Last time on no latency. And smash into the professor's
head. So should I call Rams head?
Oh, ma'am. This is probably the best photo
I've ever seen of you. It said Professor Slash Sensei.
They're hungry for vegetables. That he's very excited about the
book. He needs us to.
I'd love to move on with our lives.
So the Dean's mouth shut. I mean, of course that makes
sense. Yeah, that, that's the thing.
No, I'm going to stand outside the room and hear it apparently
is what I've decided I'm going to do.
We're actually doing this. This is this is all out of
passion, man. It's not like we planned.
This It's important that when you say something, you made it.
He'll recover, he'll be fine. This is just teaching him a
lesson. I feel you at Mafia now.
Phoebe, I couldn't agree with you more.
Or. Teach him the guy a lesson, eh?
I'm going to get on the roof. With Jeb.
Where there's the transponder to build.
And also one of my favorite things of all Jeb plausible
deniability. Oh yeah, that's important.
And Vendell and Jeb head to the roof, leaving Iona, Vivi and
Retro outside the building with the Dean.
All right. What code word do you want?
Holy shit, there's someone coming.
Hurry up. Something like that, yes, I will
yell or you will yell. Make haste.
Make haste I.
OK. And I will get this done.
All right. I'm going to get in there.
Let me how are we going to knock knock them out?
You don't. Have.
Any I have some sedations. Yeah, I'm going to have to just
quietly go in and sedate him and then do this.
All right, I'm ready. Let's go all.
Right. I proceed into his office.
Excuse me, is there any need to be barging into my office, Mr.
Ortiz? I mean, I'm I'm going to tell
you like that's seems a little rude.
It wasn't really barging. I didn't like come slamming in,
stomping all over the ground. I wiped my feet.
I open the door gently. Maybe it was through an
alternative, but it is still an entrance.
If not so like you're so nitpicky about stuff.
Yeah, of course I'm nitpicky. I'm the Dean.
Yeah, but you like find like the smallest littlest thing and just
try to ruin people about it to keep your superiority complex.
They found you naked in the hallway.
Who hasn't been found naked in the hallway at some point in
their life? The shrooms were good.
I was on another planet. I was connecting.
Drug use on campus? Fantastic.
It was signed off by you. No it.
Wasn't. Are you high?
Pharmacy. Well, yeah, but pharmaceutical
testing? We weren't testing mushrooms on
campus, you were growing them in your dorm room.
What was the thesis that was put in place for that?
Your thesis was on explosives. We defined that in the last
episode, no? No, no, that was my thesis for
this. I have, I mean, you can have
more than one thesis. I had another thesis that I was
having sent off to the regional actual, well, not the regional,
sorry, the city manager to be able to get put forth for a new,
you know, mushroom compound for trying to, you know, reduce.
Get out of my office. No, no one.
'S ever said that before? Excuse.
Me. Well, sure, I'll.
I'll. And he stands up.
What did you say to me? I said no.
Face down. What's the face down again?
Cool plus reputation plus 1D10. As this is happening, I just
make my way in while he's distracted.
In front of you, you've got essentially three options.
There's the window behind him, there's the back door that Retro
came through, or there's the front door.
You haven't checked that. The window behind him.
All right, so the window behind him is directly behind his desk.
As you look in, you can see him standing there facing retro.
It is locked. Am I able to try to Jimmy it
open or lock pick it open or? Sure.
I will. I will attempt.
Jim, 19. Yes, thank you.
Pick lock 17. Yes, you effortlessly unlock
this window. Iona.
You're looking over her shoulder.
It is unlocked. And you have done so silently
while the Dean continues to argue with Retro in his office.
What do you do now that it's open?
I will quietly make my way in and start to pull out from my
medical bag a sedative in in like a little hypo air hypo
thingy. Great, it is 50 eddies.
Damn. OK.
Yeah, that. Seems expensive.
We could. Just for a sedative that will
knock someone out immediately. No, I mean.
You could punch him in the head until he passes out, that's
cheaper. True.
We could. You're already facing him down.
You could just knock him out. No, it's fine.
I'll just go with this. This was the plan.
You pay your pack for the sedative and it releases into a
syringe. You step through the window and
now you're standing right behind him.
Listen, look, I understand that you're you're you're not getting
full grade for your last degree was a bit of a hit.
You had to make an example of someone and that was the curve.
You had the lowest score. I don't care that it was 91.
I'm sorry somebody had to get a low grade.
Someone had to care. I cared.
Could have affected everything about it, about the rest of my
life. Probably did.
I mean, it's not just that, it's also, you know, your other
activities much recently is something having to do with the
library. And I'm just tired.
I'm just tired of you being a Dick.
You know, at some point someone's really just going to
have to show you what such a little prick you are.
Excuse me now, this is this conversation has now distracted
him enough that whatever you want to do, you gain a + 2
because that's a good difference in numbers.
Well I'm just hoping I'm distracting enough and saying a
little prick for VV to knock him out.
And on prick, I take the syringe and prick his like one of the
the I'm trying to think like one of the veins, not the veins or
like the arteries on his leg because I'm like kind of low to
the ground like one of the. Oh, interesting.
OK. Yeah.
All right. Roll for it.
OK. To jab him in the leg let's.
See. Let's see.
Let's see, let's see. Femoral artery.
Thank you, The ephemeral artery on his leg Skulls.
Also, Phoebe rolling a 17 on picklock is very high for you.
That is very. Actually pretty good.
There was very good. There was a very good roll.
You rolled a fucking 9. That's why that went so well.
Oh, OK, You rolled A9 again, rolling a 24 on medical tech.
You stick him in the leg and he goes very pathetic way.
Yes, very soon. Yeah.
Ayona mimics him, mocking him as you watch this happen through
the window. The Dean himself.
I've just realized something, that this is set to the wrong
thing. Can you see now, Ayona?
Yes, yes I can. And so inside this room, you jab
him in the leg and he flumps to the ground.
Maybe I should roll Resist torture drugs to see if this
goes badly. No objections then I'm going to
do that. He does not roll high enough and
he falls to the ground completely sedated.
Completely sedated. OK, cool, that worked.
Good job retro distracting him. Oh, it was my pleasure.
Well, let's get this over with and teach this guy a lesson.
And you push him onto his desk, push his chair out of the way.
Are you on a deep guard? The window?
Yeah. Yeah, I'm watching.
Oh, I'm. My eyes are on this screen.
You are not getting past me. OK, so you're going to watch
that. Meanwhile, on the roof, Jeb and
Vendel are installing a transponder.
You. Know Vendel, I feel like I feel
like we don't get a lot of one-on-one time, just me and you
and. Yeah, Jim.
You know, I just wanted to say that I think it's easy to forget
that. That.
You're your own person, you know you're not just like some side
character to Iona's character sheet or balance sheet.
Sorry. Right, right, right.
I've got my own balance sheet. That's right.
You know, you're your own
person. You know, you got your own
drives and motivations. And I'm just wondering.
You know. What do?
What do you want? Meanwhile, I'm like, you know,
twisting the the bolting in a, a screw into the side and changing
the things, clicking on the cable and all that while we're
talking. Cool.
Roll for that. You have the instructions that
are printed out for you right after the last couple.
Oh yeah, I'm following it to the letter.
Yeah, make sure you screw A7. Please hold.
Well, I mean, other than like working for for Iona, who
honestly is the best boss I've ever had.
I like drawing. I like to draw trees.
Drawing, huh? I don't know how many times
that's come up, but it's like a thing that I like to do.
Sometimes I live stream it. But is that something that you
know, you want to you want to keep that a hobby, You know, God
chase my all right, Well, I guess it was not red wire to
blue wire, but blue wire to red wire.
And you take 4 HP damage. Jeb, just let me let me do it.
I'm going to roll basic tag. OK, but don't think you're
getting out of this. OK.
I, I, I want to know, you know, it sounds like you got a passion
for tunes of drawn, you know, for, for visual art.
I'm just wondering, is that something you want to pursue,
you know, as a career or you're just keeping that, you know?
When? When I retire, you know, Oh.
OK, OK. I rolled a 12 which is better
than you, so although I I don't do an amazing job, I do fasten
it to the side of the building. As long as no one comes up here
to check it, I think we'll be fine, right, Jeb?
You just give me a thumbs up. Yeah, no, I, I, you know, I
just, I figured that that the scene was done.
Oh. Jeb, roll evasion.
You're wait, you're underneath the the satellite dish.
Roll evasion. Jeb, don't, don't move.
Careful, and you aptly dodge the satellite dish, skimming the
side of it, and it makes kind of a shing noise and leaves a
little dust trail on your hat but doesn't damage it.
Oh, that. Was nice.
Is that going to be OK? I.
I think so. I think you just booped it.
There's nothing wrong with the boop.
OK. I booped Retro's duck once.
It was Quackers. Did you get it?
You booped his what? His duck.
Oh, duck. Yeah, that's why Quackers was
funny. Yeah, no, I understood.
No, I mean no problem. No.
With the feathers, you know, because he has a duck.
Yeah, let's. Go by the Mallard.
Well, I suppose we should. I suppose we should stay up
here. Actually, I was going to say,
maybe we get down there and see. How they're doing.
I don't want to see the man's mouth being so shut.
That sounds horrific. We've we've, we've taken a
terrible turn. Well, I just figured maybe we
can kind of poke our heads out the, you know, get down on, get
down on prone and kind of peek our heads over the edge of the
it's a roof when we can just kind of.
That clouds pretty. Slyly see when they exit that
torture Chamber of theirs. Yeah.
Clouds are pretty, Jeb. They're very nice.
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Well, time to pull out more medical equipment from my bag
that will likely cost me where I get stitches, sutures, and the
necessary tools required to suture somebody up.
Hold on. Yes.
You were interning as a mortician's aid.
Yes. For how long?
Several months. So you would have had to sew
mouth shut. You would know the tools and the
thread and the techniques to do that because you need to sell
will a spouse shut that are you know in the essence of being
presented. That so are you, are you saying
that I would already have the materials?
Of course. I mean, why would you have
carried the those materials? You haven't worked at the morgue
in years. I don't mind scaling a little
bit of extra Yes, I do have the skills it's.
Like you have that. It's like riding a bike.
I'm able to pick it up once again, but no, I will.
I will just. Favorite set of needles you like
to use? Look, VV may be twisted, but
she's not that twisted. It's fine.
I will. Look, we got we got tons of
money here. Sure.
What's what's a little bit of I say it's not my little famous
last words. The GM, we'll make a note of
that. Yeah, I'm I'm going to get the
the supplies needed from my auto transaction medical bag.
Great, you get plus one to do the task because of your morgue
experience. That is a good argument.
Yes, good argument. OK, so let's see.
What do you want from your bag? The sutures, the stitchers, the
thread, like all the things that I need.
Like. Do we want like a?
Yeah. And wires.
Get a stapler, we'll staple them.
There is there is. There is a stapler on his desk
if you want to use that. Oh my gosh, that's so messed up.
No. One no one get enough grip
flash, it just kind of stops in it.
Yeah, we'll just, we'll do it the old fashioned way.
So yeah, I'll get the thread and the the needle all.
Right, Romy, What should we say? 2D6.
It's very cool items. 2D6. So which method are you going to
do? In total, that costs you 17
eddies. OK, that's not bad.
Yeah, it's just, it's essentially just a needle and
thread. So it's not very expensive.
There's like I, I, I know there's like three of them.
I remember it was needle injection or needle injector,
the musculature and sublingual. Oh, I didn't know you were an
expert. Retro in In stitches in medical
procedures. Look at that.
Yeah. What was we had to do?
I, I had some extra, you know, doctor stuff.
I had to. I did keep my credits for my
degrees. So like, yeah, you know, we've
got to work on the cadavers and such.
And you know, I remember doing the sublingual when you, you
know, place the stitches through under the tongue securing the
jaw. Or you could do.
Retro roll stealth Oh. My God.
I mean, I don't think it's going to be very high because I don't
think I'm being very stealthy. Let's see, let's see how this
goes. 18 All right, Phoebe, role perception or human perception,
either, whichever you think is is best for the situation.
One moment let. Me.
Find there's do. You believe him?
Oh my. God.
You believe him as you watch him slyly slyly put his tile back
into his pocket. You assume he is just checking
his notifications and you believe him.
Iona roll. Human perception or perception.
Yeah. So the musculature searcher,
that's when you go through the nasal septum and tie it through
the lower jaw, usually used and combined with the sublingual
searcher. Whereas the needle injector is
just using barbed needles inserted into the maxilla or the
upper jaw into the mandible, and then you twist the wires to
secure them. Iona also believes that Retro
just knows this well. I can only.
I can only muffle muffle the. No, the windows open you can hit
it. Oh.
Yeah. I'm mostly watching this drone
to see if it's getting any closer to us.
You watch the drone lazily wobble through the air as it has
trouble obtaining a a straight line since Retro repaired it
incorrectly on purpose. Retro.
I'm obviously doing a subcutaneous suture where I
place it in the dermis layer beneath the epidermis and.
Oh, I haven't heard of that one. I'm.
I'm interested in seeing this one.
Yeah. It's used to reduce tension
between the superficial layers. So this is a common medical
technique that we did at the morgue, so.
Roll surgery? Do you do anything to keep him
permanently quiet? Are you just doing a symbolic
sewing a man's mouth shut? Just the symbolic sewing of the
man's mouth shut. Not even.
Not my best. I mean, that's a good, a decent
role, but I could do better. You could do better 15 All
right. You do do this quite well.
However, unfortunately, Jeb was looking over the edge of the
building that's. True here.
That is not high enough to not to.
That is not high enough to keep the blood stemmed properly.
And blood pours all over this man's desk, Jeb, on the winds of
the evening. You can smell the distinctive
Tang of iron in the air. Well, it looks like they've
started, so I guess that's good. Oh shit.
The subtle the flavour of BBQ sauce fills your nostrils and
taste buds in the back of your throat contracts with that
sensation of hunger. Hey.
Van, do you hungry? Roll, resist torture drugs beat
a 15. You jump off the side of the
building. Hold on running towards the
still alive body of this man and you are running past Iona.
Iona, do you do anything? Jeb, slow down.
What does Jeb just barrel roll? Through the window.
Do you do anything to stop him? You can see that he has his
normal bloodlust. I'm not.
I'm not going to touch him. You're not going to touch him,
All right? Does Ben tell do anything?
I might stick my foot out to turn him, actually.
OK, sure. Yes, roll to do that.
I'm going to drip. Through the glass and just.
Move the windows open. I'm just going to, yeah. 17 Yes,
that is enough, Jeb. You fall over roll athletics to
not do something stupid. You meet interesting.
You catch Jeb and he does sort of a weird flip and turn and
lands seated on the bench outside the building.
Oh. Man.
Bendel comes up to you and slaps you across the face.
I I got up, get out of the way. I got ow Vandell, what the hell?
You. Can't.
Eat the. Guy, they're, they're doing
something in there. I wasn't going to, I wasn't
going to eat them. When you think I'm some sort of
crazy cannibal person, I that's only if things get really out of
control. Most of the time I do a pretty
good job of just kind of laughing up the blow that's on
the crime scene. Phoebe, you can continue.
We stop, Jeb. If.
You could just if you could just get maybe just like a bit like a
bow or. Something.
Just take a little taste or something.
I'm just real hungry. Machine.
And get some people. It's all right.
It's pretty good. And we?
Iona, can you please come to the Dean's office?
Iona to the Dean's office all. Right.
I'm not crawling through a window, so I'm going to walk.
I walk around to the front. You walk around to the front and
retro on the desk is a button to unlock the front door.
Oh, I wonder what this button does.
The front door unlocks roll evasion.
Retro roll evasion. I have to roll in.
Yes. OK.
You forgot that the desk is covered in blood. 17 You avoid
getting blood on your hand. I know you step into the office.
And you called for me. Yes, I need either you to type
something up on the Dean's computer here, or I need your
glove wear. Your glove wear.
But I I only dictate I don't type so it.
I suppose you could borrow the gloves.
Yeah, yeah, I just need, I just need the the latex gloves.
Oh. For the apps, it's your
creation. What?
What here I. I I.
Unclip them from my wrists so I hand them over.
Oh, thank you. You're welcome.
Shit, I forgot what you had to do to make make.
If you OK, So what you do it turn it a little bit because you
the injector needs to be right over the centre of your palm.
All right. OK.
And then if you squeeze three times, don't squeeze any more
than that, because then you'll get too much latex on your hands
and it won't dry. OK.
Wave them around a little bit to dry faster.
There you go, gloves. Perfect.
Thank you, Iona. Thank you.
It's your creation. Cute.
And you're in this office and there are two sofas that seem
very clean. You're on the other side of the
room. You can kind of smell the blood
now. It's a little stronger inside.
And on the back wall of this room there are a row of
cabinets. I guess we should just lay him
down on one of the couches, one of the sofas.
We'll put him on one of the sofas, just pat his little head
and leave him. All right, that's that.
He's unconscious, so you do that for free.
There's three of you. Not that Iona touches him, but
still. Clean up the the desk a little
bit. There you go.
All right, roll for that. I'd like to go on a Dean's
computer. Of course you do.
Let's see. What should?
I roll. I'm just thinking what I want to
roll here. 14 You're rolling forgery.
I just I'm my logic is I want to make it look clean, like nobody
was here. There's no blood.
Sure, nothing was left on the site.
You do a a mediocre job. A deep DNA scan will will reveal
that it is the Dean's blood, although it's his office so and
he's not dead. And that's that.
But you do clean up the desk and.
Now it's the smell of blood. OK, we are done.
Not yet. Not yet.
No, at first I'd like to of course access the computer and
see if I can get on there, go to the files well.
Electronic security tech. While I'm doing that, I'm also
going to reach into my jacket and I'm going to pull out the
half dime bag of synth coke. Interesting.
I was going to snort it but I have to use it this for this
now. 26 Yes, you get access to his computer, including all of
the records for his insurance scam, the hard evidence that you
need to fully incriminate him, as well as his personal search
history and the full plan he had.
You even redact Rams Head and the professor from Yeah the
evidence. Purely, purely green.
Yeah. I'd like to compile all that,
including the photographic evidence that Jeb took.
Which, Jeb, you're the one inspired me to do this.
And I'm going. Oh.
No, I I was trying to think of something to say, but I have.
Nothing. To say, let's finish this part,
I'm going to hand the bag. I hand it back to Phoebe.
I say, Phoebe, go ahead. Just dip your finger in just a
little bit and just a little bit on the like interior of the
nose. And then like leave the bag like
half kind of split on the couch, table, something nearby.
What's what's the logic here? Retro.
Oh, according to improv plan, I'm going to Create an e-mail
that states everything that the Dean has done with their illegal
plan, writing it in a very poetic way like I think he would
and using like the four humours and how he felt too choleric.
And that, you know, after finally, you know, tasting a bit
of the divine with the synth coke, he is reminded of his ways
and has decided to turn himself in and take a vow of silence.
The. 4 humors. So, Phoebe, do you put some
synth coke underneath this man's nose?
Sure, I'll play along. You put a little bit of synth
coke underneath this man's nose as Retro finishes his manifesto.
Oh, it doesn't have to be under it.
I can't be under the nose. You gotta.
It's too late now. It's too late now.
I said in there, I didn't say under.
Unfortunately, Dean Grindwall fails his resist torture drugs
role and you hear him sniff and his eyes go wide.
His pupils dilate and he looks at you.
Vivi. What's that?
All I'm hearing is sniffing. What should concentration 11 He
starts to panic as he feels his mouth has been sewn shut and you
watch him faint again. He has now seen your face.
What? This is what I was trying to
avoid. Jeb turns the like peeks in
through the corner. How's it going over there?
Everything. Oh, is he supposed to be awake?
I mean, at least he got some in the system.
Now he was sniffing a lot. So at least that's one of the
things I was hoping for. But with that e-mail, I send it
out to the entire faculty, staff, students of the
university, as well as every single major news source in
Night City and. Alum.
What? And alum.
Oh, and alum. Yes, yes, of course.
And alum. Dear Ayana.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a good idea.
But he has seen our face. So do we, do we like, gouge his
eyes out or don't you just leave?
Him, I mean. What's on VVV?
Are we planning on adding on to this?
I think we've done enough. I mean, let's be honest, his
reputation is tarnished. He's doing synth coke and while
being at work tried to set library on fire just for money.
I mean, who's really going to believe this dude?
Well. Did you hear sand?
Yeah. OK, Sometimes I forget and then
it just sits in my. What's that part of your e-mail?
It's. Like giraffes?
Oh, it's your giraffes. Man those.
Drafts the graveyard of emails. That's why there's always a wind
going through there. A cyber wind.
I'm going to also take off the latex glove gift that I have
made for Iona and give them back to them.
Here you go. And then I'm going to peel off
the latex and put it in my pocket.
You know, because now only his fingerprints are on there, none
of ours. And we've already cleaned up all
our other traces aside from his blood, so there is no other
trace. So it's really our word against
his. And he already has a vendetta
against me, so it's not going to work in his favor.
The best thing he can do is just really take this and go quiet,
metaphorically. Right.
Should we? We've done everything we need
to. Should we just go?
Absolutely. Any curiosity VV Was that the
first time you sewed a man's mouth shut?
It was in fact not 'cause. I was just going to say it looks
good for a first time. You used to do this all the time
with the morgue. Right.
No. OK, that makes sense.
Yeah, yeah, but but. Obviously to the dead.
Right. But to the dead, of course.
Of course. To the dead, though, Phoebe,
You've only ever done it to the dead before this, right?
Only to the dead, yes, right. OK, Leah.
Next time on no latency. Of course, that's the part
they'd be talking about. That's the news for you.
Why would they scare you like that?
Why are they focusing on this? One, it wasn't my idea this
time. Why?
Did you say it wasn't? Stay home, buy things online.
A date is. Don't ask Reddit.
When two people who are. Were you guys going for coffee?
That's the point of the date you.
Shouldn't refer to Reddit? Interested in each other more
than just like the base level of interest.
For your answers. You know, get to know each other
better. Sometimes it could be 15 minutes
with a bunch of shots of tequila.
Maybe ask Jeeves. So he called you.
Mommy once, what are you going to do?
Get to business, shall we? OK, any idea what the first step
is? I'm sorry, I was just having a
look around. Oh.
My God. I mean, he's down 100 bucks, you
know what I mean? From that last bet that we made,
that I won, that you just gave me.
Come on. No, I don't know what you're
talking about. I'm trying to do my job here,
Sir. Can.
I run out to help Jeb. Yeah.
Oh well, retro, I'm obviously doing a subcutaneous because.
I. Can't even say right I mean.
Obviously no retro. I'm obviously doing a
subcutaneous suture where I place it in the dermis layer
beneath the epidermis, and I'm sorry.
Really getting a shout out. Really.
Googling sponsored by WebMD? Not really.
Now, out of curiosity, was that the first time you've sewed?
Man, Man, that's the first time you showed up.
He's. A scat man.
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