Last time on no latency. Because we're going to get you
that damn book. So the Dean hired you and a
teacher from here to do this. We know people.
Guys, I got eyes on the other
guy, the teacher. Oh.
No. Good to see you again too,
Professor. Sounds like university
negligence to me. The.
Person that owns the property. My back.
Is liable for damage. Should we join Jeff on the roof?
Don't worry you guys. What?
What is a Jeb? I want to.
Send you a quick. Picture That's a firebomb.
This here's a stick up Oh. Shit, that's that's Professor
Allegris. Oh, that's a, that's a that's a
little tighter of a grip that. But I mean, Jeb wouldn't.
But if I don't do this, not only does he kill my mother, he also
blackmails me. I just want to teach.
Hello. Hello.
Yes, within this amount of time have have I retro been able to
put together the the drone? Back.
Yes, roll for it. Before I do the role actually,
can I add? Can I make some addendums as
well to I guess potentially roll for as well?
One of the things that I would like to do is I would like to
use the memory system within it to gain access to the, you know,
security protocols, all of that connection information yes, if
you. Roll.
If you roll well enough, of course you do.
Yep, and also hopefully be able to find the same way that Ram
said was able to make himself disappear off of these.
Retro, you rolled 44 on electronic security tech.
You put the drone back together and what you discover is it's
designed to fall apart. It comes back together, all the
little pieces. Some of them have a bit of BBS
blood on them, but they go back together and there's a lot of
redundant parts on the inside about 30 scrap worth of scrap
just the right amount you need and you you pocket that amount.
Obviously pulling it out, You find access into the lowest end
of the security network and Rams heads facial scan is on the
white list, which means the system has a copy of its facial
scan. There's a a pro and a con to
that, but the drone has now been repaired and you can choose when
to turn it on, although it's lens has been left blurry
because you've left it unfocused.
That's fine, it'll fly around, everyone will think it's
working, but actually if you review the footage it's just
mush. Yeah, as soon as I get that
fixed, I'm I'm assuming that that's when the call from the
professor has happened. Absolutely.
I would like to I would like to use my access now with this
drone to have it fly up and smash into the professor's head.
Great, I love it. Who thought nobody knew this was
going to happen? Who made this up?
I didn't plan for this shit. This is fantastic.
You Chuck the drone onto the roof and it flies towards the
professor. The only way, and I'll do it in
front of you. The only way he dodges this is
if he rolls A10. Does not roll A10, rolls at 4:00
and it smacks them on the head and Jeb gets free to the ground
and they both roll away to each other.
Although he does still have Jeb's tile in his hand.
Oh, wait, wait, hold on. Were you teaching me just now or
were you a? Little A little of lecture hall
A. A little of lecture hall B.
Oh, ma'am. And he deletes the photograph
off your tile. Shit, I should have sent it.
You also should have blocked it, that was dumb and he throws it
back at you. Well, I mean, thank you.
Hey, look, if we're just going to be kind of doing this, look,
the point is to save the books, to save the school and in doing
so to get your, your boss fired. So I, I, I really think we're on
the same team here, Prof. Yeah, you see, I don't want to
lose my job. Well, you won't.
I mean, would you? Why would you?
You were you were going to blackmail me and say that I was
going to set it on fire. Well, yeah, the, the
blackmailing was to make sure that, you know, you would help
us get your boss fired. Did that?
Was that not? Going to sell that.
That's worth a lot of money, really.
What? That doesn't make any logical
sense. Are you not logical?
I suppose it depends on who you ask.
So you're just going to not use that against me?
Well, we would. We were going to not use it
against you in so far as you helped us out.
That's I feel like that's usually how blackmail goes.
Is this the first time you've been blackmailed?
No, but I. Most people it's night City,
most people double dip. Most people would sell that to
someone for a rumor and blackmail me and get some extra
money for the rumor itself. You double.
You're not. Oh.
Something. I see, I see.
That's where. Well, Nah, I don't think I'd do
that. Look at that.
So you're going to deal with a Dean?
Well, yeah, you want to help? Sure.
I mean, from what I like, I didn't, I didn't go to school
here. I've really never been to any
real real school. But from all my friends say that
he's a bit of a Jackass, a bit of an asshole, a bit of a
another word. Yeah, I I am normally not
someone who celebrates anyone, but if he could like never speak
again, this place would be better.
When you say that, do you mean like literally?
Because I feel like we do know a Ripper talk maybe, maybe she
could, you know, sew his mouth shut or something?
Or was that more metaphorical speaking?
Hey, man. OK, no, I get it.
You when you wink like that, I know exactly what you mean.
Hey VV. Yeah.
You ever you ever saw a man's mouth shut?
I can't say I have yet. OK, but it's doable is what
you're saying? Yeah, it would probably be
painful and require sedation, but it's doable.
Hey, Professor. Professor, great news, she says.
It's doable. OK, so you're just going to deal
with the Dean and I can get back to teaching?
Yeah, and great news, your your mom not in danger.
We we actually took care of the other guy too.
Wow, it must be rolling really well.
Oh, you know, it's hasn't been too bad of a day so far,
actually. So if if you don't mind, if you
could just go ahead and, you know, grapple yourself off the
roof. My friends are just right down
there. And you said that this this
thing here is just right above where the books are.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't.
Don't go in that hatch right there.
Right. But if I did, that would lead to
where the the second 2nd edition copy of many.
Of it would be like a drone that watches down there too so.
Gotcha, gotcha. All right.
Will you know, professor, it's, it's been a pleasure, truly.
OK, I've learned a lot from you And you know, you've given me a
bit of, a bit of a passion for, for the mechanical that I never
really really understood. But I I think I'm starting to
starting to get why retro is into all these doohickeys.
Retro. That was his name?
Fuck that would have bugged me for ages.
Yeah, yeah, Richo, not a problem Sir.
Yeah, take Care now. And.
He takes you at your word and jumps off the roof.
Good guy, good guy. Well, just going to go ahead and
squeeze through this hatch here did.
We take care of that firebomb or what?
Oh yeah, did it basically all by myself.
Wow. Yeah.
Jeb, did we just offer to sew the Dean's mouth shut?
Yeah. OK.
Is that is that actually happening?
Asheb did you mean? Metaphorically or not, Jeb.
Well, I think he, I think that he meant not metaphorically.
And I wasn't sure if he could even be done, but you said it
could be done. But.
Yeah, yeah. I I mean, yes, it could be done.
If that just would require us to get the Dean, I don't know.
Knock him out and take care of it.
You know, OK, OK. Idea.
No, you don't have to. But it he's gonna fight back.
That's what straps are for. Wise, OK, you really did learn a
lot coming to their school, didn't you?
Oh yeah. I learned a lot.
Well, great news. Go ahead, I.
Was going to say looked like things worked out well with the
professor. I mean I don't know exactly what
happened. I totally forgot that he used to
be, well, not used to be. He still practices his martial
art teachings. So you know, good good good work
on the disabling him without. Having yeah, I did think it was
funny that on his name tag it said Professor slash Sensei.
Yeah, well, he is a teacher of both, so.
Yeah, I could see that. The honorifics are important
anyways, Yeah. Are are are we doing this sewing
mouth shut? I mean, I know that we're
essentially metaphorically, but I don't know if we're actually
physically doing it too. And then are are are we breaking
into to the steal the book as well?
Oh yeah, I'm basically right on top of it.
There's a bit of a problem though.
There is a drone kind of, well, milling about.
Oh, Jeff, can you take a selfie for me real quick?
Just. Send me a selfie.
Selfie like just. Take one right now.
Right now, yeah, yeah, sure. I'm like, good, Jake.
Jeff, no, Jeff, I need, I need another selfie.
Sorry, sorry, I forgot. You can't do that big lovable
smile. I it's not going to be.
I need you to have one that's like like you can have a small
smile that's like lips close together, but but you can't have
your teeth like showing you I. I I oh, gotcha gotcha.
So like a like a rally smirk. Yes, that's a good one.
Yes, with your rakishly handsome look.
Roll roll acting to not overdo this.
Oh, 10? As long as you are at least 10
feet away, this should work. All right, I'm going to take
that second photo that Jeb sent me and I'm going to upload that
to the security network, hopefully in the same way for
like how Rams head was done. So sure, ignore him.
The the drone did try and make its way back to where it last
knew it was because it can't see very well and you managed to
install this through the network Jeb roll to open the Hatch Oh my
God yes you make your way into the room you appear as you land
beating the DV of this room. I'd like.
To like, slowly lower myself down with the grappling hook.
Sure. Yeah, you roll 32.
You can do this however you like, but you end up right
there, 15 feet away from the drone to your West, OK?
Team, There's a bit of a drone issue going on, but I am in.
Oh my God. Look at that on the pedestal.
It's the second edition of Winnie the Pooh.
Looks like there's looks like there might be pressure
sensitive glares. Any ideas?
Well, let me think here first. Heads up, as long as you're 10
feet away from a drone, they're going to ignore you, so keep
that in mind. OK, so stay as close as possible
to the drone. That seems fucking crazy.
I said keep at least 10 feet away from.
Away, away, away. Got it.
Yeah, got it. Jeff.
Still still stick to stay away from drone, but if they get
close then that's not going to it didn't matter anyways.
Just stay away from drone 2. Is the Gutenberg Bible locked
up? Wasn't that just returned?
Oh no, no, you you returned it a while ago.
You can use the Gutenberg, you can use another one.
Just Jeb, go pick up the book, not having it leave whatever it
is, just kind of feel how much it weighs.
Find a book that feels the same weight and then just swips up.
Swips up. OK.
All right. OK, going to go over here to
Priceless artifacts section and let's see HI note wrong way and
CDEF Gutenberg. Roll library search.
Everyone has to roll it at least once in this one.
Yes. Must be education, right?
How is it not under education? Oh wait, no it's not.
What it is in library it is it's.
It's in the it's. In the.
Oh, there it is. I see it.
Oh, thank you. OK, OK.
Library Search 11. It's not very good, but OK it
does. It does.
However, I will say looking up a book in a well organized library
is an easy task. You should try it at home.
You should go and check out your local library, because even you
can roll above a very basic DV 9 and find exactly the book that
you're looking for. Because that's the Dewey Decimal
System at work. Yes, or even a convenient
electronic looking up computer. Amazing.
So. Last time you checked out, some
Microchief libraries sing. The, the, the, the Gutenberg
Bible is like, really heavy, right?
Yeah. Yeah.
OK, Yeah. Because it was like you find the
complete Far Side gallery edition which is about the same
weight. No, not the far side.
OK, OK, let's see. Farsight, HIJKLLAR, Larson.
Larson. OK.
OK, these are Jeb knows Larson. Yeah, a Washington state hero.
All right, OK, here's the swap. Swap.
Roll for it. I'm trying to find the silliest
thing I could possibly roll that would make set up what
accounting. Amazing.
If this. Is accounting.
Then what is you know, you're, you're, you're balancing the
books. Inspiration.
That's a Golden Pond Inspiration 10.
Would you actually roll? You're out of five.
Yeah, you're on a 10. Libraries are incredibly easy.
You beat ADV 9. It is a simple task to swap the
book. You swap the book into the end
of this very row. There's a little presentation
area for a book and it's got a little weighted pad on the
bottom. You do it quickly enough,
however it takes a little longer than you would like and you are
dangerously close to being seen by a drone.
Because you did not roll high enough, you now have to roll
evasion. OK, I'm just going to dive
behind this bookshelf. Sprain my ankle.
That is, is that where you use the inspiration I just gave you?
Oh yeah. Oh wow, Yeah, you just.
Really. Oh.
Well, you held on to that for a long time, Spoon.
Well done, you're on a crit fable -4 and then came back with
your inspiration. I literally just gave you with a
23. You dive back into the bookshelf
and you. I have to think that like.
A A book fell and I grab it and then I see that the drone is
like gonna be right in front of me and so I just open the book
in front of my face. You do, and you you open the
book in front of your face and slide onto the ground.
The drone keeps moving and misses you.
You watch the drone disappear out to keep going back and forth
in this section of the library, and as you look down at the
book, it's a copy of Winnie the Pooh.
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around the table all. Right, throw those in the bag
and OK, just going to quickly there goes the drone and make a
break for it. How are you getting out of here?
Through the Hatch again. Cool, roll for it.
And that was the the sound of my fucking sure grappling hook.
If I can find there we. Go 22 hooked.
On Phonics today. And just as Retro makes that pun
inspiration Retro very good. I enjoy these puns, everybody.
Jeb makes it out of the Hatch and the drone passes underneath
him and keeps going back and forth, jumps off the side of the
building and rejoins the crew. How'd it go, Jeb?
Well, I'm going to be honest, I don't feel great about stealing
these books from the library. But you know, back in the day
they used to let you take the the physical books out of the
library for a time being before you had to bring them back.
At least that's what I hear. So think about it.
We're kind of doing it the old fashioned way.
Yeah, yeah. There's there's nothing better
than being able to leave with an actual physical copy in your
hands, you know? Feels good.
It does. So should I call Ram's head?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Send.
Oh, hear, hear. Everyone, everyone gather
around. Ever gather around.
There's a bit of a bit of a bit of a there has been a bit of a
motif of photos in this episode. So why don't we cap it off with
a nice group picture with the the second edition of Winnie the
Pooh in the front? Sure, and we'll send it to Ram's
head. Yeah.
Genius inspired Raven. You guys take a selfie, everyone
roll to see how good the selfie is.
Personal grooming. Personal grooming.
Don't forget that VB now gets a plus to wardrobe and style as
well. Yes, it is.
One SEC. I had to close all my stuff.
Would you mind rolling? Yeah, no, you're fine.
Thank you. Do you want wardrobe and style
or personal grooming? Personal grooming because I was
a hair stylist. That's right, I.
Push. I push the hair out of my face
and then I push the hair I blow on Bendel's face to like fluff
the hair away from and like interface framies.
Yeah, yes. Bendel will also roll wardrobe
in style. No personal grooming since they
are the same. I rolled A crit baby.
I'm on fire today, even Bell. Yeah, I'm honey you.
Look hard as hell. We all look.
You are honey as as fuck. This is probably the best photo
I've ever seen of you. Wow, actually wow.
There's my daily photo I've seen of you besides your badge.
Yeah, yeah, it's a shame we can't post it because we've got
a stolen book in the picture. Damn.
Oh, that's fine. Here, watch and I'll.
Just both Phoebe and I look amazing.
Look, there you go. Now the book's gone.
Oh. Nice, that's a good idea.
Look at that. That's so good.
We'll send the first one to Ram's head though, and.
OK, there you go. They sent back an eggplant
emoji. What does that mean?
Oh dear. Oh.
They're hungry for vegetables. That he he's very excited about
the book. OK, that's good.
Yeah. Nice.
All right, so we've got that. Ram's head isn't on his way
back. The professor's dealt with.
Did you sort it out, Jeb? Oh yeah, professor's all all
set, so. What does he need us to do?
He needs us to sew the Dean's mouth shut.
Excuse me, what? Yeah.
Yeah, that, that's the thing.
You know, what we could do is we could there was no real, you
know, time frame on that. So why don't we just go ahead
and send the press all of the necessary things to get him
fired and, you know, probably arrested and then we can sew his
mouth shut. But.
What if he what if he didn't he like, threaten the teacher's
mother or something because he could just hire someone else?
Yeah. And we don't really have, I
don't think, much evidence that's conclusive, do we?
No how? About this, I think Phoebe and I
should go and confront the professor, mainly because he's
already on edge dealing with us too.
In the meantime, while Jeb has been doing that, I've taken the
last of the scrap that we've taken from the drone to finish
the last. Satellite.
Dish and Jeb and Iona do know how to set that up from last
time, right? OK.
So all right, Iona, we're going to have to get back on the roof.
Iona gives you a steely glance. Oh, right.
Sorry. All right, you guys go and sew
some guy's mouth shut. Have have fun.
Did you want me on Team Mouth sewing or on Team Rooftop?
You weren't very helpful with the the transponder on the roof
at the Hillview if I'm on. There and you sign me up for
this so. Yeah.
All right. You're going to have to hold
them down. Fine, it looks like it's time
for the Dean's Anatomy class. Looks like we made the Dean's
list. Nice.
VV have you got 1? No, those aren't too good.
It's it's time for the Dean to learn a lesson that was that.
Was pretty good. Pretty good.
Pretty solid. OK, yes, yes.
So one more time, who's who's doing the sewing?
Probably me. We're just heading straight to
the Dean's office right now. Or should we follow him to his
home? I suppose we do.
Got to keep our promise. In his office.
We're going to do it in his office, not in his home.
I just there are more cameras inside of an office than there
are inside of his home I would imagine.
These days. You don't know what kind of
freak he is. That's a good point.
I don't have anything to say to that, You're right.
We should ask, where is he? Is he at his office?
Because maybe we just get it done.
Yeah, yeah, we know. I thought we were just going to
get this done and over with now so we can draw on with our
lives. I'd love to move on with our
lives, I mean. Reggie, can you just, oh, I
don't know, like turn the cameras off?
Good point. That's a good idea.
I didn't think of that should do that.
OK. Is that is that what you're
going to do? Turn the cameras off.
Oh, OK. I think we've come up with our
plan. Turn the cameras off.
Just do it here. Just do it.
Right here. Well, I do, I do have I do have
access to security cameras to the drone, so.
Well. Perfect.
I think our plan is going to work.
Right. Good.
Now if only the dice all correctly.
That's all. That's all that it's up to at
this point. Chance.
Fate. Right.
There's always an element of luck with these things, and so
we wait. Roll for it.
Or the die roll. Yes.
What am I rolling? I don't know what are you
rolling. I don't know, I do.
Roll to turn camera off. Roll camera switch.
I didn't even know I was rolling.
I also didn't know. I was like, what are you
rolling? He's waiting on who to to roll.
It's going to be electronic security tech.
Roll press button. Oh.
What did you get? Nope. 14.
Roll I've ever seen on this four.
You're. On the 40. 4 on electronic
security tech. Yeah, you do that cool loop
thing. Oh yeah, I I pulled the the
speed maneuver. But but if you don't make a
mistake of having someone be a bad loop.
Yes, make sure that they're all, all the hallways and stuff are
empty. So at the Dean's office, he's
just there. I don't know what a Dean does in
his office. Because you rolled so high, you
can see that he is picking his nose.
I mean, of course that makes sense.
What a pervert. Sorry.
Just randomly sticking objects and orifices in his body at
work. I mean, come on.
Remy, thank you for turning off the camera.
Could we go? Well, yeah, yeah.
Are we splitting up or are we all going to do that and then
doing the satellite dish? I can I can give you moral
support while you soak some guy's mouth shut, Vivi, but, but
that's about as much as I can do.
OK. Or maybe you could just at least
like, keep a lookout. Outside of the room I can do
that. Yes.
I'll just be in here or out there.
I'll be in either side of the door and I'll just make sure no
one comes in. I I don't really know what else
to do. Maybe I should just stay away.
Should I just stay out here? You've you've done a good job.
Do you want, do you want to help me install the thing on the roof
now that we have a satellite dish?
Oh well, there you go. I feel much better doing that.
Let's do that. Let's do that.
That's a good idea. Now we have a plan and I don't
have to be in the room when someone's much so sorry.
Well, I had put us outside of the room, but that's perfect.
Let's do you want to come to the roof Iona do you do you?
No, you don't. You don't want to come.
You want to watch the mouth be. No, I'm going to stand outside
the room and hear it apparently is what I've decided I'm going
to do. Oh.
That's so horrible. All right, so I get who's the
muscle? Who's going to pan down?
Pan into are we? Wait, hold on.
Are we sewing a mouth of a man? Are we doing that?
Or is that a metaphor for just keeping him quiet?
Are we? We're actually doing this.
But why? Well, you see, it's important
that when you say something, you mean it, and when you mean
something, you carry through but.
Couldn't he just, like, get it undone?
Or you can. It's a very temporary process,
but I'll tell you one thing. It's going to hurt and it's
probably going to, I think I mean the plan.
Let's listen folks. If we want to, if we want to
kind of, you know, back up a little bit and maybe do this
more humanely. Maybe we maybe we put him out
completely, but then he wakes up and he looks himself and goes,
Oh my God. Of course he's not saying this.
He's just thinking it because he can't say it because his mouth
is. Jeb, you're the one who got us
into this in the 1st place. You're the one that agreed to.
I just think that if there's one thing that's going to make a man
think about saying things he shouldn't, it's sewing his mouth
shut. You mean like setting a library
on fire? I'm just I, I definitely, I
think we should knock him out before we do because I don't
want him to know that I'm the one that did it, even though
you're the one that threatened him.
So he's going to know that he. Won't know.
And do we want to just knock him out and take him somewhere, or
are we just knocking him out and sewing his mouth shut?
Oh, no, we're doing it here. Let's I mean, I've already, I've
already done the work. I've already turned off the
cameras. Let's just just get it knocked
down now. You know, like I don't want to
have to carry him all the way to some place and then like to wait
to watch. I want to.
I want to watch the show. And once we leak all the
information to the press about him wanting to burn down the
priceless artifacts of books, then maybe maybe he'll think
about it. And then we could even tell the
journalist, the journalist could put a little a ditty on it, a
little a little sentence at the end.
Maybe that kind of poetically ties the fact that maybe burning
down the library and and losing all this information is kind of
burning books is kind of like so when the mouth shut of society.
You mean silencing the those who protest?
That's right. So it's a beautiful metaphor.
Punishment, you know. Beautiful metaphor, Jeb.
I'm just I'm just this may moon this into serial killer
territory so I'm just checking. It's not serial killer if we're
not killing them. Don't point at me like that
Vivi. I understand that that is a good
point. Like sadistic may I I'll take
sadistic, but serial killer No, this is this is all out of
passion, man. It's not like we planned this.
This guy is not a good guy so. You wanted to burn down a
library for money. He's a total asshole, so I think
he does. This is the like.
He'll recover, he'll be fine. This is just teaching him a
lesson. Next time on no latency what?
Code word do you want? Oh yeah, it's important.
Feel like we're the mafia now. Don't have any sedative.
Quietly go in and sedate him and then do this all right make.
Haste. I feel like we don't get a lot
of one-on-one time. Just me and you.
Who? Hasn't been found naked in the
hallway at some point in their life.
Make my way in, make haste while he's distracted.
All right, well, I guess it was not red wire to blue.
Wire. I mean, we could punch him in
the head until he passes out. I will attempt.
That's cheaper. Get this over with and teach
this guy a lesson. I suppose we should say up here,
actually, I was going to say maybe we get down there and see
how they're doing, but maybe we should have a.
Favorite set of needles you like to use?
Maybe twisted, completely sedated?
But she's not that twisted. I'm mostly watching this drone
to see if it's getting any closer to us.
I'm obviously doing a subcutaneous suture.
Van Dear, what the? Hell, the graveyard of emails.
Take a vow of silence. Any curiosity?
VV Was that the first time you've sewed a man's mouth shut?
You used to do this all the time at the morgue.
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for listening. We literally couldn't do this
without you. Thanks Jim, it means a lot.
Have a good week and we'll see you next time in Night City.