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No Latency - Ep.10 They're not 'Zombies'

May 05, 202142 minSeason 1Ep. 10
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We return to the station where Ioanna is just trying to do their job. But now Biotechnica's Station AI is here, Nine, to 'help.' To descend they'll have to find a way to unlock the elevator, and then find out what's really going on below. Retro is salvaging, Jeb is trying to prove himself and Sano is counting his kills as he goes. 

What will they discover on the floors below?
Is Sano going to keep his cool?
And is Nine, ok?

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

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Last time a no latency. About doing Trevor's been with me either, but at least she mainly, can't just leave him down there. Duck sun, will turn around and head down, holding out his very heavy pistol. I did just tell you that this place is not abandoned. Maybe try listening next time, don't let them eat each other. Cover your eyes. Do you hear any other? Sounds from this area. Suckle people. Miss kopetski the floating orb Wiggles, a little bit. Looks it.

I own her again and said. As executive Pasco. A Phi, a Phi, wonderful. Okay. So it's nice to see you for a second time. Yes, I'm sure that you were here last time. If I was your code, my designation is 9. These are friends or do they need to be eradicated? No, these These are assistance. Yes. All four of them. All right, you wanna there's got to be some explaining to do. This is an AI that we used to run this facility. Oh yeah, yeah, no problem.

The tour will begin after the facility is under nine, please. Please, please make sure that that program doesn't run. We don't need any touring programs being run. You don't want a tour of the facility. Well, what? I without explaining everything, if you could just give us a blueprint or point us out too. Well personally I need to get to the fabrication room which I know isn't on the tour and then the court row will room as well. Advocation is on basement to key. Wonderful. All right.

Well, that's in 3 access has been clocked. By whom a mess. All right and that is the only logical in nature. Yes yes I'm sure it is. That is the only access to basement, 30 security reasons. That is the only access to basement 3 and without security reasons, what is the other access to basement through? Access to the HVAC could work, but probably incredibly

dangerous. Biotechnical is not responsible for injury or zombie-like B. B is python I was going to wait, but I mean, can anyone else, explain what the fuck these creatures are? And obviously, I just heard something that what these creatures are. Did I hear that correctly? So zombie-like is a term that we have coined from popular media. It is not, they are not zombies, zombies aren't a real thing, they're not Undead can get focused tested. Well, something like B, what

part of the court case? File number Z 4, 9, 7, 3 2, 1, 9 4, to 7. So that's a settlement arranged with victim. Got we all know, we all know Romero versus New York State. It's it makes sense. but let's listen the The term zombie is something that we have to use for if someone gets hurt because that is that is the general term that people know. However, these are not what you would consider under popular culture as zombies. These people aren't Undead. We're not dunks.

All right, we're this is fucked. The contracts are on the phone while they signed a contract. Oh, hey, chose to be here. Would you like them? I didn't sign. No contract to get my head swiped a by some a shamble and massive scene, you know? And that is not a contract that you did sign. However, you did sign a contract to be tested on, which is what these people are here for.

Well, we'll wait a minute, you're telling me that what I signed up for is what turned these poor souls into monstrous, Things. For this formula. Yes, but you didn't sign up for this formula. Since this facility was created, our formula has come a long way. We were still testing out the waters. On this particular formula to see how bad it would get. We didn't assume that this would be a successful run and it looks at a side effects. Are the are people experiencing

my for? All right now I'm feeling a little, like a sword and a hold it up to To Remy and to Jeb, would you two shut up? The world is shit. People lie. It is a bad. Terrible fucked up. World. Get used to it. Now you're going to whine and complain like little babies. Are you gonna do a goddamn job? All right. Samurai. Calm down. You weren't the one that was stop your whining. I don't care. Are you going to do this job or you're going to leave because

the elevators over there? Not doing this job for you Samurai. I'm not doing this job for you. Corpo, I'm doing this job for your bird. Yes. We know, it's overplayed. We understand. Oh, I have a poor decrepit. Animal at home that I need to fix some? What? Your story's over playing. I need money. No animals here, nine. No 99, please mute yourself for at least the next 10 minutes. Thank you. You're getting awfully close to the edge of my nerves are Iona. You signed a contract.

It's legally binding. Well then let's finish it. And there we go. There's your answer. I don't mean to interrupt. I know you asked me to be, you know, you can do it but that facility report is ready. I would love it. Thank you. Hop to Cowboy basement, to blockage detected. And volunteer processing and experimental application animal testing and Fabrication basement. Three spaces are not sensors offline. Fabrication is intact and locked restricted.

Access requires codes shit. Nine. Where are the access cards to the lower levels? I don't have one access card is with our last remaining attended. Let me guess. He's a zombified. Their last known location is fabrication. She it Season 3. This wall is slightly the wrong angle. All right 9 I'm going to request you be muted again. Thank you. All right, fine. I was going to push past sano's blade and just go walking. Go ahead, explore. I know you need to gather

supplies or whatever. so, on this floor, Now that the fight is settled, there are three rooms, a large room to your left, the big iron door and the word incinerator written across the doorway. When you're right, you can see a, I control and AI fabrication and just a little room over to your, right? Dagny is contamination control. Like a room to like clean. When you come in and out of the of the location that your app. Well, I'm guessing, I'm going to go ahead and go into the AI room.

First, I'm going to follow The aiiowed follows you silently. Go in. Careful Remy. This room is really clean unlike the rest of the station. But you've seen so far? This room seems to be reinforced in the middle. There is a fabrication unit, it just says AI fabricator on it. Very simple, a charging station which you notice has sort of a universal plug that probably charges the Drone. That's following you around right now and a various amounts of like sensors and Radars and

computers and things. There's a decent amount of Kit in here. All right. Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and start taking what I can find and stuffing it inside my carrying bag, gibbet life to do the same. Romeo perception, check. Jeb's perception has been honed to a fine tip due to his exposure in the Badlands. And you see in the corner, a locker. And just through the slots in the locker you open our there's a lab coat and on the lab coat is a pass says elevator access.

Well would you look at there? Well friends. Think about sometimes. 26 Eddie's. Oh, that And a breath mint. Pop that ran into my mouth. That's somebody else seems to have eaten and put in their pocket. Got a bit here, so problem. I'm gonna have this, that mr. Yuk face. Shoot up on my screen and just yeah. Right, as you sort of mildly chuckle at jab, eating used food from a lab coat that hasn't has been hanging there for an

indeterminate amount of time. You discover some pretty useful Parts, including a an espere i ocular. Idol. And a broken but serviceable, that will have a unit that could lift a small amount of weight. The hurry unit working. No, it's broken. But it was this the same kind of thing that that you'd attached to a briefcase, if it was too heavy and you wanted it to float, okay? Good enough. I feel like also me coming in there.

I'm leaving boot prints from the suit that I'm completely covered in. So, there's a trail of blueprints from Remy walking around and just looking at items and just putting it in his bag. The little AI drone is following you around very closely Remy. And although it was asked to be silent, it is still hovering around you and just bury curiously checking you out. Yeah, back off a bit ran. That's kind of annoying. I'm sorry. I've never seen a human with such an unusual head.

Well to, you know we all come in different flavors. I don't know what flavors are. I don't have a mouth. Mouse stop. Okay yeah well yep. It's my head. It's kind of got all all on my gear inside and that's just how it is friend. Frank. I have a friend now. Oh God. Why is, why is nine not muted? Did they ask it a question? It was directly addressed. Mmm. Now, some faulty AI on here. You know what, you know what me and me and I will talk about theology a long time. On the way.

All right. Do you have a conversation with nine about Theology and Iona and Sano a standing next to the elevator and they watched you go off to a I control. I'm going to head back Iona. This is what we're looking for, in a Flash, the badge. Can we get on with this thing? oh, I Yeah, that's exactly what we needed. Thank you, you're welcome. See, just a little bitter. Common decency will go a long way.

I'm sorry that I'm not holding your hand and feeding you cookies, while you are out here trying to, I don't know. Save your bird. All right, all right, all right. Can we just finish the job police? Yes, thank you. You're welcome. Me and Donna, go to go, check out the other room not the incinerator. You had to contamination control. And inside you find a huge bottle of disinfectant. That is bolted to the wall?

Okay. You see for hazmat suits like bio protection suits, two of them have been shredded and a covered with blood and the other two are still in their original sealed. Packaging hanging on the wall in a blister pack, you have to rip open. Okay. And on the ground are two dead. Scientists Hmm, the dead. There are they did they didn't come back to come back quote-unquote to life, they're just on the ground. They've been chewed to Pieces.

Fucking, you're really testing me right now because I know this trick, I'm going to Isaac stop there. Head first crunch. Holy shit. What happens? For all the T10. You stamp down on the first scientists head and it blasts opened. There was already a huge chunk chewed out of it. So it just and just cracks the ground and blood and brains spatter up towards the door. Okay. I feel the other the other body

remains absolutely motionless. And now your right leg is now covered in blood helps get the suit off. Let's, let's check the room with the if there's anything else I missed or is that pretty much it? No, that's it. All right, I'm going to forget the sanitizer and just grab the see. It's, I'm joking. No, I'm gonna go ahead and I'm going to unbolt the hand sanitizer off, cooldown me a d-10, I have a tool hand, you do have a tool and You got Advantage. Fair enough.

What do you want me to roll? Anytime, I want you to roll basic Tech because it's also Basics. Okay. Remy. Come on. What are you waiting for? Let's finish this thing. Effortlessly, you remove the tank from the wall. But as you pull it out, you notice on the back it says highly flammable so it's a very high grade alcohol. Okay, disinfectant, spray, it's not a gel. Okay. Yeah and say hey not, can you go ahead and hold onto this for us? Nine sort of spins around it goes.

I don't I'm just going to attach to your back real quick. Nine just falls to the ground Falls. Luke. It cannot take the weight of that tank. All right, I'll take off and it sort of re Hoppers up to head level, DM, DM, s--. As Remy. Does that I want to just check out the incinerator room real quick? Make sure there's nothing and they'll say, no. Come on. We were you head into the incinerator? You see some stuff? I'm going to find out what that is.

Are you rolling perception 16? As you look around. You see one very fresh shoe. And then Footprints to the door, you see a button abomination in the corner, but only half of it. Well, maybe even a quarter of it from the armpit down is gone. It's been burnt away. The incinerator door is open and there's a big warning like flashing on the outside of the incinerator. That says exhaust blockage critical failure. Well, no danger here.

And on the other wall, there's a big hole and what looks like a wood chipper, but above it. It just says bone disposal. Well, I'll keep that in mind. And there's an emergency Health hypo in this room for burn victims. So few is like a burn kit in it that will keep that in mind. Is it portable? You know? Yeah you can. It's like a just bolted to the wall and you'd replace it was used it like you pull it off in an emergency like break glass kind of situation. I'll take the burn kit. Cool.

I'm just gonna break the glass and grab it. Yeah, seems like things didn't react to the giant gunfire flash bomb? It was created earlier than I going to react to this. So, yeah, I'll break the glass and I'll take the kid. Cool break the glass, you take it. No alarm goes off. Although it does say on the box that an alarm will sound and the supervisor will be informed, but it nothing happens. Let's just text. The illusion of safety as it were. Do you want to check out the

footprint or you just gonna go? Where are they leading? They lead from the incinerator? One of them is a shoe now and to the door, what door The door you just came through. And they lead to the incinerator. No, they need out of the incinerator and they kind of Fade Into the corridors, the corridors covered in Grime and shit. I mean I'll give a quick glance like weird it. What's up with the footprints?

They are very fresh like really fresh and you can see a little soot particles around them and there's a handprint on the door that looks doesn't look like it matches any of the Abominations because their hands are so deformed. I will speak up. Is anyone in here? You just hear an echo. Well then. Answer now. Or I will leave you to your peace. The abomination in the corner looks at you but it can't move. Hmm. Very well. I will exit the room.

You will back into the corridor and I own a standing there. With vendor, I will hand Iona is kits, the bio burn healing kit. Gemma's just slouched down in the elevator. Just spinning the cylinder of one of his revolvers. We get gone or wood, Well, do we have everyone now that we're home is long as we're back. Remy returns with the AI or following him silently. Great, you find anything good? If a good cup, but some parts, some new, some new threads.

And I don't know if you noticed this giant bottle of Highly flammable liquid. Is that? Is that hand sanitizer? I think so. Yeah. Handy. And I said, I pull mine out of my risk. Sure you have plenty left. I'd take the card but that Jeb retrieved. So kindly thank you again. Jeb you're welcome. And I scan it boo. Boo. And the elevator light for basement to unlocks and you see error on basement three blockage. Well, let's go down to basement, too, and we'll figure it out from here.

The AI follows Remy into the elevator as they enter and just hovers there in the elevator with you. So what we'll continue start talking theology? Still no no no no, no. None of that please. I'm sorry. I gotta put you on mute I on I just a minute and we'll just Converse via. I'm at least I'm going to converse with them just using binary speak across my screen. Okay. And they're also displaying binary speak on their ice cream, okay? So it's not, you're not actually

speaking out loud. Thank God. Okay, that's fine. The beeping gets faster and faster and Wendell looks up from the thing they're writing down. Squints their eyes at the Remy and Ai and goes. Are you okay, vandal. Beeping is annoying. It is annoying, isn't it? I would agree that, that is annoying. Would anyone else like to say that? That's annoying. Look on that. We can agree. Iona everything. The TV does annoys me, so just nothing. And with that, you've reached

basement to and the door. Slides, open Jebediah hides. The door opens. There's a corridor with two doors. There's a door on the left that says volunteer processing. There's a door on the right that says experimental application. Experimental application. It's locked. It's a big like error locked and volunteer processing, the door has a green check to indicate the door is open now Remy there that locked door would be any problem for you would it? Ready Remmy.

Hey buddy it's a poem on the back of the only guy human nice big slap on the back Grammy. Wow! Yo yo hear the beeping come to a slow to go and that's why they need that to kind of continue on and know it's chronic crazy what? Interesting, where we want. We want to take a look at that door over there. The experimental application area looks to be locked, but that ain't Then you can't handle it. Probably here Samurai hold this and I'll give sound of a jug of

fluid. I will grab onto it and look to Mendel. And say, can can you hold this? I'm not permitted to hold things for the TV, man. Ayano, convened out this Leave it in the elevator. So Remy, do you step out of the elevator? Yes, I slip out of the elevator and you step out to the elevator. You step your foot squishes. And you lift your foot and like stuff and pass is stuck to the underside of your foot. As you look down, the ground is covered in a weird creeping biomass.

That's creeping out of some of the vents and a decent amount of it is coming out of the sort of crevices around the experimental application door. You make noise as you step forward. I'm a lot, but you listen over to your left through the volunteer processing door. Careful now, careful if I had hair it would stand up on its own. Are you going to sneak to see what it is? Yes. Cool Romeo stealth roll. I've been waiting for this

friends. D creep up to the door and luckily it's a little open because there's some biomass near the bottom of the doorway as blocked it from Reek from reclosing which is probably why it's still open and through the crack. You see into this incredibly, well, lit room. And from what you can see, there are a bunch of cells like very medical like cages. And most of them, if not, all of them are smashed or broken, there's blood everywhere. There's pieces of different,

Abominations all over the shop. So it's really hard to tell how many are in there. There is one thing you do see though. There is a huge creature in this room. It's large, it has an extra set of arms Loop somehow. And it's walking around eating pieces of Abominations that aren't moving. There are three Abominations following it around.

I'd like to take out my combat shovel and slowly start to dig away at the excess Gunk. This seems to be keeping this door from closing properly and in hopes that it will then shut and keep these Abominations far away from the rest of the party. So, Jim's going to try to. Quietly, but still effectively clear all that biomass. Cool. You scrape it and you pull it and it's just close enough that as the door shuts, it just shuts. And you stare at the light. The green light that says door

seal. And then you hear this? You'll see O'Hara. Tiniest little noise. Appearance. Add do they here? You can't see inside anymore because the door. Shh. So if you want, you can listen to the door to see if they've reacted to that noise. Know I'm backing away from that. You hear something on the other side of the door. Friends. France France. Remy say no, we are not going through that door. You understand science. A big motherfucker behind that and I am not ready to deal with

that. Kind of thing that's on. Oh, Listen, Remy, can you unlock the door and we get through this without making too much of a fuss or commotion? Yeah, yeah, I can try. Let me take a look at the door with this. What I got on my door. It's a hermetic seal, do that's broken little bit but the lock mechanism seems to have engaged and there's a red light that says locked on it with a little readout. All right, I will inspect the door more cool. I would say I would like to look at it through.

Electronic security, Tech sounds like a very smart idea. You see that the door has two bolts and at some point had like a security lock on it, but that security lock has been ripped off and there's just wires sticking out of that panel. It's pretty lucky because it means you already have access to the inside of the panel. Then I would like to go ahead and try to reattach. The said ripped wires in, what I

believe would be the quickest. Bypass cool rummy basic Tech, and that last inspection went really well. So give yourself plus two, okay? It doesn't go very well, Remy. It Sparks the spark goes up. Your tool, hand goes into your TV head and starts playing the last song that you played out loud from the speaker billion to your head. Do you doing I give you power down but that was loud and now you hear like a banging on the door on the other side of

volunteer processing. There's a another bang and the door deform. All right, y'all get ready as a name, sound the door deforms again. I toss the flammable hand. Sanitizer in that direction, the door opens and it flies forward crashes. Onto the side of the room, missing everyone, and the tank rolls to the front of the doorway pulling through the doorway. Is this huge shambling Abomination. I'm throwing a grenade.

My last grenade at the the at the vial of flammable goo and let's see what that falls in initiative. The Abomination comes through the doorway, that it's now blown through, and it's huge. It's twice the height of the three Abominations that are behind it. Scrambling, underneath its legs to try and come to the noise. They just heard Remy's head. There's raimi's head, reboots. The fight begins with so know who just threw that tank of flammable liquid and beneath the Beast itself.

Yes, I will see someone make some fire please. As I get out my gun and start shooting at the Kutcher. Nice. I get plus one of this because my solo 17 as I hit, yes, it does, right? They damaged Now the height of this creature is pretty tough and so it kind of has natural armor, you you hit for more than the Armor protects and a kind of a blade it. So a piece of this, like, calcified Flesh on one of its sides, sort of rips off and falls to the ground and its

armor is now less powerful. Sprinkles is not good. Don't let him eat it. I Hunker behind in the elevator preparing for hopefully, a fiery. Explosion. Was someone asked for fire? and being out with my last grenade and I roll it right to the right at the feet of the Beast, right next to the flammable, Material GMA. I take my turn at the same time. Yes. Because I'm going to pull Remy out of the way since he is still rebooting. I'm going to pull him into the elevator.

Sounds good, thank you. You can have that as your free action and then you can shoot with that as well. Okay, I'm going to are we waiting for the grenade to go off? But it's going to happen simultaneously. So if you want to pull Remy and that's a free action, doesn't cost you anything but you can shoot as you pull them in. If you want I'm just going to focus on getting them in the elevator.

Cool so if the if there's a problem with this explosion you get a bonus because you didn't shoot Jeb bromine Athletics check to see how this grenade lands. All right, baby. Come on. 15 it rolls forward and just clinks against the flammable container. And you see the little readout on the grenade. This is a pretty fancy. Grenade counts down from five. Are you using your free action to hide or you just going to stand there and watch it explode?

No, jibs. Gonna just gonna go ahead and dab backwards back into the behind the doors of the Elevator cool. Well, if you're going to be diving, then do an Athletics check. Coulda just said walk but oh, snap itch that rat over my other friends do a nice tuck and roll as I slide back against the wall of the elevator. You have so much adrenaline in your body that as you jump to head into and over your friends.

In the elevator, you find yourself with this Serene amount of time, well, you can look over at the impending explosion, and if you want to you can shoot Midair dab. Just And the whole world around you is slow down as you travel through the air. Goddamn bullet, a baby. What are you shooting all the big boy shooting? The big point. You hit with that while damage

12 writing bad, does a lot of damage. the grenade countdown beeps, three times and explodes and there's just a fiery explosion as it catches, the hand sanitizer container the words, highly flammable rip open as it adds to the Fireball and it's just a it's just a fireball that goes through the room burns, the scorches, the ground of all of that bio stuff and that stuff now on fire and the four enemies in the doorway start to scream and shout and they all take I'm going to it's

46, plus 2D 64 that tank 29. The fireball should've given you, that tank? Should I the fireball engulfs everything and they scream the three tiny ones. Come apart, almost instantly as the flesh drops off in their body, as it burns off the skeleton shaking slightly and falling to the ground. And the big one. Now only has half a shoulder and its head and its creatures as fire slowly starts to Scorch a way it is face, it melts. First the ground and slumps down dead.

Alright, so next time had a week. Wow. For once. Good job. Cowboy? See there again, just a little bit of common decency between us folks. You're welcome the experimental application door Fizzles, finally reacting to Remy's imaginations and it clunks open. and there's just this silence all of a sudden, Which is broken by a noise coming from experimental application. Hello. Hello. You want to go in and find out? Yes, I do. Next time on no legs. I pull out my pistol and I shoot it.

And what is, what would you say is the possibility for me to turn into one of these Abominations? Oh, no. Not that. The last song I was listening to now. I'm embarrassed. Here, and I pick it up and I throw the backpack over my shoulder. You make me awfully nervous. I suppose that's fair, isn't it? Well, apparently we just found a Survivor. Do you have remorse for what the transpired here or no here? Now, these people signed a contract Hi, just your friendly neighborhood, cat cleric, odd

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