Last time on no latency. You know, every once in a while
I accidentally stumbled into a good play.
Did he? Stutter.
They both have really good reflexes I suppose.
OK, back into the van. Back into the van.
This is spicy. I've been down in the tunnels
before, trains are quite loud. If you thought that was spicy,
just wait till the Tapasco about to get dropped on this bitch.
300,000. 500,000 they're. Really bidding up fast.
1,000,000. I'm going to trank them.
Yeah, yeah. No, I I got that.
My butt felt that. The only people that walked away
miss Fruits, Lester and person who won the bid. 10 minutes.
Oh, I delete every bit of footage of us on that.
What happened to your butt, Jack?
Don't care what happened. To us, but we need to leave we.
Didn't time this for the train schedule but but me and Van Dale
did time that explosion, am I right?
I mean, how about we won? All right, I got the box.
Van Dale, let's go. Where are we going?
I mean out of here. Right.
I mean, they're going to come through that door to the South,
right? So if they say with the heart,
it's going to be bad. Where are we going?
I don't know out. Down the train tracks.
I was just. Going down the train tracks, are
we going to hide in the bathroom?
No, let's get the fuck out of here.
Let's be my friend. We could just try to bunker up
here and hold them off, yeah. Well, I mean, we, we should
stay. Yes.
And the heart people should go. Thanks.
Me and you, Van Dale. We're the heart people.
OK, tunnel a bathroom. Tunnel, let's go.
OK. Don't get run over.
And then Dell follows you into the tunnel with this, with this
atomic heart. Remember, it's 10 minutes for
There's a train in the tunnel, so Jeb and I will have to work
out what to do because we'll be hit by the train so.
If we don't get out of here. Right.
Could just make it to the next platform.
So start running. It's it's a few.
Miles there, Jeb. We'll probably get hit by a
train before that happens. We'll figure it out when we when
when we get there. You do not.
Step on that rail, do you, Jeb? And Jeb and Vendel run down the
tunnel towards the east side of that area.
You have a few moments as you hear the door being fumble with.
I send, I send. I send a message to Vendel.
Get back in the vents. I only just get back into bed.
Jeff, come this way. Are we just going to try to play
this off as much as we can install like that?
We don't know what's going on. I mean, we don't have the heart.
Correct. OK.
What is going on? I don't even know what is.
What is? What is going on?
What? What's happening?
And miss fruits, three gods, Mastiff and the person who
bought the object Celine Basque enter the platform area.
What's going on? Where's my fucking heart?
Yeah, who you? You seem to have left a kind of
incredibly promptly around the time the alarm goes off and the
object is missing. Hand over the fucking heart yet,
charlatans. The alarm went.
Off I opened my Biotechnica jacket.
Miss Fruits turns off the alarm. Yes.
What? Well, wait, how do we know you
just didn't set it off and now you're just trying to rip us
off? Now how do, how do we know Miss
Fruits? You didn't.
You just turned that button. How do we know you didn't set up
the alarm and set this whole thing up?
But we were just in the vault and it wasn't there.
There's there's only one you maybe could.
Have went ahead and stole it from them and now made us passes
because we didn't want to play away with this stupid little
game. He makes a good point.
Did you check Miss Fruits to see if they went and took it?
They're the ones that have all the stuff.
And hey, by the way, did you realize that the last time they
had one of these things, the people who didn't buy stuff were
the ones who ended up dead? So you trying to set us up as
your next patches to go through with this deal, Miss Fruits?
You know, I had a little, you know, there was like a thing
about how pretty I thought you were, but now you just look like
the worst person in the world. Wow, wow, this is this is
nicely. Directly after an investor's
meeting. I mean, I could just see you
shivering right there with your anticipation, realizing you done
fucked up. Role Persuasion 17, 7.
I'll tell you what. How about this?
Can I drop the DV if I do something very outrageous?
Yes, because you currently fail. All right, fine.
You want to search me? Fine.
Retro's going to go ahead and drop the bag.
Go ahead here and takes down the bag.
They're going to take off the jacket here.
I'll toss up my jacket in front of him and then here you go.
Takes off his shirt. He pulls down his pants, and
then he pulls down his underwear.
He takes his socks and his shoes off, all in that order, and he
throws it off butt ass naked. He's gonna turn around.
He's like, there, go ahead, see you got nothing on me.
He'll bend over and spread his butt cheeks here.
Check that you. Think I put an extra heart right
up my ass here. Check that.
Sorry, sometimes he gets like this after a drink.
Then those we clearly established.
Those were very strong drinks. Yes, I I believe we did.
I'm kind of glad that I have having trouble seeing there.
Mr. TV Man, you are hairy in places that are upsetting.
No reaction. Fair enough.
Damn. He's very stoic.
I'm no, I'm. Just going to say I'm still
spread wide open. Nobody's told me shit yet.
I'm not sure you can close your ass to us.
God damn. Look, I don't know.
We don't know what happened to the heart and honest, quite
frankly, I don't think we really care because we didn't win the
bid. So sorry, but good luck.
Train will arrive in 5 minutes. Going to turn around.
Fine. If you ain't going to do it,
then yeah, I'm going to go and put all my stuff back on in the
same order, in the reverse order of what I said.
And yeah. Retro gets redressed in front of
these people. Thank you for putting your
clothes back on. There's no need for that.
Hey, you're the one who went ahead and just straight up
accused us with no proof for whatsoever.
Meanwhile, in the tunnel. Jeb, Jeb.
The train's going to be here in 5 minutes.
We'll never make it. There's there's a door here.
We'll. Dive in.
It's fucking locked. Oh.
Shit kick. It down, there's room in here
for two people, but not two people and the heart.
So if if one of us gets hit by a train, we should probably save
the heart, I think. You kick it down, kick down the
door, use your robot leg. Oh, OK.
OK, I've got a role for that. All right.
I guess we're using the robot leg.
Jeb really wants the robot leg. Power Leg 19, yes, that does
beat the DV and then they'll kick this door open.
All right, Jeb, get the fuck in here.
Yeah, I'm here and. Jeb and Vendel find that they
have re entered the room next to the vault.
Oh. Hey, we were in here before.
Yeah, Fandale, we, we were the ones that created this crate,
this small crater in the side here and.
There's still a bit of still bit of smoke in here.
Oh yeah, don't worry about that. So I suppose we're going to do a
little just kind of subway hoppings and wait for the this
train to go by and then get back in there and keep moving, huh?
I I thought when the train arrives we could sneak onto the
train from the tunnel. Oh, right.
Yeah, All right. Well, I do like a.
Sneaking I, I, I it's away. We're hidden from them.
As long as they don't find this little room beside the vault,
we're we're pretty safe. So as long as the other guys
don't screw the pooch, I think we're going to be fine.
As long as no one comes to check on the thing that exploded, it's
probably going to be all right. Turning back to.
The group, you know, there was that explosion we felt during
the meeting sounded like it came from somewhere down the tunnel.
We got a few minutes. I could go and check if you
like. And Mastic starts to walk past
you. If you could just move out of
the way there TV man. I try and come, yeah, sure,
suddenly. All right.
Roll roll stealth. What are you doing?
No, I. Shouldn't have done this?
Maybe I should? Can I Can I prevent BB from
doing that? Sure if.
He passes out. It's fine.
OK. You know what?
No. No.
No, you know what? Roll roll to see if you drank
it. OK. 15 yes, that is pretty high.
Let's be real, that is a three, so nobody notices that you just
an extra bit of trunk into him and he takes three steps
forward. He rolls A2 unresisted truck.
Oh my God. Takes two more steps and fucking
faints. Oh oh oh God.
Maybe. Hey y'all going to help him out?
I mean look he just passed out again like you are not doing
very well that you're taking care of your guests was fruits.
Look, you have this guy passing out twice, take try to take
control of your own situation and you can't even get what this
other one bought. It's the guy you drank before.
Oh, OK, OK. Yeah, you drank this guy twice.
This could be honestly, this could be some sort of medical
condition that's a bit, it could be narcolepsy or some other
condition. I.
Mean he did get a pretty big head trauma or.
He could have a concussion, Yeah, straight up concussion.
Look, his head was bleeding. He may need medical attention
very quickly. Yeah, where's medical attention
people, huh? Well, this is a secret meeting,
so. Please, I know that the the
heart is very important, but we should this man's health is also
very important. You wanted to get known for your
secret meeting. For everybody else, well.
Are you traumatine? Well, no.
I I former a former. Former Don't don't help.
Don't don't want to fucking deal with it.
You Are you really going to let Mr. Mastic die at your meeting?
No, I'm not going to do I. I mean.
As a medical professionals, so if you could help us, I would
appreciate it. Biotechnical assistance please.
Allow me to just take a look and I'm going to just like just try
to distract. Roll for it.
Yeah, you're trying to do sub par medical stuff.
You're not trying to kill him, but you don't want him to wake
up. You roll a crit success 24 and
you find a little spot on his back that is just a pressure
point that makes his whole body shudder.
Now from the outside this could look like some kind of seizure,
but doing it, you realize all you're doing is tickling him.
OK, I love this. I'm going to.
I'm going to tap the tap it on the back or back of his neck
over this. He's seizing.
Somebody please help.
Is there no strong, burly man that can help pick up Mr.
Massic? He's seizing this is this is
serious. He needs to be taken to a
hospital so bad. OK.
Honestly. No, you're right.
You're correct. OK.
Yeah. Do you?
Do you attempt to fake stabilize him in this moment?
Yes, I will attempt to stabilize him, but.
And in this moment, do you stabilize him in such a way that
he probably won't wake up for a few hours?
Yes. All right.
How do you do it? I'm just going to, I'm going to
just give him an additional, I'm going to give an additional dose
to keep them passed out. He is certainly going to need
proper medical attention. He needs to be taken to a
hospital as soon as he can. I've at least stabilized for now
because the seizing, the passing out, this could be something
there could be some actual neural trauma from what happened
all. Right, Iona and your crew.
Are you fine to take him to a trauma team depot somewhere?
We're we're about to catch this next train.
We can take him. All right.
Do you have anything that will hold a single person?
I have a hoverboard. How cyberpunk pull out?
Your hoverboard from your from your boom box and shove him
underneath it and he's now hovering 3 feet of the ground
unconscious we're. About to walk on this train with
an unconscious man. I'm sure this train's seen
worse. Yeah, I did on the way here.
I guess you're right. I mean, just button up your
doctor's coat and yes, professional.
Yes, I am a professional. Just as you get him onto this
hoverboard, everyone's looking, looking at this.
This is not what any of these people expected tonight.
The guards are very confused. Miss Fruits is very confused.
Celine is kind of pissed off. She turns to Miss Fruits.
Do I get my money back? It's a lot of cheddar.
We'll talk about it. And Miss Fruits hands you a
business card, will you? Let me know if he dies, yes.
The train arrives and the doors open and Jeb and Vendel in the
tunnel can see the very end of the train with the end door that
they could come in and the rest of you are now standing with the
train doors open. You have around about two
minutes to get on the train before it leaves.
How many people are getting on this train?
Is it just us with with the mastic?
All right, let's take Mr. Mastic.
Phoebe, you're too kind. Goodbye this, ma'am, I
apologize. This shouldn't have happened on
our watch for you. I am deeply embarrassed to this
whole situation. And I don't know if Biotechnica
should enjoy any more of this particular meetings if this is
what's going to keep happening, especially after it happened
with Patrick and such. I really think that you know.
Things need to be readjusted. I can assure you this sort of
chaos isn't normally part of our procedure.
Well, I mean we'll. Have to find a new location for
this obviously. Well, we'll have to see.
That's going to be more of a Miss Pescu call on that deal.
I'm just relaying from what I see for this particular point.
I think you have a lot to make up for Miss Fruits and luckily
for you, they are very forgiving at times in which can be
infuriating for me. So I will say this probably have
a good shot, but I would say better be on your better
behavior for it. Come on, let's load up Mr.
Massic so that way we can get them there before he dies.
Since now it's been falling on charge on us, please.
Yes. Have a great rest of your night.
Jeb, it's now. Come on, pick up the box.
Let's go. Yep.
Let's go, let's go. I'm going to go sneak up onto
the back there and maybe we can just kind of wait it out for a
bit. There's a door so we should try
and get in before the train starts because they go really
fast and I don't want to be on the outside.
But other people are going to see us.
Jeb, we're going to sneak onto the fucking train.
Roll stealth. I will also roll stealth.
Yeah, you will. Right now.
You'll get there. I'm.
Just I'm just, I'm just thinking about it.
I've got about 30 seconds left. 15, it's good enough. 15 and
2215. Wait, like that's, that's
literally above average. I'm doing a great job.
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BB Station. Can't believe that actually
worked. Oh, you guys made it OK.
And Jeb and Vendel come over with this heart in a box.
Well, we've got the box. I have a Texan.
Look, firstly, I apologize if you know that was a little too
much. I thought maybe, you know,
knocking the guy out with a couple of trank darts.
Don't worry, he's out out. So he won't be how?
Many trank dart darts. Did you give him?
Three. Three traps, baby.
He'll be fine. I will have to explain to the
doctors when I drop him off about that because you know,
they're going to know it wasn't he just passed out from alcohol
or hitting his head or something.
So that's what everybody else thinks all.
Right. So if we take Trauma Team,
they're going to know that he was tranquilized, you know?
Who we could take him to. Oh.
God. Sawtooth our.
Favorite doctor are. We driving to sort of right now.
Yeah, I think, well, we kind of have to because I did kind of,
you know, I, I do feel responsible for this.
He's going to remember. So much of this.
VV can we not just leave him on the train hurt the high pules
that you have to look like he injected himself and looked like
just another resident of Knight city enjoying the train ride on
a on a trank high. I mean, we could.
We could do that. Here's my question Duty If we do
not take him to a doctor, is it going to die?
No, he'll live. But he'll remember all of us, so
we end up like, not matter. If only there was some sort of
drug that would like erase the last bit of the memory that he
had. Yeah.
And it was under an hour us being in there.
Yeah, really good. If we had something that would
all right. All right, OK.
What? I can do that.
Do what? Do you got a drug that does
exactly that? Do we?
Yes, we do. My God, we could do that.
Look, I'm I'm open to whatever you guys feels best.
I I did. I feel bad that I kind of
screwed this guy over, but also he's an exec and an asshole so
maybe I don't care. It's fine.
I don't know how trank mixes with this so.
I think it'll be fine. Yeah, do we care about side
effects for someone who is apparently this much of a Dick?
No, I pull it out of my bag. Go ahead.
And call it. Yeah, it's pretty sure if it
does. All right, so, So what we need
to do is getting him, get him into a situation where he maybe
thinks he missed the meeting. Right.
Fell asleep on the train. But then that doesn't explain
why he has head trauma and is full of tranquilizer darts.
So do we take him to sore tooth anyway and say we found him or
do you want to do the train? The train thing was too.
It would leave a lot more loose ends.
Well, I suppose we could probably just take him to South
Tooth and and then when he wakes up, just tell S Tooth that I
mean almost the truth, right? I just tell him that he was at
the underground thing and that we that he hit his head and that
we brought him here to get, you know, have him taken care of.
Do we have something like an enzyme that can break down the
tranquilizer? An enzyme.
Like a a trancantidote. Do you have something like that?
Could be. Trancantidote.
You know, I I don't know if I technically have any.
I mean, I have, I have smelling salts that helps wake people up
pretty quickly. It woke my owner up.
Do you remember when we took a pint of your blood while you
were awake? Yes, yeah.
I just, I remember you taking a pint of my blood while I was
awake. I do remember that.
The reason why I asked about the the breaking down of the
tranquilizer is because if we can do that, we can just leave
him on the train. I bet you Sawtooth would have
that. Yes, Sawtooth would.
Definitely. All right, let's just.
Take him, Give me a second. Let's take him to the doctor,
The real doctor. You're a real doctor.
Don't. Don't do that boost still.
Oh yeah, I got some boost. Hold on a second.
I got three of them, in fact. I would like to go.
And just do. Use basic tech to try to, well,
hold on, give me a second. Yeah, I was going to try to see
if I could concoct boosts with the smelling salts itself to
potentially just wake the gentleman up.
Yeah, you can fashion a mixer. You can fashion a little
Margarita blender out of some scrap and some stuff from the
vending machine. Oh, I just just use my robotic
hand. That's a good enough shaker as
it is already. All right, you, you.
Create a a centrifuge in a Tumblr that you got from the
Bubble Cafe. Yeah, All right, I'm gonna take
the can, put it into their hand. OK, go ahead.
Just pour it down his throat. Just a little bit of time so
that way they don't choke. Maybe.
I hope you'll help me out here so that way.
Yes, I will make sure you're. Doing this?
Are we doing this after or before we put the never mind
into this human? We probably should do that soon
because it's like, you know, it deletes the last hour.
Wake up unknowing so this first and then the never mind so he
forgets everything. Don't you mean the never mind
and then this and then the drink?
Never mind. And then the drink.
Never mind, I just give it to him.
Oh, OK. So you shove never mind into his
mouth. Vivi, you have to make.
Him I have, yes. Somebody else will open his
mouth, I will drop it in. I have a one of those like pill
guns. There you go.
He removes it from his mouth and puts it in some professional
medical equipment. Gives I owner a look.
You could have said something. I I got it.
And you inject this pole into his bloodstream.
You watch him shake slightly as he starts to forget the last
hour of his life. It coincides with a roundabout,
probably around where he was heading towards the venue, but
he remembers nothing about being there.
Is everyone ready? Yeah, yeah.
And then we get we're getting off this train just.
Act natural, Jeb. Don't.
Say it. Are we, are we acting drunk?
Is that what we're doing? I just want to make.
Sure, we're acting natural. Oh, natural.
OK. And.
Vendel does the most unnatural pose as they lean against a.
Pole on the train. Sit, sit down.
OK, I'll sit down. I'm going to sit next.
I'm going to sit next to Vendel All.
Right, you go and sit next to Vendel all.
Right, I'm going to pour some into into the guy's mouth and
then softly slap his cheek as if I'm waking him up.
And I'm going to have him roll resist or drugs.
That's a one. He's very drunk, but never mind.
Hits him fine, causes no complications whatsoever.
But he rolled A1 to the beast. He is woozy.
Hey, hey, hey. Buddy, Hey, you there?
Hey. Champ.
What the fuck did I drink? I feel like I was just hit by a
fucking elephant, which is impressive because I've never
seen one in real life. Damn I'm.
Not. I'm not sure you were chatting,
something about how you got some.
Am I still on this fucking train?
Yeah, dude, you said you got some boost off of a couple of,
What do you call them? Wait, what time is it?
Metal jackets? The what?
Fucking time is it? Oh, it's yeah.
It's about 10 minutes to one now.
It's getting closer. Oh fuck, did I?
No damn it had one more drink before I left and maybe there
was too much. Did I pick some more on the way?
Oh shit, that's beer off the fucking truck.
Tell us about how you picked up some some beer from the
Maelstrom guys. Oh fuck, I'm on the fucking.
Why am I on a fucking hoverboard?
I want to know why you're looking at yourself, Sir.
I placed you there after you or, or actually, no, you were doing
some wild stuff. I you saw, you saw my hoverboard
on the train and you were like, give me the hoverboard and then
you thought you could like start like riding it and dancing on it
and then you like fell off of it and it was like.
You hit your head pretty hard actually.
Yeah, more. Persuasion for that one.
That seems like an incredibly realistic reason for why I
passed out. Absolutely.
So that makes the DV fall. It's not that you need it
because it's a fucking 18. You both rolled in 18.
Yeah. Damn.
You know what I'm going to say? Sometimes I like to be a little
bit of a hot rod. You know what I mean, cowboy.
Yeah. Yeehaw.
Right. LA That's that's exactly what I
was going to say, yeah. That's right.
It's weird that you were the only one of these people here
who didn't speak. I didn't speak.
Yeah, but you're more of like an assistant type.
Well, I just felt like anything that I might say, mate, you
know, make things more difficult than they had to be.
This guy is. Such an asshole.
Wait, what do you mean more difficult?
Your friend's the kind of friends who tell you to shut up
when things get hot. Oh yeah, champ.
Shut the fuck up. Yeah, I know those kind of
people. They've usually got secrets.
What secrets are you lot on? Oh shit, man, I got a headache.
I can't remember shit. Alcohol does that.
You have too much of it. No, I know my 4th bachelor party
I lost the whole fucking week Mr. W Good thing too.
God, this guy. This is what's.
Our train landed getting in. I I told you we should have just
left him alone after he passed out.
We should have left him alone. But you told me we should have
checked on him, make sure that he was OK after he had his fall.
But no, he just wants to be a jerk.
All right, man. And you're just showing me why
it's not worth helping people out nowadays.
No, no, I mean you. You saved my ass.
I'm not a man who is not thankful for his charges.
Your real persuasion high enough that I think you've done me a
favor. So tell you what for save my
butt and making sure I don't get found on the floor of a train.
He gets up from. The hoverboard.
How about I give you a reward and you don't tell no one that
you found me passed out on a train That doesn't look good.
Net 54 finds out about that. Me and Petra Kim are going to
get into some trouble, and I can't hide that I work for
Petrocam because it's literally written on my fucking jacket.
So you already know that. So how much money do I have to
pay you motherfuckers to keep you quiet?
I'd say about 5. 5 bucks damn you are one cheap motherfucker.
But if that's what you want, any.
Hands jab a fiber. All right, I'm coming out on
top. Fiber for each of you.
Yeah. I'm running a little.
Bit more I don't know, I got my 5 bucks back that I gave to you,
but I got it back. So we're I'm back up even now.
That's great. I'm, I'm trying to distract him
from hearing what Jeb's saying by telling him, look, I, I'm,
I'm, I'm a little bit more than, than than five.
I mean, you know, I, to be honest, I'm a freelance
journalist myself and oh. This is pretty.
Well. I did not know that I was going
to get manhandled by a man with a fucking CRT for a face.
Fine, roll Persuasion. I'll see what I'll give you.
I mean, this would be a great start for the headlines coming
up this Sunday. I mean, just think of the scream
sheets coming out with there. Well, you rolled a 17, so I'll
tell you what. His 200 eddies.
Now how about you shut the fuck up?
I mean, hey, I could take that. I take recording.
Equipment on that that'll doodad face of yours.
You make sure you delete that shit, you hear me boy?
Well, I'll take offense that you would think that that would be
the case, but I will do it most people.
Record with their face. That is an assumption I have in
not city boy. Assumption I had in not city
man. I need you to.
Did you just call me boy? I no, I corrected it so it
didn't actually happen. You know what?
Here's your 200 back. This might make better for a
better. God damn it, motherfucker.
Look, if you don't take my money, I'm just going to start.
Maybe maybe a little bit more to cover the boy thing.
Here's. 250 and you shut the fuck up.
All right, good for me. Everyone else happy, you all
fucking done with my fucking debauchery and taking advantage
of it. God damn it Mr. Fucking Meeting,
my boss is going to have a fucking field day.
He says as the train arrives at the station.
Well, it was it was a good target.
Do we? Yeah, this is my stop, you
motherfucker staying on this fucking train.
What are we saying? I'm trying.
I'm just gonna keep continuing on, Sir.
I have no idea who you are and what happened tonight.
He says as he walks away from the train.
Now he's walked away from the train and you can choose to get
off at this station or move on to a different one.
What station are we at in relationship to no agency?
To get back to where you parked your car is around about a 20
minute ride. Or you could try and take like a
a taxi from this station. Oh, let's just keep riding.
Station I think, as the doors shut after he's left.
Well, I'm glad you didn't notice the box with the horror in it.
And you sail off into Night City, back to the station where
you arrived on the loop that is this train.
And you get into Vanna White and head back to the bar.
Hey, Vivi. Yes, Richard.
I feel like, you know, we're a good distance away now and such.
Maybe you should give a quick check on the inside there to
make sure that the heart's OK. That is a good idea.
I'm going to check on that heart.
All right, you check on the heart in the back of Vanna
White. You open the box and start to
examine it with your medical scanner.
Roll for it, Medical Tech 19. Scanning Scanning Scanning
prototype running at 60% efficiency.
Radiation shielding Intact object in low power mode.
Radiation shielding sufficient for larger power output.
An increase of 40% is possible. Medical professional required.
Oh, but it looks all intact and no.
Housing is sufficient to hold object indefinitely.
Shock absorbers detected. Extra radiation shield detected.
Box will keep objects. Safe and this thing is so cool.
It glows green. Wow, this is one of the coolest
devices I've ever seen. First of all.
Second of all, it's fine. No damage from the transport.
The only thing is it looks like it's performing at like a 60%
output right now, like they put it in some sort of like lower
power mode. So we don't want it, you know,
we don't want it. We don't want to run in a full
60%. We want it fully operational
before we do anything with this. So I might have to might have to
tinker with it for a bit to make sure it's all good.
It feels weird saying tinkering with the heart like it's a like
it's a device, you know, something like retro would
tinker with. You know I mean, I suppose all
of our hearts are mid of a device.
Yeah, I. Mean in a way, we're all just
machines just pumping our way through.
Some more than others. Yeah.
You know the cyber Ware. All of our hearts are fragile
and complicated, and only the right people can truly touch
them and make them beep. You say poetically as you.
Drive. Towards Night City rather
driving, check. It's very windy outside.
It's it's creepy. It's the wind is howling.
Jeb, as you drive through the howling wind of Night City drive
up to the elevator outside and rolling a 27.
No one even sees the the van descend into the bar.
The doors open and you return VV holding the box as you will step
into the bar. Oh.
You're. Back.
And in record time, too. It's barely past 1:00 AM.
Yeah, for once we didn't have to shoot a bunch of people.
I don't think I shot a single bullet out of my gun.
I did throw a grenade, actually. I threw, I threw one grenade and
then I shoved another one down the tube.
You did. That tube, of course, being the
the you. Forgot the the train ride there
when we did have the fight with the Maelstrom.
Oh, we did. We did shoot a bunch of people.
We did shoot and kill a bunch of people, yeah.
That's what this video's about then VV.
Oh, let me see. How did how did they paint the
picture? What kind of twist and angle did
the news put? Oh.
That's a nine. That's a nine and the only shots
they got were shots that make it look like you guys were the
victim. And there's a really close shot
of VD pulling the hand out of someone POV style and stitching.
You and. Then pack on you.
They covered it with jaunty music that matches the time, and
it's actually kind of amusing. And then it says.
Train Hero. Interesting, that's my new
title, Train Hero. Better if they came up with a
better name. I mean, it's cool.
Yeah, this isn't what I expected, but Vivi's.
Reputation goes up by 1. You know what?
I'll take it. What's the viral the viralness
of this video? It's not quite viral yet.
It's at the 50,000 likes views. All right.
All right, I'll share it. Somebody on the street you know
might might notice. Me, you know, it's enough.
It's enough that someone might notice you sometime.
But if it was picked up by net 54, it could get bigger.
But we'll see. We can always ask April OH to
run the story. Yeah, like we could force a
viral. That'd be fun.
I'll send them a message. And then they'll start to draft
a message to April. Ping looks at the box.
So. You got the heart then.
We did. Good.
Well, now all we need is the head and brain.
Yeah, it needs a little bit of work, but I can.
I'll take care of it. Right.
Well, we we can get to that either soon or when we put the
body together. Yeah, it's not, I guess.
Yeah, we don't need to do this urgently.
So. But it's good to know how much
is it running at 60%? Yeah, it's still.
If we can't get it working, it'll mean Domino's still pretty
strong. Yeah.
OK, so we've got better. I mean, of course we want it
better. We always want the good ending.
That's why they got all 12 vending machines last time.
OK, so you need, so you've got the you've got the heart, the
body, the arms, the legs, because that came with the body
frame. And then we need the the the
skull and brain and the skin. And then I think there's
something else, but Domino's looking into that.
But I have found where the brain is.
Now, is the heart of the brain more important?
Philosophically, of course. Well, we need both.
I mean, the heart makes funk really is the most important
organ in your body. However, the brain is what makes
the heartbeat. Exactly.
And if Domino was plugged into the mains, they wouldn't need a
heart, so there's that. But if but Domino already kind
of, I mean, he kind of already got a brain, right?
Like he he. Yeah, but.
He's to sit somewhere, Jeb. Well.
Where is it sitting now? In 12 vending machines.
Right. So his brain right now is big.
So we need a, we need a, we need a brain that can hold an
incredibly complex and dense engram.
Yeah, like something the size of a chip.
Right. Well, no, let's be real.
Something the signs of a brain. It only makes sense.
And there's only one person who's been working on that kind
of tech. Don't say it.
Danny Dark side. Oh oh.
Danny Dark side. It's a cool name, I'll admit
I've never heard of him. He's very safety conscious and
rumour has it that he's got this amazing brain shaped storage
device that he has a prototype of.
So it looks like we're going to be stealing yet another
prototype, which is exciting. Well, I say we it's more you
lot, isn't it? Could you do you mind if you
give us a? Little bit, yeah.
Do you take a nap? Sure.
This is just. Just so you know, I've got the
information. Oh, good.
Because I thought you were saying you should probably go
get that now. And I I don't know.
That party, he's going to be doing an event in a few days.
I'm finding out some more information so I'll have
something for you in a in a few hours.
Oh, another heist. 2 heists in a row.
This ain't going to be the same if it's Danny Dark Side.
Well, you do have a few. Days before we have an opening
to get that, so you could do something else in the interim if
you wanted to. Like a nap.
Oh, and I got a message from Tuna, he says.
You owe him a bunch of money. Oh, that's too bad.
I am. I'm walking away from.
That Oh, it's for Jeb. OK, Jeb, I got a a message from
Tuna. He says you owe him 2000 eddies.
Shit. Oh, and Jeb, why do I have a
calendar invite for like, checking your butt?
Oh yeah, if you could. There's a calendar invite to
look at Jeb's fun, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Why did you say you should say in the in the notes it should
say non sexual, I assume so I'm your doctor and you know, it's
not uncommon. Yes, they.
Already saw my. Oncology is not my specialty,
but what happened? Well, I got a laser in my butt
here. Just take a look real quick.
Real quick. If you, if you don't mind.
I'm just wondering, you know, because it real, it hurts real
bad to sit down. That's right.
If you didn't, if you didn't notice, I didn't.
Take a seat. During the entire train ride.
Jeff drops Trout in the bar. This is second time we've.
His nose. His underwear so that it looks
like a thong and shows off his left.
Cheek right there. Is there anything, anybody at
the bar? No latency right now, like it's
1:00 in the morning. It's just came.
Like cleaning glasses. A lot.
Happened to you tonight, didn't it VV?
I've seen, I've seen a lot. Van Del looks over at Jeb's
butt. Oh, the laser made AJ.
That's cute. Oh, did it?
Yeah, Yeah. Oh shit, Jeb got Brandon.
I'm just wondering, you know, is he is he cauterized or, you
know, you're going to have to amputate?
Jeb, you need to stop being this cheeky.
Next time on no latency. Good morning everyone, Awake and
bake, that's what they say. Oh, weed shot.
Yeah, great. We seem a little down in the
dumps this morning. Oh.
Oh, God. Oh, OK, so it's one of them.
So. So we do a job for you and then
you kind of wipe the slate clean.
Who are we doing a job for? Tuna.
Oh, right, no. Don't remind me.
Why is it always we whenever you're behind the wheel?
A fire in a trash can. Don't hit anybody, Jeff.
It's. Pretty normal for the combat
zone. Oh, OK.
How are you going to check the garage or?
Yeah, we got the, we got their vehicle working in top perfect
order. Right now, why would you do
that? Being nice, I.
Wonder what they're doing in there.
Oh, Gee. All right, so don't step on the
owl. Here, let's let's let's do the
transfer. You got your stuff ready for
transfer. Oh, James, you can keep going.
Holy shit. Make a choice, see how much you
care about your buddy. Should we do something?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, buddies. I did not say you could leave
off of that. Oh, that's big.
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