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S2E83 - Rigged Rollout Retro-bution

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S2E83 - Rigged Rollout Retro-bution

With the finale looming it's time for Retro to reveal the true deception of the Combat Zones actions during their first match. Hopefully this will give the Roosters a chance at the Pug Bowl. Without some help it looks like the Combat Zone Cannons might take the whole competition. Jeb continues to drink, Vivi is living the life of a high roller and Ioanna, is getting emotional. The finale of the Pug Bowl, could affect Vendell -forever.

Will Retro get retribution?

Can Jeb hold his drink?

Will Vivi come out rich?

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Last time on no latency. He said he was doing investigating but. Well, they're investigating what? And they wanted me to take a look at some of the security footage. It's something like that should. Probably find retro before the next match. Oh right, that that was the mission I forgot. I'm scared if we have to go up against them. Do you know who has very good persuasion skills? And money. Wow. I would be anything for my friend. I believe that.

Would you lose for me? Would you give me 10,000 eddies? Fuck. It sure I just took loads of coke. Let go, spend those money. My God. Come on, we're going to go to the VIP. Petro, this is $1000. Cigarette of about the smoke. This is bullshit. I blow chat a kiss. One thing's for sure, I made double my money. Fuck. Sorry, Retro, maybe next year's Pug bowl you. Think this is over? You think you've won? Duh, duh, duh, duh. That's what you sound like. Oh my God. I got more money.

And just like that, I'm, I'm, I'm $600.00 rich. Well, yes, I suppose $300.00 richer, but I have 600 total. 7. 150 * 2. 15. 100. $1500 Let's go. Trauma team is 1.6. Oh, times 1.6. You have 1120 eddies floating and your 10K bet is still locked in Jeb. You've won 480 eddies currently. Wow. All right, I say. That ain't bad, but a little less than I originally thought. But that's fine. It's fine, you know. Betting is fun. Betting is fun and probably bad.

That's right. That's right here the. Next match is in 10 minutes, Bombat Zone versus Biotechnica. Betting is not. Betting is terrible. It is a sin. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. We had no latency. Would like to let you know to gamble responsibly and if you need help please call a number. The hotline, look it up. I don't know. Your local Your local gambling advice choice helpline will be in the description. But here in the dark sequel full.

Breaking moment, please. Take care of. Yourselves mental health is really important. Thank you, Tracy. All right. This is the moment, though. This is the moment. Biotechnica versus the Tower Sirens. No, this is combat. Oh yeah, this is not the moment. I stayed the moment. All right, this one I'm not going to bet on. I'm sitting out. I'm going to get a drink, smoke my RGB cigarette.

Let me know who wins. It is the thing about this cigarette you're noticing, Phoebe, is it's taking like 8 times longer to smoke. It's very well packed, it burns really slow, it's really smooth and it's probably going to last you through the next match and you just feel amazing. I'm going to enjoy this. I'm going to enjoy this you'd. Never enjoy it. This is this is Biotechnica. And you, you're not out here rooting all. Right. Yeah, Yeah. OK, I'll, I'll go sit in the stands.

Go Vendel Retro. Are you OK? You look really angry. I'm fine. No problem man. Retro guys, Retro is not going to be fine for the rest of the roller Derby. It's so hard, like being friends with sore losers. Oh my. OK, that's it. Oh God. Iona, you just pulled the fucking pin. Oh no. What is he going to do? I don't. Know oh, he's going to he's going to throw a grenade. I think it does the pin. I'm going to walk out of the VIP area and I'm going to go with all of my tombs in the coop and

get everybody together. I'm going to bring them all together. Hey, hey, everybody come here. Hey, Charlie. What is your root robe? Hey, guess what? What? I know what it's terrible that we lost, especially to the windy towers. Yeah, God, those guys fucking suck. They were horrible, but I found something out. This whole thing is rigged. What? What? Hold on, what? It's they cheated, they cheated and they purposely took out chick the combat zone. Oh my God that makes so much sense.

Like how else could they possibly even like compete with with us? Cock a doodle Doo motherfucker. Really. 100% cock a doodle Doo. Check this out and on my face. I'm going to play the scene. Oh shit, Oh my God, You know, if you showed that to like the referee, it probably would make a difference. I'm just a fan, right? Fellow fan guy? I mean, I don't know if it's maybe it's a whole conspiracy and it's all we need to talk. It goes. That's what Heiner was saying we need. To riot.

I agree. Good thing. Good thing I brought my my my little tiny little butter knife. Hell yeah. Oh yeah, that's. A little sharp. I sharpened it earlier. Today very very sharp butter knife. It's super sharp. Thank you. Super, super sharp. All right, we're going to go. And before this match goes, we're going to riot. We want we want retribution. We lost money. On retribution. We lost money on this. They stole money from us. How many more of these have they

cheated on? I'm pretty sure that's illegal. The referee passes you to go and get a drink in the VIP. It just literally what's right possible. I'm going to grab that zebra. I'm going to pull a mower. Oh mate, please don't touch me. No. No, no, I want to know why you're allowing cheaters to ruin this pug bowl and take our team out. Obviously we were we were the top contender and we got shafted and we and we had money stolen and you guys are part of this entire conspiracy. Steal money.

Who, who, who, Who cheated? This is the first time I'm hearing this. Who cheated? I'm going to play it on it on my face. Look at that. Roll persuasion. It's so obvious, just take a look ref. Why are they talking like that? You tell him, Charlie. That's a That's a rooster fan for you, A natural rooster fan. You roll 23, that is definitely high enough to keep this red 24. Apologies. Yes, that's right, you have that

boat smashed. And he looks at this screen and sees himself in the background of this footage. It's almost like I should do a weapon inspection. If anyone's got something weird attached to their weapon, they're going to be in trouble. Now I'm going to go and check all the teams. You should do that. Yeah, man, I for a second there I thought he was going to inspect my weapon. Good thing he didn't, because this thing, oh, man. Roller Derby reference roller Derby. I love roller Derby.

Put my feet. It's so good. We we know everything about roller Derby. Me and this guy. Yeah, absolutely. So if there's any team out there that has illegal modifications that are weapons, then that's that's bad. I, I, I think Retro is trying to sabotage us. I have to go. All right. I am going to speed walk around the opposite side of where the Roosters are so Retro doesn't quite see me. You see the referee go around the other side. You know what I don't think Retro does to you?

Retro's too involved in what they're doing right now. They're showing. They're showing it to everybody that's not in VIP and they're like, they stole your money, they stole your money. We need to get riot, riot, Riot. Riot. And you and you hear retro fade into the background as you walk to the other side of the building. Iona, you come to the front of the locker room for the biohazards. I knock. The door bursts open and there is Vendel, wide eyed and coped to fuck. Hi. Hi.

Vendel, I need, I need your. I need your combat traveler. Sure, here. You. Go. I gotta get this fucking thing off. Roll for it. Better be good. I did a good job on that one. You did, but you didn't say anything about securing it. True. Just. That it didn't work. Let me think about this for a second. What? Are you trying to do? Oh well, there, there has something has come up and I need to take this off of your combat shovel. Oh, do you need the Taser?

You know what? I feel really, really strong right now. Can I have a go? Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. And Vendel grabs the Taser off the handle and goes to just fucking rip it off. They try and RIP it off the front of it with their hands and do nothing. They place their leg against the middle of the shovel, grab the Taser and pull as hard as they can. Oh no, they didn't bend the shovel, did they? It depends on how well they roll.

Let's see, I would like to do OK, I'll rope brawling for that. 22 That is a great roll. That's a really good roll. Vendel pulls the Taser off the shovel and they've rolled high enough that's higher than a professional roll. No, sorry, a heroic roll, which is 21, and they RIP it off and they hold it in their hands. That's weird. There's no battery in this. What? Why is there no battery I? Don't know bigger, Richard just forgot. Here you go. Thank you. I'm I put it in my bag.

And Vendel spins the shovel around their arm and puts it over their shoulder. Look, I'm like Phoebe. You are like VV, all right, Hot Wheels, you've got this. I've got this guy's truck. It's a nice slam the door you you see the referee come around the corner and walk up to to check. Trauma team goes in there to check it. It looks like you've done this just in time. You are standing there, facing there holding a Taser with no battery. No, I put it in my bag. All right, the.

All concealed reveal object. Sure I will. I sure will, aha. 16 good enough? Yes, very good. He's not paying attention, he's only looking for players and you see him leave the trauma team area and he heads over to his last destination, which is the combat zone. No one tried to tell them and you hear a little bit of shouting, bit of commotion and the referee comes out and suddenly his voice is booming over the time. I have an announcement. Everyone, please, everyone, calm down.

You with the TV for a head? Can you stop shouting? Stop. No. Yeah, this might you might want to hear this guy with the TV head That guy over there, they pointed this out so ever all the combat zone team. I just need you to know this is the most honest fan out there. He showed me the footage and I found. It he holds up this thing look and he points it into the crowd and pushes a button and it fires

a track dart. It hits this random guy and that guy falls over the table and lands in the ground. Illegal, no projectile weapons in the role. It's going to be everyone, I'm sorry to say. The combat zone cannons are disqualified. And most of the room gets really quite happy about it, because no one really likes them. Let's go. This means, of course, that they are the competition, everyone. This changes the bracket just a little bit. Once the CZC is outed as cheating, the existing points

are respected. They are considered the loser of the first match. The winner of Game 3 takes their place. The other is placed in the winner of the losers bracket. The competition continues. Those are the rules, everyone. Those are the rules. This means that of course the Roosters are back in the game. Everyone. The Roosters. And we get our money back from those two bastards, right? From the last match because that one seemed pretty Christy to me.

If you don't give me my money back, I will get this crap back at all around. I'm I'm just the referee, my guy. That's not my responsibility. You'll have to take it out with management. And so the Roosters and Drama team will fight again for their right to go against the only person who hasn't been eliminated tonight, the Biohazards. I'm going to make a quick stop all the way back to the manager.

All right, as you pass a betting machine betting starts, you head over to where the manager is and the rest of the crew go to set their bets as you head towards his office. What are you guys betting Game 5? Well, I mean, obviously on my, on my boat, on my, my, my, wait, who's playing? Roosters versus Trauma team Roosters. Versus trauma team, it's it's once again the same, the same dilemma, Jeb, the same dilemma. It's a rematch. Hold on.

I'm going to close my hands. I'm going to close my ass, Reach deep inside my psyche. Who's talking? To me, Iona. Iona. Iona is the unexpected voice and I love it. Go Yes, Jeb. You need to be fiscally responsible. What does that mean? Place all your money on trauma team. That's true. That's what won me last time. See Iona, I always trust you with the things to do with money and. I'm very good with money. Yep, and and also like biology tap stuff but that's kind of not

really come into play too much. I do. I do have a a master's degree. Yeah, see, that's why I always trusted you with with things I had to do with masters. In microbiology, yes. All right, well. Goodbye. Excuse me, booking computer. Jeff. Oh wait, hold on. What's Who's that? Jeff. Who's there? Retro up. With your heart back with your friendship. Whose friendship matters most? You're right, Retro, you're

absolutely right. And I open my eyes with a, with a burst of, of friendship in my heart, and I walk over and I slip my, my card into the, my, my chip into the bookie machine. And I put all of my money on trauma Team. All the money. All of the money that you've got on your card, I mean 480. Let's go. Now Trauma Team is 1.6 for this match. And that's how it's going to be, yeah. Can I can I add to my overall win bet or is that closed?

You can make another overall win bet, but that one is locked. That one is locked. Can I put down another? Let me look at my money. Can I put down 2000 on the biohazards to win for the second? $1000 on the. Biohazards or Trauma team or. This is for overall win. For overall win, OK. You've put another 2000 into the biohazards. Their odds have not changed because they have not played

yet. So it's still 1.9. I will put the money that I just won back into this game and put it on Trauma Team. Cool. How much is that? That was 1120 and 20 eddies. You have 1120 for Trauma team to win game five, Yeah. This is a this is a risky bet because look, the Roosters are coming back from this like momentum, momentous moment and. It's big. All right, we're going to do our best. Iona you look over at VV as they finish their bet. They pull their card out and you

go to pull your card out. The machine prompts you if you want to bet on the next match, a pop up if you like. It's obnoxious. In order to pull your card, you have to close the window. I did win some money on the last Biohazard game because I put 200 down. Yeah. So you have 400. I'll I'll put 300 on Trauma team to win this match. Retro You make it outside to the office and you're standing outside. Pound on the door.

Bam bam, bam bam. The the the guy who runs the place opens the door once again and there is Herbert in front of you. Herb, Herb. Herb. Hey, how's it going, TV guy, I remember you. Yeah, very upset. Hey man, fucking wild. What the what? The referee just said you believe. It. Comments on cheating fuck. What you said wasn't going to happen. What? No one? No one had proof? Someone showed the ref proof. That's how this works. I did. I found it. Oh. Who's he? You. Oh, cool. Oh, right.

Wait one second. What was it? He closes the door in your face and comes back out. Wait. Wait, man. Oh, here you go. So here's 50 eddies for for catching a cheater. That's the proof. That's how we work here. Great, I love that there's a bounding system on this. What about the money I lost during the bets for this illegal betting? Oh, you have to submit a form for that. We'll get back to you in about a week. I want it now. I can't give money out until the

pug bowl is over. The system literally won't let me. So you. Need to give to me that money and then if I lose it, I lose it. What was your I mean, look, I need your betting key. I need to see your bets like oh, all right, every. Loss was tainted by the bet, so that means. It looks like you put 300 on the Roosters. You lost that. OK, well then I can give you 300 back. That's all I got for you, man. What about against the trauma team? That wouldn't have happened if

they hadn't cheated. And I'll tell you this right now, if you don't give it back to me now, I will get. From a team. What happened? Sorry, No, I'm looking at your bets on the chip and it says you bet 300 on the Roosters in the game one and you lost that because they lost to combat zone. All the others have nothing to do with combat zone. I can't give you the money back according to the the terms and conditions. OK, I'll give you 300 back.

I can give it to you cash if you want, or I can put it on the chip. That's up to you. I get it, These things happen. I'm sorry. I'm glad that they got caught before the end because I don't want to give some dipshit a nice trophy. Yeah, that's totally fair. I'll take the 300. How do you want it? You want it on the chip or do you want your money? Just give it on the chip, that's fine. OK. All right, thanks. Hand me your chip. I'll put it in the computer right now. Awesome. Great.

He grabs your chip and he doesn't close the door. He goes with the computer, shoves it in, does the thing and pulls it back. If there's any office supplies around. There's a a tablet on the desk. Some pencils and anything like that around. You know what, I'm going to roll for it because I don't want to say, oh dude, that's A2. No, there's no pencils in there. The most the most cyberpunk. Tool of them all, yeah. So you get your 300 back for the bet that you lost in the first

match. I'll fill out the form, fill it up. So I missed the betting thing and I'll thank you. That's fine. So here's your form. Hey by the way. Hey, betting's still open. Did you want to bet for someone? I got the chip in the machine. No, it's all right. I'm I will wait for for for the next one to bet. Hey I just want to know how do you spell your name again? Herbert. Herbert's last name again. Sandspire. Sandspire, All right.

We ready for this, this, this shooting stuff to go up on the garden. I'm sure everybody will be interested in that. Cool. See you later. Oh yeah, no, I'm super excited. Our referee caught it before the competition was over and then it doesn't taint everything. Fuck dude, that's so awesome. You are in that 50. He. Closes the door, he seems nice and you step back into the room. You still have two minutes to bet if you want to I.

Don't want to bet? You're going to bet on the Roosters. I'm not betting on this one. All right, hold me up. I got a roller die. I got a roller die. Yeah, All right. I guess I'm betting. Fuck. What are you betting? 2000. Game five 2000 for the Roosters to win at 1.5. And betting is closed. Retro. You walk back over to the rest of the crew as they gather outside of VIP. Hey. Jeff, come on, let's go. All right, let's go. Come on, let's get in, because I know.

Oh. Jeff, have you got Chisner snaps? You should be sharing mate. And and, and I've got another one of them, one of them, just just here. You want anyone to see it? You want to see it? Oh, wait. Hold. On one SEC. One SEC Oh. That's spicy. Is this torture? Drugs. Yeah, you can just hear the two and Paul. 11 DV of this shit is 13 no? So for the next 15 minutes you have +1 to reflex, but after 15 minutes you lose one from your reflex, which means until you sleep you now can't dodge

bullets. Unless unless I get a little one and drink that one when I need. Exactly and and Jeb is now fairly drunk and is following you around Retro as the next match begins. I'm going to I'm actually going to go hang out with all my peeps in the coop for this one. Nice. Oh, that's fine. I'm going to hang out with all my friends and the urgent care. I don't know. What do you think they call it? It's cute, I like that. Deb, you don't want to come join

the coop. And, and, and now there's a moment where Jeb is sitting there and he looks over and. And Phoebe? Is over there with like all of the all the fans and then the. Cool people. Looks over and then there's Retro, all of his fans. Yeah, come on. We all, we're all, we're all Rooster fans over here. We all, we all want them to win, right? You want the Roosters to win, right? Yeah, yeah. I I want, I want the Roosters to win. You want the Roosters to win, right?

Yeah, I I put my money on on the rooster. Yeah, Retro. I'm coming. I'm coming, I'm coming. All right. Yeah, Yeah. Betting is closed and their match is about to begin and everybody get wild.

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blockers take an early lead. Come on, Trauma Team. Oh Phoebe, I I did put money on trauma team. I knew you made the right choice, Iona. They're going to win. Looks like the jammers are really really stepping up with exactly the same all. Right. Come on, Roosters. Let's come on. We can do this. I was able to get you back in. Come on. I fought through fire and flame. Let's do this. Jabber gets a hit on Trauma Team, landing the first point of

this return game. One point they're really fighting for it after they got eliminated and brought back by a very, very, very cool fan. Come on, Trauma team. Lose. Take a dive. To our trauma team takes a. Hit. They're doing fine, right? They're they're rapidest. Yeah, they'll they can come back. Is Chad still? Which one is Chad again? Oh shit. Yeah, there's Chad right there. Look at him. He's got that smile. Before Chad comes back, I'm going to talk to the the Coop.

I'm on my left now. Whoever's got if there's a female fan there that has lipstick on, a really thick lipstick, try to match VVS that I can put a couple of lipstick marks on on my screen. All right, roll human perception to get that to happen. Oh my God. Well, not. Not only do you have to find this person, you also have to convince them to put their lips on your screen. So this is a 21. It's a heroic move. All right. It depends on his game. My game is good do.

You have the rizz, as kids would say. Roll for Rizz 14. No, it was a 21. I did say that you do. You do not find someone to do so. Ohio Rizz. Exactly. Oh, trauma teens rabbit rolls a grid fail, and that's another point for the rooster. Rooster one point that's two to nothing. Oh great, successes on that lap, holy shit. Oh man. Am I going to lose money I don't really want? Oh, and that rabbit rolls a crit

success. The team rolls a stalemate on that lap and nobody actually scores, but the tension is rising. I don't want to lose money, I. There's still hope. There's still hope. Charlie Good song with that good 10. Roosters rolling £2 fails. Oh, the rabbit rolls a quid. Success. Come on, Dennis Scott, Come on. Leaving the. Roosters rabbit wide. Open, leaving the Roosters rabbit wide open and let's be real, that's 2 great fails and the success which means the

Roosters lose a point. Trauma team gets their first point on the board and this game is getting trauma. Oh yeah, now we ain't going to dance. Trauma team flinching into the blocker, really, really getting it in there. And they are two to two. This game is getting interesting. It's currently all tied. They pulled it in starting. Towards the win How does the the chant go? Towers rise, sirens call. What is it? No baby, nothing. Like a phoenix, we will fly.

Let's go Roosters. We are now the Phoenix. I it's not looking good. Oh. Trauma Tea rolling on that one and they lose their time. Trauma Tea 14, their win, it looks like they're I'm really hungry now that they're back in the game. Trauma teams take the leads. Chad, Chad, I'm sorry that I I threw something at you earlier. Do better. Come on, Chad. Best team ever, Chad. Best do it for me, Chad. Do it for VV. Oh God. I was about to say something that might be bad. That's not.

I know I didn't. I didn't say it. I didn't say it. Oh, Roosters, crit flail on that blocker. The rabbit only rolls 8. That's definitely a hit. And we're back to a tie with three to three Roosters. One board scores tie. Yes, yes, Chad. Chad Chad Rock'n'roll Rock'n'roll Chad. Your role play is enough that Chad gets a + 1 to this role. Bullshit. He. He. Rolling up 12, their rabbits right out at the front and the Roosters are going to have to defend this one.

Will wheat and roll? Will wheat and roll. Let's go Chad. Let's go 2. Crit fails and quit. One for success, but that's not enough. Everybody and the Trauma Team tower, Cyrus one boy, that point for Trauma Team, if they manage to clinch this last lap, they are the winner and they'll be going through to the final merge boy. I I think I've become too emotionally invested in this. Chad literally rolled a crit. He's blocker 2 that's 17.

You watch Chad, you watch Chad grab his jammer friend, whip them around his body and and you see him do like a really expert for him. Don't. They just pull a tractor trailer where they actually re whip the rabbit using the. No, they whipped their jammer towards the rabbit and you watch this jammer glide forward, fish their way through two other people and just fucking smack the rabbit in the back of the head that that rabbit falls slightly forward. The point score goes off, gains

five points. Win this match and the crowd goes fucking wild. Good job, Chad. We're doing amazing. Good job. She likes me. Fuck you. Chad, our hero. And there's only one more match for the Park Ball. It was great to see a fair match happen down here at the Park Ball. Let's give everybody a round of applause for the Roosters for coming back and playing. Good round of. Applause when you hear the whole crowd like goes mad.

Everyone's giving them like as they come out of the things, people are giving them high fives and you can tell that the team themselves, it just happened. They just had a good time. The Roosters aren't really that they want that aggressive. They want that mean this is all just meant to be a friendly game anyway and now that everybody knows that combat zone, we're cheating.

All the other teams seem to just be a bit more into just playing and having fun and you it's more the fans that are pissed off as the fans around Retro are just pissed that they have lost. Does does Chick have a concussion now because they got smacked in the back of the head chick? Does have a very obvious concussion, but they are surrounded by medical professionals so you're fairly certain they're going to be fine. They're a bit woozy, but they're being held and everything's

groovy and awesome. Well, we did it. Trauma team advanced. I won some of my money back. Yeah, you and. Your betting chips go off. And who did you bet on, Jeb? Well, I bet on the whip. Is your ship growing to you? Well, you see, I just kind of went into my mind palace, which apparently is going to be a ongoing bit that I'm going to do now for the rest of the show. And I talked to the the mental projections of my friends, including you this time actually.

And I, I made the choice that felt right to me. I will do what feels right Deb do. What feels right? Actually I just, I just thought I heard the mental projection of of Iona talking to me just now. You can hear me in your head. Oh, wait. Oh, that's just the comps. My mistake. And you check your betting chips, everyone. And Iona, you gained 480, Jeb you gained 768. And Vivi, you have 1792. Eddies, I can afford another cigarette and. You just want another one, that's fine. Here you go.

Thank you. Oh my God. Literally, I would make, I would make more money not picking this up off the ground as I walked down the street. Do you know what I mean? I'm so rich. What's it like being that rich where things that would be a convenience for us would be an inconvenience for you? Life becomes kind of a playground. I have a very, very loose sense of reality. It's that. Don't you love the collector? The collector. There's an enigma. An enigma. Completely.

Oh. Enigma. That's what I'm going to call my next dog. And he walks away. My God. All right, who's next The. Final match is about to begin. Get your bets in everybody. It's the Biotinenica bio versus versus the Trauma Team Tower. Sonar. This is big. Chad versus Vendel. Who's going to win? You mean Chad versus Hot Wheels? Right hot. Wheels. Hot betting will close in 5 minutes. All right, Retro, who you going to root for? Your team's out. I. Don't know why you're talking to Retro.

Retro actually just left the stadium. Oh. Retro's gone. Hi, I guess. Retro. Oh well. You call you call Retro on comms and you can hear him being grumpy outside and complaining. God damn it, motherfucker. Retro, are you coming back or you gone OK? Why won't this light? But I'm going to fucking turn this into a God damn trash can fire. All right, I'm going to. Retro Are you smoking the Are you smoking one of the like the collective cigarettes? No, I just hit that in my TV

head for now. OK. Well, I, well, unfortunately I put all my, I mean, I could obviously change it, but I, I'm putting all my money in Biotechnica. I really do hope that you guys win. I am loyal to the Trauma team, but I'm loyal to Van Bell. So here's hoping for the best. Trauma team is currently at 1.7 and biohazards have bumped down to 1.8. I will put the 480 I have on my chip into all hazards for this match. Cool. Can't. Believe I lost $4000 on this. Oh my God.

I just updated my bank account right now. Oh. God this isn't that awful looking at your bank account after gambling so much. Remember, listeners, gamble responsibly. I own his bet 480 on the biohazards. Anyone else doing any bet? I'm going to keep the money I won for just just 1/2. Rainy day, so you've got 1792 which you can't take out until the competition is over, but it is technically on the. OK. I'm going to just bank that at the end. Bank. And Jeb is going to very

specifically not bet anything. Interesting, Interesting choice, Jeb. Well, well, you see, I had a moment and I realized that, you know, you don't have to bet. You don't have to bet at all. You can just take what you got and you can invest, invest in, invest, invest in something that you know is going to grow and gain value over time. You know, like Dogecoin. A note to our listeners, don't don't invest in crypto. Don't invest in invest. In Retro Coin coming out next month.

Yes, that's definitely a thing that doesn't exist. We do not actually have retro coin to a moment of. Clarity while out there trying to start a fire in a trash can because he wanted to throw it through the the doors and instead comes back inside and heads to the locker rooms and goes to Biotechnica. Hi. Hi. Hi, I am thanks ha ha. Yes, sure. For. Sure. You really want to win? Don't. You, yes. That would make you happy, right? Super happy. I'm really happy right now.

I don't know why. OK, let me see your skates. What? I didn't hear what you said because Jeb talked at the same time. Let me see your skates. OK, and they take their skates off fast than you've ever fucking seen and they hand them to you. Here you go.

All right, I'm going to upgrade their skates using what little scrap I have, plus some extra oil to make sure that their blades will glide faster and that they are better protected against somebody trying to shoot them with a fucking dart or just pretty much, oh, just up armor. And so even if they took a bat to their ankle, they can't break it. Oh, nice. So you've like reinforced the ankle things like ankles, dude. Yeah, roll for it.

Like a bajillion, I'm sure. I actually, I literally almost put everything away because I was so upset. Oh. Wow. That's a role that you I don't see upgrade very often. That's 23. Yeah, you upgrade these skates, they are now really fucking good and they give plus one to move until the oil runs out. And I'm, I'm just going to look at Vendell eye to eye. I didn't do this. You didn't see me do this. I did not do this. Wow. These drugs are really good. Wild. An imaginary retro cool.

And they close the door in your face. And then Retro heads back inside. I'm not. I'm not watching this charade. It's just a few moments before the match. Does anyone else do anything else? I'd like to I'd like to try to go into VIP again. Is there anyone else in VIP already? Yeah, Iona and VV is in VIP. Don't let the and the collector. And shark. And sharks in here, but he's not paying any attention to you. He's he's holding his head in his hands because he's losing so much.

He's he's, he's, he's lost a lot of money because he's spent. A lot of money. No one asked him but he he better go on combat zone so he's not having a good day. Oh, so this? In fact, he's so pissed off he's actually on. He's walking out. Fuck. It I'm I'm an important MPC but not one talk to me. So this he's for sure to me now. So as he's walking out, excuse me, you're gonna can I take your, your VIP spot? My my friends are in there. Fucking fuck. Time. Thank you. Have a great day.

Yeah, get. Fucked. OK, well, rude, all right. And I walk into the VIP. Do you? Have a ticket? I got this one right here. He scans the barcode. Well, this place is pretty nice. They got an open bar in here or what? Well, I mean it, it's you still have to pay, but they've got special drinks in here. Jim, look. They got one of them, one of them Spirit fucking. What are they called?

Jesus Christ. Hey, asking for a Beethoven's Fifth. Oh, OK, my my friend Retro says that you make a mean Beethoven's Fifth. Now we've got only certain drinks today. I'm sorry, that was last week. We've got Glosyn's Martinis, Jizzner Ale and also I can sell some other. Stuff, but you'd have to roll for that. Well, I suppose I could do that. I haven't rolled too much other than some resist torture drugs this time, so I think it's worth a roll. What am I doing?

Rob Persuasion. Sure. 20 That beats the DV of 17. That ain't too bad. I always have synth color. Oh, do you? Well, you know, personally that's not exactly my cup of tea. I'm more of a hard alcohol kind of kind of person. Or for retro, the. The synth the the the glow synth martinis, they do make you a lot more personable. Wow you don't say. People have been saying that I'm annoying so maybe this will make me. Less annoying. Listen to them, you still are annoying.

Well, that's probably true. And you had to have forty 80s and they hand you this beautiful glow since martini. What? Team, are you supporting? Just about 10. I don't know, what do you think? Well, there are only two teams left. Well, yeah. I have. Or the trauma team tower. Sirens. But like, what do you feel like you know? Well, it's essentially do you want your drink to be yellow? Or blue. Oh well, I want them to be blue. You got it and they make your drink blue.

Well, thank you. I appreciate that. What does this mean? Which team am I supported then? Trauma Team. Blue. Oh well, all right, I can think of 1 little lady is going to be excited about this. And as you sip this drink, it is an expensive alcoholic drink that is otherwise harmless. It is not easy to get. It has to be made by someone who's very talented. It's one of the few places you're going to be able to get this bomb is just really good.

And as you sip it, you gain plus one to persuasion for the next 15 minutes. That ain't too. Bad betting has closed. The final match is about to begin. It's time. Who goes first? Well, it's it's trying evens. It is the Biotechnicus. I'm like sweating both both Jade and Iona. Sweating. This is almost as stressful as when we shot Retro out of a spaceship. I'd say so.

The teams are at the line and the green light says go go go, and even after the first roll it looks like there's an extreme lead for the Biohazards with their All Star Rabbit tonight Vendel. All the. Way up at the front of the line. Looks like they've got a really early lead that gives them tasty leads as they're about to get into contact with Eminent. Hot Wheels, Hot Wheels. Hot Wheels. Jeb, you're now considerably drunk. You've had quite a few

beverages. The Trauma Team's route is lagging behind when the Crip failed. Looks like those jammers are going to get close in the next lap when the carnage begins. Don't forget that you can ask Vendel to do their special move whenever you want. I'm waiting. Good. I have it locked and loaded. Don't you worry, I didn't forget. Oh, don't you? Oh, don't you worry, I didn't forget.

Oh. Dramaty rolling a crip failed with the jammer who lags behind giving a little bit of an open for the jammers on Bio Technica's team. The Biohazards clinched their first point of the game as the one point this spread knee tight. Spread knee tight. You get it. You get it. And I and I nudge Yeah, you get it, You get it reread because we just like, you know.

Yes, I get it. Crit fail and even that great success on the jammer side is not good enough because the jammers roll higher and they lose another point and biotech biohouses one boy chasing the lead, getting closer to that win to win the part. Balls tonight at 2:00 to nothing. Wow. This is. And they don't call them hot meals for nothing. This. Might be a quick match. E Biotechnical. Yet another crit success. Holy. Shit, Biotechnica wants this win. Go biohazards. Go biohazards.

And everyone in the VIP area is surprised as they watch Iona start to do one of the chants. Oh, that's two crit fails for for Trauma team Holy. Shit, oh jammer down blocker down there, getting back up, but that's another opener. And now one point. This is going to be a white two critic successes but bio hasn't been rabbit rolled a crit success 18 of holy shit. Almost laughed in the backhand of the jammers. Holy shit is trauma team able to do anything to defend the situation?

I don't know, will they? The hazard is no bio hazard. One point and this is the last. That's point of the game. That's Point Vendel. Comes round to the third lap and you hear over your communicator. Do it now. It's the play shape. Baby. And as two of the blockers come up behind Vendel, I'm not rolling for the team on this. You're going to work for this.

Great as. Two jammers come up behind Vendel. Then they'll take the shovel and shoves it into the ground, scraping the foe wood and creating a big shave of this material as it curls into a large ball. It turns and it twists and it starts to look like a tumbleweed. Then they'll flicks the ball of light balsa like wood floating through the air at speeds, scrapes the shovel against the metal curve of the rink and flicks the sparks across the air. As they catch the wood mid air.

They throw the ball back with a big swing. It smacks straight into one of the jammers, leaving it open. And this is the moment where the team has a chance to win their final point. Does it land? Oh my God. Was that illegal? What am I rolling? Whatever you want. We're going to roll brawling, but I'm going to put Olivendo's luck into it, which is only two luck points, yeah. But. But two points nonetheless. 2. Luck. All right, Hot Wheels, here we go, 20. 4. 2424 is literally. Listed.

As incredible you watch this ball fire cascade through the air, leaving streaks of light around Bendel as they curve and swish away from the attacks around them. Jammer tries to take a swing but is distracted. With A2, holy shit. And that last hit comes behind as the rabbit is distracted by the awe inspiring move as Vendel looks so fucking cool surrounded by literal fire sparking around them. The oil in their wheels captures a little bit and there's fire lines leaning between them.

They don't give a fuck as they scorch the ground and that final point happens and the crowd final talking wild. Biotechnic wins the pug bowl and everyone goes insane as the crowd is screaming Iona. You get a text message from management and all it says is well done and money gets placed in your account. Oh my God. None of none of you guys hear that. You can as a player be like holy shit, but you don't know that. I also didn't do anything. That's what they all say. Oh. Yes, I do OK.

That's all. I'm just checking that you. That you remember. OK, I remember the message. I don't think I did anything wrong. You didn't do anything wrong but Bio. But Biotechnica did win and everyone's going crazy, but Bendell comes out of the rink, they're getting patted on the back by all these people and they come up to Iona. I don't know, I. Did. Wow, that. Was so cool. And Vendel goes up to you and without thinking, gives you a big fucking hug. Vendel smells like burnt wood

and sweat. I am so excited that I hug Vendel back and I hit them up and I spin them around like a celebratory move. You did it, Hot Wheels. You did it. Forget it, I'm home. Wheels. I should quit. This is fucking terrible. My heart is pounding out of my chest. Phoebe held. That's just the adrenaline or it'll wear off soon. I also did loads of cocaine DV that. Can't be good for your heart. As you're looking at Vendel, your bedding chip goes off. Oh my gosh, this is the moment

of truth. Everyone it. Starts to calculate. Everyone else's betting chip goes off first. Yours is the biggest value, so it takes a little bit of time to compute Iona for the last match. Because. IO Hazards won the match. For the match you get 864 eddies for the whole thing. You did an overall bet of A. 3000. Of 1000 for the biohats is at the beginning at two point O which means you get 2000 and then you made 400 for ping. Don't forget to give that to me Vivi.

You bet 700 on trauma team and you watch that 700 disappear from your bedding chip. It then rotates onto the other bet that you had 10K on the biohazards and you see 9000 eddies apply and then a green light goes on the chip saying that you can retrieve the money. You now have almost 20 grand. That's true. Holy shit. Guys, I. The the. Made. Going to be in shambles. I made 20,000 eddies from this. Oh great, So you can get, you can pay me back. Awesome.

Oh, Houston, you said it was on the House. No, I said I'd give you $10,000 because you needed to get in. VIPI wasn't. I need money. I have rent to pay, you can keep them and I just want my 10 back. Wait, who? Who is this song Give me? Vendel. Oh, I thought for. I'm thinking the collector for some reason. I'm thinking the. Collector I was like, why? No, Everybody used rent. I was the ones on drugs. Vivi, yes, sorry. Vendel yes. Vendel Vendel yes. I will pay you back right now.

10K. I just made 10,000 oh wait that's my money already. But yay friendship when they pay you back, that's nice. I've never once doubted you, Bendel. Just. I mean just just, you know. Just, you know. It it sucks that you beat trauma team but I'm happy for you. And Iona you get an extra 3800 for that spread. Bet you did for 2001. The last one, yeah. Awesome. Great. Oh, Iona, did you win money too? Did people bet on me? I sure did, and this is for. You can I help.

Yes, you did. I give Bendel 2000. Oh, thanks. Money fresh. How did you do? I did, all right. Yeah. Yeah. I I bet a load of money. No one. No one saw. I bet all my money on Biotechnica. So how much money do I have, Iona? You got paying attention. So I just spent it all. I told you only 700. For that one. You didn't say for the whole thing. All right, all right. Right now you have 900 dollars, 900 euro dollars. That means I made $1710 on that holy.

Shit, 1710, there you go. Pretty good, honey. It looks like everyone had a great time. Wait, where's Rich Retro? You gather outside and there's retro sitting on a trash can. Oh boy, here it comes. Retro. You're right buddy, he's just grumpy pants. He's grumpy. Oh. Guys, I know I'm like really, really high on drugs, but it kind of feels like Retro wants to go home. I'm very ready to go home. I guess that was it. We I had fun. I I you know what I did have fun.

You know what? I didn't die. I had a great time, really learned a lot about myself, about my friends, and that I don't necessarily have to get addicted to gambling. Instead, I'll get addicted to something else. And some guy passes you and hands you a can of shine fuck up. Yeah, that's it. That's it. Come on now. You crack another can and shoot it back. Oh yeah, that's good. That's real good. And you lot spend a little bit of time outside of the front of the pug bowl.

Vendel yes, you know, you're really good on a pair of wheels. Yeah, maybe I should get some some skate feet. We'll get you some skate feet. We'll have to go to our market. I I think. I think I'm pretty fucking drunk again. Not Jeb. Next time on no latency. What y'all like vindo? Yeah, you know, I, I think I'd, I'd love just one, just one. I totally know what I'm doing. OK, let's get to work.

Totally should be Vivi. I've seen how you play with that old school game Operation. I I don't think that synth coke is is the way you want to go. But I'm good to go like. Real bread or synth bread? Yeah, it's synth bread, but come on. It's Halloween, guys we need. Costumes. Are you dressed? Should we, should we wait to reveal your costume till we're at the bar? Yeah, yeah. Don't, don't come in yet. I don't want to see it, It's a

bit of a spoiler. We we meet back in the bar in 30. Yeah, a new brain dance, Joe. You look great. You look fantastic. I don't know how I'm not supposed to copy your accent all night. Yeah, that's bone. And the letter is something called Fillion Rail. Blast, blast, blast. Oh woo. Happy Halloween VVVV, could you could you patch up Vendel's elbow? Yeah, What did you trip over? Are you all right? Well, I'm going to up the stakes and stab it in the heart. Yeah, I don't have anything.

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