Last time on no latency. We have all of the pieces.
Several, unfortunately. So we just need to get one giga
Joule of energy. Get a bunch of hamsters.
Hear me out. So what's the plan?
Set up some explosives and Big Bang kaboom.
That's emergency plans. We're not blowing anything up
anymore. What's happening?
We're so past. That one Spire we'll take care
of pretty easily. And I have to stay here.
Damn this thing handles like a God damn.
I occasionally glance over to see how the rest of them are.
Doing on the bird go. Home well, no.
So that it handles really well. The other one, the.
Storm brews outside, it is almost time.
OK, OK, I'm on it. Jeez.
The emergency shut off system which is also located at the top
all right. Let's go ahead and open that
hatch. You get 1 bolt, I'll get the
other bolt. Down in the Hatch.
There we go. Standing at the top of this
Spire and you can see Spire A covered in this rubber and in
the distance there's a bolt of lightning and then you hear
Thunder. Works outside difficult.
You'll see the lightning before you hear the Thunder.
What the hell was that? It's it's VV getting into her
role. Don't you gotta let them get
through the phase on their own? And you and you make your way
down very good into the Spire, into this next floor.
And on the inside you've come downstairs.
There are 7 capacitors in here that connects 2 cables going
into the ground. There's the ladder you came down
and a little console on the wall.
Oh my God, look at all this. And some stairs down.
What the hell am I looking at? I don't understand a God damn
thing. Do you try and touch it?
No, he's not that. Stupid Jeb, just in.
Case you're you're feeling stupid today, don't touch
anything. It's just a capacitor.
The hum of this tower can still be heard.
It has absorbed some lightning recently.
Oh, so then the capacitors are full or no, at least somewhat
full. Somewhat full, yes.
And it's being slowly drained away by I'm assuming.
The city. 400, well, yeah, but it's like it's getting run by,
I'm assuming 400 millisilles cables.
That's about how you can go at the moment.
I guess I mean, I don't know. Yeah.
I mean, the amperage for that's going to be, I mean, to be
honest, like if you really want to get a better charge from it,
you'd actually want to take all of the, you know, protective
covering off of it because that actually cuts down the amount of
power the more exposed copper. You have the.
More, that's exactly. Yeah, yeah, I need that.
Right here can is this. Is this the emergency shut off?
Does it say it? I don't know, there's a
computer. Well, I'm asking I'm.
Asking. We're looking at it.
I'm asking. Yeah, we're.
Looking at it, does it say it? This computer is the release for
the Hatch above you, as well as a little stasis indicator for
how the tower is doing. So not the button I'm looking
for. No, it does indicate that the
emergency shut off for this Spire is connected to the tower
above you outside. Can we find where the circuit
Breakers are? There's one on each of these
capacitors. I'm going to shut each one off.
True. Roll for it if.
There wasn't that bad. Roll 3 times.
OK, I'm going to say. Roll again one more.
You shut off one side, you shut off the other, But you also
rolled a crit fail on electronic security tech, so as you go to
shut off the final one, it shocks you pretty heavily.
You take 5HP damage. Retro careful.
I think I just took 480 up the poop shoot.
Vivi, you see Retro take this five damage over the video and
you're starting to install some of the internal cyberware and
the port will be temporary for installing Domino into this
brain. Make sure you come back on One
Piece Retro. I don't have to put you back
together as well. Hey guys, she's really into this
doctor BB Stan thing. Yes, we're supposed to just let
it happen. Oh, OK, just.
Man, the the delusions of grandeur to go.
You know it's a phase. Oh hey, wasn't your hump on the
other side? Shut up, retros, shut.
Up. We're we're going to watch BB
roll surgery right now and we're going to ignore the fact that my
shoulder does not have continuity.
Do I have an idea of how many more checks I just how many more
checks I'm going to need to do before the final?
You need to do three more major surgery things before the body
is ready for the energy and the data, including this one.
All right, Good to know. Just determining when I want to
put luck in. For now, we will continue.
Oh, that is great success. And now it is much easier for
stranger to hold this cable because you've managed to
position everything in such a way that the body helps keep it
in place. You're really proud of yourself,
actually. Yes, this will do just fine.
Stranger. I've made it easier.
For you. Thank you, Master.
Is that what I meant to call back in the Spire?
You're watching VV laugh maniacally into the sky.
We are nearly complete. Soon, soon it will all be done.
Soon, soon Domino will come to lie also.
That's my line. Don't you dare say it.
Oh shit. We've all been waiting for it.
OK. All right, all.
Right. Sorry, sorry.
Meanwhile, back in the Spire, Retro has finished being
electrocuted and you know that the shut off is above you.
OK. Retro was actually shocked, not
electrocuted. Thank you.
Fair enough. I I I learned something from my
electrician friends so. We we do take that seriously.
Electrocuted means actual death. It's it's a portmanteau of
electric execution. Yeah.
You can't get electrocuted if you don't die.
Remember folks. Just like defenestration.
If you weren't dead, or if you don't die, you weren't
electrocuted. So unless someone has a better
plan, I'm about to go to plan Z. Can you remember what plan Z
was? An explosion.
I wouldn't know. We don't need to.
I've just got to climb back up this hatch and hit the button.
Oh, I I thought we couldn't find the emergency shut off.
I was just going to cut off all, you know, circuit protection.
And then the next lightning bolt would come and fry the tower
itself, pretty much melting it where it stood.
And then, you know, no more tower.
Well, at least no more electrical one.
You hear a rumble of Thunder. Did we see the lightning?
Yes. Oh, what was the count?
3. Shit 3 miles away.
Well, here's the thing. How, how, How are we getting
down? Well, there's stairs, right?
Yeah. Sure.
How fast do you think we can go down the stairs?
The emergency evacuation plan for that building, was it purely
just stairs? Because I the evacuation plan
said run, but did it mean like run to the chutes or?
That means run down the stairs. Run down the stairs all right,
just have to double check. Elevators would need to be shut
off. You can't have elevators during
an emergency shutdown. But they do.
They do. Shoots There are no elevators in
this building. That is not 88 compliant.
Oh, they revoked that in 2038. So you're going to go upstairs
and turn this thing off for a while?
Well, Roger, I didn't know there was a shut up button.
Let's just do that. No, we can hit the shut up
button. I just.
I thought we couldn't find it so.
Well, I didn't look UPS up on the roof.
I looked down here because I didn't want to be on the roof
because it's wet and it's cold and I might get shocked.
There's a flash of lightning. One 1000.
Two 1003 One. That's 2 miles away.
Now you're going to need to go ahead and get your get our butts
up there, Somebody Vendel, send Vendel.
Vendel's really good at that stuff, right?
No. Vendel's got a middle leg.
I'll just do it. I'll do it.
Right Iona, you climb back up the ladder and you're upstairs
in front of. Wait, wait.
Before you go, I'm going to hand Iona some heavy surgery gloves
that I got from the coroner's office, which should be a pretty
good thickness of a rubber. You.
Slip by the mall your. Your raincoat.
Rubberized raincoat. Yes, you're very cutesy.
Pink rubberized raincoat. There's a flash of lightning as
you come up two. 100 thousand shoot.
All right, all right, I'm I'm looking around at the top.
Move back up here where I'm not. Oh, I'm trying to find where on
the map I was. All right, I'm here.
I see that there is a the bottom of the the like the electric
conductive actual Spire. There's a little computer here.
I imagine that's where the shut off button is.
Be a good guess. Tip tap away but.
You, you tap away at this this little computer, and you shut
off the collection. You you push a few buttons and
you watch it mechanically start to fall into the tower to remove
the metal from the sky and it makes a very upsetting noise and
stops. The metal piece is still stuck
out, however the tower has been shut off, so now the capacitors
are not connected and this will no longer draw as much
electricity in. However, now that it's stuck, if
this building's hit with electricity, it's not going to
be a good day. And that's what it says on the
screen. Not going to be a good day fire
error. In the danger of the mission of
building it's hit by. Lightning makes sense.
Oh boy. Why should we do it come.
Back down the Hatch, I'm. Going to get the hell out of
here. I come back down the Hatch.
I my plan. Just as that.
Let's go. There's a flash.
What? Of lightning.
One, 1000. Two, 1000.
There's a lot of stairs. Maybe we should get a
Stairmaster. It is one mile away.
Oh. Shoot.
All right. Like we're going downstairs and
I'm starting to get like, this is this is a lot of stairs.
Is this like lighthouse stairs where we're just going in
circles and circles and circles and circles and circles?
One second. Oh.
We're about to find out. Oh gosh, it's a pit of
blackness, everyone. Oh God, you guys are on the
right. Oh, there we go.
Oh, I thought for a second we could just hit a blackout.
Oh, OK. I'm running, it's OK come on
Playing a video game here the. Concrete work on here is really
good. Oh, there you are.
Oh, this is a dead end. All right, somebody roll me AD
10. OK, sure.
Jeb, you're leading the pack as you come up to the door to the
next available floor. You rolled an 8.
That's very good. That's very good.
It's pretty good. And you make your way down to to
a locked door. Oh.
Shit. All right, it's time to blast
this shit up. Come on now.
So I'm going to do some. You're the one with the big
guns. Can I, can I just rattle the
handle and keep it OK? I'm going to run off the handle
and see if it's actually just, you know, pressurized door and
you just need to put a little more force into it.
It's definitely locked. As you rattle the door in
between the rattling, the wind battering the side of this
building, you hear the distinct whirring of security drones.
Yeah, we were going to the next without shooting some stuff, so
here we go. Well, to get out I guess I'm
just going to do a a a running shoulder charge using my
metallic arm as part of the battering ram.
Sure I roll wrong for you. 32 Yes, you blow the door open and
as you smash on through you see that there is a drone directly
in front of you. And the door hits it.
Yes it does and it takes 7 damage and worse slightly as it
as it flies backwards. That's pretty cool.
I that that you know, that that is a small fantasy of my own
already, to be able to kick a door open and have a hidden
enemy. Yeah.
That was cool, Jeb. Did you see it?
Yeah, Jeb, good job. I mean, I was right here.
I mean, Jeb was looking retro. You did a good thing.
But did Jeb? Jeb, did you see the the the
breeching clear? Oh my God, I did a breeching.
I was here. I was sitting here watching you
and I didn't even notice you did a breeching clear.
Jesus Christ, it was so clean. I don't even know how I did it
myself. I just, I'm impressed.
Now that you can see this drone, what are you going to do?
I don't know, I'm all amped up after getting shot.
What are you? What are you going to do?
We're going to shoot it. Right, Jeb, Shoot it.
Oh, OK. I thought we weren't going to go
into like initiative or nothing. We're just going to go out and
shoot it. OK, OK, sure, sure.
No. Problem 2 Enemies Absolutely
not. Got you 22.
Yes, your first shot rings out inside of this area.
It flies towards the drone and the drone takes 8 damage.
It wears slightly as it tries to re stabilize itself in the air.
You have a second shot. Sure do. 29 what a hit you do 10
damage brings the drone down below half elf and it flies to
the N wall and smashes open the window.
Rain and winds start to batter inside of the Spire as it's also
word by the wind. It takes 7 damage from the wind
and such as it rattles against the wall and explodes, ruining
the window. The window now cannot close.
The glass smashes everywhere. It's cold in here.
There must be something. In the atmosphere I said, oh, is
that the wrong movie BB Sorry. Bring it.
This is ruining my concentration.
Retro You start to laugh at this video feed, and as you step out
into this room, there's another drone to yourself.
Oh shit, OK, do I get serious or do I get silly?
What do I do? Get serious.
Let's get serious. There's now a -, 1 to hit in
here because of all of the wind and such.
I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll shoot it with my with my K tech.
Where are you, buddy? Oh, there you are. 22 you do 13
damage which is a decent amount. The drone flies back in the room
as it takes your shot. Damn it, I left.
I left the bird shot in there. Not a slut fuck.
Any two people who can do anything now are Vendel and
Iona. Well, I guess I'll step into the
room and shoot at the drone of that Retro was just shooting at,
which I believe is the one to the left.
To the South, yes. South Oh, that's right, all
right. Remwear IP edition handgun, the
Hello Corpo, if you will. Bullet rings out and you do
eight. Yeah, that's right.
You do 8 damage. The drone flies to the back
wall. I'm going to roll, see if it
hits the other window. It avoids it.
That's awesome. And it just smacks against the
wall. It's still up though.
Oh, Chip. Oh, nineteen.
Yes. With crit damage it explodes
against the side of the building and you are able to choose with
your bullet as you hit it if you want it to blow open the window
or avoid blowing up the window. No, we're avoiding any more
wind. All right.
Do not blow up. The wind, you take out this
drone and it is finally down with two drones.
There are pieces on the ground, wind blowing through this room.
You're about 1/3 of the way down this tower at this point and
there's a flash of lightning. It is very close.
How high up? Probably.
Pretty high up. Like over 100 feet.
Way over 100 feet. Fuck where?
Where is the door? Oh God, there's.
South. So many distractions.
All right, well, I'm going to hit.
I'm going to hit this Doylan. I'm not even going to check to
see if it's locked battering ramit again.
It is open and. It goes boom and it.
Goes boom. And you head on down the stairs.
I really need to do more cardio. I need more cardio rolling.
Machines the. Bar.
OK, All right. Who's leading the charge?
I'm going to roll AD 10. That's a 30.
Here. Oh, Jeb, I I met you down here
at the bottom of this stairwell. Yeah, I learned I can.
We can use the arrow keys, so I'm kind of running constantly.
Wait. I don't need to actually run, I
can just use arrow keys. You can just use the arrow keys
man. And you make it to yet another
open floor. I'm just glad I don't need to
use my walking legs no more. Oh, I see there's a dog legs.
Well, would someone else like to take this one or a?
We gotta go. I think we should just start
opening doors. I mean, at this point we got we
how much time we got left you? Think Lightning.
Before this whole thing. Oh.
Yeah, not very. Not very long at all.
It's time. It's.
Time to go right now. Well, open the door, Jeb.
OK, OK. Raw perception No, don't step
out. Don't step out 22 Jeb.
You're about to step out and you notice that the floor is wet and
there's a crackly noise. What?
Oh boy. Whatever could that mean?
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OK, OK, Rachel, you seem to know how these things work.
How do we get around this is. There any way I could take a
step out to see any more into the room or at?
Least yes you can lean out a roll athletic so that you don't
fall over. Can I do evasion?
Yes. That's better. 17 Yes, you may
stand there, but go nowhere else.
Can I tell where the where there is an an excess amount of
sparks? It is mostly coming from the
cables to the southwest as they are.
They have burst from one of the capacitors and are laying in the
water that is bifurcating this room.
Son of. A bitch and there's no.
I know, right? Good use of the word
bifurcating. Thank you, Tracy, and.
They have no surge protection here.
Great. What do we what's what's the
ceiling looking like? Pretty plain.
It's solid, though it's not a drop ceiling.
Not. A drop ceiling.
Nope. But there.
It's also dripping water from one of the windows just where it
came in. Is there a bunch of conduits for
where the wires run through? No, it's lying on the floor from
the transformer to yourself. Above us in the ceiling, is
there a conduit where they would be doing runs of the power?
No, the cables run on the outside of the building.
Normally they're not inside. Fucking mad scientist who built
this building. Holy shit.
Definitely not, Nika approved. Oh hey, you still got my face.
I sure do. Do you want to use it as like a
Lily pad? You could try to do it as a Lily
pad or like we use it like a like a body board or like.
A boogie board and. We just, yeah, just stand on it
and then somebody pushes the other one across the water.
Is that going to work? I I think the Lily pad might be
an easier and more simpler idea. So I'm, I'm just going to, I'm
out. Of shape, I'm afraid.
I'm going to, I'm going to lob this thing into the center.
It's just a nice little plop. So there is a pillar in the
middle of this room, which means you're going to have to jump
around it to get to the door. The door on the other side of
the room, however, is open, so you could jump through it.
It's been blown open by the wind.
So just so my oh, go ahead. Jeff, your, your bullets are
high caliber, right? 45.
Definitely would be able to take a chunk out of concrete, right?
Oh, I think so. Can you blow us a couple of hand
foot holes on the concrete pillar?
Well, that's an interesting idea.
I suppose I could try. All right, roll for it.
That goes wrong. Sure did.
Nice 22 and 23. You blow two holes in this
concrete pillar that are really good, like hand and foot holes,
enough for someone to grab on, but you don't do enough damage
to damage the pillar structurally, which is nice and
gives you one extra step to this, making a little easier to
cross this electrified water. This is so idea plan Zeta Alpha
back to the surfboard idea. But we use the hand holds to
help push ourselves along and going in a diagonal to the door
and then when we get there we throw it back to the others.
Sure, go ahead, try your boogie board idea.
Shit. So where are you throwing the
pad? I'm not.
Throwing the pad down at my feet.
OK. Jeb, push me to the pillar.
All right. Roll Athletics 18.
Yes, that's enough. Retro slides across the room and
is now parallel with the pillar and the door.
I'm going. To try to use the hand foot
holds on the pillar to help stabilize and push myself to the
other end of the door. You slide into the stairway all.
Right, I get just to the edge. Oh, roll athletics.
Yes, thought I could get away with it.
Nope, 17, yes, that's enough. You slide in, now have the pad
underneath you. One down, 3 to go.
Make it all the way to the end and as I go to jump off I
actually slip and the the board goes flying back to the rest of
the crew but I land face first down the stairwell.
All right, Jeb, roll something to catch the piece of rubber.
You managed to catch it. And as you catch it, really,
really happy with yourself, Phoebe, you see Jeb catch it on
the video feed that Vendel's filming.
And this, this accomplishment fills you with a little bit of
joy as you work on your next stage of operation.
Seems my companions are slowly putting everything together on
their end to make sure that this entire process goes as smoothly
as possible. I am quite proud of them.
Here here are the the the final major pieces master.
The final. Cyber hands.
Yes, the final pieces, then we will construct the last of this
specimen and we will be ready. To go some people might call
this thing an abomination. Not me though, don't know what
that means. No population, No.
This is a gift and nothing more. Role surgery 15 Yes, you attach
the cyber hands to Domino. Domino gets no plus or minus to
this and then the empty husk of a body now has all the cyberwear
needed. Your next surgery is to close
him up and you get ready to to work on that as you watch the
crew try and pass this electrified water and video.
Oh my. God I just realized VV Victor.
Yes, Doctor Phoebe. Frankenstein.
Frankenstein, she's really
getting into it, guys. You should hurry up.
Yeah, I'm getting worried now, actually.
Jeff, as you're holding this map, you hear lightning, and
then you feel the Spire around you rumble.
It's been hit by a shot. Oh, shit.
And Ayanna, you know that if the Spire gets hit one more time,
it's not going to be good. It's not connected to any
capacitors, so now that it's fully charged it'll just burst
into flames. Well damn it, I've already told
everyone this. We just have to get out of this
building and we need to do it faster.
All right, Jeb, rather get across the water.
Sure. I guess I'm a roll sneak and
that or stealth because that makes sense.
I'm being sneaky as I'm trying to, you know, get across this
whole thing. Don't let the electricity know
you're scared of it. It can sense fear. 22 Yeah, you
make it beautifully. And now Vendel and Iona are on
the other side. Do you want to just carry you?
Yeah, that definitely works. Yeah.
Because your wheels are rubber, so that's good.
Yeah, you can keep the pad, guys.
I got this. Come on Iona, I'll save you.
Wee. Skate fast.
Turn. Right, actually.
You know what, this whole session has been very good of
learning our lefts from our rights.
Yeah, right are. You rolling something useful?
Skilled. Oh am I?
Am I rolling something? Well, Vendel has to roll and get
past this electrified water. Sure.
How about dance? 18 Yes beautifully takes Iona
and skates across the water, heading to the other side.
Oh my God, they pulled off a triple Axel.
I've been practicing, thank you that.
Was like floating on a a cloud. You're welcome.
I highly suggest it. And you make your way down the
stairs and you haven't got long to go.
Now a door A door A. Door.
Going to make your way. Region Clear.
To another floor. This door is not locked.
OK, that way it is before I step in.
Oh, crackle, crackle. Yeah, any crackle, crackle. 16
There's a giant hole in the floor.
The fall below you is like 5 stories.
Oh, it will hurt a lot. What's the what's the this big
structure to our right? That's one of the capacitors.
Is there something I can grab onto?
I mean in theory it's got like cables and stuff.
I fire off. Oh no I can't, I disabled it.
Fuck. I was going to try to use my
grapple arm but it's disabled right now.
You've got a grapple, Jeb. That's true.
You always forget you have a grappling hug now might be not
always and vestigious to that. And as Mandela's talking, there
is another flash and the whole building rumbles around you and
you can hear the crackling at the top and the sound of
capacitors exploding above you, and it is now on fire above you,
and the fire is making its way down.
Oh. Shit.
Is it starting to get hot in here?
You know what I'm? Saying, yeah, Jeb, attach your
grappling hook here and then we repel down the this hole.
We're repelling. OK, Great idea.
Actually, it's very good. Very good.
Here we go, and I shoot right above me.
Well, we're at above the hole, I suppose.
Great, there's a pillar in the middle you could attach to if
you're skilled enough. Let's find out.
Do I have a skill? It's a gun, I think, in your
sheet. I thought it was but I'm not
seeing it. Roll handgun because that's all
it is. OK.
Yeah, gun pep is cold. You fire it off and the grapple
flies off and falls down the hole.
Can I burn one of my inspirations for Jeb?
Yes. OK, hold on, hold on, hold on.
I got time. I got time.
Let me just reel that back in and.
Here we go. I don't think we really have the
time. Just relax.
You can hear fire start to crackle above you in this
stairway, Jeb. You're all a 23, which gives you
a grapple point down 5 levels, giving you good headway above
the fire that is encroaching this fire down.
Do you want to make your way down?
Yeah. One at a time.
I don't want the the rope to break.
Right. Roll athletics.
Everyone except VV. Yep.
No VV if you could also. VV is just long for the ride.
I just wanted Tracy to see my cool maps, that's all.
Yep. You did put a lot of work into
it and I took not that long to screw it up.
Yep, I expect that of you, Jeb. You make it down, Iona, you make
it down. Oh.
Fuck. Vendel comes on down and wraps
their cyber leg around the rope and it cuts midway and they
fall. Retro is above them and retro
falls two floors. Retro roll 3D6 so.
This is how I'm punished. Oh.
What's your what's? Yeah, yeah.
So you take, it's a melee attack, so you take half that.
So that's eight damage total and you land on Vendel.
So Vendel takes now? Fuck 4 damage ow.
Rich Rd. Get off.
Oh God, your body is made of iron.
No, just my leg, you prick. Get off me.
But. What the fuck did I land on?
I think. I think you just cracked my
back. You're welcome.
Dislocated my fucking disc Ow. Phoebe.
Phoebe, does this look serious? Phoebe.
I'm very busy right now. I cannot.
We are nearly to completion. Now Retro's having to walk
around with a hunch because they've got a big old bump from
landing on Vendel's steel leg. Whatever physical ailments have
come to retro, we'll have to wait until after this procedure.
I. Wasn't told by retro.
It's all about me. I really hurt my OK fine.
Oh, and and you, Vendel, I'm sorry.
Should be it's. Me.
What are we waiting for? We got to get.
Out we got to. Move just hobbling along, old
man. Walk with the hand on my back.
This is the door down. Jeb, as you're walking around
this floor, you notice that there are two cabinets in this
floor on the walls as you pass them.
Cabinets. Yeah, like lockers.
Oh. We gotta go.
You don't check him, all right? That's fine.
No. We gotta go.
The building's on fire. I just wondered if you want to
do a little, you know, looting on the way down.
God no, the building is on fire. If I hadn't gotten hurt, I would
be like, well, hold on a second. My belly's on fire, how about
yours? And you make your way into
another stairwell, heading down to the final floor, the entrance
of the Spire. I'm glad it was down and not up.
Oh, thank you. You know, where'd it go?
Ready. Are you doing OK?
Do you need any? I don't know.
I I I have drugs. Do you need that?
Yes, give me drugs. All right, I'm, I'm going to
pull, I'm actually going to pull a stimulant out of my bag.
Interesting. Because a muscle relaxer or a
suppressant it's going to make retro slower and at more of a
hazard and they won't be able to operate heavy machinery.
So have a stimulant make you forget all about your.
Trouble. What is that?
What is it like a pill? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's, that's
going to be a pill, not a hypo. Shit, I can't swallow pills.
Production up and snorted. Oh yeah.
Roll, resist, torture drugs. Don't want it to happen. 10
basic stimulant, yeah. Let's go.
I'm just going to start bouncing off the walls.
You're going to ask the drug, the drug taker if they want
drugs giving me. You can hear the crackling of
flames and then Thunder once again.
The building shakes again as you hear pieces of it break above
you and you rush down to the bottom of the stairs and you
come up to a locked door and the sounds of two guys arguing.
I know, already busted through the door.
Roll for it. It's on fire.
Run. I say as I bust out through the
door. Yeah, roll for it.
The busting or the yelling? Busting make me feel good.
Through that 23 Amazing. Yes, good.
The door bursts open and inside are two guards arguing with each
other. I look, I, I, I don't know, the
door won't open. It's this fire security?
It won't open. Fuck.
Who the fuck are you? I'm just trying to get out of
this building. Can you?
Why? Did you?
Get inside fucking squatters. Fire starts to lick into the
bottom of the stairway. The entire thing is now
completely aflame. Please kick it open.
Kick the door open. Do something.
Come on. Oh, you know, Vendel's got
powerful legs. Why don't you do it?
I'll do it. Get out of my fucking way.
And they push this guard against the wall.
There you go. That is a crit 23 on damage.
The door bursts wide open. That's 666's baby.
And the door flies across the room and sticks into the sofa on
the other side. You got it open, no?
Wait, I think a moment needs to be taken right now because this
there's no. Moments retro The building is on
fire. Let's.
Go. We got to move.
I just got to appreciate a cold mat.
Yeah, we did, with the door sticking into a sofa and you
make your way out to the small parking area outside of this
lightning Spire and as you turn around you can see it full
ablaze. You know, it's kind of beautiful
from down here. VV On screen you can see that
this tower is now dead, and soon the Lightning's target will be
the Spire. Open their latency building.
The roof, The roof The roof is on fire.
All right, we're going to head back to the bar and we'll see
you in a bit, Vivi. Crazy there.
Will they be back? In time for yeah.
OK, they will. So they're heading back towards
the bar. You're standing with stranger
inside. Now we wait for them to arrive.
We finish the final touches before he is complete.
Look at him. We, we, so we're going to attach
the, the the cable will not reach up.
Then I take it upstairs to the warehouse across the way and
then that's got the thingy to put it up to the thing.
Bob. With the.
Spire now. Can you take it across?
Yeah, I got you. Do you want to carry the other
side of the cable? Yes, I will.
So you and stranger awkwardly move this thing up the stairs
outside through crystals by joy as she watches you.
Hi. Guys, so I do some late night
stuff. OK.
You guys are always up to the weirdest stuff.
And you, you're in the middle of you.
You've, you've done it. You're on the other side of the
little cul-de-sac here, outside of Crystals by Joy in the empty
warehouse across the way, on a table that is suspended to the
ceiling with four cables on each corner.
And when you're finally done placing the body on this, you
can snake the cable down and push it up towards the Spire in
time for it to gather a little lightning.
Yes. And the crew arrives in the
alleyway behind you. Just in time you've arrived.
Yep. Yep, we made it.
We made it. We're here.
You got it. You got it all done.
Yep. Yep.
Yep, Yep, Yep. Yep, you can see a huge cable
you lot as you enter this area, running from Crystals by Joy
right across the alleyway to an empty building on the other
side. Oh, nice, A4 hot.
That's about roughly the size of a Bratwurst.
You are correct you. Should go in the warehouse.
It's like there's stuff in there.
Oh, there's stuff in there. And you're all standing around
VB, a head full of static, the goggles on top of her head,
stranger with a pillow now on the other side again I'm.
Facing my continuity. You're just doing the final
stitch as one of them came undone as you were transferring
it over roll search. All right. 17 yes, the stitch is
beautiful and your final stitch is a heart on his left thigh.
I love. That.
Very VV. Preparations are complete.
Yes, preparations are complete. The storm is coming, Rain is
bonding, is dying to ascend my new shell.
It is time indeed. Now everybody gather round as I
put the cables together and we prepare to bring this body to
life. And you pull this thing from
above you, it's got a big controller on the end and two
buttons up and down. You can send it up towards the
roof of this building. Oh.
And I click it up. And you hear the winch pull this
body up as the arms flail out as it heads towards this Spire on
the top that stranger has made. Yes, ascend you.
See a flash of lightning in the distance?
It won't be long now. I I feel it.
I feel the storm incoming. Do you all feel it?
Hey, hey, hey. Is it me or is it just like is
there a lot of static build up because Phoebe's hair is
starting to get really frizzy? It's, it's got to almost Afro
quality at this point, and there's a flash of lightning
which hits the building. You feel the whole building.
Rumble and Vivi, you haven't felt this once all night.
But the rest of the crew who are in the Spires earlier, they
recognize this building. The building's been hit with
lightning above you, a flash of light cascades through the roof
cavity as the body is filled. You can see the hands twitch,
all four of them. You can smell in the air.
The ions change and through the very bottom of this glass panel
that you've thrown up there because it's not as conductive,
you can see the sand division on their back filled with green
light as the cable fills with electricity.
The electricity heads down the cable towards the bar and comes
back with a green. As the data fills the body, you
can see the hands convulse and then they go limp.
The sound of rain buffeted against the building clears the
silence. You can hear the tap, tap,
tapping of heavy raindrops against the windows.
And there above you is this still body.
In the aftermath of this electric explosion, No.
No, no, I press down immediately.
It comes down the winch, straining at the electricity
it's just happened to withstand, and it comes down to about waist
height. And there before you is the ever
so slightly singed body that you'd put together still
lifeless. Smells like ribs.
Or gel tape me no. No.
It was supposed to. Everything was was perfectly
calculated. It was all supposed to go so
well. And this creation I move closer
to my creation. You step next to the body.
Do you examine it? Yes, I take a look at at the
charred pieces and look closer. The cable is dark.
The room is 2. There's a distant flash of
lightning 2 Three. There's another flash of
lightning from afar. The angle of light cascades
across the eyes as another one comes out.
The Thunder follows, and in the second flash of light, the eyes
have opened. I check the vitals and pulses.
You feel a pulse. The hand grabs yours.
Now's. The time.
I've done it. This is it.
It's alive. It's alive.
Next time on no latency. I also love the fact that he's
got a A duster. Are they at least up and walking
around? Maybe a bit more time to adjust
to the body and. When do we think Domino will be
up and? What's your temperature reading?
Oh no, he's high. Warmer than usual, but that's
still average. Not full credit.
I mean, yes, we gathered the pieces, but.
But I do take credit for that duster.
And Vivi, you did a wonderful job.
Thank you. Very good.
That's just something you do when life just kind of hits you.
Yep, it's the marijuana. Oh yeah?
Did you hear that every? Different in person, yeah.
Wow, karma comes back eventually, doesn't.
It how are you with the Dewey Decimal System?
I don't see any major flags or issues.
Well. Look at that.
Big deal, I can do that too. Do do you think Domino's hitting
up? Oh, I forgot that you had that.
Well, you weren't supposed to hear that.
Would you like to go first or should I go first?
Oh, another one of them. Not again.
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