This year on no latency side quest glitch miss greed retro
make some new seasonal friends I.
Know you from somewhere? Special guest from the podcast
Dungeons and Randomness. I'm neon pass by the way.
Ian Duncan and Jason Massey. Bloomin, is it OK if I take
pictures of literally everything?
And two Ryan's. I'm Cargill Forge.
Vex. So how long is this going to
take? Retro is just trying to make a
little extra money this season. Be haunted by that for the rest
of his life. Well, no, but that's the goal.
We need to shoot him because. This year, it isn't just a game.
What are they putting in this this game?
Also seen symptoms of rage, violence and inhumanity.
A high score isn't the only thing they've got to lose.
Sweetheart, lead and. Messy tomb, it was looking
great. Retro's got to save Christmas
again, hey? Neon, you still want those
recommendations for mod? Cover me, I got to get this
fixed. Are they going to let you walk?
Out of here. Can you pick that up and shoot
them already? Shall we begin?
I'm about keep it down back there.
Oh, hold on. Gotta wait.
One ring. You can't let them know you're
too, you know, excited about it. Third one.
Ahoy Ahoy. This is retro.
Hello. Neon, that's you.
Oh. Oh hey man, how's it going weird
to like talk on the actual phone?
That's kind of crazy, right? Yeah.
I mean, yeah, we've usually just been chatting with each other
during streams on the garden. Yeah.
I mean, I'm glad you finally decided to give me a call.
What's up? Yeah.
Are you, are you around? We were going to meet up and I
just kind of thought that you'd come down here.
You can meet me on the corner. I've got a really cool a
prospect for you. I've been trying to like, get
into merch and stuff, you know, you know.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
And, and so I'm I heard about this prospect, there's like some
market research stuff for a toy. It pays really well, though,
about 400 eddies. I'm not sure exactly what we
ought to do, but I'm thinking like, hey, toy, like getting
good with who's ever making it, like make some figurines out of
me neon pass out of you retro. We could sell.
We could sell these on our patch.
You know, I think that would be really, really cool, man.
That does sound pretty good. Hold on now, we get paid for.
It. We get paid for it.
You know what? I don't even check my schedule.
I'm just going to throw my calendar behind me.
Yeah, yeah, let's go. Yeah.
Where where where are we going to meet at?
I'll. Show you a pin man.
Just just follow that. I'll be there all.
Right, I'll just I'll just check that out for the garden.
Cool. That cool.
All right, Yeah. What the this is market?
Is there a name for the market? Yeah.
Cool. All right.
Yeah, it just says it's just got.
A sign that says market on it. Oh.
Simple. Yeah.
That's it. Yeah.
That's all. That's all I know.
It's like very, you know, like very low key.
It's that kind of like minimalism.
Simplistic, yeah. Exactly, man.
Exactly. Probably.
Probably got done by Bob and Hilda, that's for sure.
Yeah, yeah, definitely. All right.
Yeah, yeah. I'll head out in a minute.
Cool. I'm so excited to meet you, man.
This is going to be awesome. I'm.
Super excited. What a what a collab.
Cool, I'll see you then. See you then.
All right, Retro. You look at the pin and it's
like a three or four minute walk.
As you look at the pin, you see that it's on Market Street, this
place. It's on Market Street Place
called Market on Market Street. Pretty good marketing, honestly.
Well, I'm going to make sure before I go leave some feet out
for Mama Mallard. You know, we're totally keto in
our house. No bread.
No bread and then I'm going to send a quick text to Jeb.
No, not Jeb. Jeb wouldn't know what to do.
I now I don't know what just delete it.
VV. Hey VV going to meet somebody at
I met online. I know what you're going to say.
Don't say it. If I don't talk back in 48
hours, delete my computer and I'm off.
And you're off, and you head down the elevator, you walk down
the street, and in just a few minutes you find yourself in the
street on Market Street, staring at Neon Pass for the first time.
Hey, Neon, what's up? Hey, you are you are much
shorter than I thought you. Yeah, and handsome.
Thank you. Yeah, very much, very much.
Can I give a little description of neon POS real quick?
Please. Sure.
So neon POS is like a young man. He's got tech hair that's going
kind of like green to blue. He's got like a septum piercing
and like dark circles under his eyes.
He's all dressed up in like Asia, Asia, pop kind of stuff,
so very kind of bright colors. Got a jacket on and a backpack
and it's just like full. Everything's got pins and
buttons and things on it, and it's all of his little possum
avatar that he has, you know, it's like all kinds of merch.
So there's like patches and pins and and things coming off.
He's got some of Retro too, 'cause obviously Retro is his
buddy. And yeah, yeah, yeah, got some
stuff. He's put it on there.
Yeah. And yeah, it looks just like a
it looks like just a little possum boy on this.
Thing. Like I think cat boy, but possum
boy and he's got, you know, he's got his gear on him.
He's probably on his phone. Oh, hey, man, you made it.
Oh, that's great. Oh, wow, wow, wow.
The you're looking very CTV, you know what I'm saying?
Oh yeah, old school very much. Luckily I don't need to have the
old bulb in there anymore. Upgraded to LCD clock, clock
clock. And there are three people in
line behind you and they all watch retro cut and stand next
to you. Hey man, I'm really enjoying the
look that you got there. I I see you got your required
minimum pieces of 37 flare on at all times.
Thank you for the ones that you can see right?
Oh, there's ones I can't see. Oh, OK, that'll be a.
That'll be one to find later. Yeah, that's the, that's the AD
stream. That's the AD stream.
Well, oh man, I'm excited to see this.
So how often? Excuse me?
Sorry, you're kind of crowding me, Sir.
Do you mind backing up just a little bit?
Thank. You no all right TV head.
You need to get to the back. Why?
Oh. No, he's he's, he's with me.
I was holding a place. He's just with me.
Yeah, I was just holding this place for him.
It's cool. It's cool man.
All right, if we can't get in there, then it's on you.
Sure. Yeah, I need that money.
What, what? What money?
You don't even know why you're here.
The only reason to be in this line is to get some money.
Well, yeah, I mean, I look, I like Eddie's just as much as
everybody else does. And I'm here in the partnership
with my buddy here, Neon, and we're kind of working together.
So it's kind of like a partnership working together
crossover. That's why we're, you know, it's
not cutting in line. We're together selling
ourselves, that kind of thing. I'm sure.
That. Yeah, I'm sure there's going to
be like, plenty to go around, my guy.
You're coming in kind of hot, so, you know, maybe just like.
Wait, you seem kind of familiar. Do I?
Do I know you from somewhere? Nope, No you don't.
I hate I Google search. I don't, I don't, I don't want
to interrupt. I'm I'm real sorry, guys.
Did did did you say we need a partner for this?
Because I came alone. I I don't know if we needed
someone to work with for this whole thing.
No, yeah, I did too. I'm.
I also need a partner apparently.
Oh you? So both of you are missing
partners and then. We.
Familiar dude here also.
Nothing in the ad says we need. I mean, apparently if we get a
partner we get to cut in line so so.
You all can partner up together. Yeah, it seems like you 2 could
be partners and then familiar guy.
I don't know. I'm I'm sorry.
Oh no. They're their own little menage
a trois together, you know, partnership and Eddie's.
Yeah, yeah, something like that. Maybe, maybe do a threesome.
Thumbs up. Cool.
Hey, can I get a selfie of all of us?
Let's. Do something.
Let's do selfie, everybody. So he pulls out his his agent,
bulbs it out, snaps a selfie and like it.
It like automatically puts like his VR avatar on of the possum,
possum on and just like takes a picture.
Pause. I blinked during that 100%.
Oh, you. Want me to do it?
You want me to do one more? We can do one more here.
OK. Oh, you, you blinked on this one
too. Funny one.
We got to do a funny one. Yeah, funny one.
Let's do a funny one, everyone. Funny.
One Yeah. Blink, Blinking's funny.
Blinking can be funny. Blinking, Yeah.
You lost to Google something, did you know?
I did. I did roll.
The D10 and then add four. Yeah, I just, I, I did roll AD
10 and didn't add anything, but it was a 1, so I don't know.
Oh, it implodes. It implodes.
My intelligence is 6, so that is a -, 1.
And that is no, because it's, it's +4 for local experts.
So that's oh, oh. Yeah.
So that's. You rolled a three, but it's
still a crit fail. So because it's a crit fail as
you're taking the picture, you watch the picture on your device
degrade and get corrupted, and unfortunately while searching
the garden, you did touch a bit of it you shouldn't have.
Now your phone has a little bit of malware on it.
Man God I hate this shit and. Then a little window pops up and
you can pay 20 eddies to get rid of it.
Oh, that's cheap. In this world, that's cheap.
Yeah. Can I take a look at it?
Do you mind? Yeah, sure.
I slide it on safe mode real quick all.
Conceal reveal object. Yeah, all the nudes are conceal,
reveal object. OK, shot it got it.
Concealer, reveal concealer reveal that is a healthy that's
going to be what is that awareness?
Yeah, that's a that's a healthy 0 for me.
So let's go ahead and. Hold Yeah, you don't hide your
nudes. In fact, the the unfortunate
side effect of this is that the virus has put your nudes as the
background of your lewds, not your nudes.
Let's not be disgusting. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's like it's. Like it's a lewd, it's it's a,
it's a lewd of your of your avatar that made out.
Fun. Just for fun, the the made out
pit. Yeah, and.
It's. Just super embarrassing.
Oh, I thought it was just a bunch of pictures of ramen.
There are I do have the ramen ones.
I'm so sorry. Just just sorry I.
Oh God, the thing already faked a bunch of pictures of you.
I'm here. I'll get.
Rid of this. That's it.
Yeah, exactly. It's already out of control.
I'm so thank you so much, man. Wow.
No, it happens all the time. It it's fine.
I have no idea what's a role to help with this, but I do
probably. Whatever you're good at.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm really good with small like
gadgets. It's small tech, damn it.
What is that under electronic? Security tech or basic tech, up
to you. Basic, basic tech.
Is that cool? Basic Tech 18 Yes.
Yes. Yes.
You look at this incredibly overly accoutrement human in
front of you as they pass you the device.
It's got stickers all over it. The logo as you pass it near
your device, the NFC on it sends their link to your phone but
doesn't give you a virus so that you can watch their streams on
the garden later. An absolute king of social and
networking. Their networking is incredible.
I love the dot exists in this universe.
Of course it does. Of course it does.
And you look at them because it's not actually that
difficult. And you find the control alt
delete and you just close the browser and the ransomware that
was running on their device has now been cleared and you hand it
back. Again, happens all the time.
Here you go. Oh my gosh, thank you so much.
This that's amazing. Thanks man.
Do hey, do you want to do you want to cut in front of us in
line? That's totally cool If you want
to, if you want to get in front of us, that's awesome, man.
I'm I'm neon pass by the way. Oh, Bloomin, hey, I'm I'm going
to look back at at the person who already was was pretty
upset. I, I'm good where I am, but I,
I, I, I just yeah, I just wanted to help out that I'm really glad
I could. I'll, I'll see you in there.
Sorry, did you say neon? Neon Pass.
Yeah, man, I got a little patch,
my own, my own trash patch in the garden.
Oh my God, hold on. And and I dig into my pockets.
Real. Quick.
And as I dig into my pockets, stuff starts kind of falling
out. Coins fall, lint falls, a couple
of pop cabs fall. And he and he pulls out his
wallet. He ruffles through it.
He's I don't need that card. And he pulls out a different
card and he holds up a card right at you.
And it says right there like Neon Pass fan Club member number
0007. Double O 7.
Oh my gosh, man. Hey, what's up?
You, you, you donate all the time.
You subscribe all the time, man, I love you.
That's awesome. Hey.
You have such a sick St. Oh my God.
I'm fanning myself.
I'm fanning myself, OK? It's cool, man.
It's cool man. Hey, you want some stickers?
I put out like a bunch of stickers and buttons and oh man
and hand it over. It immediately starts going on
stuff. Gun's armor, He's, he's blinking
up everything now. Hi, everyone.
Hi. How's it going, party people?
Hey, hi. Hi.
This young woman has stepped out
of the building and she's staring at you all in line.
She's holding a little clipboard and she's got this big old smile
on her face and she's wearing this little uniform.
And on a lapel is a little yellow circle which says the
happy company on it. Hi, hi.
Hello. Hello.
Are you guys all here for the market research?
Yes, yes, yes. Yes.
Yes, we are. I I OK, so I know the ad said
that it only pays 400, but it does actually pay 505 hundred.
Yeah, I know. Here at The Happy Company, we
want you to be happy. That's why I know that's kind of
cringe, but I have to read the script.
I like it. I like it.
Be cringe, be free, you know what I'm saying?
You know, it's it's it's one of those things it's going to be
really fun. So I'm going to have you guys
come in. There is security here and then
as you come in, I'm going to hand you all an NDA on paper.
Weird, that's. Super retro.
Yeah, it's very retro. It's going to be good.
Yeah.
You have AV for a head. I do, yes.
Is that a problem? Can you still do BDS?
Yeah. Oh, then never mind.
Then it's fine. Great.
So if you guys can come on in, just follow me.
Just come on in here. I opened.
Come on in, everyone. Welcome to the happy company
market Research on Market Street.
Oh wow, yeah, cool. I leaned into retro.
Oh man, I was hoping she'd be Scottish.
You know we can. We can still dream.
There might be a Sky music in there.
They're. My, they're my, I mean, but you
know you sometimes it's just getting to the journey of
finally beating. Scott, that's true.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone come on through.
Please pay attention to the commercials on either side.
Sure. Yeah.
Oh, here we go. Oh yeah.
Oh. They're louder than they thought
they'd be. And as you walk in, there are
advertisements for some of the Happy Company's other products.
Smile with miss A, hug her and she hugs you back with
algorithmically accurate compliments.
Musical available in stores now. Sounds reasonable.
I want one coach. Having trouble with the BM?
We'll try our BD balloon film and finally get your butt
moving. That's something that we've been
eating for a while. A new thing the day before
Christmas. The day.
Before. Christmas the day before
Christmas. The day before Christmas.
Oh, the day before Christmas. Oh, are you looking at the Day
Before Christmas commercial? Yeah, I am.
Have you all signed the NDA? Well, you haven't handed it
first yet. Yes, I have.
I handed it to you as you came on in, Silly goose.
I didn't get one. Can I please get one?
Here you go, and here's a pen for you all you can keep that
has the Happy Company logo on it.
Oh, thank you. Oh, you don't have a name stack?
Here's a clipboard. Here's a I'm Maggie.
Oh, good. Nice to meet you, Maggie.
I thought you had a different name.
No, I'm Maggie. Oh, I thought your name was Joy,
because that's what you seem to be bringing around here.
I like you. There are bonus points here, but
I would give them give them to this guy.
I'm just going. To go through everyone but what
was your name? Neon Pass.
Bright neon. Pass.
Good. Yeah, I love your signature and
that's cute. Yeah.
Thank you. Welcome and you.
Bloomin, is it OK if I take pictures of literally everything
while we're here? Not in the actual Market Reach
research booth. And on Christmas Day, you can
release any footage you take inside, but not inside either
room A or B. OK.
And they're labeled, right? I won't.
Very much. It's on the ground, big letters.
It's very clean here. We like to be clean here at The
Happy Company. OK, OK.
Everyone I was hanging out with in line put stickers on all of
their stuff and it really bothers me.
But yeah, that's great Labels, OK.
Nice to meet you Lumen. Again with the NDA you can't
release any information till after Christmas.
We good. I totally get it.
This is yes, totally get. It all right and you.
Vex. Nice to meet you.
So how long is this going to take?
Maybe an hour. OK, just checking.
I mean, or do you mean the whole side quest?
Because that's probably about four or five.
You're going to be the rudest way to ask, all right, how long
is this going to take? We got to wrap.
It up, Ryan's got. Somewhere to be.
He's got a Renaissance fair to go to.
We're not recording videos, so they have no idea why that's
coming. I think that's better.
Imagine the pirateous shirt do. It There we go.
And and you? Oh, I'm Cargill Forge.
Nice to meet you. Would you prefer like 4G?
Mr. Forge Cargill, what would you like to be referred to as?
Cargill's fine in general, but I might be able to Mr. 4 GI think
I could learn to come along but. I think that's the cute one, Mr.
Forge. It is.
I hope you're in Group A, I'm running with Group A.
It's going to be fun. Anyway, we'll get to that in a
bit. And you are Mr. TV head person.
Your mouth's moving, but nothing's happening.
I'm sorry I was having internal thoughts in my head.
I apologize. I put myself on mute real quick.
As you can see, I've written down my my legal name Jebediah
Popescu. But I have a a Nam de plume
which I use for my actual name for when I'm having to do any
business stuff like that which is just retro.
So. You got it, Mr. Retroman.
Like your jacket? Thank you.
If you could all just head into the room to the South, the
security is here for your protection and mine because you
are just people we found on the street.
So if you don't do anything, they don't do anything.
That sounds fair. Fair, Yeah.
So if you make your way down there, find yourself a seat.
I'm one of the sofas in here. That's a nice sofa, I expect.
Thank. You.
We love red. It's very seasonal.
Yeah. And I think this spot next to me
over here. Oh thanks man I I'm like
streaming this whole thing on my phone.
You signed an NDA. They said we could film in here,
right? It was he.
Said that the that it couldn't go out until after Christmas.
Are you streaming or you filming?
That's right, I'm filming. That's right, I am filming.
Concealed. Concealed.
No, it didn't go well last time. My.
You also have no levels in concealed reveal of.
No, yeah, my my maid bits were out for.
All to see. And all to see.
Yeah, no filming. Thank you very much.
Pissed off with just a hail of bullets.
It's like, all right, let's continue.
OK everyone, I'm going to play the little video and GM side
moment. We're going to have music
playing in this for the final edit version, but you can just
imagine it because I didn't have that.
This is the best bossa Nova music to happen.
Night City needs something fresh.
Are you feeling down? Do you love video games?
Are you festive as fuck? Yeah, we at the Happy Company,
we've got something for you coming.
This season is our new BD game. That just makes you feel better.
Oh game, I love games. OK, I'm going to pause the
video. How do we feel about that?
Everyone, raise your hand. If you're interested, raise your
hand. Love video games?
Pretty cool. Do we have to be festive as
fuck? No, no, we're just trying to
cover demographics. Are you against the project
because it's festive as fuck or are you with the project because
or just like agnostic? No, I I didn't know if that was
the goal or I had to be right now.
No, it's more that we're trying to get people to buy it for
Christmas. Oh, OK.
OK, yeah, got. It.
Got it. We just didn't want to mess it
up. Are we asking this if we're
going to be secular or religious then?
It's not a religious thing, It's more are you?
Are you interested in gifts? Do you like like games and
feeling good about yourself? I do it now.
OK. This seems positive.
I'm seeing positive. And what about you?
And some other people in the room and kind of put their hands
up. They are way more apathetic than
you guys. They do not have protagonist
energy. Do we have to be playing the
game or is this like something you can give someone?
You serious? What?
I'm going to write that down. That's a great thing to say
here. Looks really confused at this
guy on one of the sofas in the front row.
Someone's not getting paid. Yeah.
Was that helpful? I don't know.
OK. It.
Wasn't festive? Here's the here's the second
video I want to show you. Here we go.
Here we go that go girl, put the ball in the cup, feel good,
stand near your friends and see who can do it faster for an even
bigger reward. And once every single week, some
player will win actual money. Not that bullshit, but actual
money. All in a simple BD chip that you
can play with an implant or through a device sold by us here
at the Happy Company. Merry Christmas.
It's simple, it's easy guys. What do you think?
Was that direct? I have, I have a question.
Yeah. So this is two things.
A ball. And a.
Cup. Digitally, yeah.
Why? Well, it's more of a game
mechanic. You are you aware of video
games? You you put the ball in a cup,
but in your mind. And there are lots of cool
backgrounds you can unlock too. Bro you can win real money with
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How are you not hyped about winning but real money?
I'm kind of, I'm kind of wondering how this will be in
terms of like engagement, you know, with like viewers and
stuff like that. If you're like streaming this or
anything like that. We will have a streamer package
where your audience doesn't have to be physically close to you,
but you can play with each other and of course the winner of your
groups. That gets to feel good.
So if you're playing with someone else, do you put your
ball in their cup? No.
You're racing to see who can do it first, no?
OK, I have a clarification question.
Sure. You said you can play with
friends. Yes.
Do you need those? No, it will play with anyone if
I if it does not come with friends.
You're chipper, aren't you? I.
Sorry. You don't have to apologize.
I'll shame you anyway. I'm kidding.
I'm kidding how?
Are people. Feeling about this?
Question Question will there be skins for the cup and balls?
That is a good will be. Skins for the cup and balls.
Will you be able to have more than one ball like a pair of
balls? We're thinking about that for
another update, and you saw right through us that's really
cool. Oh cool, I'm kind of like
getting in the mindset of it. Also you said that we can win
actual money. Is this like so you can win
money but there's no gambling, right?
We're not putting our money in you, just as the potential of
winning money, no. Go gambling.
Like if I was to say buy this for my son and be like, if you
want to earn an allowance, you got to play ball in the cup.
Well, it's only the top five people every week.
Well my son loves video games and he could he'll just probably
just do that consistently. I mean all he does is just rain
and dance all the time anyway. So you can you can help with
rent. Yeah, so now that you've seen
this, who wants to try it? Oh me, I'm an excellent ball
handler. Excellent.
We love that. OK, everybody, I'm going to say
let's see. OK, For Group B, let's have
GAIL, Sarah, James, George and we have one person in the
bathroom, so I guess they're in Group B.
And then can we have for Group A Neon Lumen, Retro Cargill and?
Sick. Yeah.
It's in Group. Crazy.
Oh, look at that. I did.
I did the room. I didn't even do that.
I was looking down. That's crazy.
If you can follow me, Group A is going to go with me.
Group B, my associate Kate is already in there.
So if you could just head on in there so Trudy could.
You get the guy. From my bathroom.
Yes, of course. Thank.
You. All right, you, you guys just go
straight in there. Right in the bee, You busy
little bee. Hey, Kate.
Hi, Honey. OK, you guys stay happy now.
Mickey, it's it's be happy. Shut up.
Oh, wait, no, we're not going in there.
Sorry. Nope, you're not going in there.
It's labeled. It's clearly labeled.
It's. Very.
I couldn't see there's, there's no stickers on it.
It's just. It's it's in a, it's in a mono
mono. Color it's.
Just like 1. Thing like my brain just buzzing
all around it. There's no LEDs there's.
No, nothing. You drink orange juice with your
meds? That that's what happened this
morning. Is it crazy that now that we
can't go and be? All I want to know is what's
happening and be. I mean, I kind of yeah, a little
bit, yeah. I saw my tum in there.
They did. Yeah, we I just call him Tum.
Nice. OK, everybody, everyone find a
seat. Nope.
Sorry for that one. You guys are.
Cute, sorry you're cute as you've got such a great you just
want vet retro I. Just love.
Yeah, you know what, with having such a boxy head, I also have
just very like a very boxy thighs.
OK everyone love this stuff. In front of you just just in the
little little table attached to seat is a BD unit.
We have an extra wide one for UTV head and if you guys just
put it on and then you'll see a ball and a cup.
Now the background is in beta so it is grey.
You see a ball and cup and you just have to sink the ball into
the cup. First person gets a point and
the highest point winner will get an extra 50.
At ease today A. Little detail.
OK, OK, OK, OK. Is there anything I can do to be
extra good at ball and cup? Yes.
What can I do, Paris? You can bullshit your way into
rolling an actual skill. Would you consider this basic
tech or? If you like.
I feel like you're making an exception for me because I'm a
guest, but I'll take it. Thank you.
Makes sense to me. It's not the craziest one I've
ever heard. So anyway, why don't you just
paramedic? You.
Can justify it. What about since this is like
throwing a thing and like you know, having to to pick a target
and get something in, Would like an aiming skill like handgun be
useful? Yes.
All right. I would like to do that, yeah.
Yeah, whatever you want. I'm I'm just going to use my
mind. Oh.
That's a very good role. You did very well there.
I'm. I'm good at one thing.
That's. Really good.
Oh my. God.
Let's go. Man.
Oh, Cargill, you think I'm not going to notice that one year
old earlier get messed? That was a cow.
Hold the one.
I'm not letting that pass. It's time for your nudes to show
up so. Cargill.
You're trying to do. You're trying.
To put this ball in the cup and for the life of you it just
won't go in. It hits the rim.
Come on. It rolls off the.
Screen and you have to like look around the room to find it and
then look at it to get it back into your view and you're having
a bad point and you see the little logos of everyone else in
the room go green. As long as that balls go in a
cup. Lost.
No, that's. Yours feeling.
Retro, you're second to last with that five, unless you're
waggy, you know I was. Going to ask, can I roll
electronic security tech to make an analysis on the cup and the
ball in the game? Roll for it.
For some reason I feel like there's carnival shenanigans
here and the ball may be bigger than the cup.
Oh, electronic security. 29 Yes, you look through the code and
it's just a ball in the cup game.
That's it. The thing that you do find weird
though is that there is a large portion of allocated data
missing. Petabytes and petabytes of data.
Absolute Dick loads of data that's just missing from this
version that that does strike you as weird.
Yes. This does distract you however,
so you end up still being second to last.
The others aren't paying attention to your slightly
confused game Playing Vex. You rolled an 8.
Yes. That is, do you want to roll a
skill? No, he's purposefully sticking
with just instructions right now.
OK, cool. Yeah, you're you're shit.
This is hard because I was doing it backwards.
They got middle of the pack. You're right in the middle of
the pack, Neon. You're just about to get your
ball in when the calmest and sweetest person in the room,
Lumen, just gets in it. First time you're very relaxed
of mine and it just and it makes a very satisfying noise, like
the sound of a of a Pebble plopping into a freshly still
lake. And it's just the noise that
makes you feel better, but you don't feel any other effect and
it gives you a point. Great.
We have our winner Lumen. Well done.
That's so good. All right, everybody, Round 2GO
again. OK, all right technique, I can
do this. What did I just do?
It's. 4. You rolled.
The worst crit fail is what you
actually did. Good.
I think that balances it out. All right.
Oh, wow, you guys did great. Cargill.
You get really excited as you're not lost.
You're right in the middle of the pack.
You're not lost. You get the ball in and it and
it makes the for you. It makes a guitar riff noise as
it drops into the into the hole. Yeah, that's my jam.
Retro yours is the sound of ACRT television turning on.
That seems technologically ablest.
And vex and pass. Pass.
Thank you. Vex and Pass, you both get the
ball in the cup at the same time.
Lumen on the other hand, you've thrown it and now you can't find
the ball and you walk around the you get up to try and find it,
walk around the room and hit a wall and you take one HP damage.
Ow I'm so sorry did I? Did I?
Did I damage? The wall you're.
Talking to a wall. Oh God, OK.
Don't stand up during the test. Got it.
Sorry I lost the ball and I couldn't, I couldn't find it
again. Is there a clap?
Clap. OK, did it.
Every time you clap it resets the ball to center.
See how? These balls go up now.
I instantly get overwhelmed when I put.
In the Congress like. Oh no, there's too many balls.
OK, final round, everyone roll again.
Here we go. Because I've also noticed the
petabytes of data that are completely missing and I
probably, I think distracted me from the last one.
I realized I'm not going to win this.
There's no point. Can I poke around to see what
data is missing? Are there any markers, any kind
of tags or something that I can know what was removed?
Roll for it 26. The only thing you're that you
can work out is that it's neural data.
You can't neural data. Still on disk DLC.
It's 2 forms of neural data. The rest of you, though, have no
idea that this is happening and everyone rolled really, really
well. Really well, really well.
But it's Cargill who wins this rap, yeah.
Yeah. Oh, in your faces, boy, you're
good. We.
Have a winner. We what?
One second I'm getting my headset died.
That's weird. My little earpiece, my Well
done. You're going to get the extra 50
eddies. Thank you so much everyone for
your tests. If you just I'm going to, I'm
going to go and fix my headset. If you guys could put your
things on the ground. We've got cameras recording.
So just discuss amongst yourselves how the game is going
and please don't take my tone as panic.
I Yeah, Hey. Did any of you guys have a
problem with too many balls and not enough?
Cup No, no, that I didn't. I didn't have that.
Did you? Was it because you hit the wall?
No, it was after the wall. The lady told me to clap and
then after I got done clapping, there were just there it was.
It was overwhelming honestly. There were way too many balls.
Hey, do you think if you get more balls like that, you can
like, you know, hack the game a little bit so you can like get a
lot of chances to win? Oh, like just throw a bunch.
Yeah, just like a toss a bunch, you know?
Well, if there's a command for extra balls, maybe you could get
extra cups too, like a bonus round or something and you could
just toss a bunch statistically, you know?
You hear screaming outside and then gunshots.
Shit. And then a bullet flies through
the door and hits Maggie square in the back of the head and she
drops the ground dead like a sack of shit.
My God, I get my video camera out and I film it.
What are those people? No, I do not move.
I am stock still, like a deer drinking out of a pond.
Like just absolutely my body refuses to work.
Shit, holy shit, holy shit. This seems normal to retro and
in fact, now that Maggie's got Maggie's passed away
unfortunately like, well, I guess I can just do this now.
I'll pull Jay out and I'll just light it up and start smoking.
I get up and try. Does the door open outwards or
did the door open inwards? It's a sliding door.
Is the door open right now? It is open, yes, because I yes.
So you should be able to see out the door if you move just right.
Yep, but I don't want to see what's out the door.
I want to move to the door and close it.
Cool. So you walk up to the door, the
door control is a little keypad beside it, and it's stuck open.
Oh. God.
Hey, who knows how to fix doors? And then more.
To look down and I'm going to have, I have a big like E banner
across the left forearm and I'm going to press a few buttons.
It's going to change to a bunch of angry faces like emoticons
all over it. He's going to pick up, going to
pick up my gun and move to the edge of the desk where the desk
is between me and the door. Shit.
Also Cargill for winning that you get an inspiration.
I have a pretty good electronics and security tech.
Do you say anything about the door being stuck open like the
keypad? Yes.
Hey, you, you fixed the thing earlier.
Can you fix the door? I I think it'll be it.
Just 1000 yard stare for a second, huh?
Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Is that door bulletproof, do you think?
Probably not. I hope so.
Wait, hold on. Just shoot, I was going.
To have, hold on, I'm going to have the, we, we've heard the,
we've heard the sound of this gun a couple of times, I think,
right? Yep.
I'd like to use a weapons tech to be able to see if I can
determine the sound of the firearm.
Fuck. Oh no, it's a heavy SMG.
Oh no. Yeah, that's somewhat worrisome.
That's a lot of bullets. It's a lot of bullets.
Well, let's hopefully get this door shut.
Maybe. Unfortunately the the crazy guy
in the hallway just rolled a crit success with his gun and as
he blazes his gun across the room, this heavy SMG.
He hits the other side of the door control and it frazzles and
then shocks you. Cargo standing right next to it
forces you back a step, you lose 2 HP and it stings hell either.
Oh. We're going to shake that up.
I got to shake that up. Oh.
Wow. Geez.
Oh shit. That's a little bad with
mentally it's more than 50 eddies.
Motherfuckers. What the what the what the fuck
do we do? Retro?
What's going? What the fuck?
This is really going to affect us getting paid today, isn't it?
Well, for initiative. Do you guys think the NDA still
counts? Can I film?
Can I just take pictures? Next time on no latency side
quest let's. Get messy tune.
Is there a clear shot around this hostage?
There's one outside looking right at our gunman.
Neon pass New Tumblr when we get it.
We'd hot lad. Oh no.
Yeah, I saw. It everybody at Cargill.
Cover me, I got to get this fixed.
I saw it. It did happen.
Because like that first person shooter, remember how much it
took you to finally get on the boards and you finally got
bronze rank. Yeah, yeah.
Ohh no. I'll take the first one this
time if you don't mind. Well, there's that.
Missing data welcome. Home, yes.
You call atrocity, I call tactics.
But I'd rather not have a bunch of stick.
Guys fan, I swear I won't ban, you know, time you all out.
Trying to whack them right in the.
Head I enforce the Ndas and then I shoot.
Nice. Oh, we're getting we're, we're
close to that Tumblr chat. Before we go poking the bear if
we got paid yet, it's if we check to see if we've got our
eddies. Can you pick that up and shoot
them already? I.
Really don't want to pick up that gun man I'm sorry.
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