Last time on no latency. Happy Halloween everyone.
Oh shit. Is that today?
What's everybody dressing up as? This might be the best
Halloween. Or maybe you've been a sexy
nurse this whole time, Claire. Oh, we're going to the brain
dance place to get you some brain dances.
Well, I suppose it's a good thing that Claire's already
here. It might be worth doing a big
old group. Do you have any Battle Royales?
Crip fails are really. Punishing in this game, they.
Are very punishing. I only you've gone black and
white. Can we go to the Bubble Cafe?
Absolutely. Let's go.
I would love to. I've never had Bubble Cafe.
Holy fuck. I've run over there.
Oh my God. Oh.
Who said to the clowns? I jump out of there too.
Oh no, there's a lot of. I push past all clowns.
I am just going to window. How?
How?
And it's only OK. I'm going to take care of you.
We're gonna get you out of here. We're going to go.
It's. Why aren't you helping me?
Helping me, me.
Me. Me.
Help me.
Me.
And it all goes black.
Hello. Hello.
Is everyone alright? Alright, right.
Where are you? Where are you guys?
I can't see anything, no Bendel. I'm here to help.
Can you hear me? Maybe you have to do something.
I'm going to help Bendel, no. No, you send me out.
Hello. Meow.
Hello. Hello.
Who's that?
Who? I don't know.
I've got. I've got a signal.
Is that Fandel? I don't.
Know. Fresh.
Hi. Hello.
Fresh what? Why can I hear you?
What are you doing? I did.
Your heart rate went up really high and there was like a there
was like a data stream and I've hooked into that and now I can
talk to you. OK, can you hook into Vendell?
Can you check on Vendell? Sure, I can give it a shot.
Roll for it. I never have fresh piece sheet
open. No sheet?
Ha, ha. Solid pun work go all right.
How's your Halloween? Having a good day.
Can everyone hear fresh P or is it just?
Yes, you all can hear fresh P21. Oh yeah, it says here that
Vendale still has two lives left.
What? What?
What the hell was going on? Wait, like Vendale's moving on?
For moving on in their life. Wait, what do you mean there's
two lives left? No, no, it says here.
What does it say here? Vendor should actually have
three lives left. No, that's 30 points.
Phoebe has 20 points, Jeb has 40.
Let me just rich it and have. 5. Chose five points and has used a
life, Yeah, says Here you're doing a game or something.
OK. Can you can you see us?
Oh, do you need me to? It looks like you're you're
stuck in a loading screen. Do you need help?
Yes, if you could, if you could clear that or I need to find
Vendel OH. Everything's so bright.
You're all standing in front of this big door with like
circuitry on it. You can see light and data move
across it in slow bars and fresh P is standing there.
Alright, why are you here? What?
I like video games. Me too, bro.
Fist bump. What?
Rami, this is not the time. We don't know where Vendel is.
Vendel has lost a life. That must mean we're still in
the BD. But I don't know.
Yeah, where they would have gone.
Oh, you guys doing a BD? That's fun.
Where'd you go? Brandon's Palace.
Oh, OK. Why did you sound like that when
you said that? By the the Emma person with the
deep voice. Yeah, right.
Like, really deep. Like, weirdly deep.
You definitely notice it every single time.
See the person that we. Got the brain dense thing from.
Did not have a deep voice? No, But I assume more than one
person works there, so it must be fine.
Maybe they move. It's a new hire.
Huh. Give me one second.
Let me roll interface again. Sure.
Let me roll interface again. Hey, Fresh Pete, since you know
so much about the place, how long has it been open for?
The BD place? Yeah, yeah, about two years.
OK, pretty popular then. Well over 100K.
Yeah, this is this isn't Emma. That's not how Emma loads a PD.
I'll tell you. Give me a second.
And. Fresh pee, like full on, just
disappears. Well, I'll be honest, I'm
starting to like, kind of freak out a little.
Bit everything is going to be OK.
We are all right. I hate to say this, but fresh
pee has got this. Whatever it is, we're going to
be fine. I'm gonna smoke a J Where's
where's my joints? Roll Conceal Reveal object 18
of. Course they roll high on that
one. You put your hand out into the
air, pinch, and a joint materializes in your hand.
Oh. Whoa, did you Did you just,
like, summon the joint into your fingers there, retro?
Yeah. What?
Oh, good, you're back. Go ahead.
OK, so. This feels like a hack, so I
locked the door. But every time I try and get any
further into the network, I hear this, like really weird noise.
Yeah, like that laugh noise. Yeah, Every time I touch the
door. Look, I think it's bad in there.
Or or it's a security system and it wants us to think that it's
bad behind there. But really, that's where all the
good stuff is and it's trying to scare us away.
Right. Not not to point out the
obvious, has anyone just tried calling Vandal?
You have been with us the entire time.
We have had zero time to call Vandal.
OK. I'll call Vandal.
Thank you. Hello.
Hey, Vandal. Hey, are you OK, buddy?
How are you? I'm.
In a room on my own, it's like a big circle thing and.
And there are these. There are these podiums and I
tried making it go. I think I need a colored key or
something. They're definitely not in the
room that we're in there in some big circle thing with podiums
and. My chest sort of hurts, but I
like re materialized or something retro.
You aren't kidding. Coming back with one of those
lives sucks. It's terrible, isn't it?
Also, not to alarm you, but I think I'm still in the BD.
Vendel. Vendel, can you hear me?
I mean. I own it.
Are you OK? Wait a minute.
What? Vendel.
What?
What else is in the room with you?
How do we find you? What color of the key do you
need? I need not all the lights are
on. It's really dark.
I'm trying to use my leg. I found there's a red one and a
blue one and a lot of crates in here.
Like a lot of crates. Have you opened any of the
crates? They're they're they're really
heavy, but when I knock them, it doesn't sound like anything
that's in them. Do you want me to check?
Go for it. Yeah, yes, but carefully,
please. OK, you only have three lives
left, if I'm counting correctly, because you had one and then you
got +20. Did you hear that?
I didn't. There's a lot.
I think there's something outside the big door.
The door, big door won't open. Wait, there's a big door where
you're at too. It's really dark, Iona.
I know, I know, It's going to be OK.
That fit really hurts. I know, I know.
But you're OK. It wasn't real.
I. Have a I have a feeling you
might want to ask like maybe you can get like a call to fresh or
something. Rushes here.
Please. Oh, OK, fresh.
Yes. I have a feeling the safeties
are off. Oh fuck yeah, no.
So yeah, if if you know what that means, right, everyone.
Yeah, no, you know what that means.
What What's will mean? What does that mean?
If you die in the game, you die in real life.
Oh, great. Oh, Oh no.
Wait a minute. I always thought that that was
just pure speculation. Well, I mean only if they've
like plugged into you or injected you.
Which all of us have. Oh, shit.
All right. Fuck.
OK, well, we've got to get you out of the BD.
Even if I was to get there physically, I probably couldn't
make it past. Any defenses they have, but I
can join you in here. Thank you.
Fresh that. You know what?
Probably honestly, having a net runner here will be very
helpful. All right, cool.
So how do we get through this door?
Vandal In what arrangements are the podiums?
There, there's two podiums. I know, I know.
Just focus, really. Scary in here.
I touched the door. Well, still got the touch.
Vandal What arrangement are the podiums in?
There's, there's two. There are a lot of boxes in
here. There I found two.
There's a red one and a blue one.
There's blue on the blue on the left and and oh wait, no, I
don't know which way you're facing, so there's a red to the
north. And a blue to the South.
OK my legs. Compass is still working.
I I see. I thought that maybe that had
something to do with the pattern on the door, but I think I might
be wrong. What?
What do you guys think? I'm just trying to see if I can
force open the door. All right.
Yes, Bendel, just stay where you are.
Stay safe. I think I hear something.
I gotta go. Put my tile back in my pocket.
Then I'm gonna try to use my cyber.
Arm to help wrench open the door.
Not very well. You place your hand on the door
and moving, your electric lines come up through your arm.
You rolled A crip. Fail and you take take two
damage. Should should we try to hack it?
I mean that that. I mean, we are in cyber space,
so. Try and hack it, but remember,
like just like with retro with the joint in the air, you could
be kind of like creative in this since it's a game space.
So you're telling we can just kind of just like like retro
just kind of appeared with a joint, we can just operate
stuff? I mean on a small scale, as long
as it's not too too like large. Because let me try, let me try.
Let me try. And I stick my hand out and I
think about Sloan all. Right, 12 OK Animal Handling?
Yeah, 23 crit. 9. Nice as you, as you almost get
to a fart you. Can see the veins.
On my head and a. Blown appears on your arm.
Oh my God Sloan. It worked.
Hey, baby girl. It's not really Sloan, It's like
a mental manifestation. But that's that was really good.
Well then maybe maybe this Sloan, you know, doesn't go
crazy about popcorn like the regular Sloan does.
Cuz I tell you it's a problem with her and I and I and I
operate some popcorn in my left hand, I try to operate a health
hypo for Vendel. Roll for it. 1010 You don't roll
grate the VV, and as you pull from the air, you manage to pull
a hypo that's empty. Yeah, think I just have to think
harder. Jab All the popcorn you pulled
from the air is burnt. OK, pop pop pop.
Oh. Well, slow.
You want any? Yeah, go ahead.
I'm going to try to imagine a master lock pick key.
Oh, that's a good idea. Roll for it.
Is that an 18? That is an 18.
Says Fresh as a large golden key just materializes in front of
you and hovers lightly. Wow, that's that's like the like
the size that you give when they give the city gives you a key.
Big. Key That's big.
Oh, I get it. It has a it has a like a skull
on the end because it's a skeleton key.
I get it. I did not get that at first.
How I get. Wow.
All right, cool. I didn't think about that.
I never thought about that until now.
OK. And then you try to use it on
the door? Yeah, you grab it and you tap it
on the door and the door cracks open and you walk into a
corridor. Vendel.
Is it dark again for everyone? Yes, yes.
All right. Just making sure.
Hello. Hello.
Sloan Can you see quiet?
Oh. Sorry.
Well, we are being quiet. Whoa, whoa.
Where are we now? So you walk into this corridor.
You have two directions you can go.
Left, right or in front of you is a large stack of crates.
Bendel. Somebody roll.
I don't think they're in here. I will roll perception.
I am very perceptive. Nobody calls back from you
calling it. You're so distracted by your.
Grief. For Vendel not being around,
instead you find nothing rolling a Crip -10 on perception.
There's nothing but crates in here.
Retro, you rolled 16 and you notice on the ground.
On the left it says the tank and on the right it says the well.
Vivi on the other hand rolls 23 + 7 on perception.
What a crit between the boxes. You see Watchmen.
Shit, there's more of them. More of who?
The Bosons. Those Watchmen.
That's all right. They take one head to kill.
We can get rid of them. I shoot.
Do you have a gun? I think about a gun.
Roll handgun. I feel like Jed didn't didn't
even think. About the.
Fact that he didn't have a gun, he just thought that he must
have a gun because he always has a gun on it and so he just grabs
for his waist and I like to think that.
There's a gun there, and it it didn't even cross his mind that
he didn't have a gun until this moment.
And while Jeb is admiring his same gun from the real world, VV
puts a handout and grabs a gun as it materializes midair.
Firing through two slips between the crates, it hits one of the
Watchmen whales as it explodes into a shower of pedal like
pixels as they scatter on the floor like marbles.
Voxels, if you will. Indeed.
Wow. Holy shit.
So fucking cool roll. Yeah, that was.
I don't know. It just kind of happened.
We should just be careful in case there are any more around.
There's probably more. Well, there's two ways we can go
or third way if we decide to not climb over these crates.
Well, I've got an idea. Why don't we, you know, burn
down these crates and Jeb? Thinks about holding a Molotov
cocktail. As you raise the Molotov
cocktail up in your hand, roll A roll.
Something to grab it from midday 13.
Not quite enough. You lift up this bottle, but
there's no alcohol in it, so it's just a burning rag in an
empty bottle. And as you lift it up to the
crates, you notice the crates of metal.
So that that gets me. I don't know how to get past
metal things. Unless, and Jeb thinks of a
giant magnet roll for it. 19 You think of a giant magnet and
you're really excited about it. It's like a Looney Tunes
cartoon. And it and it appears midair and
flies out of your hand and smacks into one of the crates.
As the crate gets pushed along, it squishes one of the Watchmen
behind it and gets stretched across the ground and then
chapters into pixels. Man, stop points.
Wow. Great, I moved through the gap
in the crates now. I will follow.
Yup. Why is I am so giant?
I'm the leader. I thought maybe it was like, you
know how we all see you is how you appear in this world.
So I'm very small and here big. I'm the smallest I'm so.
Tiny, I wasn't going to say anything.
Well, I just had a gross fertile.
Oh. Wait, does that mean that we
can? I concentrate and I think about
shrinking in size to about half my size.
All right, roll for it. I will roll for it.
Let me think. Maybe a second.
Doors locked. 19 You managed to reduce your size just a bit, not
a lot, about half half your height.
Now you're the smallest. .0 OK, that means that anything goes
all right if we need to get in between something, if we need to
get under something. You can do it.
Just believe in yourself. That's the way this world works.
What if I were to, uh, believe that I am, Uh, uh, uh, what is
it when like you know, like a ghost, you know, like they're
they're like, not physical. They're they're like, you know,
you can do like walk through things.
What's that called? Oh no, you always have to have
physical form. Darn.
Yeah. What's this say on the ground?
It says key required. Oh shit.
Say, do I have a key? Yeah, I got a big gold key.
You do see if. It.
Works. I use my skeleton key.
Does nothing. Well, that's a bunch of bull.
OK, but there's also a red button and a blue button I
believe. I will tap them both with my
gold key. Nothing happens.
Shit. Call.
Call Vendel. Pull.
Out my tile. Mmhm.
Sorry, I'm not used to having to do things by myself, so I will
say to do things. Yes.
We're at a place with a red and a blue button.
OK, if I press one, will you tell me if something happens to
the red or blue podium? Sure.
All right, I'm pressing the red button.
Anything. Nothing.
Happens. What if we press the red button
and the blue button at the same time?
All right, let's go, Jeb. All right.
And 321. Press.
Or I did two tabs there. Did that mean that it was twice
as funny? Has anything changed for you,
Vendel? No, it's still talking here.
I think there's one of those Watchmen in here.
Are you guys still in the BD as well?
Yes, you you can make things appear, You could probably make
things disappear and you can change your size.
Basically anything you think of, you can make real.
OK, I'm going to hide. OK.
You need or should I do something else?
Nope, that's it. I just that I just we're going
to hang up again. Don't let anything happen to
you, OK? Please.
Don't forget about me, Iona. We're not.
We're coming for you.
All right, well, this didn't work.
Well, two places we can go, the tank or the well.
Do we all go together to one and then the other, or do we split
up? Yeah, we never split the party.
Never split the party. Let's.
Split up. VV.
We can cover more ground and we're kind of in a rush.
Yeah. I mean.
According to the time dilation, you've only really been in the
BD for about 11 minutes. All right then.
But who knows how much time Vindel has?
Your right? It's.
That's what I'm thinking. I didn't want to say it, but
yeah. I'm I'm not a great fan of
splitting the party. I haven't really got to hang out
with all of you very often. Can we just go together?
Well, guess what, fresh pea? You can come to the Halloween
party, of course. You mean the anti invite was a
joke? So funny, I got an invite
telling me not to come. Like expressly don't come,
you've got. That must have been, that must
have been stranger. The stranger not like me.
No, he's just a bit of a buffoon.
OK. So are we going to the tank or
the well? I vote tank.
Sure. I also wanted to do the tank.
Maybe we'll be able to, you know, take it for a spin. 2 fish
are in a tank. One looks at the other and says
Do you know how to drive this thing?
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Incorporeal. That's what I meant to say.
That's that was the word that I was looking for earlier.
As you walk down this long corridor, the world shimmies
around you and it ends at a dead end.
In front of you are a bunch of boxes and crates all over the
ground. I need someone to roll
Perception 19. You notice that there are two
Watchmen in here on the other side of the Greens.
Oh no. Looks like there are more than
scary guys just kind of hanging out there.
Are you going to do that cool shot again, Phoebe?
Yes. I pop out and handgun dream of
shooting them. Handgun Dream of shooting.
Yo, leave the shooting to me. Jeb, you actually feel kind of
bad because Phoebe jumps out from both of these crates.
You're about to pull your gun and do a double shot and as you
pull the trigger. Your bullet flies through the
air and misses because one watchman is blasted into
another. Wow mine.
One of their bodies remains. This is making up for all of the
bad shooting I've done in the real world, and I feel powerful.
Well, I was for a while, but I'm making up for it in this
fictional world. Yeah, I'd say so.
You know what a nice shot. Thanks.
I just really want to help Ben though.
I mean, I guess we don't see any other Watchmen around here.
I guess I'll just moves on into the next room.
That's just a big. Glowing thing.
Role perception. Retro, you put your hand out.
Here we go again. In this sort of space between
the two rooms and just as you reach out, it just.
It just. Oh man, yeah.
Oh, it hurts. The gap stop.
It and you get 3 damage. Out.
Chuck me why? Vivi, you pulled out your Med
scanner and on the Med scanner it says hurts organic material.
With your 19, you also see that there's a switch on the other
side and it's glowing the same color.
As this force field in front of. You this might only be able to
be open from the inside. There's that green glowing
switch back there if you can see it.
Is there a way to get inside? Let's see.
I have an idea, Iona. Hold on.
You said that organic material can't get through, right?
Yes. Iona, where's Risky?
Right here and I I tap my hair clip twice.
Roll for it. Only because Jeb had to 12.
Yes, you pull risky off your head and place them on your hand
in front of. You all right?
Risky. Look at me.
OK, you're going to pass through this, and hopefully you do so
without harming yourself. But there's a flip.
There's a switch that needs to be flipped on the other side.
If you could just do that and I'll let him go.
He learned it from you. Gets over to the lever and
climbs on top of it and then looks at you.
Yes, yes, that lever. Yes, go ahead.
And the force field falls before.
OK, I'm not touching it. Someone else does it.
I, I, I, I walk through. We're fine.
All right, Jeb, roll Perception. Sure 17.
The body that didn't disappear finally breaks into a bunch of
pixels and a coin burst from their chest and rolls off behind
these crates. Wait a minute.
Did you see that? Anyone else see that?
What? What happened?
Well, that body, it's being all I'm, I'm gonna, I'm shooting
that thing. No, the body's gone, but a coin
went behind the crates. Oh, wait, never mind, never
mind, guys. It's nothing.
I walk over and I pocket that coin.
You pocket a coin. You feel like you gain 100
eddies for some reason. It feels nice.
Wait a minute. We're saying it's a dark corner
and no one else is around. I'm gonna go ahead and touch
this weird thing, huh? Hey guys anyone know what to do
with this card full of holes or something?
Punch card. Oh, is that what it is?
How many more? How many more do you think I
have to do before I get a free slash this?
Looks like some sort of. Dot matrix, yeah.
Code or writing? Or binary.
Maybe. No, it wouldn't be Morris Code.
Maybe it's some, maybe it's like you know the digits, you know,
like maybe it's like 314231. 42 three thousand like a code for
something. Ooh.
I like that thought. Well, hold on to that and let's
explore this room. See if there isn't anything that
needs a code. There's a computer over here.
You. Want to take a look at that?
Fresh? You're pretty good with
computers, sure. Let me roll perception.
That would be smart. Yeah, looking around, looking at
this and that. I am going to roll her
perception and and and this is my chance, I'm going to look
around with my perception. I'm on an 18.
I found this some my computer and there's a big fish tank
right here. It sounds like there's something
in there. It's glowing blue and I found
two tablets. Can you get into the tablets?
Well, they're just here on the thing.
Do you want to see them? Yes.
Alright, there's this one and this one.
Well, maybe if we put the dots over this, like if we turn it on
it's sad, then we get 92V. Since this is a radio plate, you
kind of describe the thing you're looking for well.
I'll tell you right now, the dot matrix one seems like it goes
through cold plate code plate one and the the first code plate
has a jumble of letters and numbers and four lines.
Yes, it does say dead. 3142 says dead.
So if we find dot matrix two, we could probably figure out what
code plate two says. Yeah, we just have to we got
these two, two. Is it a plate?
I guess like a card. Yeah.
And one of them. Is.
Where did you get the dot matrix?
It was in the corner over here, in that dark corner that I heard
voices. I'm just getting that in here.
Voices. VV Roll Perception.
One moment. Perception. 19 Yes, as you move
over to the West side of the room, you see.
Ah, I think there's another one over here.
OK, this may be. Our other dot matrix for code
plate 2. It's SOAL.
Sol Sol. Dead soul.
Soul. I don't know what SOAL stands
for. Dead soul.
Oh my God, it's dead soul. Yes.
Dark Souls, we're gonna be we're gonna be playing Dark Souls.
You know what's funny? Before you found the dot matrix,
that was the only word that I could find.
So I I guessed that already. But soul is spelled wrong.
It's like a plane. You know, I think it's like a,
you know, like when you're making, you're doing password
safety. You don't actually want to use
the real spelling of the word. You're going to misspell it on
purpose in the way that. Only you know I.
Am a hacker man and I know these things, so there you go.
He says as the tank beside you opens up.
And in the depths of this water, you can see something blue and
glowing. And I need you to roll
Perception, Jeb. It's 22.
Retro. You zoom in a little bit.
You see a dark mass move in the water.
Lots of them. Spoon.
You're all 22. And as you look closer you can
see. Oh well you guys, I think we
found out what's in the tank, and that's a whole lot of
piranhas. Can we reach into the tank?
In order to get whatever is in there, you'd have to swim to the
bottom. How far is it?
It's. About 30 feet down.
Hold on. Wait a second.
Let me double check something real quick, OK?
Shit. Also, I'm gonna say I've never
really seen you guys work in person.
You worked at that puzzle so quickly.
We're we're pretty good with puzzles.
It's kind of our job. I think it's mostly if you were
to, if you were, if I were to describe our job to you, it
would be. Killing things and solving
puzzles. And doing heists, there was that
whole. I mean, you know, it's funny,
I've looked into this. The Collector still has no idea
that you've stole him from him twice.
Iona. Now here's the thing though.
We don't talk about it out loud. Now here's.
The thing, though, is it out loud if we're in a dream.
Whoa. Actually, Phoebe, you're a
doctor. Is it out loud if we're in a
dream? Do you sleep?
Talk. Frisbee because it could be.
I mean, I'm not asleep. Oh, right.
I'm jacked in. It's.
It might vary. Oh, some might, some not might
not. Do you?
Talk into a sleep. I've been told I do.
Oh, you should record it. I don't want to know.
I don't want to know what I say in my sleep.
Oh, OK, that was good. That got dark all of a sudden.
I'll just go back to the computer.
OK, I have two ideas. First idea I don't think should
involve any sacrifice I'm going to imagine.
A fishing rod. A powered electric fishing rod.
But at the end it has one of those grabber claws that you see
for the grabbing machines. OK.
Roll for it, sure. 32 Yeah it it appears before you, it has.
You didn't roll a crit, so it has no guidance.
This is all based off your skill.
OK, I will cast into the water and hopefully it'll sink down
to. Which said item?
This is going to be difficult. How about Jeb?
You're really good at stuff, right?
Some things. Are you really athletic?
I would probably consider myself 6.
Athletic. No, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry that, you know, actually I'd say I'm about a 10
out of what I unclear. OK, if I guide you in using
this, can you athletically clamp on to whatever is in there and
then pull it back up? If there's one thing I'm good
at, it's clamping. OK, that's not true.
I would say shooting for. Sending JEP into the pole on the
back of a fishing line. No, I'm having Jep do the
fishing line and I'm guiding. OK, good.
I. Thought you were gonna use Jep
as a human crab, but that's. There are piranhas in.
There, no, we would. We would never do that.
That's plan. 20, OK. I'm glad it wasn't me.
I can't swim. Is plan 2 all the way after Plan
Z? Does it go a BCD all the way
through the alphabet Z and then roll over to plan 2?
No, I didn't even think about the alphabet.
It goes 123 and then alphabet. OK.
All right. Well, hand me that thing, I'll
I'll start fishing. Jab I've.
Done it a few times. It's time for you to fish
because. Every good video game has
fishing. That's my favorite part of any
video game is fishing. I'll just go ahead and cast the
line and then I'll just wait for it to give me a little rumble
and then I will, you know, start the mini game of the the what
are those things called the the when you have to press the
button when it comes up on your screen.
The claw. What is it called?
What are those things called? The Fishing mini game.
QuickTime events. Yeah, that's it.
The. QuickTime event.
Yeah. All right, Jeff, go for it.
Well, clearly that was athletics, apparently.
Oh. You drag the claw through the
bottom of the pool, narrowly avoiding the school of piranhas
as it tries to attack the line, and the claw grabs onto the blue
object at the bottom of this pool and you feel it tug.
It's heavy. Oh boy.
Roll something to pull it in. All right, somebody holding
back, I need some help here. This seems pretty heavy.
I'll also, I'm also just going to roll for bureaucracy.
Retro you rolled dance and you got a 20.
Your shadow reflects on the top of the water and distracts the
school of piranhas as if you of them leap over the surface to
try and snatch at you as you do the Macarena.
Judd, go ahead. Just adjust your left shoulder
back a little bit to put more strength in your arm.
You probably knows this as well. I did learn this from one of you
these books. If you if you pull your
shoulders back now, you'll have more strength in your pectorals.
Go ahead and engage your pectorals.
Go. Ahead, and you should you should
You should always be holding your core.
I shouldn't have to tell you that.
Do I need to send you back to basic training?
I mean, while Iona's giving Jeb this pep talk, what are you
doing? Following Iona's instructions,
the two of us are like working together.
So it's. So lovely seeing you all work
together. It fills a side character's
heart. I tell you what, 1234 Jeb gets
inspiration all right. I got some new ones.
They're really cool. I got this one.
And I got this one. We don't have time fresh.
And the blue object comes barreling up through the water
as piranhas jump up to try and grab it.
It flies and hits Jeb on the chest, and you get thrown back.
It's pretty big. It's a large blue key.
You're not holding it yet. Can I try something when the
piranha jump in the air? Sure, I would like to imagine
Sanos Katano and try to cut the fish in the air all.
Right. Go for.
It What is friendship on here? Education.
Yeah, roll me a detail. OK, The sword appears midair.
You slice across the air. It disappears as you finish your
swipe. The piranha splits into two
midair and disappears into pixels, and a coin appears
midair. I would like to pick the coin.
You grab it and you're all very high on your D10, but you make
150 eddies. Oh yeah.
Hey, fresh here. And my hand to 150 over to the
fresh. That's.
Nice. It's a it's a chip as well, as
you know. You know, keep up the good work.
And now that the key is in Jeb's possession, the iris above this
tank closes once again, and as it's just about to close, the
arm jumps out through the middle.
And get sliced in half. Oh shit.
That's a ten Wow. Floating right there on the top
of the now closed tank is a. Life.
Somebody should take that. I say we roll a D4.
See who. Who gets it?
Should I? Use one of my new D4.
Yeah, Yes. Go ahead.
Four. It goes to you, baby.
Sweet. I grab.
It all right. Be ready to be sacrificed.
What? Next time on the latency.
Well, you know, this ain't my first time fishing.
Great. Well, Speaking of, we should
probably go to the well. Oh, the whale.
Where the fuck did Jeb? The screams are very loud.
Yeah, I should have. It's fine.
I've been shot. Before, well, I'm gonna go ahead
and use my Spreadshot and see if I could shoot them all.
That's fine. I'll shoot it.
It's fine. Uh, maybe we've been thinking
about this wrong. Maybe we got a fight.
Clowns with comedy. Or hopefully you're feeling
well. Let's go.
I yes. I feel much better.
Cute. I like that all.
A little heavy on the ooh Woo's, but that's OK.
Oh my God, baby, no. It's everywhere.
Hold on, I've got an idea. Jeb, if you die in the game, you
die in real life. But I have a jet pack, hey?
How's it going in there? This ain't jet pack fuel.
Maybe it works. Turn it on.
Oh God, take it off my back. I throw it down the hole.
I got it. Thanks.
What, Jeb? Who's that?
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