Last time on no latency. Can we have 10?
Yeah, sure, why not? Yeah, that would be.
I knew we should have brought reusable shopping bags.
Helpful. Oh yeah, that would work
perfectly. You don't have to poop it out
at. All here I'm going to give it
the jab. I'll take it.
Yeah, no problem. Oh, give me, give me one moment
when I take out my reading glasses.
Kind of zesty. I'm tingling a little.
It's. Probably from the depleted
uranium. Were you staring at me staring
at the PPE for this whole time? You seemed really enthralled by
it. I'm.
Just wondering how we doing this thing?
How many grenades you got? Love I.
Kind of want a jet? Pack looks great Clive.
Secret thing I. Love secret things.
Yeah, we have no reason not to trust Clive.
And you got all my doors. Oh, man.
Damn, Clive, you will leave. No.
Open door. We just got played.
Where's the real Clive? He's he's, he's right here.
Oh, you just you just. Have to He's around, He's around
the. Partition.
Yeah, I see him you have. To have to look around the
partition, yeah. Oh, Clive got them tied up in
knots, huh? The red eyes mimic looks at Jeb,
cocks it's head, hands, head. Roll for initiative.
Oh man, I was sure we were going to get some sort of like long
villain monologue, but that's way more straight to the point.
That's bad, Yeah. This is not OK.
Rolling an 8 -, 7, that's not no.
Anyway, Bang Bang, oh, I guess they're up first, damn it.
Yes, they are Shoot. Oh shit, someone faster than Jeb
for once. Hey, Wyatt.
Question. Hey.
Why? 3 mimic rolls.
Yeah. 'Cause there were two in the
bathroom. Oh shit.
Retro to your right, bathroom door left open by Jeb as he
haphazardly blasted around this tiny apartment.
A mimic steps through into the room and shoots.
Oh God. They're reproducing.
And they hit you. You're in the bathroom.
I checked there. For tender.
Ouch. Oh, what were you checking, Jeb?
I mean, honestly, I, I was wondering, I was just kind of
curious. I was like, I don't see a
bathroom in this place. Does he like have to go outside?
It was more of a kind of an architectural question than it
was a look for bad guys thing. But here we are.
There was a bad guy in there. I'm sorry, I didn't, I didn't
notice. I wasn't looking for it.
I mean, I, I can't be too mad at you, Jeb.
You know, I didn't check the bathroom myself.
I we weren't expecting this at all.
Yeah, anyway. It's absolutely like the place
to be, yeah. Unfortunately the the first
bullet does from my mouth only about two damage to you and a
blades your armor by one, but unfortunately the second bullet
it tries to fire just jams in their gun because they rolled A
crit fail. Want.
And they step towards you, but
don't actually have enough movement to get to you now.
But they've had to leave the bathroom, and it's Jeb's turn.
All right, you son of a bitch, stop imitating my friend.
And I guess how does this work? Do we how much, how much of the
of the rules of this game do we follow?
Like do I get a disadvantage of some sort for being right next
to him and shooting him with a range weapon?
That's not a thing in in cyberpunk.
OK, great. You just have to beat the DV.
Oof, that's a shame. Actually, I guess it would
actually I would kind of get an advantage if it's close to me by
the technical rules. Yeah.
So who are you shooting the one next to you?
The one. That was the one that led us in
here. Cool.
The one that led you in here, you hit with your first bullet
for a 23 and do 11 damage, which is a lot of damage.
Yeah. And you watch a piece of its
armor fall off and clang onto the ground.
Unfortunately, when you pull out your next pistol, what happens,
Joe? Ah damn it, I forgot to reload
this one. Ting Ting Ting Ting Ting Ting
sound effect of of shells hitting the floor.
You're welcome. Very good if.
You want to reload your gun? Yeah, it cost Chaft your
movement. I I'm going to stand right damn
here. Great.
And that's your turn out. Jeb Vendell on the outside just
knocks on the on the door. Guys, is it bad?
Guys, there's mimics in here. Vendel, OH.
No, not plural. Yeah, plural.
Oh no. Vendel's going to kick down this
Dang did door. OK, I'm going to try and kick
down this Dang did door. What power?
Power Leg 22 doing 10 damage. How much health does this door
have? How much health does this door
have? Ah, this door has more than 10
health. The heck?
Well that's OK. Rate of fire for the leg is 3,
so how about another kick? 17 Yes, an inanimate object is
very easy to hit. It is a DV9.
The 11 damage is more than risk than is required and the door
bursts open. I got it open.
Oh, OK. Nice.
Yeah, we can. Are we going to kill these guys
or are we just going to kind of get out of here?
Well, I I I would use my third kick, but that requires luck.
Right. Does it require luck?
No. That's the.
No, all your third actions require luck.
It's only a note on my glass sword.
Oh damn. It so sorry, Vendel's going to
move to the right here around the corner of the door and give
this mimic a good swift kick in the nuts Arenos, I'm going to.
Kick you in the Swift Nuts arena?
I'm not good at that kind of thing.
I'm just going to kick them. Hey, yeah, yeah, hey, yeah.
Ha ha. Create damage, get fucked.
Vendel kicks this mimic in the nuts and does 23 damage, and
because it's a melee attack they automatically take half of that
and so we round that to 12. Because it's a crip, they also
take a critical injury. That's right, bitch.
And the crotch section of this mimic has now a large divot in
it and they have restricted movement and are clutching there
non existent Jenna Taylor. Good job Fendale, that was a
very powerful kick. Yeah, don't fuck the mimics.
No, no, please do not I. Wasn't planning on on it.
Can't do that with this one now. Broke it.
Anyway, Retro, it's your turn. I'm I'm feeling a little silly
right now so I'm debating on whether or not to shoot them.
Get silly, baby. Get silly all.
Right, I'm going to point at closest to Jeb because they got
the most amount of hit points I would say also just because I
feel bad after watching them get kicked in the groinal area.
Not the groinal area. Not the groinal area.
Well, I don't know if they have genitals.
Doesn't matter. See.
Hey you, are you able to solve complex paradoxes without
freaking out? Retro.
What it say? Retro Your days are numbered.
Well, it's not an answer to my question, so it's obviously
ignoring me. Hit him with the paradox.
Hit him. All right, I'll.
Tell you what, I'll give you my. Gun, if you can answer my
question in one answer, it stares.
Blankly at you. That's I think.
I think that means that he's in for it.
That's consent. If my eyes are closed, am I
either asleep or am I dead? Sleep is for the weak.
Huh. Wait, I I'm sorry, Rachel, I
don't get that one. I I don't either.
Is it like a? Oh, maybe it's because it's
both, or you don't know, or huh. But you can also be alive and
no. It's because you you can only
sleep when you're dead. And then I shoot him in the
face. Oh.
Pew. Pew 19. 2 ones. 2 ones.
Oh, first two ones. Cursed.
I'm sorry, but I rolled low so the bullet hits.
Oh, is that a cold shot? No.
OK, you said in that, but that's fine.
Could have been. I wait, no, no, we've already
established this, we have to say called shot.
All right, all right, That's fair.
That's fair. And you do 14 damage to this
minute a blading its armor by 1. You know what?
Actually, that makes me feel a little bit good, especially
because now I have proven I'm smarter than the machine.
And that's a right fire one. But your assault rifle is loud
in here, upsettingly so. It's a very small space.
Well, people can't turn off their ears like I can.
Sometimes I wish I could. Maybe you can.
Yeah, off the cat ears. Maybe we can set a noise gate
for your ears when it gets to a certain decibel that it just
mutes it out. That's.
Funny. That's not a bad idea, actually.
That's that. That's some really going to be
great. Concerts.
Wouldn't that be amazing? The Cyberpunk's future has great
music. Wait.
Wait, you guys don't use those earplugs at concerts?
No, no, I do. I do.
But having it built into your head dude.
But cyberpunk? That'd be cool anyway.
The mimic you just shot. The mimic you just shot, it
shoots you back. I.
Mean I can take. It oh, how does it shoot you
back? Now it's VV and Jeb are in the
way. So instead it goes to punch Jeb.
Jeb Dodger 15. Oh boy.
Easy cake. You got this.
Go. Go, Jeb.
Go. You dodged the first one.
Where would you like to move? Dodging requires movement.
I'm going to kind of come back a bit.
It steps forward and goes to punch Vivi.
Oh. Crap, I'm not as fast as Jeb.
Oh. Tries to punch with its left arm
and misjudges the wall next to it and just full on smacks their
hand into the drywall because now they're fist because it is a
crit fail is stuck in the drywall and they are stuck at
that point in this room you can hear the servos try and break
the metal rebar that is stuck between the joints of the hand.
Whoa, they use metal rebar? In the wool.
For it'd probably be two by fours.
I just. But it can be.
It's the cyberbone future. This can be.
Aluminum 2 by fours. Iona, take him out.
All right. Excuse me.
Could you both step aside, please?
Thank you. Yep. 1 moment. 1 moment.
I just, I just have to. Shoot, between the two of you.
There we go. There we go.
I'm going to brace it on Jeb's shoulder.
Oh yeah, no problem. Here you go, Jeb.
Roll something to help oh hinder.
Well, I hinder and so hold on, I was going to be real still.
Hindrance depends on what the dice do, but yes.
Concentration very good. 16 on it, yes.
Trying to be as still as possible?
Go ahead. I only you get plus one to this
shot. Awesome.
Just make sure you don't hit the rebar.
That's very important because of all of the earthquake
protection. All right, I've rolled A-17 on
that one. Rolled A-17.
Oh well, I rolled an 11 and so this mimic does not dodge.
It also gets a -1 because it's hand is stuck in a wall and it
takes 9 damage. Well.
Continue not moving, Jeb. Yep, stain steel.
Oof how does it three that is less and you take your second
shot also doing mind damage. Very odd.
How is he looking? Is he starting to spark yet?
You have literally just pulled it below half health.
You see a piece of the mimic malfunction as it tries to pull
its hand back from the wall. The wrist gives way and now it
only has one hand. All right, Well, that's pretty
good. We want more hand to go and
maybe a few feet and you know, his head while we're at it.
Yeah, probably the head too. I'm going to.
I'm going to back up. Also.
I'm just going to move closer to you, Vendo, because your job is
to protect me. I'll protect you, that's my job.
OK, so we've all agreed that the head's the last thing we're
shooting for. I guess, yeah.
Yeah, it. Depends on how fast you want to
get this over with. Also, Clive is still tied to the
bed. Doing good there, Clive.
We got to take care of the kind of the the issue at hand, right?
Maybe that's safest for him. Right now, the mimic that was in
the bathroom jumps into the room, slides up next to Bendel
and goes to attack. Oh my gosh, I'm not going to be
able to. Bendel has to dodge and unless
they roll a crit that's not going to go well.
No. No, unfortunately not.
Part of Vandal's armor rips and is now shredded, and they take a
total of seven damage. Goes to attack again, another
crit. Oh my gosh.
What my? Gosh, what's funny?
We're suing. They're ruining our show.
Evasion 13, that is not enough. Vendel gets hit for less damage
this time. Let's still see that their armor
once again being quite badly damaged.
Ow, I'm really Jackie, are you? OK.
I'm fine. OK.
I've still got the health. OK.
I have mixed feelings about this.
VV Finally. Finally, it's been.
Decades. Decades.
It's been 20 hours since I. Did an Yeah.
We do a lot of editing on this. Show maybe twiddling her thumbs,
finally biting, waiting and ready to strike.
This one that is in front of her.
This is the one that no, this is not the one that got stuck in
the wall. The one that's right in front of
you is the one that got stuck in the wall.
Yes, yes. Yes, the one that punched Jeb
and then punched me and missed. I'm going to take them, take
them out, take them down. Obviously not going for the
head, but shooting. It doesn't look like it's doing
very well. Great.
Actually, as a matter of fact, I'm going to walk right up to it
and swing it with my bat. Hell yeah, about 15.
Oh, I have an evasion button. What have I been doing?
I've been doing math like an idiot.
I should be doing math you. Should never do math.
Gross no. Not even once.
Oh nice. 14 You hit for 10 damage.
There's five damage in total. You watch another piece of its
armor fly off and stick into the ground.
The. Linoleum.
Gets scarred by this Shard of metal in front of you.
You watch the mimic start to glitch and move erratically as
it's connection is very much dimming.
Paradox is working. Hold on, I always forget if I
can go again. Yes, I can.
Melee's rate fire, too. Oh.
She. Can Tracy, how do you want to
obliterate this mimic? With this choice.
Just a home run, slam right through it's torso.
Damn, what from bottom to top? I was thinking horizontally.
Oh wow. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and just. You just taken out the middle.
Yes. Damn.
All right. Sure.
You swing across the middle, you roll a crit.
So you managed to bifurcate this mimic.
It splits into two pieces and the pieces fall to the ground as
it ceases to operate. The eye is dim to nothing.
Thank you, World 20, for fixing that problem for us so promptly.
Yeah, that was nice it. Was a good crit.
Clive, stand by, we're going to help you.
We just have to take care of these bathroom mimics can.
Anyone understand that? Exactly.
Yep. Oh.
Phoebe, you have movement still. You only moved.
You only moved 5 feet. Yeah, let's go toward the
bathroom. Mimics.
I'll head over here just and be on standby ready to help.
Great in in 10 years. And in 10 years.
But it is my turn again. The first mimic to attack from
the bathroom is still damaged in the lower area.
And thus has less movement. They move to the other side of
the room and at very close range attempt to shoot VV and hit for
21. What?
What's your armor right now? Is it high?
It's fairly high. Because if it's if it's eleven,
it does nothing to you. It is above 11 so I'm good.
Your your arm is above 11. I think it's 12.
God damn. Oh.
No, wait, it's just 11. I don't know why.
Yeah, 'cause you got a light armor Jack.
Yeah, after missing its shot, it cannot move anymore.
Damn it, I was going to try and hit you in the face.
I guess I'm not doing that. It tries to shoot again for 23,
also doing 10 damage. Well.
So nothing. Again so so once again a bullet
flies off your very well made Jack.
Man ricocheted just off my head. Some good armor.
It's a good armor. Holy crap, you've.
Got to love that trauma team light armor Jack grades.
I need to update my damage values, apparently.
Never mind. We'll do that.
I'm not going to do that mid fight.
That's mean. All right, Jeb.
Well, this one's looking like it's hurting the most, yeah.
Yep. So that's the one that's going
to get the the business and of my now reloaded to Grand Pappy's
Colt 45, there it is. I switched over to the right tab
Bang Bang. Nice, your two shots ring out a
28 and a 22. It does have the ability to
dodge. No, absolutely not.
That is not enough and you cause six and eight damage
respectfully. The mimics armour is much lower
than V VS and although you're 6 does basically nothing, the
other shot does and you watch it take more damage as sparks fly
in the room. Sparks fly.
Do you move? Oh, no, I'm.
I'm chilling right there. Actually, you know what?
Yeah, I'm going to move. Why not?
I'll move over here. Nah, Nah.
I'm going to go next to my friends.
Never mind. So you cluster next to your
friends on the battlefield. I ain't leaving y'all behind.
Me up to VV. Until these things are dead and
it's. Van Del's turn.
Let's go Vendel. Let's go Vendel.
Vendel how long have you had that rifle on your back?
This. Yes.
No, you gave it to me. I just started carrying it.
I was just, I was just reading about it.
Very interesting. Well, we might be a little close
quarters for a rifle. Why don't you just slice them?
Out sword chink. I'm like Jeb.
We're going to go for the the mimic directly next to Bendo.
Not enough. Take it again.
Try and touch this bitch. Oh oh you did.
Damn the fuck. Well, I got.
I hit it once. Good job, Good job, Bendo.
I do you think I should stand here or should I, should we pin
some of we we should get to the other side?
Oh, you are, you are so smart. Yes, yes, go to the other side.
You got it, boss. And Vendel looks at you, salutes
and then does a cartwheel backwards.
You are. You are so cool.
I'm so cool. Pink guns, Fetro, it's your
turn. That's too many finger guns
Vendo shit. Cut back, cut back.
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The second the thing in my mind was we're in a gun store.
Why am I not grabbing something off the shelf?
But then I also realize we're in the apartment of a gun store, so
there's nothing really to grab off the shelf.
And we've already established I have a pretty good understanding
of how mimics robotic telemetry and.
You've had more experience with mimics than anyone else on the
team. Yeah, I'm going to try to cut
into a panel of its body and RIP its power source out.
Great. What do you want me to roll for
that? You can roll brawling.
Can I get advantage because I have a diamond ring to cut it
with? And he's just been sliced by
Vendel. Very true.
I will let you have +1 but you do not get advantage, no.
OK. I was like, this diamond ring is
finally going to come in handy for something other than just
pulling off. There's a good groove for you to
cut in thanks to Vendel's cut. Yeah, I know.
This is just an. This is just an extension of
Vendel's really. This is really Vendel's thing.
Teamwork. Did you roll?
Oh, you did. OK, it didn't roll enough.
And you managed to bust open this plate on the front of it.
That's three D6 please, for damage.
Sweet. I only wish I could find a way
to like pull on the cables and find it to spin its weapon over
and shoot the other one. That'd be cool.
Because you managed to pull the panel off, I'm going to say that
actually reduces the armor by two and you still, because
that's still a melee attack, you get another attack, retro and
what do you do? You know what, I'm going to do
the thing I said before, I'm going to try to go in there,
finally pull on cables, and hopefully I can pull the puppet
maneuver for it to hit the other mimic.
Sure. I got something for that.
What are you going to?
Roll Robotics. Nice.
Because it's part of the thing I. 2323.
Science, people, science. So you.
Reach in and like a puppet you pull on a few cables, cross,
create a little electrical short, you watch a little
transistor pop, roll me two D6 for damage, and then roll ME3D6
for damage. I call this the Jim Henson move.
Straight up, the first mimic that you're actually controlling
now briefly as the cable snaps in your hand and you disable the
arm by reducing it under half health.
That's very good. As the cable comes loose it it
takes a step back and falls back slightly.
The other mimic gets smacked in the face and is pushed and is
now sitting on the sofa, taking a total of nine damage.
OK, OK, we're almost done with these bastards.
Oh hey I I created a little hole for you to shoot in Jeb or VV.
Yeah, go ahead Vivi, give it a shot.
Oh I guess but but but let Iona and then a a mimic go first.
The the mimic that would have that turn is dead now, because
it was the one that stuck its hand in the wall.
Iona, what are you going to? Do I'm going to let Vivi take
that shot. I'm going to make my way over to
Clive and start cutting him out of his ties, OK?
You are within touching distance of Clive and the sweaty Welshman
with various amounts of cyberwear is lying tied up below
you. Roll sanitization.
Oh. How long have you been tied up?
Oh, where is where is my dies? One Knee 10, please.
Three, yes, you have enough sanitizer.
Do you want to use some to clean Clive?
No, that's what his shower is for.
I'm unfortunately not going to be touching you.
You have a glean. He is wrapped up in in XLR and
Ethernet cables and they're pretty thick.
Well, I'm going to take some nail Clippers out of my bag all.
Right. And start going.
To touch moving. Away.
No, I'm going to put on my my latex gloves squirt my latex
brides on. God never.
Your your latest gloves squirt onto your hands and you begin
freeing Clive from his bondage clip clip and that is your turn.
The mimic that Retro puppeted is now standing next to Vendel.
It only has one arm and so instead of trying to fight
Vendel, it takes a step back towards the wall, points at
Vendel and shoots. Bendel has to roll evasion 22 or
take crit damage. Oh no.
Yeah. No.
That it's not enough. This is really bad actually.
This is really bad actually, because you need Bendel.
I'm right? And like, I don't want to bring
it up, but they're below half health like pretty bad.
So seven. Yeah, they are.
They are not well. Nope, Nope, Nope.
Nope, Vendel. Unfortunately.
A rolled, broken leg Vendel's. No.
Electronic leg. They're cyber leg.
The knee gives out and they fall to the ground.
Oh fuck that's annoying. I mean, it doesn't hurt, but
like, can't move now it has a ray of fire too.
That's bad, isn't it? Hang in there.
Dodger 21. Evasion -1.
Oh my God, could you not? You can't kill Vandel in in
climbs. Stop please.
Can you not kill another one of my subordinates please?
OK, I. Can taste it.
I could. I could taste the evasion.
I was so close. You were so close, rolling a 20
is not enough. Unfortunately, Vandel's armor
once again is ablated by 1, and according to my math, they take
three more damage. Oof.
And a half hell. Vendel, you all right?
Stand by. I will patch you up.
After I after I shoot the hole in the sky, I will patch you up.
Baby, it's your turn. Will you destroy?
Yes. Destroy.
I'm no grumpy because I'm fixing my legs can be expensive.
What we have to fix your leg? What happened?
My the the minute broke my knee. Oh, oh, that hurts.
Well, it doesn't actually. It's my cyber like but.
How? I guess.
But it's got to hurt, you know? The emotions tried, you know.
Yeah, yeah, Jeb, also, you watched it happen because you're
right there. I'm pointing at you.
Oh, no, I'm, I, I mean, I, I saw it.
I'm just kind of empathizing. Is that all right?
No, no, I, I'm, I'm. Empathizing.
And halfway through Vendel and Jeb's conversation, you hear
this. Oh, get down.
Very good, very good that. Was.
Really good. The bullet flies out and holy
crap you need to get a damage upgrade on that gun.
Yeah, what the fuck? What the fuck?
What did you roll badly? That's bad.
Oh, did you use armor piercing bullets?
Oh, what did that? Would that matter for the
mimics? Fuck, I didn't call it out.
So for this one I shan't. OK.
Your first shot does hit the mimic.
Oh I have to roll it version. I very much doubt that they're
going to beat you. I rolled Yeah, I the dice just
happened to also be very, very, very.
Poor it does not touch. It's also sitting on a sofa,
which does get -1 because it is technically quote UN quote prime
and you managed to cause a tiny bit of damage.
Not a lot because the armor is very loud.
It has been beaten up. It starts to glitch and spark on
the sofa. I shoot again.
Oh, that's a good shot. Are you shooting the one on the
sofa or the one that just hit Bendel?
I I think the one on the sofa. Great, that is a very good
choice because with the damage you have and at the range you
are at, you blow a hole through one of the eyes and its head
splits open in the field of sparks and wires.
There's only one mimic left here.
Well, all right, I'll take care of it.
You know what to do. Yep, I think we all know what's
about to happen as soon as I go over to the rat tab Bang Bang.
The remaining mimic attempts to dodge.
The first hit it dodges, stepping towards Vendel.
The second hit it does not dodge, taking a good hit to the
chest. Yep, there you go.
All right. You ready to go down yet?
Or, or perhaps now would be a good time to, you know, give
yourself a second, take a breath, maybe do some sort of
villain monologue. Tell us why you're here, what
you wanted to do with the with poor old Clav, and what your
plans were. Anything like that?
Yeah. OK, not very informative, Van
Dale, I'm. I'm prone.
Oh well. I'm right next to them.
I could hit them, I could hit them, but I it's a problem.
Yeah, don't make me yank your chain again.
That's very funny. Did you see that?
Did you see what they said? That was very funny.
Excuse me, Mr. Mr. Mimic. And they'll taps them.
Mr. Mimic, Excuse me? See this sword?
Yeah. Don't stand next to me.
The mimic suddenly startled. You almost see it go.
The sword goes straight through the underside of their rib cage
and up past their clavicle. Then they'll pulls it out and
goes for their second hit. What do they do?
Take them out at the knees. Bring them down to their level.
That's so good and they'll swipes at the knees, attempting
to cut and break those almost poetically and is successful.
The first hit does enough damage that the knees buckle, making
them a better target. The second hit cuts them off at
the knees. The face falls down to the floor
and smashes open like a coconut, spraying wires and metal
detritus over the floor. It tries to wriggle around but
ultimately perishes and combat is over.
Go away. Clip.
Clip I'm I'm working on it. I'm working on it.
Hello. Hello.
What? What happened here, Clive?
Someone hit me over the back of the head and then I was.
I've been in bed for like a week a.
Week. No wonder you're so rank.
I'm so sorry. My rank oh, I'm sorry, can I
have a cup of tea? I'm.
Sure, Like where? Where is your tea in the
cupboard? In the cupboard, in the
kitchenette. Have you?
Eaten. I'm exactly a skinny fellow.
I think I'll survive. I drank my own sweat.
It's. Disgusting.
Guy, I'm going to go make some chamomile tea.
Thank you, Iona. Sounds lovely, do do you mind
putting on apart from me as well?
Absolutely. Anybody else want tea?
You know what, if you're, if you're, if you're offering, I'll
take some tea. I'll just I'll just brew brew a
big pot O chamomile tea. Clive, we should get you checked
out. You look at Clive and he looks
grey. Yeah, Clive.
You. Stand there for a moment.
I'm going to just do a quick a quick medical check.
Feel kind of woozy? Yeah, this is not good.
Thanks for saving me. No idea why he wanted to attack
me. The mimic man.
It is strange. Rolled A-23.
Nice. And you patch up this tiny
little Welshman with forearms. Or actually, do you know what do
you want to roll 3D6 to see how much you give him?
Yeah, let's do that. Nice, you rolled better than I
did. Good work.
And you give him 11 health noise back over half health.
You see him look a little fresher and a little peekier in
the cheeks. I didn't realize you were a good
doctor. As opposed to an evil doctor I.
Mean you do live in Night City, so yes.
That's true. Yeah.
I help. I help people, I help this whole
group. So you should probably and I
pull out for my bag like a nutrient pack.
You should probably get some like nutrients like vitamin and
and stuff in you. You've been malnourished for a
week so yeah, that's not healthy.
So this should help. That would be great, thank you.
Do I do I drink it like a cat does?
Those little churro sticks. Yes, yes, exactly that.
It's just basically like liquid, liquid vitamins and protein and
nutrients and all that good shit.
Like a yogurt pop. Yes, better than the kibble I
guess. Not to be mean, but this tastes
like shit. Yeah, it's not that much better
than the kibble. Apparently all.
Right. All right, Clive, I got to, I
got to go assess the rest of the crew.
Tracy, you still got that, Chisener snaps.
Oh, I do have the jizzner snaps. Shinzer snaps my everything.
I broke my leg. I I have one pack of jizzner
snaps OK and there's only four in a pack so.
There's only four now. I I got the travel size.
Shrink, shrink flashing man, shrink flashing.
So. We can divvy them up.
I'm not a jizzner, snap. I love a business, snap.
I love you. Know if I get one I'll give it
to Vendale. Those are injured get
priorities. So yes, there you go, Clive and
then Adele. Roll to see if you've made a
good cup of tea. Little kitchenette in here.
You start making a cup of tea. It could be a nightmare to clean
up in here it. Is sorry I'm trying to find.
Robots. Oh, whooping a hole in my wall.
Is that a? Hand.
I mean, yeah. You should just feel lucky that
it didn't damage the rebar inside.
You're still structurally supported in case any
earthquakes come through. That's why I had it installed.
Oh. What this cup?
Of tea is wonderfully made. Nice, and 11 is pretty good.
Yeah, I'm not. I just I, I'm not used to this
brand. I don't know.
It was just in a tin. I I usually have a little
packets. Right.
Did you did you heat the water on the stove?
Yes. Oh my water cooler has a hot
tap. Oh, oh, that's.
Nice. Well, business was easy to
expense, so you know, that's the see the water cooler down there.
The GM is really, really proud of that particular piece of prop
in this thinks the bubble is nice.
It's. A fine bit of kit there.
Thank you very much. But this is great.
I'm going to dip my ginger snap in here.
Thank you, Vivi. Anyway, what's going on?
Clive walks into the room and looks over at Vivi who is now
attending to vendor. I would say Al, but.
Ow. I guess.
I mean, I'll be honest with you, I'm mixed feelings.
Like I'm sad because Vandell's probably like one of the most
chillest amongst the group. However, that's typically me
that usually lying over there and I'm just glad I'm not the
one this time. Yeah.
I'm on yellow health. This sucks.
Yeah. Yeah, yellow health plan sucks.
Yeah, we should probably get you a vivi.
Do we have a hypo or anything we can give to them?
I'm searching through my pack as well.
Yeah, what you need to do, Clive, is you need to upgrade to
the Little La Vida program. That's what you need to do.
My health insurance is not not very good either.
I don't get corporate. Yeah, so we're all stuck having
to pick between and, you know, of course the Coldplay 1 he did,
and we're not having having it. Right.
So Vivi, how do you heal Vendel? Let's see, let me vendel your
leg. Yeah.
Let me, let me just take a look. This may require some more
Ripper dock skills that I have, but I could do my best.
See. What you can do baby 18?
I'll just patch up Vendel's leg. I'm going.
To tell you right now, according to Cyberpunk Red, a professional
task is ADV 17. You do a professional job of
repairing this knee. You don't make it any better,
but you also don't make it any worse.
And so the knee joint itself is repaired.
It was mostly items that can be reattached with a little bit of
medical solder. And the only other thing that
that you're having to deal with is that Vendel is actually
physically hurt, but is not complaining.
While you are taking their pulse, you can feel their hand
shake a little bit. They're trying not to show pain.
Did it? Oh.
Oops, yes I would like to pull something from my personal bag
to try to help do. You want to use your medical
pack. Yes, yes.
Correct. Cool, let's see how much are the
drugs today? So can I just give like some
sort of pain meds? Yeah, sure.
They're 83 eddies. Gosh, I sort of think so
expensive in Night City. Because Domino pays you a lot of
money and I have to balance the economy.
Yeah, I meanwhile I have, I have plenty of eddies to spare, OK?
You spend 83 eddies and you can heal Vendel for 3D6 plus 1L3D6
here. You go Vendel.
That one stings. 7. Not my best, not the strongest,
but it'll help for now. Thank you.
Lindell's leg is repaired to normal.
It's always going to squeak a little bit now.
So if they have -1 no, they, they, you roll great.
There's no -1 there's no disadvantage, but there is no
advantages. Did not gain anything from that.
And then they'll steadies himself up against a wall and
starts getting used to the subtle new differences in their
leg. Wait, which leg was injured?
The cyber leg or the? The cyber leg.
Oh, I can fix.
I can fix that squeak real quick and pull out a can of WD-80.
Wow. She this is, this is, this is
teamwork right here. This is everyone coming
together. Always carry WD-80 on you give.
Me give me a give me a spray bro.
Nice. I.
Would say that feels cold but I have no doubt anything so yay.
Oh it doesn't squeak, that's nice.
That's annoying to edit later so that's good.
Just. Got to make sure you lubricate
it every so often. All right.
Well, now that that's sorted, Clive, we need to buy some
stuff. OK.
Yeah, yeah. First things.
First, NPCS talk to each other for a minute.
It's my least favorite thing is having to have NPC
conversations. I hate it.
I always end up going, I end up just going like and then they
talk about this and then just move on.
I mean, I do sell various items. I did overhear the mimic
promising that there was some kind of secret in there.
But I'm going to be real with you.
I think the secret was that I was tied up and they were going
to try and kill you. Damn it.
There isn't really anything in here.
I did remodel, though. I got a projector.
Oh, OK, cool. For what?
Watching the videos? Oh, because I like
entertainment. I'm more of an inside boy.
Well, that's, that's good for you.
Just I'm out of curiosity now. You wouldn't happen to have a
jet pack? I do have a jet pack.
You. You do?
Yeah. I tell you what, chap.
Yeah. Let's go into the main area and
we'll talk about getting you a jet pack.
I'd, I'd love that, Clive. I've never been more excited in
my life. Anything you want.
Money, usually. Well, I, I just mean like
wherever you want to do this deal, whether it be right here
in your living room or outside where you normally do business,
that's fine with me. All right, let's do business.
Let's. Next time on no latency.
I figure I might as well spend every last 80 I got.
Between your jetpack and my hoverboard.
So I suppose that we are coming in through the sewer entrance
then? Sewer people.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait.
Well, we're not stuffed, so maybe we'll be safe.
Well, now I'm nervous about my head.
I'm sure you've never gotten any complaints.
Radiation detected. Confirming radiation?
What do you mean? You don't have a barcode
scanner. Oh boy, we're bringing someone
else in on this. Did we decide on which net
runner we wanted to go with? Wow.
Biotechnica doesn't try to break into other corporations stuff.
Oh, thank you. I was going to say I I don't
know how good my sewing skills are anymore.
OK. So we got no information on that
area. Oh.
Look at that. See.
You know, you know, you got, now you got Whisk all over the
floor. I I think that we're ready.
We jump on the hoverboard and the jetpack and fly out of
there. I mean, I'm ready.
I got my jetpack. I've been ready to go like this
whole time. How much is jetpack fuel?
I. Think you should e-mail all 20
and complain? Yeah, this is not OK.
It's. Not OK.
That's rude. Frankly, it's rude, Tracy.
Rolling an 8 -, 7, that's not no.
Does it do to the? Does it do this to you when you
play Vampire the Masquerade on Maggi RPG?
Shameless plug. No, no it doesn't.
Oh, does that mean people can enjoy your live streams of every
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Yes, where we also use. Oh, I don't need, I don't need
the plug. What's funnier?
Demi playing? What am I talking about?
I don't need your damn filthy plug.
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No, I have one best to. Ask about.
Bathrobe. You went in.
There. You did go in there.
They were mimicking the. You rolled perception in the
kitchen and that moment had not happened yet, so.
Interesting. So did I, or did I not in
fiction, go into the bathroom? You looked in the bathroom.
And I didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
Well, yeah, they were hiding behind the wall that you didn't.
They were behind. The Wall.
The Classic. Hiding behind the doors when the
door opens, yes, you know, See, I hate when that happens.
Sorry, honey. I think it's clever being a
mimic. I would have thought I would
have mimic something else, but I just used.
The door. They were the door.
Not that kind of mimic. Who knows?
Oh bro you know how many mimics I've used and saved the D8?
Everything other than a treasure chest is a fucking mimic and I
will. Always look.
Somehow. I always fall for the mimics I
do. Yeah, the floor is a mimic, The
ceiling's a mimic. The door is a mimic.
Comet was a mimic. Into the ground.
The Lanonium can't say that word correctly.
The plastic ground flooring gets scarred by this Shard of metal.
Do you want to insert me saying linoleum?
And that's where that episode ends.
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