NL: SIDEQUEST - Santa Sweep - Pt3 "Sand-ta Problem" - podcast episode cover

NL: SIDEQUEST - Santa Sweep - Pt3 "Sand-ta Problem"

Jan 11, 202332 min
--:--
--:--
Download Metacast podcast app
Listen to this episode in Metacast mobile app
Don't just listen to podcasts. Learn from them with transcripts, summaries, and chapters for every episode. Skim, search, and bookmark insights. Learn more

Episode description

For our First "Side Quest" Adventure of Season II, we're getting festive.

No Latency - Side Quest: Santa Sweep Pt3: Sand-ta Problem

From one puzzle room to another this christmas adventure is really something Retro hasn't dealt with before, Cave and Clamton work hard to make the journey through the Deatsweep easier for Retro and Adonia, but Retro's feeling hot headed this season and it's not always a good idea to just run in, will he ever learn? Probably not. After all, Christmas can be a beach.

Does it snow in night city?

Will Retro ever contain himself?

Does Clamton need a little more practice?

Only the dice will tell. A Cyberpunk adventure continues...

More information and MERCH  is on our website! www.nolatencypodcast.com

Twitter: @nolatencypod

Instagram: nolatency_podcast

Find all of out players in the links below: Evan on twitter @savethed8pod

Bryce Pablo on twitter @astro_zoo

J.M.Dubs on tiktok @j.m.dubs 

Alex S on insta @akstlyefx

@binary_drgaon on twitch.

Transcript

Last time I know Layton's is at Quest, paying you are a gift I've ever thought about having a complicated drink. Before we need to get on the list, I am on the list. I looks like I made the list to me to B. It looks like whatever you did. You did it and try to take care of this. You might want to let them know you're your own person. What do you want to do that? Run baby. Okay. Yak motherfucker, this part requires guns. I've got two baby. Oh no guys, I'm so embarrassed.

Imagine what? Happens. If I hit both shots, you should give up. Oh, shit. Is up boost. I take the second bloody Santa hat and put it on one was yellow. One was like for almost frankly no sense. Any you raised around people? That still prayed to different Catholic? Saints, g.i. Gift. Left. All right. So I'm thinking this one should be sitting on the other ones

lab. If we can kind of pose it leaning up, like I'm pretty sure we can still get the arm to be rigid enough to keep the body up. I just if they're going to put us through a show like this, I'm gonna give them a show to come back to and clean up. And I 100% agree about this, but I think that it's not only artistic but it's also a prank I like prank with dead bodies. Now the important question I have for you, yes it is.

Should we strip them first? No, let's strip them after to make it harder, just to make it more difficult for. You know what? Just because that's funny. Let's try it. I'm so just awkwardly while we have this dead, these two dead bodies like it rolled. Right? What would you like us to roll? That's your decision. All right. Um, you know what? Just because I said specifically said the words strip and I have a plus one. One. Let's use two apps. Exact, you do not have a plus one and dance.

It was only for the faster, I believe. I mean I've already said it. So I've got to do it. It's also a seductive dance. I can't not do it. Now valid, that's fine. Yeah, dead bodies. Yes, you guys spend a few minutes positioning these two bodies into a hilarious. Ocean where they're dead, but it looks like they're giving each other a gift because it's Christmas. There we go.

We're Geniuses. Meanwhile, in the other room, retro, anhedonia a staring at a open door into a dark room, and don't know what's more uncomfortable, the darkroom or hearing those two, positioning those dead, bodies together, no left left. So here's the thing, only one of these is a new thing to me, so the darkroom is more scary.

But what do you think? Think, I think that you should tell me your secret and I used my charismatic person to try to get him to tell me abso-fucking-lutely you can't honestly I'd say it's a facedown if you want it. Yeah, I know. But you know who I am which means that you're kind of a fan. So my kinetic impact my true, it will give you a bonus to the face down.

I'll give you that. Okay. Okay, I'm going to say that you get the correct value on your face down, which is plus 4 because you rolled a 14 and Applause for crit. It's a roller face down, which is cool. Plus reputation, plus 1 D, 10 for you plus 4 plus 15. 23:23 Adonia beats retro in a facedown and retro. You've got a little nervous now. Now, what a face down means is now if you roll a It's retro. He takes a penalty to those roles.

Now about this subject every time you ask him, now you've now whittled him down, he will now have to roll at a dissident kind of at a disadvantage, but not in the DND way, in order to resist telling you anything, if you ask him again, that's how the mechanic works. I'm yeah, I'm just shaking. So I'm just going to shakily put another joint in my mouth and light it I'm sorry. We never talked about it. Right from your lighter illuminates. The room while perception. Do I also offers option?

Yes, 15 and 19 lucky. I do near you are basking in twisting, Remy, and making him all nervous. He's shaking as he's trying to smoke this joint and it's in, he's finding it hard to find the CD drive mouth that he has. When he smokes, he looks into the room and retro, you see a bunch of boxes. Some lockers and a closed door at the distance. The light Cost into the room, has caused the room to illuminate and the Stark incandescent lights clink on and fill the room.

Light Christmas music. I started to play very faintly in the distance from small speakers in the room. Remy, as you look away from a dounia's gaze you stare into the room and there in the far right corner. Very far right corner of the room. You see a turret? Whoo. Well, we got got a turret. Are you trying to change the subject? What? Dodge just dance around it. It's about shooting us yet.

But you haven't walked in the room and I can, I like crush the can that I had and just kind of toss it into the room. Yes, that's a great idea. - look, you toss it into the room and you hear a flail of bullet. There's at this rate into a duck bunch of different pieces. It is filled with holes, the clients across the ground and skids behind one of the boxes question. Her, it lies down. Okay, so we only started that one turret shoot. It said there wasn't any other shooting from any other

direction while perception. But I also because I actually threw it. Yep. Alright, retro, you wrote 21, which is actually the DV for this. You hear a second turret? Okay, I think there's second turret in here. They don't seem to activate while we're there. I'm guessing. Saying it's around the corner to the right of the door. So I'm going to take a shot from outside the door at this sir that we can't say, sure. Give it a shot. Why not literally Hugo's baby

boomer, my grenade. It's what I call the baby boomer 16 is not enough. The grenade rolls to the middle of the room as it's about to explode, the turret shoots it clinks across the room, hits a box, and explodes causing a big dent in the box, but there's nothing in here, that's flammable. So it just causes a buttload of damage to that area. One of the lockers doors deforms and actually, it's going to be harder to open that Locker now. And that's all that happens. Fuck punching noise.

Nothing else. Okay. Hey, you two, Trying to fuck dead bodies. We're not trying to fuck everybody making them. Look you guys also dealing with turrets outside of your room, but we haven't opened the door yet. Motherfuckers weight is the door. Open the door is open, but the room is dark. Can I I want to John, I will beat your ass. Can I poke my head in and roll perception to see if I can be aware of anything? Yes, throw perception 20. It's not that that's actually very good.

That's more than I expected you to roll and so I'm going to reward you in this room behind the crates. On the other side of this longer room, this Rings a lot longer than the other one. You see I've guard. Okay. Okay, there's a guy. In there and it captures the guards everywhere. Yo, and he's hiding behind some crates and he thinks she's gonna stealth us. I say, we stealth him first. I mean, we could do that. We could also try and play the

game of yelling to him. That we know he's there and then throw one of the dead bodies in and yell to him, that that's going to happen to him if he tries to shoot at us. Hey. Okay. Love you. Have you noticed that hasn't worked for anybody yet? Yeah, but then we just kill him anyway. Like we killed these last two. Yeah, but it's pretty confident. The skeleton. Okay, you know how to find and I just and I throw a great. I throw my flashbang grenade into the room.

Excellent like that guy. I'm just saying, I'm gonna in order for this to work because of the way this sheet works. I'm gonna give you a grenade launcher. You don't have a grenade. Launcher. Yeah, but it'll be the role to like hit for the day. Will be the role to do it. I have to adjust it because it's got too many D6 for damage. Yeah it is 5 D 6, not sick. Yeah, grenades a fucking crazy, my guy. Oh yeah, but also just was the idea.

Anyway, you can throw one grenade per turn so I've only got the one. Okay, there's vending machine to oh that's true. What about that one? The damage also exploded to that, but it's a flashbang. Yeah, it's a black bag. So, if we look at the rules for flashbang, when using this ammunition your deal, no damage with your attack, anyone hit by your Tech. Must instead attempt to beat a DV 15 resist torture jug.

Check anyone who fails suffers damage die and damaged, are critical injuries for the next minute you do not take the bonus damage from critical injuries which is a shame however in fucking hurts. Grenade rolls through it, bounces off, one of the create crates lands at his feet and he goes, oh, that's a flash gray. Fuck.

And he exploded in his face. Very bright and there's this, this fizzle in the air and you swear, it's just like it was in Metal Gear with these little pieces like twisting in this, in the bag. Thank you for that. Your your agent Fizzles a little bit as it's affected by some of the shrapnel in the air, what your background changes to respond to it? Because you've got this cool

plug-in on your agent. And there's this picture from one of your favorite video games of all time, as he's like choking out a guy who's like got cross-eyed because he's also been flashbangs. It's very active. Yeah. And this guy falls to the ground and starts holding his eyes. That is not good. That is the opposite of. Yes. Oh shit. All right, so I can either shoot. Shoot you while you're blind, or you can just give up now. So, I save the ammunition. Who's that? Who who is this person?

Who is the person talking in, stumbling around? What is what is, what is happening? I can't see anything. Yeah, excuse me. I'm Kay there. I'm cave, and comes up to a nice all touching your face. Hi. Yeah. I'm cave a yes. Yes, I do. That's nice very software. Kind of product use. There's a there's an oil that that's beside the point. Oh. I want to handle this coconut oil. It is really nice. When you get coconuts. Those are really hard to find. You'd be surprised what I can

find. And, anyway beside the point. What is happening? We're gonna get you. The guy who's taking over my shift? I've been hiding behind that crate. Why did you throw a flash green? Yeah. Yeah. Contestants were already in the room. They'd beat us before the changeover is there? Anyone parked in the space outside? That's how you know? Yes. Yes, there is. Oh, and when they're here. Yep. But we Don't see them and so we figured that they got to you know, it's funny. I don't see anybody.

Yeah but anyway you can you can wander your blind way on to break and we're just going to be here. All right well okay. Alright hang out with those other guys in the be the riddle room, you know? Yep. The Riddles were right. Yep. You will you push me in the right order? I can just, ya know this guide him the right way. He walks into that room. That's going to last about a minute and a half.

So you've got about that much time before he is eyes open and they cease to do In a hilarious post counts for a while. You do whatever you do with the computer, I'm going to move the crates just in front of the door. So interesting. All right. That's going to be a difficult one I think. Yeah I because of the time constraint only so Romney. Something to move some crates. If it will be easier if you can convince your lovely cohort to help you, okay?

Why don't we just shoot them? Because I just um I just want to save the bullets at this point. Okay. I understand. Can I take one of these small boxes at the headlight? Guess you can. That will help slim him over. The head was slammed the guy over the head with it. Yes you can roll paroling you get plus 3 because he's blind and facing the wrong way? Yes you conk him over the back of the head he's he has no way of avoiding it because he cannot see shit.

Why are you guys sitting on the crimp and he falls over and has been knocked out. He will not be knocked out forever, I will say that. Okay, there's a big girl. Oh, dude, Jesus. All right. Roll blowing again, I guess 13 at you. You have not damaged his body, you have damaged his head and he continues to be out cold. Okay, cool. Let's go to the net running things now. Yeah. Right. You brought Jordan, are you done? I'm putting the boxes against the door.

Yeah, absolutely. I'm not gonna bother with it now that he's just you're not gonna bother with it really because he's just created the dude. I'm gonna try to open up one of the Box. He's just a he's knocked out. So yeah, you know what, I'll still try and shove one of the boxes you know what forget? I said it. So I'm gonna do it. There's an Athletics to try and move things. See how long it takes. Yeah, 13. You get one of the boxes in

front of the door. Cool. Yeah. I have a token for it. Might as well use it. You know me. Absolutely that was completely completely that I thought it would and here we are. Yeah, so now you are now stuck in this room, in this room. There are four lockers a vending machine, a bunch of crates, your opening. One of them have a look inside. Yep. All right. Roll me, I'm going to say that

this is kind of a lute roll. Okay, so if you want to use one of your skills to affect that loot, you can or you can just roll the straight d-10 and I'll give you something based on that role. I feel lucky punk and I'm gonna gamble about it. 14, yeah, yeah. Yeah. You find a flash grenade in the case. Same brand as the one you just used. Wow. And the clean Santa hat. That's what's in the rest of the boxes. A bunch of Fairly cheaply made Santa hats. They're all worth like half and Eddie.

Uh, they're not really worth something. I'm like cool. And they salt, I'm going to keep wearing my one with blood on it, but I'm gonna grab a clean one for myself, as well as an extra clean one for One else in the group and I'm just gonna put them in my bag that I've got you. Shut them into your bag as your shipping them into your bag. You noticed that they all have, the death sweep logo on the label. It's merch. That's good.

Branding. Okay. So you've dealt with the enemy in this room retro and dhoni. I have not entered their next room, but you now Clapton sitting at a computer, okay, I have to say my catchphrase. It's running time, baby. You're sitting down. Night City. You look at a map of North America somewhere on the western edge. You'd see an Inky black dot with fingers, pressing into the side of the continent. That's where you find night City and somewhere in the middle of that.

Inky black dot is a giant smoking hole, like the universe itself, Drew iron and shot straight through the city, radiation turn the sky red, but our story starts a little further, south In a dive bar, the shortstop Welcome to Night City and welcome to cyberpunk edge of Extinction. It's sided dice presents, cyberpunk edge of Extinction, a cyberpunk, red, actual play. Watch now at youtube.com slash at infinite, sided dice. Catch you later, Chairman's.

All right, everybody. I'm Jack time to use my catchphrase. Time to run baby. Now you've already said they're follow and doesn't Hannah. You check in and you come across a password. Do I roll interface for that? Yes. There you go over there. Interface 11. The DVD is 11 for this password and you unlock this password and get access to the next stage, which is two rooms in front of you ever left door and a right door this time. I'm gonna go on the left or I learned my lesson.

Do you want to probe these areas first? Yes. All right, so you're going to probe the left or you have to murom remaining actions before your turn is over. So are you going to probe where you going to just walk in probe 9? Good? Yes, you see in this room on the left three things, one that it goes somewhere. There's another as an exit and to that. There are two enemies in here but you only work out what one of them is one of them is an imp, okay? Okay. Chennai.

Stealth through them. Yes. Yes, you can. Okay, I'm gonna use my stealth boat. Fucking hell. You rolled a 13 on stealth. Nice. That's very good. Yes, there are two enemies in here. This means you have to stealth twice if one of them catches you both of them, see you. Okay. So you have a choice at this point. You've managed to skirt past the Imp and in front of you now that you're in the room, you can see

this whisper as well. It's not as powerful as the nth but the Two of them are going to be a problem if you have to fight them. Yeah I'm gonna add 1 1 like everybody 1 lakh to this. Okay let's get together okay 17 yes. Thought 18, you walk past both of these programs undetected and in front of you are two doors on the left and on the right. Okay. Hmm, I've learned my lesson, I'm going, can I probe the left or yes? Role interface.

Hmm. Yes, you rolled a crit on your interface and your probe manages to get both doors. On the left is turret control. Your crit means you have discovered what with DV is. And there's a door unlock the right, which will unlock the door on the other side. Okay, there the DV for the turret control is high, is a 16, if I get it wrong. They get zapped out. If you get wrong, you will get hurt. Yes, you will not get forced out. Okay. I'm gonna try it.

The door or the turret control? Their, let me do the door first, okay? Six the door. Pushes you back and you take one damage. All right. That's okay. You feel that I fry of electricity Cascade across your vision. Okay, gotta try again. Oh, Jesus. At this time, the door smacks you in the face virtually in you take to damage. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Gotta go. Try one more time. Can I use a worm? Yes. All right, I'm gonna activate my worm, her me where be where Jesus Lord.

Well, the machine zaps you again for 1 HP damage, come on, gang. What's going on 10? Yes retro you see the door? On the other side of the room, slide open. Waited for what I was gonna say Sonia Sonia, I need you to roll a detent. Oh my God Heaven. Okay, Balaji 10. I'm doing it. If you want this can be resist torture drugs but your have to be a really high value for what's about to happen, okay? Not you rolled a 3. That is not enough. No. Door shuts behind you, the door

on the other side shuts as well. And from the ceiling hatch opens and sand. Looks like snow starts to pour into the room and fill the room. Okay. What's in the vending machine? You turn around in the doors, close behind you. I am confused and I saw in the room with a vending machine. No, you have both stepped into this room and the door has closed for happy that I thought I was still in the room and that he left me back you.

You did not roll high enough not to reach out step through the door after retro and it closed behind you. I'm just punch him really hard really quick. My God. Roll brawling and roll Adventure, instead of you going off the turrets as the sand fell turned off, this room was a trap also, I really fucking hate you for the record, you roll 21. He rolled his 14 crit fail and you smack him in the side of his TV head.

It makes it satisfying. Third as you hit it it does not hurt your hands I keep watching you lose 1 HP. P. Can I make a beeline for these crates and try to get on top of them so that I'm not trying to struggle through the sand. Yes. So there's some crates on the far side of the room on the right hand side. You run over and climb on top of them. Meanwhile, in the other room cave, you've walked over to Clapton on the computer. On the screen it says sand is released in its flashing.

Um, maybe what you've tried in front of you, in the door unlock room, you see snow release on the door. This this door room is a corridor part of it. Unlocks the door that attracted retro and at the very end is a room that apparently turns off this sand trap. Alright. Can I probe to see if there's any enemies? Yes. Well my God 5 yes there is a A low-level wisp in this room. Okay, I'm going to try and start again.

Polish stealth. Yes, you stealth into the room, the Wisp is looking the other way and there in the middle is a virtual red button. It has a it has a clear puzzle box on top. You're going to have to hack it. All right, I'm gonna go for it. No, the doors are shut. You are locked in. This room is filling with sand. It's like double doors of a manor-house bake. But sure it's a puzzle, right? I'm gonna try and bullshit. You are one of the few hackers I've ever worked with the few

never utters. I've ever worked with and so far, you have done great things. I assume and you're going to keep doing great things but the trust your intuition. Wow, I feel almost like not a clam. You twist this object a little bit. It folds turns into a hand and it presses down on the button.

Kicked out of the net run as your actual cable gets like sparked out of the Computer and in the other room retro, as you're trying to push this big door and Sam's pouring all over you, the door closes on its own and thus and stops and you're just sitting in a room. Now full of sand, the door slowly opens but it's taking a moment because it's in a full of sand. Well, this is obviously since

nobody's fault. I need you to like, really hear me. When I say, I will literally quit being the worst 90s sitcom reruns. Permanently in your brain for the rest of your fucking life. You are not the scariest person I've met but I do believe in what you're saying because I'm not a fucking liar. Well, just to let you know, I one of the few that have possibly done very, very terrible things. I'm in the music industry, I blew up a building. That's your secret God. Fuck.

Thanks. But I want side of the room boy. Do we actually leave the room to You Waltz into the next room? No, I'm afraid. No. Wait, was is the next door? O is the door open. And yeah, just had is open and this is peeking in and I just go was it the building that they're threatening your secret with? So you're really the whole reason for this whole death thing. Anyway, no, are you lying to me? No, you're lying to me. No hey it's cool.

I don't give a shit but you maybe should be prepared and hope that it's one of us that figures out your goddamn secret because we're not going to rat on you. Yeah, I think they already know my secret, so that's why I gotta kill him. No, I mean us, if one of us wins, we can help you kill these. Guys, you don't have to worry about us feeling you their secrets or anything like that. We don't give a shit. We care about you. You're our friend.

I feel so much better now. All of that secret in for a long time and I hope to share with anyone you've opened the door. You're standing next to me. Have a look inside. Well, we've all done things that are bad and Clapton your door opens to do. You check? Oh yes, yep. Retro your to embarrass really to looking Alex, you manage to peer into the room and you you see some stuff like this room's got a bunch of stuff and at the sandboxes the middle there's a bunch of crates.

You do see a turret in here, just one the Filly with a lot of confidence because last time, you I saw one that was more than one, so there is that you see it in the corner. Hey crazy. Thought maybe we can try my plan. Now before you run into a room, without any sense, of self-preservation and Jordan.

And Clapton you see an empty room with a computer sitting at it. I don't like this door at the other end is locked in Bach's works, I mean you did so great net running last time I'm sure you'll be fine this time. All right you have a sticky bomb, right? Me. Retro, you're not in my room but you can see, we have these things called radios. Hey, you were putting together dead bodies to try and have sex. Okay? All I hear anything from you.

Hey, we never said it was sticky bummed to calcifer. There was a sticky bomb in the fucking vending machine. I knew I should have got it because only good through all the sticky bomb at the Torah and then to be sticky and stuck. Oh, there's another turret here in this is, all right, I'm going. To skin you alive, you know, my ex said the same thing, but if you do that, save the skin, he's a good friend. I'll skin you alive to and she is no. Okay, what's your plan?

Well, I had one when I thought you had a sticky bomb and we could throw it at the Torah and it gets stuck and then I'm gonna be shooting us as we ran in. Well I got another plan, go for a fly by the seat of your pants and I run on it and you Walk into a room that is full of turrets shirt. There are four turrets in here. Good turrets. And from behind the vending machine offers a drone. And I pop my glitter grenade into the center of the room. Excellent, I'm jacking and come on gang.

Next time on no latency site. Again believe we lost the most important person to me I'm right here. I'm gonna flip it. I'm crying. I almost feel bad because like, we've been having a great time through our stuff. You owe me at least three Christmas presents for the amount of heart attacks that I, you gave me from me thinking that you were going to die. You can't tell me your secret and then die. Thank you. Get out of me. Okay, I'm just incredibly Charming.

I'm so proud of us. We've done so great today. I have a crazy idea. Is it like a cannon gun? What if we let loose every single one of our grenades? No, those are really expensive and I'm planning on living. Okay. Now we're ready. We had to have a tender touching moment. First, touching butts moment, Thank you for joining us on our adventure once again here at no latency.

Don't forget to follow us on Twitter at no latency pod, check out our website at no latency podcast.com and if you'd like to support us further, we have a patreon. Get exclusive content spin-offs bonus episodes of bloopers ad-free episodes and so much more with weekly content to say thank you to our supporters and even spice up your own cyberpunk. Red games at home? No matter. At what level your support. Thank you again. So much for listening.

We literally couldn't do this without you and of course we'll see you next time in night City. Thanks for listening gym. Thanks for listening gym.

Transcript source: Provided by creator in RSS feed: download file
For the best experience, listen in Metacast app for iOS or Android