Last time on no latency side quest.
If I was that proud of being fast, I'd be a very lonely man.
Damn. Bendel's going to kick the gun
out of that guy's hand. You were innocent ladies at the
night market. I'm also not that innocent.
You weren't asked to me. This short guy has a knack for
disarm. I really wasn't though.
OK, little lady, I can take it. I'm sorry.
Had their arm pulled off. No, don't wipe it off.
That's metal. Does it look cool?
They are very sanitary individual I.
Would like access to that footage from when the guy
exploded. I've never seen anything like
this before. Phoebe's friend.
Anybody heard of Neon Freeze? Phoebe, Yes.
Are you now going to make us work out why this man exploded?
Yes. OK,
OK, I'll do it, but on one condition.
I know I'm standing up for myself.
Are you proud of me? Cool.
You left as that happened. Thank you.
If you do it, if we help you, then you've got to install my
new feet. Yeah, of course, Vendel.
That was easy. Yes, I'm baby.
Wasn't going to install your feet for you I'm.
Just I'm practicing for when I have to do like tune.
Stuff. OK.
You're doing amazing. Though I will say installing
cyberwear is one of my least favorite things to do because
like. Why?
But then we can hang out with Sawtooth.
I I do love hanging out with Sawtooth so yes I will.
I will help. Yay, I'm going to get new feet,
but after we finish this adventure I guess.
Yes. I get a boon for once.
OK, we need to figure this out. OK, this neon this neon freeze
place and and VV like gets into like this like serious mode and
looks at the four of you neon freeze.
All right, the guy comes and takes a drink.
This this look, I don't really trust this neon freeze place.
They seem to not really run well with Bubble Cafe, so that's
pretty suspect in my book. This guy just takes a drink, his
iron starts dissipating from his body, and he explodes.
We need to figure it out. Is that what happened?
His iron dissipated from his body and he exploded.
Don't breathe too heavily. Yes, Oh my.
Well, that's all right. I'm already wearing a
handkerchief thanks to our friend here.
Yes, I did get your name right. I yeah, I guess we didn't
properly introduce ourselves to license plate.
Guy. Yes, hi, my name is Vivi.
It is nice to meet you, Vivi. Iona.
My name is Scabbard. Oh, scabbard.
Wonderful scabbard. I'm Vendel.
Hi, my leg glows any colour I want, isn't that?
Cool. Hi Vendel, I'm saw.
Hi saw how's it going? High 5.
High five smack. Hell yeah, Smack.
You experienced one of the greatest high fives you've ever
had in your entire existence. And then give me a set.
Auto crit on high fives for the record.
It is a pleasure to meet all of you.
It is a very hard high five that Saw gives Venda so hard that he
crited against his hand. Well, you both crit.
Oh, that, that is. A also crit on high five.
It is the most amazing high five you've ever had.
And and so same and it that high 5.
Risk. Echo in the night market.
What if? You turn to Vendel as they're
making a hero pose like they're about to meld in Dragon Ball Z.
Holy shit that was cool. That was really cool.
That was real crisp. It was very crisp.
Oh, spicy. All right.
Should we head to the neon freeze place then?
Yes. Or did you want to like prep the
team Phoebe? We are team now too.
Yes, look, I know this is well you don't seem like scabbard.
If you'd be willing to help, I'm sure like if you ever need any
medical assistance, you can give me a call and I will free of
charge. No trauma team insurance needed.
I will help you out if you help us.
It's a good deal. I appreciate this deal, very
good. Deal.
But I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I got excited with Vento, aptly
named. Yeah, no, it was a really good
high 5. You have cat, right?
I I I have a cat. Yeah.
So you, you're learning. You're learning.
Yeah. I have a gun with cat ears
because it makes the shoot better that is in.
That's genius. Yeah, yeah, all the all the cat
ears, like the the sight of the gun.
Yes. Perfect Scabbard just checks
checks his gun, just points his. Gun I like to think that like
they're one slightly for the other, so it actually does make
the little V. Yes it does.
Yeah. Oh, excellent.
Miss Miss VV. Yes.
I asked for a favor right now. Yes.
OK. And he pulls out his bag of
kibble. Can you tell me what kind this
is? Of course I it's on the bag.
Vivi just read it for him. This is cotton candy flavored.
Oh, Mr. Malphistophiles hates cotton candy.
You know, if you like cotton candy, you could eat this.
I I like cotton candy. It's not.
Surprisingly edible, it's not bad.
OK I tell you what. But now I gotta I gotta find
more cat food now. Though if you work, if you work,
if you do what Phoebe asks, I'll buy you cat food.
I know a guy. Do you promise you're not going
to fleece me? I don't, I only lie when Iona
tells me to. I've no is not lying.
Miss Iona, is he going to lie to me?
They thank you I'm. Sorry, sorry Vendel.
They. That's OK, you didn't know.
We've only just met. Vendel's not lying to you.
OK, that, that's a deal. Fine.
Yeah. Oh.
Great, but shake hands now high 5 fucking rocks.
My hand's still kind of stingy. That's.
It feels good, doesn't? It.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's really fun.
Cool. I don't think it's much further
now. Oh, here it is.
Neon freeze, huh? It's getting pretty dark, isn't
it? Roll perception.
Just me or anyone in the bar? Anybody who wants anybody who
wants to look around. Anybody who wants to oof.
I don't see shit. Scabbard steps in dog shit.
Oh no. I'm going to give you your
handkerchief back. As you pull the handkerchief off
your face, Iona, you take a deep breath and you smell two things.
No one. No, I don't want to.
You smell the alcohol that's still slightly on your body.
There's not a lot left, it's mostly evaporated.
Oh, OK, that's fine. The other thing you smell is a
lot of iron. Oh, do you?
I wish Jeb was here. Do you smell that?
Do I? Smell that?
You rolled A20? Yes, you do.
I do more iron. What is what are they putting in
these drinks? I don't know, it smells like
blood. Scabbard's gonna just rub his
foot on the ground, just try and clear it.
Well, have you considered perhaps they're using cheap
cans? Could be that could have some
effect to whatever this drink is.
So wait, saw you've said that you've had neon freeze before.
I've been here a couple of times, yeah.
And you're still alive. I think so.
Well, I guess I, I don't know what I don't, I don't know what
to expect if we walk in here, everybody.
I don't have a plan. So.
I mean, how about I just go in first and then if it gets wild,
you're going to run away and I'll run away.
Sure, that's good enough of a plan for me, unless anybody has
any better ideas. No, no, no.
I prefer not to be in danger. Go for it.
I mean, I call us if you need help, yeah.
OK, just front door and any any objections to the front door?
No, I think the front door is probably the best way to get in.
OK, I'm saws walking towards the front door.
Right. You walk towards the front door.
It is locked. It's locked Miss VV.
I could break it open. Yeah, you know what?
Somebody died. We're breaking it open.
Somebody died inside. No, no, no.
Somebody, somebody died. Somebody ever died as a result
of this drink. So we demand answers.
So break open the door. OK, hope it's not bombed.
Why would it be bombed? Is that what we're doing?
There was an explosion. That would be quite the mess.
See. Brawling, could use some alloy
weapon, whatever you want. Chain saw the door open.
Yeah. Too loud, at least I know that.
Just do. Like.
Regular saw the door open, just going to give it all kick.
Breaching clear. 13 You kick the door open and then as you kick
it open a a dead guy is pushed forward and he falls to the
ground in front of the neon freeze logo on the ground and
you hear someone moaning in pain.
Hello. Is anyone alive, Earl?
Oh, there's dead people inside this Navy and someone's
someone's wailing. Oh gosh, I'm coming.
I'll help. Don't help the way she's good
with the needle help. Please don't rob me.
Vivi runs runs in toward the wailing person.
And. This guy is looking at you and
he's he's coughing and he grabs a drink from the counter and
pulls the wrapper off the straw and just goes to take a sip.
Well, wait, this person is going to take a drink, a sip from this
drink? Yeah, but he was also asking for
help. Yeah, but he's.
He's just OK. I just I don't know if this is
an explosive drink cause the other person explodes.
What are you gonna? Yeah.
What? Are you gonna do Vivi's like,
no, don't drink that. She just yells and goes to grab
the drink. Roll for it.
Hmm, something reflex related? Let's see, let's see.
I don't know where to roll. I will say you had to walk quite
far into this room, so you have to roll very high to stop him
from drinking this beverage. It's not very high.
It's not very high, F 13 is definitely not enough, and he
manages to take a good few gulps before you knock it out of his
hand. I'm.
Dying. I got to have a lost drink.
You. Oh, oh, that's not sitting well.
And as you look at this guy, he's missing both of his legs.
He has leftover Cybertek leg implant mounting points that
have been blown open. There's a lot of Cybertek on the
ground and it looks like his legs fired forward and killed 2
customers because bits of his leg are impaled in these two
other just people on the other side of the room, and one of
them is impaled on the bench. It would take a lot of work to
literally remove them from it. It's horrible in here and it
stinks of iron. The thing is though, this guy's
now drunk. The beverage.
Oh. My stomach.
And his eyes start to glow. So we need to get back.
What's happening to me? Please help me.
He's going to explode. Please examine me.
I feel like I've only got like 5 minutes.
To live 0. God do you might want to get
behind me. He's points to Vendel and Ayona.
Well, come on Miss Vivi, let's get out of here then.
Yeah, I think I'm going to just leave this guy to blow.
Up. Spot actually what happened to
you? I don't know.
My legs just explode. Do you work for Neon Freeze?
What if you like, stabbed him in the stomach and like released
the gas? That might that might work.
You know, whenever I have a bad ball of ramen and I get, you
know, the bubblies and the gut, yeah, sometimes I just want to
like, stab myself to release it. But actually, no, I that's that.
I don't think that's going to work.
That might. Just.
OK. Well, he's going to pop.
He's going to pop. We got to get out of here.
He is, are you? Going to run or are you going to
try and save this guy? I'm going to run.
I don't, yeah. I don't think I can help him.
That's fine. Then run.
Roll for it if you're running out of the building.
If you trip up, it's bad. I trip, you trip without me.
You trip up, glide in some of the blood on the ground.
I'm. Dead.
And you, you, you, you're not dead, but you, you do rip a
piece of your armor and it falls to the ground as you scamper out
of the room. So you get -1 to your body
armor, no? And because it's an LA attack.
Oh shit -3 health bad. Are you OK?
VV That fall was really embarrassing.
Everybody saw Oh. I was hoping you all wouldn't
see it. Get it, Everybody saw.
Get it. Get it?
That's my name. That's my name.
So close the door. That guy's about to explode.
I'm really sorry we decided that you don't live.
What, so you'll be lost out? Do you close the door?
If Vendel tells me, then yes. Cool.
You close the door. Oh.
Pull the blind as well. You hear him scream and and beg
for mercy for the next 30 seconds.
You can either wait it out or. This is a little.
Saw has his ear pressed up against the door.
Should should we? Well, you should have shot him
or something. Or are we waiting to see the
effects? I would like to see if the same
thing happens, yes. That seems a little it's.
Pretty fucking hardcore. Oathbreaker ring.
Oh oh, and Vendel grabs the camera and starts filming it
through the glass window in the door.
What else did we really think was going to happen to this guy?
You're right. I'm just doing it for medical
research. Watch.
This is good for evidence because, again, we don't know
what's going on. This guy looks at you through
the window in the door was originally covered with a pull
down a shutter, yes, which saw open so you could watch this
happen through the door. And he glows brighter, the
leftover Cybertek attached to his neck, their little cyber
implant above his eye. Both of them glow to a very,
very high extreme. And he explodes.
Wow. And the smell of iron is even
more. Well, that goes our lead.
As you're watching this, a small black key flies from the body
and bunks against the door and then lands right at the foot of
the door on the other side. What was that a key?
Yeah. OK, I think we can go in now.
Just be warned that the iron content in the air is going to
be very high. Again, probably won't have
signal on your phones and things.
But I don't have a phone. I think I'll be fine.
Or your agent, I should say. Do you want me to go first
again? Yes.
Oh, OK, just just you just got to say it.
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Maggie RPG. What is that on the ground?
That key? Can you grab that saw?
Yeah, it's a, it's a little black key it.
Says manages key on it. It says something on it.
Let me take a look. OK, this is a manager's key.
So OK, this person obviously ran the shop.
Look, I feel bad that I let him explode, but we didn't have much
time to save him and. And it's not like you've
levelled up in Medics a lot. It's fine.
I feel like the GI, like everybody wanted me to save
this. Guy and I didn't.
I feel better. OK, let's, if everybody wouldn't
mind just taking some time to look around this place and see
if we can find any, anything out of the ordinary perhaps besides,
you know, the impaled people with the the legs impaled and
into the wall, just everybody just take a quick look around
this place and see if you find anything.
Sure. OK.
Look, I know I'm they're dead, right?
So like can we like take take the E BS out of the cash
register? I mean they're.
Going to go to waste, right? This place, this company, Neon
Freeze clearly is pretty corrupt, whatever they're doing.
And he, he said he was the owner.
So like, he's obviously not going to use it.
It's like, it's like a harmless, victimless crime, right?
Yes. Yeah, we steal money all the
time. Go for it.
OK, maybe. Maybe there's something in the
register that I'll find. Maybe.
All right, I'm I'm. Taking a look around for Phoebe
too. SAW is going to go to the
register and try to open it. Iona, what you notice as you
look around is that this place has security cameras, one on the
outside that faces the street where the delivery guy would
have gone, the inside of this room, the backroom, and a direct
shot of the machine behind the desk which makes the neon
freezes. Would that interest you Vivi?
The security footage of the neon freeze being made.
Yes, my, let's, let's take a look because clearly they're
putting something in it that's making the iron all out of
whack. So yes, I think it's worth
taking a look. So the managers key, there's a
slot in the door that you're facing.
Yes, I would like to take a look.
And so you put the key in the door, and the door opens.
You walk into the backroom and the backroom is very bare bones.
They spent most of their money on green neon benches.
You're in the backroom of this place and there's a bunch of
cabinets in here, and at the very, very back is the manager's
computer and a sofa presumably is what this place counts as a
brake space. I'll take a look at the
computer. Sure.
I'm I'm no, no tech here, but let's I'm no retro, but I'll try
to take a look. Do do do do do do do do.
Electronic Security Tech 17 Yes, very good.
You look around at the desk trying to find one.
The mouse, for some reason it's in a drawer and you pull it out.
As you reach into the drawer, you feel a a post it rub against
the back of your hand and you pull it from underneath of the
drawer and it's got the password to the computer on it, which is
neon freeze 01. Terrible password, but it was
terrible password and you're able to access the computer.
Now you've gained two things with access to the computer.
One, you have access to some of their financial records.
They've been doing all right. Their location has been doing
really well for them. It's three things.
I'm an idiot. You gain access to the footage
for all of the security in here and unlike your agent because
this is hard lined, you can now search the garden for
information on this computer, which you could not do with a
wireless device currently because of the ion in the air.
I suppose I will just take some time to look up Neon Freeze and
see if there's any any interesting things I find about
them other than they're just like, how new are they?
Like what They're Yeah. So you, you do a little bit of a
search on it. They've been around for yes, 20
is good enough. You they've been around for a
little bit. They opened up after the Bubble
Cafe, but they have a much better location.
Their product is not as highly rated, but it is it's, it's
about a, a 3.9 in general out of five in most consumer reviews.
It's very mid, but it's super convenient and you get served
ridiculously fast. On a busy day.
People are lining up to come in and out.
But that line moves like a conveyor belt because the
machine that makes these freezes, it's really fast.
It uses Nitro like cold brew process to inject the flavour
and create ice crystals at the same time.
And you can get any flavour you like and if you pay extra you
can bring a flavour with you. So that's their way around
adding drugs to the drink, but they've never had any reports of
people exploding. There's no, there's no
information about it on the garden.
If this has started happening in Night City, it started tonight.
Hmm. I head back to the crew.
Do you look at the footage? Yeah, you know what?
I'll take a look at the footage as well.
Cool, roll for it. Oh yes, Perception crit 23.
Very, very nice in the footage, there's not a lot.
You watch the manager's legs explode and kill these three
people instantly in the front room.
They look like they were going to be the last customers of the
night. You Fast forward back in time to
the delivery guy leaving and you pass back behind that.
And then you notice at one point as you're zooming through,
notice a van parks outside of the neon freeze in the no
parking area on the street. And a guy gets out and no one
notices, but he walks into the neon freeze while this manager's
busy with his customers, and he puts something in the machine,
smiles at these people, and then walks back out and gets in the
van. And what you notice about the
van are three things. One, that the logo has been
haphazardly painted over. Two, that it has orange hubcaps.
And three, that the license plate reads 0467 Upas.
OK, with that information I head back out to the crew.
Hey everyone, I think I got some good information from the some
of the cameras. This is not a neon freeze thing.
Somebody was intentionally botching one of their.
Trying to fuck their shit up, Phoebe.
Somebody was trying to botch their drinks.
They there was a van that pulled up and put something in some of
these drinks and. What was the van like?
What was it? The orange rims.
Orange hubcaps Orange. Hubcaps license plate.
I got the license plate on it. You got a license plate?
Oh, you rolled a really high DV? That's really good.
Yes. So we can probably look that up,
yeah. You could.
Oh I can't get it. If only we had a hard line, we
could plug your agent into it and you could search the NCPD
database. The PC in the back has a hard
line. Oh shit, that's cool.
That's lucky. Maybe if we find the truck
scabbard, you can put that license plate on your arm.
I could use a new shoulder pauldron.
I think they'll look cool. Yeah.
I like to take stuff from every like adventure we go on to.
Are you a little collector? I'm a bit of a klepto if I'm
completely honest. As they search one of the
bodies. It's just souvenirs at this
point. If you're a little klepto, can
you help me get this cash register open?
Oh, sick I. Found 90 eddies on these guys.
You know what do you guys want it 90 eddies?
I'm I'll take it this little bit.
You want to split it. Easily.
For biotechnic or I'm actually pretty flush.
Well, what'd you what'd you say? I said if you can have the 35
eddies each, I'm I'm pretty flush so.
No, the word you used. What?
What word? You said something is pretty
flush. I'm pretty flush.
No, you, you, you used a specific word, Biotechnica did
you say? No, Yeah, yeah, I work for
Biotechnica. Oh.
Because I'm wearing yellow and there's the big biotechnical
logo on my side. My boss works for Biotechnica
with COPO finger guns. Well, sort of.
I mean is more of an on call executive.
So a lot of my work is like this.
OK, I've I've I was told I got my cat from you.
Did you give me the cat Vendel I from?
No, I've never given anyone a. I've saved a cat once.
OK, well, I, I, I look, I that was, I was told they said this
is a gift from Biotechnica. Biotechnica.
Biotechnica, OK there. You go there, you said it,
right? That's really well done.
Who, who? Who gave you a gift from
Biotechnica? I don't remember his name.
He was like hidden and like secretive.
And he just gave you a cat. No, we did.
A job. Oh, a real Why is it so hard to
understand that I have a real cat?
I I'm starting to believe you. I mean again my friend I.
Believe you was just looking. There's only so many real cats
and rats tattoos. Of Mr. Mealphistophiles.
OK dude, I would just get this on my body.
Without you know, I believe you. I believe you.
I appreciate you are. Valid, and I believe you you're.
You're you're nice. I, I I like you guys.
Do you try and break into the tilt?
Yes. Cool, roll for it.
What are you going to? Roll.
It's brawling. Just 15. 15 is definitely enough
and you find 94 eddies. A lot of the transactions here
are tap to pay, so there's no lot.
Of cash, OK. Yeah, I got 90. 4 eddies.
Well, we need to figure out. I'm going to go see if I can
figure out who this van is, and then we need to figure out who's
doing this and who's trying to sabotage Neon Freeze.
And Night City, they fucked up the glass market.
We could have bought more stuff. Yeah, they, I don't know how
many other people bought Neon Freeze today because this
happened recently, but anybody who has bought Neon Freeze today
is in danger. Right.
Is that anyone or it is do you have to like?
I think it might be one specific it it was it like one specific
like VAT that they like? Yes, anybody who has cyberwear
and is drinking from it might be this neon freeze specifically,
although they could be targeting multiple neon freezes.
Who could? Whomever this person in the van
was, we're going to find out we're.
Going to find out. We are going to find out.
Guys say the thing as well because that's what we do.
We're going to find out. We're going to.
Find out. Yeah.
Teamwork jump freeze. All right.
All right, let me run the number, run the numbers for a
license plate. I guess that's what you do.
I don't that's. Exactly what you do with a
license. I don't know.
I'm not AI don't do this. So I'm going to just do it for
the first time. I'm going to run the numbers.
Way to go VV. You, you Retro, would be proud.
Yes he would be OK. I'm going to go back to the
computer and look the look up this license plates if I can get
any info. Now, unlike the rest of the
crew, Vivi has a nice agent. It's it's pretty good.
The crew give them shit because the bubbles are a different
color, but their phone is better because they have access to all
of the apps and stuff. One of them is just checking the
NCPD database. There isn't signal here, but
your agent does have a retractable connection cable and
you plug it into the PC and get a connection.
All right, let's take a look 0467 Upas and let's do I guess a
library search. I might put some luck into this.
I'm going to put two luck points.
Cool 151617 yes that is very high.
Accessing NCPD database searching for vehicle 0467 upas
vehicle registered to small business in night city ultimate.
Packing and shipping UP and S vehicle reported stolen vehicle
tracking pending follow following UP and S executive
approval. Checking surveillance systems
Searching Searching no surveillance found.
Searching eyewitness database. Searching officer eyewitness
report found last known observed location.
Is a sewer. Entrance Sewer entrance unknown.
Delivery vehicle status confirmed The hubcaps are
orange. Delivery truck exempt from some
parking citations. OK.
OK everybody, insight and investigation is not my strong
point, but I got some info so maybe one of you might be able
to pick up something that I'm not picking up.
But this apparently was a stolen UP and S truck delivery truck,
which by the way, fun night City fact, every delivery truck and
night city has orange hubcaps. And so somebody must have stolen
this delivery truck and they're not able to get any tracking on
this, the NCPD, because they have to get the approval of some
exec. Oh, weird.
It sounds like some bureaucracy runaround.
Yes, you might be good at that. Maybe let's let's see if there's
any other deducing we can get done first.
Yeah. And other than that, it was
found at a sewer. Last found at a sewer somewhere.
A sewer? Yes, and singular sewer.
Iona, do you do you work for UPNS?
No, I, I, I'm in. I'm a corpo.
I'm a godless corpo. I can do anything, especially
get people to tell me things. They work for that.
Like the net runner guy? No.
No, OK, no. My superpower is being bossy.
Literally, they're my boss. OK, must must be nice to be
employed. Oh, it is.
It's great. I I don't know any other kind of
life. I I was raised by Biotechnica.
That's terrifying. Literally, yeah.
Did you grow him in a lab for this?
Them, but thank you. Oh, sorry, sorry.
That's all right. We've only just met.
You didn't know. Fair.
Did you grow them in a lab for this?
I didn't personally grow anyone in a lab, and if we did that
would be beyond your security clearance, so I'd have no way of
knowing or telling. They seem a bit too above board
for a lab. I, no, I, I was, I, I had
parents, but they, they, you know, sold me to a corporation.
I'm giving money. I forgave them.
It's fine. It turned out OK.
I gave my. I gave a clap on the back.
Oh. Yeah.
All right, Iona you do the maybe give up, give upnsa call, see if
you can get to, you know, maybe their CEO or something and.
Yeah. Do you want me to pretend to be
the police? That might be fun.
Yeah. You mean?
Yeah, whatever you think will work to get that NCPD approval
so we can get the tracker on this vehicle.
So if you want to be NCPD or if you want to be yourself, maybe
exec to exec might work, I don't know.
I think exec to exec, I've got it.
I'm ready through this running of the plate and the
collaboration slash connection with the exec trying to get the
approval. Is there a record of a Direct
Line to an exec or do I need to just call you upns?
I think you need to call Upns all.
Right, Vendel, could you, could you give me the number for Upns
corporate? Sure, I'll just look it up on my
oh, I don't have signal. Oh, there's a there's.
AVV hardline can we use your agent tiles don't have a
hardline? Oh yes.
Thank you. Feel free.
So you take Vivi's agent and you head over to the computer.
You plug it in and now you can make a call to Upns.
All right, it's ringing. Hello, you PNA.
Hi I'm trying to reach the exec who is assigned to the vehicle
0467 UPAS 04671 second hold on one second all right.
OK, that was assigned to one second.
Nope, one more. Sorry.
OK, that was assigned to a station in Night City, which is.
OK, it's in. Let's have a look.
It's in zone. Where is their office now?
In zone D at the cost of the corpo district on 14th and
Diamond if you want. What do?
What do you want with the vehicle?
It's stolen. We don't have it.
No, I I just need the tracking so that we can figure out where
it's been. It's it is.
I want a. Tracking request.
It is allegedly reported to be part of a crime.
Oh, part of a crime. OK, part of a crime is that
paperwork has to be done in person, but you don't have to
come to the office, you can just go to the substation.
Great. Where's your substation?
It's on diamond. 14th and Diamond.
Yeah, where the car is, where the van is, the.
The We don't we don't have centralized trackers.
Each station tracks their own vehicles.
Wonderful. So if you go down there now you
are through to corporate. So if you want to get any bonus
from this conversation other than this information, you're
going to have to roll for. Bureaucracy.
Oh yes, any other just fleeting information this assistant can
give me? Bureaucracy 21.
All right, so yes, tell you what, if you head to the
station, I'll send them an e-mail to say that you're
coming. What part of UPNF management are
you part of? Oh, I'm sorry.
I. Didn't get that.
Yes, I'm part of a liability insurance.
Oh, that makes sense. Because of the stolen vehicle
thing. Yeah.
OK. Yeah, I believe that with that
21. That's fine.
OK. I sent a message through.
What was your name? Jennifer Moscow.
Like the country that used to
exist. Yes.
Country, city is what I. Mean I understood what you
meant. OK, that's fine.
Fine. Good.
And OK, I'm going to be tapping and doing this paperwork for a
minute, so if you need anything else, don't call back because
I'm really busy. Thank you.
Do I have a a connection there? Is there someone that you can
direct me to or am I just going in wildly?
The deaf person's got the information, so if you just go
to them, her name's Jenny as well.
That's funny. You can bond on that.
That's so funny. Yeah.
All right. Thank you so much.
What was your name? Oh, perfect.
Oh, I will make sure that I look out for you on our Our Little
Yammer social page. Oh Oh my rewards ID is 43.
Perfect. I'll keep a look out for it.
Oh. I love points.
All right. Thank you, love.
Have a good time. Don't forget we got the mixer on
on Wednesday this week because, you know, Jim's got that thing.
He's got to get caught. Thank you.
Oh, I I look forward to seeing you there.
Bye Bye. Bye.
So we have another destination
is close. Yeah, what?
So deep 14th and Diamond is that close?
Yes. Oh, it's just a hop, skip and a
jump over here, Yeah. It's about a 5 minute walk.
Oh good. All right, I.
Didn't want to have to get a cab.
I'm I'm. I'm parched though.
Do you do you think this stuff is safe to drink?
No. Saw I would not recommend it.
No, I I have synthetic water in in my bag.
Do you want something? What is it different than than
like tap water? Well tap water has got like
contaminants in it. This is clean.
It's sterilized. I'll try, I'll try it.
Yeah, I'll try. It all right, I'll hand it off
to you so. You got a thing with
cleanliness, don't you? A little bit, yes.
I work. I work in.
Water I've ever had. It's really good water actually.
Scabbard. Would you like some too?
You can just pour it in here and he off he like opens a flask
that you can pour it in to minimize contact.
OK, I open a sterilized bottle of water like pour it like
waterfall it into your flask. Both of those bottles of water
cost you the value of 15 eddies each.
Jeez. That's I just want to have to
charge. It or something?
That, that is, that tastes like, that's the most water I've ever
had, right? That's, that's water.
That is water. These poor souls.
I'm homeless. Can we adopt them, Iona?
I would love to have a job, you know, you know, honestly, you
know how much I love adopting well, NPC at this point.
But but but these player characters seem pretty nice.
Yes. The best part is that I can just
work in your lobby and so you need a guest again.
Our lobby is actually a crystal shop.
Oh, I can work with security then.
Yeah, but also our crystal shop sells really cool weapons.
I will work in this crystal shop.
I thought so. Joy's great.
You'll like her. Yani crystal cats.
Oh yeah, definitely. We have all sorts of all sorts
of those little sigils and yeah, yeah.
Oh, beautiful. Joy joy's into, you know, the
the crystal magic thing, but also makes grenades that flash
and into glass, Yeah. Glass grenades.
Glass grenades are fucking cool. I like glass grenades.
Do you guys is your headquarters at the Glass market?
No comment. No, sorry, I answered that
question, but no it's not. There's a lot of glass.
It's OK. It's.
OK, I'm I'm getting the idea that we will tell these people,
but let's see what happens next. Yes, let's.
Let's take a walk. Let's take a walk.
Just to say, Phoebe, see, I'm just going to pull you aside for
a second, Phoebe. Yes.
Is Vendel? Is Vendel right?
Should we not be trusting these people?
I look between the two of them, I don't really they.
They seem with them, sort of harmless.
Yes, I think they just. Need friends?
Yes. Which I'm totally OK with.
Yes, I'm fine with that too. Personally, I like making
friends. Especially when they're good in
a fight. That was pretty cool.
That's true. They're very handy.
Give them a call. They seem ready to, you know,
run in in front of us if we need to.
Not saying, I'm not saying we should ever suggest that, you
know, I mean, they just, they just hook a bullet for you, all
that stuff. That's true.
Kind of a walking brick wall. Yeah, yeah, you know the other
one has a freaking Cortana that can just that they handmade.
So I mean the. Kindle's a little bit like
change. I think that's cool.
Well, it it is change, isn't it? It was quarters.
Get hit with it. Oh, oh, can everyone all of the
sudden hear this conversation? You like your sword?
Your sword is very cool, thank. You it makes the cash register
noise when I kill somebody. Yes it does.
You sheath, you sheath it and fucking Pink Floyd starts
playing there's. Officially a tiny speaker on
your sword that can make a catching noise and you watch
Iona light up as you as you demonstrate this.
Bitching. Totally bitching.
I I have a gun that does that too.
I put away my, my super Chrome and I pull out my R.E.M.
Ware IP edition handgun and I, I'm going to, I'm going to make
sure there's it's no rounds in the chamber.
And then I'm going to listen to this and I pull the trigger and
it, it does. Hello, Corporal Saul, I'm going
to. Be completely blunt about this.
This little envy and their entourage have made my day.
Vandel, Vandel, Vandel gets coy. These are the richest
motherfuckers I've ever seen. I do have a lot of money.
Saul, I'll be completely blunt. If I had met only you today, you
would still be the richest man I'd ever met.
And you cross the street towards this UPNS substation and it's,
it's just the corner of this street.
There's a tiny little office and behind it you can see this big
long wall. You just about see over it and
into a parking lot in the back. There is a little indent in the
sidewalk where you can see a UPNS employee sitting at a desk
looking through a window and they're talking to what looks
like a pretty pissed off maelstrom.
Do we recognize? The package.
I waited all day. I stood by the door.
You left a note on the door that said no delivery made.
And I I you're telling me now you can't find it?
Well, what we're working on right now, if you just, if we
could just have some patience. I'm not patient.
Do I look patient to you? This sounds.
Heated. It is.
It is a little heated. Do we recognize this maelstrom
at all? Nope.
Do I recognize this maelstrom at all?
We're all for it. Yes.
You are you do frequent a lot of maelstrom society, is that true?
Yeah, it's true. I know a lot of them.
Are you Maelstrom? Next time I know latency side
quest. That's amazing.
He's got a thing for like plushies.
That says something. Gabbert will spend the time to
remove the license plate. Plushies.
You say jump, I say how high. That's how this works.
I got to. I got to do it.
What are we getting out of this deal?
People are exploding. Miss Vivi's been nice enough to
give you hers. I bet you it's a magnet bomb.
Now. What do you say to Miss Vivi?
What are we? What are we learning?
If you think we can use the vents.
Did you see what I saw, Vivi? Like tight spaces.
I mean, we can take a quick look around here and see if there's
any. Split up and these doors.
I'll go South, I'll go north. We go again.
She's really Nimba with those fingers.
Yes, I thought I saw a vent in there.
Oops, sorry. Do we just back it in here?
Interesting it. Happens sometimes What?
Should we wait for Scabbard and Vivi?
That's a big door. That's a really big door.
Yeah, I was going to say, are we structurally OK blowing shit up
in here? It's.
A couple 100 tons of concrete there we should be fine.
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