This time, on no latency side, Quest Retro and VV attempt to
have a nice night. Oh, this place.
Think one of my gal pals is gonna be here.
Hello. Returning once again is Coyote,
played by Anayas Morgan. That's my best friend.
Coyote. But Night City always has other
plans. Let me answer.
Let. Me answer, I've gotta help.
Glad, Vivi, you finally admitted this is all for love.
There's blood in the bathtub and Vivi doesn't have a lot of time.
Hey, we're here. They're gonna have to be quick
on the wheel. Hey, now.
It's a nice van. And even quicker on the trigger.
Alright, I guess I'll just have to hand crank it.
It was just gonna be a little outing.
Don't press that button. That looks sick as hell, but now
it's something much, much bigger.
Come out to the bubble tea, we'll get together, have a few
laughs. Phoebe, stop it.
Just let him die. We better get out of here.
Oh man, I have been. I have been wanting bubble tea.
So. Badly.
I think it's a problem. I don't know.
I mean, I think it's a good idea, to be honest.
Like, I'm starting to get bored of just drinking mostly liquor
and not getting enough of vitamins and minerals.
I mean, and I'll just pull out a joint at this point.
I mean, you know, I'll get much that I can from Mother Earth
here, but it's not everything. Yeah.
You know, I guess there are worse things that you can be
addicted to. It just sucks that we have to
walk. You know, where?
Wherever Jeb took Vanna White. I know it's half.
Mine don't walk. Hulk don't walk.
Hulk, don't walk. Hulk.
Hulk don't. Whoa.
Hulk. Hulk.
It must be alright. Trauma team, calm down.
It's probably somebody who's got Premium walk.
Speaking of Trauma Team Retro the Trauma.
Team. Trauma team tower sirens, baby.
No, no, no, no. Sirens ain't going to win this
year. It's all about Cordonato.
Cordonato. Roosters.
No.
Go. Come on.
We're going to win this year,
all right, Derby champions, ours.
The Sirens have well first of all I mean trauma team obviously
is going to win. I I don't know.
I don't know what what your why you chose Coronado is beyond me
when you have a medical person in your crew.
Look, don't get me wrong, all right?
Trauma team's got some skill, but trauma team also, anytime
somebody gets a nick immediately pulls their people out and
starts bandoring them up. And that's not going to work,
right, Roosters, we're strong, we're wild.
We go crazy. You know, fan wise, like it is a
family together. We all go out there with that.
You know, I put on that orange Mohawk that I got right, We
spike it up, we wear it. We don't paint faces white and
red. We all go out there and like
we're just all together. We are the we are the coupe, OK?
We are the coupe and we will run this out, all right.
I mean, look, sirens, they're not nobody to laugh at,
especially because, you know, they're pretty nice at, you
know, after game healing and such, but you know, like
motorboards, what are you going to do with them?
You know, Pacifica Seashells, I mean they could be something to
worry about. Hammers, I'm kind of a little
nervous about, but I mean, what is it?
We got the biohazards, Biotechnica biohazards up first.
And I mean, you know. Look, I mean, I'm sure Iona is
secretly cheering for the biohazards.
I don't even. Think they know who they are?
Yeah, I don't think they're really into into roller Derby,
no. They ain't into roller Derby,
but. And as you walk up to the Bubble
Cafe, you can hear it's funky music pulsing through the walls.
My beloved, we're here. Oh, this place.
Yeah, this place that almost, I don't know, got completely
annihilated and we saved I've, you know, I've, I've, I've saved
this place quite a few times, I gotta say.
We should make you a partner by that point then, right?
Look between us I think it's a goal of mine to like become like
an investor or something in in the in the business and maybe I
don't know maybe like build out some chain, you know additional
place. We don't have to have it in just
one district in Night City. We can have like, but that's the
I'm not I'm not a I'm not the, you know the exec.
So not really my specialty. I'm just a Med tech, you know?
I mean, you know, I guess there's some points you can get
from Iona from that, but, you know, I mean.
We'll see. I don't know.
Look, I'm interested in seeing what they're going to have on
the palate. I remember last time that we
were here, there was like a lavender bubble tea that I
remembered like sipping from somebody else's Have you ever
got a chance to give my own bubble tea?
By the way, Retro, I think, my friend.
I think one of my my gal pals is going to be here.
Coyote. She sent me a message.
Do. You have friends outside of us?
I do actually. Well, you know what that means?
You're just that much. That just is just like another
one more point of wholesomeness, more than you have for us.
Because I can't really think of any friends I have of us outside
of us. Well, no, I take that back.
I'm sure I'm sure you have some. I well, you know, I've got, I've
got quite a few that we had talked about from last Christmas
after the acid rain debacle and and then you know there are my
online friends that we play Alpha M online.
So you know, but I don't get to see them all that often.
So I mean, as I used to you, to be able to go out and see people
more often than just the crew. So do they?
Do they know or is this going to be one of those, like I have to
explain everything? They know some stuff about, you
know, us, the group. You know what I mean.
Are they expecting to see my head or what?
Oh, that that might be a bit of a a shell shock.
You might have to explain the whole thing.
No, no, no. You're going to take over.
Explain them for it. I get tired of doing it.
Gosh, I don't. OK.
You're. Your friends, you're the one
that's going to have to be the better one.
I don't know who they are. It's going to be better.
Welcome to the Bobble Cafe. How can I?
Oh, hi. Hi.
How are you? Long time no see.
TV head guy, nice to see you. Hello.
How are things at the cafe? Bubbly.
That's what I like to hear. What can I get for you?
Good question. What what am I in the mood for?
Oh, you got don't you guys have like the nicotine bubbles?
OK. So yeah, the watermelon flavor
with the, you know, the little, the little tapioca thingies with
nicotine and then please. Thank you Do.
You want Vapor Licious. Yeah, here.
You go, there's some vape foam on top.
I'll bring that to your table. That'll be look.
Oh, look at that. That you eat today 7 Eddies. 7
Eddies all right. Oh, no, it's all right.
I got you on this one. Oh, I got you on this one.
What's for you, Shiny? Well, you know what I would like
to know what your seasonal special is?
What your seasonal? Special is Dandelion and Burdock
I. Don't know what any of those is.
What are those? Welsh flavor.
The Clive asked for it. Welsh.
Yeah, Welsh. It's like root beer, but like if
it was near a sheep. Oh, is there alcohol in it?
No, but it tastes like cough syrup.
Oh, oh, actually, but. Like in a good way?
I'm interested what add-ons do you have?
Do you have like mixins and such?
We have, we've only got 2 today. We've got nicotine and boost.
I don't feel like any boost today and nicotine is a terrible
drug to get addicted to, so I think I'll be fine.
I'll just take the the season. We've got the Sorry, I thought
you're just asking for the unhealthy ones.
I've got like vitamin C I've got full on double caffeine and I
have a weird head high. It's not really a drug.
You just feel kind of like light headed for about 20 minutes.
You know what I love? A good head high.
I'll take the head high. Yeah, give me that head high.
But weirdly safe. Even better.
That means also your drink can be any color you like,
regardless of flavor. Can I get it to be white with
streaks of orange? Kind of looking like a A a A
coxcomb. Yeah.
And you wanted Dundon antibiotic?
Yes, please. OK, at 7:50.
All right. I'm going to go ahead and give
you 15 Eddies with an additional 3 Eddie tip.
Oh, that's nice, Phoebe. I approve.
Yay. Thank you.
Do you? Want anything for?
Coyote. Yes.
And you turn your head and they're sitting at a table in
the middle of the room, vibing to the music with cool
sunglasses on, is Coyote. It's cold of you to assume that
I'm sitting because Coyote. Say it loud at Coyote.
Coyote is dancing around with her new glow sticks and notices.
Vivi, it's my best friend. Hello.
It's good to see you.
I haven't seen you in like a million years, so he's going to
see you. You know, a couple of weeks,
it's. I mean, it's been two months
actually. So you know, he's counting.
That's crazy. Well, what's the part?
Is there like a rave going on? What's the no.
So you look down and you see Coyote is definitely trying out
some some new looks because we all deal with grief in different
ways. So she is dressed quite quite
ravish with some brightly colored popped collar
windbreaker vibe and some pink shades and she's got some glow
paint just like on her. You're not sure if that's
purposeful or not. And then she's vibing with her
glow sticks and she's like, no, man, I just, I'm trying to find
like like my joy, like my center in life.
And what I say is like, if it makes you happy, just fucking do
it. And I feel like this is this is
making me happy. This is a good new look for me.
I would say it's not the craziest look I've ever seen.
And at that point, she turns to the person with ATV head.
Hello, my name is Coyote. It's good to meet you.
Yes, Coyote, this is Retro Retro Coyote.
Oh, whoa, you're real. I thought you were a segment of
my imagination. Hi I'm re put my hand out to
shake. Cool.
Hi, nice to meet you. Once the grass panned, I'm going
to pull you in close for a hug. I love a.
Hug. Tuck it.
In. Tuck it in right there.
Yeah, tuck it. Yeah, I got you.
I love a hug, brother. Thank you.
Phoebe, You want in on this? Hug.
Yes. You know what?
Yes. 3 way 3 way. Hug.
Let's go 3 way. Hug.
Oh, I feel closer to you guys already.
Oh, this is great. I have AI have a nicotine and I
have a weird head high that has no name yet and.
Reeves. Oh, what is up?
How's it going? Yo Mr. TV Dude, what is what is
shaking? I've do it just great raves.
I'm about to test this new no name head high.
Yes, I have made it. I hope you enjoy well, I'm.
Going to give it a taste right now.
Hold on. Excuse me, Really cool Tiny rave
Cowboy person. Would you like a beverage?
Yeah, absolutely. Any friend of Vivi and the retro
is a friend of mine. I freaking hope so.
What would you like? I will go and make it in the
kitchen with my own 2 cybernetic hands.
Well, no one cybernetic hand, but it was cooler to say too.
Give me, give me that, that green tea.
Hold the tannins. Add some extra cortisol
balancing additives. Do you want bubbles with that?
What's? I don't know.
I just did AI did a dry January. I'm a little worried about.
Just no, no. The bubbles we just put like
vapor in it. So I can like, add a flavor that
pops because it's not boba, right?
Oh. All right, yeah, yeah, bro, give
me that. That Taro bubbles?
Then give me that. You got it.
Do you want do you want Taro flavor or would you like rainbow
Weird cybernetic flavor? I'll I'll you know I'm going to
take the Taro. OK, no worries.
It's like sherbet, but makes you numb.
You can't be quirky every day, yeah.
Anyway, so I'll get your drink and I'll be right back, Deuces.
And we just buck us off. Oh shit, I forgot he worked
here. Yep.
This is like one of like 17 jobs ruse has.
Look, live in a night city ain't cheap.
Of course I'll be. Honest.
No, I mean that's it. Like, really, truly.
As free going as Reeves is, they are on the grind.
Yeah, so. What have you been up to?
What? I mean, what's going on?
Vivi, I missed you so much. I can't believe.
I can't believe we haven't seen each other in so long.
Hold that thought. Cody, Chad, Caller ID.
Oh, Chad. Chad, Do you remember the guy
Coyote that we last, you know, saw where he was like kind of an
ex, but not really dated like once and then like I took his
hoverboard because. I remember the hoverboard.
Yeah, remember that? Why?
Why is he calling me right now? I'll.
Answer. I'll answer free.
I'll tell. I'll tell him to fuck, right?
Off OK. You don't want anyone, I'll
answer. I I can't answer.
I don't want to talk to him. Please let me answer.
Let me take the agent. Take it.
This is Vivi's agent Coyote speaking.
How may I help you? Listen, my friend Vivi really
doesn't appreciate dudes or ex situation ships calling her
unprompted, and Vivi's my best friend and I would do anything
for her. So if you could just, like, keep
your Dick in your pants and, like, cool it because she's not
interested. OK, well, that sounds like a you
problem. I know A great.
All right. OK, help.
I feel like this is really needy of you.
I just. Help.
Vivi is there, but she doesn't want to talk to you right now.
That's why I'm talking to you. I I am dying.
I think. You're dying, good looking
reddits. Hold up.
Did you say he was dying? I am.
Very much. Dying, I pull the phone away
from my face to cover the microphone.
I don't know, he seems like some kind of sob story, like he's
trying to crawl his way. I've I've dealt with people like
this to get back to your life and pretend that they're dying.
Hold on, Coyote. Be them dying over not having
you to love. I'm just saying, if he if he's
if he was a jerk to you, maybe we should just let him die.
Maybe he deserves it, you know, it seems like out of sight, out
of mind. No contact.
That's my rule. Coyote.
OK, OK, I think I heard that. I think he's actually dying and
and I'm a doctor. So.
And so. I'm just saying if he doesn't
treat you right, then I I feel like this is his way of crawling
back and you're like why doesn't why isn't he friends with
another doctor? Why does?
He even heard of Chad either. Why?
Why is this the first time I get to hear of Chad?
What's going on here? Because.
We're the best friend, she only tells me.
And here is your beverage. Oh, thanks.
Reeve, can you make these to go? Can we get Can we get to go
cups? Yeah, he pulls 3 to go cups from
his belt loop like a cowboy. I'm going to see if he does
this. Well, that is.
A2 takes Retro's drink and spills half of it all over his
head. Good.
Shit. Sorry.
Wait, wait. Yeah, it's.
Cool. Yeah, it's cool.
No, no. I rolled an egg, so everyone
else's drink is cool. So it's fair, right?
I tell you what, man, the the Cowboys drink is on the House.
Hell yeah. That's what I like to hear.
This is my man. Fist bump.
Fist bump forever. Hell yeah.
Guys, I I I think we should go check on Chad.
Oh my God, VV. If you just always do what they
ask, they'll never learn. No.
You know what I've you know what here's the thing let's let's go
ahead. Let's go see this Chad guy.
So VV can like either do one of two things.
One, they can either put this to and get Chad to just stop.
Can you confront them head on? All right.
Or two, maybe they are dying, which then, you know, enacts the
V protocol and then we have to take care of it anyways.
So either way, like, it's just something that's going to happen
otherwise. I mean, you know, as the best
friend if somebody heard V is just going to.
Jump along, I'm still here. VD's ex and maybe once and soon
to be future lover again unknown at this.
Particular point, not a future lover.
Unrelated question, who's cool van in the back?
Oh, that's mine. Sick mural, dude.
Thanks, Dave. You have a van.
Yeah, duh. Well, color me interested.
Let me go check this out. Chad can wait a second.
How's that head hide doing? You rolled a 15, so it's just
pleasant. You're just pretty happy.
And for the next for the next two hours, you have +1 to
Persuasion because you just feel nice.
Yeah, it's. I mean, it is.
It just really feels like sativa.
It's just a good sativa, really. So you walk out and you see the
van and you see it's been upgraded and it's painted a
little bit better than it was before.
And now you see three mermaids lying on a rock, which is pretty
sick in like there's like a Technicolor kind of sea
happening and there's like a dancing octopus around.
And the three mermaids. What?
Do you ask? What color is that that you've
got all over the whole thing? All of the above, baby.
No, no, I'm like asking. What color is all over it?
Yeah, What's like the main base color of your vehicle?
There's all sorts of colors I guess, like blue.
I don't know. This is all.
Blue that is too cool. I see it now.
So it's blue and it's got this. Technicolor.
OK. I like to look at your beautiful
faces. So it's got this Technicolor
ocean and there's a giant octopus dancing.
And the three mermaids do absolutely slightly resemble the
trio of gals from the Girls Night and.
It's. It's gorgeous and it's radical.
The other side still has the buff wizard riding a wolf
howling at the moon. Put it on it that.
Would look good on a T-shirt. That's what I'm saying.
Right. We should go to business.
I'm like, you know. Super entrepreneurial.
You make that a. T-shirt.
I'll wear it on my show. Hell yeah.
Well, you know, I'm just looking at your mural in this light, and
I'm just wondering. Roll.
For it, roll. For it, roll.
For the. Mural Roll for the mural.
Good thing I spent my to see how on it pretty it is.
To see how pretty it is that is correct, Vivi let me.
See. Do you DM as well you're?
Just going to talk in the reeds voice for the rest of.
Them. I like talking to players in
character voices rather than as the GM.
That's why Bendel, this is such a main part of our show.
I got a nine. I I really like your mural, but
I kind of the hands aren't right.
Yeah yeah, I used AI to generate.
The minute you said that. You used AI Which?
One, it's different the way I do it, I actually, I put all of my
own original pieces into an AI machine and so all of the AI is
trained off of my art. But this is the future drawing
hands, so. That's fair.
I'm bad at drawing hands as well.
That's why I usually cut people off at, like, the waist, you
know, their shoulders. Or you can turn them into
mermaids. You don't even need to worry
about the bottom. Hey man.
Let's not even get into legs, you know what I mean?
Legs, man, That's. Or didn't you say your friend
was dying like bleeding a? Lot A friend.
Oh my God, Yes, Yes. We need to check on Chad.
Chad. It's it's an it's an obligation
for me. I I have an oath, an Hippocratic
Oath, to help people and knowing that he might be dying right now
bleeding out to death and he doesn't have trauma Team
Platinum. So I've got to help.
Dude, that's so cyberpunk. Night City.
If you look at a map of North America, somewhere on the
western edge you'd see an inky black dot with fingers pressing
into the side of the continent. That's where you find Night
City. And somewhere in the middle of
that inky black dot is a giant smoking hole, like the universe
itself drew iron and shot straight through the city.
Radiation turned the sky red. But our story starts a little
further South, in a dive bar. The shortstop Welcome to Night
City and welcome to Cyberpunk Edge of Extinction.
Infinite Sided Dice presents Cyberpunk Edge of Extinction, a
cyberpunk red actual play. Watch now at youtube.com slash
at. Infinite sided dice.
Catch you later, tunes. You got a creepy More people in
van? Yeah, Windows in the back this.
Is a mural. Even if there was a window, it
has been painted over so you cannot see out without some kind
of modification to the vehicle. I just restocked the mini fridge
back there. If you guys get hungry.
There's also some cable packs I think, but I only like the
Strawberry Shortcake kind recently.
My favorites. Can you please roll a driving
check? Oh sure, I guess so.
I guess so. Sorry this app like updated and
I don't know how to read anymore in the roll 20.
Wow, that's a one implode. Oh, another one.
I guess it's fine if it's a Did you roll over?
Did you roll in traffic 16? All right, so unfortunately,
when you get to the Soville Apartments, you do not find good
parking and it costs you 30 edges.
Oh my God. So it's a very minor crypt Fail.
Still sucks. What the fuck are we doing in
front of my apartment? Do you have resident a resident
parking spot? Can I just like instead of
paying for it, can we like? Can we?
No, no, no. That apartment does not come,
does not come with resident parking.
The only personal resident parking is Penthouse and it is
empty because it's too expensive.
That's true. But at the same time, maybe you
should fix the fucking elevator. Elevator only for people who pay
rent. You pay brunch.
You can use elevator. I'm paying rent.
There's a lot you read you. You use elevator.
I don't like cow. Use elevator because he fart.
It's not nice. That's true.
Not this cowboy. Other cowboy one with tall and
bird. Oh, right.
We have two Cowboys. But, you know, kind of.
Like now there is only one the one with the glow sticks.
Hello. I'm the Technicolor cowboy you
can call. Technicolor cowboy, I like that.
That could be like fun. Like what you call like ET
Amtrak, you know? That's what I'm saying,
honestly. I've been really into painting
right now. But what if I started making
music? You guys, I have some big ideas
I feel like. About those people who run
through with like pot. We.
Yes. What happened?
I I've been called a a a medical emergency has been called in.
I'm. I am a doctor.
Here is Kim well. There, say that again.
The Eris. Eris.
Yes, the Eris came, they came through, they took, they go.
I have, I do not want to have a problem with Iris.
So I say, OK, Iris? The IRS.
You go in. I do not.
I don't care about warrants. There is no they do not have to
abide. So I just go OK because they
have. Gone.
And I'm like, oh, so I, you know, come in and they're like,
well, the hell is Chad? And I was like, hey.
Are you upstairs? Oh gosh.
Gone. I'm like I have video.
But it's shit and I cannot download till tomorrow, so you
cannot see. Oh, OK.
That's OK, all I see is black right now.
Oh shit. That's not good.
I will address that after. I know.
Yeah. Oh, I literally wasn't looking
at the thing. OK, Can you please take me?
Actually, I know where the room is.
Yes. Chair department upstairs.
But the TV man can use elevator, I suppose.
If you are nice to me, I will let you use elevator.
That's that's OK. Honestly, I'm in kind of a
health kick right now, so I should probably just take the
stairs. Yeah, I like you.
Thank. You.
Technicolor Cowboy How's work ethic?
I like this. Good.
Thank you. I'm.
Taking the elevator. I will clean blood tomorrow.
I suppose I will also take the stairs.
That is good. It's.
A good party, yeah. Yeah, if I get there faster with
the stairs. Athletics.
How hard are you breathing when
you reach the top? Do you want to race them,
Rachel? I mean, not really, but it
sounds fun. So I need you to roll something
to make the elevator go a bit faster.
And VV and Coyote, You roll Athletics of course.
Absolutely. Well.
That's another one, bro. I rolled another one.
And another one. I'm not going to use this dice
anymore. That was crazy.
OK, nine, so retro as you see TV and Coyote running up the stairs
with a little bit of joy as they race you to the top.
Weirdly, because Chad did say he was dying, Coyote stops halfway
up the stairs just to try their shoe and that doesn't hurt them
because again, that was a -. 2 is the lowest crit you can get
to. Just slows you down.
Sorry. I usually wear cowboy boots.
I just I like kind of out of practice with tying shoes.
But you say to no one because VV is blasting up the stairs As the
only person who didn't crit fail because Retro in his excitement
keeps on tripping the door closing.
Door to door closing. Door opening.
Door opening.
Closing.
Door closing. Fucking thing never work.
It pinches a hair off the side. Wrenches it.
Out of your skin. Out of your skin as well.
How to pull a hair from my fully clothed body?
There's a rip in your jacket now.
Motherfucker. Oh God, I've made it.
And VV wins. Chad.
I run to his Oh my God. I run to the door and break it
open. All right.
Burst into Chad's apartment with Coyote and Retro in turn.
Just behind you and there is the room in front of you.
The door is unlocked. It looked like it was left
unlocked. It was slightly ajar and as you
step in you can see blood on the ground.
Oh, God. All right, everybody.
Just step around the blood because it might be evidence.
Royal Athletics. So many rolls.
Oh, get used to that. Area 18 Finally some good
fucking rolls beautifully over the blood as you wiggle your
glow sticks in the air. Coyote VV.
You also make it over the blood and so does Retro.
Oh. Yeah, we're used to this now.
Where are you? OK, I'm coming in.
I'm coming in. I pull my gun out.
I'm going to point it at Chad when I see him.
And you step into the bathroom of this apartment and there is
Chad in a bathtub full of ice. What happened?
I didn't make my payments. You didn't make your payments.
Do I need both kidneys? Technically, you don't.
OK, well I need them both back because I don't have to.
I have none. What they took both of them.
What? They gave me these things but I
tried to remove them and then I bled a lot and now I can't move.
Wait a minute. Who's they the?
The thing. The thing and.
He points across the room. Behind Retro is a little armoire
in this bathroom, and sitting there on top of the arm wire,
there's a little letter. I'll just reach for it.
Let me see what it says. Here.
Oh, the heiress. Yes, I said.
IRS. Yeah, you do like I.
Oh no. From the internal repossession
service. Oh boy.
Dear Subscriber, Dear to Miss payment of your organs, You have
been repossessed if the organs in question were vital to your
continued existence. A temporary locked tea organ has
been put in its place. Do not tamper with the installed
tea organ. Payment is required before any
permanent organ can be put in its place.
Tampering of the tea organ could result in more fees, delayed
claims and death. If your tea organ is
malfunctioning, please make an appointment at the IRS office.
No appointments will be provided over the phone.
IRS is not responsible for any injuries sustained while the T
organ is installed to organize an agreed Rep protection device
and agreed with your organ Compact pavement plan payment
claim of KO5681 Dash Chapter or the IRS Team 378 Hegelia Ave.
Knight City. I didn't.
No, no. They put T organs in you.
Oh gosh. Yeah, And I, you know, I'm a
medical professional. And so I tried to remove the
left one and that one's still. OK, they're not joking when they
say don't tamper with them. I need you to roll a perception
check. Phoebe.
Oh dear, yeah. 20's enough, He's seizing.
All right. OK, one moment, everybody.
And I pull out my medical bag and try to somebody.
Coyote, help me hold his head so that he doesn't hit it.
OK, I don't like it, but I'll do it.
OK, and I am going to try to help him, probably like try to
stop him from seizing and then like fix his tea organ.
Let's see, Paramedic medical tech?
To stabilize him you will need to do a basic like medical check
please. Yes. 23 Yes, you pull out an
adrenaline hypo from inside of your jacket and shove it into
his heart. It sends enough adrenaline
through his body that it brings him back to a more stable state
and he opens his eyes, blinks a little bit, has a lot calmer of
a breath and looks at you oh. Thank you.
I mean, oh. Man, they really can't believe.
They really. They took both?
Yeah. You really.
You really must have been in the hall.
Well, they gave me a deal. I I got, I got rid of my
original. What?
They didn't work very well. I got a lot of kidney infections
and. Stuff.
So I I just traded them both out because I was like, well, fuck
it, you meant that too. You know, it costs more after
six months, apparently. I didn't read that.
And and I and and now I can't install different kidneys.
There's also a kidney shortage. You heard about that.
I'd like what any Well, a lot of internal organs actually.
Kidneys and lungs. And all three very important
vital functioning organs for the.
Human body find one. It's hard to find one right now.
I'm. I'm sure, I know that they're
probably going to the rich elite and us are all, you know, stuck
with the the fake ones, you know?
My bathtub looks like fruit punch.
It does it's. Pretty nasty in here.
Yeah, should we, like, clean up or like?
It's still bleeding, you know. You just stopped me from
seizing. You know, I'm sorry.
Yes, I should probably help with that.
Yeah, one SEC. Chad, just just hold still for a
minute. I'm going to try to help.
Don't worry, I have an extra tie dye T-shirt that I made last
night. Yeah, this one can be yours.
Scanner activated. Scanning patient was recently
bleeding and seizing. Vitals stabilized.
Patient has missing kidneys. Kidneys have been replaced by a
T organ, an external internal organ.
Temporary. Please seek medical attention.
T organ connection confirmed. Tampering with either will cause
both to cease function. Normal shelf life one week.
Warning. Tampering detect.
Oh boy, Well. Tampering is against the terms
of service. Oh dear, the GN is rolling.
That's a lot of once. Today.
Patient has 72 hours to live. Please locate kidneys and
reinsert. Scan complete.
Well, the good news is you're all patched up and and stable.
The bad news is, for now, meaning I know what.
That. Means, yeah, prognosis.
You're probably. This only looks like it's going
to be a couple of days here. Fuck.
Like. Three days.
How am I going to get 15 grand? That sounds like a you problem.
Honestly, I appreciate the struggle you're going through
right now, but if you dare imply that VV gives you money, that is
financial abuse and I'll shoot your ass.
I don't know. I've been working in the middle
for the field for really weird, really long time, and I do find
it weird that the shortages are kind of seasonal.
I find it kind of weird you've been working in the medical
field a long time and you had to call someone else for help.
It's a little bit embarrassing for you, so I'm more.
Of. A driver so.
OK, well, sure you are. We'll see about that.
I don't know. Well, you fixed this, Kidneys.
Time to go. Let's get out of here, guys.
Could. You go not to be like, politely
obvious about what I need, but could you get my kidneys back?
This guy, he's using you, Phoebe, He's using you.
Don't you have some fucking dude bro friend?
Some scumbag tomb on the street you can get to do your dirty
work and not this sweet, beautiful, amazing friend?
You're very kind, Coyote, but we need to help him.
Oh, we can't just leave him to die, He he probably isn't going
to last more than 72 hours. I.
I I don't want this blood on my hands.
There is blood on your hands that is.
But don't worry, I have another tie dye T-shirt.
Yeah, I am going to need a new jacket and everything.
I've got like 6 more of those. Look.
What? I honestly, what the Eris, what
the IRS is doing is also not OK. They're exploiting people for
their organs, like one of us could be next, yeah?
Traumatism would never do that. Ever.
Yeah, there, there's got to be. Look this.
I think we should look into this well.
The address. Is in the bottom of that letter.
I'm gonna. Puts his hand down the side of
the bathtub and grabs a set of it.
Do you need anything else? Because I need to.
No, I think just just knock yourself out.
Gives you a thumbs up, pops the pill and then punches himself in
the face, which successfully knocks himself out.
Oh great, the first non one. Look, Retro Coyote, I I hate to
ask for for help, but would you guys help me look into this?
VV You know that I would blindly follow you to the end of the
earth, and I really admire your grace and your mercy and your
moral compass, so of course I'll help you.
But if that fucker treats you bad, I pull in the head.
Look, those kitties won't have a chance to kill him.
The last time we helped him I got his hoverboard, so.
We can rob him next time on no latency side quest.
Oh, that's some cream trauma team gear right there.
Well, I mean, he seems to be pretty good at pilfering.
I mean, he pilfered this. I mean, he probably pilfered
this money. Maybe.
Is that true? Has he pilfered?
Your heart. They took his organs.
They're putting all this effort into this guy.
I mean, come on. 378 Hygia Ave. I don't know what you want to do
about that takes two years to drive.
Somebody with a gyrocopter. That looks sick as hell.
Gyrocopters are not really common.
Right up against the window. Yeah, retro showing a pothole.
Oh my God. Alright, I guess I'll just have
to hand crank it. Get him closer.
Oh God, no Sunday drivers. He's in here.
Get him out. Get him.
Out me now. It's a nice van.
Get him out. I do live in here.
So sweet. Seems as if they were exhausted.
Hey, we're here. But I'm bad at coming up with
plans, though. Which is why you need the
experience. Please, I've been waiting.
I've come back here every day. I.
Pull a gun out. We're here for the organs.
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