too much help.
In the past I've been bit of a nuisance.
Well, how are we going to get it out?
Have we considered that? Domino said it was in a vault
and then that this was an old train station.
So maybe there's a way to disable the security system they
talked about, because there's like security here, I think.
And there'll be like a bunch of like executives because it's a
bunch of executives from different companies, right?
Right. So we're probably going to have
to have a way for the executives to be distracted long enough
away from the objects so that we can sneak into where the object
is and take it, you know, basic heist shit.
So we've got Sneaky team and. Distraction team.
And so for distraction I vote either VV or Jeb.
And then I need retro. Well, maybe, maybe whatever team
goes in, you know, traditionally through the front door, maybe
they can keep a lookout and see if there's any sort of back way
in and then let the other team know how to get in from a
different why. I was going to say that I would
suggest that Jeb would be on the Sneaky team because Jeb is the
sneakiest of us all. This.
Is very true. Well.
Thank you. I appreciate that.
I. Don't think anybody can stealth
as well as Jeb in in the team. All right.
So I'm picking Remy and VV. Is that correct?
And then Van Dell and Vendel and Jeb Dream Team.
Hell yeah. And Dale.
Have to. Oh, I mean again.
Yeah. That's what I thought you said.
Hell yeah. I thought you'd leave retro
because it. Sounds like to disable the
vault. OK, but what if we need tech
things? That's why you got your job.
You're smart. Wow, that's.
Why we got you, Van Dale? You can.
You can like kick it with the robot lag.
Right. Kick.
It with the butt leg. Yeah, whatever tech is in our
way, if it's not cooperating, you can kick it.
I'm. Like, yeah, sure, reserve the
right to call retro and do remote things.
We're in the city now. We can use our satellite and
stuff. That'll work.
Call my friends. With your leg first, but no.
Don't even look, guys, it's fine.
I'll be on Team Jeb. I'm not.
I just, I wanted to see what the investor meeting was like and
I've got biotechnical and I look, but it's fine.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna record it. Don't worry.
I I can also do I have a cyber eye?
Yeah. I do, I just I always forget.
I never use it for anything. Vendela, I can broadcast to you.
It's it's, it's fine. Like you guys have fun in the
room and it there's probably a lot of characters in there.
It's probably best I go with Vendel.
It's fine. You are Vendel.
I mean, Jeb, sorry, it's just my subconscious wanting to go solo.
Solo mission window. We're going to have a great
time. High 5.
I'm going to turn on the broadcast feature of the Cyber
Eye so Wendell can see their own face.
I'm just going to leave the video on and if you need my
attention I'm going to mute it. All right.
I like to think that there's some sort of overlay like a
Twitch stream. Like what does yours say, Iona?
It says ello Corpo and. And underneath it says
confidential and it keeps flashing.
And every time you every time you donate, a little Remy pops
up and does a dance. Who donates?
Am I meant to donate to this park?
You get a you get a 10 Eddy donation from Vendel.
Oh no, that's cute, that's funny, I like that.
I don't. I don't fully get what the baby
Thanos joke is, but it seems very funny.
Jeb. Jeb like donates so that his
message can read, can be read out loud and it just says is
this where I type in the message?
Is this where I type in the message?
You know that plays in my ear, right?
Oh oh. And it cost you 5 eddies.
Yeah. Oh, it's a donation.
It's straight up. You get my 5.
Eddies. Yeah, that's it.
It's bits. It's straight money.
Cool. And you're streaming to two
viewers. Wow.
It doesn't include yourself things.
I mean, it's good that it's two viewers.
Let's be honest, Phoebe, unless you guys are going to watch,
that's weird. You're going to go in there,
aren't you? You guys have fun.
Bye. Hold on.
Well, we separate. Yeah, Team Jeb, what's the rule?
I mean, there are a lot of rules.
Which rules you're talking about specifically?
We don't press buttons. Unless they are labeled, yes.
All right. Unless close enough.
Right, we don't press buttons. Full stop, Jeb.
I'll push buttons. Man, I mean, I would really
appreciate it maybe if you could just tell me which buttons to
push because I. Find you can push one button 11
button. Yeah, that's all I'm asking.
I'm all I just want to get out of my system, you know, I see
problems, I will want to press them buttons.
Yeah, I'm sorry. I've got anxiety.
The last time I went alone with you, we found a battery made of
human beings. Yeah, it was eventful, I'd say.
Eventful. Anyway guys, I'll see you later.
I'm going to go to the bathroom. Have fun both y'all now.
Bye. Vendel goes off to the bathroom
to cool off. I want Vendel to roll perception
because they're in the bathroom and then you guys will get a
message whether they find anything and then you can go
back up to the door. Perception 14.
OK. You'll find out soon.
All right. Knock knock, knock.
Hello. I have my 2 guests.
All right, show your pass again. I hold up my pass.
He points the little laser thing.
Careful, it's close to my eyes. You're going to be fine.
All right, That's you and these your two guests.
Correct. Good.
All right. A panel on the door opens and it
takes a photograph of the three of you quite quickly.
You will feel the flash a little bit and then it closes.
The door opens. Jeb is out of frame, so it does
not see Jeb or Vendel. Just as we plan.
All right. Welcome investor and you step
into a large room. Across from you is a makeshift
bar tended by 1 bar person. There to your left is a woman
sitting at a desk, and then to your right is a large conference
table with three seats and five people already seated, meaning
there are only three spots left. That's us.
Check in with the desk. Oh, bless you, miss.
Sorry, that was a big sneeze. I was three in one.
It's. Crazy.
Totally. Fine, Miss, Sorry you had three
sneezes. Sorry, I'm Scott.
I can mute my own sneezes. Well, well, well.
How are you all It's? Nice to meet you.
Welcome to the investors. Thank you.
I'm miss fruits. It's nice to meet you.
Hello, Miss Fruits. I facilitate this particular way
of doing business. Wonderful.
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Now the item tonight, oh, I've got the sniffles.
Oh, pardon me. Now the item tonight is the
nuclear heart indented by some shut in somewhere in middle
America. We killed him and we took his
tech and now one of the corporations can invent it for
good PR, you know, normal R&D. Yeah, totally getting past the
patent system. Very clever.
Register, find the invention before they register it, or find
a crazy person who's invented something fantastic and milk it
for all it's worth. Where do you think the orange
squares came from? I mean, that's genius.
Making sure that they expire before they even have a chance
to put it into the patent makes it so that way that tech is
completely open to anybody at that point.
Except the person who buys it tonight, obviously.
Well, then, 'cause you get a patent, of course, that's the
kind of point protection of it, right?
You buy, you get the patent for it.
Yes, speaking to you, Mike Patent.
I thought I was. No, you were not.
Am I now? Yes.
Yeah, if you could just turn your speaker up a little bit,
Remy. All right, test it.
Well. Zoinks.
You can help yourself to a drink at the bar or the drink's
complimentary, of course, as a full set of drinks that we're
selling tonight. And then if you would like,
before we start, I can show you the security arrangements.
Can we see the heart before we begin?
I don't see why not. Perfect.
Would either of you like to grab a drink before we are?
These are these two assistants or buyers?
Assistants, right? Well, they're welcome to take a
drink and I can bring over all of our investors to look at the
item before we start. I see.
Yes. Good.
Cool. Ladies and gentlemen, days and
dens, we're going to be viewing the item before the investment
starts in just a few minutes. The gaggle of people behind you
quietly line up. Quite a few of them are checking
things on their chyrons, but they all look very, very
business Y. Sure, people want to get their
drinks before going on such a lengthy walk.
Everyone else already has drinks except Iona.
I'll just grab it. I'll walk over to the bar.
Excuse me, bartender. Yeah, yes.
May I please have a ginger ale? We have Gisner Ale.
I would love a Gisner Ale. You got it.
And they pull a can from underneath, wipe the top with a
sanitary towel, throw it away and crack the top.
As requested. Can I have that in a glass?
You can. She pulls out a glass from out
of the bar. It pulls out of a hidden
compartment as it washes, and then a hologram covers back over
the holes so you'd never know. She sets it down and fills the
glass. Do.
You want to ask? I would love ice.
Thank you and. They clink 3 cubes of ice into
your glass. Very good.
Thank you. I I tipped the five eddies that
Jeb just donated to me. Excellent.
I'm watching. I'm I'm laying back.
I'm just waiting for Bendel. So I'm laying back on the got my
feet kicked up on the couch just watching on watching the stream
on my dial. Should we stay at the bar?
I mean, I'm going to let them all go first and then kind of
death behind. I got to see what this system
is. Otherwise it's not going to be
what was the point of me coming in here?
You might as well just send jab. OK, Should I go with you?
Sure, Yeah, we're just going to let this Legion of Doom go by
first. And have you seen these people?
I mean, you've got a straight up 1980s Soviet guy with the
monocle Nathan Fillion, several anime protagonotrophy.
Do you want to roll to see if you know who these people are?
Yeah. Yeah, I.
Should probably do that. What are you?
Doing. Now do we?
Know who these people are. Everyone roll local experts for
Night City. Telling that one on the right
doesn't look like a JoJo antagonist.
It does. The Wild outfit tomato.
The one underneath looks like Tracy.
Yes, actually it looks like. What's her name?
That actress that everybody says I look like.
Reba. Reba, young Reba.
Very good. Oh God, that's it.
Rears local. The local expert you said it
was, Yeah. All right, so Iona, you
recognize a few people who live in Knight City.
You recognize Vance Lester, who's the guy directly to your
S, He works for Ziggurat. And you recognize the woman next
to him, Jezebel Sive, who works for Continental Brands, because
you're in a meeting with them once retro.
You recognize both of those people from a few sheets as well
as Zeal Mastic because his name has been on some sheets for some
of the tech that he has brought to Petra Chem and his name has
sometimes been on your gas bill. Fucker.
Celine Basque is who you recognize.
Vivi. Celine Basque works for Rockland
Augmetics. Celine Basque Rockland Well.
You know rock. Yep, poof, a lot of big suits
here. Retro man.
That one over there works for rock.
They do like all like you know the.
Cyberwear and all that stuff, which, you know, it's pretty.
Cool zeal or zeal? That's Zeke.
Zeke, Boulder. Oh, I thought it was Zeal.
Zeke Boulder. OK.
Well, yeah, we should. We should probably just wait for
them to, you know, do their little thing and stroll off and
then just. Fall behind where you know, give
that professional courtesy. Of course.
We probably should have a drink while we get the chance.
Yeah. You watch the crowd move off
into the hallway as Iona is guided along with the rest of
these people by Miss Fruits. And you look at the table, you
look at the bar top, and there's actually a menu on a floating
hologram screen. And it says they have a few
things. They have glow gin.
I have void martinis, giznit ale, real water, dark glaze
whiskey, and green glow martinis green glow martini.
So the green glow martini and the glow gin will make your
mouth glow. Glow gin will make your mouth
glow white. Green glow martinis will make
your mouth glow green. Void martinis are made out of
fake squid ink and are blacker than night.
Wow. So it's very thick, viscous,
alcoholic fluid, but it's probably delicious because these
people are rich. Yeah.
And as a side of food, there's synth caviar and crackers.
Oh. This is a fancy place.
I feel a little out of my element being so fancy.
What do you order as you follow them in?
Can I get a dark and stormy? I can only make what's on the
list. Fuck, give me give me the glow
martini. Green Glow Martini coming up.
They pull a glass out of the bar with a little flourish, whack it
on top, shake one out in a pre made cocktail shaker, crack the
top like a brand new water bottle and pour your drink in
and then add some little flourishes.
Uh huh. There you go.
Thank you. I'll tip them half of whatever
it's supposed to cost. So 10 eddies.
Sure. Twenty 80s Damn, that's.
A fancy drink that makes your mouth glow for makes your mouth
glow if you drink it for an hour so.
Well, I I sip on it. All right, well, your mouth will
now glow for an hour. What do you want?
I was going to get the same thing.
Green glow martini. Green glow Martini and some of
those synth. What was it, the synth caviar or
whatever? It's caviar.
Yeah, a little. Synth caviar.
It's a little canopy tray for you.
Thank you. It's.
Personal canopy tray. It'll attach to your glass with
this little hook thing. It's pretty.
It's pretty cute. Lovely, I know.
And so your martini glass can like slide into this little
entree tray just at the base. It's quite adorable.
And there's a little spoon for the caviar and a little slot for
about 5 crackers. So you've got like a little sort
of adult lunchable, I suppose, attached to your drink.
This curve too. A high class Lunchable.
Yeah, I mean, what is a security board if not a lunchable for
adults? It's more expensive.
Wait, do they have make your own pizza security boards?
You say as the crowd moves towards the end of the corridor.
Well, now Retro is going to become a millionaire for that
idea. And here we have our security
system. Says Miss Fruits to Iona and the
group of people. The hallway is guarded by guards
and we have one guard in front of the vault.
He is not allowed to move because if he does, he might
activate the system. Absolutely.
We are told to stay absolutely still.
Now, the guard at the front of the vault in our current
situation is unaware of some of the security measures.
He's just been told to stand still, right?
I'm going to turn off the system that is a three.
And he turns off the system and a bunch of the there's a laser
that you can see in front of you and it disappears and you can
hear the the guard in the hallway call out.
Is it all right now? Can I move not?
Just and you hear a laser go off and then gunfire.
Oh. But as you might be aware, our
system is incredibly efficient. But we may have one less guard
for the night, Madam. Oh well, you're stupid.
Wasn't. He incredibly so.
OK, well maybe we should up the IQ requirement for these jobs in
the future. Absolutely, Madam, but at least
it is proof that the inside of this hallway is incredibly
deadly. Indeed, that is a very good
observation. Also, don't talk to me like this
again. And the guards do their best to
shimmy past you as you will run single file into this hallway.
And here is our defensive hallway.
As you can see, we have turrets on the ground, and this man over
here was shot to death by these turrets.
So that's interesting. When she goes up to the computer
and unlocks the door and it pops open and there in the room you
can see the part floating on a little platform.
It's being held a little magnetically floating plinth for
you all to see at the end of this corridor.
I can't let anybody inside if you wouldn't mind.
One of the guards has shimmied his way up to the front to stand
beside the door, I guess. I'm I'm going to be starting
here now. I know about the lasers, though,
so I know the way that they go. So nobody's going to come in.
If you wouldn't mind stepping back from the door just a little
bit so everyone else can see. Thank you very much.
So when I originally began to step into the room I I made sure
to do like a full pan of the room before they told me to step
back. Fair enough.
Good roll for me. Something to get that
information. Well this says I only have two
luck. That's sucks.
You spent some on the train. I did spend some on the train,
and you know what? I'm going to spend the rest
right now because I need this information.
Yoink. OK, what can I have done?
I guess we'll just do perception.
Sure, +2 with your luck. Oh.
Thank goodness. And that's why I use luck.
Exactly. That's 15 even with your crit
fail, which is enough to get a full picture of the inside of
the room. But you only manage to get the
visual spectrum, not the infrared spectrum.
So the image will not have any of the lasers placed in the data
whatsoever. So you know the layout of the
room, but not necessarily how the defences work.
So they may have to work that out themselves.
There are lasers in this hallway, there are lasers in the
vault, and we keep everything in there secure, including some
other investments for other markets that may happen.
But tonight is obviously about the nuclear heart.
Is everyone satisfied that it is indeed an object?
I am satisfied. Ma'am says that they're
satisfied, so they're satisfied. It is the only one in existence
being the prototype, and I imagine examining said object
would be enough to create a fleet of them, thus improving
said companies. Wow, stock prices and then we
will all invest and benefit from it.
Oh absolutely, I love that idea. Fuck this.
People start making their way back to the main room.
The crew seem to door door slightly.
Did we see what we needed to see?
I say to Rummy and Vivi. Retro Do you do anything before
the door shuts? Well, I did a deep scan inside
there to see what I could see. I couldn't see much.
I did see one or two interesting things and sent a message to
Iona VMI Chiron, but that's about it.
Cool. Did you want to roll for any of
that information? Sure. 13 You discover with just
your tertiary glance with your cameras two of the lasers.
So you now know where some of the lasers are with just your
tertiary glance. So in my mind, from the glance
that I'd taken, create a digital image inside my head and
recreate it to have the lasers in where I perceive them to be
at. What?
What do you mean that you send a message to Vendel with the
pattern of those lasers? I mean, when we were ready to,
it was going to. I was just letting you know that
I. May have memorized the lasers.
In a digital format in my head. All right.
So you've saved the position of the lasers as a file.
I get it. Cool that you.
Could have said I know where they are.
I know where. Thelasers.jpg.
No, no no, not a jpg, a PNG. Jpegs can for sure lose
distortion, PNGS not so much. VV Do you do anything to the
dead body in here? It feels like VV life.
Or are you trying not to play the the medical professional in
this particular moment? Yeah.
Can I like try to examine it? Yeah, yeah.
Examine it as you walk by to see if you can learn anything.
Yeah, I would like to just examine this, this dead body,
see if I get anything from it. Let's see.
I'll defer. 16 Yes, that is high enough to recognize that the
bullets in here from these guns are armour piercing.
OK. You recognize from the wounds
that they can rip right through our mouth so that's they can do
damage. We hate armour piercing.
We hate armour. Well, not when we have it.
Are you all ready to come with Of?
Yes. Yes.
So you leave the hallway, the lasers reactivate, you head to
the table. I'm sitting at the table, I'm
responding to Remy's message and sending out a message to Vendel
while, you know, while the security isn't around.
And then they'll send you back a message with their perception
they rolled much, much earlier, that there's a vent in the
bathroom and then they'll comes out of the bathroom towards Jeb.
Jeb. There's a vent in in the
bathroom. Jeb is you know how like
sometimes when you're laying on the couch and you're watching a
stream and you just get tired and so you fall asleep and
you're tile rather your phone, I suppose in real life, just like
falls on your face and you're that's that's Jeb.
Jeb is just literally passed out like the his tile on his face.
Just. Jeb, wake the fuck up.
Oh shit I missed the last like 30 minutes of the stream.
There's no way. There's no way you missed the
last 30 minutes. I was only in there for like 15
anyway. Dude, dude, dude.
Yeah, what? There's a vent in the bathroom.
There's a vent in the bathroom I
just sent. I just sent Iona a message.
They can send me anything back. Can they send me anything back?
I wonder if they can. You think there's a firewall?
What's going on? Are you OK?
It's probably the firewall I heard I learned about them
retro. No, the GM said.
We could talk. I've sent a message.
Oh oh. I.
Yeah, well, it's probably because you got through the
firewall. I relay the message that Remy
sent to me about the the corners of the room glowing with the
same glow as the bathroom stalls.
It. Does yeah.
Anyway, I I basically the message I really is that I think
you can get in through the bathroom.
Oh, we can get. In Iona thinks we can get in
through the bathroom, which is great because I was worried we
were going to explore through the tunnel and maybe get hit by
a train. No, yeah, that's dangerous.
You you don't want to be walking on train tracks.
Yeah, so glad the GM gives us multiple entrances to the things
we need. Yeah, otherwise it would be
we'd, I feel, shoehorned into doing exactly what he had
planned. Right, exactly like like
especially with you saying chew, chew, motherfucker.
I really expected to have to dodge a train, but now we won't.
Hopefully if we can get the vent open.
So, Jeb, come on. I'm right behind you and.
Bendel and Jeb make their way into the bathroom.
All right, we're here. Yes, we are.
Oh fuck, where's the vent? I don't know.
Roll perception. You're the one that said you
found it. I'd left you roll perception.
I don't know where it is. Sure.
And and now I rolled an 11 on perception.
I've completely forgotten where it is, but you were older 19
clarity. Wait, hold on, hold on.
I smell a bit of a draft. It's coming from right, right
there. I see it.
Oh, there it is, in this incredibly obvious corner
between these two toilets. I should have seen that.
Oh, I see. It wasn't a stall, It was just a
secret entrance. Yeah.
There's no toilet here. OK, All right, so we're going to
go in this vent then what? Well, I mean, I suppose it
depends on where this event takes us, don't it?
It's going to be an event for sure.
It is locked though. Well, that's a Gray 1, Van Dale
High 5. High five, yeah.
Van, Dale and Jeb are best friends now.
Yeah. All right, well, I guess I'll
oh, I locked on accident. That's.
All me you should unlock it. You should.
You should do the thing with your manliness and also because
you're in front of me. Right open.
Yeah, well, how are you going to do it?
Sure. It's a vent.
I whip out the the combat shovel, kind of extend it and
flip it over to its, you know, full length.
And I stick the the the spade end of it into the in between
the wall and the vent and just. Roll for it.
Athletics 18. Yes, you unlock the vent.
Clatters to the floor. All right.
Hopefully you nobody heard that. All right, Jeb, you first.
Sure, yeah, I'll get in there. I've been been into worse.
Oh, it is a little tight. Just be aware.
Oh boy. We're immediately looks like we
are immediately given choice between going left or right.
Right. Well, if my internal compass is
correct, I think we got to go take a ride.
OK. So.
Lead the way all. Right, let's keep crawling
through here like John Mcclane on Christmas.
And like MacGyver. Well, kinda, I guess.
And oh, oh, Bend, you quiet, quiet.
There in the vent you see a little grate that leads to the
whole way. And I see a bunch of anime
protagonists and antagonists. You see Miss Fruits from the
stream talking to a guard. We can't really make out what
they're saying, but they're having a conversation.
Can we try? Can Vendel try?
Yes, absolutely, Jeb. Can you read lips?
Yeah, she's saying. She's saying she's.
Saying 16. Follow me, there's many apples.
Get out of the way, I need to see.
And then they'll pushes you out of the way to read the lips.
What would you say, Bendel? What you say?
They said if the power shuts down that the the whole system
shuts down for like 5 minutes and locks down the whole thing.
I think, but also that if that happens and they let anyone move
anywhere near it, that that that woman will kill that guard.
OK, so this seems to be the right way.
Nice job Van Deal. Looks like we'll make progress.
Making making progress. Wait, what?
What's that? What's the floor say down there?
Automated defences. Oh, OK.
So we're definitely on the right track.
Oh wait, Jeb, come back to the vent.
Have a look. Yeah.
Oh, it's kind of. Do you see that in the hallway?
Oh, it's kind of, it's real tight.
Is that is that some sort of gun?
Yeah, those are turrets. There are turrets, they're much
bigger in person. On the video they did not look
that big. Oh yeah, 'cause they're, you
know, they're shrunken down to the size of your tile when you
look at it. Right, that's gonna be OK.
So there's turrets in there. That's bad.
I. Suppose I mean, no, I'm, I'm not
going down there. Yeah, why would?
We. Yeah, exactly.
Let's move away from the turrets.
Agreed. All right, let's keep going down
this way and we we can find get some more clues.
And I mean, I, I at this point, I figure that we're going to
wait on the rest of the team to let us know when to drop down
and I'll make our move. Exactly.
OK, So what? What have you got in front of
you? Hold on.
Let me just pop open. Quiet, quiet.
Pop open. That's great.
Is is it? Is the great locked?
Yeah, God damn, it's locked. Oh shit.
Well, you you could just do the the the thing again.
Oh, oh, gosh, It's going to be real tight.
It's going to take my backpack off here.
OK. Can you move over to the side a
little bit? I need a little bit of.
Room. Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm taking a
step back or two. I'm back here.
Yeah, and it's, oh, God, it is tight, I tell you.
You know, they they don't make these vents for people.
They make they make it for air most of the time.
OK, I think I got it. Stand back.
Go me, Stand back. 17 Absolutely yes, you break open this great.
Oh, oh, oh, wait a minute. And do you step out yes or no?
I just want to stick my head out kind of like you stick.
Your head out and you see a turret and it detects motion and
turns towards you. OK, back up, back up.
Back up. Back up, back up, back up.
Next time on no latency. Every once in a while I
accidentally stumbled into a good play.
I'm going to throw a luck in here for Bendel.
Did he stutter? Just in case.
Oh God damn it. I chalk it up to both of us.
So good. Back into the van.
I don't answer the call.
I'm not sure it's if it's a stupid question or not Island,
so I'm go ahead and just ask. What?
I don't have anything to say to these people.
What's going? On what could go wrong with a
nuclear operated power source is.
A spicy. 115,003. 100,000. That was spicy.
Just wait till the Tapasco about to get dropped on this bitch.
They're really bitten up fast. The lowest bidders. 500,000.
There it is. Good.
Holy shit they. Were the highest bidders.
It is a disappointment, but look at the opportunity we have here
today. Better than what I think's about
to happen. Now.
Now what? Oh.
My gosh. Yep, Yep.
No, I I got that. My butt felt that.
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