Last time on no latency, we're here to kill. What else am I good for really it? Sounds like a plan. I am going to take cover if that's all right. I'm taking tactical cover. The husks are very soggy. EW yeah. At least you didn't say moist. Apparently he's sponsored by Arasaka. On the quipping or on the dodging? He was complimenting me. Oh, sorry, you're. Very scary. I don't really like frogs. Maybe you should be an Angel of mercy. Or an Angel of death, oh. Your choice. I didn't.
Let's see what happened. Still feeling froggy? Let's jump. I assume it was that. Stop. All right, little hop along. Calm down. Do it again. Bang. Bop shotgun to the face. Shotgun to the face never goes wrong. Can't go wrong with Shotgun to the Face Bang Bop. What does that mean? Just to like trigger whatever is going to happen, let's do like a group high 5. Yeah, there it is. I want to call it. Oh my gosh, it looks like all these pods have shut down.
Oh, thank God. OK, so are we Is now time that we blow this bitch up or? Yeah, I've been saying that. I've been. I've been saying we don't even. I was saying we don't even go here. We just blow this up because anyway, I'm, I'm ready to get out of here. I'm I'm feeling kind of claustrophobic and I don't know, I'd like to see the sunlight again. Well, we just have to go back down to the Abbott lab and get the chip. Oh. That's damn. That's all right. We can fast travel.
Do we need anything from this room? I I I don't particularly want to come back here ever again. I don't see anything worth ripping off the wall. Fair. I'm going to take a look to see if there's anything worth ripping off the wall. Wrong exception 17. Yeah. As you as you're looking around the room, what you do discover is parts of the assault rifle that frog was using.
It did not fare well in the electrical explosion that rocked through his body, but what you do find is one of the legs has a bit of trouser attached to it from its original donor and in the pocket of that trouser is 400 Eddies. Oh fuck yeah. Damn. Wow. That's a good amount of eddies right there. Yep. And about 15 scrap. Oh. This toad was loaded. Toad toaded. What? Did you find oh bloody money? Yeah, bloody money. It's our favorite kind of money. It's easier to trace. Blood money.
I mean, obviously I feel like it's the majority of. A lot of our money is blood money. What are you going to do? You know there there ain't no ethical consumption under capitals that. That's all I'm saying. All right, I'm glad we didn't die. Oh shit, I got 69 scrap now. Nice. Nice. That's nice. No, wait, no 68. I forgot to take the one that I did use up. Now it's 68. No, Oh. But look, there's peace right here. Here you go, Retro 69. Nice. Yeah. Hell yeah.
That's cool. GM was nice to you there. You know what? I feel just a little bit better now in this dank, dark disaster of a place we're in. Because of the number. Yes. Oh, that. Bit of levity is has brought my spirits up great. All right, well, if there's nothing left in here, maybe we should take Iona's advice and head up to the label and have it. Have it. You're tired. We should. We should leave soon.
OK. And you will head upstairs to the Abbott Lab. You know, while we're traveling there, well, you know, thinking about all this blood money, y'all ever think about maybe taking some sort of job that that doesn't require killing. You know, maybe we. Just go. I have a job, right? Right. It does require killing some of the time though. Yes, see, that's what I'm
saying. I I just figured maybe maybe we could just go and you know, I don't know maybe you know talk to someone and and convince them to. I don't know how do. How do you take a vacation? I might need a vacation. Should we do a beach episode? We should do a beach episode. We could go, I don't know, maybe we we could grab some sort of contract to to to hunt down some some pineapples and make some pina coladas. A pina colada would be so nice. And a beach.
Do you remember the last time you've been to a beach, if ever? I I don't like the last time I went to a beach. Yeah, I remember the last time I went to a beach. It of explosives. Oh, scary. Yeah, sounds about right. I mean, we're talking like nice, sunny, like beautiful beaches. Not like the kind of rocky, craggy, seaweed ridden ones that are outside of that city, right? Right. Yeah, no, I've never been there, only only seen pictures. So like you want to go to Neo
Santa Monica? Listen, we would place we can go to Neo Santa Monica. OK. As you say, as you open the door and step into the Abbott lab, Doctor Abbott is still floating in their pod, although they seem less strained. Yes. So you beat frog. Then, quite handily, Vendell fucking kicked his ass. Nice. Did you also destroy the AI core? Yes. Good. Yep, we we we we banged it and bopped it. We did. A few tabs. So now then, the frog is out of the way.
The only thing left to do is to destroy this facility. Finally. Young guy tell me twice, Yeah. That's. Just because that's that's the only thing you needed, correct? Well we also need the was it the the a A-frame frame frame of point. What did we need, Iona? Frame of mind. The the the relic chip What? No, no, we we needed something from this base. We what? What was it? The. The. Oh, let me check my tile. Do do, do, do, do do do do do do message. Do. Do. Do. Enhance.
Enhance. Enhance, enhance. Oh, we need the. It's not actually in my my tile notes. Here it's we need the the graft stuff for the no, the skeleton. We need the the skeleton. Of the bottom frame for, for, not. For retro. For The Domino, that's. Right, Domino. Yes. Oh. Right. Yeah. Those are made in the fabrication level at the very bottom near the CADS. No, no, We have to run the cads anyway. We get the relic chip. Sorry, Abbott. All right. And then we go down, we run the
cads, and then we leave. What? Oh, pirate, we should pick us up down there, yes? Yeah. Do we know if if they're up there waiting for us? I mean, I assume that they are, but we haven't had any sort of radio communication or nothing, right? Do you? Need a boost? I would love a boost all. Right. If I roll high enough, I won't take the energy of one of my scientists in agony in order to communicate to your pirate. It's AI believe it's pirate. I'm, I'm sorry. Whatever.
I mean, I'm just, I'm just saying I had a court to say plus. 9. 16 Oh, that's not high enough, is it? Yes, it is. Oh, good. You watch one of the scientists, scientists twinge let off a spark, but it doesn't die. You should be able to communicate with him. And. Pirate is sitting in his you are looking at a video feed. It's crisp as day because Abbott has given you a really good signal and he's in his underpants drinking beer. You're right. You alive.
We are all alive, surprisingly. I went fishing. I can get that good. Nope. Great. We had deep sea diving here, deep sea fishing. It's tough and dangerous, so I I don't blame it. Well, I'll just grip it and rip it, my guy. Damn straight. Could you? So I've sent over the schematics of the of the outside. Could you pick us up down here down? Down. There, yes. Yeah, we're going down, down. Very deep. My vehicle is not rated for that level of. Yeah, but you could do it
pressure. I mean, it might be incredibly dangerous. And we could pull an ocean gate like I. Mean like look, it'll definitely be an exciting exit of yard. But here's the thing, right First off, I need to get reclosed. But also this is a coffee stain on my on my tighty whities. Coffee scene. Don't look, but the more of like The only thing I'm really worried about is like defenses.
Like torrents, of course. Like I don't have to be worried about mysterious beasts at the bottom of the ocean. You're. Yeah. No, no. So this bit of the schematic, it looks like the signal's getting a bit here, so. That's not the only thing in this area. If you just I'll, I'll meet you down there in a little bit. If you need to communicate, and I guess you'll have to get some more energy, I'll just down there. It's going to be safe, right? Yes. I don't know. It's not going to be safe.
Abbott, is there a way to turn off the defenses? For now, yeah, do. You have a Costello protocol. I can turn off the turrets now that I have control. Yes, if you could do that. I was not able to gain control of the disposal and recycling creatures. Rough. We keep hearing this disposal and recycling creatures. What? What the hell are these? You've seen them. I have, yes. They're the big crew crew when we passed over the Moat to get to the frog lab.
What was the crocodiles? Yeah, they're alligators, but yes. Wait, wait, I thought they were crocodiles because their snouts are longer. The the GM specifically said alligator earlier, and then I was thinking about what a fun name Allie Gator is. That is a fun name. I mean, I'm high, so you're probably right. I might also be a little high. I did get you high. Yeah, that's true. Anyway, is everybody high? I'm not high. Would you like to be? No, I don't.
I don't really. I don't do that stuff. I just like to drink myself into a stupor. Telling you Job like I'm on a cross between half faded on weed and the high rush on adrenaline, it's it's a real confusing mix. Just just to point out now, pirate is now heading to the depths and those alligators are there. Oh yeah. Well, he did want to go fishing, so maybe he'll catch something. Maybe. New Petter boots, maybe some luggage? Also, you'll need to fabricate what you.
Need. Machine down there should accept your control. OK, do we need a passcode or something? Just insert the keys in the correct machine when it needs to be used and you should be fine. OK, see now there's a keyword right there. Keys. What? What keys? The construction schematic keys. They're in the Cad's office. OK, OK, that's some new
information. So we got to go to the Cad's office, blow the bit, blow this bitch up and then grab the keys to make the body frame and then escape before explosion. Once you unlock the cads down there, send me a message and I'll finally leave this Morty poem. May we have your relic chip please? I'm. Suddenly nostalgic. So many lives. Is this how I? Am it is a heroic way to go. I mean, you won't really be gone. You'll still live on in our memories. So there's some part of you
that'll still. Be alive your memories if you want me to download onto the chimp, but I'm not sure if morally that's a good idea. Probably not known morally, it's not good. But we will in spirit remember you. Thank you. Is that? What you want it's. It to you? Yup, Yup. You just want the chip. Yeah. You need that chip. I don't want Abbott to to be here with in a digital world, that's. We don't need them becoming a Digimon now. Captain, Captain should go down with this ship.
Captain should go down with this ship. You say to Vendel quietly. In the pod you can see Abbott's body floating in this fluid, and a little arm comes out from the side. Inside, this pod clicks on their neck and pulls out this long golden chip. You can see it flash with energy and leave trails of electricity as it's pulled out of Abbott's neck, and they twitch and twist inside the fluid as it is removed.
It then gets passed into compartment and then slides out the side of the pod ready to be taken. I take it? Iona, you pick up this very delicate chip. It's really delicate. I take it delicately. What are you going to keep it in? My purse. That doesn't it? It shouldn't knock a wrap. That's really delicate. What if we wrap? Do we have like a thing like a a Pelican case I? Don't know. Let me check my backpack real quick. Does anyone have a gun? A gun case? I can keep it.
In Got some rope flash bang grenade. Something a. Lot of scrap. I have my medtech bag ohh I have this little like bandage or how big is this thing is it? I have a case that I put little band aids in and maybe I could put it in there. It's a long. It's about 4 1/2 inches long. Yeah. So about, you know, average. I'd say yeah. OK, well is it girthy though? It's 4 1/2 inches. Long. See if it fits in Phoebes case. Phoebe. Yes. Wait. What? Oh, let's see if the girth fits
in there. I I think it'll fit in the case. And you click it into this case. Alright, so who holds it? I can keep it safe. I agree. I think V is probably the most responsible for all of us. It is medical. Test I am and yes. And I think, you know, I've got the surgical hands, so please write it in your inventory though, yes. So, Vivi, you now have on your person a very rare A. Very rare. Very, very. Average sized. Girthy. Abbot turns their head slowly in the fluid and looks at you all.
Good luck. I salute not properly, but try to. Remember, any use of power causes great pain to those that die. Yes, I'm. Do you guys just leave on that? Yeah, I mean, I think just. Downer, if I'm being quite honest. Yeah, really kind of. I mean, to be honest, like I feel like some of these people kind of knew what was going on, especially with putting the people in the in the battery thing, right? Like these are some of the scientists that did do that.
Am I correct in that thinking? Very average sized skirt. It's four and a. Half children you. Have to put relic chip, you're going to get so confused. No, no, I think no. Your hair is Relic Chip because. It feels like that might be important at some point. Anyway. Yes, after the salute, Abbott turns to you all. I'll. Unlock Fabrication. Just head down. Thank you. And you head to the elevator and you head down finally to fabrication.
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We got out. What have we got on this this vending machine wrong? Perception. All right. How well do you perceive? Through a window. Oh my God. Where the fuck? Is perception awareness? Awareness. 15 Yes. Inside you find a worker suit. It has a few panels built into it that are a form of armour and it's 300 eddies. Oh, I don't. I don't want some armor of sorts is. Anyone's armor really low. Anyone.
I mean, my armor is low. I'm listen, I'm just going to say it. I haven't got shot in like 2 episodes. Stop. I got shot. Tempting fate there, buddy. Oh shit. I mean. I'll take it. Oh, it looks like it's 300 Eddies. Never mind. What did I tell you earlier with the old Razzle Dazzle? Give it that good old Fonz. You did? Yeah. Never mind are. You going to fonzay it? Never mind, there's an. We're very confused because we're all thinking that you're going to fund, say, this vending machine.
No, no, I'm, I'm just going to move, move on. You're going to move on, all right, Yes. The end of this corridor. Corridor turns to the right and on the ground you can see some markings and there are a few doors. What's that on the ground? Warning, heavy machinery. Oh, something's heavy over here. At least they have a nice little path for us to move. Oh well, now it just splits into three different directions. Great. Yeah, which? Which way do we want to go first?
Whichever is the way out. No, no. We need the body frame first, Jeb. We can't do that yet. Do we have a map at this point? Yeah, OK, I'm going to take the door to the left. The door to the left is locked, the door to the right is open, and the door directly in front of you is also locked. What is locking this door in front? Sorry. Bless you.
The computer beside the door. Well, me and this computer are going to get to know each other, and then they're going to nicely unlock this door for me. Vote for it. I'm I'm getting to it, you know, You gotta, you gotta, you gotta put a little finesse on it. You gotta, you gotta, you know, coax it, give it, tell it all the nice things it wants to hear. 33 Yes, you tap away at the computer a little bit. Doesn't take you very long to pull a wire from the side.
Of course, a little spark and the door Pistons open. Yeah, I just. I just go up to it and I just go 010001100. And the computer goes and then opens. Thank you. OK. Oh that. OK, Stage 1. What'd you find, Retro? Well, there is a a machined piece of machinery in front of me and on the ground it says stage one and there's a bunch of boxes and lockers it looks like to my left and the computer. I don't think that's what we're looking for. That's probably where the fabrication starts.
Stage one of the fabrication. Oh, there's a there's a a window too. Oh. Cool. Look at all that machinery. Yeah. Wow. Wow. Where? Where I won't see. It's right there. Look. Wow. So that's oh shit. That means we have to run power, doesn't it? Oh, it's all right. It's just the agony of 72,000 people. Oh. Yeah, who cares? Oh, it hurts a little bit more when you say it like that. Well, you have to remember that at this point they're already
dead. Yeah, but I believe the cat's the cat's way of dying is, like quick and painless, whereas drawing all of the energy out of someone sounds like owie like owie, so. Can we do it this like quickly? Yeah, but But apparently if they get out of there pods they turn into weird like brain dead zombie people that we had to shoot to death not 20 minutes ago. If I remember correctly, we had like a list of all of the pod people, right? Yeah, you've got that file.
Right. And like that is like a profile on like, who they were and such. Yes. So, like, could we just kind of find the worst of the bunch and be like, that seems morally OK. No, I mean. Probably, but one of us would probably have to go down to the battery to rewire them, and I don't want to go, so not it. I mean whatever. Last touch, their nose goes OK. Touch nose. I'm not doing it. We're not doing that. Well, thank God, because
technically I don't have a nose. So you're all looking out of this window, Iona. As you're walking around, you did take a peek in the office downstairs. I did. I did. I took a little Peek's key. On the door, it says Cad's office. Great. So this is where we would run the CAD system. That means that the CAD key is here. There's a computer in the corner. I look at the computer. It is locked. There's a passcode screen. On the screen there's a
numerical keypad and it asks for four digit. 4774. You tap in the custodian code and it unlocks. Yay. And on the screen it has not only the unlock button for the Cads, but it also has instructions. I read the instructions. Classified Abbott Fabrication Instructions Fabrication Keys. Required Fabrication. Keys must be kept in the lockers in the Cad's office. Removal of these is a punishable offence. Do not use a fabrication stage
without material. Use of a fabrication stage without materials could lead to personal injury. This notice is a release of liability for the Abbott lab. Any injury cannot be claimed classified. OK, I'm going to check the lockers behind me. Additional notice Classified Danger, High power construction, Laser construction, Laser Present Present Classified. Oh, don't go in there. Great. OK. What did you find out, Iona? One moment, I'm checking the lockers.
You open up the lockers and you find as you're going through them you find 4 keys, a green one, an orange 1A purple one and a blue one. A green one, an orange 1A purple one, and a blue one. Ah, yes, I see, I see, I see, I see. I take all of them. Good. Iona comes back into the Stage 1 room holding these four schematic keys. What's in these lockers? Raw perception.
I'm a punch a locker Fonzay. 14 You find 200 eddies, a little bit of scrap, and a packet of incendiary rounds that is to the value of 10. So 10 fire bullets. Yay 10 fire bullets. Yay, blazing bullets. They work. Oh, now I can light my I can light my joint and shoot people. That's so fucking side punk lighting your fucking joint. With an incendiary rail. I love that. I love that. Are we ready? Oh, is there stuff in the thing? Has anyone seen stuff in the Thing?
The thing right here? Is there stuff in it? I go, I'll go over to the screen. That's on the first box. The machine does not have materials in it, but the boxes behind you are full of said materials. Oh Vendel, can you help me with this? Yes, sure. Oh man, that room next door looks really cool. Well, don't worry, we're going to. Get to staring at it now for about 20 minutes. You mean the room down below? No, that's an office. No, that's the Cad's office. Oh, that.
Oh, yeah. No, I'm not going. No, the room with the window. Yeah, I'm not going in there. But it does look cool. Is there anything, Iona, that you want me to do? Let me see if you're in charge. Let's see. I'll just stop moving it just right now while you talk to Vivi. Great. Who wants to be in charge of a key? Pick a color. Any color? Red is it. The purple one. All right, baby, here's purple. I'm gonna assume you're an orange, Jeb. Here you are. So do you want?
It's kind of like a burnt orange, I see. Yes. Do you want blue or green, Remy? Green, of course. All right, here's the green one. That means you start and I end. I'm the beginning, and you were at the end of all things. You got it. I am the Alpha and the Omega. So as soon as we get all this material loaded in, I believe we just start them one stage at a time. Oh, and be careful, there is a big dangerous laser. Where? It must be that big gun looking thing. Oh. Probably.
Oh, the purple. One, yeah, yes. If you see in the other room there's a line that says dangerous. Stay South of that line, please. Oh well, thank God I'm I'm green, 'cause I don't deal with that. It's cool. Yeah, you're fine. Oh, geez. Everybody have their station. Retro grabs the green key and you're all just taking those colours, right? Yes, right. Shut the stores locked. There's a computer next to it. 4774. Pistons open. I was about.
To use my skeleton key. As you step into this very large room, you can see the rest of the machines that are used for fabrication. There are a bunch of crates all over the ground. There's this huge big Fuck Off laser cannon sitting on a slightly raised podium in the middle of the room pointing at stage 3, and then there are three loading bays for transport vehicles to the South. You can see the water undulating, reflecting on the
ceiling. Yeah, last time I saw one of these pools, there was a monster in it and it Just a thought, just thinking out loud. Well, stay away from that, but also stay behind the danger line. Yes. Are we ready, Vendel? Is it loaded up? Yes, I got it all loaded. Should I stay in here with Retro? He's kind of got it all. He's probably good here. Probably. I will actually have you here to watch our backs in case an alligator shows up. OK. Vendel comes into the room. Oh, wow. It's.
Big in here. Holy shit. All right, Remy, Are you ready? Yeah. Go ahead, go ahead and. What? Did you hear a gunshot? Reduce your fire ammo by one. You hear retro lighting a fucking joint with a bullet. Is everything OK? Yeah, it's. All. Good. OK. Go ahead and run. Yes, yes, yes. Oh, do I hit it now? No, no, no, Jeb, wait. No. And Jeb, you see, you're looking.
You look to your left and you can see Retro look at you and he pushes the button and the machine that you're all standing in front of, which is connected with conveyor belts. It just starts humming and it you can feel it vibrating the floor as it starts to smelt and pour and construct these pieces in front of Retro. Retro. It is suddenly incredibly warm in that room. Not enough to hurt you, but you are squirting because you're apparently in front of some kind of smelting equipment.
This. Is pretty warm. I don't have to have to take my jacket off. This is this is getting really. Hot, but there's this other noise underneath that, like a groan if you like a shaking. And then you hear this thudding on the side of the base underwater and ripples through the metal substructure. Y'all hear that? And there, below you, where all those openings in the water are, appear a bunch of beasts glowing with radiation. Oh shit. There are 12 of them. Ready.
What solicitation please? Yuck. Yuck. What? I don't see anything. Roll for initiative. Fuck. Oh, no. Gross. Gross. Oh. My God. Everyone OK did. You see when I rolled. And not great I six that's. Fucking. I got a 0. Yeah. But I'm not getting that zero into a hero. I don't want to go first, I don't know what to do. 0. I need a 0 I'm holding now because this year is going to end my life. Oh. That's good. He isn't. That's wrong and he isn't. That's.
But he can't smoke a kush from the pipe. Oh my. God, why is that so good? Retro, you rolled very low on initiative probably because you're high, that's. Not very well. OK. VV Yes, to the South of you you see these creatures and you've stepped up onto this laser. And what you notice about this laser is that it rotates. Oh. Oh. I mean, this is kind of dangerous. But. Benzel, you might want to move.
I'm over here, this is where I started because I've seen a lot of heavy equipment and that huge fuck off laser which apparently is used for. Fabrication. I'm going to try something real quick. I know I only told me not to do this and be careful, but VV starts, VV starts rotating the laser to the South and I'm going to, I'm going to try to, takes a little while. Yeah, I'm going to take the whole time to just move. I'm going to try to activate this laser and and fire.
So the the first thing to happen in this fight is four of these creatures move out of one of the South bays, the one to the east. You see them Crest out of the water and step onto the ground. Their wet footsteps fill you with unease as you turn this giant big laser that's easily what it's like 40 feet long. It's huge, huge cables plugged into the ground. And you you turn it around, you point it at these guys, you look down at the screen and it says battery level 98% which?
Means oh. Actually, go on, go on, Jeff. I was just going to make a joke and how actually that's bad and we need two more percent so that it can fire. That's not what I thought you were going. To say, oh, the batteries connected, that's 98%. That's plenty. I can fire this. You're about to cause a lot of anguish, but let's go. Oh God, these poor people. OK, well, they're really helping a good 'cause. I'm going to, I'm going to shoot. Next chap. Oh, no latency. Oh my gosh.
Just a big laser scalpel. It's true. Wait a minute. The stunts on the sides are grenades. It's true. Wow. Could have blown up. Roll for bureaucracy. What the fuck's going on out here? What the fuck's that? A group of four coming out of Bay #3A group of four coming out of Bay #2, and I can see one cresting Bay number one, it's. Count. They're kind of far away, Van Dale, but I'm gonna do my best. Do not touch them, I expend more power. Oh God. Damn. I'll hold them off for as long
as I can. Make it cool, Lindo. Watch out, Retro. My spine's out of alignment. Oh shit. Oh shit. Don't worry, they've got you, Jeb. OK. It's time to fire. Man, that was so cool. I feel like that was one of the best kills of the month. Well, maybe if you didn't skip Jim Day, I wouldn't be so happy. Jeb, could you cover fire? I'm behind. You are. You lost Jeb a pirate. We're going to need to go now.
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