Last time, Oh no latency. I don't think we're going to do
any of that. Well.
I'm back, bitches. I'm thinking I'm.
Back. You better get out of here in 15
minutes. Mark, Mark, give me your hand.
Mark. Why did you say?
Jeff, that I do help you up here for real, Zeves, and you don't
tell a God damn soul. Frankly.
No, right out there. You don't worry about it.
I got under control. Yeah, he said.
I was going to be banned from Biotechnica forever.
Slow. I just knocked him out.
Vivi, could you figure this out? Jeb's not picking up.
We definitely shouldn't be standing next to a dead body.
Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, Baby, baby, it's all right.
Breathe. It's all right.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, me, girl.
Hey. Jeb's going to have to pay for
that. All that blood here.
This should work. I guess it's going to leave a
mark. Just give it to me straight,
Doc. Is she going to be all right?
What needs to be done? What's it going to cost?
Well, Vivi, I think we can both agree, although we both are more
of a. Human doctors and not
veterinarians. That a hole.
Is bad. Yes, indeed, and usually not
easy to repair. Indeed, yes.
Well, I don't know, Doc, can't you just put some, some, some
cyber skin or I guess cyber feathers or something over the
hole and staple it should, I mean, jeez, it can't be that
bad, right? I mean, it's, it's pretty bad.
We could try a excuse me one second great tea.
We could try a what? It's good tea.
Table. It's an animal VV.
It doesn't. It's not as there aren't as
strict regulations well. Can there be Jesus?
Christ, fine, I'll put it down. It's iced by the way, so don't
worry about steam anyway. What about some dermal weave?
Sub dermal weave. Oh, uh huh, that could.
Work, yes. And in theory, if if the bird
was skilled enough and you know, alive after this, what it it, it
could no, no, no, no, not not. It could deflect bullets.
So kind of the opposite effect of the injury, you know,
ricochet. Save her another trip here.
Yes, but also could be very fortuitous.
You could like in theory like use her to shoot around a.
Corner OK, well let me let me make this very clear.
Now the GM is giving you a really cool superpower.
You can shoot bullets around a corner.
I think it's pretty cool. I love, I love that.
Are you? Suggesting.
You got the message that was being put in the subtext there.
Yeah, but perhaps you're not quite thinking this through
because are you, are you saying that I need to shoot my bird to
shoot around a corner? Well, I mean, you know the left
side, but yes. I.
I mean, I think it's great that she can have a little bit of
stronger, stronger wings in the future, but I ain't shooting my
bird. She's my best friend.
Well, in if you if you're ever in an emergency, I'm I'm sure
that she would be down to do a cool trick shot right VV that
feels like you lot right. This is true.
You're right, trick shots are kind of our thing.
But what's more, my thing is my emotional integrity and my, I
mean, Simply put, the love for my best friend.
Look at her. Look at her.
She's not obviously, yes, so so dermal weave.
Are we thinking dermal weave? Let.
Me. Have a look.
I think that would be a good option.
Vivi Vivi. Can I take Vivi aside?
Yeah. Yes, Vivi.
Yes, Jeb. She needs to live if she if she
doesn't live, I don't know what I got left.
I I understand. So I is this does this dermal
weave thing is, is that you know, is there what's the
safest? What's the what's the thing that
we can do to make sure that she's alive after the end of
this? I if it means I don't need none
of that that subdermal shoot my bird wing thing, that's fine.
A. Regular skin weave would just
just repair the the damage overnight.
It's like self healing nano machines.
It's pretty cool. There is the option of just
patching it up with a regular skin weave.
Is that safer? It probably would be safer, yes,
but I do think Satsu is being a little dramatic.
I think either method would be fine and I Sloan is stable in
good condition, not critical, so I don't see any issues with it.
But if you want to be as safe as possibly possible, then perhaps
yes, we go with the regular skin weave.
Well, I suppose if if you think it's safe then maybe having her
with a little subdermal weave, keeping her a little more Hardy
for the next time she takes a bullet.
Maybe that's just looking after. Her, I think it is.
I think you should choose that. It's more expensive, obviously,
you know. Oh listen Sawtooth, money is no
object. 750 eddies for the for the subdermal skin weeps only
500 there. All right, 750, if that's what
he's going to take, that's nothing.
Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm literally doing it at cost too.
I'm not charging you for the operation.
That's literally just what it costs to.
Like, I appreciate that sow tooth and I'm I'm sure that when
when Sloane wakes up, she's going to give you a nice little,
little snuggle with her with that bald head of hers.
I'm sure. I mean, it probably will be a
while because there are a lot of drugs in this bird.
Yeah, I'm, I'm going to, I'll be standing right over there.
I'll give you all your space, but I don't think I can get it.
Not a blink asleep while y'all are doing this.
So if you don't mind, I'm just I'm just going to have some
going to have a little bit of whiskey and sit right down on
that chair and well pray. Not even kidding you spoon.
I just rolled A10. You watch Sawtooth effortlessly
insert this sub dermal weave into the left wing of your
beautiful vulture slide, and after just a few minutes it's
inserted and you watch the tendrils of this cyberware start
to seep in between the feathers like a little black set of
spiders. Your bird is going to be fine,
but that implants never coming off that wing ever again, and
without it she'll never be able to fly.
But it'll be a few days to heal. When you walk upstairs, PV
following you behind. Open the door to the bar.
The rest of the crew are sitting down.
Mayana looks up at you as their tile rings.
I look at it or who is it? It's the collector.
I I don't answer Jeb, how did it?
How is it? Well, the docs say that she's
stable and that the the implant took.
So, you know, I haven't like I've slept in about 33 hours,
but I'm feeling good, feeling good.
OK, well I sit down, I I have to take this and I answer the tile
at the very end. Hey, hey, is this thing working?
It's like, it's like you hung up on me.
I'm sorry I I couldn't find the button to answer.
Oh. I know these infrangled things.
It is awful, yes. Nothing on a 3310, you know what
I mean? No.
What? Oh, well, it's just an old world
piece of technology. Very, very hearty.
Lots of buttons. So happy October and just
calling you to let you know it's a few things.
One, it's a full moon tonight, very exciting, lots of
prettiness. 2, that I'm going to a party and three, I got you all
invitations. So get your glad rags on,
darling. We're going to the Hillview for
the the Halloween party. There's going to be fireworks.
We're going to look at the moon. And I believe you wanted to
stick something on the roof. That's what you told me.
Yes, satellite. Right, good.
Yes, as far as I can surmise it's not the it's not a very
well insulated roof. So a lot of noise up there is a
problem. So I would imagine that the very
loud fireworks that are going on tonight will be a wonderful
moment for you to zoot, zoot boat, boat etcetera.
So I can help facilitate that which is new.
I just made-up and Oh good, yes, everyone come along.
Tell Vivi I've got her some of those cigarettes always right,
darling. And also that it's it's it's
fucking Halloween. So I got retro some cocaine.
I'll see you later. I I didn't even get a chance to
thank him. Did somebody say cocaine?
Yes, yes, Happy Halloween. The Collector got you a present,
but we have to see it at the Hillview.
Well, it's just a hop, jump and a sniff away.
Let's go. Are we prepared?
Do you? Do you have a costume?
So yes, this is a party, so I suppose we should get ready for
that. Are we going to go themed or are
are we? Doing his fast sleep hat on his
face. Oh.
Already. Are we going to do costumes are.
We going to. Do costumes.
I haven't even thought about my costume yet.
Me either. I'm usually ahead of the game
with like Halloween planning but this year I just feel off.
Maybe we could do a Group One this year.
Last year we all did our own thing.
OK, you got an idea. But what's the Group 1?
The No Latency crew. That's that's.
I mean, have we done the goers each other thing yet?
Yes. Yes, we did, didn't we?
We. Did that one.
We've done that one. Steve's.
Oh God, because. It was a little.
Crass Didn't we kill them all last year?
What if? We all go as roller Derby
players or something. That's not very fun, is it?
I could go as myself, ha ha. Why don't we just go as one of
our our favorite people from Night City?
That's an idea. Oh, careful.
And you're the doctor. You'll be fine.
Might. Be.
That table's always been there, don't be angry at it.
That way, if you know Jeb can't figure one out, they can just go
with Stranger and it'll be about the same.
Very generic. I I have my costume then wait
would 9 count? You're just going to roll up
into it. You're just going to do child's
pose the entire night? I was just going to put put on
like a like a large beach ball. OK.
Wouldn't, wouldn't that, wouldn't that be funny?
But we're going to the hills. You don't.
We want to look nice. But it's Halloween.
It's a costume party. OK, so you're.
There Iona would be very eye-catching because I don't
think many would go with that route.
So you're not going on the roof because you'll be a giant ball.
And are we not supposed to dress up?
It's Halloween. You know, I'm happy to dress up,
but also like a. Giant beach ball does stick out.
Yes. All right, OK, so I won't go
with a giant Peach ball. So are we going to dress in
costume or dress nice? I'm going in costume already got
I got mine. I I got mine stuff.
I, I, you know what? I can throw something together.
I've got it. OK, I think I know what I'm
going to do. Are we going as as people we
know? Yeah, oh Heroes of Night City.
Why are you making that face, Iona?
Heroes of Night City. Because mine was just a random
one. It's a random one, it might be
good. Bride of Frankenstein.
That's pretty good. Oh.
I was going to go as Reeves. Oh.
That's a good. One, I was going to go as
Sawtooth. That's really funny.
Sorry, did you say you're did you say you're going out with
Sawtooths? Oh goodness, no.
We're we're talking about our Halloween costumes, Yes.
Oh oh God, Halloween already? Geez.
We're we're getting there and we're invited to a party.
Time really flies, don't it? Can I invitation has?
Has the collector sent us the invitations?
As you're looking at your. Tile, you hear a little bloop.
And the collector sends you your invitations.
Wonderful. What does it say about a tire?
Halloween A. Tire.
A tire Halloween, Yes. That sounds like collector.
I'll get it. I'll get it.
I think that the collector would be tickled if I showed up in a
beach ball. Look, I'm actually all for it.
Go for it. Do we need a distraction besides
the fireworks? Wait, wait, do the.
Fireworks again. No, there's going to be
fireworks at the Hillview tonight to celebrate October in
there and Halloween. Spooky.
That'll that'll scare us. I think Iona's like really got
their heart set on being a. Beach ball.
I just don't know what else I would be.
Besides, we can hide all kinds of stuff inside there.
Then that's like extra stores. I carry the Trojan horse.
Yeah, we can hide things in the giant.
I own a beach ball nine thing but.
You see, I I was stuck on it for a reason.
It had a purpose. Well, it must be a full moon
because 9 has become useful at some point.
What did you just say? Wait, are you drunk?
Mine's useful. Well, I mean, obviously they
gave Iona the idea to do that, so there was some usefulness to
that, right? That was.
You got to admit when it happens.
Keep yourself in check. Credit work, Credit is due.
Yes. All right, so everybody's got
their hero picked out then. Wait, yeah wait, who?
Who are y'all going as? Oh, you'll see when I get there.
I'm going a sawtooth. We want to make sure that you're
not doing the same hero, I suppose.
Oh, I don't think I will be. And Jeb kind of like, thinks
about it for a second and like, kind of looks over his shoulder,
back down the stairs, down to where Sloane is probably
recuperating at this point. I think I know who I'm going as.
OK. All right.
Well, does everybody have their plans that I guess we should all
run out, get our stuff and prepare.
And so, OK, we're going to this party, we're going to bring the
the thing with us. The satellite dish, yeah.
The satellite dish. And the transponder.
Oh yeah, can't forget that.
We're going to Where are we setting it up?
The roof we're. Going to bring it to the roof
and set it up. We go to the roof, we'll set it
up, we'll smoke some cigarettes, watch some fireworks, get drunk
on rich people's champagne. And.
Look at the full moon. OK.
Yeah, maybe we'll moon people. Sounds like a good evening then.
123 break. Oh yeah, it's Halloween.
Halloween. It's Halloween, nothing bad will
get happened. Nothing wrong, never does.
What happens? On Halloween, damn it.
And. What what I say?
Did I? Did I do bad?
You said the thing. Night City.
If you look at a map of North America, somewhere on the
western edge, you'd see an inky black dot with fingers pressing
into the side of the continent. That's where you find Night
City. And somewhere in the middle of
that inky black dot is a giant smoking hole, like the universe
itself drew iron and shot straight through the city.
Radiation turned the sky red. But our story starts a little
further South, in a dive bar. The Shortstop.
Welcome to Night City and welcome to Cyberpunk Edge of
Extinction. Infinite Sided Dice presents
Cyberpunk Edge of Extinction, a Cyberpunk Red actual play.
Watch now at youtube.com slash at Infinite Sided Dice catch you
later chums. Just want to describe to you the
size of the beach ball so no one is porn fused.
It's like it's just torso size. So it's like a ball with legs.
Okay, noted. So like 4A satellite size?
Diameter, give or take, right? Yeah, unless it needs to be
bigger. That way I'm.
Like carrying the satellite in my arms.
All right. So you've got the satellite in
the ball, is what you're saying? Yes, correct.
Well, of course you are carrying the satellite in your arms
because the arms that stick out the sides are like one of those
like, you know, it's like a, it's like a foam with like a
little glove at the end because your real hands are inside.
True you. Need to probably rest it in
there, right? I mean, yeah, it's what is it?
It's got a hinge. So we'll just like kind of make
it into like AV shape and then cut it in half and you can just.
Oh, so like it's kind of it's like I kind of go inside it.
It's like around my. It's like wrapped like, like
around your body like a pair of jaws, all right.
So stick it in. Yeah, put.
It. All right.
Can you fold it? Yeah, it's old.
OK, OK. I'm lowering the top.
It's not a beach ball. I had to get like giant BBC
ball. What are?
We going to do have it be something inflatable.
Wow, that I wouldn't hold the satellite.
No, I. Suppose but also the fan would
be loud to make that noise. I thought that I had to be the
beach ball and only blown once. Nice love a blowjob joke.
Anyway, we're here outside the Hillview.
Let's not do blowjob jokes inside because that would be
rude. I would never.
It's cyberpunk, nothing's rude anymore.
Say as you step out of the of Vanna White onto the street.
From Vanna White but the the the only time you've seen Jeb
without a hat and it's because he's wearing a bald cap and and
feathers like hastily glued to like like a wingsuit that that
he had procured. And of course this like paper
mache beak that extends from his nose and lower jaw and he's of
course going as Sloan. Amazing.
And Jeb? Yeah.
Just not not to point out the
the important part you, you're, you're meant to stealthily get
on the roof and like be stealthy.
Yeah, that's why. I mean, haven't you, haven't you
ever seen Sloan do it? She's real stealthy because
she's she's overhead dose in black feathers, nothing more.
But the wings, Jeb, it's the wings.
Yeah. And he kind of like extends it
one out and extends it. Yeah, they do kind of sometimes
get in the way, but most of the time I feel like they're they're
pretty good. You look like a zombie Evel
Knievel. Well, yeah, but but the I mean I
used, I used super mega Glue, so most of the feathers are staying
pretty good. Right, OK.
And don't worry, I got, I got full, full use of my hands.
Mine's my thumb, right? That's kind of stuck into the
you can see, you can see right there.
It's kind of stuck into the, into the webbing of the of the
wing. But I mean I pretty much got
like 8075% Dexteri. Right, well, you're very scary,
but all of that means you've just like called yourself into a
-1 the skill checks. So that's good.
I'm. Sure.
It's fat. Right.
Is your hat safe? Oh well.
And and Sloane kind of like. Sloan is asleep.
Sloan. Is still asleep.
Sloan is milk. You don't get Sloan now, yet got
shot. We come back to Sloan as she's
lying on the operating table recovering, and there's a hat.
She's like using the hat like. Yeah, you you don't get Sloan
for the for the Halloween you killed a man she.
Killed this. Is your one.
This is your last time, nor was it the first.
Good, right? Yes.
So the Hillview, this is going to be fun.
We've got it. I've sent everyone their
tickets. Thank you.
Invitations on the I've sent everyone their invitations on
the tile. Good.
Thank you kindly. Yeah, I can't seem to get it on
my my tire. How great he's he's he came with
an accent. Retro will step out.
Retro has repurposed old with some of Jeb's old, like torn
outfits from when they've gotten shot a lot.
So like they've saved the hat duster, the boots and such.
So they've refashioned their hat to look more like a pirate hat.
They've ironed it. So that's how a three quarter
hat. And then, well, the dusters as
it is and the boots are the same, still wearing the same
pants. But they they, they took a an
old American flag since there is no America anymore, and we
fashioned it to look like just a white, a red and white striped
T-shirt underneath. Gar yes, it's me, Pirates.
The boat guy. Gar.
Right. He was a cool guy.
That's your Night City hero. He.
Was our fucking hero and we were down in the deeps.
OK, that's fair. Saved.
All those. Yeah, I suppose.
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, I suppose we'd be dead if he hadn't picked us up.
Where is that? You got a bunch of landlubbers.
And outside the front of the hill view, you can see some
other people in some semblance of costume.
There's a few people outside a side wearing all Danger Gals
star. It's very generic though, And
Vivi, you can tell that it is not the real thing.
There's a guy dressed up like Frankenstein and a guy dressed
up like Dracula, and the guy dressed up like the Wolfman.
Yeah. That's can't come back.
OK, I'll wow look oh, those movies are making a comeback
again. I remember they had a big
resurgence like in the mid 2000s but.
Yeah. Didn't they do it a few times
because they were upset with themselves?
Yeah. Are we talking like, you know,
classic movie monsters? Yeah, May.
Or may not. I'll be kind of under one
umbrella of a of a studio. Yeah, yeah, just one little
universe, is that right? Yeah. 1 little universe.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I haven't seen any other
sequels since Dracula versus the werewolf versus the IRS.
The the the Dracula and the Frankenstein are doing the
different motions on the Wolf Man's howling.
Is it going? Yeah, you can.
You can see the howling and then they all, they all like running
around, like having fun. They're probably drunk.
And outside the front door, you can see a a gentleman you you
vaguely recognize. Andy looks at you, Vivi.
And welcome to the Hillview. Did you come as a doctor?
Yes, I'm here as my favorite doctor, Doctor Sawtooth of Night
City. Oh cool.
I don't know who that is so. Well, people dress up as doctors
all the time for Halloween. Yes, definitely.
You know, it would be really, really funny though, is if if
you were a doctor and dressed up as a doctor for that would be so
funny because you you give off a doctor vibe.
Wow. You really think so?
Yeah. Guys, I'm glad it's not a nurse
vibe. You know, a doctor vibe is so
much better. Oh I know nurse.
Nurse vibe is for trick or treating, you know.
Yeah, tell me about. It and what what we got here, we
got a a pirate. Very classic.
I like it. I like it.
Birdman loved the movie. Really good.
Great. You're a you're a dude.
Yeah, finger guns. And a concrete ball.
They come in like a red. Ball, you need to raise your
head out of the No, no, I can't. I still can't hear you because
it's almost like you're muted if you just raise your.
It's like if you just raise your chest.
That's it. Just a little higher.
There it is. I raised my head out of the
thing. I'm a helper bot.
Oh, you're a that's cute. That's great.
All right. Can I see your can I see your
invitations? We have valet tonight.
There's no parking on the street.
Invitation. Oh, a fancy hour.
Did any of you not give your name to the invitation?
Nope, I did. You gave your name.
Yes. Thank you.
Thank you for doing that. I really appreciate that.
Says concerningly. Did anybody not give their name
as part of their invitation? Well, did we talk about a, you
know, a plan? No, you didn't.
Great, just that were Trojan horse saying I.
Think I think Jeb got the invitation and it probably said
like RSVP here. And he was like, oh, all right,
no brown boop, Jeb so. So did anyone give a different
name? Oh, no, no.
OK, cool all. Right.
So, OK, we've got a PESCU steel ball.
Oh, Jeb, I know what you want. Nice costume again.
That's very good. I got Doctor Phoebe.
Yeah, you got me. So you So the thing I said
earlier about coming is the thing you actually do for a
living. Yeah, you got me.
I'm a different doctor this time.
So you dressed as a friend? It's very metal.
Yeah. Anyway.
More like mentor. Great.
You guys head on inside to the Hillview.
Remember, this is a classy joint, so pinky's out everybody.
And if you just hand me the keys, I'll park your car and
then we can have it brought out when you come back.
Oh hey hey, Retro giver installed that that old
doohickey that goes on the that goes on the on Vanna White that
you could turn it into? What's that called?
Valet mode. No.
Did we ever talk about that? All right.
It was, it was more of a thought.
I know it's been a thing. We could have done it.
I'm in in the nicest possible way.
I I make a lot of money. You don't you I'll take care of
it. It's fine.
Well, I appreciate that and I give a nice little like Pat on
the back and I give him a A5 Eddy tip.
Oh, none of it. Don't give him a tip.
Don't give him a tip, he seems
like he's. That's yeah, he.
Didn't even give. He didn't even say my name.
Well. Erica, Mr. There you go.
Yeah, he said it. Get on out of here.
He's. Got it.
All right. He grabs and drives off and
you're standing out the door to the Hillview.
Well, so am I. Am I going around the corner and
climbing up this thing? Somebody did say you, Jeb, you
were the one that was supposed to stay sneaky like so I'm just
wondering when, when I should start the sneaky process, you
know well. We're we're going to go inside
and we're going to find the collector.
I'm going to work out if he has a plan or any other information
we can ask him. It sounds like a good plan.
This sounds like a talking. Plan.
OK. Or or or do you want to be
outside and then maybe smoke with the doctor and.
Then oh, OK, and. You guys can be like sneaky.
Well, not unless you got a cigar.
I'm not not a big cigarette kind of guy.
Check vending machine. Oh, there's a vending machine
over here. Let's see if they have any of
cigars. Romeo D10. 3.
It does have cigars, but they are 400 eddies.
Oh wow look at that, they got some Coqui was from new Cuba.
You say 500. 4400. 400 that's Oh my God, it's almost the cost of
a new wing. You know what?
I'll do it all right. Damn.
All right, and. We'll say you find some kibble
in the same video. Oh good, pocket land, slow
later. What is it, Cohib?
Cohibas. Did they actually like Cohiba
cigars? Yes.
Yeah. Is it Cohiba?
Yeah, Cohiba. Yeah, You grab a Cohiba and
you're standing there in this corner.
The other guests have now filed themselves inside of this place,
and you're actually alone outside.
That means that you know any any exchanges you have to do, I
would do quickly before other people come outside to have
their smokes. Hey VV, you got you got a lot.
I do. Here you go.
Take a look at this by the way, you ever, you ever smoked one of
these? I've only heard only heard
rumors. They just got in the vending
machine over there. New Cuba.
Oh wow, look at that. They got some Cohibas from New
Cuba. Who?
Who is singing and dancing? It's.
Me trying to enjoy it. A peaceful cigarette and cigar.
Hello. Hello.
How are you? Do you like my Tutu?
I'm a fussy girl. Oh, cute.
No, you'll be the hat's over your face.
You've got to make sure you're you're not muted when you talk
retro. I've got the.
I'm lighting a smoke at the same time.
Just tell me what you are. And a Follies girl kick kick ha
ha ha. Like.
Like Bob Foggy, it's the. It's the cyberpunk version
that's legally distinct. Oh, oh, it's not Bob Foggy, it's
Robert Follies. Yes, exactly.
So I come outside for an incredibly expensive cigarette.
Oh fuck, where's my lighter baby?
Set me on fire. Not literally.
Everybody needs a light tonight. Here you go.
I'm glad you're a fire bringer. I don't want to give out my
lighter anymore. There you go, baby.
Here's one of these. One of what it's. $1000
cigarette. Sound good?
Rub everywhere where I guess. Oh.
Don't get too excited though. Thank you about this.
Come, come this way away from the door.
There's a bodyguard, isn't it over here?
OK, well, what's, what's the, what's the plan?
So there's a few things going on tonight that are super, super
important. One, I have cigarettes, 2
there's a costume contest, and three, I am drunk.
Well. OK.
Oh, and your heist thing, yes, the fireworks are in an hour,
so. Great, so you have an hour.
Yes, darling. Oh.
Yes, it's right. It's probably best then for us
to probably set up when like, well, what is it?
How long does the fireworks thing go for, what, 5 minutes?
10 minutes. And just one minute and a nice.
Just one minute. Seconds, yes.
So that means we either need to, oh, I'm either we need to do it
before the fireworks or after the fireworks.
I would think you'd want to do it during.
There's terrible insulation in the roof, darling.
We're going. You want us to do it on top of a
roof when there's fireworks and little light?
No. Well, no one's going to be up
there, but there's everybody's here and the place is guarded
where there's not an event. The best time to put something
on the roof is during an event. So I got you all into this party
so that you can install the thing during the fireworks.
It'll be exciting. You know, you you'd think the
the best place, the best time to install something would be
before the party when everyone else is setting up and you just
kind of squeeze in, but. We didn't have access.
Am I out here? Makes sense.
Makes sense? You are still outside.
You're still. That's The thing is you're still
outside with the transponder and the satellite dish inside of
your costume. I I know I I should get up to
the roof, but how else were we supposed to get in?
Yeah. Even the streets locked off,
especially after all those murders.
What? Was that murders?
Was that us? You guys?
We do the more. Probably.
Did you not hear about the murders?
I mean, it's been a while since we've done a murder.
No, no, it wasn't you. I mean, unless, unless you're
like ravenously like destroying people.
You had to. Do a murder like a few maybe 2-3
days ago, I'm not sure. They're no, no, no.
They've all been very similar. So unless you've been like
ripping someone apart like some kind of wolf, then then it's not
you. Wolf.
Yeah, blood everywhere. Awful things.
Great photographs in the screen sheets.
There are no wolves in Night City.
No, no, no. But they're all Wolvers.
Oh, they're coyotes. Wolvers.
Yes. There are no animals.
Or. I mean, they don't think it's an
animal, they think it's, they think it's some kind of, you
know, cyber psycho. And they made them self look
like a wolf for yes. And then went back shit insane.
Oh wolf shit. Insane as the term goes, you
know. So, so you're telling me that
there's somebody in the in the dark that people can't tell
because they're very stealthy eating people and drinking their
blood and such? Yes.
Yes, yes, yes. I don't upset.
I'm just going to punch you up in the arm.
Yes keeps on and and the only thing that the witnesses would
hear I I've read this thing I got this report hold on got this
report from my friend over at the NCPD and what they said what
was it can either. Look, Collector gets out of his
tile. He starts looking through it and
I've got NCPD private document is.
Looking that up, I'm just going to lean over to Jeb and go.
Jeb, you don't sleepwalk, do you?
I'm not sure I could answer that.
I know he doesn't sleepwalk. Because if I did sleepwalk, if I
didn't sleepwalk, I wouldn't know it.
Here it is again, three bodies have been found.
The wombs seem feral and wolf like.
Witnesses comment on hearing the words hungry.
It's horrific. We have no other leads.
Feral wounds. There must be some sort of like
cyber attachment or something that they have.
Indeed, Doctor, Indeed. Well, obviously they're also not
sharpening whatever implement they're using to cut with
because if they're feral, then they're going to be a what?
A ragged cut compared to using something like, you know, your
surgical blades so well. I mean, if if it's a clean cut,
then it's probably something that's been extremely that's
been very well sharpened and maintained, right.
So it would be that would lead to somebody that would probably
have some kind of knowledge of, you know, anatomy or such, but.
If you mean it's feral they wouldn't know shit that's.
What I'm saying with it being feral would be somebody who who?
Wouldn't know shit. Yes.
Excellent. Well, so how are we doing this
thing? I know.
Are you going to go on the roof? I was hoping to figure out how
to get to the. Roof I would just sort of climb
up, I suppose the. Outside.
I mean, you could come from the outside.
There's also the option of coming in from one of the vents
on the inside, I suppose to climb in through.
There's, I think there's a hatch in the bathroom.
Well, I certainly won't be going into a vent, thank you.
Yes. But maybe do we have access to a
blueprint of the hill view so I might figure out how to meander
my way to the roof through? The I mean you, you've been here
before, haven't you? Have.
I been to the rooftop with this. I don't.
I don't believe so. You should be able to see it.
Fireworks. I'm fine, I'll figure it out.
Well, there's two options that we can do 1.
We can you can hand off the equipment to either Jeb and my
or myself and both of us I think can use our grapple to get to
the roof. If it's a one story building.
I. Mean, couldn't we just, I don't
know, can't you just like launch me up onto the onto the roof
right now and hand me the things and.
Then don't. We could.
Did you not bring your grapple gun?
Oh, of course it did. Oh, hold on.
Roll for it. 23. Yes, that is enough.
Yep, good enough for me. You grapple onto the side of the
building, so you're just going to get on the roof is what
you're saying? Yeah, and then I, sorry, I like,
retract the the grapple gun and find myself mantle myself up
onto the roof, put the grapple gun away and lean over the edge
of the roof. All right, hand me the ball.
I am the ball. I guess you don't have to hand
me the entire ball, you can hand me the.
I I could you lift me and oh satellite so I could.
Give it a shot. All right, hand straight up.
OK here can I can I give them a hand and try to like use the
hook to hook the costume? Sure.
Oh, perfect. Athletics 24 excellent was going
to give you a complication, but that crit success gets rid of it
and you help Iona onto the roof. That's why grab, grab the edge
there. Oh yeah.
Oh. It's hard when you're so rotund.
Yeah, I've been told that I was. I was a fat kid.
Oh. Yeah, but I seemed up.
I think I knew that. Yeah, nice.
Nice. I'm Diana and Iona and Jeb on
the roof. Fendel is on the ground.
Do either of you know how to install Transponder I?
Do. Not no, no I.
Know they probably should have. OK.
Just give me here. I'll do here.
Could you help me with the ball? We could get it open.
I could I delivery service. Well, how about this?
Why don't we just, why don't you just call me and I'll just tell
you over the tile and then you know, we need to have keep doing
this over and over again, right? The good old tech support
hotline. Love that.
All right, But we have to time this with the fireworks.
We're going to have to go inside and find out when they are well.
The collector said. The collector said an hour.
Yes, but this is this podcast that's accelerated now.
Yeah, but it does mean that I have a little bit of time up
here to soak in this beautiful view of that city with a the
hell of a cigar in my hand. Maybe.
I guess that means you and I just get to hang out inside
until the fireworks go off. Come on, love lies.
Let's go inside kick. Kick, kick, kick, kick, kick.
Yeah, OK. I'm right behind you by the way.
I heard something about synth coke.
Yes, follow me, I've got cocaine.
Wish me luck everyone OK? Time to enjoy the party I guess.
And retro. Vendel and Vivi enter the party
at the Hillview. It's a bustle of people.
There are canapes and drinks, laughter.
You can roll perception to see if you see anything while you're
meandering through the party. The door closes to the front of
the building, and there's a subtle silence as you can hear
the party below you, Iona and Jeb.
You're standing there under a fairly clear night for Night
City. You can see the full moon in the
sky, no? And rat Night, this city ain't
too bad. It does smell though.
It does, yeah. Yeah.
But you know, I feel like we could probably get some sort of
maybe like nose enhancement and just kind of turn it into it's
like, you know, imagine like rose colored glasses but for
your nose. Is that a thing?
No, but you're giving me biotechnical ideas, so thank.
You. Oh yeah, that one's free.
No problem. Do you go off to explore the
roof? As you walk along, the blissful
silence is broken by the sound of distant sirens, gunshots, the
occasional mock howl. Inside Retro, VV and Vendel, you
have to find out exactly when the fireworks are.
And timeless, right? So Metro, you rolled a 20.
So you see a few things. You see Vivienne and Jane
chatting away at a table to your left.
All the wait staff have the same outfit and look, as is the
Hillview tradition. And you see, there's this big,
big, beautiful glass wall where you're going to look at the
fireworks through. Awesome.
So we do know that the viewing site at least will be interior.
No one's going to be looking outside, you know.
So that's good. Baby, you rolled 15.
You notice that the canapes are shrimp.
The What is shrimp? The canapes Oh, all right, I.
Didn't even. Know.
That because 15 is not very high.
Do you? Do you discover that the canapes
are shrimp? What's the music that's playing?
Just very banquet music, some some synth, violin, that sort of
thing. OK, spooky energy, but very
classical. I'm going to nudge the all
right, you have any of that coke, that synth coke?
I could use a bumper right about now.
Yes, certainly. Let's let's stay over this side
though That that that guy over there looks like a cop.
Which one? 1st.
Guy, he does give off some of the Queen's vibes to him, yeah.
Certainly. All right.
One second, Vivienne. When is the?
Fucking file collector. It's lovely to see you.
No, it's about 4 minutes, 10 minutes, something like that.
I don't know what. Do you think, Jen?
4 minutes. So enough time so I can enjoy my
synth coke before it goes off. You guys got like 4 minutes.
Thank you. Help me with the ball, please.
Yeah, yeah. You just open it up from here.
If you're like it, pop pop it like a like an Easter egg.
Oh, OK. I am a roll athletic give.
Me 10 minutes while I find my sheet. 10 minutes is how long it
takes to take the costume off. Apparently.
The fireworks are going to be soon.
I love the costume. The accent's annoying, it's
great. Uh huh.
Well, you are a treasure amongst the sea of knaves and ruffians.
I came dressed as as the the the witch of the of the left.
Huh. I'm not going to compasses.
I'm not going to compass. It.
Oh well. You made a flying monkey out of.
There. Oh, he gets it.
Uh huh. Jane, do you get it?
That's why Jane dressed as a monkey.
Jane does not look happy about being dressed as a monkey at
all. Oh oh, can I take a look at your
outfit there? That monkey outfit.
Sure. Baby.
This is what you wanted to dress up as?
No. What did you want to be?
Anything but a fucking monkey retro.
Oh well, I mean the stitching here is pretty nice and oh, I've
accidentally just ripped it. Don't have anything else to
wear. I know you're trying to be
helpful, but bollocks. All right, I'm just going to
here, let me, I'm just going to go to the bathroom and fix it.
Thank you. You can.
It's fine. It's fine.
Oh shit, I've resized myself. It's.
Fine, and she buggers off to the bathroom, slightly annoyed at
you actually. Ladies.
And gentlemen. Says the girl.
She walks into the room. The fireworks will be in just a
few minutes. Get over to the wall and look at
them. Yes, can't wait to see the
Halloween fireworks. They're spooky shaped.
Oh. Mostly orange.
Who said that? Oh, sorry, that's just me in the
back. Hi.
What? No, I'm dressed as a of the
pumpkin head. You know.
What do I look like? I don't know.
I'm a pumpkin head guy. Very creative costume Mister Man
there. Thanks bud.
All right. And you can, as people start to
congregate to the front, Jeb, you're on the roof.
And as you look around, you can see that there is a little,
little object to your right near the edge of the building that
you could sort of scoot this thing next to and attach the
satellite dish. You've already done this once.
You've already attached a satellite dish with retro.
So you've got a kind of a vague idea how to do it.
But if you want to check with retro before you do it.
You can see I'm pretty sure that the blue cable goes with the
blue input and the red cable goes in with the red input.
But this green one I just can't remember.
And is is, is it strap? Is it blue stripes?
Is it blue stripes with with green or is it green stripes on
blue? I just never remember this
stuff. We should probably call Retro
Hall. I mean, I mean, that's the whole
plan. I could.
Do it myself and be self-sufficient and all that,
but. Retro support, how can I help
you? Yeah, all right, cut this shit.
OK, it took me so long. Sorry.
Am I disturbing? You ha ha.
No, no, it's fine. Just one minute, Sir.
Let me put you on hold for a minute.
No, wait. He put me on hold.
What? What's the hold music?
It it just, yeah, I'll put loudspeaker right now.
It's it's license free. I mean, honestly, it's not bad.
And you get out the conversation with Vivian.
Yeah. What's up?
What's up, Jeff? All right.
Yeah. Listen, I remember red goes with
red, blue goes with blue. Retro result.
Roll, Resist. Torture Drugs continue.
But the green I don't see, I don't see a green input here, no
port or nothing. And is it is and there's other
one here is it, is this is it a green cable with a blue strap or
a blue cable with a green strap? I try.
You have failed your resist. Torture drugs for all.
You are now once again addicted to sink coke.
Well, you have you. Have yeah, you've got a, you've
got a role to tell him correctly.
Oh, OK, let me see. So you have the blue, the green,
the green, the blue, then the distraction.
So going for the adverts for that deal.
All right, I'm going to try. To give him synth coke.
I don't know. I'm going to try to.
Use together in the past my. Ability of teaching night
classes online and being a teacher, I'm going to use my
education to try to educate them how to do it properly.
All right. Oh. 17 Yes, that is fine.
However, if Jeb does badly, he will hurt himself now.
So you got to make sure that you connect the the green stripe to
port 17 and the blue and green stripe you need to bypass and
then splice into the white wire. Jeb roll basic tech Iona you may
roll something to help, but that is up to you.
I am going to roll. I'd like to roll to help him.
I see better honestly. I'm going to hold up my tile
light because it's very dark up here and he did complain about
not being able to see what colours or what.
That's what I'm going to do. Is this where we find out the
Jeb's colour blind? Basic tech 8.
That's not good. I don't know what are you?
What are you rolling to help? Oh, I am rolling something.
So. Great question Stealth because I
am trying to keep the fact that there is a flashlight on the
roof hidden from people who are not on the roof.
Very good. 16 Yes, that is very good.
You managed to hide your light from the street and help Jeb
install this little satellite dish.
However, because Jeb did not roll high high enough, he takes,
Oh my word, 7 damage as he slices his hand on a piece of
errant metal. Damn it now.
You got to remember, Jeb, that when you go into splice in
there, you have to make sure you rewind the wires.
Don't let if you don't, you might get a sliver of copper.
They can get really sharp. Yeah, what's next?
I'll make sure. Just make sure you tape it up
that way it won't. Get damaged anymore?
Wait, hit the button now. And everything's set up and you
have to bolt this thing in while the fireworks go off.
Which I have obviously been prepared to do.
So here I go, I'm bolting. Here I go.
I'm bolting. Whoa, look up.
Those fireworks. Yeah.
Fireworks are going off everywhere.
Multi. Coloured they're multi coloured
there's different properly things that are going through
the air and with your with a 17 you can see these beautiful
fireworks VB as you look out the window you can see a vampire
like danger gal pattern appear in the sky and.
Then. A thing that looks distinctly
like Pac-Man but not it, but is, you know, not.
Pac-Man eats it. And then it bursts it into a
bunch of laughter in the sky. Laughter.
Wow. Yeah.
That's what it spells. And Deb, you've been pushed
aside. You're like cradling your hand
that is now in pain, and Iona is doing the work you should be
doing and bolting this thing to the ground.
You stand there on the roof, successful in your transponder
installation, watching these colors burst through the sky and
light up the eerily radioactive lake beneath you.
And as the explosions settle, you hear a scream and a howling.
Ma'am, do they do you think they're pumping in those spooky
sounds or because it it honestly kind of felt like it was
perfectly tabbed with the rest of the show.
Jane bursts out of the bathroom inside of the Hillview.
There's. A dead guy in.
There what? Next time on no latency.
Doctor. I'm actually a doctor.
I'm not just dressed up as a doctor, I am actually a doctor.
They are actually a doctor. I I don't know what you're
talking about. Did you, did you hit your head
on the way down? Are you OK?
Hurt my tailbone. Oh, that was right in the butt.
People are dying. There's a killer on the loose.
There's a wolf killer on the loose.
Oh, that's bad. Picked the wrong person but.
Did you know that there were bodies up here?
Well, we just don't say anything about the bodies and just
meander our way out. So you said this may be our
fault, Detective? Didn't think of any time I was
in a chop shop. Came up when the dead body was
already there. Care to elaborate?
See folks, Library search does come in handy.
There's. A lot you could do at your local
library. Do you all think this has
something to do with? Yes, go ahead, because it does.
God fucking damn it. We have to do damage control.
What the fuck? Yeah, they don't look good.
Where the blood trail? Leads I mean are we going to
breach and clear this son bitch or?
Was there somebody in there peeing or not?
This was not what I was expecting at all.
Apologize, I knew there was somebody in there.
Oh, no, it's not. She doesn't sound like fucking
female Professor Snape. It's oh, darling, it's she's my
godmother. She's oh, hello.
No, it's not her. It's you're getting closer
though, yeah. It's it's.
Inspired by. Oh yeah, yeah, it's inspired by
what's her face? Jennifer Coolidge.
Hi, baby.
Darling. Yeah, there you go.
The fireworks are going to be soon.
I love the costume. The accent's annoying.
It's great. Uh huh.
That was her. Thing.
That's my thing, baby. Uh huh.
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