Last time on no latency. Looks like there was a there's a
maelstrom scavengers just lying dead and sadly apart.
Yes, we did just land very silently.
What are you thinking? Well, not my normal methods,
but. Oh, he ain't the only one
bleeding around here, Retro. Someone else is dead or bleeding
at least. I was wondering if perhaps Danny
Dark Side and I could have a bit of a private chat.
Passcode, passcode passcode passcode passcode passcode.
They don't have a pet. This is Danny dark side.
Danny Dark side don't like dogs? Danny dark side don't like
anything but money. Your alpha and Kappa have been
delivered to your assistant. Please choose from the following
words. All right.
Let's figure out a plan real quick.
I'm going to put our four heads together and really think on it.
OK, All right, so retro, you, you grab,
you grab kind of like his, his his left side and I'll kind of
grab his rat side and then we'll kind of hold up his head and
then we'll just kind of kind of peek it in through the door.
All right. OK, where did you get this idea
again from? You ever seen that movie
Weeknights at Bertha's? Yeah, maybe unlike the midnight
showings on what was it, that classic movies channel on the
tube? Yeah, knockoffs, the knockoff
channel. Yeah, it's the knockoff channel.
Yeah. How long we got to keep holding
him? Man, this this guy's getting
heavy. I'm also picking his pockets.
I'm trying to hold him. Yeah, sure, row for it.
All right. So I think we what we got to do
is we got to. Pickpocket 17.
Yes, you find 150 eddies and a cough drop.
No identification on them. It's a maelstrom gang, no?
Fuck I was hoping to get a name or something.
You could also pull the battery out of his gear if you wanted to
as scrap. Oh yeah, for.
Sure, I'm doing that. Cool all.
Right, roll me two D 10 and that's how much scrap you get.
Two D 10/10. You gain 10 scrap.
Yay. Oh, this battery's actually
pretty good. I would pocket that one second,
all right. Jeb, you witness Retro pull a
piece of this human. Oh, oh boy.
Well, I suppose he's not needing it.
No, this is just just straight up recycle.
I meant. All right, so he, so I think
what we got to do is we got to go up there, go up to the door
and we'll say something along the lines of, you know, I barely
made it alive, What happened? And then we'll just kind of like
let him fall over. So he kind of falls over inside
the door and then all of all of his buddies will come over and
check up on him. And at that point we'll just
kind of throw a grenade right on top of him.
Take care of all of them all at once.
Wait, why throw the grenade? We can put it inside his dead
body. Well, is.
That what you were thinking? Drop him.
Oh what if we drop him right And when we drop him use a piece of
will pull the spoon out of the will pull the pin out of the
spoon in the grenade right So body will fall on top of it.
Spoon will keep it pressed when they go to turn them over, pops
the spoon off and then goes off. It goes boom.
I love that. Yeah, I love it.
Let's go. All right, well, help carry
over. This guy is heavy enough with
all the Chrome on him. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
OK. I just kind of grab his arms
here, all right? Yeah.
Roll for it. For what?
To drag this body over to the door.
OK, well obviously we got that means we got to roll body maybe.
Athletics. Athletics.
Oh, Retro. That's a crit success.
Yes, you drag the body over. Jeb really doesn't take any of
it, like when you're going to move and you have that one
person who just kind of like barely pulls it.
As you're dragging him over, there's a chain that comes loose
from his neck and falls on the ground and it says James.
James. James, All right, Yeah, I'm also
taking that chain and I'm. I'm going to wear that now.
Cool, you're now wearing a a chain.
This is James. It's worth about 5 eddies.
I know it's some, you know, electrochrome plated, but blings
Bling. Cool right?
The doors not locked. So what you going to do with
this dead body? All right, so which one of us is
going to be the ventriloquist? He's got a digital voice box so
can you sound computer like? Is that a joke?
Because like, you're you, you also have a voice box, I'm
pretty sure. I mean, I have an actual voice
box, not a computer voice box. Jeb, what are you saying?
Just because I have ATV for a head, suddenly I can speak an
electronic. Listen, it's been like three
years. We started this show, and I was
under the impression that you had a robotic voice this entire
time. Is that wrong?
Hold on. Am I the only one?
Oh, my God. What do you mean?
I've been living a lie. Dude.
Literally it was his voice box. All right, Jeff, since obviously
I'm having to hold the body, you're going to have to talk for
him. OK?
So I'm going to take some of the scrap that I have and fashion
cable to the voice box connecting to a little antenna
that I have now stabbed into the base of his skull so it can
still send the electrical motor impulses.
So it'll they will talk. It'll actually look like they're
talking as well to Jeb's tile and Jeb, you can speak through
the speaker part of your tile for them to speak.
All right. All right, I think I'm ready
all. Right, so you're going to have
to prop open the door while I hold the body up and then hide
myself behind it. Gotcha.
OK all. Right, ready.
Three. 210 My God, why did you leave me behind to die holy?
Shit, Flesner. It's me, Flesner die.
No, I'm. Flesner.
Wait, no. No, flesner, don't don't.
Move. Stands.
Stuck. Connected to the machine.
All of you, all of you and my body.
I've also once I dropped the body I run over and jump over
the bed. Do you?
Do you don't want to talk to these people?
Jeb's doing it. I'm not we.
I've set, all right. I set a grenade off underneath.
It Yeah, there is a live grenade being.
Held. When they lift that body up,
it's going to. It's going to pop like a, well,
like a grenade. OK, Jeba.
Just kind of like hunches down by the wall, puts a finger in
each ear. Like, so he's just begging for
help, essentially trying to attract them.
All right. Cool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's foolproof.
It can't go wrong. Go and.
Make sure James is dead. The scabber that was watching TV
walks over to the door and sees his dead friend in the hallway
and is now looking at the body on the ground.
I. Thought you were shot.
I barely lived through. It James.
James. This maelstrom walks into the
door and pushes James over and he rolls over in a squelch of
blood. So that he pushes him outside
the door and then Jeb sees him roll over and goes oh boy and
takes a few steps back. So the grenade is right there
and it goes off, and so this guy has to roll evasion.
Assuming that he can. I'm going to check his stats.
Let's see, That's a reflex of four.
That's not good, my guy. I'm going to.
Give him a chance, but unless he rolls a crit, he's not going to
be able to do this. 13 not enough.
That's 5D6 damage. The grenade goes off 5D6 rolling
damage of 10. It's armor piercing.
The Scabba loses two more of their armor and they are blown
back, now singed and in pain as they take a critical injury from
the grenade and a piece of grenade gets stuck in their
face, covering one of their eyes.
The eye is fine, but there's now like a piece of sharded metal
around their eye, giving the -1 to hit.
Oh. Fuck.
James exploded. What the fuck is going on?
1st stand stuck in the computer and now.
Fuck. All right, so retro, can you
hear me through this, these COM units?
Yeah, I can hear you, Jeff. So do we just like hide again or
do we start shooting? You take, you take the one we
just blew up. I'm going to watch the door.
When the one comes to the door, I'm going to let him have it.
Fuck all that I'm going to go hide behind this the couch.
Hey, they're going to be now it's we're we're doing the
equivalent of what was that so that they start patrolling.
Yes, Retro. Hey, I mean, yeah, I'm, I'm with
you on I'm. Flying by the seat of our pants
at this point, hey? It's literally just we set off,
we set off. A man.
I was going to say, we just set off a scab call, we're going to
come out and we're going to fucking catch them in the
crossfire. So you see the foot of this scab
being pulled out of the doorway? Fuck me.
And the door gets closed and now you can hear mumblings of
someone trying to be healed. Dammit.
They're smarter than I thought. All right, well, fun's over,
Jeb. Looks like we're going to have
to go back to you. The same old tactics as always.
Rudy Tooty, grenades and Shooty. Do you want to say the magic
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Jeb, let me ask you, how are we breaching and clearing this?
Yeah, I was just about to ask, are you doing, are you going to
like, you know, kick the door in or?
OK, Jeb, how about you kick down the door and then once you kick
down the door, I'm going to do something fun and stupid and
jump on it, trying to slide it across and shoot while I slide
on the door going across the carpet.
Oh, I like that. That's good.
All right.
So should we try it again? Yeah.
All right. Rachel's going to go ahead and
get ready. Are you good?
For your stance. Oh.
Hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm going to actually going to
use it. I'm going to do a little donkey
kick this time. I'll try this job.
OK, here we go. Ready all.
Right. Are you good?
Do you think they hurt us the first time?
All right. It doesn't matter.
Bridge and clear, motherfuckers.
Go. Roll for it.
What? Can I do for?
What's going to get me through this?
Jab has to roll to kick at this door, so that's the first roll
19 yes, the door kicks open beautifully.
It's a it's a sudden and loud and exciting noise and retro
steps into the room and right in front of him is an injured
maelstrom holding his face and that person's boss pulling them
into the room a bit more and looking very confused.
What? Oh the I'm just running in, then
I'm just going to straight punt them since they're bent down
right? Pulling the person down.
Yep. Absolutely.
Right in punting range. Roll for it 25 yes.
Retro literally running in, sliding on the door after Jeb
kicks it down and as the person looks up to see what it is,
Retro has come running in and like Randy Orton back in like
the odds, punt right across the chin side of the face.
They roll A20 on evasion which is very high, but you roll a 25
and they get knocked back. Wow, what squares?
They get knocked back 20 feet. They slide across the room,
smearing blood with their feet. Ow fuck I've.
Always wanted to do that. What's your bodies go?
Body is 7. Your body is 7, so you do 3D6
damage when brawling. Oh nice.
That's that's. Rules I was written by the way,
there's a. There's a table for this.
Oh. Two Crip fails, you've given a
little bit of a bruise, they take four damage 4.
Damage. So it wasn't as cool.
I thought it was like a super kick, but it was really more of
like a kind of scraping of their faces.
Fuck. I think it's NC.
You're not in CPD. You're going to wish we were in
CPD. What the fuck are you doing in
our place? That means stand still, blocking
the alarm. And they point at this net
runner who's plugged into a cupboard up in the kitchen in
the north side of this room. Oh yeah, Is he still?
Is he still blocking the alarm right now?
And I chewed at him. All right, Jeb, now.
All right, now you're going to see if you stopped Jeb from
shooting, so be at 24. Fuck shit, what can I do?
What can I do? Oh, wait, hold on, spoon.
That's 90 feet you miss. So you watch Jeb pull out one of
his guns, points it at this net runner who's plugged into this
cupboard and shoots trying to hit him 90 feet away, and his
bullet goes wide and sticks in the wolf all.
Right by the time I've grabbed him, they just said that they
are connected to the alarm. They are one you can't kill.
Do that guy gotcha? You know what?
That's my mistake. I misunderstood I'd.
Prefer it if you didn't kill anyone, motherfucker.
Did you hold on hold on hold on hold on everyone everyone chill
retro. Did these guys want to talk?
I was under the impression that you said Maelstrom's don't don't
they just want power and and and death?
But y'all want to talk? Wait a minute, I'm genuinely
surprised as well. I mean, honestly, I'd, I'd, I
wasn't, I wasn't prepared for this kind of came in guns
blazing, quite literally in this case.
But listen, if you, if you want to, you know, put aside
differences and, you know, give some fish some water, then
that's fine. The guy on the ground in front
of you is is wailing in pain with this shrapnel in his face.
Oh, yeah, Sorry about that, Sir. Listen, you know I know a great
doctor. And she could probably patch you
up if she was here, but I'm just going to.
I'm going to. I'm going to slap Jeff.
Dude, what are you doing? Sorry, go ahead.
You, you, you take the talk. What the fuck are you doing in
here? That's none of your concern.
What are you doing in here? This is our heist.
What the fuck? Well, now it's turned into a
heist for two. Well.
I can't get through to anyone. No communication is getting out.
Are you here for the brain too? Any.
Gear we can fucking get, Jim. Well, hold on, hold on, hold on,
hold on, hold on. Because if you don't, I mean,
all we want is the brain. So you can have everything else
and maybe we can kind of help each other here, you know what
I'm saying? I mean, listen, I don't, I don't
know how much the rest of that shit is worth, but I know this
brain thing, it's really not worth much because it's still a
prototype. So we just want it because we
want to help out a friend who needs it.
You know, we're we're doing, it's kind of like a charity case
if you think about it. But you can have all the, all
the like, you know, valuable stuff, the important stuff.
Y'all can have that. Can we put can you ask the TV
guy to stop pointing a gun at me?
What depends Do we have an agreement?
I don't have a gun pointed at you.
I'm willing to talk. OK.
So it's kind of a, you know, a
sign of good faith kind of situation.
Yeah, like a what? Is it like a Poly pirate thing
or something? I look over at A at Retro and
Jib's kind of shrugs. I can't explain retros face of
the exact exasperation, disappointment, upsettedness of
everything that was just said, because now somehow we've been
committed to giving up everything but the brain.
But OK, I guess this is just how it's going to be then I'm going
to take my my gun, just stop pointing it at them, and I'm
going to lollygag over to where the person watching TV was
sitting. I'm going to take their spot and
just sit there staring blankly at the TV while I kind of
reassess myself before the emotions get to me.
I've. Already lost two guys, the other
one's stuck in the room. Now we can't get back in.
Which room? The secret room in the other
room. Oh, this this secret room?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, we.
We. We.
Tried. Maintenance mode and now you
can't try maintenance mode again so we don't have the fucking
code on the back door and it fucking killed two of my tunes.
Well, maybe. Maybe my my boyfriend a.
Lot of hits. A bunch of my guys got killed in
a train recently. Found his body on the tracks,
fucked up. Yeah, man, I tell you, You know,
crime just don't pay. Not like it used to, you know
what I'm saying? Whatever tune.
So maybe maybe my boy here can, you know, patch in with your boy
over there and they can do some. You you think you can get a
signal out of this place? You what what have you like
exclusive communication satellite or something?
I can't get a fucking anything out and as long as Stan is
plugged in, no one's getting a signal out in a regular network
we are out of. I don't I can't call for backup.
That's it, huh? Well don't worry, 'cause you
'cause we're your backed up, remember?
I also can't call for pizza, but that's like well.
Don't don't you worry, you know, well, maybe maybe we could put
aside our differences for just tonight and my crew and your
crew. Do y'all have a like a fun
nickname for your crew like a or is it just the Maelstroms and
there's no kind of You guys hadn't come up with a?
Just master, man, we're just trying to get our bit.
Trying to get our no get that, get that same same but listen
you do that but we help you. You said he can't call for
backup but don't you worry honey because we are your backup now
because we're working together and y'all can have all the other
stuff as long as we get the brain.
So we get all the stuff. Sure.
So I get everything accepted. Right.
Yes, if the brain is there, we will take it and you can have
everything else. If the brain isn't there, then
sorry June, we're going to have to split it up evenly.
If the. Brain is there.
That's our share. That's not, I mean, that's not a
bad deal. What do you think?
Oh. My.
God, shut the fuck up. Well, I'm the only one who has
any kind of cognizant Stan is stuck in fucking cyberspace,
fucking Dick headed here on the ground is wailing in pain with
his face. Yeah, I'm saying you.
I'd say that that's in terms of like a training that's like ADV
what, 13? Sure, Ralph.
All right, well, you know I never got your name.
I'm Jeb, by the way. I'm Fleesner.
Fleesner or Fleesner? Fleesner, FLENSER.
All right. Can I call you little F?
Coming Fez. Fez I can do that.
I can do fez that's. A good one.
All right, so guns away, but roll trading.
Guns, oh, guns away, but us, we will still play.
That's not even a crit. That's not even a crit.
Yes, you pass, they take the deal and the tension in the room
fades a little bit. Do you do anything to help the
guy on the ground? No, all right.
Then Flezner walks over and tries to help them.
Fifteen. Yeah, They removed the shrapnel
from the cyberwearer in this guy's face, and he stands back
up. He's still hurt, but he can now
see out of both eyes. Stop being such a fucking moron.
Why did James explode? I don't know.
You tell me. What kind of what kind of
hardware do you have in the guy? He's all shot up to hell.
How'd that happen, by the way? Well.
He's dead now. Right.
OK. So all right, new guys, what's
your plan? Jeb, you go ahead, explain to
them what the plan is. I'm going to need a second.
I'm going to walk out because I remembered that there was a
computer that nobody's checked yet.
Meanwhile, How to help you, Bendel, Iona and the Collector
and Vivi are all standing around a table at the gala.
The meetings start in a few minutes.
So someone in that party roll perception.
Sure, I'll roll perception. 16 Yes, you notice that Jane went
to the bathroom. I'm going to excuse myself and
follow them to the bathroom do. You want me to come with or is
this? Sure, if you could like, watch
the door and make sure that Jane doesn't leave.
Oh yeah, do you want to make sure no one comes in?
Or or that as well. Oh, sure.
And then Dale follows behind you and stands at the door.
Cool. You open the door into the
bathroom and Jane is standing at the vending machine.
As you step inside, the door automatically closes behind you.
OK. In a breath I have an inner
light. I am the centre of God.
Have you tried box breathing? Box breathing.
No. Who the fuck are you?
Sorry, who are you? Didn't mean to swear.
That's all right, I've never heard the word fuck before.
It's all right. It's all right in front of
someone who might be important. I'm really sorry.
Breathe in for four, hold for four and exhale for four.
Hold for four again and just keep doing that.
OK. It's just a big box of breath,
OK? OK, OK.
OK, OK, OK. What's upsetting you?
My boss. What?
What's going on? He won't make decisions.
He's mad. He's just, I thought he doesn't
leave the house very often and whenever he does it's chaos.
Most of the time I'm just, I'm just work from home file stuff.
I send the maid over. I haven't heard from the maid in
ages. I can't get to the apartment.
He asked me to check on the fucking plants.
They're all plastic anyway. I don't know why he cares.
Maybe to dust them. I, I don't know, I'm just.
Yeah, right. I don't.
Rich people. What the fuck?
Right. Well, just know that it's one
night and after tonight you can go back to working from home and
doing the stupid shit he asks you to do.
Right. Do you know how hard it is to
find a whole wheat toast? They do, actually.
It's a fucking nightmare. Every.
Fucking whole wheat. Toast.
Is that? Is that what he sounds like?
Yes it is. You're funny.
I'm like I'm vending machine, vending machine.
I will get a jizz in a real use. The machine and get a sausage as
in a real. I'm my owner by the way.
Hi, I'm Jane I. Take a sip.
So what brought you to this shit hell?
Oh, I'm walking over to the mirror and I'm going to start
fixing my hair. And while I'm doing that, I'm
taking risky out. I am an investor.
Oh shit, I'm so sorry. If you need to make an
appointment we've only got 3 this afternoon.
I can schedule one in the next few months.
The prototype probably gone by then, if you have any.
Sorry, I don't need your spiel. It's all right.
It's OK. I understand meetings are full
and everything like that. Oh.
I mean if somebody cancelled I'd I'd I'd find a meeting for you.
You're obviously not an asshole. Thank you, thank you.
I pride myself on not being an asshole.
How can you tell if someone's an asshole?
They have a mouth. Oh that's funny, I was going to
say that they're a corpo. Yeah, watching you say that
around. I mean, you're cool, right?
You seem cool. Yes, I'm cool.
But you know, only, only uncool corporos say they're cool, so.
Right. Yeah.
Why did I become a corporo? I know system work is hard.
It is while this is happening I've I've let Risky run down the
back of my dress and hide under my dress and I'm going to get as
close to Jane as possible without it being weird and let
Risky crawl onto their heel and attach themselves.
Roll persuasion to get close to them and that will affect how
easily it will be for risky to get onto their body.
Can do, can do, can do social persuasion. 17 Yes, you're able
to get very close to them, and you stand right next to them in
the vending machine. They're leaning against the
vending machine, sipping their Gisner L with a straw they
grabbed from their pocket. I will reach over them, I'll get
close to them and I'll reach over them and I will punch in
ages and rail as well. Right, so that's five eddies.
That's a wonderful distraction, and I need you to roll something
to release risky. You can be creative if you want,
or you can roll stealth. I am.
I'm going to roll personal grooming.
Oh wait, what's my bonus to wardrobe and style?
You have a +2 to wardrobe and style, but you also have another
+2 because you are accessorizing with your super Chrome.
So you have currently a + 4 to wardrobe.
That is the same as my personal grooming.
So I'm just going to personal grooming.
Use my little hair clip to crawl onto Jane's heel. 18 Oh, that's
not Oh, no, I did. All right, I did.
All right. OK, I did.
I rolled. I rolled.
I rolled a six. It's not high enough.
Scared me. They don't notice risky scoots
across the back of the vending machine, comes behind them and
then just attaches to their stiletto heel and then uses it's
camo to try and match the color of the shoe.
Doing a pretty good job. Unless someone who was actively
pointing out the shoe, nobody will notice.
Perfect, it was wonderful to meet you Jane.
I crack open my jizzner. I hope you have a good rest of
your night and that Danny doesn't ride you too hard.
Yeah, well, I mean, I'll get assigned to another executive in
a few months. You know how assistants are.
No one ever stays with someone forever.
Oh, my assistants stay. What?
No, I've had my assistant Bendel for oh gosh, I don't even know
now. I lost my last assistant.
Right. I mean Night City, right?
Where did you misplace them? No, he blew up.
Oh shit, I'm so. Oh God, that's really
insensitive. I'm so sorry.
Oh wow, I I feel really guilty now.
Did you did you want anything? I would have bought you your
drink. Oh.
No, no, no, no, no. OK.
Well, thanks. This has been an incredibly
positive interaction. It was nice to meet you of.
Course. If if anyone cancels like let me
know. You seem cool, I'm sure.
I I also pull out one of my cards and I hand you in one of
my cards. Oh, I own a Pepesky, OK.
And they get out their agent and they start tapping in your
information. I don't know what to do.
I'm leaving now. Oh no.
I know, do I? Do I kiss Jane?
What do I do? The pressure.
Kiss, kiss. Kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss.
All right, so you've now, you've now done that, You've watched
Jane like putting this number in and they look at you and this is
kind of your opportunity to either continue the conversation
or just leave. Jane.
Yes, sorry, what? Do you really dislike Danny?
I mean, it's kind of a pretentious prick, Chad.
So yeah, tastes good. Oh, is it?
It's OK. Well, how much?
How much do you dislike him? I'm not asking you to kill him
or anything, just to preface. Oh, I don't want to kill him.
Yeah, I don't want him dead. It'd be really great if if if
one of his projects was knocked down a peg, Like maybe if if his
project was unsuccessful because they lost the prototype or
something. That would make me really happy.
Oh, losing a prototype. Oh yeah, it'd be awful, be
really embarrassing. He's always going on about how
great it. Was That would be so awful.
Perhaps we can help each other. What?
I mean, if Danny needs to be knocked down a peg and lose his
prototype, I wouldn't disagree with receiving said prototype.
Right. OK, well, it's not here.
Is it? Oh, I know what?
Do you mean you know? Why would he bring it to a
meeting like this? Oh.
Yeah, of course. Yeah.
I thought you knew where it was. Why would I know where it is?
I don't know. I don't know.
Do you? I know where it is.
You do. Yeah.
I'll I take a moment to just look at Jane, watch, I'm going
to not say anything and just continue to watch them
intimidate. Not intimidate, but like, you
know, the power of manipulation where if you don't speak, the
other person continues to speak. That's what I'm going to do
here. I'm waiting for Jane to speak
more. Roll something to intimidate
them. I don't want to intimidate Jane
A. Little.
Something, something something something.
Roll something. I want I want to make more.
Information out. Of them, yes.
Oh perfect, I will just persuade. 19.
What's if I look at my roles please 16171819.
Oh wow, that's cool. Truly.
A roll. Truly A roll.
I am on A roll. Yes.
He's one of he's got one of those fucking safes.
What? You know what they're.
Trying to save. He's got a corpo.
He's got, he's got a corpo safe room with a safe in the fucking
table. There's a turret in there.
Oh geez Louise. He.
Almost shot me last week when I went in there to bring him a
beverage. Well, and then I had to, I had
to chase a rat out of the vent. You can get in on the side.
There's a vent in his very secure corporal.
Room, it's really you have to be like really like athletic to be
able to scooch your way through there.
But I mean, we're getting an engineering to Weld it to a
smaller hole next week. But I mean it's just that who's
going to climb through a vent, right?
True. True.
Any other information you can give me about this room and
maybe the prototype will disappear you.
Didn't really crit pay me. Maybe I can do something
together? Oh yeah.
Find an executive you want to work for and I'll figure it out
for you. I know exactly the executive
that I would like to work for Danny.
Danny hates her. Who is it?
I got her an invite to the party.
Is it Vivian it? Is, you know her, She's
terrible. I love, I do.
She is terrible. All right, done.
Oh, if I could. Oh, he'd hate that so much.
Oh, it it would break his little heart, I'm sure, Losing his
prototype and his assistant, Yeah.
It would. So do I have to do anything or
is this not just going? To give me information, do I
need any information? I mean vent, that's great.
Turret something. Once he gets home, it's going to
be a problem he can fight. So unless you've got like
friends on the outside, like at the location, which we don't
because you know, there's a, I can't actually get hold of the
apartment right now. There's a, there's a blackout in
the communication. I'm assuming it's just a Night
City thing. Probably.
You know how Night City is. Yeah, well if the vent doesn't
work, are there like codes to the safe?
There's a fingerprint scanner. It opens up the secret door on
the wall to the north. Well, Danny over there is
wearing gloves. Yeah, I know.
Stickler for his fingerprints, huh?
Stingy. He's just a germaphobe.
That's funny, me too. Really.
Yes, you see this bracelet? I press it and latex gloves.
Oh wow, that's cool. Yeah, my, my tech made it for
me. That's cool.
So you're saying that you can basically just sort of inject
rubber gloves from your hands? I can coat my hands in Latex,
yes. So just I sorry I assistant
brain here. That's great.
Helpful, Very helpful. What happens when you take them
off? The latex gloves.
I guess on the inside there would be residue and perhaps
enough. But surely, surely you should
you you have to dispose of those pretty carefully, because if the
if the latex just expands around your hands, surely the inside is
like a copy of your fingerprint. Surely it is.
Well, thank you for your concern.
It's very helpful. Exactly my concern.
Yes, I love keeping my hands clean.
Have a great night, Miss Pespescu.
Pescu. Pescu, it was great to meet you.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yes, I'll schedule a meeting with Vivian.
She's giddy, she's happy, She's a lot.
You've rolled really well. You've really cheered her out.
Good. Good, good.
She's had a lovely gal pal moment in the bathroom.
You can either continue talking to her or you can step outside
to try and knock. Out the rest.
Let her, let her go. All right, You're going to stay
in the. Bathroom.
Or are you going to leave the bathroom?
What would you prefer? I'm going to leave the bathroom
after a a nice pause from Jane leaving so it's not like I'm
following her out. All right.
Jane steps out of the bathroom and heads back into the room
after finishing their jizz in her ale and throwing it in the
trash can. I walk over to the collector and
VV and I bring Bendel with me, obviously.
What happened? How did it go?
Amazing, actually. What did you do?
There's a lot of information that should share privately.
No offence, collector. Oh yes, no, it's fine.
Do do you want me to schmooze some up somewhere else I can go?
Yes, please. You got it.
You. You give me a nod.
Excuse me? You were there.
I'd like more of those pups. They're.
Delightful. All right.
So there are a couple of things for the fingerprint.
If we can get a hold of one of his gloves, turn it inside out,
the residue there is enough for a fingerprint.
OK. And then there is a way into the
safe room, through a vent that is.
Those vents. Well, it's still person sized.
It won't be for very much longer till next week, but it is person
sized. Oh man.
OK. So we just need DNA and the
codes. We need so we still need DNA.
As a side note, you haven't told fresh pay anything, so if you
want to do. That, yeah.
I should probably do that. So we need we need to get the
code still. Which I have risky on Jane.
I probably could have just asked Jane.
Shoot, but did you like make a deal?
Oh, I did. I did.
Not a deal. I traded information.
Yeah. Jane hates working for Danny, so
I'm going to fix that. I mean, he does seem like I have
a prick. He is kind of a prick.
Oh. No.
All right. Well, I need to contact Fresh P,
We need to contact Jeb and Remy, and then I think we need to get
the hell out of here. OK.
So we're not going to try to get the DNA.
We're just. Going to try to.
No, no, you're right. I totally forgot I'm just.
Panicking OK Oh man, so I should stick around for when he's done
with his meetings and then I meet him and I try to get his
DNA? Oh God, you've got this.
I believe in. Feel harder than every person
we've ever fought, every combat we've ever been in.
All right, I could do this. You can do this.
Next time on no latency.
Well, I get out. I need you to do some hacking,
some net running if you will. I look to Vendel.
Do you see that up? Still have a feeling we're not
alone? So keep a swivel on your head.
All right, I'll keep a swivel on my head.
I'm not normally this forward but I am outside with Danny Dark
Side right now. I'm inspiring to everybody.
Our Bard here. Pretty much a freaking swimming
pool as a bathtub. I'll leave it to him to light.
They are. They are very smart and very
capable most of the time. I really wouldn't.
I want you to head back so soon. I think it would be nice to just
spend a little more time with you maybe.
Such a hurry, What are you doing?
I did it. I did it.
I did it you. Had a bird shit on you twice?
That means you should be extremely lucky.
Remember Mr. TV's got some more fingies for you when you get
back. VV's eye twitches.
You have no grenades. The drone is in there.
We can't fuck up the drone. Oh, that's where it's coming
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