Last time on no latency. What? Was the test. The test that was so long ago. We've explored nearly this entire facility. I'm scarf black, basically retro. This place is fucked. I just crawled through a vent. I don't know if you saw that. Wait, Iona's going through dirt and grime and you're saying I'm the one that's being weird? Well, we should probably go check on Doctor Ombre. Doctor. Doctor. These reports are saying. To make sure that they're not dead. They're saying it's terminal.
Yeah, it's all right. I'll do it. And you got to let him have a choice first, Jeb. Is there anything we can do? Cool AMA. Don't worry, we'll find Sasha. Hey, it was Nas. Noni doc it's. Literally a coup de grace. You did the rat thing there, right? No. Fuck me. Do we know this person? This was Doctor Ombre's lover. That's heartbreaking. Shame. Damn shame. Well, best we below this place to hell, huh? Yeah. Yeah. None of this can get out.
I know it's kind of a cob, but at least they're together again, hopefully. Yeah. Yeah. If you believe in that sort of thing, I. Mean. I don't. But maybe they did. So that'll. I think we should all go through our theologies 1 by 1. I just hope they get to tell each other that they loved each other. I don't want to sing the corpse song. They said that there was a vent. That is true. Also, I didn't know that Frog was a scientist here.
I thought that the Frog Lab was legitimately a lab full of frogs. I also did think that, but I suppose that's not surprising any of you. Well, I mean, the Abbott lab was named after Doctor Abbott, so. Makes sense now that you think about it. You mean there aren't a bunch of Abbots down here? Ha. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha, ha. That's what I thought. Maybe this place was just an Abbey, you know? Well. What would you think? What would that be normal? Or would it be like Abbey
normal? All right, we're done. Here, let's go. Let's get a move on and see if we can find this fence. Is it? Is it just me, or has Remy begun to be more full of puns? Wait a minute. Hold on, hold on, Rim. Are you a father? Is there a do you have a child out there that we don't know about, that you don't know about, but you know the the dad jokes are kicking in remotely? I don't think I have. I don't think I have a kid, but I have plenty of. Paramours.
Call me Daddy. OK, let's look around this room everyone. Yes. Well, I I think, I think they mentioned that there was something on the east side here. I'm just kind of feel around on the wall. Hey, Chip. You. Not not to be funny, You're not looking very good. Oh, now what? Just something like AI say Listen, I said I wanted to take a nap, but y'all y'all woke me up almost immediately.
OK, what's wrong, Jeb? Well, recently, you know, I've kind of had a a kind of, well, I don't have to say it. Never mind. No, no, no, no. Let let me just let me just take a look at you really quick. What? Did you see? Vendel what? You go over to Jeb and you, he's, he's leaning on one of his legs a little bit and you go to grab it and he winces. Did you hurt your leg? You pull up his trouser and there's a huge bruise all the
way down his leg. Yeah. Gosh, I. Don't know from when you fell, Yeah, when the when the water beast grabbed you and you fell to the ground. Oh, that makes that was anywhere, You know, I get Bruce's all the time. I'm just like, where did that go from? I don't know. Wait a second, Water beast. Yeah, you know. That wasn't in the the. Yeah, the recap count that. We all discussed oh. Yeah, we found it was a. Beast in the thermal, it's.
Scary. That's. True. Yeah, it did grab me, Threw me across the room, bruised my leg, apparently. And we got the hell out of there. I just figure, you know, as long as we're blowing this place up, we'll just we'll just shoot up to the top. We don't have to worry about that. I I cut its tongue with my sword. It was really cool. There is true, Yeah, it was a tongue. Yeah, back down Jeb's leg. That's right. I can't actually remember which.
Yeah. It was kind of mostly on my leg, but it did, it did kind of tickle my arm with zil fork tongue. Jeb, we need to find you better dating apps. That is not in the workplace, Jeb. VV You're sort of attending to this bruise and you've got like a bruise cream in your pack and you can choose. To use it, don't use the bruise cream, use the anti bruise cream. Don't question me, I'm a doctor. You can choose to use it, but it it will cost you. It will cost you 25 eddies of of
your worth of stuff to heal him. All right. I'll, I'll spend it to help Jeb. Can I check for fractures or anything like that? Does it look like? Yeah, go ahead and check for Boo boos. Beyond the bruising, Jeb, let's see if you fractured anything. He's not fractured anything but he has sprained his ankle so if you want to you can spend another 10 eddies on strapping his ankle. You have a light spraying. That's not too bad, but the bruising really is. What is the most significant here?
Yeah, but happened for a bit. But I do understand where it can kind of seem like a jaunting, but no, it was a limp. Brawl 2D6. God, I don't know what the symbol is 2. Oh, that's a six. Two and a six. Oh, great. Yeah. So Jeb, you get 8 HP. Hooray. I will go ahead and spend the the 10 eddies to also patch up his leg sprain. Yeah. Thanks, Jack. Yeah, and he. Gains an extra 2 HP all right. I feel too better. This place is this place is really messing us up everyone. Sure he is.
After this we should probably take some time to rest. I always say this, but you know after these big jobs it's takes a lot on us physically and mentally so. I might get some dermal armor, yeah. I'm really, I'm really hoping to get some of that. There's a new company out there called The Plot, and I hear that makes some pretty good armour. It's very good. That was very funny. Oh my God. I mean, I feel like, I feel like some of us have had this armour
for a bit. Wow. So should we check out this vent? Where is it? Is it over here? There it is. There's what? The vent. Wait, hold on, hold on. I'm smelling something. It's coming from the other side. What is it? What is it, boy? What is it? Smell. Is it blood? Hold on, hold on. Got to touch the perception, But what is that? Oh wow. There it is. Clean sounds like bleach in there. Oh, I like that. I'm gonna open this bitch up.
And Jeb opens this bitch up. He steps into the vent, followed by Retro and Iona and VV and Vendel. I'm. Stuck, I just keep closing the door. Stop closing it on me. Iona. I'm I'm now stuck. Wow, they're really fighting back there, Jeb. I'm glad you and I have a pretty good working condition right now. Hold on, there's another door. Oh, OK. I'll let you take control of that. I'll let I'll let you go first. What you going to do, Jeb? I was going to sing.
Roll Perception 22. You hear the Scratching of Drone. Feet. But what do I smell? There's. Bleach. You're going to smell nothing but bleach. It's undeniable, folks. There is bleach on the other side of the door, but you hear that? Oh shit, there's drones. There's drones in there. Dan's drones. You know that? Like that song, Dan's drone drone drone connects to the oh, the drone. The, the bolter. The the Oh yeah, yeah. If you can kind of squeeze pass. Sorry, go.
Ahead and use that thing. I I don't have it. Somebody else has it. I don't have. It No, don't touch me. Retro, not my M penis. And as you open up the Hatch door there in the corridor. No, we're not ready to open the Hatch door. Open the. Door close the door. Oh, I already opened the door. All right, well, you better use that goddamn bolter since I was trying to tell you to use the bolt as. You open up the Hatch door.
There, on the other side of the room, are a bunch of drones, all scrabbling to try and get into a door. You know, I won't say a dog named Bolter. And they're all glowing green. Oh well, that's fucking ominous. There's one thing I know about things that glow green, it's that there's usually a lot nice for them, the one with the glow red. So maybe these ones are friends. I would agree with that. Well, these ones are about to glow dead. Oh man, that's good.
That's good. Retro, you pull out this new gun. Do you want to use weapons tech to examine it? Before you fire. Sure, yeah. Right. You examine the gun. It's got a large battery attachment to the underside. It currently has ten shots left and then there are three shots left if you spin the battery around and use turn. To reload it double magazine. There's only three shots on the other side left. OK. It has a rate of fire of two and that's it. All right.
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take a take a shot. All right, this little gun in your hand goes off and it just fucking fires this Shard of metal as it crisps through the air covered in electricity. It hits the first drone in the pile that you see for 2D6 damage. Roll 2D6 damage 2. D6 Damage. Oh, that's pretty. There you go. So that is 10 hole damage. It fries in front of you and you see one of its legs start to glitch out. All right, I'm not going to shoot the one doing the stanky leg.
I'm going to shoot the one next to it. OK. Oh, I wish I had some luck. 14 Yes, that also hits just. Barely. Roll 2D67 damage. It's better than two ones. This is very true. It does above average. I will do my retro thing and I'm going to right next to me. There's a bunch of lockers next to me by the way. I'm going to run and climb inside the locker and close it. You step into the locker and as you close the locker door, you look at the inside of it and it's covered in cold
condensation. Shoot well. All right. OK, fine. I closed the vent. I will do it again, but better so I get about yay close. What is that 15 feet? Well, I pull out my R.E.M. Ware Hello Corpo, hello Corpo, hello Corpo. My my R.E.M. Ware IP edition handgun and I'm going. I'm going to shoot the stanky leg one as it was so deemed. 24 Yes you hit it for 13 damage and it slides back and explodes causing. Does the explosion, Oh yeah, two damage to the. Drones next to it, which now
recognize that you exist. Oh goodness, I will shoot at the other stinky leg one. 22 Yes, you hit it and it also slides back, exploding into a bunch of pieces and causing two damage to the two drones next to it. Nice Iona. Thank you. I'm, I'm going to hide it. I'm just let me sneak past you and I'm going to hide behind these crates. Thank you. Vendel steps out of the vent. Where the fuck is Vendel? Vendel's in the vent. Oh, Vendel is in the vent. Vent What does Vendel do? I'm.
Sure. Retro was doing those earlier when I got attacked by a drone. They say as they crawl their way out of this film. Let me look how far. How far is the movement? Five 10/15/2020, 5:30. Well, this is as close as you can get, Mendel. Mendels movies are 6 which is. A lot, which is 30. Vendel. I know math. You know, math and Vendel, without being able to get into Malay distance, pulls out a gun and shoots the. Yeah, Gun, gun, gun times. 18 Causing 12 damage and blowing
this little drone apart. One of its legs flies off, but it's still alive. Well, good thing Gundell took a second shot. They take a second shot, doing slightly less damage, but it only needed just one more hit, and it explodes into a multitude of pieces, causing, you know, one damage to the ones next to it. Basically playing Yahtzee because their damage roles are just like on far 444333 maybe kicking ass right now. Well, Jim's going to go ahead and step out from behind his
friends in front of VV and. Or not VV. Iona, that's Amy, right? Where's that VV? That's VV, That's me stand in front of. VVI also get VV and Iona confused. It's just that color wise, there's a lot of white and I just see why, I think I don't know. But really, there's that green there that should clue me into the fact that it's V Anyway. Jeb step in front of Evie, takes out his twin 40 fives, gives him a it was nice little. Oh, beautiful, beautiful. Oh darling.
Blow a huge hole through one of these drones and it splits into a bunch of pieces. You shoot the other one, causing 14 damage, and blow that into a bunch of pieces. It's a good shot. You feel pretty great. Impressive. Impressive. The drone cloud moves forward. Over. It's dead cohorts, these drone pieces on the ground and goes to attack Vendel. No, no get, get. Back here. Get. Get out of here. Get out of here. That is correct, 11. All right, cool.
The swan goes to swipe at Vendel, and Vendel takes a sidestep. It tries to attack them again, rolling a crit. Fail and one of the drones inside the swarm pops as it glints past one of the lockers in this room and you see it receive damage from its own hit. Stupid drone. I will take a step, perhaps between Jeb and this crate here, and I will also take a shot at this drone I take out my Sandru. Hello Cutie Ultra K8 Assault Pistol. And attack. 19 Yes, that is very
much a hit. Yeah, 17 is enough. It flies across the room, these bullets. He hits a bunch of the drones in the cloud and you can see it fizzle and get really angry and it loses a bunch of health. You didn't use auto fire. I think you can shoot twice. I can. 20 Lovely hit You hit so hard it actually pushes the drone cloud back, only causing 8 damage. It's oh, it's below half health blow half health in it.
Oh, in it. All right, it it loses some of its ability to move, as enough of the drones have caused its mass to overcome its move. So now it moves. You can see it fizzle in the air. You hit it twice. Nice. Well, I'm just going to squeeze past all of you, 123 Mendel, could you move out of the way, please? Thank you. You're welcome. Bang. 20 You hit it square but only caused 6 damage. It only fizzles a little bit, so bang.
You hit it again, and finally with that last hit, you hit the main controlling drone right in the middle and it explodes with a quite satisfying firework like pop. And this miniature combat is over. I don't know that we should have done that because we've alerted whoever's down here that we're here. We all not quite sure how to. I mean, listen, I I see bad guys, I shoot them, but it's what I've been doing for the past. Retro, you can come out the locker now. Oh God.
Oh, it's fucking cold in there. What a miss. Oh well, that's good work over. Here build some drones. You know, Yeah. Well, let's see what I can steal on. Exception for the room while Retro rummages through these drones. Retro Roll 1D6 for each of the drones, not including the cloud one because there's nothing to salvage since when they were hit they did like four times the health they had left. They did. Explode so they don't exist anymore. 11 salvage for these. Drones.
Nice. Now let me find my perception. Iona, as you're looking around, you see that there are these lockers dividing the room. There's a few sets of them. They are covered in cold, wet condensation. They're cold to the touch as well. You can feel how cold they are even by hovering your hand over them. To the West and South of the
room are two doors. So there's a door to the South and there's a door to the east in this room, and there's a door that the drones were trying to get into to the north. Oh, they were trying to get into that door. It's locked 4774. The door gives a very unusual error. The door software looks completely different on this door, only only on the north door. Remy, I believe this is a job for you. OK, this door here. The north door, yeah, or. Which door? North door where we're all gathered.
No, I don't see everything. No, the one where we're gathered by the drones up here to the north. I can't see everything. There's so many drones I can't see a door. I'm, I'm standing right here, Remy. We're all standing right here. He's blinded by all the loot. There's so much shiny. OK, I'm gonna rack my brain, try to remember everything that I did about Frank Einstein, and see if it relates to anything of my Scholarness. No.
And you rolled a 29 electronic security tech and you notice that when you speak, the little circle on the screen pulses. Oh help. It pulses. Help just pulses, no reaction. It pulses to the tune of what you're saying. Do I reckon? Is this like a musical lock? Sing it a song. I wish I didn't live in squalor. I wish I had a collar. I wish I had a girl who was good. I would call her wish I had AVV and a hat with a bat with my 64 Impala. Oh shit, that was that was kind
of tight. That's really good. That's. Pretty good. Is there another verse? No, hold on, hold on. Then I could go get a holler. Bringing on Fendel. They are Mauler. Iona is the scholar with a dollar and Jeb is my wall. That's cool. What's the? I feel smaller. You feel smaller. That was really fun. All right. Like, I like the way that the thing glows. I wish it would just open. I just had an alert that said lost connection. Oh, I'm back now, OK. I wish it would just open.
Open. Sorry, no open sesame. That's all I said. And on open sesame. The door. Open. This never actually worked for me. That's what I wrote down as. The solution to this puzzle is open. Sesame, you did it. Wow. Well, how am I supposed to know that? Well, your song probably helped. You step into this room to the north, and there's a computer with a single file open on it and a little window to the West and a door to the West as well. What?
Is this tongue lugging thing? Why is this tube sticking a tongue at me? It looks like one of your machine. Yeah, that's what I was going. To say I would like to examine it. VV Examine it. I will examine it from a medical lens. As you examine it from a medical lens, you derive that it is medical technology. It is part of, as far as you can work out, part of the technology that you would use to put a human into a pod in a more permanent state. So this is what they're using.
This is how they put people into the pods. This is how we make the pod people. I think so. Looks like it it's shut down, but this is what they use. Can I go take a look at it from a electronic standpoint under the headed lens? What do I see? You roll a, you roll a crit 34. So you discover not only has this not been used for a very long time, it's not been used for a long, long time, like 6
months, maybe longer. The last time it was used, it seems to be was closer to when this facility was adjusted to its new purpose. It's much, much older, and the way it puts people into pods is a lot more focused on connecting their brain to a network than creating their than connecting their body. OK, I'm going to try to retain as much of this from my memory that I can even though I am high. So if I get high, I can retain it for sure and then I will I will disable this thing so it
can never work again. Sounds good. I know we're blowing the place up, but like, you know it just. Wasn't me to do that, but you know. Little things you need to do are are fine if if you need to blow that up, I think that's good, Jebediah. Yep. Are you seeing what I'm seeing through this window? Oh, let's take a look. Whoa, what are we seeing? Oh, boy, Howdy. Looks. I've got a lot of pod people out there. Yeah, those are those are pods, yes. And then it looks like Doctor
Abbott is in the middle there. Wait, what? Come, Come. Come. Look. Hold on, hold on. Is is Doctor Abbott like? A pod. Person siphoning the forks of all these people or something. What if they are? Maybe Doctor Abbott is making themselves a giant battery. I could see from here that maybe Doctor Abbott, she was the AAA battery the whole time. You're muted, Evan. Oh, you mean Doctor Alice Abbott? No, that was.
Mary. Mary. That was Alice Lombre. So in retro critical thinking high mode, if all the batteries are connected to go to this thing and Abbott is in control and we are looking for the body frame thing, is it to assume that maybe they have attached themselves to said frame and all this power is to go to them for this? It doesn't look like they're in a frame. It doesn't look like it, but we can't fully see everything in that pod now can we? What if they are A-frame? I'll.
I'll I'll give them a frame. You you frame this and I do the, I do the fisticuffs. Don't shake your fist in here. I don't want to get hit are. We going in? Do we go in? I mean, so we just glass come to glass. Oh yeah, and got the water coming here, Jeb. Wait, you still? This room isn't filled with the water. Oh, I thought that was outside in the sea. I was like, oh, we're under the sea, My bad. Under the sea. How old is he?
What's this computer? Over here I I I'm not quite sure, but if I if I remember correctly, there is a door in the locker room that also should lead to this room. I mean, I think so, but there's also the door front on the opposite side. Retro, as you step up to the computer, there's one file on the screen and all it says is please, no more candidates stop in big bold letters. Oh, I mean, they said. Please, I will click it. There's nothing else on the computer, just that glowing
circle and as the background. Well, somebody said no more candidates, and they said in a very nice, polite communication letter. So it sounds like somebody has regrets. Yeah, that's what I thought too. Sorry, we're in the weird space where we just don't respond to each other anymore. I'm making my way back down. Make them all on your way. There's a door in this room that you are all in. Are you going to open it? Well, I can see that this door goes into this room and there
are other doors to explore. I want to do this one that's down to the South. I'm following Remy. There's no rush. There are a bunch of pod people. Nothing's happening now. They're not going anywhere. Exactly. Exactly. The door from this side is easy to open. The button lets you open it to the South and it Pistons. I was going. To walk up to the door and go open sesame it. Didn't work. It's just a button on the panel that says open. Oh shit. OK, I should have done that
first. In this tiny room, as you step more S, you see you're in a little corridor. There are two red sofas and a vending machine and nothing else. Well, I mean, there's another door. Well, if I, if I have my layout of this facility, correct, that's probably just the corridor we came from with the couches. Oh, OK. Yeah, it looks like we've made a loop Retro. We've circled around again, OK.
So now there are two doors. There's the door in the locker room, and then there's the door in the next to the window. Oh, what's in this vending machine? I mean, we're already here. Well, let me see what's in. This thing there is a battery that you could retrofit into your gun that would give you 4 more shots and there is a packet of Gisner snaps. How much is all that? The Gisner snaps are 15 and the battery is 35. OK. It's free if you hack it.
Or if you just smash the glass. Oh, don't do that in a sub Bay because it's full of oxygen and it could kill you the. Machines full of. Oxy. No. If you're in a sub Bay and you see a vending machine, don't. It says it on the airlock. Jeb almost killed us, didn't you, Jeb? Yeah, but that's what that ain't the first time. That's true. Well, I mean, this thing's getting blown up anyway, so you can't collect the money.
All right. Yeah. I'm going to go ahead and give it the good old Fonzie. 34 Crit Nice. Wow. That's very high, yes. You boot the machine and it drops both the items with absolutely no effort whatsoever. Nice smooth battery. And a little bit of money comes out. Fine. And a little bit of money comes out you. Take a bit of money. Oh, I've made money. You get, you get 5 eddies back. Yay. You're welcome. Thank you, Iona. I'm going to open up the jizz and snaps and put one in.
Oh, hey Jeff, go along. Yeah, I'm going to toss a jizz and snap toys. Roll Athletics and I I try to catch it in my mouth. Got to got to roll for the small fun things as well I think. Wait, which one rolls Athletics? You do? OK, we're. Catching it OK, no lows dosed. Crit 20 + 2, you catch it and then you juggle it with your tongue, and then you catch it again. That was really cool. That was. Also. Disgusting, Jed that. Was disgusting to watch.
What what that mouth do? I don't want to know. I mean, listen. Van Dell goes back to the North Room. Do we want to try this door? Locker room door. OK, leave the weight with us. 4774 I'm just going to try it. What What is the point of me having a memory of a code if it doesn't work on every single door? Open sesame sesame oil sesame bun. You have to roll to get through this door, mate. Abracadabra. 22. NO1234. Not enough? Oh. Not enough? Yeah, this is a very secure door.
It is possible, but that's not enough. You you've got this, Remy. I believe in you. OK, I can't reroll the same thing. I just. Rolled I know. I'm trying to think of how I can use the help action besides encouraging you. Oh God. Listen, just just imagine it. It's just like that vending
machine you just Fonz aid. You roll a crit fail -8 and as you're fiddling with the door retro, one of your cyber fingers gets stuck to one of the keys and you just get this massive electric jolt and your whole body goes stiff and your screen change it and now there's a circle flowing in your screen and out of your mouth come the words you do another job and you step. Back from the. Computer. Fuck it didn't work. And you take one HP damage. What else do I do?
We could try the other door in the north room. Yeah. OK. Well, I guess this thing isn't working. What else? Yeah, there's there's nothing else to do. Where's that other door? Did I try 4774? I did. I did. There's this fucking door. Can I try 6996 real fast 8008? 8008 SI Don't. Think there are only. There are only 44444. We're just going to force combo our way through this. I am going to force combo my way through this 4444. So you're standing at this door, are you?
Are you talking about this door up here? No, the door. The Remy couldn't. Open. No, it doesn't open. All right. We're at the north door. And as you step up towards it, Iona, the panel goes green and the door. Opens. That was easy. Oh. Thank God. What's that? Facial recognition. Hello, we're just. Well, that too late. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Oh, they were talking. They were talking. I opened the door. They're. Monologuing this is going to be good. Hello. Sleeper.
It's been a while. Hi. They call me Retro, not Sleeper. What's up? They're not talking to you. Oh. Next time on no latency. Everybody, sidebar, sidebar, Everyone come in real quick. Yeah, yeah, sidebar, no problem. Yes. We might want to run away. And we should blow this place up. It's. Valid. And not really worry about anything else. I think so. Sasha died. Let's blow this bitch. And said that they saw a horrible thing. Well, she did say that.
Which was probably this. Usually screams bad let's. Not piss them off. What do you want? What's this about sleeping? Oh God. What? Does it mean though? We'll deal with Frog. Uh huh. And you're just to be clear, you're not in the eye. And when we come back. What's your ace? We should get some answers. It's a safe state for your brain. What do we know about this frog? I mean, we are underwater. You never know when somebody's going to be injured and you need a quakey.
So there's that. And I want all of you to do your best to make it out alive. I want everyone getting out alive. You're scaring me, Iona. You don't need to be scared. Well, I mean, we are storming the castle. Hurry, hurry. Come on, I'll grab your hand. 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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