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S2E56 - Amped Up Reunion

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S2E56 - Amped Up Reunion

The Battery doesn't like visitors, Jeb and Vendell have to make a quick exit before they get flooded with drones. Jeb's already had one dance with death here in the depths and it's clear he doesn't want to repeat it for a 3rd time. After reuniting, the crew finally go deeper in to the facility beneath. With all the mysteries they've already uncovered, what darker secrets await them below?

Should they be going this deep?

Why do they need all this power?

Is that a person in that pod?

Only the dice will tell.

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Last time on no latency. Take out my aerobic chuckle. Rominga Support Services How can I help you today? You realized. Yes. Did you find something? Well. Did you say he shot himself? They just have like trained crocodiles that come and take the bodies. You don't have to train animals if you're feeding them is the. Screen supposed to flash. OK, so send it to VV. OK, I got it. They're using people. Oh, Van Dale, I think. I like batteries. The lipstick, they're stacking people.

I don't quite like those lockers. Stacking 200 at a time. I'm going to sit in the corner and think about my. Mortal in towers like Spires. I think these pods are full of people vendale. Probably little metal octopuses that jump between them. Vendale you. That's where we sent Jeb and Vendale. You seeing this? No, Jeb, it's not. They're using the people as a battery. They're what? They're using the people as a bet. What? Was that Jeb?

Roll Perception. Vendel Also roll Perception 1316. That beats. Oh, just so just you both hear a scratching both you and Vendel. While Vendel is screaming at you in this room, it echoes through the room and drones start to appear on the South part of the room. Lots of them. At least seven drones have already appeared, and it feels

like there are more of them. You can hear them clicking up through these stacks of pods because below you, just between each of the pods, you can see a grate, and between that grate you can see even more of these parts all the way down at least 200 A stack. What are you going to do, Jeff? Van Dale What I think we. Should prop. Ron. OK, stealth might be useless. I run out and I shut the door behind. Us Vendel is the other end of the room and is running towards

you. As you hold the door, the drones click and scrape their way towards the northern part of the room towards you and Vendel. And you are watching Vendel being chased by these things. Vendel roll evasion. Here we go, 16 Yes, good enough. A dart flies a past Vendel's head and goes through the doorway, past you, Jeb, and into a crate behind you. Oh. Goodness, Oh no. More of the drones appear behind you. They are cascading out of the pods and headed like a swarm towards you.

Then they'll get to the doorway. Roll evasion once more. No, not me. Evasion 16 Then they'll jumps through the door and slams on the lock button on the security panel and it closes and locks behind you. You hear scraping and and skittling of drones behind the door as you've narrowly escaped even more danger. Oh God. Call our friends. You got to come down here. Yeah. Or we should just leave. I mean, there's that, too. Iona. Iona. What? What is it? It's. People. It's people. I know.

What? What do you mean tell you what it was, What people are? I know it's people we found. We found out the chip you sent us told you told us it was people. Why do you tell us? Yeah, we would. We didn't want to worry you. Oh, well, I guess it's kind of nice, but will you put us in danger a little bit? Yeah, we found the people. Oh, that is probably very disturbing. I'm sorry. And and it's a good thing that you have a good therapist. Yes, we knew it would.

We knew you'd find them. We found we found 72,000 people set up like a giant battery. There is no thermal. It's all a lie. It's oh, oh, is that right? Oh, I thought. That's what Jeb. That's what we just found. That's why I was panicking. You saw that the with the humans in the thing and they're all uh huh. So This is why all of those. Bodies, the ones that were complete and used, and battery drains, completely emaciated. That's them when they're done being used. Yes, so.

And then and then. Well then. I don't know what they do, but they got to get rid of them somehow. Maybe they sleep. Them. Into the. Ocean oh giant. Alligator eats them. Oh, John, you you met a giant alligator. Yeah, we fought that guy. Yeah, Well, yeah, Well, that's a strong words. More of a tactical retreat, yes, if you ask me, but. Talking of tactical retreat, Jeb, I don't want to be here anymore. Fuck the exam. I agree. Where are you guys? Can we come there?

Can we just step in the elevator with you? I don't like Proctor. Can I be? I don't like it here anymore. Get out. There get. Back in the elevator, Come back. Up. OK, great. Here, Jeff. Let's go through here. Let's not go in any other direction. We're just going to go through the security office, through that vent, past that dead guy and the other dead guy, and just get the fuck out of here, right? Yo, yeah, I'm. I'm right behind you. OK, that's not the way, Jeb.

It's this way. Oh, oh, thank you, That's why I said. I'm behind you. And Jeb and Vendel make their way through the floor towards the elevator. Now you are in an elevator heading down to B. You can choose to change the direction of that elevator and head back up to get Jeb, or open up the elevator for them to come down later. Should we just ride it back up, make sure they're OK? Yeah. I greet them at the top. I agree. Well, I appreciate that.

It's not that I've necessarily heard to say that, but you know, maybe you just hang up. You hear the thermal elevator engage as you come up back to storage and security, and you hear the dinging. They're going to be here in a few moments. We're we're in the metro. We're. We're. We're not. There yet? So yeah, if you want, I can play waiting music. I can play waiting. I can sing it. I can. See it as the music is amplified by the microphone you have attached to your boom box.

Then Dell and Jem step out of the elevator if it opens. Are you alright? Yeah. Is it good to see you guys? Oh yeah. Yeah, it's good we're all back. Jeb, why are you all wet? It's a long story. I'm not sure you want to hear it, to be honest. So you're standing outside of the B access elevator. OK, let's head down. Another elevator. Oh fuck. All right. I know. Can I? Just real quick, Jeb raises his hand. Yes. Oh, what exactly is the plan right now?

Because I was kind of under the impression that the entire well planned of this facility was to destroy it and or blow it up in some capacity. Oh, let me. Look through my notes. There's a cat on my lap. Hold on. Oh my God, you brought a cat. It's my it's my comfort animal. Emotional support. Animal company issue, I'll major. It's also a hologram look. Oh, right, cool. Cats aren't real. No cats are real. We saved one once, although. Cats are real, but not very

many. No, no. No. We met Mr. Carrigan's cat, remember? That was fun. We did meet the Carrigan Cat. Oh, Carrigino. I do think yes, we were supposed to destroy this place, but does that seem morally and ethically sound now that we know there's like thousands of people in here? Well, can they be safe? That's kind of a big if. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe. I'm looking at UVV. I can't. I can't. I'm not a doctor.

I mean, am I supposed to have the the answers of if we should be able to stop people from being human? Batteries. I I don't. Well, one way to stop people from being human batteries is to destroy the battery. And I like that's a lot of people. And it's just five of us. But they kind of seem like they're real close to dead already. You know what I'm saying? Now again, if they're if they're able to be safe, then do not get me wrong, today is certainly the raft thing to do.

A trolley problem kind of situation where we don't know, like if we should save them or just let them die. Or just like I I don't know. I'm not philosophically equipped to answer these questions. We we do need like some of their tech though. We do. This is where they make the body frames. I was just reading, oh, no, yeah, that's OK. You know, more than I do. I had to go back and read the

documents that I have. Yeah, so I think right now the plan is to like we found like the entrance to like the R&D facility. So maybe we can get some answers or info on like how they were created. Maybe there is some info on how we can power it down or something rather than blowing it up and keep potentially killing thousands of people. That's my thought. And. If they're worth saving

something too, right? Has it occurred to anyone that we're in a Biotechnica facility and there has not been a custodian? Well, I did think that it got, it was a little dirty down there by, you know, I imagined that that the custodian died along with all the other people. I mean I mean like 9 on the list or 7. 01 of the circle box. One of the circle box, yes, we just, I haven't seen one. I suppose it is a large facility, but usually they can

transfer from space to space. Yes, they're quite small. I mean, that one of those would fit through a vent. If we had nine right now, could scoot around. Not that I'd bring nine with us. That's a terrible idea. We should. That's an awful idea. Terrible. Hand of that guy we know. What happens when you take him outside? So using my motorcycle. Oh yeah, yeah. It's not great. Do do we have an AI core when we do the? Is there a CAD system here? That's a very good question. A what?

A CAD system. CAD. Yes, the thing that makes the makes the note CADS makes the whole facility. Implode. Compress and yes, implode. What? You've done that before. Twice. Pretty much. Preferred method. Of solving any problem. Imploding buildings. Facilities. Yeah. Jinx Vendo to be. Fair. I think. I think the the morality problem for us is much more Gray. I mean, I think we're on the scoreboard right now for. Are we back to the morality

thing? Yes. I mean we've we've destroyed 4 buildings of people so far. With people inside. No, no, no, that's not true. They. Were bad people. If there were any people left, they were pretty bad, you know? Like, 'cause they're always like there was the there was the place under into the junkyard. There was nobody in there. Oh, well, there were there was spiders in man. I mean. Abominations. And there was There was Retros old. There was retros old. Landlord Trevor.

Trevor. Oh, the man we still on fire, is he? Still on fire? No. No, you had. Sona cut his head off. Oh. Yeah, Donald cut their head off. Those were the days. OK. Well, the other facility, what was the other one? Well, there was a Steve mansion. We didn't that didn't have a custodian. And we didn't blow up the Steve mansion. Do you need the custodian to, like, initiate this cad's implosion? No, not necessarily. Oh. Oh, you don't? Oh, good. Well.

I don't know usually. Usually what we do is we have to get a bypass through the AI system or or or what is it Sisi? Well, I mean, we tell, we tell people it's an SI, but I I have a feeling that that custodians are very much AI. No, they definitely are. I just wanted to say the correct thing. But we have to bypass the AI core. But it's there's no AI core if there's no AI. If they're then, then we can do it for free. Here's another thing.

If there is a CAD system, where is it located and how do we get out? How? How old are CAD systems? Are they? You know, maybe this was made before CAD systems were company policy. Not according to the documents we found. Oh, all right. Well, never mind. That system is usually in the very base of the of the facility. I mean, to be fair, most of the time when we find or are able to get a hold of the CAD system, it's usually at the bottom of

the facility. Yeah. And we're usually getting pestered by the Guardians, who to me are not so much AI but more of like STD's. What? What? Huh. That's such an antiquated term. No, it's not studious, terminating detrimental identities. STDs What? I'm very confused. I am also very confused by that. I'm sorry that you all have not caught up to the latest tech lingo, but we'll get you there. Fair enough. I only know the medical in lingo and that is very close to

something else. Close to what? What else would there be? We don't have to get. Into it. The elevator is open. Oh, we should probably get in the elevator. Let's to our. Elevator. We're in it now, OK? Let's go back up again. Just ride it over and over again. The elevator opens to a corridor, and as you enter this corridor in front of you is just a big wall. On your left is a door labeled Research Office and your right is an opening to a corridor that goes West and east.

And a bunch of vendits. Oh look, some vending machines. You know what that means? Screw the vendits, I'm going in the lab. Well, I do. PV As you step up to the vending machine, it's empty. Everything's gone. Oh. No. No, it's. All right, Chuck, Why I? Thought maybe I'd get myself a snap. That's well, you should have got it on one of the higher levels where there were Ginger Gisler. Gisler what I would do. My cue for some Gisler snaps. You should have got some from the upper levels.

There were Gisner snaps in every Vendent. Every what? Almost. Is there anything in that vending machine for me? No, they're all empty. They're all they're what? Yeah, they're they're completely empty. Huh. Were you expecting something? Well, I mean, vending machines aren't usually empty. Yeah, and all of the other levels had stuff in them. And there's a lot down here I don't know. To be fair, you know, vending machines aren't usually empty.

It is kind of like saying power plants usually are staffed with people. Yes, also now, now it's like I now understand why it's cold. I expect it to be warm near a thermal vent, but obviously what you doing retro? I'm trying to get in this door. I I thought I made it through at one point and now I got suddenly booted out. We but I mean, it's locked. There's computer and everything. One locked a second ago. It's weird that this lock magically appeared on the door. I know.

I just keep throwing myself at the door, hoping it'll open. Oh, here. Metro next to the door you find a little console and on the console it says lockdown. I type in by whose authority? It gives you an error Iona do you type your little code? Sure do 4774. You know your little code, you little your little 4. 474774 code. There's an error on screen and it says. Custodian code denied. Wait. You're the custodian the whole time, iota. Oh no.

Wait, you're the janitor? They've got an AI in them. Wait, what? Wait no, doesn't make any sense. What? No, I don't. Oh, but the drone has popped out of everybody's head. Did you? Put drones in US, is there going to drone that's going to come out of me now? Maybe. No. Vandal I'm having fun. You're evil. Oh, I see. Oh, I was worried. No, I didn't put drones in your head. If that doesn't make any sense, I don't work down here. It just said your custodian code did not work.

We were just talking about who the custodian is and you've been able to open up every single thing around here. So you tell me, is there a little Roly Poly somewhere rolling around in there? I type in 7447. There's another error. Shoot. OK, I shoot it. Don't do that. Oh, you said it. Roll for it. I mean, I'm just, I'm just following boss's orders. So what, boss? Where'd he go?

This may be the one of the few times when he actually listens to Iona. 1917 damage yes it explodes through the the machine and with your crit success on damage the door opens like opens. It doesn't unlock. It flies open, and then before you in this room is a huge blood stain and a dead body near an exit to the southwest. And there's a cleaning drone frantically trying to get rid of the blood. Shoot, shoot the drone since

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There is a difference between my K Tech Tech hammer and my assault rifle. My assault rifle XCOM dash 52. Which by the way, now after blowing a hole in that door, I'm renaming to skeleton key. Thank you very much. It's a pretty good name for gun. Retro fires a hail of bullets at this drone and it stops trying to clean the ground takes a lot of damage. Is still up. Not well going to be honest. It's not having a good time below half hell. Oh, that's that's not bad,

that's amazing. One of its legs breaks, but since it has more than one, it still manages to make its way towards you. Losing a little movement, it moves towards you. No, that bad drone. Iona, are you going to attack this drone? No, I'm chastising it. All right. You're all persuasion. Face down right now. Yeah, sure. Am I doing persuasion or a face down? You should do a face down call plus reputation, plus one D10 on a cleaning drone.

It's likely this has never happened before, ever, in the history of Sun. Yeah. We have fun here. We have fun here. Super cool. So 16. 17. Oh, it's 17. That drone rolled 12, which is pretty good for a drone, let's be honest. But all the same, it rears back in fear of you. That bad drone. Giving someone else the opportunity to take it out. I got it. Jeb pokes his head around the corner, points his gun at it, and pulls the trigger, causing 14 damage.

It splits into a bunch of pieces, which cascade across the floor. Oh. My gosh. Yeah, I'm getting really sick and tired of these little guys. Me too. You got any, I mean, like it's got these guys. In my experience, all these guys are kind of, you know, usually hooked up to one kind of central computer or something. You think we got to find something out that and take it out? Well, now you've cursed us with that job. Thank you. An AI core that we're looking for, right?

Oh, you know that that makes lost sense. It could be kind of wrapped up into one big thing here. Well, it's possible that there isn't an AI core if I'm the custodian. What? Wait, do you really think you're the custodian? We don't think that you just put in the number. I I just thought you were the sleeper. Do you have loads of titles? Do I need to do that to get better in business? Wait. A minute? What the fucks, the sleeper? Nothing. So you could be the custodian?

I very well could be. How do we? Is there a way for us to? I don't. Check now. I'm actually in the What now? Now I don't believe it. There might be more records of employment somewhere. Hey, let's why don't we check that file that we decrypted? Maybe there's something in there? Sure. The audio file. No, the file with 72,000 people in it. Oh yeah, I guess you could cross reference names. Did you search for our names when you were control F thing to?

Be honest, I didn't. I was just kind of looking for my favorites, like. I don't need to know your favourites for me, Well, I. Mean I was looking for Reeves. I, I I was looking for Shibari. Steve, Who else was looking for my professor? Go home. Well, you could like a a great story retro, but you could just check our names now. I I am, I'm I'm I'm doing. I'm doing a search. Oh, look at that 34 + 6 crit. Yes, you do not find any of those names.

None of the crew are listed. What you do find as part of looking at the list, is that all of these 72,000 names were sent to Thermal. Interesting. So we essentially, but essentially we well, not we the Proctor had sent Jeb and Vendale to become batteries. Yeah. Is there like a quota? Is there like a quota that they need to have to keep power consistently going? Oh, it's probably right. I assume so. I can can I calculate on how long the bodies last until they're just dredged?

Yeah, 98%, yes. That's where they were at. That's what the battery said, 98%. But when do what happened? Like how long does it take to go from 98% to 2%? I I We weren't there long enough to find out. We got chased by drones. It was really scary. I'm gonna guess 20 days. 20 days, huh? That's way too short. Yeah, if. I'm just making a gamble well.

If you. Take the average lifespan and then how long it goes by. If it just ended up sleeping the whole time, 7%, They're just trapped in these pods now. Are they shoving nutrients inside them And you got to use that to keep it going as well as water and then you got to give them a little bit of, you know, sunny D So then that way they keep that vitamin deficiency down South.

Retro No one's been down here for three months, so they're either not using power or they worked out a way to make this last a really long time. I think 7 to 2000 is probably a really long time. Yes, I would agree. Yeah, I tried to carry. Them They took way too long. We also have to take into account that people were down here and weren't sent to thermal. There are people like VV who got into the Abbot lab. Yes, I mean and that's I did too, but OK.

Well, yeah. What were they supposed to be doing? I don't know. If what were you supposed to be doing with Jeb the capacitor? Well, yeah, the the smart people were sent to be. The smart people were sent to be batteries. And then what were the the dumb people supposed to be doing? The dumb people were supposed to run the show. Strange that they do it that way. That's why everything's all kind of topsy turvy right now. Oh, because the dummies are running the show. Yeah. Interesting.

Well, all the dummies are dead. The inmates are running the asylum kind. Of this dead guy over there on the ground. Oh, we should probably check that if if someone of you could do that because I won't be touching that I will take. A look. OK, I'll take a look. Oh, not great. You. Step in some of the blood and it sticks to the heel of your foot. This is this is pretty gnarly. You did roll over 13, so looking at the body, you look down at it

and it's scientist. He's been ripped open by much larger blades than you've seen before on the cleaning drone, and he's written something on the floor in blood. Oh gosh, something's written on the floor here in blood. I'm a little distracted by the nasty blood on my shoe. It got out. Oh, I saw something else completely different. Who do you think it is? Maybe. All the big Gators thing mate. Wait, wait, wait. This is a scientific facility, especially with a lot of computer stuff.

This man is a scientist. Maybe it's not it. Or person. But the IT department? What if the IT department went nuts here? The IT department got out. Oh, that could be it. Retro, it's I can always trust you to lighten the mood. Look, here we are laughing around a large pool of blood that VB stepped in. That's so nice. VB is even comfortable enough to drink. So do you sneak down here? I thought you said there was no vent any nothing in the vending machine.

I grabbed one from upstairs. Yeah. They're able to get the last ginger ale. Do you mean the Gisner Ale? Incredible the. Gisner Snap, a branded drink. Inspiration. Tracy. Inspirations. The Gisner Ale. It's blocking my view. There it is. OK, sorry. I had a pop up block come up on my face. I got. Maybe you need to check your phone that is. My agent. Yeah, something popped up on my Chiron and I was like, get it

off, get off, get off. I couldn't hit the little the little X. The way they make it really small and slightly, yeah, I hate that. And then, like, if you miss it, you automatically click the ad and it takes you there. It fucking hurts. Should try. You should turn on that Turn off intrusive ads feature. I hear if you sign up to the Patreon, you don't hear any ads at all. My head must be nice. What's a patron? You're poor. You wouldn't understand. Patron. Look, if I wanted to listen to

an asshole, I'd Fart Vendel, OK? Look at you, slap back. I owner I got a slap back. You don't have one. You don't have one to give back. Oh, that's right. Have a roast battle oh oh. I did a Raspberry. Just furthering the point that you're an asshole blowing farts. Buttholes all. Right, I'm going to check the dead body to see if there's any keys or cards or eddies or pictures of family members or. Role perception. W twos. I'm assuming there's still W

twos in this world. Is it possible that it is the research? What is the research? It's it got out. Word Word got out, I see. Perception 16. You don't find much on the body. It's been pretty torn apart. A lot of its abdomen has been sliced open and a lot of the blood actually sprayed across the room rather than poured, which is why it's gone so far.

You do find another B pass, which means you can now give someone else access independently to the elevator without locking yourself in, which is super useful. And behind you there is a very thick glass window out into the depths of the ocean, and there in the distance you see a vent duct going through the water from one building to another. There's a vent duct is. There another going from one building to the other. Is there another building that we haven't seen or is this like the same?

It looks like this is. Well, it's going to another. It's it's a vent to something else on this level, but I don't see where we'd access it from here. We can just see it out the window. Maybe one of those pools that. Oh yeah. Maybe there's another vent. Quick check under the couch. Or that. There's usually, there's usually people put a couch over a heating transfer. Raw perception. 17. 17 is enough. Just behind the crates you discover a vent.

Oh man, I think I found out where they crawled from. That gives us this vent behind the crates. Oh man, I think they found their their old belly button ring still attached to the belly button. Gross. Gross. Are you not going to look through that big door for the research office? You're right. Here's the research office. This vent can wait. Can I-4774 the store? Sure. You tap the code in and again it says. Custodian code denied. And then it says lock down

again. All right, you got to you got to get these computers in line, Mayor. Just turn and heal. They are not listening to the boss. Who's the boss here? You're the boss. Right, you should. You should. Wait, are you the boss? You're not, you know, under some sort of. I make the most money. And that's in our society. Makes them the boss because they make the most money. Won't argue with that. That's I think that's just science. Rendo. Rendo. Rendo.

Retro, you should use your new skeleton key gun. I did and. 19 Yes, you blow the machine off the wall. And you got to see, You got to see this. Slides open. Shit, that's a triple crit, my guy. I just want that. I just want that at least put on. What a waste of using that on a door.

I know, right? When you step into this room, it's the offices of the research level, and as you step in there are two vending machines to your left, the control panel to the door, which is now fizzling because you blew it up. On your right there are three pods and then three desks with computers and the rest of the room is filled with lockers and. What is in the pod? You check the pod and they're in the middle. Pod is a Person Person. Pod people. Only in the middle pod.

Only in the middle pod. How emaciated are they? Oh yeah, they don't look like the ones in the battery at all. That person's like got cheeks that aren't invented. Vivi, in your medical opinion, do you think that we can save this person? Boss, permission to unlock their soul from this hell? Let me take a look. Damn. OK. Do I think? I can save them medical.

Tech Eighteen from the outside, looking at some of the readouts, There's a few numbers that aren't labeled, but you recognize them with all of your experience. Recognize that this person's been in this thing for a little under three months? There's Their heart rate is pretty low. The machine is producing enough energy to keep the human alive, it seems. But the power readout's pretty low and they they do not look great, but they certainly look better than the other bodies you

have seen. Does. I wonder if this is like part of the the step process to turn them into that. So those they're still, they're not like quite at the level that you know Jeb saw them or that this is like getting them to that point. I'm going to try to take them out and see if I can help them and examine them and see if they can be saved. I mean, at this point, what else can we do? I I I don't know about that. I'm I've got I've been getting

bad vibes about this place. Everything has just been really Uber creepy and like, how are we to know that they don't have one of them drones inside them? Aren't we past the the? Drone inside theory isn't like. Yeah, the drones are way too big. Also, are you just going to leave this person to die Retro? No, I'm not leaving them to die. I'm leaving them in protected care and which we can then anonymously call the authorities and they can handle. We will not be calling the authorities.

Totally calling the authorities. Phoebe You continue to look over the machine and you see that the nutrient reservoir is bone dry, and the readout says it's been bone dry for a few months. They have not been. They have not been receiving nutrients, none for months. Then they're probably as good as dead. But they're. Probably pretty fucked. I'm I'm going to try to help them. I'm going to try to get them out. Rough for it I'm.

Trying to think of what I. Roll like I. Said. Paramedic 14 you go to disengage parts of the machine. Don't do it in the order that it was designed to do so. As you undo the front panel, the fluid that this person was being held in does not drain correctly and it starts to spill out the side and pour over your shoes and the ground. The ground gets covered in this sort of ever so slightly sticky water that starts to evaporate a

bit like hand sanitizer. And this person is lying there with a mask over their face that looks like it's got tubes going down their throat. You can see the tubes undulate as it pushes and pulls oxygen in and out of their body. And in this moment, as the liquid settles out, the machine pulls around their waist. As they sit in this pond, the eyes pop open and she looks at you. Whoa. I don't like that. Maybe I do. I mean, that means she's live. Right. I I I'm about to.

I'm about to shoot. You you have to. You have to take out the tubes. Being being incubated like this and conscious is not easy. Iona, you know more than me. Yeah, I'm going to try to. I'm going to try to pull the tubes out and try to help them. Retro is just shaking, starting to get a bit nauseous and get dizzy. I'm going to add 2 luck points to this role. So let's add. 2 to this. 19 Yes, very good.

You pull the cable out of this woman's mouth and she coughs profusely as this much larger and longer tube comes out than needs to. She still has some connected to her skin, but they don't look the same as as the one you saw earlier. They look like they were sewn recently by a human rather than installed by a machine, and she coughs sputters as the final piece of the wire comes out of her esophagus. Is it all right? Yes. You're safe. Oh God. I was so terrified.

God, you killed the Custodian. I looked to the rest of them. Killed the custodian. Need a regular frame or do we need one of these like better ones? You can donate kidneys. You're welcome. Sometimes you have to spell it out for. Him Doctor Ombre. You're stealing body parts. You've really thought about this, haven't? You. That's reassuring. At least these people consented to this. I hope you enjoy these. They were not cheap this. Whole thing is starting to make me feel.

Sick. What is the custodian? Which custodian? No, I have not found #2. Fucking perfect. It's a big lab. You said there were two. Let's do it. Let's just do it. And let's go. Let's get out of. Here can I just take a look at your pulse really quick? Vivi, are you talking about drugs over there? I just I I decided I wanted anime Eyes today. All right. Oh, I'll get there and I'm, I am stressed out right now. I think he's suffering from high pressure nervous syndrome.

SPNS. Are you also suffering from his penis? If he has some of those recreational drugs. Remy. Remy, do you have any weed? Did we lose him? Remy. Yeah. Wait, where is he? He's not. In the room. Has anyone noticed he's not in the room? 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 nolatencypodcast.com.

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