Actual Play – The Sprawl – S2 City at War – Episode 10

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[00:00:03] tonight's game the sprawl. I'm your GM Joe

[00:00:08] and we should introduce the characters in player alphabetical order.

[00:00:13] Double-checking. Okay. There's no errands in this game. So that would make me number one. Hey, this is Adam

[00:00:19] and I am bringing back Banshee for another go around.

[00:00:24] It's been a while since we played. I remember last time that we were portrayed by

[00:00:30] some of our best friends that totally

[00:00:32] they hurt me, Joe. They hurt me deeply but harpooning Hunter K and

[00:00:38] whipping him through a building was

[00:00:41] satisfying in its own way.

[00:00:43] You hurt him as deeply back as possible

[00:00:46] I would say in that you've harpooned him through the chest and then dragged him through a city.

[00:00:51] Maybe not emotionally, but physically. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:00:55] That brings us over to me. Hi, I'm Brownie. I'm reprising my role as Watch.

[00:00:59] He's a tech character that kind of blends into the background and likes to make

[00:01:04] party favors to use in

[00:01:08] the negotiations.

[00:01:10] And that leads to me over. This is Chris. I'm playing Craig.

[00:01:15] Craig Zorota

[00:01:17] freelance journalist.

[00:01:18] Yeah guys, this is David.

[00:01:20] I will be playing Elena, the woman in white who is easily most dangerous person in all of last league roles.

[00:01:27] At least that's what it says on Elena's business cards. They finally came in.

[00:01:32] And this is Jeremy. I'll be

[00:01:35] reprising my role as Julian Black, the fixer.

[00:01:38] I'm looking forward to seeing the fallout of the dropping of the space needle and a couple of the

[00:01:44] contacts we've made along the way trying to kill us. So

[00:01:48] should be a good time. We'll see what happens.

[00:01:50] It's gonna be so fun when I try to contact Hacker Man.

[00:01:55] It will be.

[00:01:57] Joe, I just like I love how you're just like, oh no.

[00:02:00] Like that was like

[00:02:02] fucking Julia Louise Dreyfus

[00:02:05] laughing in Veep just like

[00:02:07] What the fuck?

[00:02:09] Well, I got plans for that guy.

[00:02:13] So everybody but Craig is still in from what I recall still in Dr. Frank's

[00:02:21] office and operation center

[00:02:25] Medical Theater. Medical Mystery Theater? Yeah.

[00:02:32] Technical Mystery Theater.

[00:02:34] We did try to make a joke after we brought in a smiling or a smoking pile that was Elena and

[00:02:41] Yeah, he did. He did goof on us a little bit, but he's good at what he does.

[00:02:45] Yeah, there was still some Elena in there. So

[00:02:48] And over there and bits of her back together she's currently in recovery.

[00:02:54] That's because it killed me has made a serious tactical error. Yeah

[00:03:00] Yes, so and so that presents you folks with a conundrum

[00:03:07] You have

[00:03:09] the opportunity to

[00:03:12] Get out now

[00:03:14] The fact that there was a hit on

[00:03:17] Craig you don't know who it was

[00:03:19] But they were willing to kill all of you so they could kill Craig more easily

[00:03:24] indicates a few things. It seems likely that the corporations that you're facing off against have gotten word of your

[00:03:32] assault or perhaps they figured out that you had something to do with starting the war

[00:03:37] or Sygen has realized that they has remembered how much they hated Craig from the first time

[00:03:44] or any number of other options regards the fact that they hired people that

[00:03:48] You considered to be at least okay and probably wouldn't stab you in the back and got them to stab you in the back

[00:03:54] Means a lot of creds were outlaid for this

[00:03:58] So you have two options choose revenge

[00:04:04] And to target and proceed against them there will be no jobs provided to you

[00:04:08] You're gonna be making your own job

[00:04:09] Which means you're gonna be setting the goal and then proceeding towards that goal as efficient efficiently as possible or inefficiently

[00:04:17] depending on how shit goes down or

[00:04:21] create enough of a stink to

[00:04:23] Cover your escape from town and I will leave that up to your own devices if you don't

[00:04:30] You're gonna be

[00:04:32] freely extradited right and you'll be in another country where anybody attempts to kill you will try it will

[00:04:38] If caught some of the appropriate consequences

[00:04:41] But that doesn't mean that you won't get killed it just means it makes it a lot harder than killing kill you here in those Ligero's

[00:04:48] If it really is a corporation our arms are pretty long

[00:04:51] They have a lot of intelligence services and if they really have a hard on for murdering you though

[00:04:57] They're gonna really do it. Oh

[00:04:59] The question is do we just go ahead and

[00:05:03] From hell's heart I stab at thee or do we go ahead and know when to fold them

[00:05:09] Right, right

[00:05:11] Now I said

[00:05:13] Although I may have there may have been some artifacting

[00:05:16] There won't be any jobs tonight. Any jobs you conduct will be

[00:05:21] Decided by you with the your end goal

[00:05:24] You have two options one is

[00:05:27] Take your revenge decide who is responsible for this situation. Take your revenge against them

[00:05:32] and then escape off to

[00:05:34] extradition land and and hope they don't find you or

[00:05:40] create a very

[00:05:43] Or create enough of a cloud of dust when you leave

[00:05:49] To cover your escape

[00:05:51] So much so that the corporations won't have it like a starting place to understand where you wet

[00:05:57] So I do want to point out that throughout the campaign I have been

[00:06:02] vaguely implying that Craig has a

[00:06:04] Shit ton of information on every corporation

[00:06:09] It's fair. Yeah

[00:06:10] I mean, I'm sure it hasn't all been used because there's some deficiency with it, right?

[00:06:15] Like otherwise Craig would already have put it all out there

[00:06:19] But it would still be useful for that material yeah any favors you want to call in this would be the time

[00:06:26] Any friends you have this would be the point to burn them

[00:06:30] Etc. So this is the point where Craig wakes up at the soup kitchen because he fell asleep as

[00:06:38] opposed to going home

[00:06:40] That sounds right. Yeah

[00:06:43] My first thing that I want to do is I want to put a couple Chris or I want to put my

[00:06:47] Surveillance team out looking for Lexi

[00:06:49] Because she would have information on what happened because she got hired to try and kill us

[00:06:53] All right, so every

[00:06:55] Yet we have the

[00:06:57] Lexi is mine

[00:06:59] Well, I can still help you find her

[00:07:02] I'm going to find out of the quickest and easiest way possible. I am going to go visit her parents

[00:07:07] I am going to ask them to call her and then I am going to simply ask her which one she loves the most

[00:07:15] Lane is getting off the deep end

[00:07:18] So every step you take towards revenge is going to be a step you can't take to cover your exit

[00:07:25] All right, so

[00:07:27] I'm gonna wake up

[00:07:29] Check my my feed and then

[00:07:33] immediately call

[00:07:35] The like two same people

[00:07:39] Yeah, when you check your feed you also check your messages and you have a message from hacker man

[00:07:44] Okay, what does the message from a hacker man saying?

[00:07:48] The message from hacker man goes basically like this

[00:07:52] Craig it's your brother-in-law Robert

[00:07:55] I

[00:07:56] We're having a family emergency

[00:08:00] Your sister Elaine is in the hospital

[00:08:04] I'll call you when she's conscious that is a hundred percent code

[00:08:09] It means Craig we're being held hostage

[00:08:15] This is definitely your fault

[00:08:19] Please do something about this. I will advise you when I when I know what our location is

[00:08:24] I'm going to call Elena immediately. I

[00:08:28] Don't know what Elena's up to

[00:08:32] Elena you're coming out of the drugs and you're getting a phone call from Craig there are two ways from him already

[00:08:41] Okay, so apparently Jeremy is answering so

[00:08:45] Elena's phone

[00:08:47] Holy fuck Julian. All right, right?

[00:08:50] Yeah, I know who you are it's the it's encrypted man

[00:08:53] We what do you need like where have you been like people have been hunting you and tried to kill us try and find you

[00:08:58] well, I

[00:09:00] That's news to me. I've been doing my own thing. Um, but anyways

[00:09:06] They're not just hunting me. They've been hunting my family and

[00:09:10] My sister and my brother-in-law are in trouble and we need to help them now. Oh, I agree

[00:09:18] They tried to kill us they've turned a lot of our allies against us. So apparently somebody with a lot of swing is

[00:09:25] Really putting it out there. They've either figured out or at least suspected the fact that we were in

[00:09:31] we've we've started this and

[00:09:35] Now everyone's gunning for us. So if they've already taken hacker, man, I

[00:09:40] We either need to get them out and take them with us or we need to just burn this whole mother to the ground

[00:09:46] You know what I want to do I

[00:09:49] Could suspect especially when they're starting to hit it started starting to hit us when we hit us at our own house

[00:09:56] I didn't know about hacker, man. We will we will definitely

[00:10:01] Definitely get them out one way or the other whether we make it out or not

[00:10:05] They will make sure we will make sure they're out Julian. We need to make this first fucking priority

[00:10:11] Oh, I agree

[00:10:15] We just need to figure out who's holding them and how heavily armed they are

[00:10:20] I'm already working on it

[00:10:23] and with that, um, I am going to spend

[00:10:27] my

[00:10:30] Nose for a story roll at the start of a mission roll edge

[00:10:33] That's a mixed success. But hey better than no success. Yep

[00:10:39] So I'm gonna keep that hold and use it at a very opportune moment

[00:10:45] All right

[00:10:46] Try and get everybody up to speed be like hey man

[00:10:49] The same people I'm assuming the same people that came after us that hired Lexi are currently

[00:10:57] holding hacker man and Craig's family

[00:11:00] Either hostage or like straight hostage or they're threatening one of the two what everybody say

[00:11:06] Alayla says that she is going to get information out of Lexi one of two ways

[00:11:12] She is either going to see a reason she is going to try to save both of her parents or I am going to take

[00:11:17] This bat and beat her like a pinata until clues come out

[00:11:21] Yeah, I I respect her for taking the job, but she she knows she fucked with the wrong people

[00:11:27] God they they

[00:11:30] They knew that they suspect that we were crazy enough to drop a space needle on them and we proved them that we are

[00:11:35] Actually crazy enough to drop a space needle on them. They should know that we're playing for keeps

[00:11:40] I mean it's part of the deal, you know

[00:11:44] So have we just all decided already to go all in no

[00:11:49] I mean, it's also possible that some of the actors might be like nah, man. I ain't for this love anymore

[00:11:58] These has been Elena playing nice

[00:12:02] My kid gloves are now shot to shit

[00:12:05] Elena is going hard if you do not want to see carnage maybe do not stand next to Elena

[00:12:13] But this city is going to be a smoking crater

[00:12:17] full of dead enemies and

[00:12:20] Elena is going to retire to Barbados because it is finally time

[00:12:24] Her car on table cards in hand. You know exactly how Elena feel

[00:12:30] Do you want to hop on murder train toot toot?

[00:12:35] That's it

[00:12:38] The murder train

[00:12:40] During all this I've had my engraving attachment on and I slide across the table to Elena a

[00:12:48] grenade with

[00:12:51] Her white coat

[00:12:53] Engraved on it and then I look around the table full transparency

[00:12:57] I wouldn't feel right leaving us leaving a city and leaving two people that has been good to us out to dry

[00:13:02] You know whatever happens with Lexi a

[00:13:05] Job was a job and I respect her for that, but she knows that she messed with the wrong side

[00:13:11] Whether she's being manipulated and they have her family

[00:13:15] Under hostage and they said do it or we'll kill your entire family. Who knows?

[00:13:19] But uh, I would like to find her and get the answers out of her as opposed to trying to go by proxy

[00:13:26] Elena has an idea of going to visit her family. I would like to just talk to her directly

[00:13:33] We need leverage if we do not have leverage she is going to be able to lie

[00:13:38] So first things first we rescue hacker man

[00:13:42] Second thing second we get the information out of Lexi

[00:13:46] It might be Lexi just being the one that's that's holding them hostage. You never know

[00:13:51] If we can kill two birds with one rock very good

[00:13:53] So it sounds like Julian's in I slide a grenade across the table to him that has two hands shaking on it engraved

[00:14:01] I appreciate that watch

[00:14:04] The one way or the others will this will go in a very nice place

[00:14:09] And then I look over at Banshee and Craig

[00:14:11] And she's been sitting there drinking her

[00:14:15] Irish stuff coffee smoking a cigarette and just kind of I think you guys get you got your

[00:14:21] I mean look they expect us to do this they expect us to go out and kill everybody I say

[00:14:26] Until we die a nice bloody horrible death. I say we go ahead

[00:14:30] You know plan on rescue and hacker man, and you know that'd be grand and then perhaps

[00:14:36] Maybe we could acquire some bodies and fake our own deaths and then

[00:14:40] I'm sorry the chips fucking up on me a bit. She shakes her head a bit

[00:14:44] You know and then perhaps

[00:14:46] You know we'd

[00:14:48] Know fake our deaths take away and then Elena if you'd like to some time down the road come down here

[00:14:54] And you know you slit the last last his throat. That'd be fine with it

[00:14:57] I do want to point out Craig is not there

[00:15:00] so

[00:15:02] Just was on the phone and now he is sobering up

[00:15:06] Well, then it's the nice slide a grenade across the table to Banshee

[00:15:11] Well, then it's the nice slide a grenade across the table to Banshee on it is engraved a sweet cybercar

[00:15:17] Complete with a little bit of neon where it belongs actually glowing

[00:15:21] That's beautiful

[00:15:23] Wonder who I'm gonna use it on

[00:15:25] You know that's my take guys

[00:15:27] I mean if we if we if we go ahead and we we cut the head off the serpent

[00:15:31] There's just gonna be another has serpent and pop up and all that you know we're names are not anyway here

[00:15:37] I say we just

[00:15:40] Get what we need to and

[00:15:44] Disappear and they think that we're dead

[00:15:47] so original idea was to get the to get the Golden Phoenix's in the

[00:15:53] Screaming Eagles in a position of power over the corporations

[00:15:58] if we could

[00:15:59] Somehow get them over top of or at least get them

[00:16:04] Running from behind the scenes then we can kill those turd

[00:16:08] We take a digital copy of that roided out guy and upload even to their server is their head

[00:16:16] And then when they re-insate the guy after we kill him

[00:16:19] They'd make a mecha mode

[00:16:22] Mecha mullet

[00:16:25] Then we leave the entire world into in was it idiocracy kids we leave

[00:16:31] That would be effectively what you've done. Yeah

[00:16:34] You know honestly if we did like last thought honestly if we did kill their

[00:16:39] Kill their hierarchy and in place somebody in the spot that was a different ego

[00:16:45] So to speak you know what I mean like they bring them back, but it's a it's our guy that they bring back

[00:16:51] That would be a nice sweet little move

[00:16:53] We've got a we've got at least one

[00:16:56] VP

[00:16:57] Ego that we could have somebody Taylor to

[00:17:01] work for us essentially

[00:17:03] So what does the table want to do guys like do you all I mean this is our our swan song are we you know?

[00:17:10] rescue escape rescue

[00:17:14] Glorious charge of the light brigade I

[00:17:17] Mean you know my vote

[00:17:19] Yeah

[00:17:21] Tell you my vote is for that swan song to be cool guys don't look at explosions

[00:17:26] They just light it and walk away

[00:17:30] We just made peace with the factions

[00:17:33] We actually did they're all trying to kill us so clearly we didn't the game well the gangs

[00:17:41] the Golden Phoenix is the cyber or the cyber Golden Phoenix is the

[00:17:46] Screaming Eagles and the jugaloo assassins are all

[00:17:50] All down with us like we we actually made a good statement to them

[00:17:54] And we got him out before we blew up the space needle, and they're on board

[00:17:59] Okay, if we could do some type of three-pronged attack, and then we just disappear whenever

[00:18:06] Whenever the outcome hits

[00:18:08] Like if we can somehow get them in place as opposed to the corporations kind of make a new world order in our

[00:18:16] Los Ligaros and actually hopefully leave it better than we started which was the original plan and

[00:18:22] It just fade into the background with all of our package. I'd be down with that

[00:18:26] I'm on board for that. That's there

[00:18:29] I mean we did put a lot into that just let it go would be a shame

[00:18:35] You do know this

[00:18:38] You have several random copies including for

[00:18:45] Nanolink not for side gen you don't have any

[00:18:49] You know brain copies there

[00:18:51] You also know that this sort of plan has been tried before and generally what happens is people get

[00:18:58] Ported in from out of country

[00:19:02] So what this would do is like don't get me wrong it would fuck up these two corporate

[00:19:06] For some time, but it would not be a permanent end to them

[00:19:09] There's no gang on earth this powerful not permanently and one of these corporations let alone two of them

[00:19:15] Joe remind me. What was the name of the corporation?

[00:19:18] Joe remind me. What was the name of the corporation that had us install an AI?

[00:19:24] Well

[00:19:26] It wasn't a corporation it was a particular individual

[00:19:30] And that was okay. What is was that guy's name?

[00:19:34] Lars

[00:19:35] Maxwell Fox

[00:19:38] Right well I do want to remind you that I made a point of copying Lars Foxwell's data

[00:19:46] Yeah, don't things

[00:19:49] I mean if you're gonna be like hey AI help us fuck up these corporations

[00:19:53] Maybe it'll do it who knows

[00:19:56] That possibly could do it, but that would be um

[00:20:00] Just for clarity sake and so everybody understands that would be the nuclear option because you don't know what would happen after that

[00:20:08] Just saying it's right there. It is right there. I

[00:20:11] Mean it is the only way to be sure but you would also be nuking yourselves because you got to live on the planet

[00:20:16] Where you install an AI in place of two separate corporations?

[00:20:21] Just you know for this to work it would have to have like full access to the systems, etc

[00:20:26] Well, we'll call that plan C

[00:20:29] If we've got to make a big exit playing sky net yeah

[00:20:35] Gonna go live in a primitive a per primitive island somewhere

[00:20:40] Can we can we are you guys in favor of us also faking our deaths so maybe acquiring corpses

[00:20:46] I'm fine with that

[00:20:48] They were already in Frank's right?

[00:20:50] Yep, be nice. We get some back going versions of our bodies that would you could I don't know how cyberpunk that is though

[00:20:57] It would take a little while

[00:21:00] The the less heat we can leave in the neighborhood the better

[00:21:03] we've got our own personal agendas as far as like

[00:21:07] You know knee-jerk reactions

[00:21:08] we want to burn this city to the ground to try and get to the people that are hurting the people we love but

[00:21:14] Like Banshee said we we did all this to do goodwill. We don't want to leave it a crater

[00:21:19] Alright Craig

[00:21:21] You're so you feel like you're sober enough to do whatever it is you need to do

[00:21:26] I'm going to give Robert a call

[00:21:29] Okay

[00:21:31] Or I should say a hacker man. That's how you normally call

[00:21:35] This is Robert that means still on captivity

[00:21:40] Hey, Robert, it's Craig

[00:21:43] Hey, man, I got your message. I

[00:21:46] Got your message and okay

[00:21:50] We're gonna work on that

[00:21:52] Though I have a few questions about your most recent like project

[00:21:57] Okay

[00:21:58] How have you like?

[00:22:01] how hard have you been looking at the

[00:22:05] That packet of information I sent you which out of character is the fucking AI

[00:22:11] Or at least a copy of the AI

[00:22:14] Well, it's

[00:22:16] Pretty complicated. I mean it was very interesting

[00:22:20] I

[00:22:22] Think it'll run

[00:22:25] But I would hesitate to use it I'm not sure I understand everything involved

[00:22:33] No, I get that man

[00:22:35] I'm just saying when it gets down to zero day if things are looking a little complicated

[00:22:42] You have my permission

[00:22:45] to

[00:22:46] Release the buggy copy

[00:22:50] Okay

[00:22:53] Well, I guess I will is that what is that code for exactly so I understand and there aren't any misunderstandings

[00:23:01] I am telling him to release the AI if things go south just okay

[00:23:07] Just straight-up release it don't try and corrupt or anything. Just straight up. Let it go. All right, just let it fucking go

[00:23:14] All right, man

[00:23:15] So I really appreciate you helping me out with my indie game

[00:23:18] I understand that it's weird for a journalist to be interested in that sort of thing

[00:23:23] But you know, you know, we all have hobbies

[00:23:27] Yeah

[00:23:28] That is indication to check his minecraft server

[00:23:32] That is definitely an indication to check his minecraft server because I have left multiple messages for him there. Yeah

[00:23:40] All right, dude

[00:23:42] I'm getting another phone call. I got a I gotta take it out

[00:23:46] All right

[00:23:48] You too

[00:23:50] Don't worry. I will be there to see Elaine in the next 30 minutes

[00:23:57] Well, all right and

[00:23:59] Now I call Elena

[00:24:02] All right, Elena, you're like just as before you're waking up

[00:24:06] And you've got a phone call from Craig

[00:24:09] Speak I need you to kill someone

[00:24:13] da-da-da

[00:24:16] They have hacker man and my sister hostage da-da-da

[00:24:22] I I

[00:24:24] Don't know the location that was uh

[00:24:28] Well, here's here's where he lives

[00:24:31] You need to give me details Craig. I just like send you a link of his home location

[00:24:39] Cuz hacker man is kind of a homebody. Let's be real

[00:24:43] fear

[00:24:44] Elena called you back when she need more find out where they actually are. I will fucking be there

[00:24:52] Tell me

[00:24:53] And just what waking up

[00:24:56] checking all of the parts

[00:24:58] Picking up guns checking for ammo

[00:25:02] Dr. Frank is like hey

[00:25:04] Hey, hey Elena, I wouldn't go out and get your revenge right now. You still

[00:25:10] you're still full of synthetic blood and

[00:25:13] I'm running some checks on the new organs. I had to put in

[00:25:17] Or you could just storm right past me. That's fine, too. Cool

[00:25:21] Dr. Frank if you need to do tests, you can do them on the way there is ambulance

[00:25:26] We are going to be going to our rescue mission if you use my ambulance, you know

[00:25:31] I'm gonna have to like leave town right

[00:25:34] It's part of the charm

[00:25:36] There is place for you in Barbados. Why are you not getting in the ambulance?

[00:25:42] Are you paid for me to leave? Are you gonna be to go to Barbados? Well fucking give me a gun

[00:25:47] well

[00:25:50] The way I look at it. I am sitting on 60 creds Aleta is bringing all of her remaining friends with her

[00:25:56] Like we are retiring to the non extradition country. We know that's coming. Yeah

[00:26:03] All right, well ambulance it is there goes our doctor

[00:26:11] Not where there goes our doctor that means we have a doctor on site

[00:26:16] field medic

[00:26:17] Yeah, he's gonna let me stock it up first I'm gonna we're gonna where we're going we're gonna need a lot of extra parts

[00:26:24] I think

[00:26:25] Where we're going we don't need eyes

[00:26:29] I've got spares

[00:26:32] All right, so I think

[00:26:35] Let's see here

[00:26:37] Elena's gonna go do this thing. I think is pretty fair

[00:26:41] So

[00:26:42] We'll put off the out of character discussion and we'll just we'll handle this

[00:26:48] Craig in the meantime you could check

[00:26:51] The Minecraft server check the Minecraft server. Okay. Yeah. No, I'm checking the Minecraft server

[00:26:56] What am I looking at in my village?

[00:26:59] Well when you instance in you're on a rock

[00:27:04] Well, like a little floating island and below you is the complete layout of Los Ligueros

[00:27:10] because this is the emergency mine

[00:27:14] And

[00:27:17] You could see that there are there is a

[00:27:20] from up here, he's got a

[00:27:24] Display of floating flaming pumpkins pointing at his current location

[00:27:31] That location is

[00:27:33] it looks to be a

[00:27:37] Rojo in the

[00:27:39] Subdivision

[00:27:41] It's not in an especially affluent part

[00:27:46] probably, you know best guess is that it's a

[00:27:50] You know, it's that it's a safe house for somebody

[00:27:53] It's not his safe house because that's outlined in white stones. That's very easily seen

[00:28:00] Home is got a gold roof

[00:28:03] So that is where he is currently

[00:28:06] All right, I call Elena and I patch in Julian

[00:28:12] Hey, what's up Craig? You get any information?

[00:28:15] Yes, we are going to this location and we are fixing things

[00:28:20] Get Banshee ready

[00:28:22] All right. Well, I'll see what I can do my way now and with that Craig just hangs up

[00:28:29] And I had my I had that direction

[00:28:33] Well, I was still at dr. Frank's with Elena because I and well so was Banshee and so was Brownie or so was watched so I

[00:28:41] I don't know that well, I was saying

[00:28:44] Well, I was gonna say if we saw

[00:28:46] Elena jump up and say get in the van

[00:28:50] Probably like hey man, the shitbox is better

[00:28:52] But will they expect?

[00:28:56] They won't expect if they won't expect an ambulance, I'm sure

[00:28:59] Um

[00:29:01] Okay, so out of character this would be a good time. Well, I'm sure Adam will be back soon

[00:29:07] This would be a good time to discuss

[00:29:10] What exactly your plan is at the moment that may change after you do Craig's thing?

[00:29:17] It sounds like basically everybody but Banshee is on board with

[00:29:23] Bouncing I mean well Banshee and Craig because you know who can read Craig's mind

[00:29:28] Yeah, no Craig has a very short-term goal right now and I think we all know what it is. I

[00:29:35] feel like the

[00:29:37] The end goal like starting from the end and working our way backward is we leave

[00:29:42] right

[00:29:44] Whether it's team scorched earth or team smoke and mirrors is the the question or both who knows

[00:29:51] Okay, I think that if we're doing it this way we go quiet as long as we can go quiet

[00:29:55] And then when that fails we go loud

[00:29:57] Mmm, that's generally how we've been going. We try it. We try and do a negotiation. We blow up a space needle

[00:30:03] The main one this time, right?

[00:30:05] Yeah, the main one this time. Well, we're gonna hold another meeting with hacker man and the hostages and the other hostages

[00:30:13] No, we're we're going to see my sister in the hospital but uh

[00:30:18] As I was waiting for you to say that it was one of the row homes that we cleaned out

[00:30:22] We are going to see one of my sisters in the hospital

[00:30:28] Better hope no one else was seeing her right now

[00:30:31] Yeah, it's gonna get pretty awkward

[00:30:34] But uh, I guess first thing we need to do on Craig's

[00:30:38] You know, what's go rest at risk you hacker man is we should probably

[00:30:43] At least surveil it for a couple minutes to figure out and see how many we're dealing with what kind of heavy hitters

[00:30:48] We're dealing with

[00:30:50] What kind of resources are gonna utilize for that?

[00:30:54] Hit the street, all right if I've heard any chatter that makes sense

[00:31:01] Let's see

[00:31:02] Where am I? All right. Let's see how it goes

[00:31:05] That's a eight so partial success

[00:31:08] So I choose one since I'm hard to find

[00:31:12] Out of character I'm gonna act as pure bait

[00:31:15] I'm just straight up gonna walk into the hospital and be like hey, I heard my sister is sick

[00:31:21] It isn't a hospital like

[00:31:24] Unless you're gonna go into any hospital and just be like, hey

[00:31:28] No, I'm gonna go wherever my sister is. Okay. So he she's with hacker man. Okay. Yeah, no

[00:31:34] I'm going to

[00:31:36] So but like the point I'm making here is that like I'm going in trying to be as

[00:31:43] Guileless as possible so people think that I am fucking like I'm not I don't know anything

[00:31:50] Right. Okay

[00:31:52] I'll do cost you extra and I will

[00:31:57] I'm gonna call a little miss sunshine

[00:32:00] little miss sunshine

[00:32:02] Because she's really good. It's

[00:32:05] Knowing where people have disappeared to I

[00:32:08] Already over one favor. This will be two

[00:32:11] Well, no, I'm not it's not a favor it's the

[00:32:14] Okay, yeah

[00:32:16] Julian how's it going? Long time no see

[00:32:20] Yeah

[00:32:21] No rest for the wicked and all that. I got a favor from you or I got a favor

[00:32:25] I need to ask you I definitely pay time is of the essence

[00:32:29] Okay, a little birdie told me that a hacker that we know may have got pinched

[00:32:34] I'm trying to figure out where they may be and how many like how many people are holding them and

[00:32:39] What little birdies are are overseeing this operation?

[00:32:43] I don't know that I'm gonna be able to get you all that but let me check. Let me check

[00:32:48] Well, any one of it would do especially the how many birdies are currently on the perch. I

[00:32:53] Mean that's always the most important information

[00:32:56] Mm-hmm. See what I have in the files here. Oh

[00:33:00] Very interesting. This is a private contract

[00:33:03] Hmm

[00:33:05] Interesting. It's a big payday. I

[00:33:08] Kind of assumed that your buddy Helen handled this one. Oh really?

[00:33:13] Yeah, I don't she just facilitated, you know made the connections

[00:33:19] Yeah, it looks like we got two heavies

[00:33:26] No driver

[00:33:29] We got one face that's unusual usually you got you

[00:33:33] Usually it's the anti corporate jobs you have a face on but they have a face

[00:33:38] And a couple lighter gun toters

[00:33:43] Let's say it looks like it was four and

[00:33:51] Listen I can get you more information. It's gonna take a couple hours

[00:33:55] But I mean it really just could have really dragged up the cost

[00:33:59] How much we talking don't worry. I have an idea

[00:34:04] For for cred and I can find you the whole the whole shebang where they're at who hired them

[00:34:11] You know every time a private job comes in like we're all interested as you told corp work now, mm-hmm

[00:34:18] As soon as she says for like four shows up in her bank account. Oh damn. Well, you really are in a hurry

[00:34:24] All right. I'll get right on it. I

[00:34:27] appreciate it

[00:34:29] Definitely let me know what's going on if

[00:34:32] If Helen's involved, I'm sure that it's a it's definitely a primo crew

[00:34:37] And I'd definitely like to know who they who they were hired by I was a cracker jack team. Don't go light. Oh

[00:34:43] No, there were there will be no light

[00:34:46] But much obliged. I definitely appreciate the information

[00:34:49] All right any actions you want to take any hours gonna take a little miss sunshine to get you that material

[00:34:55] I relay all this information to Craig or to the whole team

[00:34:59] I was like Helen's on it Helen's on this on this job doing the facilitating

[00:35:04] I'm gonna go ahead and assume that she knew it wasn't for us. But at the same time

[00:35:08] You never know if they came threatening her in her business all bets were off

[00:35:14] so, um before I hit up the

[00:35:19] Location where

[00:35:22] My brother-in-law and my sister are being held hostage. I'm gonna hit up a

[00:35:28] Local White Castle

[00:35:30] Okay to see my good friend Rodney

[00:35:33] Are you gonna go see Rodney? Huh?

[00:35:36] Okay, uh you roll up to that White Castle

[00:35:41] You ask after Rodney and they're like oh Rodney quit like two weeks ago

[00:35:46] They cracked he couldn't handle the pressure. Oh

[00:35:49] Do you know where he went? I mean I have

[00:35:53] Well, I'm not sure I should just tell anybody off the street

[00:35:57] He makes like a little money motion

[00:36:00] Do I look like anybody off the streets I asked for him specifically he's a good friend

[00:36:06] What's your name said?

[00:36:09] My name is Banshee. We don't have a Banshee listed here in his contacts

[00:36:17] Tell you what

[00:36:19] I

[00:36:20] Want to order the just a small fry and when I ordered the small fry I just hand over an entire cred a

[00:36:28] Small fry you got it. Yes, sir

[00:36:33] Do you happen to know my friend Rodney is

[00:36:36] In fact, I think I think I do I think your receipt will have some pretty interesting information on it when you get this

[00:36:43] small fry

[00:36:45] So they hit you the small fry and scrolled on the back is the last known address they have for Rodney

[00:36:51] And I am going to go fuck with Rodney. Okay, cuz Rodney apparently knows his shit despite being like

[00:37:00] trashed here

[00:37:02] Like he is like if he was Yakuza

[00:37:05] He would be like the lowest lever level Yakuza, but he was the Yakuza who knows everything that's going on

[00:37:12] Okay

[00:37:14] Going to see Rodney

[00:37:16] So I go to the apartment and I knock on the door alright, hold up

[00:37:26] I'm gonna need some

[00:37:29] Material information

[00:37:32] Like what so you've you've mentioned you've been in like a war zone and bad situations

[00:37:41] Craig

[00:37:43] Craig this Craig ever been in an ambush

[00:37:46] Yes, actually

[00:37:48] Well Craig it's starting to feel like an ambush as you walk up to the apartment building you get like a

[00:37:54] Real bad feeling like real bad

[00:37:58] Alright, I call Alana

[00:38:01] speak

[00:38:03] Change of plans. I need you here now and then I just like drop a pin

[00:38:11] I am still unaware that Alana is like not at full

[00:38:16] hour

[00:38:17] so dr. Frank

[00:38:20] Is like loading up the the the van the the ambulance

[00:38:25] It's like so

[00:38:27] Are we ready to go or what are we waiting on?

[00:38:30] No, yes, you

[00:38:32] Okay, cool. Cool. We take it everybody. It's just you and me

[00:38:36] Craig is in trouble who is coming to help bail Craig out. I

[00:38:41] Still have to give him his grenade. I can come

[00:38:43] I'm gonna be a little busy doing trying to do recon work

[00:38:48] I'll hang back with Banshee. Oh, we'll meet you on the flip side

[00:38:52] All right, so

[00:38:56] Yeah

[00:38:57] Just as Banshee and dr. Frank and watch pull up

[00:39:01] Craig where are you waiting for them?

[00:39:04] Oh

[00:39:05] I'm about to walk straight in like I'm trying to make it not look as suspicious as possible like I am

[00:39:11] Suspicious as possible like I am. Are you waiting for them to roll up or you're just gonna walk in anyway?

[00:39:16] I got a phone call that I had to answer

[00:39:20] Okay took a couple minutes

[00:39:22] Okay, and then I'm walking up and then

[00:39:26] Coincidentally a car pulls up. Okay. All right. I got you. So it was like a 15 minute phone call

[00:39:33] Which is good because it took you 45 minutes to to get to walk

[00:39:38] Get to White Castle and get their info and

[00:39:41] then another you know

[00:39:44] 15 minutes to get down here. So it's about an hour 15

[00:39:49] Alina and dr. Frank and watch pull up

[00:39:53] Dr. Frank is driving. Yeah, he's got an SMG, but he doesn't look like he's used it in a while like his trigger discipline is bad

[00:40:02] He's okay, we are going to be leaving dr. Frank here because

[00:40:06] Primarily your job is medic. He's like, yeah, I know but I've been a combat medic before like I know it's involved

[00:40:16] He's just like I know what's up

[00:40:21] So watch since you're the person who seems

[00:40:26] least dedicated to going in guns blazing I

[00:40:31] imagine you or who Julian calls when he gets the information that

[00:40:35] The person who hired them is one Rodney Holland former of formerly of side gen and then nano link and several other security firms

[00:40:43] Seems like he's amassed a very large paycheck

[00:40:46] and has put a hit hit out on Craig and is

[00:40:50] Appears to be spending all of his available funds on it, but it's a large amount

[00:40:55] I'm gonna call watch and be like watch watch abort abort

[00:40:59] This is a great

[00:41:02] Craig's already walk up to the building tell you guys better you guys better go in there for backup cuz it's fucking Rodney

[00:41:07] He's the one that's putting out the hits on him. He's the one that came in and hired 100k hired a let hired Lexi

[00:41:13] He's rolling deep and he's burning every bit of it

[00:41:16] So Craig as when you open the front door

[00:41:20] I'm gonna need an avoid harm role. That's very reasonable

[00:41:27] All right, what does avoid harm?

[00:41:29] It's just rolled two dice

[00:41:32] You want to roll low on this one? Not I mine mix success

[00:41:37] Well, that's bad. I mean I knew

[00:41:41] Craig knew what was coming

[00:41:43] He knows he understands how much he has antagonized Rodney

[00:41:50] Okay, so but rad Rodney also knows his shit

[00:41:55] Yeah, let's see

[00:41:57] Are you wearing any armor Craig? Yes, I am my

[00:42:03] Automatically has a light armor. Okay

[00:42:07] So that should be one

[00:42:10] So you'll take three as the door blows up

[00:42:15] Like the whole building

[00:42:17] Explodes and you get blasted out across the street

[00:42:22] Into the ambulance which gets rocked back on its side doesn't fall over but it shakes from back and forth

[00:42:31] And no one inside the ambulance will take any harm either, but they will also need to roll harm

[00:42:37] Craig you're gonna take three for the explosion trap no damage

[00:42:41] That's fair

[00:42:42] So everybody inside roll 2d6 inside the ambulance

[00:42:45] All right, watch you're good no problems maintain your balance

[00:42:51] Great. Okay. So that's a nine

[00:42:55] Um

[00:42:56] Elena were you up front or in the back? I was in the back. Okay. What were you doing?

[00:43:03] I'm holding gun in one hand

[00:43:06] of

[00:43:07] Hand on door on the other. All right. Let's just say you just dropped the gun like

[00:43:11] Like

[00:43:14] You dropped a gun bend over to pick it up the ambulance riddled with bullets

[00:43:21] Well better what I was gonna do is it's like well gun is dropped

[00:43:25] Open door grab Craig closed door

[00:43:28] Drive

[00:43:29] Yeah, good. Yeah

[00:43:32] Yeah, then the bullets the ambulance gets riddled with bullets as dr. Frank trumps down on the gas ducks under the dash

[00:43:40] He's like scrapes a bunch of cars on his way out

[00:43:44] Peels out he makes a turn left turn

[00:43:47] Ambulance over almost tips over

[00:43:50] But you guys get out of there. Well, at least you escaped the immediate vicinity of whatever that was. Oh

[00:43:56] Hey Craig, I have something for you. I am going to remember this and I'm going to fucking kill him

[00:44:03] Apparently the feeling is mutual

[00:44:06] And I and I hand over a grenade that has a press pass that's on fire engraved into it I

[00:44:14] Love it

[00:44:15] Thank you. Watch. I really appreciate this. I am going to use it to kill the man

[00:44:21] your business

[00:44:22] All right, so um, I don't know where my fucking family is

[00:44:29] We're gonna fix this

[00:44:31] Okay, no, that's our business now so we know where the family is you just went to Rodney's place

[00:44:36] let's go, oh, yeah, she did if she did confirm that the the location of hacker man and

[00:44:43] Elaine is at the

[00:44:46] The house in the subdivision. That's where they took him like I don't know what happened after that

[00:44:52] But that's where they are or their corpses are nobody's left. Well, maybe people will be confused

[00:44:59] By me going to check on somebody else because clearly they're they're watching me as

[00:45:05] They should I mean I have the truth

[00:45:09] All right. So, uh, dr. Frank's like hey man, maybe we should have a better vehicle than this

[00:45:16] oh

[00:45:17] Yeah, let me make a phone call. I call Banshee

[00:45:22] Somebody want to take the wheel so I should probably do something about Craig's hole

[00:45:27] Riddled with door thing. Yeah. No, I'm I am bleeding to death right now

[00:45:33] hold here

[00:45:35] Okay stops

[00:45:37] Elena take wheel you take Craig

[00:45:40] Yeah, okay good trade. Here's the address Lana as he as he switches into the back

[00:45:47] He sort of looks out the back window, which is to see its glass. It's like

[00:45:51] He's out here. That's not normal

[00:45:53] Am I gonna get killed?

[00:45:55] I'm gonna get killed. Um, so here's my will

[00:45:58] He just forwards it to Elena because she's the one who was the guarantee or whatever you were gonna pay me to go to

[00:46:03] Barbados you could send this to like my son

[00:46:06] He's he's in medical school out east and this would really like help him with the debt

[00:46:13] Semester at this point probably

[00:46:16] That's

[00:46:19] Vash take over wheel I will take care of the wrong

[00:46:23] We're going to play musical chairs, but we play for keeps

[00:46:28] While they're doing that I'm actually gonna call what?

[00:46:31] Banshee because I actually haven't spoken Banshee yet

[00:46:35] That's fair. Banshee's like twiddle and stuff. So dr. Frank's like

[00:46:45] You get a phone call

[00:46:47] That was that was a phone call. My phone rings the synthwave girl from Ipanema

[00:46:53] Okay

[00:46:54] Craig how do you get along buddy? I?

[00:46:57] Need you to get to this location right fucking now

[00:47:02] My family is in trouble and you're going to help me if you don't help me

[00:47:08] I am going to ruin you

[00:47:10] You know all you had to do to ask asshole I'll be there in a minute. I'm sorry

[00:47:20] Lot of stress an open face compliment sandwich

[00:47:26] Say after you hung up, I'm already under a lot of stress

[00:47:32] The black I believe we the shits hit the road I mean it's hit the fan and it's time for the shit to hit the road

[00:47:38] Did I

[00:47:43] Did I did I understand you say something about Helen

[00:47:47] Yes

[00:47:49] Helen is the was the broker for this

[00:47:52] I don't know what how if she was just the liaison in between or if they threatened

[00:47:58] Her family and her business or her understudy or someone in the mix

[00:48:03] But it's Rodney Rodney is the one that has hired all this and is behind all of this

[00:48:09] He's a face probably but okay. Let's hop in a car

[00:48:14] slaps slaps the hood and

[00:48:16] Then I give her the give her the rundown of like

[00:48:19] The the specs that I give that I got from Little Miss Sunshine about who's there like got a face got couple heavies

[00:48:26] couple small hitters

[00:48:28] Apparently they're getting chased by drones

[00:48:30] I

[00:48:31] Text Julian and specific and say hey if you can find Rodney's location for me, I would appreciate it

[00:48:39] I'll see what I can do

[00:48:41] He might just be there with your family

[00:48:46] Sure hope he isn't well

[00:48:49] At this point who knows?

[00:48:52] You do know Julian that if Rodney is

[00:48:57] Smart he wouldn't be he would be somewhere else. Oh, no, I agree but

[00:49:03] You never know crimes of passion and all

[00:49:05] Because we know he really hates Craig

[00:49:07] That's true. He doesn't really hate Craig

[00:49:11] But I guess I can instead of looking for Lexi

[00:49:14] I can put I can post up and put put him out looking for Rodney put my surveillance team out looking for Rodney

[00:49:20] I

[00:49:23] Just think we just need to minimize contact with everyone. I

[00:49:28] Look we

[00:49:30] If they can turn Helen if they can turn 100k if they can turn all of them, I mean it's just who who

[00:49:35] What's there? What's everybody's selling point at this point?

[00:49:38] You know, yeah

[00:49:39] so like I honestly think it's like as much as we invested in the in the games and all that all they had

[00:49:45] To do is get offered something a little bit tastier and then they go through their most base urges

[00:49:49] so like

[00:49:51] You know as bad she's racing here. She's trying to convince you that

[00:49:56] we need to get the get Hacker man's family and then we just need to but

[00:50:04] Make our deaths and leave

[00:50:07] I'm at this point. I'm in agreement

[00:50:10] Because if they've got as you said if they got Helen and they've got 100k and they got Lexi

[00:50:15] I mean, we basically try we basically trained Lexi from the ground up

[00:50:19] Or at least Elena did yeah

[00:50:23] And now she's a pretty efficient contract killer and she's in the wind

[00:50:29] They've got a hold of hacker. They figured out who hacker man was got him

[00:50:32] Who else do they got who else can they turn how much like you said, what's their selling point?

[00:50:37] And do we know for a fact that they turn Helen and also story characterization

[00:50:43] It would be great to have us interact with those characters. Mm-hmm

[00:50:47] I

[00:50:48] Agree, but at this point who's got eyes who's actually working for the other team?

[00:50:53] I don't think I don't personally think Helen would sell us out

[00:50:55] But if they had leverage on her she may not have a choice or if she just thought she was broker in another deal

[00:51:01] It didn't realize it was for us

[00:51:03] It's just another it's just another job like I get her side because she's a face just same as I am

[00:51:08] Then maybe you should talk to Helen take a moment

[00:51:13] Well, it depends on where you need us to be if you want us to come and try and get your family out

[00:51:17] That's one thing we can always swing by Helen's on the way or we can

[00:51:22] Or we can come immediately there like it's your family man balls in your court. I mean Jeremy

[00:51:27] Let's be real Julian is not gonna be useful in this situation. Nope

[00:51:33] But I'm with Banshee and Banshee's got the car with the big gun in it

[00:51:36] She can drop you off is what I'm saying

[00:51:40] Yeah, but how many ambushes that we already seen how many how many ambushes have we already dropped into?

[00:51:46] So, yeah, I mean this is all that flavor text for us is for driving. Yeah, so

[00:51:53] Where Joe

[00:51:56] Drop me off at Helen's maybe she's got some explaining to do

[00:52:02] All right drop them off at Helen's are you gonna leave and go to the

[00:52:07] The subdivision or you gonna hang around Banshee?

[00:52:09] I'm going to circle around the block three times and see if this is a trap before I even drop him off

[00:52:17] So I want to I guess assess the situation. Yeah, I want to do the same

[00:52:22] See Joe at the beginning again, I've already assigned the point. I noticed at the beginning I had 14

[00:52:28] Points so I just went ahead and added a plus one to cool since I'm a driver and all that

[00:52:33] But but I you know, I didn't want to just sort

[00:52:36] The gauge I have any upgrades this would be the time to use them

[00:52:42] Seriously

[00:52:44] Okay, so that would be I guess

[00:52:48] That's assess isn't it? Yeah. Yes. Do I have anything?

[00:52:53] Either that either you can give me try and give me a plus one and I can look because I've got a plus two

[00:52:58] On it or we can both do it. I don't I don't know how Joe wants to roll it

[00:53:01] I'll let you both have a chance at assess

[00:53:04] Okay

[00:53:05] You're both hyper vigilant. You've been stabbed in the back once already Craig's off

[00:53:10] The only thing Craig cares about has been kidnapped. I got an experience. That's what I got cool

[00:53:20] Not a problem that was a five for the listeners at home. All right, let's try this

[00:53:27] It wasn't no rolling I don't know

[00:53:31] shoot

[00:53:32] So is it 2d6 I guess

[00:53:35] Yeah, I'll do it the manual way

[00:53:38] By the way, I did need to make that roll to take on those drones

[00:53:43] Yeah, like we are swapping places while the vehicle is in motion, but then I'm leaning out the side with rifle

[00:53:50] Because I think you're a pro if you just straight roll it you'll take out the germs. It won't be a problem

[00:53:56] Okay, I get a hold I got a I got a one. I mean I got a mix success

[00:54:01] All right, you can ask any one question from the assess list Elena when you knock out those drones

[00:54:09] It's however you whatever effect you want it to have

[00:54:13] I'll even allow for a feedback on the drone controller. I'll just go with

[00:54:18] feedback on drone controller like

[00:54:21] Spray drones out of air and then just keep on going

[00:54:24] all right, and

[00:54:27] Like I don't care if the drone controller just kind of goes

[00:54:30] Okay, there's an ambulance. We're chasing the ambulance and and my drones are all gone and

[00:54:36] Well, okay, they went somewhere

[00:54:40] All right fancy your questions

[00:54:45] What is my

[00:54:47] What is my biggest threat in this situation or who or what at Helen's yeah

[00:54:54] So from what you know about Helen your biggest threat is

[00:55:00] Would be indicating to her that you guys are

[00:55:05] Likely to take some drastic action and involve her

[00:55:09] You know, she's on the cusp of retirement

[00:55:12] so she's your biggest threat if you indicate to her that you're like

[00:55:18] on the edge of

[00:55:21] You know going out in a blaze of glory

[00:55:24] So it would be best not to do that

[00:55:27] Hmm because she knows that often takes everybody, you know with her with you

[00:55:31] She is not interested in that whatsoever

[00:55:34] Mm-hmm

[00:55:35] So yeah

[00:55:38] That is the biggest threat to you at the moment in this location

[00:55:42] No way. I'm gonna hit road just to see if this works right now disregard it. Okay, but I didn't use that

[00:55:48] He's amazing

[00:55:50] Alright, so

[00:55:52] Yeah, I relay that like

[00:55:55] If you look I'll wait a second here if you like what do you intend on the on the retrieving from her? Oh

[00:56:03] I just want to

[00:56:05] Mostly just ask her why like I don't I don't have any ill will for I don't expect like I want to go quietly

[00:56:12] Into the night. I don't want to go out and blow up her place like this

[00:56:17] This is not this is not personal between the two of us

[00:56:20] After they say that how many credits do I have to spend to find out where Rodney is specifically?

[00:56:26] Probably just six not that much. I

[00:56:29] Have 32 credits

[00:56:32] Like six will get you an answer instantaneously

[00:56:34] You can roll hit the street and it'll get you the answer anyway

[00:56:37] It might alert him that you're coming, but you'll oh

[00:56:41] No, I'm just gonna spend the fucking credits

[00:56:44] All right. This is this is a fucking grudge at this point

[00:56:49] Okay. Now, let me tell you this if you don't roll you'll get the information

[00:56:52] But then so will he if you roll you can you'll have like put enough of yourself out there

[00:56:59] You'll have used enough social grease

[00:57:01] That they'll just be like this is a normal transaction. Whereas if you just pay the first

[00:57:06] Information broker you see there's no reason they wouldn't just turn around and flip that

[00:57:11] Okay, fine. I'll roll it too

[00:57:14] That's a failure. So I'm spending the fucking money. You spend the money. Yeah

[00:57:19] Okay

[00:57:21] Fuck him. He knows I'm coming Rodney is

[00:57:27] Currently in

[00:57:30] In the sewers under the city

[00:57:33] He's got a little like hideaway down there

[00:57:37] after the last fracas

[00:57:40] Corps moved in and like blocked a bunch of that shit off

[00:57:43] And he is in one of the blocked off sections

[00:57:47] Did I get his phone number if you want to contact he'll give you a contact for him. Yeah

[00:57:54] Alright cool. Yeah, you got it

[00:57:57] Hey Rodney. Oh

[00:57:59] Craig Craig, how's it going? I see you survived the explosion and

[00:58:04] I'm coming for you buddy

[00:58:07] It'd be a real shame if you came for me for your family got rescued, huh?

[00:58:12] Don't worry about that. I'm not

[00:58:15] All right. Well, is there a reason I shouldn't just have them executed now and cause you maximum emotional pain

[00:58:21] Maybe I should wait till you get there

[00:58:24] Yeah, that's the thing. Oh

[00:58:26] Yeah, that's that's what you're going for here, buddy

[00:58:31] Yeah, you ruined my whole life

[00:58:33] And I'm gonna keep fucking ruining it. I mean the worst you could do is kill me. I

[00:58:39] Know the worst I could do is not actually killing you although I didn't realize that at first

[00:58:44] Don't worry buddy. I'm coming for you. You've you've made it clear

[00:58:50] All right. Well, you better hurry up cuz I'm gonna radio them to execute the hostages

[00:58:54] It's not gonna I don't have to beat you into coming after me. That's

[00:58:58] You're gonna do it anyway, so see you later. Bye click

[00:59:04] I call Elena. I mean you're in the truck with Elena like you're in there. Oh me and never mind. Yeah

[00:59:12] Elena

[00:59:14] You need to go murder Rodney

[00:59:16] We are rescuing a hacker man

[00:59:19] Elena is not gonna go to get down there before you guys get to where they're holding hacker man and

[00:59:25] Elaine and boy that was a poor choice of

[00:59:28] for your sister, but

[00:59:31] Okay, so we need to get them first. Okay. Yeah, that's I mean you're five minutes out from that place

[00:59:39] All right, we're gonna go there first and then Elena you're going to murder this motherfucker you good with that

[00:59:46] plan all day

[00:59:48] We have been working on plan murder since the very beginning. I

[00:59:53] Just want to make sure all right

[00:59:55] I woke up this morning and decided, you know

[00:59:58] Somebody is going to have to die today and there was going to be some murdered

[01:00:02] And since then the only question has been who has been first on least

[01:00:07] Murder is happening today. Don't worry Craig

[01:00:11] Everybody keeps saying oh, it's okay. We can leave enemies alive. What is worse they can do they come back you understand

[01:00:18] It's like beads

[01:00:20] we are going to shoot all of our problems and

[01:00:24] then no more problems

[01:00:27] All right, so we're gonna cut back to

[01:00:30] The Waffle House you're about to walk in and confront

[01:00:33] Your pal Helen and see what she's got safe for herself. Mm-hmm

[01:00:37] so I walk in and I

[01:00:39] take a seat at the counter and

[01:00:42] Hey Julian

[01:00:43] Hey, Helen big moves big moves for you Julian heard about the gang thing

[01:00:49] Yeah. Yeah, we were we're right on the cusp of something great

[01:00:53] all the gangs are really

[01:00:57] Really coming together and we're trying to leave the place better than we left it

[01:01:01] Hopefully we can leave you out all this it'd be real nice to

[01:01:06] To have a united front when when we when we decide to get our walking papers and vanish on into the night

[01:01:14] So hold that thought honey one second

[01:01:17] she leaves the counter and goes over to like the couple of

[01:01:21] teenagers who are over there like

[01:01:24] Very poorly sneaky booze into their coffee and eating pies. They can't get the fuck out

[01:01:29] They give her some lip and she's like no seriously

[01:01:32] You know who I am

[01:01:34] Get the fuck out. They get up and they leave I look at him a bit like I'd listen to her

[01:01:40] Yeah, they nod on their way out. They look pretty dejected

[01:01:43] As she comes back around the counter and sits down on your side says that sounds like

[01:01:49] Sounds pretty serious Julian. What are we talking about here? Yeah. Well, I mean

[01:01:55] We're trying to me and my little merry band of misfits we're trying to get out of here we we want to

[01:02:01] we want to go quietly off into the night and

[01:02:04] Not have anything happen to our fair city that we've tried so

[01:02:08] tried so hard to

[01:02:10] Keep in place

[01:02:12] We've got the gangs united and someone jumped us as I'm sure you've already heard

[01:02:18] So I would was wondering if you happen to

[01:02:22] Hear about a man named Rodney recently a little bird told me that

[01:02:27] that's a

[01:02:29] Little bird told me that you may have may have heard of this man

[01:02:34] And I'm just kind of curious as to you know, why you know business is business

[01:02:38] I will never disparage you and I hold no way we wait wait wait wait

[01:02:42] What does the Rodney thing have to do with you? He was just supposed to go grab some

[01:02:47] Hacker and his wife is what the job was

[01:02:51] Well, that's decided to hit a little close to home my friend that happens to be Craig's sister and brother-in-law

[01:03:00] Okay, and you know that this is aimed at you or Craig somehow I guess

[01:03:05] Well, I mean they took him as hot took him hostage and just tried to blow up Craig

[01:03:10] So I am assuming it's slightly personal

[01:03:12] All right. Well, I didn't know that well, I like I said, I hold no ill will I didn't know if you were

[01:03:18] Being you know, you're trying to get out. I didn't know if somebody was leaving putting leverage on you or if

[01:03:24] Things got bad

[01:03:25] Like I said, I hold no ill will

[01:03:28] No, it's just a job. He came in with a lot of money

[01:03:31] It was just enough to put me over the top. So this place my predator to my

[01:03:37] You know my little trainee

[01:03:40] you know, I'm out I'm going out too and

[01:03:43] And

[01:03:45] Yeah, it was just a just a job I didn't know it had anything to do with you or Craig

[01:03:50] The guy hacker man's been doing a lot of illicit stuff

[01:03:55] Word on the street is he got a hold of an AI. I don't know what that's about

[01:03:59] I don't know if it's true, but I assume that's what this was

[01:04:02] That's news to me. I

[01:04:04] Didn't know he had anything to do with Craig

[01:04:08] Frankly, he's been mostly pretty quiet. So

[01:04:11] Yeah, I mean

[01:04:13] Craig's one thing Craig whatever happens to Craig. He's probably brought it on himself

[01:04:18] But his family didn't ask for this that's that's the only reason I came to ask you

[01:04:22] To make to see what was going on

[01:04:24] I assumed that you didn't have anything to do with it or knew what was going on or if it was from us

[01:04:28] Or even if you did it's business. I can't disparage you for that

[01:04:32] You're trying to get out and you're trying to you're trying to get away. I

[01:04:35] Understand that but his family's involved now and that's that's personal to them to the crew

[01:04:42] So it's just bad business overall

[01:04:46] So, yeah, I

[01:04:48] Look, I honestly didn't know anything about it. I

[01:04:51] Didn't real check real deep on this Rodney guy. I figured he was just a face for a corporation there

[01:04:57] You know usual mr. Johnson they were sending over he really had the look

[01:05:02] I

[01:05:03] Didn't do my due diligence on this one. I

[01:05:06] Will tell you this if I turn this down somebody else would have taken it. Oh, I guarantee it

[01:05:11] Well, we already know we already know that they flipped some of our some of the people that we knew so I just

[01:05:17] Wanted to make sure that we were still square

[01:05:21] No, no, I hope that cleared the air. I don't have anything against you guys

[01:05:26] You all been real good to me

[01:05:29] always pay on time

[01:05:31] Help me out with a few things

[01:05:33] You know, I bear you no ill will I hope the reverse is also true. Oh, I agree

[01:05:39] I still want to be part of this franchise and I wish you'd have called me first before taking that jerk off money, but

[01:05:45] You know, I mean I'm supposed to know hey, I made we made a deal

[01:05:49] I told you if you if you wanted to sell out you let me know you're still welcome at my home in Barbados

[01:05:54] Whenever we're gone

[01:05:56] Don't go telling everybody where you're gonna go. Hey, that's where I'm telling you and

[01:06:01] And

[01:06:02] That may be where I end up who knows some non-extradition country that shall not be named you are always more than welcome

[01:06:09] I guess I got to find you first, but I appreciate the inflate

[01:06:13] Listen you go clean this up or whatever you got to do

[01:06:17] Anybody contacts me for a job?

[01:06:20] This one's on the house. I'll let you know if it's gonna be if you were any or your little group or the targets

[01:06:26] Well, I appreciate that because a professional courtesy I definitely appreciate that because we already had to

[01:06:33] Make a man fall out of a small out of a high-rise building that we considered an ally and I don't want to do it again

[01:06:39] That's not a threat to Helen. That's a no. Yeah, that's the facts

[01:06:44] I understand

[01:06:47] Listen you get out there and do what you got to do if I hear anything. I'll let you know. All right

[01:06:51] I appreciate it

[01:06:54] Pie for the road because apparently because my my cars going to try and get someone's ass out of a fire

[01:07:00] Yeah, yeah

[01:07:02] Which your preferred pie from Helen?

[01:07:07] Custard so what we started with will end with it. All right. Yeah one

[01:07:11] One pie one custard pie for you whole one. I

[01:07:17] Definitely appreciate it bring two spoons. We'll share we got time

[01:07:21] all right, so

[01:07:23] Banshee if you really punch it and you want to weave in and out of traffic you get there in like five minutes

[01:07:28] Okay, that sounds good. So I guess

[01:07:32] Yeah

[01:07:35] Hold on let's try this again and see how it works

[01:07:39] You said edge

[01:07:41] Yep, cuz it's uh

[01:07:43] Pardon me

[01:07:46] Act under pressure try to get there in Harry. Oh, so that's cool then

[01:07:51] Add your cars power if you're

[01:07:54] And I'm also jacked in so I get all kinds of nice little pluses minuses

[01:07:59] See, it's three. I think I got a plus four on this

[01:08:04] 18 oh

[01:08:05] shit

[01:08:07] Wow

[01:08:09] Somehow you beat it's three minutes

[01:08:12] Like a seed for baseball wouldn't they pull a deal our heart pulls up like they go kiss they go fast

[01:08:19] They're right

[01:08:21] Yeah, you pay this you pass the ambulance on the way there

[01:08:25] This fucking amateur. I are shit a shite. I've really get this this

[01:08:32] accent ship fixed I

[01:08:36] Send a message in our crypto channel. It says like Helen's in the clear

[01:08:39] She didn't know hella or she's gonna let us know if anybody comes in looking for it looking looking for us specifically again

[01:08:46] so I guess we're all gonna

[01:08:48] Thematically or get there about the same time

[01:08:52] Yeah, what kind of is it like a high-rise apartment or house? Like what kind of place it is

[01:08:59] It is a

[01:09:02] Freestanding three-story home to car garage front and backyard and side yards

[01:09:08] except for where the garage is

[01:09:11] The yard is on the right side as you face the house wraps around to the back

[01:09:16] From when you pulled up you can see they had like a back patio from the second floor out

[01:09:23] Pull in the yard dog looks pretty typical

[01:09:27] and assess

[01:09:29] Action, especially anybody with cyber eyes would give you more information. I

[01:09:34] Only have cyber ears. All right, so this will just be a regular assess

[01:09:38] Sadly, I'm going with the cyber guys. I mean you just showed up now. I'm with Helen

[01:09:44] In the car you know, I

[01:09:46] Actually waited. Oh, yeah. I thought you were heading out as okay. No, no, no

[01:09:51] No, I I thought this was like all hands on deck. Okay. Yeah

[01:09:56] Like us like doing the fucking outro. Okay. Well, I mean if we're all hands on deck, I've got

[01:10:03] cyberized magnification light amplification

[01:10:07] I

[01:10:08] Thought I had a thermal but I don't but so yeah magnification light amplification

[01:10:13] So if it's not, yeah, that'll give you that's enough for a plus one for this assess

[01:10:18] Okay

[01:10:19] Let's see if I can roll better than I did

[01:10:21] Nope, that's a six

[01:10:23] So I got another experience

[01:10:26] rude

[01:10:27] cybercaterax

[01:10:29] You're wondering if she didn't maybe pull up to the wrong house. This looks perfectly normal

[01:10:35] As ever since they got rebooted man

[01:10:38] Like dr. Frank, I think my eyes are still messed up

[01:10:42] I'll run a check on that after we get out here. I

[01:10:46] Appreciate that

[01:10:48] Does Elena have cyber eyes?

[01:10:51] Also, no, I do not have the cyber eyes

[01:10:55] Anybody else can make this assessor. Okay. What's that? What's all it says? This is we got this guys

[01:11:01] I'm like I'm in a car

[01:11:04] You are in a neighborhood somewhere

[01:11:07] Nice Wow watch

[01:11:11] I'm sure that's insanely bad

[01:11:13] They take your experience

[01:11:15] I'm in a car. Yep. Yeah, it's like my eyes are going wall-eyed somehow like can they stop?

[01:11:22] Point forward goddammit

[01:11:25] All right. Let's start with Elena's very good role and proceed from there

[01:11:30] all right, ask her three questions Elena and

[01:11:33] Let's see what she and Craig will each get one

[01:11:36] What potential complication do I need to be wary of what do I notice despite an effort to conceal it?

[01:11:42] How is blank vulnerable to me? How can I avoid trouble or hide here?

[01:11:48] What's my best way in out we're past

[01:11:51] Where can I gain the most advantage who or what is my biggest threat in this situation?

[01:11:56] Who or what is in control here?

[01:11:59] What's my biggest threat? How do I avoid trouble?

[01:12:02] What's my biggest threat? How can I get in or out and what should I be or what has what do I notice despite the effort to conceal it?

[01:12:09] We'll go with all right. We notice despite an effort to conceal is that the house is armored

[01:12:15] There is

[01:12:17] The way they up armor like these pre-built fab places

[01:12:21] Like they're just like they they never managed to put the siding back on right so you can see like

[01:12:27] Where it should meet the roof and where it should meet the base of the house

[01:12:31] Like this the the armoring peeks through and you could just catch it at those points

[01:12:36] That means the windows are probably bulletproof

[01:12:40] So that's what was to be concealed your biggest threat is probably

[01:12:47] The drone you notice that's hovering overhead. It's circling the neighborhood, but looks like it's heavy ordinance

[01:12:56] You know it's

[01:12:57] You're not a drone expert, but you know you've been around this has got like an 18-foot wingspan

[01:13:05] Probably drop a targeted missile strike on you

[01:13:08] that would be bad to get hit by it would also be bad for anybody in the house or

[01:13:14] anybody in the neighborhood frankly

[01:13:17] and

[01:13:20] What was the last one

[01:13:22] What's my best way in or out in or out?

[01:13:26] Your best way in is

[01:13:28] Those garage doors are still real garage doors. There's nothing like they can armor them

[01:13:33] But you could drive a car through them without too much of an issue

[01:13:37] That's gonna be your best way in

[01:13:41] They get you past the

[01:13:45] Armorization of the place

[01:13:47] into the house with a door with a lock but that locks probably still going to be conventional and

[01:13:53] Frankly based on how many times you've been in and out of these places for various other jobs the division between the

[01:14:01] The house proper and the garage is probably just drywall so you can get through that if you needed to

[01:14:07] You know no lock can stop you if you could just like cut a hole in the drywall reach around and unlock it

[01:14:15] Alright those are your three questions

[01:14:18] Banshee and Craig you have one each

[01:14:20] House of drone vulnerable to me in the shit box

[01:14:27] That harpoon launcher

[01:14:29] That's what I was thinking. I'm also wondering

[01:14:33] So anything flammable around here that would create a smoke screen kind of what I'm also thinking but yeah

[01:14:38] I mean it sounds like I may have to

[01:14:42] Not my battle maybe with that white whale in the sky

[01:14:45] I

[01:14:49] Mean the answer to the second question, this is a freebie

[01:14:52] Every one of these lawns is covered in grass. It's kind of dry

[01:14:55] There's been a drought recently and the city's cracked down on water usage

[01:15:01] I only concern is if we start lighting fires that they're just gonna execute the people inside

[01:15:07] Okay, so I have plans

[01:15:09] They start with

[01:15:12] Elena sneak to door garage door

[01:15:15] Couple quick slashes Elena make a door in garage door so he can sleep in I

[01:15:21] Will hard breach from garage?

[01:15:24] then I give signal Banshee spears the drone and

[01:15:28] drags

[01:15:30] Also, then I give signal

[01:15:33] light lawn on fire

[01:15:36] So that will create confusion

[01:15:38] They will wonder what happened to drone why is lawn on fire and they are going to be looking at outside

[01:15:43] And they will not notice Elena sneaking in I will get family out

[01:15:48] I will drop a couple of grenades inside bulletproof house and so that

[01:15:54] How you say?

[01:15:55] Ricochets inside armored team there will be very little left of them after I leave

[01:16:02] With your family who I will get out before dropping grenades on the drone side. Is there any way that

[01:16:10] Watch could hack the drone

[01:16:13] We don't have to worry about it if it's ours now, yeah, we could loop the loop the footage or something as well

[01:16:20] Yeah

[01:16:21] Certainly possible and we could just do a backup with the harpoon launcher if it fails

[01:16:26] You do know these this is

[01:16:29] This is not modern military hardware. It's about 20 years old. There's a big hardware fault in these a 237 drones

[01:16:38] That when you send the correct transmission

[01:16:43] You can open the software to

[01:16:47] Random or remote access. It's an open line

[01:16:51] So anybody could theoretically access it but it that also means you could access

[01:16:56] We don't have to hold drone forever. We just have to take it for a little so take it for a ride

[01:17:02] So to start off with let's make that synth role to see if I can sneak my way up without being spotted

[01:17:09] Let's do it don't get caught this earlier she's gonna go real bad

[01:17:13] Or we have to go with plan B, which is just kill everything. I

[01:17:17] Mean that really will mean kill everything. Ah, fuck me. Okay. Well, that's an eight on eight on the central

[01:17:25] Eight I see a six. That's the that was Elena. Yeah

[01:17:29] Okay. All right. Yeah, so you have control of the drone. You can tell to do whatever

[01:17:34] Now of course anyone who's remote controlling it currently will know that

[01:17:39] As soon as you give it a command, but until you give it a command they won't know

[01:17:45] Alaina you get caught immediately a plus one board would get spotted immediately

[01:17:51] No wouldn't have unfortunately

[01:17:55] Yeah, I guess it would have okay. Yeah, because what I'm thinking is if I'm

[01:18:00] Controlling the drone, but I haven't given any commands yet. I can say okay and you'll be out of its vision now

[01:18:05] That would be fair. I'll give you I'll give you a plus one for that Alaina

[01:18:09] Alright, you're you're you're in the clear

[01:18:11] Okay

[01:18:12] But a seven is still a success with complication unless it's just a straight-up roll

[01:18:17] It is a success with complication. So let's see here. This is act under pressure

[01:18:24] worst outcome hard bargain ugly choice

[01:18:27] alright, Elena

[01:18:29] You can be in the clear

[01:18:31] But you'll have indicated

[01:18:34] To everyone else it'll be through the drone

[01:18:39] What you can do is have blinded the drone

[01:18:43] Accidentally, which is why you get free right and you could get to the door but

[01:18:51] You draw your sword too early or something along those lines

[01:18:55] But the drone having been blinded because the drone operator is very paranoid is then going to do another loop and they'll find everybody else

[01:19:03] They'll realize that they should not be there

[01:19:06] Um

[01:19:07] Or you can get caught those are your options if you get caught you'll get caught individually

[01:19:13] I'll take the getting caught individually because that'll also give me an XP

[01:19:18] All right putting myself in danger does that?

[01:19:23] Is that enough for a

[01:19:26] In advance because if so do it now

[01:19:29] It is and I don't know what I want to advance like

[01:19:35] At this point I I have all of the things that I can possibly think that I would need so

[01:19:42] I'm already about as sent up as I can get so I'm just gonna go with plan B here though when the shit

[01:19:47] Hits the fan roll to get out. Alright, so

[01:19:51] Only gets caught

[01:19:54] They do not waste any time and

[01:19:57] They start firing so I'm gonna need to I need you to roll to resist harm Elena

[01:20:04] Six that's pretty good

[01:20:07] You will take how much armor do you have I forgot since last time

[01:20:12] Actually, that that is gonna be a five because right or actually wait when you make the harm roll subtract two from your role

[01:20:20] All right, so it'll be a four

[01:20:23] Okay

[01:20:24] So that's a four and then when it comes to actual armor armor. I've got

[01:20:29] armor

[01:20:30] Where is it? It's on here

[01:20:34] Body armor of two two. All right

[01:20:38] Take one

[01:20:40] harm

[01:20:41] You've been shot. It's bruising but not anything else like they're big bullets

[01:20:47] Big bullets, but I've got but they're not

[01:20:50] Yeah, the big big armor

[01:20:54] Yeah, so it looks like they've opened several firing holes

[01:20:58] In the side of the building and yeah Elena has taken

[01:21:04] One from the large bullets that aren't very pointy. There's regular rounds, but they have big guns in there

[01:21:12] No one else has been detected. Elena is now pinned down

[01:21:15] Basically right at the garage door. It's really the only cover around

[01:21:22] Fortunately the garage door

[01:21:24] You know the lip

[01:21:26] Between the door and the side the actual side of the garage has got just barely enough cover

[01:21:32] To prevent you from being shot unless you want to do something and the armor is in this case protecting you

[01:21:38] Okay, any other actions people want to take?

[01:21:42] Craig you do know this means that if your family is not dead right now

[01:21:48] They're going to be dead very very soon

[01:21:51] though the

[01:21:52] The garage door is not armored if we need a quick getaway if we actually get them

[01:21:57] We could probably put the shit box in the garage through the door

[01:22:02] Throw them into an armored car and then split

[01:22:05] Well, it is armored right? It's just that the armor isn't going to protect it from being still a garage door

[01:22:11] Yeah, right if you shot a bullet into it the armor would help hurling an enormous one ton projectile into it

[01:22:17] It's still gonna crumple because it's still got joints. Yeah

[01:22:22] I just backed a car into the garage door. I mean, there's also the missile drone

[01:22:27] Well, we still don't currently have eyes on where the hat or hacker man's family and hacker man's family is

[01:22:33] So we can't really have a rush out the door

[01:22:37] How about we if we're just trying to get in the house?

[01:22:39] I just back the car right into the garage door it crumples

[01:22:46] and then Elena slides under the door or whatever or whoever's going in goes in and

[01:22:52] You know we can time it like that. I mean, it's kind of that sounds like the easiest way to get in there. Mm-hmm

[01:22:59] That seems like the only way that's not armored

[01:23:02] Yeah, it's

[01:23:03] Or that's not heavily armored. How about that? It's still a door

[01:23:07] So I will say this

[01:23:11] Julian you do know the names of everybody who's in there. Mm-hmm. Like you know who these people are

[01:23:16] Okay, you could contact them and give them a better offer

[01:23:22] Put me in

[01:23:23] They get me in touch with if Rodney's the fixer. I'm not calling him obviously

[01:23:28] No, you'll be calling some one of the individuals in

[01:23:32] The in the house. I mean I could patch you through to the drone operator

[01:23:36] Sure good

[01:23:40] Do it patch me in do you need a roll for that or is that pretty easy? No, it's easy

[01:23:46] And she's gonna get a text via the drone

[01:23:50] And just have a text that says we need to talk and then

[01:23:56] Yeah, and then your number

[01:23:57] Yeah. All right. There's a profound silence

[01:24:02] The guns cease firing although Elena when you peek around the corner you can still see them aimed at you

[01:24:07] And then Julian you get a phone call

[01:24:10] Yeah, who the fuck is this?

[01:24:12] This is your old pal Julian. I

[01:24:15] Julian black fixer right the fuck do we need to talk about?

[01:24:20] The middle of a job right now. Yeah, I heard that

[01:24:23] What would what be your price to call this little shenanigans little shindig off?

[01:24:28] She said you gotta be fucking joking

[01:24:30] You know

[01:24:32] I mean, this is my professional reputation in Julian like well if you just pay me off

[01:24:38] How the fuck am I gonna get hired again? Well

[01:24:42] Depending on the price that you say maybe maybe you won't have to get hired again

[01:24:46] Wow, you're gonna go that big sure 20 credits that'll be enough for me and everybody here to fuck off done

[01:24:54] walk away

[01:24:56] Anything else you need? Oh wise rich one

[01:25:00] Tell me who hired you where they're at

[01:25:04] Where they're at all the Intel on who they hired up until this point

[01:25:09] Then you guys dude. I don't know all that shit

[01:25:12] I know we were hired here to do which was kidnap some hacker and his wife and then execute him if we got the word

[01:25:18] Or if anybody tried tried anything

[01:25:21] You guys go fuck off you leave them alone. You don't come after me and my crew again

[01:25:29] Yeah, yeah, I hope you got a medic on hand cuz we shot him

[01:25:35] I

[01:25:36] Don't feel like they're that bothered and

[01:25:38] If you kept this up that probably would have been bothered by your presence which just call it square on that

[01:25:44] No, no, I mean, oh

[01:25:47] We shot the two

[01:25:49] Whoever talking about Elena. No, no, no like we

[01:25:54] As soon as somebody showed up here. We we blasted them. I mean we did they're still alive. I

[01:26:00] Mean, that's what we were ordered to do

[01:26:02] So we did though if you get it somebody in here like in the next I don't know two minutes

[01:26:07] I'll probably survive so we'll leave we'll go out the back door

[01:26:11] Frank guess you have control over the drone which is

[01:26:14] Frankly, the only reason we took so little as 20 credits because you could have just blown us up

[01:26:21] You'll see us leaving

[01:26:23] Yeah, we don't see you leave. We we decide your drone is more of a tool for us

[01:26:29] You don't know how to I got it my man. We're on our way out

[01:26:33] Christ they hangs up

[01:26:36] On the next 30 seconds you see them leave out the back door

[01:26:40] Watch keep an eye on them if they turn around you you make them into little little piles of mist

[01:26:46] Yep, the if they have targeting sensors that they're they know they're painted right now

[01:26:51] Yeah, they're if they are aware their hands are up

[01:26:54] Frank you go now

[01:26:57] All right, man. He takes a time. It goes in yeah

[01:27:01] I'm going in first

[01:27:03] That's fair you're right clearing

[01:27:07] Yeah, give me an SS roll do it looks like a house

[01:27:14] Cleaner

[01:27:16] We're probably I mean, you're physically clean. It's filthy in here

[01:27:19] But like it doesn't look like there's any bad guys or anything you need to be aware of

[01:27:23] Alright Frank comes in

[01:27:27] He's got his trauma kit and he's getting to work

[01:27:33] Like uh

[01:27:35] Yeah, they're both

[01:27:36] Shot several times non-lethal well not immediately lethal

[01:27:42] I should be able to save everybody's life, but that's gonna they're gonna be in the hospital for a little while

[01:27:48] hospitals better than dead

[01:27:50] Yeah

[01:27:52] Okay, Elena go out and get me some of the

[01:27:56] Some more of that synthetic blood I brought

[01:27:59] da

[01:28:00] Off we go

[01:28:02] All right, Elena you leave

[01:28:05] Craig comes in that's unfortunate Craig

[01:28:10] Because there is another explosion that that fucking

[01:28:17] That assess roll was a bad one to miss uh roll harm Craig

[01:28:22] Okay

[01:28:24] Watch turn on the mist

[01:28:26] Mister is on

[01:28:27] That's really good

[01:28:29] You lucked out for

[01:28:33] Yeah, you won't lose your footing or your grip or anything you'll just take the regular harm as that explodes a

[01:28:40] Lot of bombs Rodney's fond of bombs if

[01:28:43] If I hear that either Frank or one of the other people died they're getting turned to mist

[01:28:48] I mean, it's not very good to be in an explosion Frank at least is wearing some light armor

[01:28:55] Um, but he's pretty severely injured Craig you're gonna take three more harm. I don't know where that puts you

[01:29:03] Think that puts I'll survive actually

[01:29:10] Damn good thing that I've got this whole big thing of artificial blood

[01:29:18] All right

[01:29:19] so

[01:29:22] Yeah

[01:29:23] This would be a good time for somebody to roll

[01:29:27] help for both Craig and

[01:29:30] Dr. Frank and

[01:29:32] hacker man and

[01:29:34] and

[01:29:36] Elaine but not not Elena

[01:29:39] Okay, so I'm gonna start with the doctor and applying first aid there

[01:29:45] You don't have a link with him. So that'll just be a straight

[01:29:49] Straight 2d6 roll. I'll try my best

[01:29:53] Which is what is it to row that help or interfere or apply first aid?

[01:29:59] I know apply first aid Jesus. I'm gonna say we got trauma kits in the ambulance. Yeah apply first aid

[01:30:05] Yeah, okay. Do they have some does he have just some straight trauma terms anyway? Hey, yeah

[01:30:11] He's got all he's got everything you would need

[01:30:13] It the the hospital is there in the hospital

[01:30:16] The the ambulance is as rigged out as it could be and not actually just be a moving hospital

[01:30:22] Well, that's a 11 so that's good yeah

[01:30:25] So dr. Frank will probably live he's received a lot of shrapnel damage

[01:30:31] So you're slapping trauma terms giving them the artificial blood

[01:30:36] Who else is gonna help I'm gonna I'm gonna help

[01:30:40] I'll jump in and try to help

[01:30:43] Elaine but not Elena. Okay Craig sister. So I wrote in 11

[01:30:49] nice

[01:30:50] Same

[01:30:52] she was at

[01:30:55] 23 actually she was a

[01:30:59] Probably she was a triple zero she taking a lot of harm to that point

[01:31:04] But you can remove reduce that to 2300 so she'll live but she needs to go to a hospital like right now

[01:31:11] Did it take any kind of role to pace those people? Oh, no, no

[01:31:16] They get in her car and they're leaving and then you fire the missile

[01:31:20] It's gonna cause a lot of collateral damage, but they're definitely dead. Well in that case, I'd like to try to help Hacker man

[01:31:26] Alright

[01:31:28] Yeah, you fire the missile then get out of the the ambulance by time you're in the house and explodes

[01:31:34] It is extremely loud

[01:31:38] Every car alarm in the area goes off the way they didn't for this particular explosion

[01:31:44] You can smell that the street is on fire I

[01:31:48] Temporarily muted my ears. Anyway, it's okay

[01:31:50] That's the right move. Can I transfer my money back? I

[01:31:55] Was about to say

[01:31:57] Like Oh double cross take that money back. Yeah. Yeah, usually there's like a 20-minute

[01:32:04] Not a 22nd pull down yeah 20 minute period you can recall that go ahead so would you say

[01:32:10] Having a tie to someone

[01:32:13] Gives you a plus one forward. I

[01:32:16] Would say that's fair. Yeah, and I'll give him a plus one if I can help well never mind you didn't need it

[01:32:22] Well, that's Banshee oh

[01:32:24] But I'll take that plus one. Yeah, definitely. That's it. That's a 12 to first aid Hacker man

[01:32:29] All right

[01:32:31] nice

[01:32:32] Alright Hacker man will also live but again needs a hospital

[01:32:36] Dr. Frank is unconscious. There's just nothing to do about that. I can put it at the back of the ambulance

[01:32:42] We are going to st. Nicholas. Yeah, let's throw them up in the wee-woo wagon and head on over. That's right. I

[01:32:49] Can get there faster?

[01:32:52] Pull right up into the back. Yeah, I get priority parking

[01:32:58] And someone first aid Craig while we're doing this

[01:33:02] Yeah, all right get him in the back and it's just alright hold here

[01:33:07] This is staple. God is going to probably hurt just a little

[01:33:12] You're talking to probably someone that's unconscious

[01:33:15] Craig's the kind of

[01:33:17] Mean cuss that would probably still be conscious. It doesn't make sense that Elaine is using some kind of gun to kill someone

[01:33:25] All right, give me that damn what you guys are killing it on these stay alive rolls

[01:33:30] Yeah, all right live rolls. Yes the point danger in the first place not so much. No, thank you're down to 2200

[01:33:37] You're gonna be a little high but

[01:33:41] You'll be okay for the moment

[01:33:45] Motherfucker I got this

[01:33:49] He says while on ketamine. Yeah

[01:33:53] You're dropping down that k-hole. Oh, your face is a little droopy

[01:33:58] Come on god damn it dobe

[01:34:02] Going down the empty road

[01:34:05] I

[01:34:06] Like a drifter I was born. So who's picking me up from the hospital?

[01:34:12] We were dropping everyone off at the hospital currently

[01:34:15] You would probably be a nice big fat target at a hospital. Greg. You're not going to a hospital

[01:34:22] No into the hospital, but we're just gonna be putting them in under assumed names

[01:34:27] Mean there's always the vet clinic next to the hospital

[01:34:30] Human

[01:34:33] My sure are

[01:34:35] Still some answer the question who is picking me up

[01:34:40] Elena I would imagine since she's the one who's doing all the work or when you're done in the hospital

[01:34:45] Maybe Banshee because of the car. Yeah. Yeah

[01:34:49] Hey

[01:34:51] I'm sorry

[01:34:52] Yo, that was

[01:34:55] a

[01:34:56] Messed up you really seem to have made an enemy out of this man. What did you do to him? Oh

[01:35:03] Is this the man that you have been tormenting and tormenting and tormenting because he once upon a time worked for side-gen

[01:35:12] That's first put that together. I

[01:35:14] Believe the fifth it seems like if we're gonna continue going after this guy

[01:35:18] We're gonna need to invest in some bomb sniffing ferrets or something

[01:35:22] Yeah, because currently the only thing we've been doing is playing on the defensive so here's here's the thing

[01:35:29] Everybody else needs to be hospitalized as Craig is a PC. He's pretty fucked up, but he's still mobile

[01:35:37] So they're gonna take a look at him and be like, yeah, okay, he's got a couple fractures

[01:35:40] We're gonna put his arm and cast you know wrapped his chest for those

[01:35:45] Rib injuries, but otherwise he can leave like this afternoon

[01:35:49] Do you think we should

[01:35:51] Get one of our gang contacts to

[01:35:54] Family visit hacker man and wife to guard them in the hospital

[01:36:00] Like mega mullet is is, you know next is a cousin. He's gonna just hang out something like that

[01:36:06] We do have the backing of the gangs if anybody was gonna start trouble

[01:36:10] I'll say Mecca mullet is actually a pretty good choice because any of the gang members would be good choices

[01:36:15] But especially the leadership because they know this is the shit

[01:36:17] You're not supposed to do like you don't fuck with somebody family. It's it's against the rules

[01:36:22] Just you know have some family visiting to guard them in the hospital whoever it is

[01:36:26] That makes sense. Look I can understand attacking heck of a man because after all heck of a man was

[01:36:33] Working visas as hacker is in his nickname is part of job

[01:36:39] however

[01:36:40] You like however, Elaine

[01:36:42] She she is soccer mom

[01:36:45] She is a non-combatant and should not have been touched

[01:36:49] Everyone knows Elaine should be left alone. I'll make a call to Mecca mullet and set that up have him

[01:36:57] Period have either someone stationed there as a overwatch or him directly

[01:37:03] Julian you got it. You know, this is fucked up. You don't fuck with family

[01:37:07] Don't worry. We got her and him nobody's gonna do a goddamn thing

[01:37:13] Except for the doctors, that's their job, but we'll definitely intimidate the doctors nodded to fucking them up

[01:37:19] Hey, that'll work. Just make sure that you stay out of the stale rooms while they're doing the cutting and fixing

[01:37:25] We've been in this I've been in this rodeo a number of times. How do you think I got this mechanical mullet?

[01:37:31] I've been envious of that since I first met you buddy

[01:37:35] Alright, so I'm gonna say we call it here for tonight. I agree and the assault on Rodney is part two

[01:37:41] Does that seem amenable to everybody? Yeah

[01:37:45] Totally fine. I mean it was a little slow going. Of course, we've been a calendar month or more

[01:37:49] Just scheduling and all that but I mean

[01:37:52] Dude, that's how I give you like this is I didn't expect the person at Chris Badgered

[01:37:58] non-stop

[01:37:59] To be the actual like what at least mouthpiece for the forces moving against us and stuff like that. That was a

[01:38:07] chef's kiss kind of thing

[01:38:09] I

[01:38:10] Kind of expected that Rodney was going to throw something at us, but Jesus Christ. I wasn't expecting that I

[01:38:16] mean

[01:38:18] Little did everybody know that Rodney's been quietly embezzling from all these

[01:38:23] Tiny businesses he's worked for

[01:38:28] Yeah, no like I kind of fucking love it

[01:38:32] I'm gonna work at this Wendy's job just so that I could save up enough creds that I can kill your ass

[01:38:37] I

[01:38:38] Gotta respect that hustle

[01:38:40] Say I actually like the potential of the if maybe if you know, we put our heads together

[01:38:45] We can spin this for Rodney cause the cause the corporate war

[01:38:50] You know, we can scapegoat his ass on into more enough resources into it. You could

[01:38:57] Disgrace former side-gen employee at dot dot dot

[01:39:00] Yeah. Yeah, it's Craig's ultimate revenge

[01:39:04] It's a new story. It's completely false

[01:39:07] Well, we got a deuce plant a bunch of cyber brains on him. Yeah

[01:39:17] Yeah, you really could I mean this is really coming together now but

[01:39:21] It's it's fun man. Thank you all so much. I've enjoyed playing with you all

[01:39:25] You know, I know there's we're in our end game here and we played these characters for

[01:39:31] Over a year or you know those us that did season one as well

[01:39:35] I don't know. It's been really nice man. So this is a good effect. We're building up to a very

[01:39:43] appropriate ending

[01:39:45] I agree. This is a lot of fun like whenever we whenever we're all collectively going I don't know what to do

[01:39:52] Because it's either get someone killed or leave

[01:39:56] You know, you're having a good time. It's that moral quandary

[01:39:59] Yeah, no, it's really fun

[01:40:03] I'm glad everybody's enjoying

[01:40:07] Every minute

[01:40:08] Okay, feel like I feel like it's operation pin things on Rodney and then quietly go off into the night now

[01:40:16] Operation fuck Rodney one last time. That's right

[01:40:21] There's better there's worse things than death. I mean, yeah, I mean you could be Rodney

[01:40:28] It's fixing to be and remember everyone since Joe didn't say no decide what kind of grenade is thematically appropriate to your character

[01:40:35] Yeah

[01:40:38] Renates for everybody. Tell me what grenade it is

[01:40:41] Good night, everybody