Last time on no latency. Betting.
Is fun. OK, that's.
It retro. Are you OK?
You look really angry. I have to go.
We want retribution. We lost money.
On it, Retro doesn't quite see me.
Put it on trauma team. Riot, riot, riot riot.
That's true. That's what warned me last time.
Get this fucking thing off. I'm smack, all right?
We're going to do our best. Yeah, Retro, I'm coming.
I'm coming. I'm.
Coming. Then you can gift me that money
and then if I lose it, I lose. I can afford another cigarette.
Let me see your skirt. Went into my mind palace.
I didn't do this. Here's hoping for the best you.
Didn't see me do this. Do it now.
I did not do this. Will I?
Better than none. You did it, Hot Wheels.
You did it. Gosh, this is the moment of
truth, everyone. I think, I think I'm pretty
Rogan, Rogan. Not Jeb.
Oh hello everyone and Happy Hallows Eve, Halloween is the
day that it is. It's my favorite time of the
year. National holiday, It's Yeah,
you're lucky. I like Vendel.
What you'll like Vendel? Yes, thank you.
I really appreciate it everyone. Can brain dances like teach you
something like inherent in your brain?
Is it like uploading information?
Like a skill? Jeb, Jeb, do you want?
Do you want slots? Do you?
Do you want cyberware slots in your necky times?
Well, I just, I just had a real good idea for for a Halloween
costume, but. Because I could also sell you a
skill chip. Yeah, you know, I, I think I'd,
I'd love just one, just one. One little slot in the neck.
One little slot and it's honestly I'm I'm I'm going to be
out, going to be real with you, just going to get one here just
for the just for the Halloween costume.
And then if we could just go ahead and take that out, that'd
be great. Yes, definitely.
I'll definitely take it out afterwards.
You won't find A use for that in the slightest.
Great, great, cool. Well.
So do I. That means I'm going to be
working on Jeb VD. So if you want to install those
skate feet that Vendell is holding and jumping up and down,
skate, skate, skate so. Excited for you, Vendell?
Yes, calm. Down.
Wait, so I'm installing the skate feet?
You said you would remember when we were at the glass market and
we saved everyone. Oh, by the way, we saved
everyone. No.
We did. Yes, I did say that.
You did, and you promised. Because I remember I was like,
are you going to make us? Are you going to make us find
out why this guy exploded? And you were like, yes.
And then I was like, OK, And then I own a loft.
It's the end of Part 2. Yes, OK, let's let's get these
as solved. This, this should be no, no
problem. This is this is easy.
Exactly. All right, so Vendel mentioned
that they don't want to replace the rubber leg.
Now normally skate feet require 2 legs, but I do have a brace
that will attach to the waist attachment for the other leg, so
there's no need to remove the flesh leg we will have to
remove. The sole of your other foot
though. No, no, I know it's fine.
Yes, I totally know what I'm doing.
OK, let's get to work. OK, VB, so over there you've got
the tibia, the fibia replacement, the leg brace.
So you have to insert those in the flesh leg.
You've got the leg brace, the installation.
Normally we charge about 500 labour.
I'm sure you're doing that for free because Vendel was a friend
making a a total of 400 eddies for my services and plus 100 for
the holiday fee. Thank you very much.
Wonderful. Yes, I just made a lot of money
off of Vendel, so in the in the roller Derby.
So there will be no charge here. Yay.
Skate feet. Skate feet.
All right, so let's just get
this brace in there. I'm ready.
Doctor. Doctor VV.
Thank you yes get yourself a nice and comfy now just OK, let
me see the leg really quick OK, OK, Yep Yep Yep it's it's it's
OK. Do you want any sort of drugs to
you know, it shouldn't be a painful, too painful of a
process, but. Those aren't you replacing my
tibia or amphibia? Yeah, but it's just your tibia
amphibia. That's a.
That's a bone. You're a doctor.
Those are those bones in my. Well, I was going to put, I'm
going to put a numbing agent down there, but I don't know if
you want an additional something to just be in like a loopy land,
you know? Yeah, I mean, that'd be nice.
All right, take this. This will put you in loopy land.
So this I could, I mean I could also take this synth coke.
I don't think that synth coke is is the way you want to go.
You would like no probably be more relaxed.
Oh yeah, I'll hold on to this. Yes, for another day.
OK, take this and then I'm going to apply a, a numbing agent to
your foot. So for a second you'll feel and,
and if just just a minute or two, you'll feel nothing.
That's all right. Start now.
Like get it 'cause it's. Yes, yes.
OK, jokes while we're on the operating table.
So Vivi, in order to install these skate feet on Vendel, you
have to perform three medical skill checks.
You are now in your prep stage sweating.
Do you want to know the DV or do you want to play in the dark?
I I'm quite confident in my skills so.
Totally should be VV. I've seen how you'd play with
that old school game operation you got very.
Good control. I, I do, I do, I, I am very good
at operation, I'll have you know.
So no, no, I don't need the DV. I'm I'm good to go.
You're born a master. It's so much fun to play.
All right, first one. Knock him out.
It's the the the drugs make me feel great, I bet.
Do a great job. That's fantastic.
Yes, you rolled at 18. The DV was 15.
Make the correct insurgents. Nice little keyhole thing.
You're going to snap the bone into pieces on the inside.
On your next one, remove the nose and then insert the bone in
its pieces. Screw it together so it's like a
keyhole surgery in the back of the neck.
I could never be a doctor in real life.
DV. DV wincing.
I should. Oh man, I'm just kidding.
Is he? OK, why are you wincing?
BB? Just blood.
Iona. Iona, don't come in here,
there's lots of my blood also. Jeb don't come in here, there's
lots of my blood also. Jeb roll Resist torture drug.
Oh, no. Oh.
Wait, I think I smell something. You didn't think about it.
You don't. Lock the door, Vivi.
It's not baking, is it? Wow.
You do a fantastic job. Of stemming the flow.
We'll get to you, Jeb. That's really.
Fun. Just a fantastic job of this
check, and this is the hardest of the checks 'cause you're
removing your bone from the lower leg and you rolled 18.
The DV was 17. So you pass and you managed to
remove the tibia and vivia from the lower half of Vendel's leg.
It's held in a brace on this bed and you notice the skin and
muscles sag a little bit to remove the back.
Oh, it's wibbly. Oh, OK, The drugs are working,
yes. Drugs and numbing, but yeah,
this will be this that that was the hardest part, Vendel, and
you did great, great. Now we just got a insert.
The. Wheelies.
Healies. And and and the bones, because
look, it's all flibbly flabbly look and.
They play with the flesh. Yeah, you have to smack their
hand away. OK, No, no, Vendel, don't,
don't. Sorry.
They're taking those very well, which is great.
Well, you gave me drugs and now I don't care.
OK. Now, Jeb, you're, you're, you're
sniffing in the background while this is happening.
You, you sniff and you notice that not only do you resist the,
the, the blood, it makes you sniff around and you smell that
the vending machine, you smell that the vending machine has
been freshly changed. Cool fresh baby girl.
Hey, Retro A. Fresh baby baby, freshly changed
baby. That's what I'm looking to
change too. Like a freshly changed babies.
Like a fresh baby. Hey Retro, you notice that
everything over here is nicely freshed?
It's nicely we got freshly big bread in this.
What? Yeah, what?
Check it out. Real bread or synth bread?
Well, I, I mean, hold on. Yeah, it's synth bread, but come
on. Oh, that's just my banana bread
that I'm making. It smells incredible.
Should be done in I think another 15 minutes.
Well then we're going to get my legs.
Yes, yes. OK, last part.
Let's do this, Mendel do. This.
Woo, OH. Holy shit I blinked and it was
done. That's 24.
Holy crap, that's amazing. Well done 24.
Yes, you finish off the brace is now a panel on the bottom of
Vendelle foot. You've replaced they you've
replaced their foot. They now have a cyber foot on
both feet. The brace goes up the back of
their leg and clicks into the underside of their knee and
facing front. You'd never see it.
You wouldn't even know it attaches to the underside of
their hip and now they can activate these skate feet.
Wow, this is cool. These are cool, can you undumb
my leg please? Well, that's going to take just
a little bit longer, probably another 30 minutes and you'll be
good. Right.
Well, I mean, we could speed it up with the the large syringe.
There just go. For it all right the.
The. Halloween arc is on a time
crunch, so. 15 minutes. Halloween's coming if.
We got trick or treating to do, so let me.
Yeah, let's just administer this really quick.
Yeah. Oh, I feel it.
It's weird. It's so weird.
You're going to feel it. It's.
Like when someone pokes you when your leg is dead or your arm is
dead, you know what I mean? That's exactly.
What I was going to ask what it was like.
You know, you're, you're a little more bored up, you know,
hopefully this doesn't mess with you too much, you know, because
sometimes. I'm I'm.
If you get a little too much cyberwear, you get a little,
your brain gets a little so. Yeah, I've got a roller, I've
got a roll. Humanity.
Yeah, there's more. Feet and a brace.
Yeah, Vendel becomes. That's three D6.
More roll like atom smasher. Oh mate.
All right, so Vendel, their humanity is lowered.
Then tells humanity. Whoa.
Really? Why?
Yeah. Every time you install new
cyberware, you lose a bit of yourself and you become more
like a Cyborg and a monster. No no, I meant like why I rolled
11. Does that mean it goes down by
11? Yes, it goes down by 11.
So although their their empathy is five, that's represented as
50. It's currently already at -1 So
it's at 4. So then you're at 3:00 and they
can gain that back by going to therapy.
Going to yeah this real mechanic and cyberpunk and it's great all
right well that's that's all settled so everyone I'm.
Going to get changed. Yes, I too, I didn't want to get
any blood on my costume, so I'm going to go get changed.
What's everybody is everybody else dressed up?
Are. We dressing up now?
It's Halloween, guys. I.
Mean, I I got my costume, it's all ready to go.
I just, that's why I'm here talking to the doc.
You know, I just got one what last final thing I got to take
care of. I, I yeah, I just have to go
stop by my apartment. I got it there.
All right, everybody, let's get our costumes and go out because
it's Halloween, all right, I'm. Yeah, absolutely.
We'll be back in the bar in 30. Yes, let's meet back at the bar
in 30. Are you are you dressed?
Should we should we wait to reveal your costume till we're
at the bar? I'm.
I'm in my costume. Yeah.
Should we wait? We should we should we wait to
reveal till everyone's ready? Yeah, yeah.
Don't, don't come in yet. I don't want to see.
Let's not talk, let's not talk about.
Let's not talk about Vendel's. Everybody leaves, so only I know
what Vendel's costume is and then we don't have to talk about
it till we get to the bar. All right, Jeb, stop moving.
I know the vending machine is very interesting.
Just there you go and it. Oh, you know, Ayanna, that's
really weird. That healed incredibly quickly.
Did it? That's very well.
Oh, yeah, barely even felt a thing.
Well, I mean, it hurt really, really bad.
And then when it actually was kind of, you know, when my brain
tissue. Why didn't you say anything?
I have drugs. That's weird.
You know, my brain tissue was kind of forming over this little
metal piece. It also was excruciating.
But now I don't feel a thing all.
Right. So it's weird you didn't scream
at all. Hard man, Hard, hard, Hardy man,
hard man. I'd like to scream on the
inside, which I'm doing almost constantly.
Well, then I recommend that you do a little.
Stream therapy. Yes, I do.
If you're screaming on the inside, that's a sign that you
might need therapy. All right, so.
What? What we we've got?
What is it? A slot?
Let me see. Cyberwear.
Internal cyberware options. What is what is it called?
Chip slot. Chip slot.
That's what it's called. Cyberware.
Oh yeah, Chipware socket, right? Let's see.
Right, Jeb, That's 500 eddies, please.
Jesus crashed. This stuff ain't cheap.
Well, it's, it's a, it's a permanent internal piece of
cyberware, my friend. Yep, and I suppose that you are
professional, so quite late interest to compensate you
fairly. Jeb, your EMP isn't affected by
much, but you now have a chip wear socket in your neck.
You can install software that you can buy from the vending
machine in front of you. Oh great.
Let me just go look through the digital Rolodex here, OK, TTTTR
and oh, there it is. Perfect purchase.
Let's roll to see how much that chip that you've selected costs.
Oh, I rolled A10 on these really cool dice.
That's fun. So that is 160 eddies.
Oh my God, is this going to be worth the bit?
What am I kidding? Of course it is.
Well, all right, Doc. So how's this work?
I just just kind of just like, do you?
Remember, do you remember the memory stick by a by Sony?
Oh, Oh yeah, back in the day. Yeah, yeah, like the SD cards in
those old TV shows, like, like all TV shows and movies, like
Fast and. Slightly angry like CSI North
Dakota. Yes, yeah, that's exactly the
show when they used the digital camera from 1998.
Oh that, that's a good one. Yes.
So you just. You'll feel a little spring and
a little tingle, and then while it's installed, everything on
the chip is available for you internally.
You do have two slots though. I didn't have a single slot
option. All right.
Well, let me just go ahead and stick this one in here.
Wow. OK, Well, I think I'm ready to
go then. And I didn't install a Chiron,
so if you want to use that you have to do.
This here's the here's. Give me your hand.
So tap your fingers like this and that'll activate your chip
and then do the same but backwards and it'll unactivate
your chip. OK, so just.
OK, it looks like it all right. Yeah, that seems to be working.
Right. Well, there you go, Jeb.
You'll sort it out with your little Halloween thing.
Thank you for your money. I appreciate that.
Well, thank you for your services.
Well, you know it is. It is, you know, American
culture to tip when your services are appreciated and
they'll paid 100. Dollars.
Well, I suppose it is a cyberpunk future, so it makes
sense that tipping is just exorbitant.
Yes, and that I'm pressing you into it all.
Right here's here's a Here's a tip of 111 eddies.
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around the table. Jeb rolls up and he has a a very
like bad black wig on with like this deep widow's peak slicked
back black hair. And he's just ghostly pale
wearing this large black cloak covering this kind of ornately
embroidered Crimson vest, this white ruffled shirt, deep dark
black pants. And he smiles at you and he
knows that he has fangs. Oh.
My friends are here. Oh MG.
Do you like my new look? It's mostly due to this new
brain dance. I had installed the
Transylvanian accent. Yeah, a new brain dance.
Jeb, that that you. Look great.
You look fantastic. I don't know.
I'm not supposed to copy your accent all night?
It's going to be difficult. It fits with, you know, your old
blood thing. So good.
That's exactly what I had thought I said to myself.
I said ah, but you can smell the blood.
Therefore, maybe this year you go as vampire.
It's a nice, nice sort of threads you got on there.
Is that Lugosi? It is vampire.
Wow. Yes.
What are you supposed to be, Vivi?
You see for Vivi, she has short purple hair and a very colorful
jacket. And you see she has cat ears
with little bows on them and they're cyber wear cat ears.
She has her San Rue Hello cutie and a short skirt and cool like
cybernetic leggings under the skirts.
And her makeup is a bit paler and it looks like it kind of has
a bit of a cat look to it, feline look to it.
And she does a cute little pose. How do I describe this for
podcast? BB, says the GM voice in the
sky. Do you want a detachable tail?
Yes, thank you. Yes, that would.
Cost you? Let's roll the dice and find out
you have money. Now I have to take it.
I'm rich now. It's fine.
Oh. That's a 10 and a one, so it's
only 110 it's. Like OK.
It's a Halloween costume price, yeah.
Counting 110 Yeah, this is a spirit Halloween.
It's. A spirit Halloween thing, it
moves just constantly. You can't use it like as a whip
or anything, but plus one to wardrobe in style.
And as another side note, as I mentioned during the side quest,
those ears can be used as a light in the dark.
So when trying to proceed in the dark you get plus one what wear,
but not during the light, not in day.
So Vivi does a cute little pose, hand on the hip with her arm
raised, kind of like a Sailor Moon pose.
And I have Danger Gal. Oh yeah.
I'm so glad I'm I'm. Saying license.
Technically, yes, and there is, there is licensing.
You know you can buy licensed IP costumes now you know in Night
City. License cost.
But I I've heard that you have to pay royalties for that.
These ears are official Danger Gal cat ears.
They are a limited run of 500 and I have #286 I bought it at
the What's the name of the market that we went to A.
Night market. No.
Glass market. I bought it at the glass market.
The other one. OK, so that was mine.
What are you retro? You will see Retro standing
there. They have upgraded their Polygon
suit from before so now they can change the actual patterns by
using a camouflage technique using several LEDs.
So it looks like a dark blue almost black suit.
If you can peer underneath wearing a pair of blue
suspenders with a red tie, a light blue like baby blue and
white pinstripe shirt. And they have a pair of glasses
over their eyes on their TV face.
So digitally on their retros, just like the put one finger up
as baby says that and just go. No John, you have to make sure
you get your clothes in proportion to the physique.
It's different do's and don'ts of wearing a bold stripe shirt.
Always tip the stylist 15%. Sorry one second.
I've got a bream Stoker here. They just kind of walked up.
I'm not joking. Make sure you don't tip the
owner salon OK? Oh yes hi.
Wow, don't you all just look fantastic?
Retro will reach into their pocket and pull out a cigarette
case that they've refashioned and pull out a single business
card and hand it to VVI. Look at the business card.
On the business card it says Richard Headings.
Yeah, that's bone. And the letter is something
called Fillion Rail. These guys seem like a bit of a
cycle. Yeah, you can also see that on
the card itself, Oscar has a Biotechnica symbol down there at
the bottom. Oh gosh, what's that?
That scene. Nice.
And I forget how the whole scene goes.
You look at Paul's card. Yeah, yeah.
Let's see it. Do you have it?
Paul's card. I'm so sorry I don't come with
cards. You know who does have a
business card? Who?
Iona. Oh yeah, this is definitely a
partial mockery of just corporals all together.
Of capitalism. Well, you see that Iona isn't in
costume. Iona's just got their
biotechnical jacket on and a big black duffel bag.
I don't. I'm sorry I don't have a
business card on me right now. Did.
You not have time to dress up, Iona.
Oh, I was just going to get it ready in the bar.
I thought. I didn't realize we were, I just
like grabbed it and I don't know.
I didn't I I didn't really think about it.
Vendel wasn't there. So I just grabbed my stuff.
Did. I hear my name.
Yeah, yes. I mean, I can reveal it now.
Would you like I could do it right now.
Oh. Yes, please.
I'll wait for my entrance. I own it.
It's. Your turn.
Yeah, Yeah, you save yours for last.
OK. So Iona turns her back and
unzips the biotechnical jacket and takes it off and it's just
wearing a a plain black T-shirt underneath from the back.
That's all you can see. And opens up the duffel bag and
pulls out a box and raises it up and puts it on their head.
Turns around and it's a copy of Retro's face and the T-shirt
just says Retro's number one fan.
Do you like it? Do you like it?
It's you started streaming and I I thought I could be one of your
fans. Wow, there's just so many.
I'm glad you could be the number one.
That's. For this double just retro.
Well don't worry, I have numbers 2 through 4 in here as well and
I pull flag 2. 6 This is amazing, where did you get the
TV head replica? Oh, I printed it.
Oh. Is it not a cardboard box?
I'm confused. You go, you go, Jeb, you go up
to the cardboard box and you touch it and you've and it is
actually, it just looks like a cardboard box.
It's actually a printed piece of costume.
It was a pre-existing print that we have for shipping things, so
I just put a face on it. Wow.
But yeah, look, I'm Retro's number one fan.
Woo. Oh, I forgot.
I pull a lanyard out of my pocket and I, I have to take the
box off of my head and I put the lanyard around my neck and I, I
put it back on and it's a it's a backstage pass to record
streaming show. When did you start North
American tour? Sorry.
I interrupted you. Keep going, Jeb.
No, that was it. When did you start the Oh boy,
when did you start the North American tour because you have a
backstage pass? No, not.
I'm I'm following retro. It's it's very meta, you
wouldn't understand. Stage to his stream.
I'm very much, I'm very much of the idea of retro the streamer.
All right, it's fine. It didn't land.
It's OK, But that's all right. I'm.
That's a great, It's a great costume, great costume.
I, I'm, I'm just going to be honest with you, you know,
definitely made a choice to one, do something that I'm most
afraid of, as well as taking a slight jab at you.
And you now come in as a costume of me.
And in the sense of promoting me in that way definitely makes me
feel like the sheep at this point.
So good on you. Retro.
There's one thing that everyone knows about retro.
Yeah, That is, the retro always has more than one Halloween
costume. Oh, always.
Always. So if you want to change it
because you did that in law. That's fine.
Yeah, you'll have to excuse me. I need to go and return some
videotapes. Retro you go in the bar to get.
That no, you got to. Wait.
Bendel, Bendel, Bendel. Yeah, sorry.
We we keep we keep pausing you, but we're ready now all.
Right. Oh, oh, Bendel, I wasn't quite
ready. Vendel skates out into that's.
Not a Vendel. That's Jeb.
It's not. It says Bendel Vendel.
Now it says Jeb. It.
Does stink and Sloane athlete? You're not talking about the
role. Oh, I thought that role was.
I thought that. No, no, I wasn't talking about
you, Jeb. Why are you rolling athletics?
Are you Jeb while you're waiting for Vendel to make an entrance?
This is hilarious. While you're waiting to make an
entrance, we'll get to that. You're jumping off the bench and
floating down a little bit with your Cape, and you do a great
job. It's like mildly cool and
there's a bit of a whoosh sound as you land.
You're. Doing a great job.
It's amazing. Thank you.
Let me go ahead and run this accident off real quick.
One, one more. Oh.
Vandell, are you all right? Oh shit.
We nailed failed. Oh.
That looked like it really hurt. OK, OK, I I go over to Vendel.
Vendel. Is there a doctor around you?
Oh wait. VV.
Not tonight. Tonight I'm Danger gal.
Just kidding. Just kidding, Vendel.
I'll, I'll. Let me check.
Let me make sure nothing's broken, Vendel.
Do you need me to to Don't look, don't.
No, no, no VV. Stay back there.
Stay back there if you do, you need me to drag you back around
the corner and we can do this again.
Do it again. I've lost, I've lost.
I've lost a bit of HP. It's OK though because I only
rocked it too so I've lost 2 HP. Do you do you want to try it
again? I grazed my.
Elbow, it's OK Avivi will patch you up, but your grand inference
is important. I'm going to do it again.
Just hide me. Hide me with.
Hide me. With I'm hiding.
I'm hiding. Yeah, I'm just I.
Think we're with the tan that we didn't see it?
You were looking up Jeb. Jeb, that jump was cool.
Hey, thanks. Appreciate that.
Do you want me to turn it on? You want me to turn it back?
OK. I rolled a crit success.
And Vendell skates out into the street, does a spin and throws
off their jacket, throwing it back into the alleyway.
And they are dressed as the rabbit from the bio has it.
I'm dressed as me because we won roller Derby.
Wow, look. At me.
I got a new jacket made and. They do a little spin and it
says MVP on their back. They just gave this to me.
That's a cool jacket. That's.
Pretty cool. They said if I ever want to play
again I I can, but I don't have to because I did a really good
job. Good job, Fendo.
Happy Halloween everyone. Happy Halloween, Happy
Halloween, BBB, could you? Could you patch on Fendo's
elbow? Yes, Let me see.
Oh, oh, just a little scratch. We want to make sure that's not
infected. Let me just disinfect and put a
little gauze on it. OK, You're going to be all
right. Yeah.
I'll see you guys in the bar. Retro's going to run down to the
bar to the basement so they can change costumes.
Retro take some candy corn kibble for for the road.
I guess you're not going that far, but here you go.
Thank you. How's the new feat?
Oh, they feel really great. You want to race.
No, because you'll beat me. But you've got a hoverboard.
We're about the same speed. Oh shit.
That would be fun to watch actually.
Yeah, you know what? What's race?
Fuck yeah, Jeb, you want to race?
Sure. Yeah, I'll race with you.
Just me, just to be clear, just me running.
If you've got the balls, Mr. Dodge the bullet.
I mean, come on now, hold on, let me go ahead and turn on the
vampire real quick, OK? I think I'm ready.
All right, everyone. Let's.
Do this. VV, you got your board.
Yep, I am ready to go. All right, you and me can go an
extra 6 yards every time we run. Jeb can't, so let's hope he
rolls well. They don't call me Fast Jeb for
nothing. They call you fast, Jeb.
I've decided to call that myself.
Ah, I see. All right, you're going to run
around. You're basically going to do a
little race around the block. It is 4 rolls OK, one for each
side of the block. We're just throwing 2 rolls of.
Them. Ball evasion of our.
Father, actually, could I? Could I argue yes, that Vendel
is actually dancing through the streets on their new feet?
Absolutely. It's in great.
Could could I argue that of course, being a vampire also
that I am skulking around the sides?
Absolutely. Does that change your role
though? Oh, eat the darts.
Are using the are you fucking stealthing your way around?
I fell into that's very fair, very good.
All right. Iona, can you count us down?
Sure can. All right.
I get. I get in front like a, like a,
I'm a car girl at a, at a track and I take the, the number 2 and
the number 3 fan T-shirts and I raise them up in the air and I
say I won't be doing that, but thank you.
I raise them up. All right, racers.
That's, that's, those are the sounds of the crowd.
All right, racers, Are you ready?
Ah. Yes, yeah.
You this. I thought it was a OK, let's go.
It's. Not true.
One go. Running OH.
Holy shit. Oh.
And VV gets a clear lead with their crit 20.
Now with your stealth, because you're being cheeky and rolling
something you're very good in, you don't get the leaves there.
You're still behind BB just about 5 feet.
Bendel trips a little bit as they dance.
They just misjudge their moonwalk and just go the wrong
way rolling an 11, which is mid, but it's still a fail.
And they? I'm still getting used to these.
I've got this. Again, come on, Bendel, you can
catch up. And I do a little, a little wink
behind me. A little wink.
Like you sparkle every time you smile and I hear a little Ding
every time you wink. Stop watching through my chyron
iota. I have to concentrate.
Oh, sorry. Now it makes sense that you saw
that. Oh.
Shit. VV there's a there's a there's a
pavement tile that's sticking up and it doesn't meet the
clearance of your hoverboard and it clips the front and you do a
spin. Now you also rolled 11 so you
don't fall over, but you do fall behind and Vendel gets ahead of
you with their 13. We're just waiting for Jeb's
role. That's that's that's a little
bit and Jeb, you grab the lead in this race.
Is your They don't even see me for I'm in the shadows.
You're you're jumping from lamppost to lamppost, doing that
thing from Emperor's New Groove. As you do your best impression
of a vampire crunk jumping around the street, you get to
the third corner well again. Oh yes, it is all coming
together. 18 Wow. Yeah, Bendell grabs the lead on
the third corner. Vivi's close behind.
Oh. We've all rolled 1 crit fail
that's. Hilarious, Jeff, you try and you
try and you turn to the next corner and because you're using
stealth, the worst thing has happened.
You did roll A-16. You do fall behind because your
crit failed. Because there is nothing to hide
behind. There's only that post.
It's all the trash cans are gone.
There's nothing to do. You've got nothing to hide
behind, so you fall and it's comical because now you've got
your big Cape and everyone can see you.
Hey, Malcolm. There he is.
Svendell says as they skate past you.
All right, I got to catch up. Countdown.
Oh man, these. Crit.
Fails we're. Getting them out early.
This is your movement really. Get yourself together.
Phoebe, you're about to cross the finish line.
Vendel steps wrong and veers into the alleyway, missing the
line that they'd scraped on the ground earlier.
That was your start and finish line.
And you're about to cross the line and Jeb jumps off a vending
machine and glides over you and passes the line, winning the
race. Are you kidding me?
And you see that is why you never that's.
Not bad. Vandel falls over something in
the alleyway. What?
The fuck was that? Oh shit, Vandel, we got to, we
got to put some bubble wrap around you or something, because
you. Keep really start wearing a
helmet. You don't.
Need a helmet. What did I trip on anyway?
And Vandel's in the alleyway over by a purple dumpster.
Hyona's running to catch up to everybody.
It's about this moment that Retro steps out in his costume
as Vendel starts to get up. So.
Retro come out and they're in all leather, as close as you can
get to like several mismatched versions of BDSM outfits all
over. And you can see that on their TV
head case, they've glued several nails around the top of it.
And their face is also just grey sunken face with like sunken in
eyes and such. Hey, where's the hey, what is
the endo? Where'd everyone go?
And they start walking over. You can just hear the sound of
letters squeaking and just having to readjust themselves as
they're walking because. Wait, retro?
What are you supposed to be? I think I'm a bite like what
they were called. There's some guy named Doug
Bradley. Like I found these old movies
like back in like the 90s, like classic movies, right?
And there was this horror movie where these people like, we're
all about the pleasure of pain and had chains and and such.
And this guy had all these like nails in his head.
And I thought it was pretty cool.
I think I've, I think I saw that one they would call the cinnamon
bites. Cinnamon bites.
OK, yeah, so I'm a cinnamon bite.
That's hardcore. Those guys were pretty fucked
up. Yeah, yeah, I just kind of found
all this like extra like leather stuff from, you know, the lost
and found in the bar. Make sure to wash it though.
I think it's shrunk. You can see that it's like
almost splitting at the seams on on retro.
Well, as long as the nails weren't used.
No, no, I used, I used super glue for those.
I got some solvent with me and I just have to take it out.
It was going to take some time. Guys.
Yes, yes. Vendel.
What? What's what?
Yeah. What did you trip over?
Are you all right? What did I trip over?
Yeah, a severed hand. Not these again, Jeb.
Jeb No. Real or fake, ha ha.
Funny Halloween, ha ha. There's lots of blood, Jeb.
Will you come and smell if this is real?
I I don't think we need Jeb to smell if it's real, if it's.
Ah, but I would very much like to make a sniff.
Let me take a look. I'll I'll walk over to Van
Dellen through the hand. Phoebe, as you come up to this
hand on the ground, there's blood streaked underneath the
dumpster. That's right there across from
the entrance to Crystals by Joy, and it's gold, the skin of the
hand. As you get closer it twitches
and you're right in front of it and it jumps at you and tries to
attack roller vision. What is that doing?
Vivi screams. 16 I only rolled in. 11 Yes, you indeed dodge out
of the way. The hand leaves a trail of blood
behind it as it jumps too much closer to Iona.
Out of the fray and cluster of all of you.
Vendel is in front of you, Retro, so you can't.
You can't do anything directly to the hand, but you can react
to it. Oh, all right.
Well, I was going to try to if it was like near me, if it was
making a move, I was going to try to kick it.
But if you say that right within the range of that, that's fine.
It's it's within firing range, yeah, but also.
Possible. I definitely don't have my
weapons on me right now. Oh my goodness.
Are we going to keep weapons on? Fucking BDSM leather tightness
on my body. I didn't bring anything except
my combat shovel. Could just somebody like just
grab it before it like crawls off so we can see what the hell
it is? I'm going to stop.
Yeah, I don't have anything. My big ass.
But that's some. Cinnamon Bite shoes.
Then Darrell, you're fast. I've I've got skate feet, maybe
I should do it. Retro, you jump in your BDSM
outfit, slide on the blood with all of the leather you're you're
wearing, and you grab the hand and it's struggling to try and
get away from you. Oh.
Shit, this thing's got to mind if it's so.
You've rolled Brawling, do you want to cause damage to this
thing you're trying to disable? Yeah, I'm gonna break its
fingers. Cool, do it 23.
Yes, you crack the fingers and it goes limp and falls on the
ground and you're standing over it victorious.
I'm going to try to take one of the nails now there's something
I can stab it to. I'm just going to put my boot
over it and just like keep pressure on it.
I can I can use one of these shirts and tie it into a bag.
The last time we saw one of these was in when we first met
Vivi, you know? Yes, I remember.
The hand comes back to life and tries to attack Retro.
Oh God. What?
Had the fingers click back together, fix themselves and
attack retro. I've got my, I said.
I was putting pressure. I know.
I know, I know, that's why you have a bonus in this, but still.
Crawling was not enough to stop it from attacking you.
It grabs your ankle and gives you a burn by twisting really
hard to get you to let go of it. Your evasion.
Is give me a friction burn. It rolled 21 and gets out from
underneath your feet and then tries to attack you again.
One evasion. Now you're going to tell me it's
going to punch me in the goo goo's?
Not in the goo goo's. That's me trying to throw a
T-shirt over trying to catch it like you would like a mouse.
You throw a T-shirt with your crit crit fail.
You accidentally throw it over Retro's head and he has problems
with his attack. I'm sorry.
Iona, that's not a number one thing.
Oh. God.
It also gets stuck because there's all the nails on there
too, so the fabrics just getting getting on the fucking top of
the nail. You try and kick it and you
manage to kick it actually retro because that's really, really
hard. And you hear the fingers crack
and snap again as it falls down lifeless on the ground once
more. Jeb, it is at this moment that
you hear a very distinctive ringing in your ears and the
ringing gets louder. It swells.
What is? That and then it settles a
little bit and as the ringing stops you look at the hand and
you notice the fingers click back together.
Repair once again turn around and go towards you.
It's coming towards you. You can hear the ringing way
more on your it's. The ringing is coming from your
left hand side. There's only one thing to do
come that shovel. You hit the hand that goes to
attack you midair and it flies across the alleyway, across a
little loading dock, and lands almost near the entrance to the
street. Again.
It's Max against the wall. You hear it crack and split.
More blood spurts everywhere and it falls lifeless on the ground.
And you will wait. I don't think this one is going
to die as easily as the thought. Eat it, Jeb.
Just eat it. This is the first time I'll say
it. You hear the noise again, this
time behind you from the porta potties.
There's this ringing in your ear and it's really quite
disturbing. As it gets louder, you watch the
hand once again reform. The hand clicks.
VV. This is really starting to mess
you up. You have, as you classically,
classically have that feeling. I've never seen anything like
this before and it clicks, turns up back just like the hand from
fucking Wednesday and comes back towards you.
The ringing stops as it comes back to attack.
What do you? Do we got to kill this thing?
Shoot it. I got my gun on you.
Oh good thing I have mine. I'm going to shoot it.
It's a roundabout here where VV pulls out their gun, their Hello
Cutie Ultra K8 Assault pistol. Fantastic weapon, fantastic
sound. I was born for this, I say in my
Danger Gal costume. Hell yeah.
And you blow a huge hole through the center of this hand, and it
just falls dead right in front of you now with a hole in it.
And it's settled on the ground and there's a silence and Jeb,
you hear that ringing in your ear once more and the hole
closes up in front of you. Iona, you have seen this skin
behaviour before and it comes back to life and goes to attack
you once more. You guys, every time that it
comes back to life, I hear a ringing in my ears.
A ring in your ears coming back to life.
What does this mean? I don't know, I'm the dumb one.
Can I roll? Can I roll something like
history or something? Yeah.
A local expert, I suppose is what that would be here.
I got ATV over my face. I can't see nothing.
Well, or whatever you want. Streetwise, whatever.
I will roll bureaucracy, thanks. Oh shit, damn it, I am
disappointed there was no grand puppy in that accent.
Grand puppy is called 45. It doesn't make sense.
The only the only weapon that I have that makes sense for the
costume is the combat shovel and it is because that way I can
bury my own self. That's exactly what I was
thinking. Jeb, I love the idea, but
normally if Halloween is really dangerous, so maybe after we
deal with the hand, you should go and get your bloody gun.
I was trying to stay in character.
Yes, and I think it's really good that you embrace the bog
lifestyle and also became a cool vampire.
But thank you, Iona. You rolled 20 on bureaucracy and
that regrowth is body fuel. Do I recognize anything about
this? It's so it's a gold hand.
Is it cyberware? It's a gold hand.
It's got cyberware on it. The healing is exactly like Body
Fuel skin and the only other time you've seen gold skin like
this. It is on Steve.
It's. On Steve's.
Not Steve. The ringing is is intermittently
getting louder as the hand gets towards you.
Are you going to try and stop the hand?
I'm going to take this T-shirt. Off of.
Retro's head and trying to actually catch it.
Oh, great. Yeah, yeah.
Oh yeah, put it in the box. That's a great idea.
Put it in the box. Put it in the box.
I'm going to say that I've been studying its movements, so I'm
going to roll education to catch it.
Sure. It's going to take 10 years
though, because my computer's running slow.
Can I take a look inside the dumpster real quick?
Yeah, yes, you take a look inside the dumpster.
Can I find like a broom handle or something like that?
Yeah, Romeo D6, Romeo D10, and as long as you roll A2 or above,
you find a broom handle, you find a.
Metal. Broom handle I don't.
Want I don't want a metal broom handle.
What's better than a broom handle?
A metal one. Not only do you find a broom
handle, you also find the broom head as well.
Nice. I'm going to take both pieces
and with the with the actual broom handle, I'm going to make
sure that it's like been broken off and it has like sharp points
and I'm going to use that to stab the hand.
Oh great, so you like stabbing it in the box?
OK, so you you you stab through one of the air holes on the top.
You roll high enough with that D10 that you don't damage the
costume in the process, but you do pin the hand inside of the
box and it dies in the box. And Jeb once again behind you
from the porta potty. You hear a ringing in your ears
as you hear the around the spike and try and get out.
But Iona has done a really good job with their 14 and it's just
sitting on the box now as it tries to Scrabble.
Do you want me to do that? Because that's gross, yes.
Please. And then Dell and Iona do a very
quick switch like it's the beginning of Indiana Jones.
Nice. I'm going to try to see about
using my own strength, even though retro is probably not
that it's not super strong and try to take the top and snap it
off. So there's still like the long
part is long enough and hand it to Vendel and that way I I just
have a wooden stake in my hand. Sick.
And be like, all right, where is it?
Where is it? Where?
Where is it? Jeb?
You're saying there was something else around here?
No, there's I just hear a ringing in my ears.
Don't know where it's coming? Like a telephone ringing Like
ring ring telephone. This is banana phone.
What? It's more of a like I hit my
head and I'm my head is ringing, yes.
Oh, so you have. You got a concussion, baby.
I got concussion again. But it happens every time that
the the hand the reanimates. OK, hold.
On and Vendel moves the stick, kills the hand in the box and
you wait, and there's a ringing coming from the porta potty
behind Jeb that only really Jeb can hear.
It's coming from back there. What porta potty?
Yes, you're going to have to go inside of it.
I'm going to. I'm going to go in front of the
right one, this one, Jeb. No, I go to.
The one in the middle. This one, Yes, that's the one.
All right, who's actually got a better weapon than just a stake
here? I have my gun.
All right, BB, you ready to shoot?
I'm ready. I'm going to open the door.
OK. And then you're going to shoot.
And if it's an innocent, well, you can just patch them up
later. Ready 321 go.
Blast, blast, blast. And you shoot into the porta
potty and they're standing in the porta potty.
Is this? What?
Is that? What the hell is that?
That's copyright infringement. A golden man standing holding a
satellite dish attached to a large pole.
He's got a radio over his eyes and most of his head, and his
head is back as he silently screams into the void.
The bullet goes through his shoulder and he almost doesn't
react, but the noise attracts him and he walks out towards
you. You guys.
Can't hear that? Thing steps out it, it looks at
Jeb and makes more noise that only Jeb can hear, and the hand
rattles around inside. You didn't run great on damage,
but you did 'cause damage, right?
This thing doesn't look like it's got a lot of health and
takes 7 damage as it's not wearing any armor.
Still alive there and it's walking towards you.
It's not good. Shit.
Well, I'm right next to it, right?
Yes. Well, I'm going to up the stakes
and stab it in the heart. Oh shit yeah different 21 + 6.
Yes. Stabbing it with the, with the
steak, but I don't stab it in the heart.
I stab it in the gut, not killing it just yet.
You can see a move and then I, I realize, oh, it's really it's
really spongy and soft. And I, I try to push it into the
porta potty and actually into the whole of the porta potty.
Just you could see Retro Retro taking their big boots from the
costume, trying to like kick it down there.
And after the third kick, you hear a click in the body as the
spine finally breaks. His whole body goes limp.
He drops his satellite dish halberd that he had.
And there is a a corruption to the sound Jeb as this static
permeates to the air as you almost feel it past you.
The hand goes wild under the box and then Dell loses they're
footing. The hand bursts out, runs into
the middle of the alleyway and jerkingly starts to write
something on the ground and when it's done, it explodes.
I own a roll of vape. Oh my God, the hand.
It's jerk. The hand is jerking something.
It's up the bed. Oh no, and unfortunately Iona,
you don't notice the hand do this.
As it finishes writing bloody words on the ground, it
explodes, covering, making blood.
Oh. Oh.
God. At least it adds to the
Halloween. Effect Retro's number one fan.
Next time on no latency. Somebody get up a towel.
Guys. It's OK.
It's all right. It's OK.
That does not look good do. You see this written on the
ground here. Everything's fine.
It's OK. That was like a year ago,
wasn't? It and we were all having a
great. Time this Z with the line
through it I. Swear I haven't seen him in.
Yeah, it's a lot of blood. We.
Have to keep track of our NPCS everyone we're.
Not running a prison here, are we?
Retro come over here while they're doing the EMP over
there. I think he's going to blow.
Yeah, that's the, that's the one right there.
We should probably just go. We can talk about it on the way.
It's tuna all right. I heard that screaming all the
way over here. There's.
Something wrong? Sorry, I'm so sorry I.
I kind of like this. That's great, Vendel, Just try
to stay on your feet. That one left a bad taste in my.
Mouth, I'm sorry, your wheels. We're pretty out of range,
right? Yep, Nope.
The guy, the guy who I just chat.
I'm finishing the job. You want to shoot first.
Pew. Splash damage.
Oh, Jake, you guys don't hear that for real.
Splash damage. Pew.
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