Last time on no latency. Driving the clives.
Why are we going to?
Clives what were? You not paying attention?
Rescuing him and then he's gonna give us the guns, All right?
That makes a lot of sense. Are we going up headshots then?
Well, of course. Head over on over to that gate.
But the front door is locked. We need you.
OK, we'll unlock it and. Then come back over, all right.
It's quietly sneak it. Bridge and clear.
Preaching clear all. Right, Jeff, let's go.
Preaching clear. Mother.
Oh my God. I got this guy.
Just run through there. He won't even see you coming.
If you don't stop your friend from opening that door, I'm
gonna shoot you in the head this close.
Do you know what happens when somebody shoots you in the head
this close? I'm gonna make a mad dash
through them. Phoebe, why'd you have to hit
the hot one? Sorry, I did say I wasn't gonna
go for the face, but. I just said I'm Morpheus.
What the hell was that? Glen, what the fuck is going on
here? That's just when you your
regular kind of hold up happens you know Night City and that.
Normally I've got it, but I've got a bit of a bum leg.
I help myself so wanted some help.
Comes really good, but it only really shoots once every two
turns, so. I mean, it's pretty cool to see
now what that gun can do since we got it for you.
Yes. No, I've always.
I was always surprised that none of you tried to shoot it.
I did ask you not to. So thank you, because the
bullets are incredibly expensive.
But that little fucker tried to break into my secure storage.
Got my expensive shit in there. And thank you for not using
grenades, because if you'd blown up one of these lockers, they
are full of, like, you know, guns and ammunition, so it would
have been bad you. Know I was thinking about using
a flame charge, and so I'm really glad that I didn't.
I'm also glad that you didn't, because that's.
I mean, fuck this. I mean, I live here, so.
I'm really honest guy. You're going to probably have a
little bit of an issue of smoke damage inside of your other your
break room area over there because one of those guys did
pop off a smoke grenade, so all. Right.
That's where the delivery man does his drugs.
Oh. Well, it smells like a campfire
in there right now, so. All right.
It's got a mess, woody, smoky smell.
Yeah, I'm not. I'm not really bothered about
that kind of thing. I'm Welsh.
Thanks for helping me. I suppose I should pay you.
That's probably a thing, isn't it?
Or you? Could or you could just give us
discounts. That's.
True. Suppose it's always possible.
I mean, I've kind of already been giving you a discount.
So I tell you what, here's his 250 each.
Is that nice? 2.
Each. That's pretty kind, yeah.
I'll say you know. I've got, you know, I've got
quite popular establishments, so I make a right for myself, but I
should install torrents after that The other gang gangers
would probably be really angry. Are they big?
I never heard of the gang gangers.
No, no, they're not very big. They're a small group, but
they've been a right pain in my backside.
I mean, I can imagine why, and it's because they're trying to
kill you. Is this the 1st?
Time to rob me. Well, they tried to rub me
before, but I was more prepared this time.
I I was in the IT was in the porta potty in the back and it
came back in. They were fucking broken in,
maybe. We should build an actual.
Now single, same thing. Retro, you know?
Well, the door to the to the weapon locking room is like
incredibly strong. It's got like 100HP that door.
That's. I mean, that's a mighty fine
door. Yes, look.
It's really thick. See look.
Yeah, I can see the charge that they exploded on there barely
left a scorch mark. Yes, shaped like a person.
That's a bit of a problem for that person, I suppose.
We piled the bodies in a in a pile of bodies over there.
But you said I I said that there were five of them, but I'm only
counting three in here. And there was only one in the
other room. So where's the other one?
Where is the other one? The other.
Arbitrator. Yes.
No, there were five. Remember when I called you retro
and I said there were four small guns and one big one?
That was Code 5, who was being robbed by four people who were
kind of OK and then one really tough person.
No, no, we we just killed one and there I blew their head off.
Right. Right.
And then I helped VV take care of the big one.
Too right, Uh? Huh.
So 2. And we have fours and.
You did? And then I killed the one near
the door. Rat.
No. Yeah, there's one in the in the
locker in the back, missing. I don't.
Know why? You know about that?
Oh. Oh, we did let 1 go.
We did. Oh, did you?
Oh, that's always a drop. They ran away, yeah.
Oh shit. Oh, that was not just that mean
retro we ain't. We ain't part about it.
Oh. Oh, did you do like some kind of
pincer move? We did exactly a pincer move,
yeah. OK, right.
Then do what? No, I I don't get things
sometimes. Sorry.
Anyway, thank you for for coming at such short notice.
I was like, help me and you showed up.
I can always rely on you lots. It's very nice.
So how was you were gone for a bit.
Where were you? You know, I I tried to find out
where you were. It was like you were out of this
world. Well, that's absolutely correct.
Clav. We were in spites.
We were both really. I accidentally got Jeb really,
really high and we all spaced out.
We got. So I actually had to go to
rehab, didn't we? Jeb and I'll suck Jeb in the in
the shoulder. I.
Do think it's safe to tell Clive.
Clive is part of the Better Business Bureau.
Safe to tell me what we were? Oh, the space is.
Are you being serious? Was that?
We were in outer space. Holy sheep.
Wow, that's a lot. If you went to space, you go to
space. There was a lot of stuff going
on. It was an accident, kind of, but
not really. But we're back and that's all
that matters. Great, right.
Well, because of that I hold up. I missed my delivery.
I don't have a lot of stock. It's a bit of a shame, but if I
can help with like refilling ammo and that sort of thing,
I'll tell you what, your ammo refill this time around, it's
free. Just take.
It. You don't.
Worry you spend bullets. I will say because I own the
property, I do, I am, I am going to keep what's on the bar DS.
Shit, it sounds. Fine retro, so if you could just
step away from the bar DS that would be great all.
Right. Since I paid you and everything,
that's a good boy. There you go.
Yes. Good boy.
Wait, wait, hold on. What?
How many headshots are here? I only got the one, I'll be
honest with you. Clive got one.
You had one headshot. I did have the one.
I got one. I mean, I kind of had one.
No, no, you you crushed someone's eye socket.
That counts, yeah? This is true.
So yeah, you. Say it so nonchalantly, it was
fucking terrifying. Yeah, this this bat's really
great by the way, Retro. Yeah.
Well, thanks. Well.
Done Retro. Thanks for the upgrade.
Thank you SO. Everybody got one.
I suppose. Yeah, I guess we did.
So we're all we're all tat. So this is a competition now?
Oh, it's always. In a competition.
I haven't been keeping score. So now that you're back in town,
what are you going to do next? I mean, you know, you're already
what the other S the building. So we're like, what's what's
next for the crew? You.
Some stuff that, you know, we should probably keep under
wraps, but oh. Is that?
What we're doing. What?
What?
Is that what? Well, I just wanted.
Do you want anything else? Otherwise I suppose you can bug
her off. Well, listen, I I actually would
like to put in an order for something.
What's that? I need a better gun.
Oh, don't we all. What you're looking for?
As do I really. First of all, VV needs a better
gun, period. Of VV.
Yes, pretty badly actually. It's if we could bump that up in
the priority list. No, absolutely.
I mean, I I do sell guns. You're standing in a gun shop,
so why don't you buy a gun? Yeah, let's let's look at them,
them shiny toys that you got. Oh, absolutely.
Now I've got. I only managed to get a little.
As I said, my delivery got cancelled, so I've not got a
lot. And also you know that that
fucking Mr. Carrigan's got his market this quarter.
So a lot of, like, the really good stuff is really hard to get
hold of because he tries to make it scarce, you know?
Yeah. He's actually quite nice.
But I'm, I'm, you know competition in that.
Like fuck that guy you. Know that kind of thing.
I mean, that's the mentality you gotta have if you're in success,
if you're gonna succeed in business.
And I look over to. Iona like that.
Right. Yes.
Good job, Jeb. Thank you.
I've been actually been studying.
I got one of them handbooks from.
From. From Biotechnica, if I thought
you didn't mind it. I saw you had a couple and one
was lying around the bar. So I've been I've been doing
some bit of reading, light reading on business ethics,
business. There are hardly any.
Ethics. Yes, correct.
It's just a small portion of a chapter, I believe.
Well, I've I kind of got bored after that.
There's a lot more interesting stuff in there if you continue
reading. Oh, just Matt.
Let me know if you ever have any questions.
Well, thank you. I don't appreciate that.
The the introduces of of business workings is a little
bit more nuanced to then what a handbook will tell you.
So if you ever want to know about the bureaucracy and all,
you know the pencil pushing all of that jazz.
The the exciting stuff. The exciting stuff.
Yeah, I'll, I'll keep that in mind.
It's nice to have you taking interest in things, Jeb.
Yeah, it was. It was kind of just late at
night and that didn't have anything else to read, look at
and it was the only thing in the bar.
But hey, I learned about how you gotta you gotta keep a leg up in
the competition by stomping everyone else into the ground.
Latest models from. Yeah, the Sanru line by chance.
You know those. That's what you like looking for
pink weapons? Who's the Sanru?
Like the Hello Cute, the hello. Cute.
Yes. Yes.
Oh, yes, no, no like that. And it's like the latest one.
Yes, yes. Yes, yes.
Now I I. I I'd I'd like.
To say one, Iona and I are going to have to fight.
And we have to. Like to say that I've got like
lots but I don't. I do.
I do have I have a replica Sanru Hello cutie they it.
It's a KE 7 so it's not as expensive but it is.
It is a 3D 6 -, 2. But you know, it looks exactly
like the other one. So if you managed to like, I
don't know, find a real one, you could do some Indiana Jones
shit. Indiana Jones.
Shit. You know where you was really.
Who's that? That's an old old reference from
like 80 years ago. Don't worry about it.
Probably Wow. Actually.
I can't do math Well, I'm not. And don't let this one jam
because. I I don't mind a replica
personally. It doesn't bother me.
I don't know. Iona doesn't bother you.
Do you need the the real thing or nothing?
Well. You need a better gun right now.
Take that, and when we find the real one, the Ultra K8, we can
fight for it. That's.
I would love to see that. I hear, I hear Mr. Carrigan.
He's got 3. Next.
Like market? That's more than one for each of
us. Yes.
So at least he bought three. He might be keeping one for
himself. I don't know.
That's I didn't get a fucking invite.
But yes, now, because this is, you know, a knockoff, but you
don't, you know how expensive those things are.
Yeah, I saw the the pricing in the catalog, it's. 5000.
Yeah, it'd. Be shit.
In, in in the catalog, yes, Black Crab, that new catalog
that everybody's talking about, that's.
A great catalog, that's. Really a good one, black crab.
So I'm going to say because it's a fake one and it does less
damage, that it's actually only two and a half thousand, so it's
half price all. Right.
Look at my how. Much.
How much, how much money everybody got?
I'm just curious do. You need.
Do you need somehow? I am still a broke Med tech
student. How?
How much? Did you say it was Clive?
One and sorry, two and a half 1002.
Point. How much do you?
Have one moment as I pull up. Oh, I have 2000.
Oh, here, I'll float you the five.
Thank you. Wow.
Iona. Helping me out left and right
here. Thanks.
I'm going to lean into VV afterwards.
You know they're going to use this against you when you find a
real. 1. No, I think Iona's just looking
out for me. You know, I I don't.
I don't. You see, Iona?
Write it down in a little notebook.
Right throat just shakes their head.
All right, I got. Oh, this is.
This is so exciting. I have a knock.
Off center of that. Little cutie.
Baby steps. Yeah, it's at least better than
what I. Had thank thank goodness,
because you were not hitting anything with that.
However you are, you are. A a God with the bat.
Yeah, you know it. I realized that, you know?
Up close and personal is my specialty.
But you can't always. Sometimes you got to stay back.
Oh, is that a broken crystal you got?
Yeah, it's, I don't know if and you see anything.
Looks like shit. Yeah, I.
Can turn it into about 12 scraps.
That that would probably be more useful than what it is right
now, so. All right, hand it over does.
This also cost. No, OK.
You have a friend, you just kind of save the shop, so.
That's. I tell you what, it won't cost
anything If you can have a look at my leg.
I really did hurt myself. It wasn't.
Like. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm really
bad at that. When people are injured, it
takes me a little bit of time to look at.
You're a doctor. All right, fine.
OK, fine. That's 10 Eddie's then.
I I am happy to take a look at your leg.
I just, I apologize I didn't do it sooner.
They throw the gun into just like a gun mulcher and it spits
out 12 scrap and put it in a little box now.
I give it to Retro. Here you go.
You might find this morning's cool.
OK, let's take a look at this leg.
Let's see. 20. They have a pretty bad sprain
and it looks like a little stress, a possible stress
fracture on the lower part of their right leg in the bone.
With a little bit of meds and an injection of some bone glue they
should be fine. It's going to cost you about 40
eddies from your pack. Not of actual money, but of
worth, and you could argue that much in in kind of.
Value. OK.
Pretty cheap to fix, but it's more your expertise and stuff.
Right. I pull out my medtech bag and
I'm like, well, I can fix this. It's still going to take you a
little bit of time to fully recover from this.
It looks like a bad fracture and sprayed, so just.
And it fell out of a porta potty, so that's the expected.
Just about this injury. You should've done that.
I didn't. Lock the door, and I leaned
backwards. It was really stupid.
Oh. Maybe tries to hold a slight
chuckle and and patches of backward.
Perception to see if I noticed I rolled 4.
I don't she. Just.
Has a nice smile on her face as she patches of backup.
It was a pretty shitty situation.
There's no need to laugh. Joke.
I'm sorry. I owe you.
Sorry, you said it was pretty shitty, I mean.
It was pretty funny. I know.
Oh, no. Yes, because of the boat.
Oh, no. I see why that's funny, right?
It's a pun. It's a pun, right?
Well, thank you, baby. That's really nice of you for
fixing my like, is that pro bono for all the love?
Yeah, you know you. Know.
Wow, you're. Elena, where I go?
That's rule #1. It's never worked for free.
That's in the handbook. You know.
If you want to get a hand, you gotta smoosh the competition.
It it was quite a bit of materials that were put into
patching you back up the the labor cost and material costs.
Dare you charge Clive after everything he's done for us?
Maybe it looks between Jeb. And Iona, Sure.
Jeb's like. Come on, well.
Both of you and roll. Persuasion.
OK, both of us. Yeah.
Iona and Jeb roll Persuasion and VV, actually, because you could
choose whatever you want. OK, roll.
Higher than both of them. 15. Player on, Player rolling.
Let's go. I love me some good.
Player on Player. Sorry.
PMP. PMP.
PMP I'm going to roll the. Crit.
I mean, that's why it. Makes sense.
Jeb is going off from Q. Iona.
Like Business School 101. Yeah, sorry.
It's it's Probone. It's free.
Free to charge you. Oh.
Thank you. Scraps so. 12 scrap one fixed
leg. I think that works out.
Thank you. Appreciate it of.
Course. And and and there's if you look
underneath the little panel in the box that your garden comes
in, it's nice box. I mean, it's fake.
But underneath is where all the MO is.
It's got a full. Screen.
Oh, great. Thanks.
Yeah, one whole clip. So that's, what, 30 rows?
Oh, it's pretty good, yeah. Right.
Does anyone else need anything? Again, I've got really low
stock. It's all that Mister Carrigan
bullshit. I'm going to tap my tile on VV's
and just send you over 50 at least before.
We're. Gonna do it subtly.
Though. Yeah.
Vivi, you just rolled 14 on 14 -, 4 on perception, so you don't
see this. Money.
Going to your account. You just.
Just change it to 50 and you'll just be like you have 50 and
don't. You love when that happens.
It's like finding money on the street.
So it's finding money in the cyberspace, yeah.
Well, no one else needs anything, Clive.
I'm going to get a little bit of help.
I need to get some of my armor fixed the the last guy.
But you've got like a wit noisy stock pit.
Do you want me to fix it? I mean I can fix it not to be
mean. To lean over the desk, come.
On. Your arm over the desk.
Come on. Click.
See this? And he puts his finger up to
your face. See this.
Taps you on the nose and pulls it out your arm?
Really. That's how we used to pull teeth
when I was a kid. You know, you distract him and
then you pull it out. That'll be fine.
All right, Vivi, You should stitch him up.
Did you need anything else? I need to be stitched up.
You just popped up my arm. Yeah, but now I've got a piece
of scrap. Do you want me to shred it?
This is like 8 scrap. Oh, sorry, I thought you just
pulled off my arm completely. No, no, I just pulled out the
piece. No, I know.
I thought that's why I was like, active.
I thought you just rip my you're not.
Going to be able to deal with this.
This is a biotech. This is, this is cybertech arm.
I'm sorry, that's my bad. Look.
Here's look. Here's some metal wire and a
needle. As I will try to sew my arm back
up as I'm talking with Clive. The needle's free.
Nice work. Oh, good job.
Oh, look at that's a little cross stitch.
That's pretty. Yeah, my momma taught me how to
cross stitch, so. That's lovely.
Here look what. You need three time.
Well, I didn't. I needed to get some of my armor
fixed because I had a nice hole blown out of me from that last
guy. He got a.
Strictly look, I mean what you're doing, what you're doing
right now because you rolled a 30 on side.
That's a repair of like 3 on the yes.
Yeah, well done. Kind of did that to yourself.
That's pretty good. Wipe that off all right.
I'm also in need of a quad for IO5 charge cable.
For what? Personal project.
All right, fine. I'll let you know once.
Once it's complete, I'll let you know.
I just. I can't.
Is it the one? And underneath the desk there's
like a glass panel. You can see a bunch of little
cables set out little trays. And is it this one?
No. No, no, This one.
A little more to the right. That one.
The one. The one to this one.
Yeah. That one.
That one.
Yeah. Yeah, Yeah.
Yeah. OK, this one.
The blue one, Yes, the blue one all.
Right. Here's the blue one.
That's 490. Hold on, let me test it first.
Give me your bed. Here you go.
I'm going to. I'm going to.
Test it to see if it charges the bat.
It charges the bat. Fuck, I know.
I don't think I can. Talk.
It's really strong too. You could use it to climb.
Its braided. It's $490.00 cable.
You know what? Clive, I know this is a hard one
to find. I'm going to give you a small
tip and give them 500 eddies. Holy shit.
Thank you A. Small a small tip.
Yeah, I think 10 eddies is a small tip compared. 5. 100
Here's some. Yeah, 490 + 10.
No, 500 total, Jeff. Oh. 490 + 10.
See. I got it.
I was. I was just.
Impressed, I got it. Also, Jeff, aren't you studying
numbers in that pamphlet you're reading right now?
Oh, the numbers. I just, yeah, I just ignore
those. It's more of the general, you
know, big picture stuff. I'll let the you know.
I'll let the bookies deal with the numbers.
What's two times? Two, I'm sorry.
What's 2 * 2? 2 * 2 Well, that's easy, That's
four. Just checking.
Now it's 4 * 2. 4 * 2 well, that's six.
All right. All right.
Well, did any of you need anything else that's
embarrassing, Jeff? Does everyone have 1/2 shield?
Are we all charged up? I.
Think so? Yes.
At the church round when we get home.
Are you know why are you only wearing one of your half
Shields? Because I gave one to VV.
Yes. And I've got I've got one more.
Well, I guess I will take one more so I have my double half
shield up again. That's fine, yeah.
Let's have a look. It's not a good day for you, 660
Eddies. It's a lot.
I'm sorry. How much?
660. And that's with a discount.
With a discount, I mean. You could try and haggle me down
I guess. Can I haggle you to 653?
I mean, you could try and haggle me down to 600, but you still
have to roll for something and well.
I was only trying to take off 7 eddies, but you know what?
I will. Can I haggle you down to 600?
No, no. A crip fail on persuasion 14 -,
7. But I will say you you you
didn't make me pay VV earlier, so I'm going to say it's those
two cancel each other out, and however much you want me to
change the price, it's 660. What?
What?
The price doesn't go up, but it doesn't go down. 660 please.
Did you get invited to the Carrigan thing?
Let me check my tile. There's a thing from the Erosaka
benefits. There's a thing from oh, it was
an e-mail from Ted. Oh God.
GM Do I have an invite to the Kerrigan market?
No, I did not. That's a shame.
You guys quite famous. I thought they'd try and invite
you with all pain and all that clot.
Well, I'll reach out. Is there anything you want from
the market? Sorry, you'll reach out to Mr.
Carrigan. Yes, I will.
All right. No, no, no.
I I I believe you, right. Coming into Night City with all
of you. I'll.
I'll just call him. Just pick him up.
Or you just pick up a tile and you'll be like.
Oh, come on, Mr. Carrigan. Let's hang.
My God. Clive I'm going to lean over the
counter. Clive, don't underestimate me.
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podcasting app. Vivi, you are you are absolutely
fine. Don't worry about it.
It's just 500 eddies. I'm sure that you will spend
that much to fix me in the future.
I really appreciate your help Iona.
I really do I anything you need let me know and I can help.
It doesn't have to just be medical assistance.
I mean those. Sort of teams.
Helps if it is. Yes, I I I also might need
medical assistance. Thanks, PFE.
Of course, Vendel. Most definitely, Vendel will
need medical assistance. Yeah.
Right, throw. Comes back with a tray of shots.
Six shots. Oh.
Shots, Shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, 1/2. 345
You know I don't. Drink this one's water.
Thank you. It's a driver's shot.
Thank you for the driver's shot, yes.
Only if we're flying, haha. And it's true.
Mostly, I'm doing the draft. What the fuck?
Retro Jesus. Well, I asked for whiskey, but
they ran out, so they got some of that nomad moonshine.
Oh, don't mind if I do. Are you gonna finish that Van?
Do. No.
Smooth. Let's see, let's see which one
of us goes blind. Yeah, I'm like, yes, we roll
something to see how we did. Everyone roll.
Resist torture drugs. Just like Mama used to make.
I will not, in fact, roll resist torture drugs.
No, you drank water. You're fine.
Just like Mama used to Jack. You brought 17 + 5 a crit.
Nice work. Yes, you are fine, Jeb.
You managed to hold your gut and you're completely like.
Wide awake, you might as well be sober.
This is just like the stuff you used to drink when you were out
in the Badlands. Retro.
You're almost instantly, massively drunk and VD as you're
drinking this moonshine. It reminds you of first year at
medical school, cramming after cramming and finishing exam,
going out on the lash with your friends.
In the fire cuz you're old higher than jab.
Damn. This.
Is 18 plus sport. Pretty good.
I like this. You don't even see VV wince jab
even you are intimidated but. VV Are you used to just taking
straight rubbing alcohol have. You seen trauma team, Med
school, the stuff that we had to we drank in our first years.
This is just isopropyl alcohol straight.
Down his throat. I mean that.
We had a lot of it in school, so, you know.
That's why you see that medically really worrying Bebe.
Look you had. It's disinfectant.
Yeah, you know. I'm sure you do retro.
And ping comes over. All right everyone, I I tried to
get you an invite and. Failed.
Miserably. I can't get hold of.
Him from love, No money. Did we try Claire?
Oh. Claire, that's a really good
point. Who's Claire?
Claire. Claire.
You hear footsteps? Claire opens the door.
Yeah. Oh, were you sleeping?
Yeah, sorry. No, no, it's fine.
I've been doing a lot of drugs. I remember everything.
It's incredibly traumatic. You guys didn't like, help me
with aftercare or anything. I had a massive existential
crisis. So when the shirts on backwards.
We ended up in space. I'm so sorry, Claire.
You went to. Am I still high I should sit
down? I do not recommend kit and
catch. It was existential all.
Right. Shit.
All right, So what do you need now?
What are you? What are you?
Why do you need me? I have a headache.
Can you turn the lights? Down It's really quite dark in.
Here, aren't you? Yes, we we I go over to the
slider and I slide it down as I slide it down to off.
Oh, it's so much better. Everyone in at the booth is lit
by Retro's TV places. It's flickers with his
drunkenness. Oh oh boy, you.
Need some water, but no Yes. No, Yeah.
Hey. Vendel Vendel passes jab a glass
of water in the dark. Here, I got you this, this, this
shot Retro, you're going to want to have that entire 16 ounce
glass of a shot. That's a big shot.
But I believe in you. Ooh.
This is a straw too. Makes it go down and see.
What do you want? Sleeper Iona.
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, Claire.
We need into Kerrigan's market. You need to get to Kerrigan's
Market. Do you not have a ticket?
Not yet, you. Want me to get it?
If you can or I can have the sleeper reach out.
The sleeper would reach out to me so.
Well, consider that this. All right, so it gives out 100
tickets. Every quarter and 1 ticket lets
one person and the whole entourage show up.
They only send tickets to the people that matter in Night City
and I haven't heard from Mr. Carrigan since I fell from the
Sky Mall. So I've got my old files in my
apartment. If we head there I'll be able to
grab the the template and print out ticket 101.
There's a small chance to get found out when you get there.
They discover there's more guests than we're listed, but.
Well, there's also if you can access your files, we can
apprehend a ticket from somebody else who already has one.
Yeah, we could just jump them. I mean, I've got the template,
but yeah. Either way, I just wouldn't want
you getting in trouble. Yeah, that's fine.
Do you need me to go with you? I don't really like sunlight
right now and the bar is safe. Not at all.
Just give us the code to your apartment and we'll take care
of. It they put their key card on
the table and slide it towards. You.
They grabbed the half finished moonshine from the table and
down it in one. Oh.
It's the weak stuff. I'll see you guys later.
They smashed. The glass in the ground.
Geez, Clara's got kind of chaotic now.
We. We really did not take care of
Claire the way that we should have.
Probably right, yeah. But we're we've been busy.
From from the stairway, you hear?
Oh. Gosh, I hear what?
What was that? Did she say bubble tea?
Do we? Do we?
Ping, you got bubble tea back there?
They might be talking about the the nude bubble tea place that
opened not far from here. It's really good.
But they also put like drugs in their bubble tea and we love.
That. That's something.
Fun. Yeah, I'm not going to Clare
more and more now. It it.
Can be a hard spot. I would consider not doing the
thing where you idolize someone who is going through a rough
patch. Do you know what I mean?
Romanticizing someone's pain? Rough patch, yeah.
Probably not great to be like, oh man, that was badass, you
know? That's so cool.
I wish I was like this person who was struggling immensely
with perhaps drug addiction and pain.
Yes. Well, I mean.
Ping walks over. I I could order Sawtooth to come
over and do a a detox, but we'd have to like gather some funds
for them, I think. Well, we'd also need consent,
and I don't know that Claire's in a place to do that at the
moment. That's fair.
I mean, I could ask sort you to come over and ask them if they
want help. An intervention seems like
something we could do in the future.
OK, for now, just don't enable. Keep an eye on them.
Yeah. Sure.
I'll dilate the drinks. Thank you.
You got it. Now I only.
Vendell turns the lights back up.
That's better. I don't remember saying anything
about helping people for with their problems at at a cost to
us in the pamphlet. Was that in the back?
No, Jeb, this this is something I really only shared with Saw.
No, but. I'm not an evil corpo, right?
No, that's that's good. You keep it close to your chest
and that way you make more money because the people know you're
evil. Then they're they ain't going to
buy your stuff, you know? Jeb, Jeb, there.
It's not like that. It's.
I know you think that I'm in it just for the money.
I understand that. I understand how you would think
that and how the things that I've done and the things that
you've witnessed would. Portray me in that light, but I
need you to look at me when I tell you I am just trying to
change things and I have to play along sometimes.
And I do actually care about you and other people, and that's
hard to admit sometimes. Really.
Would you say that we're. Friends I would.
Wow. So maybe before you call me an
evil corpo and. Think that everything I do is
for the money. Think about how your friend
would feel about that. And to be clear, you wouldn't
want that. To be clear, I would not want
that. Got it, got it.
Well then, yeah, I mean, I personally, I like this how you
it's a I understand it more. I appreciate you trying to level
with me reading the the pamphlets and the handbooks,
that's I can see that you've been making an effort.
Yeah, I thought maybe this way I I could, you know, try to try to
understand what's going on behind that big old brain of
yours. But I I think I'll get it now.
Good. You know, the the the veil has
been pierced. Good.
And I put out my hand to shake. But before I do, I press the
button on the ringlet so it produces a pink latex glove.
Fancy. And I put my hand out to.
Shake. And now also to be clear, you do
want to shake my hand. I do.
I would love to shake your hand. Well, I'll be damned.
And and. Jeb, like, grabs it with.
Fervor. And shakes it maybe a little too
hard and a little too aggressively.
Jeb, that's really good. You asked consent.
Well done, claps. Well, I think it's always
important to ask someone before. I mean, you know, there are
sometimes I've asked people before I shoot them.
Most of the time though they do not consent to the shooting, but
we do it anyway because you there's, you know, bigger forces
at play and what not. But.
That's a story. For another time.
Right. Well, I finished my drink Retro.
You all right? Cool.
Right. Well, maybe we can sober them up
in the car. Vivi, do you want to set up an
IV or are we not going to close the apartment?
I shouldn't be presumptuous. And we can go to close the
apartment now, or we can take a much needed break.
Yeah, I should probably go check on slow.
Poor girl. We have been at it nonstop,
back-to-back to back, so it might be good to take a a small
break, yeah. OK, good for the mental health,
not just the physical health, you know?
Go see Sloan. Go take a nap everyone.
You need it. I'm.
Going to feed my sea monkeys? You know, even the pamphlet says
that worker production does increase after a short break.
Oh, sorry, we're not doing that anymore.
I have some things I need to check on at home as well.
OK, well, so we'll see everybody here tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow morning. Sounds good to me.
Well, I'm going to take my bicycle.
I'm going to go home. See you guys tomorrow.
Iona will step out of the bar and call a car, stand in the
rain, Just wait for a car to show up and go back to the
apartment. A car approaches.
Are you doing stuff? Oh, I was just going to brew
some tea for. I thought you were going to do.
Actually do stuff. No, I was just going to I we
talked about Sano and I miss him, so I'm going to go heat up
his tea set. That's really nice.
See you later, Iona. Pings outside having a
cigarette. Try safe.
Don't say bye or anything. Bye.
Sorry, if I talk, I'll cry. Fair enough.
Iona, you're a. Cold hearted bitch.
Thank you. Thank you.
And Ping walks downstairs. All right, Jeb, when you go to
bed, I'm going to shut down the bar.
Vivi, you're going. To be all right.
Yeah, I'll be fine. I'm going to rest for a bit as
well. Good.
You just see. Jeb in the like laying down in
one of the booths with his. And he just places his.
Cowboy hat just. Over his face.
All right, night. You.
Sleep here. What?
Sorry, Yeah, I was sleeping here for for a bit now.
OK, a. Year and a half, Phoebe.
Wow. And 1/2.
Damn flat. Night.
Because Phoebe will head out as well, back to her place.
And as you're on your way home, you get a text message.
Chad. Oh, Chad, what the?
Fuck is. That and the chat and the text
message just said you. Know where the hoverboard yet?
Still using it? dot dot dot if you don't mind
Winky Face. Maybe we'll bring it back next
week. Kissy Face Heart Emoji Times 3.
Next time on no latency. You did say clap, but.
I don't know. I really thought he would have
given us those guns he was talking about.
What's going on? Good morning, Remy.
It was a code.
One day I will have the real Hello cutie, mark my word.
No, stranger, No. Just no.
I remember we had a checklist. What's on the checklist for us
next to do what? Was the company that was
responsible. That was so good, Vendel.
I had no idea what's going to come out of your mouth.
Plans for the bio skin or. The Biotechnica stuff.
Have you been interacting with Claire?
Is Claire doing OK? There's nothing I can say.
I was recently addicted to send Coke.
I should really go check on Claire.
Well, the first the first one was just to wake up, so I was
mostly coffee with a little bit Irish.
I think you're pretty loaded right now.
Why? Why are we preaching?
There's no one here. Do we need to preach and clear
Claire's place? We could though.
Go ahead and preach and clear for fun.
All right, if you would like to preach and clear, now is your
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