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S2E85 - Tuna in Trouble (HW24)

Oct 16, 202454 minSeason 2Ep. 85
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S2E85 - Tuna in Trouble (Halloween 2024)

The crew have found themselves involved in another Halloween Night in the City. There's a message in blood on the ground. That symbol the crew have seen before, and even Vivi knows that danger is looming. With little time to spare Tuna needs the crews help and something tells Ioanna that they should all go back to Silo 74. Somebody wants the crew dead again, and it seems quite personal.

Will the leather be a problem for Retro?

Will Jeb have to talk like this all Halloween?

Can they help Tuna in time?

Only the dice will tell.

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Last time on no latency. Halloween's coming if. We got trick or treating to do so. Not even knock him out. Everybody leaves, so only I know what Vendel's costume is. Happy Halloween to you. That's a threats you got on there. Let go. See, I don't know how I'm not supposed to copy your accent all night. It's going to be difficult. Yeah, What did you trip over? Are you all right? Not this again. Yeah, Jeb. No. But I would very much like to take a sneeze.

Let me take a look. Every time that it comes back to life, I hear a ringing in my ears. What is that? What the hell is that? That's copyright infringement. What is that doing? Well, I'm going to up the stakes and stab it in the heart. The hand is jerking something. Oh God. At least it adds to the Halloween effect. Retro's number one fan. It's OK. It's OK. Everything's fine. It's OK. Guys, do you see this written on the ground here? That does not look good, but I

can tell you. And Jeb kind of bends down, wipes his finger. He thinks it's blood. It is blood, yes. And then takes a sniff, sniffs his fingers. Oh gosh, every time you do this it concerns me. Roll perception. Of course. All local expert either 1 is fine. Oh, it's paint, I think. You rolled a crip fail and what has unfortunately happened is you brought it too close to your nose and you've sniffed some of it and the blood goes into your nose.

Into your body. And it makes your head tingle and you take 2 damage as you feel it sort of attack you in a weird way. And then on your neck you feel the slots heal over. In order to remove your chip now, you will need a medical professional to surgically remove it from under your neck skin. Well, shit. Something in this blood has caused you to heal. This is a strangely familiar feel. Meanwhile, Phoebe is currently helping Iona to kill. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

It's OK. It's all right. Yeah, you're gonna be OK. I'll be fine. I, I I'll, I'll just change my shirt. Yep, fan #2. Yeah, now you're Retro's number 2 fan. #2 Fan. I'll take the number one fan and I'll I'll I'll take it to joy to clean you. You guys try and work out what this hand's about. Fendale Bug is off to go and get the shirt cleaned. All right, So what does this say? Is this we're we're back Who we're. Back with a weird symbol. What is this?

Z with the line through it. That's not a weird symbol. I do not know. Wait, do I know? No. You don't, because you rolled really badly on perception. This. Red chicks out. It's the same symbol that was on the creepy thing with the Radiohead. Yeah, that's that's the glyph, baby. Do you remember when we met a couple Halloweens ago? Yeah, I was working the morgue. I was drunk and. And we were all having a great time until the hand thing. Well, we. I remember the hand thing.

What wasn't just the hand, it was also the feet, which then we tracked back to my apartment building where there was another hand. And Jeb, you saw that crazy spider gun thing. Crazy spider gun thing. Yeah, it was a gun that was mounted on the thing like a dog that had like 8 legs, mechanical legs. And then Dell arrives and walks up to you all. Yeah, but none of those were gold. No, none of those were gold. The gold is Steve.

I'm just saying like in the end of all of it we had to kill that giant vending machine cyber baby thing because there was a cult. The child of Domino, right? But again, none of those were gold. Well, maybe they updated their colours, I don't know. Yeah, what's the gold? Oh, that's Steve, obviously. Wait a minute, where's old man Steve? Steve Prime. Yeah. Steve 0. Steve 0. I don't know. Last time I saw Steve Zero was at the bar. That was like a year ago, wasn't?

It I know their presence is unknown to me. I'm running to the bar. I'm. Oh no, did we forget about an NPC and then they escaped? Was maybe they've just been living in the the basement of the bar this whole. I haven't seen him in the basement of the bar. All right, you've been streaming down there. Yeah. My number one streamer would know that. But I don't know where Steve 0 is. I don't know where Steve 0 either I'm going I'm going to go

see ping I'm running. Ping. Pings, pings, walks outside to put something in one of the dumpsters. Big, big. I got Oh my God, is that blood? Yes, yeah, it's a lot of blood. A lot of blood might be pink. What's? Going on they say is they throw they continue to throw trash in the dumpster. Where? Where is Steve 0 huh? You know, feels like we all all forgot about him. He must have got out. Why? Oh no. Wait. Do we lock our NPCS and we we have to keep? Track of our NPCS, everyone.

I I let him go out because we had that button. We had that button that made him like fall over, right? And I so I let him out. I. Mean we're not like we. Could just hit the button. Yeah, but if we've if we've been away from him for a long time, he was good at cyberwear. I'm not sure this button works. You can take it if you want. Could we let me, could you? Could you reverse track it perhaps, since it has a signal

that goes only to to Steve 0? I can try, but if I mean if they're smart enough to been able to take out the actual transponder to it, we're only going to follow to where the transponder is. Not to mention if it's unplugged there's nothing for it to beep off of so. It's the best we've got. Someone go find out where where Stranger is. I haven't heard from him in a minute either. He didn't catch that stranger, did he? Doesn't know a stranger sleeps

in the back booth of the bar. I got their own point from the. Bar not not when he's drunk. The the one right next to Jeb. It's true. We're the cowboy guys. We have the same accent. Not anymore. What a what a good set of episodes this is going to be. I'm so excited. So so in this commotion, you hear a rummaging inside of the dumpster and stranger pops out of the dumpster and pushes the trash up. Hey. Motherfucker, I was sleeping.

How's it all going, everyone? He's standing in the dumpster. What's going on? Oh. Thank God Stranger didn't get Steveed. Steve Holy shit, is that blood? It could be paint. Yeah, it's blood from a hand it. Would be painful. And a dude that I sandwiched inside of a porta potty. Gosh. OK, what are we going to do about the Steve situation? I will.

Fuck them up, No. Let me go and take a look at this button, Retro. Just go ahead to pull out the back and, you know, double check to make sure the battery's got a charge. Did the battery have a charge? Oh. Shit. Let's roll for it. That is A5. Yes, it is charged. OK, I'm just going to, I'm just going to ping it first and see if anything, if like anything happens. Right, you rolled.

Is that basic? SEC 31. Yeah, so I'm going to press it, but at the same time I've already been connected to the actual frequency source to see if it actually pings back anything. It pings back a no connection. He disabled it. Fuck. Jeb, as you're sort of walking away from the blood, you hear sort of like a an intermittent beeping noise coming from the body in the Porter party. Wait a second, there is more here. I hear a, a a a beeping in this man. What is what is going on here? Well.

Get whatever whatever's beeping out of there. The dead man's head is beeping. He's. Beeping. Should we be concerned that was a went rush on that one SEC. What did we try that name? Again, recalibrate for a second. Yeah. Oh, I guess that brain dance isn't really working for you, huh Jeb? Oh I thought it was getting corrupted because the flesh covered over it now. So now it's starting to get corrupted. This, this man's, this head, it is beeping.

Beeping like a bomb? Like what kind of beeping we're talking here? There we go. There are many types of beep. It is a It feels like it's trying to find something, but now that the person is dead, the signal isn't really doing much. Jeb. It's just. Maybe it was controlling the hand? And perhaps we can use this to do a reverse search, no? Can use it like a. Like on the garden? Reverse search on the garden. We could we could triangulate a signal.

We could use it like. Mendel I appreciate it when someone actually knows what they're talking about. And don't blame us because you're the smarty pants. That's right, I'm the dumb one. I saw it in a movie. Who doesn't know triangulate? Some people. I work in biomedicine, I don't work in electronics. I work in medical, I don't work in electronics. Do you want to examine the blood, VB? Because, like, Jeb just kind of looked a bit funny and walked away. Yeah, it's.

Paint. Apparently there's this person has paint for blood. Smells like blood to me. Let me just take a look at this. These blood splatters here. One moment. Oh, eighteen, yes. VB is just sort of scanning the blood on the ground that says we're back. You walk past Iona and Iona looks at the screen. Behind you and Iona, you see the formula for body Fuel skin. That's good, because I need that. Vivi, could you bring that closer? The the blood. Scanner the skin. Oh yes.

Do you, do you see, do you see this make up here? Do you see this chemical compound that that look a lot of place here? Yes. This is Biotechnica. This is, this is the skin. This is body for your skin. Oh, we need that for Domino. We do. Oh. OK, so it looks like we did it, huh? We've done it. Let's get back. All right. Question. We've got Domino's skin. Don't don't we need it in like it's pure form, not mixed with the blood of a? Is this a Steve I? I guess, Steve, no, that's

impossible. Steve, Who else would coat themselves gold? Well, I mean, do we really need to go after this Phoebe with this? Can you just culture enough extra skin growing wise and we can just create enough skin for them off of what we got here? Yeah, no, this is too tainted. I don't know if that's the right word, but tainted. Then contaminated. I like that because it's very Halloween. Cool VV. Nice. This is this is not going to work for Domino.

No, we, we, we have standards, first of all, and second of all, no, this, we need it. And it's like purest original form. Wasn't it just locked up in? Yes, it was, but that facility no longer exists. Silo 74. Yeah, it does. Oh, the silo. I thought you were talking about the. That's where we had the sample. Remember we forgot to grab it when we were there. Oh, oh, why don't we just go to the silo? That seems too easy. It does seem too easy, but well,

and we don't have to do that. It's Halloween, we could do it after. It's not going anywhere. There's. So many adventures to get. Up to hold on, hold on. I'm ringing ring ring the the the the G the GM is is is sending me on a a path here, here we go. I answered. Hi. You're right. Hello friends. Whoa, hey, why? Why are you yelling? It's tuna, what's going on? You're right. Tuna. Tuna, why are you calling me? It's Halloween. Right now, that's fine. Everything is great.

I'm absolutely great point as you go. It's tuna, right? I heard that screaming all over here. It's very. Loud I It's not on speakerphone, but I'm holding it away from my head. So friends there's there's a lot of gold people attacking me and saying the crew is gonna get it. And and they they keep, they keep moaning the word Azeeb. I don't know what that means, but the first two groups of people I have to help me have exploded. So although you are the third option, help.

All right, We'll, we'll, we'll, we'll be right there. Stop playing disco and you'll stop having gold people. All right. Well, Tunas, I assume Tunas, we should probably just go. We can talk about it on the way. I. Got to go get my gun first. All right. And you guys were very, very interested in me having my guns as well. So I guess I'll break character. Hold on, let me turn this off. Howdy. No, it is. Jeb. There's.

Something wrong here? Jeb, just turn off the things so we can understand what you're saying. Keep. Trying. Jeb. This bullshit it is. I don't know, Iona, can you please get Jeb to like be a team player right now? I got to go get my gun. Anyone else need anything with the BAR while I'm down there? My guns. Get my guns. For me. I'll. Get your guns, but stop that stupid accent. I can't. Phoebe, could you, could you cut him open? Do we want to do this?

We're going to threaten him to cut him open just to tell him to stop doing the accent. That's pretty fucked up. But you can't. I see if you're you're covered, you're healed, you're you're trying to pick out a thing that isn't there anymore. Yeah, because this wasn't, this wasn't a brain dance, Jeb. This was something that's now permanently in you. No, no, the the the doctor said that I could take it out after the beat was done. Well, see your skin there healed. That. Son of a bitch.

I I don't think that that was his fault. This is going to take a bit of time. I don't think we have that time right now, Jeb. You might just have to have a Transylvanian accent until the end of Halloween. This entire ark. Yes. Well then I guess I don't have a choice. You've made your bed, now lying in it. Or you're coughing. Folks, welcome to dungeons and randomness.

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Valid. Here's your guns so you could stop doing the accent. He unfortunately is stuck like this until I can fix him later going. To die really hard. The original accent. Hold on, let me give it a throw. Howdy y'all, this is just me Jeb. It's not working. All right. Are we going to go help Tuna? Or are we going to go to the silo? Well, Iona, how? Tuna, obviously there was a lot of gunfire. There was a lot of gunfire and Tuna. Tuna needs us.

If we want to stay on Tuna's good side, we might as well help him. Yeah. I agree. All right, Jeb, so go grab the car. OK. Oh, it's right here. I'm just pilot. It's even labeled. It does it literally. That is just say Vanna White right there. All right, we hop in the car. We did put a plaque up a half a year ago, so oh. The Vanna white is on the layer above me. I am underneath the car. Hey, why are you checking out the transmission?

I'm in the car. And you will pile in the car, Jeb, and you drive off to tuners. That That's right, yes. You drive off to tuners. Jeb, you're driving. If you want to just arrive loud, you can just drive up. If you want to be clandestine then you have to roll the driving. Chair Well, I suppose it's time to have the vampire take the Batmobile. This is payback for that horrible joke. I did pretty good but also bad.

Crit Fail. Unfortunately, that means that whatever is attacking this place. As you come closer to Tunas, you can hear gunfire in the background, you can hear him screaming, and you can hear the distance slamming of a door. You drive near to Tuna's lot, lose a little bit of control, and smash it into a vending machine, breaking the vending machine. It fills with safety foam. You haven't damaged the vehicle because you didn't actually roll negative, however the vending machine. Is fucked.

Oh no, I'm sorry, it was. I was all distracted by the sound of my own voice. Oh God, I'm all I'm all spinning right now. Are you all right, Retro? Do you need? No, I, I have, I maybe just everything's so uncomfortable. I don't know why anybody wears this stuff. You know you don't have to commit to anything the whole night if you don't want to. What? Else do I have to wear you? Didn't break your other costume. We had to go safe, tune up. We said it was high priority. What am I going to?

Do well, I guess you're stuck in the tight leather. To be fair, you'll actually look pretty good. Thanks, Jeff. I'm just I'm a little worried that if I flex the wrong muscle group it's just going to split. I mean, it would not be the worst thing to happen. All right, all right, let's stop focusing on that. Let's I'm sorry you're going a. Body, I'm so sorry. All right, so you're outside Tunas.

The gates are shut. You can hear the the occasional distant gunfire, but it has subsided after the door slam all. Right, weapons out, I guess there might be danger. This is so tough. Why would why would a vampire have have a gun? I have two guns. I don't know, Chad, why do you have two guns? I suppose. Ah, no, no, no, you see, because vampires are immortal. Well, what about Blade? He's a vampire. Please. 1/2. There's a half of. Human A. Day Walker.

Vivi, do you know a lot about vampires? I did have a hyper fixation in a college, yes. Did you go through a goth phase? Yeah, yeah. Is that a goth thing if you're a guy who like vampires? Yeah. Did you not know that retro? No. I'm really sorry you didn't know that. I'm so sorry. All right. Blink 187. Right. Oh my, go back to the 19919, the early 90s retro. Oh, there's another door over here. I'm going to check out this door down at the bottom. Someone else could check the

front door. You've come to the entrance to the driveway of the mechanics, so there's a big gate. It's a solid metal gate. Tuner installed a much better gate after his gyrocopter was stolen. Although as you can peek over the the wall, you can't actually see the helicopter blades. So it isn't here. Yeah. It's one of those like, roll down doors, yeah. You know, it's it's middle open, so you open up the middle. Oh, open up the middle.

I'm going to try to see if I can perceive through the gap in the door. If there's anybody behind it, well, of course it's going to be in there. 15 Yeah, good enough you're able to peek through the door. Fair enough. If you want to ask questions about what you see or roll perception, you may well. I definitely don't have roll perception because I the moment I think hold on, I think I see 14 people. 14 people but like, do they look like beaches? No, it's.

It looks like copyright infringement is what it is. I don't understand. These are not licensed. What? What is it? What that man has a Game Boy stood up to his face? Oh geez. You see three different kinds these, should we call them, human with gold skin? And they all look a hell of a lot like the Steve's from Season 1. Everyone's favorite gold guy.

There are three different kinds, one that has like a screen attached to the front side of their face, one that seems to have a Tamagotchi inserted into the Crest of their head like a punk Mohawk, and finally another Steve silently screaming with an explosive barrel fused to the top of his head. Wow, these guys look like they had metal days. A bullet rings out from an unknown shadow as you hear tuna fire out against these people. One of them falls to the ground.

Jeb. You hear a ringing noise as the body on the ground rides, clicks back together and tries to get up. As it does this, one of the other creatures comes over and takes a huge bite out of the half dead creature on the ground and it falls. The one who eats, however, seems to bulk up strong. What the hell was that? Bulk up. That's a pretty good slogan. Well, what the hell are we going to do about these guys? Do. We just shoot them all. It's certainly an option.

We could. Do that or call tuna, see if they can get outside and then we just treat it like the same way. What is it? I my step sister treats treats whenever they find a spider in their house. Scream another way all in. Flames to set the whole thing in flames. Burn the place to the ground. OK, that is an option. Do you call tuna? Yeah, sure. I'll call. I'll call. Tuna. I mean, he could probably write it off. Yeah, I'm. I'm I'm hidden in the shed. Are you here? Yeah.

Can you get outside? No, the shed's kind of a dead end, so if I come out, they will chase me. Especially the careful of the ones with the redhead. They they, they, they seem to explode. Did one explode already? About two or three. This place is normally tiny bit cleaner than this. I do apologize. I'm not going to fault you on a messy on a messy workshop, I just the same. Are you near any kind of wall we can break down? No, after the gyrocopter got done I had Bob and Elder come in

and reinforce the walls. They're literally blast proof. Well, that's cool. We're. Not making this any easier for me. Yeah, I know. Isn't it awful? Well, if they're blast proof, what about the doors? Are the doors blast proof? No. Shit, but can we barricade everybody inside it and burn it to the ground? I mean, this is my livelihood, so I would prefer if you didn't. There's only there was a really simple way to take them all out at once.

Yeah, I just told you a simple way to do it all at once, but you don't apparently have insurance. What what about something like an EMP? Would that work? I think that could work. Does anyone have an EMP grenade I. Think I have one, don't. Look at me that that thing will kill me. Well, get out of blast range. I do not. I have a something called here a smart grenade but what is this? It's basically an EMP grenade for us. Well then yes, I have two. OK. Well, I'm getting out of here

then. Yeah, Retro, just get back far back and Jeb I'm. Going to go sit and vent a white. Jeb, throw that thing in there. All right, so you rolled 15 with your grenade. You throw it into the centre. Where do you throw it exactly from your position? I would say. And on that, you can throw it 25 feet. 12345 squares times 525 feet. So you cause an EMP explosion around 3 of the bodies and the the air fills with electricity as it rattles and crackles around these 3 golden human

beings. One of them though has a redhead. As you look closer you can see on the face there is an explosive warning symbol right where their eyes normally are. Look out. I think he's going to blow. Pretty much. Good thing the walls are blast proof. Holy. Right. Cannoli. Yeah, it does a lot of damage. It kills the other two Zeves in front of you as they both get eviscerated into pieces, their bodies pushed back by this

explosion. There aren't enough pieces to reanimate, but yet Jeb in this moment after these three die. The ring, it's back. And you watch the flesh on the ground try and come back to life and it just can't. You've taken out three of these Zebs. From behind this door, take that you're sons of beaches all. Right. So we have to blow them up, yes. To like our best course. Or EMP them. Yes, but it looks like the best way to deactivate them is to dismember them. Or if we did.

It's good it's come here, Vendel are. We done with the EMP grenades yet? No, hold on, one more. I would say fire the other one, Jeb. OK, that does mean I'm going to have to run in. There, there aren't really any targets close here. Jeb, Jeb, there aren't any targets close here. You could try maybe the other door. There's another door. Yeah, we passed by it. You you smashed into the vending machine near it. Can you not see? Oh. I get the air, no comment.

If you go back to where the van is, there was a door. We passed it. Yes, let's take a look. Oh, you mean this one over here? Oh, OK, yes, I will open the door. Oh no. Opening the door. Roll Stealth. Can I talk to Vendel? Yes, while they're doing. It. Not bad. I've had Vendel. What don't they know? What don't they know? Well, I don't. I just, you know, I noticed that after we killed the guy with the radio for a head that the hand didn't come back. So we have to find the broadcaster.

Yeah, maybe. Maybe that seems right. Hey, Retro, come over here while they're doing the EMP over there, over over here. All right, all right. I don't want to be anywhere near an EMP. And Jeff, you managed to, you managed to open up the gate just a little bit and you can see through it into the courtyard. There are two parked cars, 2 vending machines and a bunch of these golden people. There is a red barrel hatted 1 quite close to you though, just so.

For my they throw the EMP grenade 12345 squares away. God, I hit myself. You're the one who rolled. Crit failed. Holding tainted blood is what happens. Roll for it. For oh, sorry. You have to. Roll the EMP, yes. Because it might not be 5. If you roll higher it could go further, or if you roll lower it could be not Jeb. You don't roll high enough to throw this. Oh shit. Oh. It's just an EMP.

However, this may have, this may be a chance for you to fail forward a little bit because you go to throw it and instead of throwing, it gets caught in your Cape. It wraps around the back of your Cape and falls down to your feet and goes off. And genuinely there are two things that happen. One your tile resets and you have to put in all your passwords again, which is super annoying. It still works though and the chip in your neck stops working and you now don't have the ex.

Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit. And as you're saying, oh shit, a a bunch of the Zeves turn to you and start to look at you. You know, I might have liked you better before, and I didn't like you before. And while the Zebs are coming towards you, do you slam the door shut? No fuck up, OK? Jeb is taking on six of these guys on his own. Two of them are explosive. Great. And his radio doesn't work. Yeah. He's locked out, so you guys

have no idea. While that's happening though, you're asking Van Del some stuff and Retro's just. So Ventel brought up a very good point. There was a a a a golden zombie Steve in the Porta party who looked like he was broadcasting or controlling perhaps the hand. Yes. So is that who we should be looking for? Maybe we skulk around the broadcaster. We need to find the antenna. The antenna. That exactly.

Yes. So we've got we've got regular Zeves and then we've got what, Zeve Prime with the the radio. I don't think so and. Then you've got. Oh, he's the transiever. Yeah, that's the, that's the one, right? There transiever transceiver. So we got to look to see if we can find it the wherever the transiever is that got that had that that Pike pole thing. Well, let's start sneaking around. I'll. Check this alleyway, it's down here. All right, Retro, you head on

down this alleyway. Does anyone follow Retro? The Arcasa doesn't look like there's a way to sneak through this gate, so yes, I will follow Retro. So you will head down to the South side of Tuna's compound here in Knight City, following him through a little side alley. And in the distance, you start to hear, I'm assuming, gunfire. Chip. Oh yeah. We're we're shooting so you. Brought all your guns with you, remember? I sure did. So what guns are you using? Well, Grandpapa's twin Colt 4 to

5 starter. Oh, no, hold on. I've got an Arrow electric shotgun that's got a company all right. Still nothing in shoulder arms in in heavy weapons or shoulder arms. Don't worry about that. You know, redheads were never really my thing, dude. How? Dare. You Wells, your first shot misses and it goes wide. You needed. It you needed a 13. Oh, OK, nice. You step into the area, getting a little bit closer. You fire 17, which is enough, and you hit the Zeve boomer right. That's right.

Cool the The blast knocks this creature back one and you see him glow a little bit. The ringing noise once again fills the air around you. Jeb, this guy explodes in. Oh you are just outside of that radius my guy. Oh man that is oh mate, oh mate, if I'd rolled an 18 you would not be in a good place. The explosion is based on what they roll when they roll explode. So 18 and up is actually 2 squares around them, not one like a grenade. So be careful. And you don't have time to run away.

You. I mean if you have a high reflex yes, but it's not a melee attack it's a grenade so the in person who can dodge it is you. Oh, and then it explodes and he takes out the guy next to him as well who forced the ground in pieces. It was an OK boomer. You hear the ringing once again as you watch the flesh undulate and try and come back together. Gross.

Jeb, there are now a bunch of these guys coming towards you and it's at around about this point that your tile finally finishes its setup and you have your connection once again. Hey guys, I may or may not have bitten off more than I can chew. I do have a big mouth, but I can't chew this big. Wow, Jeb, you're really batting 1000, aren't you? You. Need help. Yeah. I'd Sarah need some help. I I didn't follow Iona so I can come. Phoebe, if you want to stay here and not help, that's fine.

Bendel skate feats over to Jeb they've. Taken it to the neck level. Well, go ahead, Remy. I see those. Phoebe, are you doing anything? I thought there was a door right here. I. Oh shit. Well, I'll go with Bendel. Cool. Damn it. All right, I'm going to go with Bendel. I get on my hoverboard to catch up. Cool. Right, so you, in your cool Halloween cat suit, ride your hoverboard over to Vendell and you're behind Jeb now as you see

this horde coming towards him. Meanwhile, on the other side of the compound, as Retro and Iona make their sneaky little journey around, Retro gets to the corner of the compound and goes to turn left. And he just steps out into this alleyway, not thinking. And there in front of him, is another Red Barrels Eve. Oh shit, what?

Are you going to do retro? I would like I got a split second I'd like to see if on the red barrel Steve since this is my first time seeing it, if I can understand the how it how how it works as an explosive. Sure. 26 Yes. You see that there is a controller for the explosion on the very top of the barrel that is the top of this creature's head. And then there are pipes that

come down, wires that come down. They connect into a little screen on their chest which is a timer which is stuck at 5:05. 5055 minutes and 5 seconds. 505 that's SOS. Oh, I thought they just added the one. For four O 4 Cinco de Mayo, OH. Jeff got his tile back, everyone. His quips? That one left a bad taste in my mouth. Great, I'm good. I'm I'm glad I could be the only serious person here. SOS. Someone sends a signal. Yeah. Who? Who needs help?

Anyway, Retro is dealing with a explosive Zev here, so maybe do something about. That. I'm going to shoulder, well not shoulder charge, I'm going to try to run past it and as I do use my tool hand right and break off the antenna which is the signal which we determined as the the signal centre to have it explode. Yeah. Sure. Yeah, 29, yes. You walk straight past him as he goes to grab you. You see him start to glow and you pull the aerial off the top of his head and he drops to the

ground like an inanimate object. Without the signal, there's nothing to run on. He is inanimate, doesn't explode, it just stops working. Period. And these things are pretty soft, squishy, pushy. But he literally stops breathing. He's dead. How much power would it take to RIP the helmet off? I mean, you'd have to give it a shot. Depends. We're all for it. Can you get that helmet off it? And I'm going to shoot this one. Those things, I'm not touching it. Someone's got to shoot that and

I'm a better shot. You shoot it, this thing is dead. I'm fine. Rock, paper, scissors. For what? Who takes the helmet off? Someone's got to do something. I I shoot it and you take the helmet off. I'm not touching that thing. Get it, Get it. I shoot, I shoot, I'm shooting. I'm shooting. I got it like I get there. Hold on. I'm going to shoot it by now, make a dollar, hit the shirt. I press the button. Bang. You. Shoot this Zeve with this Super

Chrome sidearm 19 to hit. You blow a hole through its side and it falters and steps back. That's going to hurt. Right to fire 2, right? No, it's one. Just one. All right, that's a lot of damage. The guy is just wearing like a like a green jacket, not really any armor to speak of, and the bullet just goes right through his flesh. What we're we're not an initiative. I'm going to take another shot. Oh yeah, we're not an initiative. I mean, should we just? Kind of. Well, that's.

Kind of trying. To find the. You go, you go, you go to shoot, miss and you hit the explosive guy on the ground. No, in front of us. Retro is standing next to it and it starts. To glow next to it, I'm actually taking the helmet. Trying to take the helmet off Retro. As you're pulling it, the bullet hits the body and it starts to glow. Roll evasion because it's going to explode. Yeah, yeah. 22 Yes. Do you want to roll towards the Zev or towards Iona?

When I go to pull the helmet off, Iona takes their second shot, bounces off, which of course sets enough of a kinetic charge in there to have it start beeping. Oh fuck. And immediately let go and have to try to. I try to do a backflip. I can't, but I just somersault back. I'm hoping I don't get hit. You roll back and this creature on the ground explodes. He actually rolled a crit fail on damage so it wouldn't have hurt you too much, but all the

same no one gets hurt. But you now cannot grab that head because it has exploded. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I, oh, I, I, I put my, I put the gun down and I just back away from it for the moment. Meanwhile, on the other side of the compound. Vivi is going to run in. Hover in. Hover Vivi is going to hover in

Oh, I kind of like this. I never really I ever really practiced shooting while on the hoverboard, but we're going to give it a go. So official cyberpunk rules say if you want to get a plus one to any role, you can roll a complimentary skill for it. If you roll well on your complimentary skill for your board, I'll give you plus one to whatever hit and to damage 16. Yes, very good. You get plus one to hit anyone even if you shoot twice. All right, I guess I'll shoot one of these Zeves, the

explosive one. We're we're pretty out of range, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. All right, I'm going to shoot explosive Zeb. Zeve, Zeb. They don't deserve the respective naming. Shoot them. Oh crit success? Nice, you hit this guy. Crit success causes enough damage and he explodes. This boomer? OK, Boomer. Oh and it's not a very good explosion, but it's just the standard size.

He rolls a crit fail and the Zeve to his direct north or gets also gets caught in the explosion and dies because that's 25 damage that that guy does and. Dies. Nice shot, Phoebe. Thanks, that actually worked. 2 for one Hell yeah is your gun. Did your gun shoot twice? It does. Let's shoot again. Who am I shooting at the Zeve up here? Cool. The one with the Game Boy surface. Yes. You shoot him for six damage, takes a step back and just takes it is Vendel's turn.

Got my skate feet and a sword. Vendel's just got to skate straight. Let's see, escape feet, give them double speed question mark. It lets you do essentially you can do a run action now and station. 12345 there are 8 squares in front of them. Can they run the Zeve directly in front of them straight through with a with a sword? Yes. All right, double check my movement there. Slice. I heard that too. Vendel slices forward stabs this guy, pulling him under half health.

I roll A10 so they get crit which is an extra 5 damage. This creature takes a critical injury. Vendel cuts their arm off, grabs the arm from the ground, skates behind them and smacks them from behind with the arm and unfortunately falls straight into a vending machine and bruises their head, taking too damage. Ow fuck, I'm still not good at this. Although that guy is dead. That's that's great, Vendo. Just try to stay on your feet, skate feet.

I'm sorry, your wheels. The one with the handheld game console through a face pulls out an SMG and shoots it. Watch him click this shitty auto fire button and shoot. The bullets RIP at the sound of the beat around you as they ricochet against the gate behind you. That creature does it's attempt to attack another Zeve that's close enough to attack you on this turn. Comes up to VV. Roll evasion VV Pew. Oh, close. That was a very close evasion.

He rolled an 11 year old a 13. He tries to attack you again with this baseball bat Evader 14. Oh boy. I'm gonna put two luck points into this one. Ohh whoa. Ohh I didn't need to. You didn't need to, but you do dodge him. With your luck points, you're able to step back from it, giving Jeb a clear shot. That's right, I'm taking a shot by a. 25 yes, you blow a hole through this guys face. He takes a step back and falls

to the ground, dead. They may be easy to kill, but unfortunately there are a lot of them and as this guy dies, we did a really good shot of shooting him through the head. You didn't do enough damage to his body though and you hear a ringing noise and his body starts to undulate as he repairs himself. The. Bigger. The bigger ones, though, need a bit more time to do so, so there's a bit of time before he stands back. Well, I guess I'll shoot him again. You're.

Going to shoot that guy or the guy who. Just noped the guy, the guy who I just chat and finishing the job. All right, cool. So you're just trying to like, wreck the flash essentially. That's correct. All right, because you're shooting this guy who is dead. I'm going to give you something, Jeb. You're able to pinpoint the noise since you made it happen twice. Well, from what you can hear, it's in the northeast, this area. From. Northeast Oh, the desire is going from the northeast.

It's. Coming from the. Far side of this building though, where I am. Meanwhile, you know what? I'm going to run for it. Meanwhile, as you've called that into your tile, retro on the other side of this area hears you. Jeb, please run forward and you'll have consequences for that later. I. Just did. Retro You hear this on your tile as you're standing next to a Zeve with a a Tamagotchi like thing stuck in his head and he goes to attack you as you're listening. Fuck.

Dodge in 1117? Yes, tries to attack you again. Dodge another another 1119. Yes, you managed to step forward. Actually, while they're making an attack at me, I would like to use a move that I learned from an old friend of mine, Sano. It was a trick Sano used to do when I would when we were living together. I would always like to go in and try to give him a hug or maybe a

Peck on the cheek. And whenever I would, they would do this thing where when I reached in with my arm, they'd grab it and fling me into the wall. OK, do that. So I'd like that. Brawling 20 Yes, it's a brawling, so let's see if they can evade this. It's not likely. Rolls of 22 and evades. You try again, you get too many a text. All right, I'll do what he says to do anytime. Go for the Ghoulies. 22 Nice Oh

crit. If crit fail you go for the ghoulies and as you kick him the structure of this creature is not very good and as you kick him your foot goes straight up, almost up to the base of his rib cage and he splits in half to the ground. It's gruesome. Iona, you're disgusted. Holy crap, actually pulled off the standing split kick that. That was amazing actually. But Retro's foot's still up in the air though as they're doing the but with the leather I can't seem to get my like.

I need help. Help. All right, Jeff. 'S message rings in your ears OK. Yeah, we'll, we'll investigate right away. I just have to fix retro deep breath deep breath ready 123 and I like push it down. I think I take another two points of friction burnt. 05 damage. Yikes. Yeah, that would hurt. That would hurt. Sorry, but let's let's keep going north. I think. I think we'll be run into whatever we need to find there. I. Don't think I'm running anywhere, but I'll be waddling

behind. All right, I was stupid that I put down my gun. I'm going to pick my gun back up. You pick your gun back up and you take point. I take point, follow me. I, I, I do my best impersonation of a lawman. I honestly, I'm so I'm like crouched and, you know, hands, hands ready. I have a flashlight that I've found underneath my gun. Yes. And you step forward to the corner of this wall with Retro hobbling behind you. So he tries to get rid of one of

the most uncomfortable wedges. I I give the hands signal to stop just my fist up in the air. Retro and. Squeaks behind you and. I'm going to peek around the corner. There we go. Nice stealth 17. Yes, that is enough. All right, I saw. All right, Remy, there is a receiver and a regular Zeve. So I, I, I think that I think we should take him out quickly, but. But you want to shoot first. I don't want. To throw up again, I. There's no bomb, there's no bomb. There's no red, no bomb, no

bomb. I drove just a better shot than I am so I'm just going to back up here. Go, go ahead, I. Will come to the edge. He's he's like right there. He's like, right, right there. I'm. Just going to as soon as it's coming around the corner, just blind fire my shotgun. Go for. It crit success amazing K tech hammer you've caused an unbelievable amount of damage and is legit is legit way more damage than this creature has health and they take I'm not even going to roll the critical

injury because you've. You've you. You. Blew them up, fucked them up. Looks like transmissions ended. You crit success so well that the others, even on the other side of him, takes the shrapnel and also dies. Splash damage. And as this Z falls to the ground, there's this silent scream from the radio's expression. It's a mouth that hangs from underneath. And Jeb, you hear it, and it's much louder as all the Zeves around you, as you raise your hand to punch one with the butt

of your gun. Drop to the ground in Anna. Yeah. Oh, Jay, you guys don't hear that for real. You'll. Hear what? No, it's gone. Radio silent. Next time on no latency. Tuna, just keep talking so I can follow your voice. All right? All right. Yeah, I guess you just went right on in. Everybody's gone, right? It's a bit morbid, but that's that's the case. No, you're supposed to call them biters. We kind of killed their like mommy or whatever. What do you got over there?

Retro I'll. Put that on. Oh yeah. But yeah, we could do that. I don't know, I feel like we should probably get going. Yeah, yeah. I, I I'm not quite sure. Better safe than sorry. We should get in Vanna White. I used to work there when. I am very curious. We should get in the van and go to the silo. What? We're going back to that crazy fucking place. I'm. Driving. That's copilot stuff. It's a good thing that we just saved your mechanic I.

Have something that might help? Should we fling both of you in there? We could do that. Whoa, die. Shut up. Shut up. If this was the bathroom, that'd be a problem. Oh, I know what I'll do. They are lined up in a line and. Jeb, did you just shoot? Yeah, who's shot in here? We thought we had a rule. 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

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