Last time on no latency. Great.
Well, Speaking of, we should probably go to the well.
Oh the well. Yes.
Oh God, it's mine. I've been shot before.
Do you feel better? Well, I'm going to go ahead and
use my Spreadshot. Oh my God, baby, no.
Wait a minute, I got an idea. I'm going to think about wearing
a jet pack. Jeb, if you fall to the bottom
of this well and die. But I have a jet pack.
Jeb, if you die in the game, you die in your life.
Think about fueling it to the tippity top.
This is the worst. I got it.
We're coming as fast as we can. What was that?
Oh God, we're locked in. What, Jeb?
What? I mean, I guess we better just
put them all down then, huh? Smash it and crush it with the
box. I'll see the other one.
All right, well, we solved 2 puzzles, we got 2 keys.
It's time to find Bendel. Hey, where's Vandu?
Oh, sorry, one moment. Hello.
I just stay quiet. Come hang in here.
I'm. I was afraid of that.
I know. But we are on our way right now.
I think we have everything to get into the room where you are.
Don't. Don't say anything else.
Do not speak. Keep the light off.
We will be there very soon. I'm going to try and hide.
You should have been hiding this whole time more.
Hiding. I'm going to try and hide more.
OK, roll for it. Gosh, I have fresh peas sheet
pulled up a stealth. That's fine. 21.
There is no other places to hide.
I I believe in you. I know you can do it.
Just just all the. 24 I would have been fully.
Hidden I don't have much time. Vendel.
Fuck. All right, we have to go now.
What was that? It was Vendel.
Who else would it be? Is everything all right?
No, nothing's all right right now.
Have you not been paying attention?
Well, listen, I just thought maybe we were due for some good
luck, because everything's been kind of going as shit the last
day, and I thought maybe we were owed by the universe a little.
Good luck and super clean. Maybe when we get to the end of
this arc, but not at this moment.
Yeah, Jace. All right.
Where we going? What are we doing?
Well, we have to go back to the door.
Yeah, the door. The about to skin's all dry.
I squeeze my eyes really hard and I think of some lotion.
Roll For It 23 Yes Lotion Cocoa Butter Fresh real cocoa butter
lotion appears in your head. In the real world, this would be
worth like 700 eddies. This is the good stuff.
I'm just going to slide over myself with that cocoa butter.
700 Eddies. Smells good.
So you slather yourself with this lotion and you feel you
feel so invigorated. But also you now slide.
Yeah, oh. You're slippery, man.
You look. You've never looked better all
oiled up like that. Yeah, I'm.
I'm just listening right now, HR.
About that comment. Do we have an HR department?
No. No.
I work for Biotechnica. If it made you uncomfortable,
feel free to report it. They don't work for us.
Oh, is this like freelance stuff?
This, yes, is freelance. Well, I think we contract, yeah,
all. Right then.
Shit Poo farts. Inappropriate.
What joke? You still want me fresh pee?
Oh shit. Sorry.
I mean, pardon me. Oh, sorry.
That's all right. I give him a little, A little.
Knock on the shoulder, mother fucker.
You're. Really strong.
Getting real friendly. There said that, like, you know,
canonically you're actually fairly buff, but holy fuck.
Yeah, I know. But.
But if you all could follow me so we could go get Vendel.
Yes, I'm. Right by.
Keep on going. Yeah.
I don't know what's stopping us. We are heading back to the door,
GM. As you walk down the corridor,
it seems endless. And as you get down to the very
end, the fog in front of you clears, and suddenly you're in
the crossway. And as you step in, everyone
roll perception. Oh yeah, everyone rolled 15 or
higher. Excellent.
And do you all see that there are three Watchmen in here?
They have not seen you yet because you all rolled so well.
What do Watchmen like? Screaming.
Do they lack souls or something? Or like we put in a whole bunch
of like, computer baths or something?
Will they go after that? Do they?
Do they need sustenance? I don't.
Clear if we What if they climbed
on the walls or something like spiders.
Oh, we could spider climb. OK, yeah, you got to really
think hard about spider climb. I look at my gloves and what do
you call microbots? What do you call them?
Nano bots. Nano bots.
Thank you Nano machines. I'm going to picture the gloves
turning into nano machines covering my hands and them
spreading out across my body to create in the whole nano suite.
And cool, stick my hands to the wall so I'm covered in a pink
nano suit because it's OK. Extended from I will, but I'm
just telling you what it looks like. 17 Yeah, your body gets
covered in this sort of pink suit and it creates a little
circle for your face. You look like like that
SpongeBob episode. Do you know what I'm talking
about? When they like a dress in the
little pink thing? No.
You you look like someone just weren't very creative with their
Halloween. Just the pink.
Oh, the pink morph suit guy. Yes, you're a pink.
All right. I try.
I try to climb the wall. Yeah.
I I think it worked. That's exactly what I look like.
Yeah. Should I should I try go for it
tack? With my mind go.
Oh, you have to roll. That do I.
Oh, that's OK. I can.
I have him pulled up, OK? Hack with your mind.
Go hack. With your mind.
Hold on, hold on. There you go.
Hack. Hack with your mind.
Hack with your mind. 6/16. There we go.
Oh cool. I have spiders on my hands.
I mean, that's OK. They are Spider's man.
Looks like a It's like a bad trip.
I'm. Fresh spider, yeah.
He jumps. Onto the wall.
Whoa. Shouldn't be loud, should.
I sorry, I mean fresh. Spider.
Yeah. Did they hear that?
Oh, we're kind of having a whole fucking conversation over here.
Quite. Hurry up.
She's not. Going to give you much more
time. Oh, I I'm just a cowboy hat.
Did. You turn into just a cowboy hat.
Did I put you on my head? Maybe let's find out acting.
I'm not good at acting. 12 Instead of turning into a cowboy
hat, all of your skin turns into moleskin.
Oh, well, you know what? I don't think you can wire me
out. Do you want some of this cocoa
butter? Well, you know, you do have to
make sure that you're that you're leather and moleskin.
It doesn't crack and you do that.
You do have to, I want them to say, moisten it, but that's not
the word. Moisturize, Moisturize.
That's it. That's the one.
I I I do want to point out the urgency of the situation.
Yeah, I. Dazzle up here.
What are you? Doing.
I am going to think of gravity shoes things so I can climb on
the walls also with cool. Like gravity boots or something?
If you think about it, we all have gravity shoes on.
What does that mean, Jeb? Well, the shoes they.
You know what I mean? VB All you were concentrating on
were just these gravity defined boots, and since there were only
one piece of clothing, it wasn't as hard as covering your whole
body in nanobots or turning yourself into a hat.
No boots appear on your feet. And you're able to climb the
walls. And the only person who hasn't
done any kind of transformation is Retro and he's running out of
time. Well, Retro is going to take a
page out of fresh peas book that they did because he's reminded
of an old comic book you read a long time ago.
The incredible person with spider powers that we can't say.
And they're going to imagine themselves as one of the
villains of man Spider, and turn into a spider man, or a man of a
man that is a spider in a clown costume still.
The incredible arachnid boy. It's one of the few times I got
to be able to, like, transform into a giant spider, so why not?
A giant spider dressed as a clown.
It's Pagliashi clown. Sad.
Clown. That's Stephen King's it.
Roll for it? Yes, I'm looking for it. 15.
I mean 15, yes, 15 you. Only change either your top or
bottom bottom. So I'm a Centaur spider person.
You only managed to change yourself into a spider from the
waist down. So instead of having eight legs,
you're a four. I'm a I'm a strider.
That's what I am now. That I was about to say that.
And as you've all managed to climb onto the walls is it's
around about this moment that more Watchmen start to appear in
the hallway. As if from thin air.
Wait a minute. I think I got another idea.
Do you think there's time? I.
Very much think we're running out of time.
Shouldn't we just, like, try and get to where Bendel is?
Yeah, let's just keep moving. Wait.
I've got an idea. I've got an idea.
Think about a really a really sexy watchman to distract him.
Roll for it. Yeah, I'm trying to think of.
I'm trying to find a good stat here.
It's. Going to be like.
Animal handling, Sure. They're like animals, you know?
Or is this supposed to be like the gremlins?
The new bass? Oh.
Yeah, Chris. Damn.
A watchman appears in a red dress.
Yes, I mean. And it walks past a bunch of the
Watchmen that have just appeared and they all start paying
attention to it. And they go, oh God.
OK, go go, go, go, go. Alright, we're going to run
across. Jeff, get on my back.
Yeah, you. Go to the door?
No. No, it's over here where the
keys go now. Go on here, maybe?
You're on the ceiling. Come back?
So you're you're now standing in front of the door.
The Watchmen in this space have been distracted because they're
following a watchman wearing a red dress.
There are two buttons in here and a big locked door.
OK, quickly. Can we move the crates to block?
Another one. What does that?
Mean Stick it in. You hear a scream on the other
side of the door. Fuck.
Go scream. Go, go.
Put the key in, put the key in. There you go.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
I pull out my mind. The red and the blue key are
placed on top of the button and they flash and the keys stay
hovering above them and the door unlocks.
Oh. Shit.
And as you step into this big room, Vendel is standing
underneath a giant watchman, and it's starting to turn into
something far more. Dangerous It's.
Splitting open and it's just thrown this huge punch at them
down. They're on the ground trying to
defend themselves. As they continually try to
deflect this stuff with their legs, but it's not going well.
Motherfucker. Look at me and I.
Look. Hell yeah, 20.
The bullet misses this giant piece, and then he throws down
his fists once more. I need Vendel to roll the page.
No, Wendell. And this fist comes careening
down and crushes Bendel, disappears into the sea.
Wait. What the hell?
Why there's? Another life.
There's got to be another life. There's another.
Life. Yes, there's definitely another
life. And Bendel appears above this
beast with their sword in hand and just splits the holy shit.
Go Vendel I. Get the keys.
I run through, back through the door, and I grab the keys.
When you run back into the hallway, there are twice the
Watchmen. As soon as we pull the keys,
that door better fucking shut doesn't seem.
To shut as you pull the keys from from the area or pile into
the room. And if you want to close the
door, you can't, because it's two big doors.
Close it, block it, close. It close it.
We going to block it what we going to?
What could we manifest? What could we?
I've. Got it.
I shoot a giant web right out. Are you OK?
No, I'm fine. I've died twice, so that's
weird. Hi, Leona.
Iona, I know this is kind of a big ask, but can I have a hug?
Yes. Come here.
OK, I don't know why you pink. That's a long story.
You can manifest whatever you want here.
It's a that's a story. Well, this is a short story of
life I've. Been stuck in here with this big
beast. Why didn't you tell me?
I think you might have. I don't know that I did.
I'm very sorry. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to
shout. Do you need medical assistance?
No, I just realized I should be fine.
OK. Thanks, Phoebe.
That's nice. I'm glad you're OK, Bendel.
I'm glad I'm OK too. Bendel Does it hurt to die?
Jeb, you can't just ask people. That's.
A big question, Jeb. Oh.
I haven't met anyone who's dad before.
I think you might have, actually, Jeb, you just didn't
know it. Whoa.
Halloween. I know it's spooky, OK?
So let me know. The the pulp we'll get out of
here is just over there. We just need to put the button
things in take. The fuck out of here?
I know, I know. Did the web work?
Heavy Weapons 23 that is a heavy That's right out my butt.
That's. Right out of your butt and it
covers the door in a web. And it's given you a lot more
time to stay groovy in this room.
Now Jeb was closing the door and then had to quickly hit the
deck. In order for the web not to
entangle. Information.
It's an 18. I got my guy.
That is not enough. Oh no, no shit and.
Now Jeb is stuck at the door, which has given you a little
extra time, because now there's this big, heavy thing in front
of the door, and it's Jeb. It's me.
I'm. I'm also made of leather
moleskin. All right, let's go.
I got it. I got it.
Think about, think about being that.
Also made of spider, because spiders don't seek their own
web, right? Yeah, I think that's right that
we like to call. Definitely fucking animal
handlers. 20 Yeah, for a brief moment, the all of the moleskin
turns into 1000 spiders and you disappear into 1000 spiders slip
away from the web and rematerialize as a moleskin
cowboy. As a moleskin.
Cowboy. That's my next singer.
I'm just a moleskin cowboy. Literally made a moleskin.
It's a cool song, Jeb. Can we get the?
Hell out of. Here.
Sorry, I just, you know, when a when when it hits me, when my
muse hits me, I I got to sing. It hasn't been really a thing
before in the entire three years we've been doing this podcast,
but it is now Jeb sings. Get used to it.
Happy Halloween. Happy Halloween.
That's the scariest thing of all.
Are you coming? We're opening the.
Sorry, sorry. I'm coming.
Inspiration, you know, You never know.
What am I hitting? You got it.
You got to grasp it like a like a bucking Bronco.
If I have extra fluid, can I just wipe Jeff's mouth?
Yes. Because listen when you when you
really feel that. 22 Jeb you can't talk for 5 minutes so Iona
in retro you head over to these two glowing platforms with with
these little buttons on top. One is coloured red and one is
coloured blue. Exactly, Yeah.
So I got the red key. I I've got the blue key, but
there's another circuit coming off that's hiding underneath
these boxes. Can we move these boxes?
Yeah, I can help move the boxes. Jeb, please move those boxes
you. Move requires yellow key.
Where is there a yellow key? It's vendel.
Yeah. Why are you glowing?
What? Oh, oh.
Fuck. Vendel is glowing.
And you look at Vendel's chest, and beneath their chest you can
see the outline of a yellow key. Ah.
It's in their chest. Are you going to make a saw?
Oh. Fuck.
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Vendel. Yes, the the muffin I got from
the vending machine was yellow. Yeah, I think that was the key.
The lives. No, the lives I got at the end.
No, the muffin was yet. So it's the key.
This look, it's a key on my chest.
OK, Yep. OK, So what?
What drug do you want? We can make it whatever you
want. OK, hold on.
Maybe we don't have to operate. Maybe they can just stand on the
spot and we'll be good. Why?
Don't you try that as well? You know NFC, Just put the.
Chance I move it to the ground. Right.
Exactly. Yes.
Let's try it. I got.
Not to be funny, but I kind of feel like this whole thing was
to save me, not to leave me to die inside a cyberspace place.
No. OK, we need good ideas, not for
people breaking people down. Yeah.
Oh my God, that tastes disgusting.
I think I had to eat the whole thing to be able to talk again.
Listen, Speaking of mouths, why don't you why don't you just
imagine that you got a mouth in the middle of your chest and
then we'll just stick our fingers in your chest, mouth and
take the key out. That's.
Nasty, that's. Nasty, you just scanned me.
Yes. I pull out my Med scanner.
Oh, that's good. Isn't it?
Yeah. OK.
So your old A. 20 crib. 20. That's awesome.
Are you doing the chest pain? In the scanner, as you scan
Vendel's chest, you actually see where it is, like in ACT Scan,
and it's sitting in front of their lungs, slightly on top of
their windpipe, just in the cavity.
So it's not in their stomach, it's in their chest, which is
why you can see the outline behind the rib cage.
Well, that's behind the rib cage though.
The good. The bad news is it's not in
their stomach, so they can't pass it.
Like, this thing's huge. I'm not kidding this thing out.
The good news is, it's in actually like a pretty like safe
spot inside of you. Like it's just chilling right
above your. Lungs.
So it's not like interfering with your breathing, It's not
interfering with your windpipe. So it's it's in a safe,
relatively safe spot inside of your body.
Yeah, but Phoebe, it's in me. I know.
There's got to be a way, Yeah, I'm telling you, I really think
chest mouth might be a good call.
Maybe we could try to grab it. Maybe we make we think of some
sort of thing to go through things.
A ghost hand. Duh, Ghost.
Hand This is a brain dance, right?
We should have the ability to just walk through things if we
think it. I could just.
Reach my hand through Vendel. Testing that on a body is not
the best idea, we just don't know this box over here.
Yes, I'm going to try to think about punching my hand through
the box, but doing it like I can just go through the box.
Right 20 you concentrate, put your hand into the box, it
dematerializes inside the box, and while your hand is in there,
you kind of wiggle your hand around and you've discovered
that the crate is empty, and then you put your hand out.
OK, I think this could work. I think this could work.
It just worked on the box. I just think about materializing
my hand inside of Vendel's chest cavity.
Chest cavity, and I can just grab it and pull it out.
All right, I'm going to consider.
Putting some luck in that. Yes, good.
Good thought. All right.
Vendel. Stand very still.
I'm going to try this. I look directly at where you
know where it is in their body and I'm going to add 4 lock
points to this role and I'm going to try to think the same
thing. I just thought, I'm going to try
to materialize my hand through Vendel into their chest cavity.
So this is the role without the lock, we'll have to add +4.
I'm calling it Oh my gosh, no hold.
On Hold on, hold on. I still have.
An inspiration that I would like to use right now.
Bless. Blessings upon you.
OK, let's go. All right, 14. 14. 14 is high
enough not to hurt Vendel, that's clear.
But what does happen? You put your hand into Vendel's
chest. I got it.
Awesome. There's a good feeling you got
it. And then you grab the key and
you're like, yeah? Pull.
It. Oh no, I'm stuck.
It remains physical and you're now stuck in vendor's chest and
the door bursts open. Shut up you guys.
There's like stuck a good 26 News guys out there.
Baby, your hand is in my chest. We've got to buy baby some time.
Everyone, please. Yes, I I almost got it.
I'm stuck. I just need a few more, a few
more minutes, OK? BB, this is weird.
Seconds maybe? Imagine myself as a giant mech
with lots of guns and bullets and missiles and such.
Spider, Mech. Spider.
Mech spider mech spider. Mech.
Spider Mech. Hey, you Can't Sing that.
You know I can't. I can't because it's parity.
Oh. OK, OK.
Retro You concentrate and your whole body folds into a metal
neck with a giant TB face and two horns that spout fire
because you rolled it. Both of your hands are Gatling
guns like Barrett and Final Fantasy 7, and there's a rocket
launcher in the middle of your fucking chest.
Let's start every 15 year old boys wet but.
You can still slide around like a Gundam because of the
moisturizing you took out. Yeah, Bull Barrett.
Barrage. Roll for it.
I'm put some luck points into this 2.
Save 4. Never mind.
Yeesh, she. Wrote a crip.
Fail and you fire all these bullets.
And the Watchmen stop. They stop dead.
They don't move, but you miss all of them.
The bullets fly everywhere you you've managed to stop them
walking into the room. You have not damaged any of
them. And you're a cool Mac, so you
get to shoot twice. Awesome.
But now you've shot the Gatling now, So what you've got left is
the rocket launcher. Well, I mean that's, I think
that Arsenal would be. Heavy Weapons 22 The rocket in
your chest primes turns, you hear a weird clockwork noise and
it kind of tickles, and then it bursts out of your chest,
sending you flying back and the missile flying forward,
destroying 6. Destroying 6 Watchmen as they
disappear into pixels and explode, covering the other
Watchmen around them in pixelated blood and gore.
Wow. Wow that.
Was really cool, should have known how it felt.
Baby, get your hand out of vendor's chest.
Yes, hold on, Vivi. Vivi, I think we got it
backwards. We need a we need a ghosty
vandal and a regular fleshy Vivi hand, not.
A bad idea, I think we need a backwards.
I like this, OK? I'm still trying to think of
something that is going to work here.
Hey dude. I thought, was this torture?
Drugs. Oh, all right.
Yeah. OK, All right.
Just going to, just going to going to think about making you
dead Van Dale, but like you know in a in a temporary kind of way
in just your chest area. Wait.
No chip, Don't chip. Don't chip, Don't chip.
Don't. Yeah.
At least we got the key covers. Covers VV and Viscera.
Jeb, you're covered and permanently stained now in
cyberspace because you're Moleskin.
And then Mendel appears next to the yellow butt.
You fucking. I don't know why I agree.
I. Thought we've got the key.
And Vendale pulls from behind them.
Will you roll a dice for me, Jake?
Yeah, just roll into. 10. Vendale pulls from behind them a
giant cartoon black bomb, and it's lit.
Let's get the fuck out of here, shall we?
And they throw it at the crowd of Watchmen.
They grab the yellow key from VV as she sort of holds it in
disgust. That was pretty gruesome.
Yeah. They shove it on top of the
yellow button and it glows and the portal opens up and then
they'll points at it. Fucking go, go.
Well, you know, if you think about it, sometimes the the most
obvious path is sometimes the best, you know?
I'm sorry I exploded you. I'm just gunning them, sliding
my way in. The portal opens and it starts
to swirl in this purple light as it ripples and you can almost
see and feel the real world on the other side.
It feels like unfettered capitalism out there.
I I pull vendor and I step through the portal.
I'm diving diving right in after.
Yep, head on in. You all pass through the portal.
And everything goes black. Oh gosh.
Iona and Jeb and Vivi. You didn't use chip slots, so
you have to pull the needle out of your own spine. the IT was in
the back of your spine. You take off the helmet down.
You're now in this. Group BD Room in Brain Dance
Palace? Well, Holy Shit is.
Everybody. OK, is this a trick again?
No. I'm fine.
I'm also glowing purple. Again, that's nice.
I don't think I have a key in me.
I think we need to check Job. Come here.
Yeah, a slug jab in the shoulder.
Rope roll, you smack Jeb in the shoulder, a little frustrated by
some of the things that have happened.
Yeah. And you smack him in the
shoulder and you can see him actually take some some hits.
And Jeb, you take two damage, Okay?
But he didn't derez though. No, he did not derez.
All right, so we're not in the cyberspace world anymore.
Well, to be fair, I'm not sure I would have Derez if I take if
I've taken 4 damage in the BD either.
There's only one way to find out, and I take out my gun.
Jeb, I think we are in the real world.
I will run scans on everybody and I think we are flesh and
bone and people so. And TV heads, Yes, if you say
so. Wait, where's Claire?
Claire's an astron. Yeah, we, we.
Should check on Claire. Why is the door locked?
Hello. Hello.
We're done. Hey y'all, remember when Fresh P
was talking to us that Emma had a low voice when they met them
and Emma when we talked to them did not have a very low voice
when we met them? Yeah, no, definitely whoever put
us in here or somebody else. Let me check something real
quick. I'm going to run over to this
computer and I'm going to go cookity clack and see if there's
anything I can find on there. Sure.
Let's see what I find on the computers.
Which is this one? Oh my gosh.
So as you're trying to do stuff on the computer.
Oh, are you all right, Remy I. Got shocked again.
Shit. Well, is this like whole place
just like corrupted? I'm, I'm going to burn this
place to the crown. I'm going to burn this place to
the crown. I'm going to burn this place to
the Crown. Well, maybe you'll maybe you'll
have a better time with the with the door.
So sick of getting shocked. Should should you maybe.
Try to break the door. Or, you know, try to open it.
I don't want you to get shocked again, but maybe it's worth a
shot. 29. Yeah, I punched the through the
door lock. I grabbed the handle on the
opposite side and unlocked the door.
Tired of getting fucking shocked in this place.
Hi, hi. Hi, Emma, that's.
Funny, I thought you were meant to be in the BD for a lot longer
than that, Will. Yeah, we didn't.
We're out early, so we'll just be on our way now.
Yeah. Thanks, Emma.
Oh, you'll be on your way. What's up with the weird, spooky
voice you're doing? Did you always sound like that?
My voice, My high hitched voice. When their face splits into
pieces, What the fuck? Their body clicks in an
unnatural way. Oh, you guys seeing this?
Or just like. Pala now.
I knew we wouldn't get the information out of you.
Roll for initiative. Holy God.
Oh. My God.
Oh my God. Vendel, you should grapple them.
Sounds good, Vendel. Jumps over retro, kicks off the
wall, kicks off the other wall and just goes straight for Emma
16 OK well we have to roll 25. Damn.
Vendel slips to the ground as this so-called Emma takes a
sidestep. And I'll looks up at them.
I may not be able to materialize things, but I do have my
weapons, so I'm going to kill you now.
And they take out their sword and they slice them.
Good old slice and dice. Wait a minute.
Are we still in the BD? No, Jeb, if you die in real
life, you die in real life. Were you alive?
15. That's not very good.
Oh, they rolled a three. That's why the crypt fails are
happening. Tonight is Halloween.
Emma tries to dodge and fails miserably, rolling a crit fail
-6 and the sword goes straight into them causing 15 damage.
You little shit. Well, that's for trying to kill
me and then doing it twice that. Really.
Three times. It was not fun.
I'm going to auto fire this R.E.M.
Where IP edition handgun. Damn.
So that's three times damage. 5 * 3 is 15.
The bullets rip into Emma and these these are auto fire
bullets. So she takes a step back into
the room behind the hallway. As the bullets rip through their
body you see black flesh and machine parts trying to come
back together as you've already caused her quite a lot of pain.
Oh shit. As they step back, the door
handle catches in one of their open spaces and it comes off
sticking into. Their chest and making it way
harder for them to move. They're now stuck in this corner
because the door is stuck in their body.
Piece of shit. Get the.
Fuck off me. Well, this is just getting
grosser and grosser. Do you want to get taken out of
your misery? Fuck you.
I'm going to take that as a yes. Bang Bang.
That's a crit. Fail, Sir.
Shit. Hey, that's a warning shot.
I'll give you one more chance. What do you say?
You leave us the fuck alone and and tell us everything we need
to know and anything else? Team.
No. That's it.
Those are the only things I'm looking for.
Right. Shoot again.
Oh, all right. You.
Only shot one. Wow.
That's a. Crit plus 9, giving you 30 in
total. That was a really good role.
Well done, and the bullet hits them square in the body, causing
10 damage, which is a blade by the armor.
So they're in they the damage is enough that they are now prone.
Now it's Emma's. Turn this well.
This replicant on the ground looks up at your wall, pulls out
a heavy pistol, and tries to shoot at VV.
Shoot. 22 the bullet hits you. So your armor gets bladed by
one? They ruin a part of your sexy
nurse outfit, No? No.
My sexy nurse outfit. You bitch.
You know your sexy nurse outfit. Victoria ripped another button
off. Oh, actually, you might have
helped me, Emma. That V is getting deeper.
VV goes to her little stocking leg that has a little Garter on
the side and she pulls out her Sandra Hello cutie from the
side. It actually looks very cutely
decorated on the side of her little costume and shoots nice.
15. It's a.
Mess. Mess.
All right, let's show you. 19 there we go.
Your first shot misses. Your second shot hits square,
causing 16 damage in total. One of her arms blows off and
skids across the room and it starts to try and crawl back to
her and then runs out of power and dies.
I really need to talk to the others.
I don't understand why we're programmed to feel pain.
Welcome to life, sweetheart. Hey there, Emma.
So question if. Say you had a person who was
completely flesh and blood, and then you replaced each and every
single part with a piece of cybertech completely all over.
Would that still be the same person, or would that be a
completely new person altogether?
Is there a new brain? Everything is everything has all
been replaced. Not a single thing has been.
Not a single thing is leftover from the original person, but it
still retains. Everyone's.
It would have to be them, but would it still be them though?
Because it's still not. That's how we work.
I mean, fuck you. Roll for it. 19 I'm going to
roll against you. Are you smarter than Remy?
She looks at you very confused. Oh, you mean like the ship of
Theseus? I hate that.
It's not the. It's not the same.
Well, no, it is the same. It's not the same, but it is the
same. But it's not.
And you watch her glitch, and she explodes.
Done Vendel and retro roll evasion.
Evasion. Retro.
You get great evasion. It was my plan.
Amazing, Amazing roll there. On a 22 you gain 2022.
It's great you dodge out the way and Vendel gets covered in
machine bits and viscera and takes 4 damage.
Ow, fuck. Ah.
And I I have to wash this off for real, don't I?
You do? Yeah, fuck.
And combat is over. Gosh, I grab Claire?
Or do we leave Claire for the EDI?
Think we should get Claire out of here?
I'm done with this place. I might.
She seems actually probably pretty fucked up.
Can we just like? We just like enjoy our Halloween
for once like. Yes.
However, we should buy some BDS out of the case.
Hey, wait, wasn't there a thing? Whoever got the highest score
got something. I'm.
Going to say that that was all part of some kind of big trap.
Bastards. Way they lied to us, those sons
of bitches. That's marketing for you.
I'm glad I logic bombed them. Yeah, me too.
Can I go to the BD case real fast?
Sure. Remind me what's in here?
There are workout chips. There are a few skill chips.
The skill chips require online authorization, so you wouldn't
be able to steal those. Always trying to steal.
I was going to give money. Do I look like I'm going to
steal BD chips? I don't know.
We've I, I, I I died three times.
So sorry, Iona. It's been a bit of a lot.
I killed a giant watchman by dying.
Yeah, sorry about that. But again, it was.
I thought it was a pretty full oh.
Chad, I really want to slap you. Understood.
Cool. Can I?
Is that OK? You know what?
Go for it. Awesome.
And Bendel slaps you. Yeah, yeah.
Oh, oh. That felt great.
That's the best Christmas gift ever.
That's what Christmas is it? It's.
Halloween. It's Halloween.
I think we should just start giving gifts to people on every
holiday. Retro, you find the keys to the
door on the rest of Emma's body. Oh, I wonder what these keys do.
Oh, we would probably go and unlock the door for our friend.
Let's let's go and do that. Do you think she's going through
as hellish of a nightmare that we did?
I hope not. Me too.
That was awful all. Right, Vivi, Do you want to help
get Claire up? Yes, I'll I'll go and grab her.
She's still hooked up to the computer.
Can I like gently nudge as to not scare her?
She's unresponsive. Alive.
Yeah, I'll go to the computer and turn the BD off.
When you turn on the computer, you can see that she has
progressed through the matrix. It has to be done in real time.
It's about 9 1/2 hours and there's a little bit of red text
above. Eject patient.
Damn it. OK, I think we may need to leave
Claire in the brain dance for the full duration because it
could cause some damage if we don't.
Well, what if we just make the time in the BD move fast?
I don't think that's possible. Yeah, they said the the the
movie experiences have to be in real time, otherwise it doesn't
work. What did it say The the the
duration is left on her experience. 8 hours, 10 minutes
left. It's only been an hour.
All right, we're going to have to come back here tomorrow and
check on her. Well, we've got the keys.
Yeah, I I I'm sure she'll be OK. I feel a little weird not having
someone be here just to make sure nothing happens to her, you
know? I'm going to dial.
OK. Hi guys.
You all right? How?
Was the brain done? Not so great.
I tried to get almost got killed.
What? Claire's.
Yeah, Claire's kind of stuck in their brain dance for another 8
hours. We don't we don't feel
comfortable just kind of leaving them here by themselves.
So maybe we take the Halloween party from the bar and we have
it here. Sure, I do need to bring some
alcohol. Yeah, and tacos.
Yeah, I'll. Get Reeves to bring some.
Sweet. I haven't seen Reeves in
forever. See you when you get here.
Pain, OK. I'll be there in a bit.
So. We having a lock in.
Yeah, I got Pete's bringing alcohol and tacos.
Oh. Oh, should we watch a should we
watch like a scary movie? You know, kind of get in the in
the theme of things. Oh yeah, what movie do we want
to watch? What about?
Yeah, I I saw 37. It was my favorite.
That was like, that was like my third reboot.
I thought they did. I'm not off, though.
I like Hammer and I'm a big fan of What's It?
Oh, chainsaw. Yeah, that was a good one.
That was a good spin off series. Yeah.
I didn't really like the the main villain though. 200 piece
puzzle, Not my favorite. Oh my God.
Oh Oh yeah. Wait, wasn't wasn't that the
one? That was the the spiritual
sequel to Cubed to the Third Power.
Right. Although that was Rubik's and he
he gets confused. OK, OK, so we're going to watch
all the Saw films, all 37 of them.
That's more time. Than 8 hours.
We could skip to the good parts, I guess.
We'll watch the movies, get some drinks, have some tacos and.
Actually have a fun time? Yes, I think that'll be fun.
And we can actually have some semblance of a fun Halloween.
We we're going to need to get some candy though.
Candy. Should we invite fresh pea?
Well then, Jeff, why don't you go get some candy and come back?
All right, I'll be right back. What kind of candy do you guys
like? You guys more of a like a
chocolate. You know.
Any kind of candy, We're like that sour.
Please ping a rods. I'm right there with you.
And you know what? I like chalky pods.
Chalky pods. We got sour gummy worms better.
We need retro. I love, I love better honeys.
Oh, oh, he's a couple twist. Cardboard squirt?
Yeah, yeah, of course, yeah. Yeah, the sodo snack.
Yeah, they're they're so good. No, that's terrible and dusty.
But I want to give them to the shitty costumes.
Oh, that's good. It's like we we reward the trick
or treaters with the equivalence of candy equal to their
participation in the holiday. I lost that.
I brought drinks. Dang.
It's. Happening.
Come on in. Come on in.
We just had an absolutely horrific and awful afternoon 49.
It's not worth it And pulls out a backpack in their back, puts
it on the table and it unfolds into a bar.
Why it's like a mini bar but? Backpack Oh, it's a nano bar.
I used to use this when I did my other job.
You know, if somebody wanted to, like, loosen up before we got
dizzy? Well, that sounds great.
And then Remy's going to pull out a joint and like that.
All right. Sounds like we'll get this party
started all. Right.
I'll be right back with the candy.
Oh, Jeb. Here, take a drink.
Appreciate that. Oh look, is this just a rye
whiskey? No, no, that's just straight
moonshine. I thought you wanted to get
really fucked up. You guys said you had a bad
time. Oh yeah.
Yes. Oh.
Jeb, you didn't drink. Whoa.
That is straw. Oh, it burns on the way down
that. Is.
Just straight desolate. This goes temporary blind.
I cannot see you just chugged that to to resist this
particular moonshine. You are drunk as fuck, but very
but still staunchly trying to get candy.
Oh, I guess I'm walking because I'm not irresponsible.
I'm not going to drive on the three.
Times. All right, Jeff, be careful.
We'll see you in a bit. All right, he kind of stumbles
into a trash can. Do you think he's going to make
it back? He'll be.
Fine. We've seen worse.
Next time on no latency. Oh man, I am feeling a little
hungover. Do you need some Alco seltzer?
Oh, Lee. He woke up finally.
Has anyone else ever woken up in a tube?
Am I in a? Tube buddies for life, bro.
She's a good bird, I will tell you that.
Yeah. You ever heard about this oil
rig? Where's this oil rig?
In water. That's why we're going to see
pie wrap. We get a boat.
I know that we're going out in the middle of nowhere, but like,
is there any way we could like, get some like?
Schematics of the ocean. Floor plan if they got it.
What did happen to that one liner?
Jumped out the window on a hellcat.
Wow, how do you access the core? Jack the Core.
They got a speeding ticket. Not city.
Relax. How did that happen?
What? What do you mean I?
Believe an innocent person in a coma.
She's pretty deep in the coma. So too OK, we need to get to the
Bubble Cafe all. Right, baby, you can have
shotgun. That's cool.
Shoot all hostiles. All right.
I like that plan. I'm not messing around.
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