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No Latency: Side Quest - "Goodbye, Mr.Smith" Pt.2

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Ioanna and their new friends arrive at the grow compound and do their best to avoid attention, despite the occasional fall, Ioanna, Apryl and Max get information and worm their way behind doors and into rooms they should not be in. It's only a matter of time before someone notices, it's dangerous here. Should they really be splitting up?

They only have till tonight to work it out, one can only hope they get all they need before the show starts...

Guest Stars @aprylanonymous and @pressalt4f2win  join the Side Quest this time on No Latency.

Can Ioanna enjoy their shower?
Is that just a gun in Max's hip?
And what does channel 54 want with Ioanna?  

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

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Last time on no latency sidequest finding something else to present to the shareholders. This shit is not ready dr. Hamilton interesting. I guess we should get a hold of Smith. I've been sent here about some gambling debts of the record game. I'd know anything about that. You want to find? I own. You are very tall. Oh yes. I know you're 54. I don't know exactly. Yes, yes. What do you need? We're following up on a Lead. Remember how I was talking about working off your debt?

Yes. And I think I can see what this is going to shareholder show. Introducing the projects for the upcoming year and the next quarter always looking for new news. Which were framing, we're not killing. And then we should probably keep, but frame him before he dies. So he takes the blame in that. All right. I just don't want him to be alive to negate the framing. You also have to frame a coffin. I mean, might be coffin for kill him haha. Sorry I can't do that was

followed by was playing along. Okay, okay, so there we go. Oh, yeah, I thought you had already ordered a car and I had, I just think they're wait for as long as we want. Oh, yes. Great. Let's go. Everything's got yes. Great. Okay, pink. And you put a sippy couple of on this ping hands. You a whiskey sippy cup lid. Yes. I-i've been To the theater many times. I know what those are. Next, we'll just quickly drawn as two. Drinks least, bring it with you.

He's already said it. It's hard to resist. Torture drugs, while he's doing it. I'm saying this. Why would you do that? So waste your string them with fine. Plebeians, you're fine. Your world is 12, you're okay, we got us up but he's need you. Yeah, roll on whether or not you're drunk. Yep, he's a tall. Is a very tall, man. He's fine. I have a cybernetic enhancements that dates me with that. It's like, you got crit fail. You'd be drunk for a bit.

You're fine. Yeah, but I love that, he will grab his Trilby and and shades and it's ready to go. Or you were not kidding about watching too many. Detective shows, I'm just in case is everyone armed. He puts his jacket back and you see a hand cannon on this hips. Oh, I check in my bag. Yes, I have my gun. I don't know what you're talking about. Okay, great. Good, good. I'm just just, so we're clear. I'm not very good with social cues. The wink means you have a gun.

Yes, that is that is exactly what. Talking about and is that the continuation of the thing? And I meant to not believe that. No, no, what is it? I've never heard of that. I'm now, I'm confused, I know but this is kind of seems like a Bruce thing. They do have a gun. Okay. They're just, they're joking, right? Okay. All right, my little cowpoke, have you ever joked before? And I'm not very good at jokes. Your mom's not very good at jokes. I know I'm a adopted. I don't have a brother.

Yeah, I think this is now on the edge of torture so probably stop this 17. Absolutely fine. And you guys go upstairs. Leave the bar exits through crystals by joy and outside waiting. For all of you is a biotechnical vehicle this is the big like, It's black. So happy by technically and gray, lettering on the back doors, is it nice? It's very nice. They are not a level one, corpo. So it is a nice vehicle if I just wanted to make sure it was worth their time. Babe, open the door for their

compatriots. Been Del jumps ahead of you and opens the door. He go. Well, thank you. It's my tits. So my job. So please, please have a seat. This is certainly nicer than all operational costs. I'm good. I've already gotten in Max will be the last one to enter. Too bad because April and dependable. Oh, my goodness. What are you doing? Is just get in the van.

I feel okay, I'm going to get in because otherwise, I mean, I mean I mean I'm here then and gets in and closes the door behind them and smile, did you leave marks outside the door reopens and Max sort of steps in a little dejectedly? I'm not used to getting Honest open for me either way. So sorry. Other ones to my job like perps. This is your supervisor, right? Oh yeah. Nice man. Thomas a pretty scary April is

kind of scary. I was not expect like, so jovial, but also incredibly intimidating. Yes, don't so talking about? That's that. There was a joke. Also friend. Oh yes. So the the was there Crow think that oh God, the grow lab, where we're headed to is? Where they'll be live-streaming the experiment. I think if we Touch the experiment and it goes wrong. It'll make mr. Smith, look bad. And they'll either kill him or make it really easy or justifiable for us to kill him ourselves.

Okay, but how are we going to sabotage it without including B? And well, if we sabotage it in a way that it can just kind of implode on its own, if we're at the presentation which isn't the grow lab when it goes off, we're nowhere near and we've got an alibi because we're surrounded by Witnesses yes. But when the Press, We don't want. Let me go back and excuse me. Let me go back and read this to

you. This says, I do not recommend mixing these drugs, the subjects body just keeps growing and eventually just becomes a violent angry, massive teeth and flesh there so many extra teeth. It's horrific. So as long as we make sure that that is not the outcome. My ex-girlfriend I've been told that was also a joke. Ha, ha ha. Was it wink! Oh God. I just want to make sure that B has nothing to do with With this.

Okay. And it, but really, we could probably said it looks like a higher dose is also a problem, so if you go with that, right? So you arrive at the body, fuel grow lab compound. It is just on the edge of night City, a bit like the arisaka lab. It's under an underpass, a kind of hidden off to the side and it look like it has this big wall around it.

But in the car vendor shared with you, the floor plan of the location, there are five buildings Building where they hold test subjects security, the lab and then the testing and observation building. And finally, the bathroom all separate buildings. There was one entrance to the Courtyard, probably because if anything goes wrong, they're probably going to Raze it to the ground. So I see vendor there's These five buildings.

But there there's just a hazard sign over one of them with No Label. Yeah, that's the testing room. Great. That's where they'll stream from. It has like an airlock building on the top of it and that'll let the test subjects through and if there's any problem, be easier for the scientists not get hurt. I think there's defenses in there and carrots and things, all right. And I suppose that there are probably people here, aren't there.

There's a guard outside. Alright, I'm going to start, I'm just going to step out of the vehicle step out the vehicle into the street. And there in front of you, is the big wall. It has the body fuel grow logo on the outside. Just next to the double doors, which are big enough for a vehicle to drive into and outside of the two. Double doors is a guard. Just on his tile. Doing some Doom. Scrolling kind of bored. Okay, I Walk up to the door and

I will stop. And I will flash him my employee identification, and just wait for him to open the door for me, rolling human perception 8, it just looks your badge and goes all pushes a button on his tile and the two gates open and it allows you entrance into the compound. The people, you may sit back down as they see the door. Start opening April, also jumps out of the car. Oh I'm with them. Yeah. Me too. What if I get caught?

So he rolls human perception. Two more times 1011 for April, and then you step out of the car giving off the biggest. I'm not a cop Vibe I've ever seen. You caught. No, I'm just a really big fan of those old movies. You see them all. Fuck. Are you a new? Our rocker boy? Real persuasion find good excuse though. Like that hate those rocker boys. So obnoxious Ward, you trouble with one. That's weird. Not my choice. I don't always. You can always choose. You know, who travels with you?

Yeah. Oh yeah, I was supposed to mean. Who's like gate Joyce? It gate gue, do all. This is boring. Ah, I hear ya just scrolling what channel 54 in it. Anyway, I rolled an eight on that and go to 17, so I guess you just didn't. You are annoying fan again. Definitely people, ye decontamination and if you end up being an Abomination, that your own problem. Well, not thank you. Thank you. I walk into the gates, I follow, but flashing, like another big smile, big network 54 smile.

It's about bias still. Doom, scrolling is not look up. I'll just quickly tip my hat as he walked by he, very much is done with this job and the gate closes behind you. You are now in the open courtyard of the body fuel grow lab compound. Where is this? PPE were supposed to be putting on? Where is that located? Cated. There's some insecurities and there's going to be some in in the bathroom as well. Let's go to the bathroom. Okay, are we all going together? But I will go first.

Okay, safety in numbers. I will first sanitized before I go in. Can I have some absolutely thank you, thanks. Oh, you don't need to roll. Twice year old a crit 17. Congratulations. Again again, did I quit the first time? Yes, big. Very that's something bad's about to happen with the sanitizers. Was that what that means something bad's gonna happen. I sanitized, I sanitized April and then I leave them to go into the restroom. Here I go.

Okay inside, there are five stalls and only three sinks trash can and a Length mirror. Each of the Stalls has a built-in, decontamination shower and PPE locker with a biosuit available or just a mask if you prefer. Okay, so I am okay, this is very clean. It's my a Technica. I do it, super clean in here. I just have a little bit of trauma recently. So I am opening the first door with just my pinky finger to break the the airlock seal. I open it.

Close it. I feel a little bit of air pulse out of the of the door as the seal is released. I remove all of my clothes, put them in my bag, over the locker, put them in the locker. Turn on the decontamination shower, and I stay in there a little bit longer than I should. Well, the record everybody, this is iona's official first shower ever on the show on the show. Your oldest feel the cleanest person in the whole of Knights moving and, you know, proud of

you. You do notice that ion has been gone for a while, I'm going to follow back. I mean, after after it's been like a little while, you could just hear the decontamination it's a, it's a powder, right? Yeah. You can just hear it the, you know, good podcasting over the powder being blown out the top. All right in there, there are several things phone. Wonderful, just decontaminating first. Look what time it is. I bet I should do the same thing. Yes, oh, absolutely.

That's a wonderful truth. Sounds wonderful. So I go Into another Stalin. Similarly, but, like, not quite as carefully. I just opened things and do you open things? The instructions are really easy. There's a, you know, all of the locker, is there to put your things in. If you want to leave stuff there, don't necessarily think that that's very good idea. But you may want to anyway. And there's also either just a mask or a full medical bodysuit medical and a. Yeah, me too.

I'm chatting with with iota. How fun? It's a locker. Oh, what a shower. This is. Yes. Yes, April. Yeah. Yes. April I'm trying to enjoy my sanitization. Oh yes. And this is a shin is very enjoyable. Thank you. I just gonna put this biosuit on. Actually is it for one else in here? Hello. Hi. I brought I brought Max in here. I thought it was weird if we just stood outside. Yeah, everybody should put on a All biosuit that way, we're less recognizable. And yeah, I thought.

So after guy on the fucking gate bottle was a car already. Yeah, it's probably the Trilby. It's true. Because you are you are also a cop. You are also a copyright is a big giveaway. Hmm. Nobody else was one of these days. Come on pops. Do cops wear them because you look like a cop. Okay. It's all right. We can't all be Masters of Disguise. Like you're staying awake from inside the shower, wink. I say, wink from inside the shower. Not all of us can be Masters of Disguise wank.

I think this actually a disguise Rolf, isn't that? Fortunately? So that's a person, a grooming rolls. It could be, You could argue it to be either personal grooming or acting. I have really high personal grooming. Yes, you do this. I'm going to be very groomed as a PBE person who belongs here. Okay, may I roll for bureaucracy. If you, if you would like to roll for bureaucracy, you can you can also roll for acting as well. Wonderful Bjork. See you rolled a 20? Yes.

You look like a bio Technica scientist. I have, I'm leaving my bag in the locker and locking it behind me. Taking the key. However, I am keeping my electric whip. Um, okay, on on my person inside of the suit. So I'd have to rip the suit open to pull it out. Okay. And do you taking your gun? You leaving? I should take the gun. I was thinking, I'd leave the gun behind, but I should take the gun. I'm gonna bring my guns. OK. Yes, ok. So inside my suit is both my wife and my gun.

All right, roll something to see how well it goes. Oh, to conceal. I'm gonna do personal grooming. You roll a clip twins? I haven't ruled anything but Chris, really hold it. A crit. 25. Yes. You, you, you can choose to look like a regular scientist, or you can also choose to look like a executive on this project, who's coming to visit on production. I am, I am here for production to make sure everything goes smoothly before the live stream tonight. However I don't want to appear as Iona.

So I'm also changing my hair color okay because I court is not going to make. That car does not know my name. He did not look at my badge. He did not hear automate. So what's the name? Jennifer Rodriguez, Jennifer Rodriguez marketing associate, would you like me to also roll to keep my gun on me? The gun that I totally have wink. You wrote 20, I thought that's why you, that's why you're rolling up to but I wouldn't

know. We'll check before I assign multiple roles for the same thing seems like that's fine, right? I would also change my skin color to light blue. Okay. And my hair color to Black interesting. Just just cut, your skin color is hard to see through the PPE thing, okay, because you're quite covered but the hair Peaks over the visor pants earnings. Yeah. II say thank you for The inspiration. You're welcome Max. Yeah, Max will step out of the

car Deacon area. He's also wearing the full suit, her sister off in the back and he wears his Shades still. Okay. Roll personal grooming, if you can't think of something else. He's also with a pissed, his pistol. Which is a very pistol, very heavy pistol that we are not very hairy, very your gun. Your gun is officially got a fur handle. A very, it's a very hurt, Harry pistols. Very comfortable in the hand. I like that so much that you're now, you're now getting plus one to hit.

You just feel comfortable to use. It's very personal. She put the That in the front of his pants on the suit so it looks a little bit, like he has a little little something down there. Very is ginormous Harry pissed. It'll be okay. Cool. Very hairy pistol role for it. Hide your very hairy person. So It's Austin Powers thing going on between the top bit and the bottom bit of it and no matter how hard you try this. Now just like a bunch of hair

your waist. So people are going to be constantly looking at your crotch is just a big distraction from the cop look in your face. Yeah. It's you just you have like 70s porn star crotch right now. It's just a guy. As since he knows how it looks is just a, it's just a very big Crystal. I couldn't get it. Any, please don't tell me about your pistol. Why does it look like he has an erection? I'm sure it's not that big. Okay, Kendall gets outlaw street wise and they look like a

biotechnical employee. Wait, I am a biotechnical employee. You just don't want to look like you. Oh, yeah. Well, I wrote 20, so now I just look like random employee. Number three. Great. Yeah I've been playing ever three. Hello I want a high five high five Vandal gives you a very good high five and they'll historically gives very good high five say. I look at my hand it tingles even through the suit. Yeah. Yeah. I'd like almost like hurts a

little bit but like hurts good. Like in the good high five way. Yeah yes for that. All right everyone I suppose we should head to the lab. Yeah I don't want to wear with us look for any longer than I need to. What would you do if you found yourself in an unfamiliar land? I'm from ever made aisle. What about what about great teacher? Anybody heard a great teacher. So we're from different places, how?

Like, different worlds and look good from your home world and trapped in a prison with no possible Escape. That's against the Geneva Convention. I don't know what that is. That doesn't exist here. Who's, you know, someone named in Geneva? Is she dead? I don't know. They beat her up a little bit and then they took her, I don't know where she is, she could very well be dead. You are you guys like beating up smaller creatures? Huh? What of it?

It's none of your business and he's gonna flick your nose. Great. I punch him directly in the mouth, okay, The challenge. My first role of this series is a 100. Yeah, that's good luck to escape this hell and you're locked into solitary for three days trapped in a room. No. Bigger than a broom closet. It fucking sucks here. DM, find a way home. Let's start a fucking riot. Find your way home this June 16th.

And save the pH backpack. So you get to the door of the lab and the door is shut and lesser locked your shot. You know, from the floor plan that there is a back door to this and an office. Inside some equipment quickly, I am going to feed risky my ID card, right so he can manufacture a code. So something similar to like beep beep on a door but is not mine. Do you want me to call Phillip so he can run that program through risky. Yes. Yeah. Yes.

Okay. Oh. This is risky and I pull this robotic spider out of my suit that was intact like this before it clinicals around. I own a like a tarantula. I reach forward to shake Risky's hand. He shakes it shakes your finger with one tight. Nice to me. It just puts us a little finger on your feet and nice to meet you, okay? Look hey. Hey Siri call Philip Your device gives you a frown and goes that's ringing philibert I can see you on the tile.

This is a video call. Hi, you don't have to say finger guns when you do finger guns. Or so wink. When you wink, what do you need? Oh yes, Captain interesting. I do need you to I'm going to feed my ID card through risky if you want to reprogram. So when I scan my ID it does say Jennifer Rodriguez Yes, and I take off, I'm going to take off my hood real fast. If you want to take a screen capture of what I look like right now to put that on there. Thank you. Well this better be a damn good

ID card. Let's do this next thing we're going to do become the gym and it gets two sets of holy shit. Oh no, your big hairy pistol. Sorry. Just excited. I mean I know it's a good head shot but it's kind of an overreaction. I mean you always had shot at the end with a hairy pistol I mean move quickly on All right. So I've got your really good head shot and now I'm going to roll torturing oh dear. I'm gonna say it's a re-roll because of the really good head shot. Okay.

Hi not very good. That's 1904 the re-roll. So, yes, you now have an ID that will work. Great work today. That's fine. I don't want me. I won't need it pass this evening are. All right, thank you, Phillip. I'm not very good. The phone calls. Love you. I hang up and you now have an ID card. That will open the basic doors in here. But not the testing Bay, that requires special access. Okay. Beeps door opens, do you want to look around inside before we

going? Yes, I will stand at the doorway next to the yardstick. You don't really notice anyone in the room and you just scroll. So you're so, you're so excited about the door opening. There's this little thing in the back of your head where you've gone through doors, that open automatically after you beat them so much without even thinking you step in the room. Okay. Unfortunate because you rolled a fail. You also trip over and fall over and you lose 1.

HP me out you. Okay. Yes. I'm just getting old. Oh and out comes in and I'm so sorry. I just took care of your knees. Well, the human one, just take care of it. Yeah, I have to oil the It's weird. I just weird. Well I mean I guess it's not that weird because you know joints need lubrication to and that's what happens when you get old is that you oh god, that hurt so bad you lose lubrication in your joints and that's how you develop arthritis.

Yes. So while that's going on perception, check from April and from Max please, yes, I see everything behind my shades. Yes, Max. You see everything in this room. A few things that you notice about the room that you've entered. You've entered The lab in the compound and on the left hand side of the door, near the wall. There is a guard standing guard. On the right side of the room, there is a large machine of some description. There's a scientist standing in

front of this machine. In the very top right hand corner of the room is a large tube that goes from the floor to the ceiling and there is a tube-like indentation in it. That has a sealed Shield thing on the front is a big computer full of chemicals and other accoutrements. Or creating drugs and then three Fabricators that make said drugs, a different levels of intensity or experimentation. And on the left side of the room is an exit to behind the building and the door to the office.

I purposefully wasn't listening to any of that. I was purposely only listening to half of that, good job. Hey Vera in character after his backup, Maxwell proton. Say so might want to watch start with putting any attention on you with that and there's a guard over there so it's fine. I work here. Okay, and you work here too. Yeah, I love working here. Wink gotta stop saying wink. Okay, so listen, mmm. You April? Hello. You're still a scientist?

Yes, I love being a scientist. Great vanille. You're still my assistant Max. You are also my assistant. Okay science. My favorite. What exactly are we looking for you? Well, I believe we're trying to get access into the staging area. For the lab is that GM is their lab equipment in the court of the, the airlock area, like everything's already on the outside that area is just for putting the Checked into so that you can push them into the room,

okay? The the place where they fabricate, the drugs is a machine, you actually recognize once you get up from your knee it's over here on the right there are three Fabricators connected to it as a large big box that's full of chemicals that it can automatically combined into whatever way and it will transfers through a tube and the only person in this room had who had have any inkling, what's inside that tube is Iona sir worm in that tube?

Maybe God. Just, I'm going to fold my hands behind my back in a very professional manner. As I'm just observing, I'm going to each fabricator and inspecting. I go to the second fabricator and I inspect and I motion to the rest of the crew. I pointed a little thing and I go. Hmm. Does this look like the right calibration to you now? We should definitely get that checked. Yes, yes, mr. Hanna merely or says something else great. Yes, Rock. Write that down, take a pen.

Why do you think scientist? Mmm. Wink quite scientific, right? However I'm not sure if it's truly the kind of science that is needed for this project. Indeed, do you concur? Yes, I concur. I'm gonna go over to the tube. All right, so you go over to the And next to the indentation that comes out of the tube is a red button. I love a red button. I turn to the scientist. Yeah, in the room that doesn't know. Not to assure the one that was working here. Very in character.

I'm ready. I'm unfamiliar with this part of the machine. I don't seem to have it on my blueprint here. What is this? What does this button do? That, that button, that one reveals the, the Catalyst object as posted in the schematics for the device. Oh, I must have an outdated version of the schematics. It's the normal Catalyst for all of our body film projects. It's one. It that one's W. 47 or 48? Interesting times. Okay. Wonderful. Thank you so much. You know that the thing?

Yes, you Don't have to say it out loud. I dunno. Okay, but you here for the event tonight, my have to do any other. Okay? Well if you want to walk me through exactly, as you would do for the presentation tonight, I'm here to make sure that you are up to par that all of the equipment up to par. And my team here will be taking notes the whole time and asking questions like shareholders, would this be role for the meeting next week? Yes, let's let's turn on our eyes.

Please. Okay. And I'll do first perhaps start rolling. Okay? So what we do with the device is we set it up with various do strengths for the presentation as depicted by dr. Hamilton, we are not to exceed 7.3% with a variance of point seven percent. What happens if you go above it, What's your classification number because I can't answer that unless you're above are blue. I am I above blue. Am I not? I'm not above, I own is above

blue. Oh yeah, I didn't know because we talked about the that I can't get into certain to ask when it gets all the way down to read but hasn't access to any black project. Great great, great. Oh, right, yes. Okay, so yes. I flash my card. Yes. As in the last report I think it's report 47 and it causes Is it can cause death so as part of the presentation, we're going to

avoid that 4.5%. And then we'll have a slightly stronger ones who like wow them at the end of the project at about 6% and everything is properly calibrated to those exact measurements for the first and second dosage. Yes, the first two machines are doing five percent, we've got one for spare and then the third one on the end that ones doing the 6.1 percent Great interesting. Smith's going to be by to check all the results.

Hamilton told me to fake it, and put numbers before, it's going to be 16, it's going to be 5, 15 Point, whatever, and so on, and then when I leave, I meant to delete, I don't know how you would say no to this. Now I know it's an easy job. I changed numbers and make fluids. Go through an animal we made. Yeah. You want to see it? Yes, I would love to Press the button, the red button, isolate the eye opens the times, not as it's not very special, I press the red button and fat ugly

press the button. What appears as a large to two pieces of metal separating, their inner tube floating in fluid. Is this worm thing snaked into a bunch of Tubes? She's as great as that guy's ugly. It's this one bigger than the last one slightly. Yes, it has. One big round mouth and one. I like a lamprey like a lamprey. Well, I will say that. I am satisfied now. Do we have somebody triple checking your your numbers? After you bring Smith in the triple-check of the numbers is

in the observation bang. And the, all the scientists have been informed to undercuts Dosage by Hamilton wonderful. Well thank you. It's good to know I'm happy. That should know that because if you get it wrong we could you know get fired. Oh yes. Absolutely. I'm going to go to the observation deck and make sure that those programs to make sure that those numbers get changed and get reverted back to the five percent of the 6.1 percent are actually Place.

Well, I've got one of these charity case. So this and the other one, if you use those it unlocks all the fucking doors. So make sure that if there's an emergency you call from me, hmm, head of security and what scientists? Mmm, it's a security head of security scientist. What, and what was your name? My name is George. All right, George, thank you, George dr. Jordan, thank you dr. George Did you need anything else? That's our first thing, George, thank you so much.

All right, well, I'm gonna keep working and also you've got the memo nobody if you're buying a property whatsoever. Absolutely you got it, you guys back to his work, he has no reason to suspect. You are here for anything else. Apart from this incredibly important day for shareholders. So he expects new visitors today. Great. So I guess we're just going to the observation baby, whatever you say ma'am do we? We're not we're not we don't need to go there.

This is the observation they under a higher security. Do I need to call the security officer? Now, know there's a lab office. I think it's over there, but what the other end of the lab? Why don't you come said, no, I'm just faint judges. Want to make sure you've got everything you need from. The does the GM want me to go to the lab office? No, I just wanted to know if you wanted to explore the rest of this building before you love. No always saw the worm, let's leave.

I think I see. Seen enough of this guy. I see you later. Bye, George, goodbye. I hit the red button to close the tube as we leave. I love a red button. April, I'm going to need you to deal with that. Sure, of course. No April. Of course, I am giving you plenty that has to stay under wraps at the whims, a big secret great. It's deleted. I hope you understand the consequences of that action. It's okay deleted. Hold on, I have until I love that everyone. The same idea at the same time.

Wow, it's deleted. I don't know what you're talking about. If anything comes out, I know who it was and I will have you scrambled. And demonetized, of course, just just, so we're clear. D monetization. It does involve death. So how of I know, of course, I know it's just pretend that I didn't hear any of this. Do you also get where I am? If don't tell anyone about the one because that's, that's, that's So secret. Yeah, I'm already trying to scrub the look of that thing of my mind.

I've got a friend to delete the memory for you. Like, what? Back at the bar, so, yeah, we can get that done. Just take a lot of vodka is the same for me. All right, while a big old grin I'm gonna shoot April Anonymous. I think, I think I might have to shoot people Anonymous by the end of this. You've gathered some information inside of the lab. You know how the product is made? You know what it's made through. You know where Smith is you never want to know how the sausage gets made.

No you really don't. It was gross. It's made by what. Yeah. It's also a flashy worm flash. It looks like a sea cucumber. Oh God. So you leave the lab? All of you, go to the observation deck, Iona, All right, so you head towards the observation area as you come up to the door. I need you all to Romeo perception, check that was Shades man. You're fucking cop sheds. Let you see, are they do? They have computers in them? That just Miller States.

I'm busy watching my own my own video, but the playback, busy watching your own video. I need you to roll a cyber Tech check for me. Okay, so see if you don't Suddenly delete it. Yeah, you rolled. This is going to be tough because you are in danger of losing that footage. Wait, why? Because you rolled a crit fail on perception fell over and you were looking at the file of the time. It's like having your finger on the mouse as you're going.

Over the delete key something. Oh, control for bureaucracy, but you can roll for bureaucracy, very used to dealing with those sort of red. Tape. I'm in, I'm very cheap business. Yeah, sure, it's your business. Yeah, roll for it. My family was all in, but yeah, be in order to keep this footage now because you rolled so badly, you have to keep an 18 because that's 20 minus 2. Now you're all 216 slip and you delete the footage of the worm.

Okay, I told everyone I deleted anyway, I deleted it. No, it's the truth. That was on purpose. That's definitely on purpose. You just messing with this. You just want to see the worm. Again, you little worm friend. I just, I have everything for worms. Let's not make that a character trait. So, when you get exit the door for no reason, you here.

April swear at themselves. Fucking And with Max's 21 on perception, you hear that there is some there is more than one person on the other side of this door. I can hear multiple people behind this door. Good job Ken him, noble people behind the. So we should look still kind of try to look professional, I think. All right, well other there's not any like Windows on these doors. It's okay. No, windows. Okay, everyone ready? Yes. Yeah. Should we be having a fake

conversation as we go in? Your people, the door opens. I love your face, it's just so funny. Guess we also have to be careful of the dosage. I think the dosage is a very important fact, as you walk in and they either side of the door, there are two guards. Well, you need to watch out because sometimes if you go a little too high dosage, it can be a little hairy if you know what I mean. And if you go a little too low, Dosage, well then you may as well have not done anything at

all. Yeah, that's also what I noted down. Yes. Quite oh, hello, guard person. Hi, there. How are you today? Has all done as little bit of good day for you so far. Well, if we price them in a room with no windows, looking at a screen of some horrible, shits are not really. Isn't that always the way? Yes, at the front of the room that you've entered. There are three rows of chairs. Each row has two seats each. Each and in front of them is a large curved screen.

This is probably where all the scientists come together to talk about the various experiments that happened. Just next door in the attached part of this building called the testing area area is also sealed by large doors and it is where they test on human beings. There is a scientist working at the computer. At the screen, he's setting up for tonight's live stream. Is there anything currently on the screen? Are we monitoring the holding

cells or anything like that? That yes in the holding cell. You see a car. The room is fairly dark on the screen. There is no subject in there. Currently there's faint stains of blood but actually surprisingly not very much a car. Yes we're using a car this time, what kind of car? It's a Citroen Tren. Yes, but what the whole point of grow, you know, that it makes you strong as I thought it would be good for the show. I love.

It was mr. Smith's idea, the fact was subject for is going to lift a fucking car over his head. Don't buy it. Yes, with the drug. I know. Yeah, with the with the results. Oh my gosh. Yeah, well I mean you know we took the engine up but don't tell them that they don't worry. Of course, this is the third. I'm sorry the knowledge. Yeah. He's gonna lift a car. All right soldiers on that. Well Bill, not that it breaks or something. No, it's a Citroen 2cv, you

know, their egg cooker. Yeah, yeah. Come here. At that thing. That falls on the ground in the blood race recently. We're using one different one. I'm a mother father. Public chicken, too, hard. Well, that's kind of You want him to be able to rip it apart and where are, you know. Yeah, well the well that makes sense. I just wanted another dude gets hurt. What it for your shares before the meeting. They're gonna go fucking crazy. I'm sure well I have my options.

Yes, exactly. What team are you from? I don't recognize any of you. I'm part of the marketing Associates. I'm here to make sure that all of your I wave my hand around generically a science. Asha, my badge, I can see him looking. Your science goes to plan. I did talk to George earlier so I'm here to make sure that all of the backup facility has roll persuasion. If you anything apart from a crit failed passes don't say that it's great.

Honestly the best way to lie is to tell the truth mostly. But also you said that all out. You got to be like bonuses. That's a 16. Okay Rodriguez right. Yes. I'm sorry, I'm sorry if you've never seen the name Rodriguez, before I just, I've never met you. That seems rather get it wrong. It just seems strange to me that you pronounced it the way that you did well scientist eccentric. My idea of experiments is a man picking up a car, I like it.

I think it's a good marketing strategy and we'll have it, but we've got it all painted biotech. Nicker - rip it apart. I'm gonna say we're ripping apart at the seams of haven't really worked on that. Maybe the PR department can come up with a zesty line for that moment. Ripping apart the seams of what's possible for our future. I love it. That's why they pay her the big bucks. Exactly. That's why the couple has Rodriguez. Well Smith will be here soon.

Yes. So I actually have brought my own team of scientists to double check out of your programming. So, if you just want to take a seat, we're just going to run our own Diagnostics on your computers, and then, and then check to make sure that your programs are set to go back to the right dosage after the, you know, the large number the show e numbers Right. April, walks forward. I just wrote a crit 25 and now I am so sick of you all as fuck.

You said someone on the last day hours before the live stream to check on us, on an experiment that we have run 14 x, 6S for years. I don't know why you are so suspicious of this because we are about to have the live at streamed at shareholder meeting. And it needs to go correct today. Now, Now, I know I am your marketing associate. I know that you've never seen me before. That's because I work to cover up all of the fucking mess ups. You do. Oh, I know about the flesh monster.

There are so many fucking teeth. Now, I need you to sit down. Well, we double triple quadruple, check that you don't fuck this up. Roll a facedown, thank you. I don't remember how do. It's cool right? Yeah it's cool plus reputation plus 1 D 10. What's our rep right now? Your rep is 5. I think cool. Plus rep plus 110. Okay. 16, minus 5 plus 8, plus 3. Yeah, that's very good. No better. Not be equipped. Okay. A road last year old a three, right?

I rolled it to, okay? I Pat him on the shoulder and I say, don't worry, I'm sure it'll be fine. I don't know anything about PR. We've got solved the Flash problem. You just don't give them too much. I understand I'm on your side fellow scientist will be fine. Just just let these upper management people have what they need. You know what I mean? He sits down in one of the chairs and one of the Gods leaves. Oh actually could you go double-check with joy?

George, I know that I have 55 and 6.1 written down, but I need you to go double triple check with him as well. Go to go check with George. Thank you, thank you. There's a guard left in him. Yes, I see that quietly. I could you create a human wall real fast while I call Phillip. Yeah, I'm gonna go up to the guard and I'm going to ask him about what kind of coffee break. He gets to take my 65, you all buried, Rose. You're gonna stand in front of you now. Okay, yes, look over her

shoulder. So now, just like watching April flirt, with a guard, hello, looking at a different direction than I'm over here, actually, but he's not looking at Carol lattes. Those are good for coffee breaks. Yeah, the coffee machine has black coffee. Just black coffee. I do enjoy a black coffee when it's done, right? It's not very good. Well, you know, coffee is coffee. Am I right? Caffeine taking take your old human perception. April take, you can see my prescription because I want to

see if you can actually see. I own it being like fucking free for room, 14. Yes, you do. See that? I actually really need a little caffeine myself. It has been such a busy day. You mind showing me where the break room is, what? Really? Yes. I need some coffee. Just to be clear. You want me to come with you but I just need to know where it is. I would like you to show me. Just like it up sort of

two-year-old female. Yeah and I would mind if you wanted to get a cup of coffee or cell phone can chat a little bit. Oh no! No seriously. He starts to brush more. Why didn't I didn't expect this? All right. It seemed like no, you're doing and it's, you know, it's you've now convinced him. And he's headed towards the vending machines outside of the security building where the coffee is dispensed. You have now left the testing, observation room you're on your own.

The other guard that left earlier is having a cigarette near the gate and you come near them. Meanwhile, back in the testing, observation room, Max Vandal and Iona are alone. Jesus Christ that God had a bigger humble his pants than I do with the gun. Yes. Embarrassing. Well, I do think there were probably need all of us to fix this. Because there are, there are two security unlocks. I'm going to get Philip to help us here. So ring ring, Stop, we are in a

squeeze. We need to move very quickly. I'm about to install risky into this machine. And there are going to be some dosage percentages that are going to be reset after being set at a higher number. And I need you to be able to cancel out that reset. Okay. A lot of dosage or absolutely not so it's going to be put up to 15% and then 16.1% and so I need you to. Yes it is. So I need you. What's going to happen is that they have it set. Yes. But we wanted to be dangerous. Okay, okay.

Just checking? Yes. But so I need you to help us do that, please. What do we need to do? Okay, I'm not there the rescue bit. If I was, there are like, if you come and pick me up, I'm just sitting here in the office. I'm not going to pick you up. Philip, not yet, you're not ready. We don't have the time. All right. All right. Hello, new voice? Hello, I'm Max Max. Are you? How is your, how is your basic

Tech? But five, I'm not really that tacky know where your basic Tech is way higher than me or van Del Sol. So, I hand, I hand the tile to Max Max, please. I'm taking a look of, maybe go for it. I love that I'm taking a look at it. It's a honestly, it was a DB5. It's a very simple bow, on the back of the machine, and yeah. Plug it in, just like that. Whiskey is plugged in. Okay, I hand my hand too risky to Max. No second one tile and tripe like on like flip explain to me.

Okay, let's see. What up to do, lunch. Let's do this. Quite a nice small little bug. Cool. When it reverts back to five and six point one, I need you to have it automatically. Trigger the 6.1 back up to 16.1, just that one. I know, okay. Yes, I do. It's gonna be bad. I know, but this project can't go. Right, unfortunately, 13. Yes, that is enough. So now he has rolled 13, He has reprogrammed it. So that the initial reducing of

the dose, it does not happen. Even though the machine will display that it has the syringes will be made in the next 20 minutes. They will be used for tonight's live stream. Great. Can we put a lock on that? Okay, I'm going to roll my interface so that no one knows that was here. Didn't you want to frame like mr. Smith. I couldn't do that.

Just like put him on this. techies have my work are useless, so Hey, in order to find out if me and a realtor undo, my mouth, they have to go higher than a 17 to be it, magic. But but it you're putting Smith's fingerprints on it. Correct? That's what that was. Good job, fresh. Is that did I? Is that what you want to be called? Great and fresh fresh p.m. fresh peas. So my system it says that Smith is gonna be in that room fairly soon. Well, we better leave then. What you look like.

But I've, well, we're leaving. You want some shades? Yes. Yes. Give me a shout. I'm taking Max has Shades. Be careful with them. You take matches say shades. We cut over to April, drinking coffee, with a guard outside the front of security. And while you're having this coffee with this guard out of six of the security door, comes walking a tall. Gentleman wearing a bio Technica suit. It's very subtle. Dark grey with a little biotechnical logo on it.

Looks the premium of a corpo, he looks at you April straighten, your eyes and goes Fucking. I'm blind Corner scientist. Who are you? Next time on no latency side quest. Yes, you are in trouble now. Fuck off you, excuse you. Well, I could use bureaucracy of. Well, my stuff's locked in that Locker. Gonna look for an occupied decom chamber. It's a smelly poo.

It smells really, really badly of poo the whole procedure I step out of the stall and in front of the door, I am Smith, I'm fairly conniving with the other half is worse and they're using your brain. Your I can't stand her singing of a fucking products anymore. Oh, we're actually having this conversation. I was just hoping to send it off and not have to worry about it. Wait, I have an inspiration. Don't I, I do not want to fail. This, what's make my work way

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