This time, on no latency side Quest, Phoebe's got a job in a
storm. I have experience, so that's
good. From a new fixer played by Diana
of the Rose. I'm Bridge and then also hello
to the rest of you. With returning friends Chris
Stormbeard. Hi Miss Bridge, how you doing?
Hello. And Lamar, the conga.
Dev, Do you Remember Me? Baby OH.
Yes. Up Devin They all meet for a job
on a stormy evening a. Normal thing to see out in
public. Client requires medical
container picked up and delivered to the corporate
district. But things never go to plan.
Oh my. God so.
I got them. I got them, yeah.
They'll have to improvise. Cool guys don't look at
explosion. This is legally distinct Fast
and Furious. And make some hard choices.
Don't let it get hurt. Because this job they're really
going to take to heart. Shall we begin?
So saw how's the new cyberwear? Oh, Miss Phoebe.
It's awesome. You you got to see it in action.
I can't wait. I can't wait to show you.
So you have used it already? Hopefully not for like fighting
people. Maybe just practice, right?
I mean, a show got a little wild and I had to whip it out and
even on stage, I, I let, I let the blade come out a little bit
and it, and it hits the strings on the guitar and it, it makes
the most vile, grotesque sound. It's amazing.
And that's a good thing, right? Oh, it's a fantastic thing,
yeah. OK, well, I'm glad that it's
working out for you. And if there's any issues with
the installment, just give me a call.
And just make sure you know, as with all cyberwear, when you get
it installed, it does take a toll on your, you know, your
mental health and. Like.
I'm feeling a little cold, more than usual, a little like when a
fight breaks out, I'm, I'm more willing to like, get in there
versus like standing, standing back.
I want to use it. I, I, I want, I want to, you
know. That is the tried and true side
effect of cyberwear, especially ones of the more violent nature.
So just be careful if you need to talk to people, make sure you
seek out therapy to get yourself in the right mindset.
So you don't, you know, just break out and just.
Start a pee. Yeah, yeah.
That, that is the thing where you could talk to somebody about
how you're feeling and these are like licensed people who can
help you feel better. It's very important that you
seek that out after getting cyberware installed is what I'm
saying. But.
I just like, I just go to these people and I talk to them about
like like shredding the guitar and have everyone mosh in and it
makes me feel good and stuff like that.
And it's like, do you ever had like maybe a conflict with one
your bandmates and you need to talk about it with somebody
that's not them or like you're not sure how to approach the
situation? They can help.
It's very important. OK, Miss Vivi.
OK, Look, I if I'm feeling, if I'm still feeling cold, you
know, in a couple of days, I don't know, like a week or so,
then yeah, maybe maybe I'll talk to someone.
But do you, do you think, do you think Miss Amyophistophiles is a
therapist? They do say that pets are, you
know, helpful, but as a doctor? I talk to him all the time.
I'm I'm sure you do so, but as a doctor I I am required to say
that your cat is not a licensed therapist and you should
probably talk to somebody. Oh, OK, OK.
You hear a truck, A bath, parking.
The parking lot behind the door opens and closes.
There's a a cold chill in the air outside as the back door
swings open. Looking through the back door,
you can see a familiar face, Phoebe reading a message on his
agent. You expect to visitors.
I know, I know. I I didn't get, you know, the
job for the bounce of the bubble cafe.
But I can, I can, I can, I can get him out of here if you want.
Wait a minute. I saw that.
No, I I know him. Oh, what's his name?
Dorvan. Devon.
Devon.
Yeah.
And I just, like, go out the door and I start, like, waving.
Hey Dev, do you do you Remember Me?
Yes, Phoebe. Phoebe.
Yes.
Phoebe. Oh yes, Phoebe, the person that
I definitely I definitely missed all so much.
How have you been How's the family a bunch of things that
I'm supposed to care about. How are all those wonderful
details that I want to know? Yes, the.
Crew is doing well, Criona is great and I didn't know that you
were a bubble tea enthusiast. Oh, Oh yes, I.
I have not seen you here before. Yes, because I actually am here
to try out Bubble. I don't feel like like Vivi
actually needs your goddamn help.
You need help. Yes, I need your help.
So Devon is going to look around, make sure like there's
no one actively listening to him as he gets closer to Vivi.
So you know how business is, you make a a few calls, you do a few
things. Yeah, hopefully everyone does
their job and then eventually they screw it up.
Well, I have. Some parts that are not quite
here or operational and I need one of two things, preferably
both. I need access to a good mechanic
and hopefully I hear that you might have the ends to someone
who might be willing to invest in a little bit of money
preemptively before the product is done.
Does that sound like something someone of your particular skill
set, caliber, and friendship having would be able to do for
me today? And before VV can answer, we're
going to move to a few blocks away where there's a fixer
looking at that agent concerned. Oh man, OK I do have an internal
agent. Is that fancy in any particular?
Way. Yes, you are able to read this
without looking at your agent if you so require OK.
I'm kind of just staring straight ahead, but it it looks
like I'm staring at a piece of art on a wall, which art is
subjective. It's mostly a piece of graffiti
that I've just thrown A-frame around for the sake of not
wanting to repaint the walls again.
Eyes are kind of darting back and forth over the same
paragraphs over and over, and I'm just kind of muttering to
myself. Bridge.
I've done everything I can, but Calico is rejecting the organ.
The drugs aren't helping. I can make them comfortable, but
without treatment she will not last out the month.
The only treatment left is Hemat 0 developed by Doctor Glass.
The waiting list is a year long. Right now you'll have to grease
some wheels if you want to save Calico's life.
Let me know if you need anything.
Don't worry, she's comfortable from Sawtooth.
I just kind of like muttered in myself and then I don't suppose
I have any connections to Doctor Glass at this moment.
You don't. Currently, the only doctor you
know in town is a a man named Sawtooth.
He used to be a solo. He's a neat freak.
He might be able to help you. He sent you this message.
I'm. Going to run over to a couple
blocks away to my favorite boba shop and just as best I can with
an intense amount of sweetness to it in order to think for a
second. Somewhere not as quiet as my
current workshop. And take a walk through the
streets. Do you want to make a phone call
as you do? I will.
I'll call Satu. Hello.
How are you? Sawtooth buddy, tell me you were
stretching the truth in the bad direction here with this
message. This is a little.
This is a lot. I might, I might be able to
stretch her condition to three months, but honestly, like,
that's the treatment at this stage.
Organ rejection is a big deal. What is hemat 0 exactly?
Is it a a a pill? Is it full on like some sort of
new organ transplant method? That's that's the thing I've
been trying to work out. I put some swingers out, but
since it is a very like top secret, mostly corporate
treatment, it is also extremely expensive.
OK, you have any idea where to start if I wanted to get it the
non expensive way? Well, you could try and like, I
don't know, let me see what I can do.
I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll just. Get right back.
Just give me two minutes, I think I've got a lead.
And he hangs up. OK, do you want any bubble tea
while I'm out? You can just say no, I'll walk
faster. After a few minutes receive
another message still. Walking and not entirely
walking, watching where I'm going.
I my lips start moving again and I start muttering aloud.
Fridge. Good news.
Doctor Glass needs help. Rumor has it he needs a medical
container moved. Hush.
Tropic wires, a Med tech, a van and some muscle pays 12K all
told. Doctor G must be desperate.
Everyone has turned down the job due to the incoming weather.
My chum VV should be game. I hear she hangs out at the
Bubble Cafe. Tell her Sawtooth say contact
this dead drop number to confirm the job details will follow from
Sawtooth immediately. I'm going to instruct my agent
to call that number or send a quick message.
Just saying I accept with no further message.
As a fixer, you know that the full details of the job will
take a few minutes to receive, but it won't be long.
And you walk into the Bubble Cafe I.
Suppose I have any idea what BB might look like.
You could ask at the desk. I'll upload the desk and kind of
like stare up at the menu pretending like I don't know
what I want even though I've ordered the same thing 10 times
over and just instruct the person kind of working there
just be like, hey, hi, our credit's still good, right?
It's not, you know, it's the. All right.
Yeah. Stellar.
What do you. Yeah.
Yeah, Bridge. What do you want?
And Alex is the person who is behind the counter.
You can see her name on her name badge, a name you should have
remembered by now. Oh yeah, it's one of several.
When it comes to the tier list of names to remember, a bubble
tea worker is surprisingly high. Higher than you think.
She's still not all that high. And can I?
I'm looking for someone, VB I don't suppose.
You're looking to. I don't.
Suppose. For VB.
Yeah, as well as some much extra sweet.
You know the good stuff. I'll get Reeves on it, but.
Reeves much extra sweet. Yeah, yeah.
No, I've got this. Don't.
Worry. You can see through a little
hole in the wall. There's a just a tune in there.
He's like juggling things and having his own time.
No one's watching him. He's just having a great time.
And why do you? Want baby, She says.
I'm looking to work on something.
You've got a lot of questions for someone who doesn't have a
food handlers permit anymore here at the Bubble Cafe.
Like to protect our investors. OK, gotcha.
It's. If you want her to give you any
more, you're going to have to roll for it.
Roll Persuasion. OK.
First roll. First roll let's.
Go. It's never been good.
I believe. I believe it's good.
Don't go to switch tabs. You rolled at 20.
Welcome. I'm very.
Persuasive. They're giving me that matcha
for free. They're giving me the next three
for free. Yeah, she doesn't charge you for
your drink. She smiles at you.
Your normal jabbing that you do to each other is clear.
She laughs as she passes you your drink.
Sticks a straw in the top for you.
Thanks. That's for asking for a favour.
I get to do that, Phoebe, somebody here for you.
Phoebe, who's just. Mid conversation with Devin.
Just hold on Devin. Yes Oh, oh, oh, hello hi.
Hey you are you a regular here? Because I usually know like all
of the regulars so. The hair changes and then I kind
of like walk up to the group immediately and just without
asking to pull up a chair and sit down.
I go as if to motion to stab a straw into the cup and then
realize it's been done already. And so I just kind of push it in
front of me. BB I I'm bridge hello and then
also hello to the rest of you and stick my hand out this.
Is my friend saw. Saw.
Hello. Hi, Miss Bridge.
How you doing? Good.
I have a good relationship with people named Saw.
We'll be friends. You know other people named Saw.
I'll give or take some syllables.
Don't. I didn't tell you about my doc
my other doctor friend Sawtooth saw.
It gets a little confusing, but that's all right.
This is you guys should fight. No chance.
This is my exec friend Devin. What's up, Devin?
Pleasure. Hello Bridge, nice to meet you
in such a lovely establishment as this it is.
It is very lovely, you're right. It is very nice.
Some workers are. Kind of rude, yes, I love it.
Flip her off. She flips you off back and then
sticks her finger in her drink and licks it.
So, bridge, what is this proposal?
So you know Sawtooth, he's got a job for I guess us now and it's
pain. I, I lower my voice about 12 K
where we need specifically a, a Med tech, a van, some firepower,
some muscle, that sort of thing. And you might know about it
already. Sawtooth directly sent me.
I'm waiting on some details but OK, sounds good to you all.
Not 12 K, OK. Is that is that 12,000?
I believe so, last time I checked.
That would be what K stands for in traditional colloquialism.
There's also ketamine, but I don't know, it's been a while
since I've seen any of that, if any.
Well. K.
Anyway, it seems as if we're lucky enough because I happen to
have a van with me that I would like to make sure it gets back
in one piece, but if I can possibly assist with said job, I
believe that that would be of assistance.
Sure, I love friends, and I mean, I guess maybe you're in
charge here. I'm not the.
Yes, I need to check with Sawtooth on what exactly he has
signed me up for. We're we go, we go way back.
Just just give me a moment. Real quick is Sawtooth the one
that has a television for a head?
Is that? No, that's retro.
OK. You know a guy who's got a
television for a head? Yes.
Unfortunately, yes. Very skilled but confusing.
It's. Well, Miss, Miss Bridge, you
said you needed muscle, right? Yeah.
Do you have that? She asks.
And like does not look at your arms or your I'm not looking at
you at all. Just dead in the eyes, sipping.
My eyes. Spitting on one of the benches
inside the Bubble Cafe and he just stands up and he is 6 foot
eight, 300 lbs of just pure beef and he just cracks.
Weirdly lean. Yes, yeah.
And he just cracks the knuckles on his left hand.
I, I I can do that. If there's one thing I'm good at
besides playing guitar and singing about dead corpo fucks,
it's muscle. I like you already.
I I also did just install a chain RIP in in saw his arm.
So yes, I think he's well equipped for.
And as she says that, he pulls up his sleeve and you see this
grotesque metallic shell of an arm, and he kind of like, twists
his wrist a little bit and you just hear the revving of a
chainsaw inside of his arm. That.
Is that is a normal thing to see out in public?
It's metal, isn't it, Mr. Devon? Absolutely, literally very metal
of you. I'm sorry, is it Devon or Devon?
It's Devon. Devon.
Devon, my apologies. My apologies, we just met.
Yes, nice to meet you Mr. Literal Saw.
Sorry, I'm flabbergasted by everything I've had to witness
in the last hour. Anyway.
Yes, do you agree? Just give me a moment I need to
go. I just need to make a quick call
and then we will be on our way. So enjoy your your boba matcha
order another one for the road. I'll be right back.
Yeah, matcha's are on me. I don't think I've ever had it.
What is it? It's the best thing you'll ever
taste. Kibble.
If you've ever had the matcha flavor of kibble, it's better
than that. I don't think I've had matcha.
Missing out haven't lived. Well, if you'll buy it and I'm
going to drink it. Yeah, just go up and tell them
that Bridge sent ya, and then I'll sit back in my chair a
little bit and start slurping very noisily, like the end of a
soda pop through a straw. Just loud slurping sounds.
Staring at Anne Alice with your 20 persuasion from earlier
meanwhile outside. Hello.
Hi, SA. How's it going?
It's it's going I just met I I assume a a compatriot of yours
bridge. Yes.
Yes, she said. You sent her to me for a job
that is 12 K. What kind of jobs are you
getting? So.
No, I just, I just found the the broker address.
They're a fixer. They found the job.
That explains. It the the issue is that they
they have a a person in I'm going to, I'm going to respect
HIPPA a little bit here. They have a person who is sick,
and doing this may enable them to not have that person be sick.
I see. OK, you could.
Use persuasion to get more out of me, but that's more on your
moral compass than mine. Yes, Yeah, OK.
I just want to make sure like we're not signing ourselves all
up to be killed. I mean, I have like I've just
signed up multiple people and I feel kind of responsible if
something bad happens. Well.
Baby, it's always good to work with more than one fixer.
Been a while since you went with someone else.
Yeah, this is true. Your portfolio and all of that
jazz. OK, is there any other details
that you can give me saw like just any?
I know that it has to be done tonight and the reason no one
else has taken the job is because it's going to rain
again. I see.
OK, I didn't know the weather. Since those two Spires went
down. Oh, yeah, that that was crazy
incident that happened there. Yeah.
So, OK, I didn't know the weather may or may not affect
this job, but all right. OK, Thank you.
If anything else comes up I may frantically call you, but this
is helpful. Thank you.
You're welcome. She hangs up.
All right, gang, squad, crew. Are you, I mean, should we like
negotiate how we're going to like this job?
Who's getting what out of it? You know, you know, Devin,
you're good at this. You're the the one who the one
who's good at like, you know, should we like sign a contract
or something or, you know, make should make it like official.
Well yes, we could set up a quick contract.
I keep a bunch on my agent here, but I believe a verbal
confirmation is plenty. We can either do an Eva split
between the three of us, which would be 3000 each, or I can
offer you all a little bit of an investment which you give me an
extra thousand of your cuts. So you 2 you all for review get
2000 immediately and then you invest in me another 3000 and I
can probably double maybe even triple your money within one to
two decades. And sorry, what kind of business
is it that you run again that you need investment in right now
from a bunch of people sitting at a bubble tea shop?
Right now it is automotive is what I can tell you out loud
without more contracts being written.
Basically, we're trying to invest in creating some vehicles
for a particular clients that we were going to remain hushed
about. But we are just a little bit of
a snafu, a little bit of a inventory issue right now.
So we need a mechanic, we need a little bit of capital.
And I'm just saying if you guys would like to get more money in
the future, which is what people should be doing with their
money, not just spending immediately.
So we can either do 3000 each or you 3 can take 2000 and I can
double it in one to 10 decades. Is anyone going to take this
deal? No.
OK, then that means wait, wait, wait, wait.
Oh. Yeah, he he's saying I can get
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The endless winter has finally come.
Yeah, all I'm saying is he said I can get money now and then
money later. Is that what you're saying?
Oh. That's exactly what I'm saying.
That's how. I'm in, I'm in.
I'll I'll give you I, you give me €2000 bucks and then I give
you 1000 and then in X amount of time I get more money for free.
Essentially, that's exactly how investments Who doesn't like?
Free money? Come on.
That's exactly what I'm saying all.
Right. Oh, I did it physically and got
an 18. Oh, that's cool.
You got an 18. Oh, Lamar, roll again.
Roll again. The first crit fail.
Oh. No.
That's -8 what's your cool? What's your reputation?
Oh my cool is 7. Right my.
Reputation. In. 4. 4:00 So I think a 3, it's
going to be less than 18. Yes, it is in this face down.
This fixer looks at you and says.
So sorry I'm supposed to trust you with vehicular things even
though you're you. You drove a van here
recreationally. A rather impressive fan
actually, if I have to say so myself, if you would like to.
Inspect. OK, Yeah, sure.
Here's the thing. I'm the fixer, right?
Fixer. I think I should get a bigger
cut. And how about in exchange, I
give you that mechanic that you've been looking for, because
I know a handful of them around the local area that might be
able to help you out with the whatever you need.
I owe some. I mowed some favors.
I can pull some strings. And in exchange I get a couple
more credits. You give me a reputable mechanic
and you get a few more credits out of my.
Well, I get you a mechanic. She's.
Good reputable is up for debate. And well, you're giving me your
OK, how about this? I'll give you another 500.
You give me your mechanic and I think that is a good chance.
So you'll get 35 S here, we'll get 2000.
And Vivi, are you down with investments?
Remember, money now is money wasted.
Devin, I am going to have to decline I.
It's free money. I think he's going to have a
mechanic here soon. This is true.
Think what you could do with free money for the bubble cafe.
I just invested a lot in the bubble cafe and that's really
where all of my major financial decisions are.
Going. I'm just saying.
OK, look, that's that's that's fine, that's fine.
If you would like to keep your money and not, you know, look
into the future where your, you know, retirement and things
could be more when your body starts to wear out, you would
have nice little nest egg. That's perfectly fine.
So you'll keep your three saw and very intelligent man's going
to keep keep me. I'm going to thank you.
Thank you so much and so kind of you.
I enjoy a good smart person and then bridge you will keep.
You're actually going to make 3 point 5000 credits.
I've been recording this conversation so this will stand
up in court in case you guys decide to effort screw up my
money, but I believe we're all in agreement.
I provide a van Saul provides the arms bridge is going to fix
and mechanic and Vivi please save us from dying.
Yep, that sounds about right. Good.
I'm so glad I came to this part of the city and stood in a very
clean and well established establishment.
And perfect timing. Wait, clean and established.
Yeah, yeah, clean and established and fully permitted.
Speaking of which, I got the the info back about the job.
Let's see, client required. And you can see my eyes are just
moving in the air as I've reading something invisibly to
myself. Client requires medical
container picked up at Med warehouse 94 and delivered to
the corporate district. District mega building 17,
penthouse one ASAP. Pay is 12 K.
Don't take main road sets. The weather may attract
undesirables to be prepared and a medical professional is
required to maintain the cryo tank stability.
Vivi, how do you feel about cryo?
Tanks. I've worked with them before so
I have experience, so that's good.
Good enough for me just like the person behind the bar as
experience making bubble tea for sure.
I trust it says we must provide our own vehicle and the price is
high and we also don't talk after this.
It says we were never even out tonight so hope you haven't out
by ready if not several that last part.
It's up to you if you want to tell them the truth.
Oh would I, Oh no, I didn't expect to have a major character
moment this soon, but you can definitely see her lips moving.
So if anyone has the ability to read lips and wants to try and
suss it out, I am not good at canonically.
OK, in that case, you'll see my lips kind of moving a little bit
and then I'll just go. If you agree, pick up the
package tonight. Password is and I kind of lean
in Nightingale. Nightingale, OK.
So we have to go to this place building.
Med Warehouse 94 looks like. OK.
Is there an address or 95 we could?
Probably find it and I kind of turned to Devin and I go, Devin,
you got the van. Do you know a way there without
taking the main roads? I could figure it out, as Devin
also has like this, deadpan staring to the sky as they're
trying to contact Jax, their assistant, to get them as much
information about Med Warehouse 94 as possible.
Mainly, what the hell is the front of this?
What's the front of this place, and why and why and what could?
Possibly be there? Yeah, love that roll streetwise.
My matches and Saul's going to run back inside and get his
matches that he ordered. He's paying for those,
definitely. No, no, no, you said.
You said they're on your team. He's tipping so much, don't
worry. About it 80% right.
That's that's good tip. At the bubble cafe, yes.
Cool, those drinks cost you 15 eddies.
Oh. Hey.
Jess, quickly, yes. What did you what did you find
about Medical Warehouse 94? They they're like outsourcing
for medical shit. If you're rich they do weird
shit with bio stuff and then you you pick it up and then you
don't say what they don't want people to know.
From a scale of one to 10, how illegal are we talking about?
I mean, what's illegal in Knight?
City. There's that hurts my head that
that is correct sentence, but let's out from a scale to one to
10. How deadly illegal is this
place? To steal Diana's joke.
Tipping below 76%, that's how much crime there is.
If you do this, they will kill you.
I'm joking. No, it's.
Like. I don't know an 8.
They're really rich, yeah. Yeah, Yeah, that sounds good.
Good, good, good. Do me a favor, go ahead and do
it quick. Little intellectually proper
name of a search engine. Find a off way of getting there
from the bubble tea location. All right.
Send that to my agent. OK, there's not a problem.
Is that your final destination? Which What is our final
destination? You ask of bridge.
I asked. Yeah.
So we're taking it from Med House where Med Warehouse 94 and
then bring it to the corporate district and then dropping it
off at Mega Building 17, Penthouse 1 specifically.
You see, Devin like face palm to the corporate district.
You got it. OK.
Yeah, that's. What, you're not comfy in the
corporate district? I'm perfectly comfy in the
corporate district. I am not comfortable smuggling
anything into the corporate district because I'm going to
say something that I cannot believe.
I'm going to admit most of us are assholes and.
Yeah, that's. True.
Yeah, and with assholes comes people they pay to be bigger
assholes around them with guns. And so I don't know.
It's fine. You know, it's fine.
It's fine. I'll I'll figure it out.
But I believe in everyone's here.
Once again, we have a very intelligent man with us.
Vivi is going to make sure no one dies and the thing gets
there and you have fixed a terrible situation I've had.
So I believe in the four of us being able to do completely fine
and not problematic plan in any way, shape or form.
And once again, this lovely, definitely not sticky floor
establishment. You say as you leave and get
into your van. OK, so.
I'm driving. I'm going to drive, I'm the best
driver, but go get a stair. Roll drive, land vehicle please.
It is a 10 exactly. Yes, good.
It beats the basic DB of driving through the basic beach cities
of Night City and you arrive outside of the warehouse.
Thunder can be heard in the distance and a little smattering
of wind has started to pick up. These storms are like getting
real bad in the city. Haven't seen one like this in a
while. And you come up to the outside
of the warehouse that you have the address for, and there's a
little driveway that you can turn into.
Look left, look right. Center.
Take the turn. 10:00 and 2:10 and 2:00 you take the turn, you
drive into the driveway and there's a little window with a
tube in it. With a what you?
Mean a cube person. I'm going to crawl over the
seats and stick my head past Evan Hey in.
This bridge, you're crushing me. I have my elbow actively in saws
clap right now and I go cryo tags.
You got them. Do you have a backward?
Yeah, I got a password. Look, I mean, do I look like I
not have a password? And you can see her zoning out.
I'm actively going back through my agent.
Spare. Oh, Nightingale.
Sorry. Sparrow's bakery in town.
Nightingale. Cool.
And she stares into space. She looks at her computer
screen. You can see her kind of like
doing that third level look like she's got an internal agent.
OK, heading to the back and dropping in the back of your
vehicle. Sweet.
Good to see you again. Bye.
All right, well, you know, if I was tipping you, it would drop
to like maybe 79, right about that, you know, be a little a
little bit. OK, 78 and I should go back into
the back seat. This is lovely.
So far so good, I'm proud of everyone.
Hey, what's what you mentioned a cryo Shank?
Is that what you said? Cryo tank, cryo tank, cryo Shank
is what'll happen if we don't get this job done.
What's a cryo tank? It's a tank that you use to keep
things in a certain state for a long period.
Longer period than it would is meant to be kept.
Let's. Say, Phoebe, as there's a knock
on the back of the van, in the back of the van, which you can
get to the back of the van from the driver and passenger seat.
There's a little door in it. It's a delivery truck that has
shelves on one side, and there's even a hookup for power in here.
The bridge. You're standing at the back of
the van next to the door, and you hear it bang.
Hello password. No, you're a man can say the
password that's not. I just want to see if it would
work. Nightingale.
Right, good. Open up the van so.
We can move this thing. All right.
Hey, can you can you open the back?
Do I open the back? Do you open the back?
You know, vehicles. Son, so you can open it.
Devin presses the unlock button and the.
Door is open behind you, excruciatingly slowly.
They squeak a little bit. They're rusty, just a touch.
Needs a little oil. Everyone who is interested royal
perception and at the back after the door is open, there are two
guards and a nurse and a large box with a cryo tank stuck into
the top of it inserted like a like a like a wart and a finger
and it's long. This box is like 6 foot long and
it's heavy. It's on a it's on a grab lift
and they shift it into the van I.
Could see the whole world. In the rearview mirror, you see
this thing being pushed in. You notice a feeling in the
space of them just not wanting you to be here.
The look on their face is mildly concerned.
And then you notice that the nurse, everyone who rolled over,
well, yeah, everyone who rolled 15 or higher can see that.
She puts her hand on the very bottom of the box, and there's a
bit of light that comes down her arm through some filaments that
she has installed in her skin. You swear it's data like you've
seen people send a little message and there must be some
kind of data storage in the actual shell of this object.
What you also notice is it's about human sized.
And because Sauro, the 9, he's trying to fish out the last
couple bulba pearls in his matcha boba, he's not even
paying attention. Yeah.
The loudest flirting sounds. But but 99 is is by definition
of so Frank Red is a simple task.
So the thing that you do notice is that there's a 5 Eddie bill
in the corner of the van, crunched up nice.
Do you take it? Absolutely, it's 5 eddies.
From someone else's Van Lamont Devin, you see him take this
fiver from the back of the. You know, he earned it.
He made a bit better decision earlier today and that's.
That's why I'm the smart guy in this operation.
That's why I'm the smartest person here.
I see you're. The nurse looks at you concern
so. If you were smart, you'd already
be leaving. Is this a rush job?
Jeez, someone's snippy, Sally. Actually, yes, we are on our
way. Thank you, Have a good one.
And bridge. You noticed that the outside of
this vehicle is armored. Of their vehicle or our vehicle.
Your vehicle. Something Devin didn't mention.
He chose not to reveal it to everyone.
But this vehicle is armored. Like no.
Armor. Like explosive?
Yeah, like pretty good armor. And the the you, you put your
hand against the wall and you feel part of the wall down.
There's a pipe and at the very bottom, underneath the
underneath the little box, there's a tank and it has a
gauge on it. This is 60% and on the side of
that tank says Nos this. Is fast and furious this?
Is legally distinct, Fast and furious this.
Is. Quick in 80.
Instead of DVD players, we're transporting cryo tanks.
Way better. Way more data, apparently.
All right. Sorry, Susan.
Did you say something about us being sorry?
I didn't catch that, did you? What was that?
What I slammed? Over you head over to the cryo
tank and you noticed that if you're going to keep it at the
desired temperature, you're going to have to basically like
babysit this thing for the whole journey.
Oh, wow. They really weren't joking when
they said they needed somebody to keep an eye on this that
knows what they're doing. Yeah.
If you want to find out more, anybody who saw that data
transfer and try and garner that as the vehicle leaves you may.
I'm too busy. Driving.
That would be electronic security tech and can we have
Devon roll a driving check as you follow the directions that
have been sent to you by Jax? God damn it.
A simple task. You do not find any shortcuts.
You follow. You rolled a nine.
That's a simple task. You follow directions exactly
and you take a little bit too close of a journey near the
combat zone to avoid a main road.
You go through a tunnel and you turn onto a street.
Did anyone roll like I? Tried, it was a nine.
You rolled a nine I've. Never seen a computer?
Metal enough. You've never, you don't know how
to get this data. Frankly, I kind of feel like you
probably hire other people to decrypt and locate data, do that
sort of thing. Vivi, on the other hand, you've
rolled a 19. Would you like to use that role
to find any logs within this device?
Yes I'm and I'm taking it more from like a health aspects of
like any medical info I can find.
Hey have you guys heard this really old song called I Want it
that Way from this classical band called The Backstreet?
No, I've never heard him. Before and.
We're taking the backstreet. This is perfect.
What a good thinker. Yes.
People don't. Really like my oldies and stuff
like that. Like I found one called Boys to
Men. There was a lot of infants
singing in the old days, like boys to men, Spice Girls,
Battery boys. Yeah, the Jackson 5 which were
children. That was weird for most then it
only. Was weird.
Yeah, that's yeah. And a lot of like groups, boy
groups, girl groups. What was with that?
Was that like a trend or something back then?
I don't, yeah. It was it was a trend for a
while and it just kind of got a little crazy.
I guess we do have that now, but I don't know, it's different.
I feel like I prefer the groups of today, you know, the
animatronic bands. Five Nights at Freddy's really
kicked it off and ever since then it's been nothing but
bangers. Are you like music?
Yeah, you don't you. Should you should come, you
should come to one of my shows. I'd love to, what's your band
called? Corpo corpse.
Yeah.
Like CORPSE. Yeah.
Oh, OK, Does the chainsaw get involved?
Every show, Yeah. Oh.
Hell yeah. All right, let's do it.
You got to go to the combat zone though.
The other one, the 11 up north, uh.
Oh, you can get in and out of there.
That's why I haven't gone to any of your shows.
I've invited you multiple times. Multiple times I told you.
I'll put you on the guest list. You'll be fine.
But nobody wants to like, fight their way through like scavers
and all sorts of other. We sell out almost every night.
That, that, that. That it's impressive and
terrifying to. Hear.
I mean, it's mostly it's all Maelstrom.
It's all most of our fans on Maelstrom, yeah.
It's a lot of good night. How come you were basically
frothing at the mouth when you went for those five underneath
the seat? So sell out is we got to pay
for, you know, accidental death and dismemberment insurance for
the bar, Yeah. It's expensive.
Actually since I invited you to a show my manager did say I have
to read this and saw pulls out the something from his leather
jacket, the internals of it and he goes OK.
Corporal Corpse is not responsible for any accidental
death or dismemberment at any of the shows.
Thank you. Great lyrics so far.
And, and yeah, I'm required to read that to you.
You do know that if you just make a song where that's your
opener, that still is legally binding?
What? Yeah, If you just make that into
a song, as long as it's said before anything goes down, it's
a legally binding contract. There's so many recordings.
Now I'm still definitely don't write anything down, definitely
putting that into a recording. Hell yeah, I'd mosh to a legally
binding argument. I have masterly.
I'm looking forward to you coming to a shower.
I'll put you on the list. And it well, at this point
you've managed to find the log, and as you're about to start
reading it outside of the vehicle in the rain as it has
started falling, you hear a voice.
Help me. Oh no.
I'm in so much pain. Look at all this blood.
I need help. Oh no.
Hold on, somebody in danger? I'm a medical professional.
If they're in danger, we got to help them.
Hold on. Yes.
Wait. OK, Well, well, we're medical
professionals that are. I mean, one of us is a medical
professional. You're paid 3K to ignore anyone
outside of these walls right here, these heavily armored
walls. Does Devin hear this as well?
Oh yeah, you're staring at a woman in the middle of the road.
What there is blood, which? City are we in right now?
Just tell me after the combat zone.
Very good Devon VV ropes rides faster.
Perception, perception, perception.
Yes, 16, that's enough. It's the same fucking actor VV.
I was going to say, I feel like I've seen this you before.
Immediately the acting is better.
Yes, look. At all this blood I'm so.
Scared I'm in the. Rain.
I'm so. Oh, no, Devin, this is bad.
Keep going. Drive over them.
What? She's bleeding.
You insist. Next time on no latency side
fast. This is a trap.
Bare knuckle to the steering wheel.
Let's go. What you get is that like the
therapy thing you talked about which that being stable.
I'm going to just focus on moving forward.
Yes, we need to protect. I let other people do the
fighting for me. Don't let it get hurt.
I'm on the dock. Let's.
Go. I'm just going to lean out the
window and yell in the general direction of the red car behind.
Us go bridge all. Right.
I'm going to try to shoot the driver.
Yeah, I'm not going to live. It doesn't sound as cool as
yours. What's what's the heaviest thing
in this thing? Probably the Cryosic.
You not throw the God damn tank. I mean, I don't think you should
do that, but you. Know is this the headers of an
engine? Block.
OK, we don't need that. It's the most Mario Party thing
I've ever seen. Therapy it.
I'm going to need all hands on
deck for a moment. Take driving lessons.
Just do it. Just do it.
Against all odds. We need to make sure this thing
does not go to 0 or this job is kaput.
That's much better. I love this game.
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