Last time on no latency. Jeff, these drones are shooting at me. I'll take out the drones. Shoot, That's what it's doing. Everybody yells full. Sprint. Focus on the robot man. I will stay behind this bent I'll touch. That one, at least. For now. We won't let your dad, Doc. Don't worry 2. I'm totally fine. Mommy's mad. I'm on a new high now. It's called adrenaline. And my eyebrows go. Listen. Oh my God, they've turned Jeff into an alien.
You have to play nice, Yeah, well, you don't get to play at all. Damn it, baby, you beat me to the kneecapping. You're in time out. Yeah. You get them, guy. Remy stop. Did I just hear somebody click fucking cock at me? Remy. I think it's called a hammer, you guys. Does Hyonas smoke? Holy shit. What you guys doing there? I'm glad you're back. Maybe I'll get cybernetic eyebrows. What do y'all think about that? I. Really don't remember any of that.
Like you wandering off on your own, killing the drones, making all those hombre puns. I I don't. I no, I don't know any about that, hombre. I mean you're all my my friends. I don't remember much of it, honestly. Actually, it's kind of hard to remember back to I remember the test. The test that was so long ago. That was like, you know, like come on 20-30 minutes ago, yo, come on, not that far away. We've explored nearly this entire facility since then. Oh shit. Yes.
Do you remember what? Can I say but oops. You you encrypted files for us? That's true. I mean, I know how to encrypt files when I'm high. I'm usually better when I'm high. Or de encrypted, I should say unencrypted. What's? The. Decrypt. Decrypted. That's. Actually a different story. I'm not as good. But do you remember the batteries? Yeah, I I do need to pick up some AAA batteries when I get home. Oh no. Oh boy. It's it's people. It's people.
No, the AAA's are people. That's the thing that you got to remember. There's there's no thermal vent. They're using people to come over them. What? What? What are you, Donald talking about do? You remember during the exam we got assigned to Abbott and Thermal. Remember that you were there. You said you remembered the exam, right? That's before we went in the elevator, So that's before there was pressure, right? VV.
That's got to be how it works. I mean, the last thing I remember is taking the test is, that's what I'm saying, OK, so they're putting people into AAA batteries now. That's that's interesting. Exactly right. Yeah, but only in this facility. Facility was powered by AAA batteries. That's. Correct. That's right. It's over 70,000 people. 70. 1000 AAA battery, I mean, I I mean AAA that's. Yeah, that's 70,000 people. Retro. Yeah. Who? Knows I mean AAA battery there.
It is Jeb, and I saw it. It was horrible. Oh yeah, I'm scarred for that. It is very bad. So they're turning people into AAA batteries and then they're using them to then power this. No, they're they're not even bothering turning them into batteries. They're just plugging their bodies in and sucking the power as they need. Oh, so they're energy vampires. I got you vampires. OK. Anybody have a cross? I mean, I can stand. I can stand. You have really had a tolerance
break, haven't you? Because you are so stoned right now. I don't know what you're meaning. Look. Look at his eyes. Look at him. You're so red. You're never this red. You've got your your little the little red rings around your eyeballs. Oh, hold on and I'll just, I'll just turn down my RGB so that way. It's just. It's just it's just black. It's just black and white, Yeah. I'm I'm going even more retro mode now. It's just black and white. There you go. That's better.
Well. Basically, retro. This place is fucked. That's one way to put it. And sounds like normal, we just killed 2. Killed two what? Yeah, you that's. You. Two. No, sorry, I already did that one. Yeah, exactly. No, but Retro you you kicked see the ball over there, the the dead AI ball. Oh yeah. Wow. Who did that? You did? You kicked it really, really hard. Oh. It was pretty cool. Really. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Man, that must have been like some like, real repressed shit.
Because to be honest, like those things fucking creep me out and pissed me off a lot. So that's yeah, that's some real unrepressed, bridled rage thing. How the fuck did that happen? You certainly were acting with some high levels of paranoia and anxiety, so that probably was acted out on, said AII. Mean. I'm typically high. So I mean, I guess that makes sense. I never been like, fuck, what the hell was I smoking to be on that? I might anyone's guess. We're glad that you're. Back.
To your normal self now. Retro, do you want to get back into the spirit? Maybe loot a body that'll cheer you up? You like doing that? All right. Yeah, I'm going to loot the closest human body next to me. What you got on you? Pat? Pat. Pat. I'm. I'm going to loot this one. Don't don't worry, Iona. I'll the one. I'll be the one to get dirty. I just crawled through a vent. I don't know if you saw that. I I mean, if you want, if you want to dig through the body, you can. No, no.
It's missing a head. No, thank you. Wait, Iona's going through dirt and grime and you're saying I'm the one that's being weird now? What the fuck's going on? If I'm on his retro I, I. I might have his penis have. My penis. No, no, no. Retro, I, I, I, I think Iona did that to save you. Don't. Don't. Grabbed his penis to save him? No. Not your penis. I'm trying to have a sweet moment with you, Retro. Oh crap crap. No, go ahead. Fuck off.
Yeah, I heard. Yeah, Jeb walks away to the corner and just kind of looks in the corner. Except these guys. These. American. Eyebrows. Big eyebrows. I I think. I think Iona crawled through Event for you. So. If we're going to talk about mind blowers today, I think that's the biggest one. Yeah, I know, right? But don't. But don't let them know, because the fact that you don't remember is like, genuinely their MO. You know so. I can't promise that. Anyway, what did you find?
You didn't roll? I don't know yet. Oh, I'm supposed to roll for Vendel? Yes, you are. Oh really? Sometimes I forget that they're not their own person. I'm going to take that as a compliment. What I'll? Roll. Perception. It's exceptions. Underwear. Bureaucracy. I mean, you're telling them to do it. Inception 11? Yeah, what about you? Retro 18? Good. Anyone else? I'm looking at a wall. Oh. Sure. No perception. I smell something. That's a good point. Yeah, right.
Real perception. I forgot I got a 19 on paint draw sculpt for those eyebrows. Yeah, they're really good, by the way. Yeah, VV You reach down next to the one of the bodies and you're looking at it. It's missing a head. It it was one of the doctors, one of the researchers for this facility and in their top lapel pocket you find gonna roll 4 doses of synth coke. 4 doses of synth. Coke. Now you rolled high enough that no one else has noticed that you did this. Man, this doctor.
Was. High on synth coke. I mean what? What was that, Phoebe? Nothing. What'd? You say nothing. You. Find something over there. This doctor is really a sad, is what I was saying. Oh, wow. OK. So we'll. Pour one out for him, Yeah, Just make sure you get his name down so we can get drop one for him at the bar. Yeah, I I I didn't find much. I only rolled in 11. I found 15 eddies but retro. It looks like you found an audio file. Oh, sweet. I wonder who it is. It's like a mix, you know?
Sometimes when you find these, they're like mixtapes. What was Who was that? And you look down and you've been rummaging through a security officer. What's left of him and you find this audio chip. Oh, oh, hey, Jeff. Oh, what? Kyle, real quick. Oh yeah, sure. Jeb, as you're walking back towards retro, you rolled A-15, which is higher than Vendel, so you found 30 eddies stuck to the bottom of your foot. It is, however, covered in blood. So roll. Resist torture. Drugs.
Man, these these Eddies. Yeah, it's got Johnny Silver hand on the on the front. You rolled high enough. You do not have to lick the dollar bills if you do not want. I do smell it though. It does smell like BBQ sauce. And oh wait, hold on, hold on. That's the universe door. That's all negative. Jeb, you're walking with now 30 Eddies in your hand towards retro and this and this thing in his hand. Oh yeah, here, here's the here's
the tile. Now be careful, because last time I did a little roll, I did kind of snap the the. It's a little bit more broken now, so just be careful. Yeah, sure. OK. Don't cut yourself. Remy, we'll go ahead and take a take the tile from jab and just rip the back off and put the audio file in. OK, the. Whole place is quiet on the whole floor. There's no one here. I took a crawl around some of the vents and I I swear I saw a ball with legs. What are they doing down here? A ball with legs.
Oh, that must have been. 2. Two because two was was had a had a humanoid form that he had kind of, you know pasted together with all kinds of different Makai body parts. Very Einstein esque. Sorry, Einstein. That's that's not right. Frank. Einstein. That's it. That's it. Oh, I thought you were talking about Frank Einstein, who we caught, you know, several years ago. They were putting all those cyber parts together that build people.
Yeah, also, famously Einstein's great, great, great, great cousin. Right, so. Well, we should probably go check on Doctor Ombre so to make sure that they're not dead all. Right, let's go check on Dom, the Doctor Omlet, let's go. Oh wow. It went a long way. I don't remember. Any all by yourself too. You, you wandered off all by yourself and you went a very long way. Oh wow, there's a dead drone in here. What the hell? What happened there? And another. Yeah, you used that to find too.
It was really cool. Man, maybe I should be passed out more often. That sounds pretty cool when I'm doing. That maybe you were a different consciousness when you were, you know go having all those doing all that for the past. I don't know Episode and 1/2. Yeah, it was. It was pretty upsetting actually, if I'm honest. You're right, he was having an episode. But like, do you do you think that, like, you know it was a do you think it was like a separate
entity, like a separate person? Or do you think it was? Did you just forget, you know what I mean? I. I think it was probably a part of him that has been locked deep down. That's what I think too. I think he might. It might be kind of a sick personality, you know? Oh, I thought you were saying, like I got possessed by some kind of evil ghost. Or that we don't know. Underwater ghosts. Oh, yes. As you walk into the research office there, Doctor Ombre still
sits in the pod. They look a lot paler, and there's a faint beeping coming from the machine. It is a medical, oh, kind of beeping that VB recognizes. Ombre, you all right? I will go over and check them out. Hello, Doctor. What? Oh God. Doctor. Doctor. What's going on here? I can't. I can't reach the screen. I can't see it. Do you know what it says? I look over to the screen. Prognosis. Chemical. Oh no and. They cough up blood in front of you. Oh fuck it's.
That's not good. Oh. No, these reports are saying they're saying it's terminal. Yeah, it's all right. I'll do it. And I and I take out my pistol and I cock it. No, no, no. Wait, not yet. I mean, you got to let him have a choice first. Jeb, come on. Hold on. Hold on, Jeb. Nice. All right, all right. I'm. Just trying to do the right thing. Consent's important. I should have got into media.
Is there my partner session? Is there anything we can do to make this a bit more comfortable for you right now? I can't feel my legs. Oh, I can help with that. Hold on. I'm. I'm going to hand on the rest of my joint. Here you go. Yeah. Here try that. Will you light it? Yeah, sure. So, Doctor, how much longer do I have? I assess what is on the on the
screen and read their prognosis. So you've rolled first aid with a crit -2, but you've still got a 15 and you rolled Medical Tech 22. You give her a proper examination, like a really good examination, and you rolled over 20. And as you examine her, you look down and her body from the waist down has fused with the pod. Within the computer you can see that she used an unknown to the pods compound to keep herself alive in the pod, and you suspect it's the experiment she was talking about.
Well, your lower half has been fused to the pod. Oh fuck, I use too much. Yeah. But I'm sorry, there's no easy way to say it. It's maybe a few hours. Yeah, OK. Do you want us to put you down or do you want to sit here? I don't want to die alone, but I do want to finish this joint. This is really good weed guy with TV head. Yeah, right. It's like some of my Primo stuff. I think I forgot it in my bag. That's like the best lost supper ever. Cheesy puffs in a excellent drug.
Thank you. Oh yeah, Cyberpunk is fat. Yeah. Well, I mean, if I'm dead to the world, I guess you could ask me anything you want. Oh cool, Amai. Don't fucking care anymore. Great. Where can we find the compound that that you've been experimenting with? Oh, you mean body fuel? Whole game. Yes. And it's a biotechnical project, but they just had body fuel gain which gave you mass. But ours let you hold on to PR marketing out of field day, I mean. It's, it's catchy.
It's all hail, I'll tell you. Yeah, yeah. But there it was just adjusted body fuel. So it's a, it's a. It's a compound that when applied. The. The. Flesh in the machine don't reject each other. Ever. If I had enough of it I could infuse my legs, but I've been fused for a long time so I need new ones. And also, according to this doctor, I'm I'm not along for this world. The rest of the compound is down with the the armour, the body frame, stuff in the bottom of
the facility. We bring it up when we need it. What? What room is that? Oh, it's in a big tank. They bring it to us in a small VAT, so you'll find a tank down there. Now, do you have any idea on how we could blow this place to hell? Well, you'd have to activate the CAD system, which is a lot harder without custodian. Oh, will, you will not be able to. Oh wait, I mean, the custodian's still around. It's just not operational, you understand? So you killed the Custodian, right?
Yes, yeah. Can you kill Sultan? Mate was never alive. No, it was alive. We gave it a body and everything. Did you fucking kill it? Yeah, we killed two. We killed two of them, right? No, that's his designation. You smoked this. I get why you don't get that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, the only other person I think you might know how to run the cads is Doctor Abbott. They might have a. Backup AI or something. I don't know. They're fairly brilliant.
The only reason they came to work here I'll. Be the judge of that. Is Doctor Abbott locked down here? I imagine. Do you think that they did the same thing that you did and parted up? No, their their tech is all mostly tech based. So the the neural interface with the machines and making that like human, that's their expertise. They they got really big in BDS, they were very, very realistic, lots of really good training ship. It's almost like you're there. What? What's the?
What's the best way to find them? Like, do they have an office? Do they have like a they? Have a lab? Did you not see the map? No. They're in the Abbot lab. Oh, the Abbot lab, Yeah. I have AI have an Abbot lab pass in my locker over there and you can have my gun. Oh, thank God. I thought we were going to have to find like one of their helpers or something. Cool. Yeah. All right, I'll, I'll go to that. I'll go to that locker. Where's that at? I'm going to start open in every locker.
You open a bunch of lockers, Most of them are filled with like boring ass paperwork. There's a lot of paperwork in here. You run it through it, you find an extra 20 eddies for your searching and because you're safe. And then you find Doctor Ombre's locker and it says Doctor Alice Ombre. And inside the locker you find an another Abbott pass and a gun marked the bolter. The bolter, OK. It's small and seems to take a battery as a magazine. Is this what they're putting people into guns?
No, it's an It's like an electric gun. It's fries tech. Oh. It's pretty good. Yeah. Well then, I'm not going to look down the barrel of this one. It's not very strong, but it'll it'll, you know, do some stuff to tech. It's pretty cool. The GM is not going to tell you what it does until you shoot it, so. And they stub out the joint on the side of their pod. They spit out more blood. Are you ready to go? Yeah, whatever you do, don't take body fuel. Oh, you should feel funny.
Yeah, I I couldn't talk to that. What? No, I I I was I was one of the the test subjects. Yeah, you have to sign the thing. Shut the fuck up. Oh, NDA bro. NDA. Sorry, all I'm saying is that don't do it all right? I I I agree. I can't really go back on that one cowboy man. But. Neither can I. At least we stopped that fucking custodian from getting out. Amen. Is there anything you want us to do for you before anything you want to pass on?
Just tell Sasha I loved it. Sure you you you got their number, we can send them a quick message. Right now, there's no. Signal down here, cowboy. Right. Don't worry, we'll find Sasha take. Care. Yeah, Y'all. Got Wi-Fi down here though. Jeff, why don't you go ahead and do your job now. My job? Yeah, it's Jeff takes out his gun. All right, Point to that, Doctor Ombre. Hey, it was nasty when you Doc. Yeah, you too. Try not to die. I'd say you too, but here we are. Bye. Roll for it.
What? Please don't miss I'm. Going to make him roll. No. It's it's literally a coup de grace. You have. You have now put that in the in the space though. Now binary. Thank you. At a death blow? Yeah, coup de grace. All right. 25. Look at the damage, though. That did explode. Well, there you go. There's the answer, Jeb. You put the gun against the head, you pull the trigger, and a bullet goes straight through their temple. You hit for 25 and their neck clicks back, and you hear it
crack. At the same time, Nikilo the dead, and the machine gives off a final error. And in a solemn moment, Vendel turns off the alarm. Thank you, Vendel. You're welcome. We did the Rat League there, right? Yes. OK, they asked for it. It was a mercy. Well, I suppose we should find Doctor Abbott and the tank. We definitely need to find the tank. Yeah, we should keep going and going and going and going now. We're we're still blowing this place up, right? Yes, after we get the body frame
and body fuel hold gain. Wait a minute. Why do we want that? For Domino. Oh. Yes. So that way we can make Domino a real boy. A real boy, yes. I see. Just a little guy. He's just going to be a little guy. He's just going to be a little guy. Going to give a little legs, little hands. Oh God, I'm out of. Here I'm walking out. Little toes, little ass, little nose was. That the elevator? I thought it was a closet. You don't think I know what an
elevator looks like? I I I probably have designed this place. You know the large elevator in the world for a long time was the the beginning of the Haunted Mansion rat in Walt. Isn't that? What? That's true. You know, a lot of old timey. Facts. It's Solica. I live in the past. I I scanned the Abbott pass in the elevator. Well, Tune, Welcome to the future.
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Will I leave me hanging? That's no, you don't. I'll take it. Oh, all right. High five. I love high fives. I can't resist a high 5. My never can I. It's my weakness. If anyone finds out, it's kind of like my Achilles heel. Someone just raises their hand. Even the middle of a gunfight, they raise their hand. I'm coming for a high 5. And your other weaknesses is flesh. Yeah, and and my emotional connection to the people I love. That's nice.
So you step out into this first corridor of the Abbott Lab floor. In front of you are a few crates. Further down the corridor are a few vending machines. And even further to the South, in the very corner before the corridor takes a little left turn, are two red sofas. You know, honestly, I didn't even realize till this very moment, but I could really go for a nap and those red sofas look comfy. I'm going to be honest, Jeb, you probably don't want to trust any sofas. What?
Why? I mean it looks comfy enough. Past experienced. I'm, I'm, I'm like, Jeb like puts his hand on the cushion, kind of pushes down on it. How does it feel? Romy 3D10. Oh, you found more spider silk? Yeah, that ain't bad. You find 16 eddies. Oh, ah, there's always cash in between the seat cushions. I should know. Why do I always have the bad luck when it comes to clutches? Vendel are Are you feeling all right? You don't look very good. What do you mean?
If I had to evaluate you, your HP is low. Oh, do you need help Vendel? I can patch you up real quick if we have the time. Well, it might be a good idea. Yeah, actually it'll only take a few minutes. OK. I mean there are there are couches here, but you all go for it. I'm I'm nervous being near couches anymore. What? What's the couch fear again? That's. That's personal. Couch A phobia. Yeah, that's personal. Yeah, I I I I wasn't there. So oh. Can you listen to season one of Excuse?
Mansion I There you go. You should be feeling better. Oh, I do feel better. That's like how? Much HP. Oh, danger girl. That's means a six. That's good danger. No more. Oh, another six. So 12, 15HP. Pretty good, Bendel. Lot of HPI did 3D6 so because you rolled. 20 a lot. 21, yeah. What a bit? Oh, I didn't realize I was so low. Yeah, I guess. I guess you did take quite a few hits in our last scuffle. Rough and tumble. Yeah, I'm the rough and tumble one. That's your.
Retro roll perception. Oh shit. Lookout. Couch. Is coming after me the couch. Is a mimic. And oh God, Can you imagine? Yes. 12 That's not very good. I'm high, what do you expect? This is true. Oh no, Jeff the couch is actually a mimic. Get out of there. What? Oh, anyone else who wants to look around? Also Rob. Perception. Retro. You are fixated by the sofa and find nothing. Oh, I'm I'm not touching that
fucking thing. Oh, Jeb's going to go ahead and lay down on the couch and put his cowboy hat over his face. Are you lying down on the sofa that you grabbed money from, or the other one? The one I grabbed money from? It's the one I'm already closest to. OK, so you lie down on the sofa Iona, you're disgusted by Jeb lying down on the sofa, and you take a few steps back and with your 22 crit perception, you see on the north side of this corridor that there is a hidden ish door in the wall.
And upon closer inspection, you see that the word maintenance has been badly embossed on this wall panel does. This actually feel like a maintenance closet. Yes, there is. There's a panel here.
This door wasn't very well hidden if there was a panel in front of it. And it sounds like it's labeled, so our headache could be. 4774. It opens and as the door opens, you look out into this room and it's illuminated by a window On the outside and against the window is a body sat up on the ground, legs spread open, a bullet wound in their abdomen, and a Network 54 lanyard around their neck. Window. Can you read the lanyard for me? Sasha blindside. Fuck me.
No. And as you walk closer towards this body, in their hand is a bloody audio chip. No. Oh, it's poor thing. Gosh, do we want to? Take a listen to this, Jeb. Would you mind playing it? What drive? Oh. Sorry Jeff, I've yeah. There's a dead body in here. Don't. There's dead bodges everywhere. Jeff, like, slowly gets off the couch and rubs his eyes. Comes over. Yeah, what do you guys need? And as you step in, you're quite
taken by this image. There's this dead body in silhouette as you look out into the endless depths of the ocean. Oh, James. Oh, do we know this first? This was Doctor Ombre's lover. Oh, Doctor Ombre, yeah. And there's an audio chip. Oh, I suppose you want me to put it in my thing. Could you put it in your thing please? So yeah man, you really got to get this screen fixed. Think I would, Connor. I got shot. I think this is where I die.
My name is Sasha Blindside, and I'm a Internet Network 54. This is my last report. If anyone finds these recordings, blow it up. Blow the whole Dang thing up. Fuck the trolley problem. They're all lost. What they're doing down here is unholy, but no one needs to know there is a report. Only darkness comes from what I. Found down here. There's a vent to the east in this room. I think it'll get you to the Abbott lab. That fucking happen. I couldn't get in. Her and a frog.
It's all their fault. If you find this, tell Alice I love her. This has been there like 54 under it. That's heartbreaking. Shine day and sun. Next time on No. Latency. Also, I didn't know that Frog was a scientist. Here. I thought that the Frog Lab was legitimately a lab full of frogs. Best we blow this place to hell, huh? They said that there was a vent. Wait a second. Did you hurt your leg? I don't know how I got. That. Oh my gosh. Water beasts. No, we got the hell out of there.
It had a tongue. Beyond the bruising jab, let's see if you fractured anything. Sounds like bleach in there. Oh, I like that. Oh Oh well, that's fucking ominous. What? Shoot the damn gun. Suppressing fire. Sit in front of Evi. Wish I had some luck. Goodness, I will shoot at the other stinky leg one. Nice Iona. I can't see everything. There's so many drones I can't see a door. It's free if you hack it. Or if you just smash the glass. Oh, I've made money. This is what they use.
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