Last time on no latency. Damn.
Is it usually this dark? Is it usually this bumping?
Event happening at the Bubble Cafe.
Oh, you want to dance? Gently sway along.
Dwarf, Dwarf. Dwarf.
Yeah, what? Happened.
I think I got God. Jeb's everything OK?
Don't got my keys no more. Well, should we see Evan White's
still outside? Oh God, Oh no, no, no.
Jesus Christ. No.
Oh dear Lord, no. What it sounds, Jeb, you got
honeypotting. There is a maelstrom hideout.
Jeb, I didn't know you were such an abort.
It won't. Like that, did she?
She looked regular. Then why would I bring an?
Ammo case inside. So I don't have any guns.
And we should probably get there before the morning or they're
going to scrap Vanna White. No, it's OK, Jed all.
Right, it's time to move out then.
So we all have weapons except for Retro who doesn't carry a
sidearm. I'm not going to need it.
All right, finally get done with the fucking queue, all right
there. Looks like it's pinging out
about half a mile away. Great, that means we can walk,
doesn't it? Yeah.
Is this in the combat zone? Listen.
I I'm going to be honest with you, I don't give a fuck where
it is or who it's got to be. We got to go and we got to go
right now. Jeff, you don't.
It's look, everyone makes mistakes.
You don't have to be so guilty. It's all right.
No, y'all, y'all understand? I, I mean they're, they're going
to be, they're going to be chopping, chopping her up like
like like she's a hunk of meat or something.
We got to go. We got to go now.
We won't let that happen, don't worry.
Tell me again. Vanna White is going to be OK.
You swear, you promise because it feels it feels kind of like
like we don't got much time and and and she she going to get
hurt. Don't worry, Jeb, we are going
to figure this out. Don't worry.
Hold me. She passes Jeb on the head very
delicately. Do you want an encouraging high
5? What do?
You want an encouraging high 5, Jeb?
Look, look, look, hand in the air.
Oh, I know what to do with that. Kachow.
Hey, Jeb, I'm just looking at crime statistics right now from
being inside, you know, with my mole inside of the NCPD.
Looks like carjackings are up to about 60% more this year than
they were last year. So, you know, one, it's not your
fault. Looks like it's becoming a, a
major thing. Two, if that's the case, there's
probably more vehicles for them to chop right off the bat than
just right, you know, slice and Vana, you know, So, you know, we
got a little bit of time. Is is it true?
Well, traditionally it's they have to do it by sun up.
So we've got time. It's late, but it's not early.
Do you know what I mean? Well, I I guess that's kind of
reassuring, yeah. Anyway, can someone look at this
and see if we are if this is within combat zone rules because
I need to know about how how much damage I can cause to them
first. Show me this map.
I'll give it to Iona. OK, so if that that's the it's
right outside the combat zone, it should be fine.
Yeah, just on the border, right? Yeah, it's totally safe there.
If it belongs to some. Corporate zones on the other
side of the city, right? So true.
OK, let me think here. Well, you know what?
The dwarf I think has given me a really good idea.
Could be a little bit out there, but could be also really, really
fun and very, very painful for people, OK.
People or. Not or them.
Them. Them, of course them.
What's what's the the idea? Well, let's hear.
Main part of it is that I'm going to need to have ask Iona.
Iona, because you have connections within your company,
are you able to get say some Acer chlorine or maybe a few bit
of bacteria for me? Vendo, could you call one of our
scientists to see if they have the excess chemicals needed?
I mean, we could get it delivered by drone, but we'd
probably have to call fresh. Fresh is inside actually, so we
wouldn't have to call fresh. Fresh comes out the door and
stands by the front door and smokes a cigarette.
Don't say me, I'm so shiny. Shiny and I'm drunk.
Drunk and shiny cigarettes. Yeah, I'm.
Just letting Fresh have his moment, because who?
Who looked at his unbridled joy? And we'll have to let it exist
in this world. Because if, if, if this doesn't
exist, what do we have to live for?
I wish I was happy like him, but I'm just stressed out and sad.
Hey, Jeff. Where's the van?
Oh. Boy, did I.
Say something wrong? Yeah.
Collapses to the ground and starts like flailing his arms
and legs. Takes.
His cowboy hat and puts it from the top of his head onto his
face. Don't look at me.
Jeff, if we want to get this, if we want to get Vanna White back,
you're going to need to pull, pull yourself together.
The more you sit down and whine and complain, the better chance
that they're going to chop shop it.
So if you don't pull yourself together, it's going to start
following more on you. All right, no matter.
OK, retro, where are you going with this idea with the bacteria
and stuff all? Right, fresh pee.
Can you give me some dinoflagellate and some azo Azo
monoformer? That's blue-green algae.
Yeah, sure. I mean, you can either.
I mean, I can, I can. I can order some.
I'm drunk so I can order some. Why not?
When he gets out his tire and starts stepping weight.
Roll into face all. Right.
While they're doing that, Phoebe, can you go inside,
please? Go ahead and get me a blender
that they're you're not going to get back sugar and ammonia if
they have any. OK, I will retrieve those
things. Jeb, check yourself.
Do you have any gas grenades? Any type at all.
No, no, let me, let me see. I'm sick.
And Jeb opens his pack, not getting up.
I have. I have a smoke grenade.
Hold on. Yeah, I got one of them.
Just one. Anything.
Anything else? I I got I got 2 smart grenades.
Now those have explosives in them.
No, I'm useless. Ain't that no.
Jeb, Jeb, can you send Sloan to the point that we pinged at and
see if they can find a fire suppression system, hopefully
the water tank? Who I would slow and even visit
to me. I'm I'm useless.
I got all right. Pull yours up together.
Look, look, look, Look at me in the eye.
All right? You're a cowboy.
You are strong. I'm cable.
You are smart. And strong and you are loved.
You mean that last one? Yes, I do.
You just need to know that no one is mad at you.
We just have to get this done. You promise?
Because I really messed up but. Everyone, we promise we're not
mad. I'm mad.
I give you a high 5, remember? Felt good.
That's true. You did that.
Felt real good. And inside, Vivi is standing in
front of Reeves, who's standing outside the kitchen.
Yeah, what is up? Hey Reeves, do you think I could
grab a couple of things from the kitchen to use?
Sure. Maybe to have permanently for
some time if that's OK. I mean, yeah, can and Alice can
maybe like steal some shit. Yeah, sure.
I. Mean I'll just take it out your
cart. Is that good?
Yes, that's fine. Cool.
Yeah. So you you might not get your
share for a bit, but that that's fine.
That's fine. Appreciate it.
No worries. Yeah, like what do you want?
I need a blender. OK.
Like just a big bag of sugar if you have it.
Oh yeah, no, totally. I use one of those.
For for a freshest drink. And some ammonia if you have it,
like if I don't know if you have like a glass cleaner or
something like that, just just just some ammonia.
Oh yeah, yeah, like the stuff. We use to.
Clean the tumblers. Yes, exactly.
Yeah. No, totally.
I mean, yeah, yes, You know what I mean.
I'll be right back. Thank you.
He. Pops his head out of the little
hole in the wall instead of coming out.
Here we go. Do you have a bag for these by
chance? Kind of a lot.
Oh, I'm stuck between a wall and another place.
So. And do you have a bag?
Yeah. No, he could.
You could have just gone through the.
Door. Yeah, but it wouldn't be as
cool. And you get given a blender, bag
of sugar and a squeezy bottle of ammonia glass solution.
And now you won't get a payout from the Bubble Cafe for a
little bit. That's.
Fine, I walk outside with the stuff jingling in a bag.
Well, retro all. Right, baby, do you remember?
It's better work because it's coming out of my paycheck at the
bubble cafe. If it doesn't, if it doesn't
work, then then you can insult me later.
Do you remember your time and being an intern, being able to
remove solutions, you know, from other liquids, you know blood
from plasma? Remember that and having to use
that particular? I can't think of the name of the
machine. Yes.
Like a centrifuge? Yeah.
So I'd like to try to re re rig the blender, dulling the blades
so that way they're not in a chopping motion anymore.
Kind of make it as a centrifuge. Cool.
Jerry rigged it. Oh, I I like where you're going
with this. That's really clever.
I was kind of smart like you. I wrote a 13.
I'm smart like Chad. We all have our.
Strengths. Wait, no, that's really low.
Oh. Yeah.
Retro. You rolled a crip fail.
You do dull the blades, but you've also cut the very little
bit of flesh that you have and you lose.
I'm going to use my new D63 HP. It's all right, the rage.
The rage dulls the pain. Bibi, go ahead.
I need you to start separating the ammonia.
The more pure we can get the ammonia, the better.
Please. OK, start pouring it in.
I don't know. I don't know when you're going
to be able to tell me when we can get those particular algaes,
but I need to get them ASAP. And also, is there any way we
can get ourselves some rain gear?
Rain. I mean, you've got a punch,
Hell. I do, yes.
Does anybody else? VV roll perception.
I got. Yeah.
Jeb, I know you're I know you're going through a hard time.
I'm going to go in and I'm going to give a Big Bear hug to Jeb
using more strength and I feel like I should be using because I
still haven't really gotten used to my graft muscles yet.
I was going to whisper in your Jeff, I need you to pull
yourself together. If you really do not get
together, we're not going to be able to get Vanna White back in
one piece. All right, so I need you to do
me this favor. You're the only one who can do
this right now. I need you to get Sloan to find
that area and figure out where the fire suppression system is.
If it's going to be in an auto shop, there's going to be some
kind of sprinkler system in case there's a fire.
All right so Sloan needs to go and find out what that is.
Then I need you to figure out once we there's concussion to
put it in there and you're the stealthiest of us, all right?
So you are probably one part of the most important part of this
whole goddamn thing to get set off.
You got me. Yeah, but and if you don't?
Stop crying. You're not.
Going to be a lot less stealthy if I'm crying.
So you need to stop crying. Send to be stealthy.
All right? OK, You can cry once you're a
fan of white. I'll let you cry as hard as you
want once we get it. Well, perception.
Well, just save all those feelings.
In the vending machine you see it has Bubble Cafe branded
ponchos and a Can of shine is on sale.
Where's the? Where's the?
Cake come back right right here. Oh lol.
Lol S. Oh, oh wait, amazing.
Is that shine? Oh, that's exactly what I
needed. Oh.
Yes, it's all the pain with alcohol.
Oh. Wow, shit.
By all, Yeah, yeah, there are two cans that they're 15 each,
so 30%. OK, how much are the Padres?
They are 10 each. OK, so that's the 60 altogether?
Do I not get one? Oh, is there only three?
There's no more. No, no, you said can, can.
Would it be 70 if you bought me one?
Oh, I thought it only three. Yeah, I'm 70.
Yeah, everybody gets 1. Yay.
Wait, it's so high, right? You're drunk.
You're not coming with us. Oh, OK.
I rounded the thing. It'll be here.
They only charged us 540 eddies. Iona.
Oh. Geez.
All right. Thank you.
I rolled badly, so it costs money.
Everything at Night City is just getting more and more expensive.
I gotta say it's. Almost like it's reactive to how
much money you earned. Weird.
It's inflation. While Fresh is standing there
sipping on another drink, a drone falls down and it delivers
2 tanks and they are a liter each of concentrate.
Here you are retro. I have New York Algies.
Cool. I pour an eighth of each of them
out into the street. Cool.
Why are you doing that? You owe me $540 minus the 20
that you just spent on Glendale than I.
I want you to think about this, Iona.
I'm going to need to mix stuff in there.
If it's already full, there's nothing.
There's nowhere for it to go. So you should have asked for a a
less amount. Believe me, this is going to be
enough. I'll tell you what, I will give
you the recipe for this afterwards, and you can give it
to your bosses for a fucking bioweapon.
How about that? All right, little new wow.
BB How are we doing with the ammonia?
It looks like it's blending. Roll a medical check.
To. See if you've done this.
Well, the perception check was to check the vending machine.
You saw nothing, Jeb did. OK, where is my?
Yeah. You separate it and it, you know
those toys that have oil in them and you can move the things
around by pushing the little puffers.
Yes. Yes.
Very. Specific memory.
Oh yeah, yeah, there's an. Old kid games are filled with
water. There's often oil in those.
And now because of the iron filings that came off the blade
that retro broke, there is a layer of iron filings at the
bottom which has kind of absorbed a bit of the ammonia,
which will give a -, 1 to the result of this device.
But you have managed to separate the chemicals and not cause any
other errors. So there'll be a little bit of
iron in this ship. I hold it up to retro, looks
like it's separated all. Right, I pour out the water and
just leaving the ammonia. Who has to go pee?
This isn't a joke. You like to pee?
I I should probably pee, maybe like take a look in the mirror
for a bit and take, you know, figure out what my whole.
Deal is sipping his 7th drink. Those very good blink blinking
sounds. OK.
Do we have any more? Do we have?
Any more? Do you need some fresh pee from
fresh pee? I'm drunk.
Yes, yes, actually what fresh pee finish your finish your
drink. Finish all of it now down it
like now drink it. This has got a.
Lot of drugs in it. I'm like.
Faint Jug, jug, jug. Oh, not often I make a deep
noise. Holy shit.
I take. The cup from fresh pee, I wipe
it out as as clean as I can I. Mean I I would like some
privacy. Thank you.
I pour a little bit of the solution inside there just so
then that way I can try to get any other residuals off and then
it should just have ammonia and with whatever you have leftover
with in there. All right, fill that up.
Should. I smell it afterwards.
No. OK.
Let's not be weird about this, I.
Mean Is it dangerous to smell property?
Buggers off to the porta potty. He'll be back in a minute.
All right, who who out of The Who out of us has the best
control in pouring? I feel like it's BB because I.
Was going to say I have a pretty good hand.
You know, I don't do surgery that much, but I think I can do
it. I mean, I imagine pouring is
probably, you know, directly associated with the Dexterity
stat, in which case I'm all right.
It's a good point. All right, Job, I'm going to
give you the bag of sugar. I want you to pour with me on
this, OK? You're going to pour to the
count of five and stop, OK, With the bag this size, which is
about a pound, that should be roughly about six of the 64
ounces that are in there ready. Yeah, I think I can do a roll
for it. Here we go.
I mean, this only makes sense that it's a stale throw.
Oh. Sure, I believe it.
Oh. You do shit today you rolled a
crit. Fail and you only managed to
pour four of the six units that you need to put in there and
pulling the rest all over the ground.
What do they want, right? Oh, Jesus failed.
OK, all right, all right. Hi retro piss.
I also pissed on my shoes. I need new shoes.
Cool. Hold that for a second.
I'm going to take the ammonia that we already had.
I'm going to pour that into the rest of that tank.
For the first one, we're going to go to the second tank.
Jeb, try again. Please don't spill any.
This will be the rest of what we need to have for this, because
this will be the dinoflagellate and it needs more sugar.
Give me that. Give me your pee here.
You go. It's hot, sorry.
It is unusually it is unusually
warm. I did a lot of dancing.
I hear that. Look.
I'm sweating. Nice job, please pour that in so
I don't have to keep holding this extremely hot cup of piss.
Hey Spoon, Spoon, you wrote a crit success.
Give me give me a go right here. Good shit.
OK, OK. Do this for VANA.
It was for VANA. Why?
You got this. 12345. And done.
Oh shoot, I did it. Good work job and I'm going to
pour the rest of this piss, which is ammonia, into the tank.
Well, I can't imagine. I mean, piss is more than just
ammonia. Right, it's the closest.
Thing about all the drugs that have been done.
Oh yeah, that's awesome. Weird shit.
Well, I don't know what's going to happen, but we'll see what
ends up happening because no one else apparently needed to take a
piss. No one else drank as many
liquids as. I'm not letting you.
I'm also not letting you have my pee.
Thank you though. That's.
Valid. That feels like a very Iona to
me. I will cap them off, grabbing
both, both in, one in each arm and just shake back in a
rhythmic motion. OK.
I'll start heading over there as we go there does does anybody
have any kind of like paint? I know I got, I got duct tape on
me. I always got duct tape.
Anybody else have any kind of like crafty stuff?
So as you're walking through the city, you're heading South
towards the combat zone. Vendel comes up beside you after
you say that. Retro Don't you have two paint
cans and a paint gun? Yeah, that was Invana White,
though. Oh.
Shit. Oh, maybe we can find some on
the way. Maybe.
Could. Probably stop it I'm.
I'm I'm pretty crafty. How crafty am I, Iona?
I would say you're very crafty. Oh.
Well, if Iona says I'm very crafty, then I'm probably very
crafty. OK, Wendell, you are.
It's been important to do this next piece.
Yay, I like being important. Please particular ponchos I need
you to take. Here's here's my 2 rolls of duct
tape that I keep on me at all times.
And here's a Sharpie, because I also have that on me at all
times. Attracts.
I need you to make these look as gang like but as apocalyptic as
possible. Guys, I think Retro has a plan.
Where are you going with this? Retro's cooking.
We all asked the same question, but in different ways.
What the hell are you thinking? And Bendel starts to be crafty.
Iona, can you roll for that please?
Sure can. Are you asking what my plan is?
I mean. Yeah.
Pretty curious. Well, let's let Iona go 1st and.
Then I'm I'm going to roll concentration for this.
Sounds good. Vendel is looking at the
graffiti on the street and doing their best to mimic.
Nice, I like that. Thirteen.
Yes, it is a mediocre job, but as long as nobody looks at it
too carefully, nobody will notice.
That is above mid. Above mid.
Woo. That's all we can ever ask.
It is. It is literally an everyday task
to make something look dirty and St. ish and 13 is an everyday
task according to my list. So I'll tell you exactly what
the plan is with blue algae and dinoflagellate.
They are both the main cause of something called red tide.
I'm sure you all know of Red Tide.
I've heard of it. But maybe, maybe explain it for
Jeb. Yeah, that's right.
Yes, for Jeb. Yes.
Wait, because Jeb's the only one who doesn't know what that is.
Isn't that right, guys? Yes.
OK for Jeb, so red tide is part of a harmful algae balloon,
which usually happens when you introduce quite a few
interesting chemicals to the next, usually of pollutants such
that of sugar, ammonia, nitrous, such like that.
We know that they've taken the vehicle probably to a chop shop.
That chop shop is going to need to have a water system in case
there's a fire, because they're going to they're going to.
They're going to need to use a shop that already has tools.
Set it up in there, distract them, get them all in one place
so that way that they can all get wet.
Set it off within minutes. The bacteria algae will cause
severe cytotoxin. Sodium.
What was it back in school? Sodium channel blocking to them
causing their nervous systems to immediately shut down.
Interrupts possibly going within spasms.
Same thing. BB might know if they've ever
had to deal with anybody that's have 8 fungal fish or bad
oysters. It's happened a couple times.
It's really fucked, Retro. Yeah, if we were the ponchos, we
should be OK. So I've, I understood everything
you just said, but if, you know, I were to explain that, Sloan,
what, what, what would you say? You get wet.
The harmful bacteria I have in here causes your nervous system
to shut down. You spasm.
You spit your guts out. You die.
So if you're wet, you die. Yeah, if you've ever seen that
old, that old movie they had back in the day with that guy
with a fireball for a head, Nicolas Cage, he did a movie
with Scott guy where there was this little green marble that
could cause everybody to to go into the same kind of effect.
Rock. He's made an IO weapon.
Is that where you came up with this idea?
Because this is very oddly specific retro.
How did you come up with this idea?
I've had it for a while. That's messed up.
Interesting. So just to be clear, don't get
wet that's. What the ponchos are for?
And you turn the corner as as Jeff says this, and you're
facing down the street and in front of you, there's trash bags
everywhere. There's crates on the side of
the road. You've got to a really dirty
part of town. And there, in the middle of the
road, is a woman lying on the ground.
Help. Help me help.
Me roll up. This is I, I mom arm and I I put
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around the table. Oh.
Gosh, I'm going to roll a human perception, but also a.
Person in need, I must help them, no?
Really. No.
Hold on, where's human
perception? 18 Iona, I'm going to roll
something first. That's five.
This stinks of lies of. Flies.
Lies. Oh.
I mean, the street does stink of flies, but that's not involved
in this particular perception. You are SUS, Iona.
You are SUS. Get up.
Oh, but I can't. They.
Rock hit me and beat. Me up.
Oh, get up. I can't hear you.
You're so far away. Won't you come help me?
I draw my gun. Hey, Jeb, if you just put a
bullet in them, that could just solve all their life problems
right now. Wait.
No, it certainly would. It would end any problems you
had. See, we could do that for you.
How about that? Yeah, so I've drawn, I've drawn
my gun. They're about. 100 feet in front
of you. Great.
I'm going to slowly walk towards them, but also I'm going to roll
another perception for the area to see if there's anybody hiding
out in these trash bags. Mart. 17 you see a trash bag on
your right? I'm pinging it right now.
I see it. I see it.
See it shuffle? I see.
It Are we going over there? So I do the the thing with my
gun where I I look at back at Jeb and then I motion towards
that bag and I'm actually going to walk to the north towards the
other trash bags. OK, so, so Jeb, I've pointed you
towards the South trash bags. Oh, and just to be clear, you
want me to go over there and check it out?
There's someone over there. OK, no, that's fine.
I'll go. I'll go take a look.
No, it's fine. The the the the depressed man
will go. I'll go near the trash.
It's dirty. I've been fine.
I'm I'm headed over so I'll take a look.
Jab Raw Perception 21 There is a guy hiding behind the trash bag.
Oh wow, no one ever saw that coming.
Would you like me to go to one of the other trash?
Is there another trash? Role perception.
There's there's two more to the north and there's one more to
the South visually, but for people I don't know. 22 yes,
even that's very high. You see from where you are that
there is a guy hiding pretty well to be honest, behind those
trash cans just up here to the north of the street.
I point in that direction and that way Iona.
Oh oh good. Nothing in the trash bags guys
help? I'm.
Going to kick the trash bag do. It.
Kick, kick. Kick rolling, brawling.
Oh, no, it's more of like a, like a, you know, like like
we're kicking tires, you know? I'm going to roll that is a
four. Oh, I mean trash noise.
All right, the jig is up. We know you're here.
We can't. We never even.
What do you do as you say that? Vivi also draws her weapon at
the person in the street. We know there are others.
And this big dude comes out. I guess you saw through our
little trap. He was dumb enough to walk
through the night of the city, man.
And there's this bogged up dude holding an air pistol in his
hand. Motherfucker, I swear we need to
hire better acting students. This one's fucking bad.
Hey man, I. Studied.
I read over the script like at least twice.
Fucking useless marker. What?
Oh shit. Actually, that one.
Started to. Make a move towards them.
I'm going to pop a shot off Who? Who's making a move towards this
acting student? One of the gangers who've come
out of the north part of this ambush has walked into the
middle of the street to shoot this person in the head.
Oh well, how about not? Don't do that.
Didn't do well on damage, but it's still pretty good.
You rolled A-17. What are you doing with the
shot? Are you trying to hurt them or
stop them in their tracks? Stop them.
OK. So you're shooting at them or
like at their feet? At them if I if I hit a
maelstrom that I'm not sad about it.
OK, cool. And you are I.
Think I'm pretty far away actually.
For about 40 feet. So you do miss, but the bullet
flies past this guy and he stops as he pulls his gun out.
Hey, wait, wait. Hey.
Don't copy me. Dick what?
What is your plan here guys? Told me to kill the actor.
All right, well. Do you?
Always do exactly what you're told.
Yeah, exactly that. Acting isn't a crime.
They have to. Do what I say.
Who are you? A bad boy?
Oh, good. Good name.
Yeah. You feel good about that.
Does it? Does it make you feel proud of
yourself? Yeah, it does.
Yeah, it. Doesn't.
And I identify as boy, so fuck, it's not very good.
It doesn't matter, it's what I got.
Actor, you better start running and get out of here before they
take a shot on you. I'm.
Going to run for it. Really.
You just let me go. Yeah, just get out of here.
Oh, shit. Or you'll become collateral.
Oh. Shit 17 Yeah, yeah, they make it
out, they get up, they're fine. You know, they weren't the best
actor, but I still hope they get their credit for getting into
the union. The the only thing you notice as
they get up is as they were lying down, they looked really
hurt. The physical part of their
acting was really good, but now that they're up, they look like
they're at full health and they run away.
Well, just remember, well, you know, I, I found that whenever I
have to get have to get into character, they're just taking a
moment and thinking about, you know, what my desires or whether
what my characters desires. See, I was a kid.
Sometimes I can't differentiate between myself and my character.
That's just, I guess that's just how good of an actor I am
sometimes anyway. Well, they're gone now.
Yeah, let's. I mean, traps.
Traps been sprung. Nobody got hurt.
Everybody's fine. We can just keep going, right?
We're fine. Hey man, you're not getting
through without at least a toll. A toll of what?
Look, man, we've been, we've been trying to Merc this spot
for a while. And just to be real with you,
there are different groups of maelstrom fighting with each
other and we just tried to Merc a bunch of fools driving in a
fucking VW bus and it drove right on by.
They threw something in that pile over there.
We don't want any trouble. You're obviously really good at
what you do, I guess. I mean, if you want a toll,
look, I feel bad for you. Hey, Jeff, can you do me a
favor? Would you mind go and find what?
That everything they threw over there in the pile was for me.
I'm. Going to talk with bad boy here.
Hey, Bad Boy. Look, I feel bad.
I I understand. You know, you're having to deal
with other maelstrom that. Hey, check it out.
I'll. I'll let you in on something.
I've got some homemade dwarf. Yeah.
See what I'm carrying right now? Oh, you're showing in the
canisters. All right, cool.
Yeah, Jenna. Doesn't look like any doors that
I've seen before. It's because it's in a canister,
stupid. Roll Persuasion.
Persuasion. I don't think I'm good at
persuasion. No, I know they rolled rolled
A7. It's pretty good, but doesn't
beat your persuasion of 20 with a.
It was close though because they rolled an 18 according to the
actual numbers I have so. That was close.
Oh. Great.
Yeah. Here you want to check.
Drugs. I'll leave you alone.
Well, yeah, but here, look, let's just check.
Let's just check the purity real quick right here.
And I close my air vents and I pop it open for him to take a
look inside. OK.
Oh me, where's the Queen? Yeah, take a sniff.
It's dwarf, normally green. Hey Jeff, is dwarf normally
green to Paris where you get it from boss?
You can tell by having a good sniff of it.
Dwarf's edible, right? Yeah.
And he puts the bottle to his mouth, takes a big old swing.
Fart that feels like why does it taste like pine salt?
Hey Jeff, Yeah. Plus does dorf normally make
your arm let a numb? And he drops the canister on the
ground if you want to catch. No, no, no, no, I said.
I said I'd went and took it back from him.
Roll for it, it's in his hand. See if you'll see if he'll let
it go. Make a jumping save.
Athletics, yes you do. Inside roll the 10, which I
don't. You do a good job, you grab it
as he starts to stagger backwards.
Vivi, are you staying behind? I think so, yes.
This guy, he staggers backwards and starts to cough a lot.
Good shit. Yeah, Yeah.
I feel I feel like they're not good version of Lightheaded.
Oh God. And he starts to profusely
vomit. See, that's the good shit.
See what's happening right now is the sodium, the sodium
blockers inside your brain are starting to overload and get
shut off from the plankton that's inside your head now.
And. And he forced the ground to
start the seas. Yeah, you've been a bad, bad
boy. Guys are crazy.
I'm just going to softly but firmly rest my boot on his
Adam's apple. Fuck this guys.
And they all start running away, except one guy stays because he
will die. What?
The fuck, man. Pretty cool stuff, huh?
You want some. No, I do not.
You fucking. I think you killed him.
And he starts to, like, seize on the ground.
BB, you notice this guy's gonna die unless he gets medical
attention. You don't need to roll for that.
You just know. I retro, do we just want to let
this happen? Maybe I will not stop you from
doing your bit for the oath that you've taken.
I also would like to point out, and if the gentleman here
decided to stay, would attach this.
You have attacked other people and killed them, or at least had
the plan in your head to do so, right?
Do not tonight person. Some guys bike not like a motor
like a bicycle. It's been it's been a quiet
night. I think everyone was in the
market and that van. Yeah.
So VV, if you want to save them, I'll take my, I'll take my boot
off their throat. If you want to save them, go
ahead, but I'm not going to. VV runs over across the way.
All right, I'll help you and and.
He's looking at you with eyes of he can't speak.
He is vomiting too much. Oh God, he he's going to
asphyxiate if we don't help. And he's, he's now shaking
violently. How do you want to save this
guy? Good question.
I would like to try to stabilize him with if I have some sort of.
So I'm going to tell you what, you watched him take this stuff,
right? So he ingested it.
Now if you'd roll lower, you would have had to give him
something to vacate that that poison from his body, but
because you're all high enough, you can do it for free in pretty
much any way you want because you're all high.
So don't worry about cost for this.
I grab one of my air hypos and pull out my medical bag and
quickly administer some sort of antibiotic to neutralize this
bacteria. And I just shove it in and OK.
And I just try to like, turn him so that he'll stop like vomiting
on himself. Yeah, you put him in the
recovery position. Yeah, and the the syringe you
use is called a Z attack. AZ attack.
Yeah, it's a pun on Z pack. That's very funny.
Very funny, yes? All right, you should be.
You should be stable for now, just take it easy.
And she Pats them on the shoulder.
George. You guys are fucking.
Crazy. And he starts to come too, and
he crawls backwards away from you on the ground.
What are you doing? I don't know.
They gave you poison, what else kind of fucked up shit could
they do? They're working with a cowboy
and a guy with one leg. Day, thank you.
Day with one leg. Hold on, wait a minute.
Maybe we should protect ourselves a little bit more.
Drop all your firearms. The guy on the ground or me?
Both. All of you.
Real persuasion. It's a good one.
You have to quit. Fail for me not to.
He drops his gun on the ground. It's a shitty pistol and.
What about Chuck there? He has an air pistol.
It's loaded with ACID rounds. Yeah, we'll take that too. 10 in
it acid pistol with 10 rounds. It does not do damage.
All it does is break down your armor very well.
So every time someone gets hit removes 2 from your armor
regardless of whether you make enough damage.
All right, that's rules that's written by the way, I didn't
make. That up?
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just think it's cool. You know what, there might be a
way to be able to make this up to us.
I think Chuck and your buddy, you want to give us a hand.
How do you know my name? The fuck?
I'm wearing a name badge. Fuck.
Oh no, sorry. I was talking to up Chuck down
here. My name is Chuck.
So Chuck and up Chuck. Cool.
What's best? Oh yeah, no, sure, just do.
Just do. We should just let them call us
what we want. Fuck.
You. Yeah, I got AI got a Primo idea
for you. Oh, hey, Jeff, did you ever find
out what was over there that got thrown out?
Oh. Yeah, it was over the track.
It was a tracker and not the, and it wasn't a person.
It wasn't like a tracker who like, you know, and it wasn't
like a person whose job it is to track things.
It was just a. It was just a little.
You find this little box and it says it has retros logo on the
box. Although this might look
familiar to you well. Yep, that does make more sense
of why we're going to need these two.
Now where? Where did the shitty van go?
Well, we stopped them and then they hit Dave.
They went home. That's why there are skid marks
over there. Do you see?
This no skid marks, is it? I mean, I saw that one of you
guys. Oh, got you.
Yeah, not proved tires. Can you take us to where the van
is now? I didn't see, I just know it
went that way. Any points West?
Is there an Is there a chop shop that way?
Oh yeah, yeah, Pinky runs that fucking place.
Pinky. Yeah, we don't like pinky.
Well, let's have a chat about Pinky and show us where Pinky's
at. Next time on no latency.
This might make it worse for him.
That looks rough. He's going to be cauliflower.
Here I am going to take off my jacket so I do look more
menacing, so my muscles are. Out my life is going to be in
your hands. This is very specific
instructions. It must be explosive.
That's what I assume the red barrel means.
Your other mask, if you have one.
All right. I see it.
OK. Just get them to open the doors
and not open fire on us. Kind of quietly and carefully.
Oh my plushy, we'll. Keep it in mind.
Sneak my way over there. The horsemen are here and open
the big fuck off doors so we can get our cut.
I'm Pestilence. Oh my God.
Oh well, look who it is. It's the plushy guy, the.
Plushy guy of. Course there will be a bullet in
your head man, but you can't help we.
Can do that, you just have to get the barrel over there.
Retro say when? Oh.
Lady, I have had it about up to here.
Crit sanitization. Oh, you.
It sounds as if death has unleashed the last CEO.
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