Actual Play - The Sprawl -S2 City At War - Episode 4
The Roleplaying Exchange PodcastMarch 01, 2024
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Actual Play - The Sprawl -S2 City At War - Episode 4

The crew has hustled their way into four tickets for the Fracas: two green and two blue. Unfortunately – those colors aren’t just for aesthetics purposes. Blue tickets are VIP passes for the wealthy, granting them a significant advantage compared to the green tickets. Divided by this social divide, the team must strategize to reunite within the Fracas and eliminate their target, Colonel Starling.

GM – Joe
Adam – Banshee
Brownie – Watch
Chris – Craig Sirota
David – Elena Lobacheva
Jeremy – Julian Black

[00:00:00] Hello, you're listening to the Roleplaying Exchange. Tonight's game is The Sprawl. I'm your GM Joe and let's go through the players and their characters in the players alphabetical order. Thank you. Thank you. This is Adam double-checking. Yep. No Aaron in this game. So I am number one.

[00:00:22] Yay, and I will be reprising the Role of Banshee. Banshee has been with me for I guess this is our second season of Sprawl so to speak. Banshee is a playbook the driver and periodically I decide to go into an accent. So

[00:00:41] by original creation she is Irish, but my Irish accent is just it leaves some things to be lacking. So I may spruce it up time and time again because Banshee has been using a few chips and there's some residuals that she's dealing with right now.

[00:00:59] And I guess one less final note Craig could get caught up on this when we get the game up and going, but Banshee's happy that so far we're taking steps to mitigate collateral damage. It seems like

[00:01:12] I think that if we went to Taco Bell or Neo Taco Bell there would probably be a body count. You mean Taco Bandies? Taco. That's right it is canonical. But you know so we're trying to help the

[00:01:26] homeless people out of the sewer so they can have death race, sewer, shark, laser tag? Yeah that sounds about right. Okay well I'm the most dangerous game. Moving right along. All right this is Chris and I'm playing Craig Sarota. I wasn't in the last game.

[00:01:49] I am the reporter playbook and general Roustabout, freelance journalist with a death wish. Well that brings it to me I guess. Hello everybody this is David. I am playing a killer of a killer playbook

[00:02:05] and that is Elena Loboshenko, the woman in white. Elena is thoroughly Canadian according to her passport and has absolutely nothing to do with Russia anymore. And this is Jeremy. I'll be reprising the role of Julian Black, the friendly local fixer and

[00:02:30] hoping to not get completely killed this mission considering last time I got basically my leg blown off. Hoping this one goes better. He's a pig, he gets you new leg. Look barely even squeak. It's much better than last one. I do know when it rains now though.

[00:02:49] Well yeah we put that weather out there before. That's true it beeps and a little satellite comes out. It only detects rain though no other elements of the weather. That's right. He's always raining somewhere in Los Licoros. Yeah it's in the Pacific Northwest.

[00:03:08] All right so you have received your tickets and are ready to go down to get involved in the a real root and toot and shawler and hooten fracas. Fracas time in the sewers beneath Los Ligeros.

[00:03:33] So you'll notice that there's a batch of tickets. None of you are all the tickets are individual. The tickets are also have two different colors. There is a green ticket and there is a blue ticket. Let's see Julian you received a blue ticket. Fanchi received a green ticket.

[00:04:06] Elena received a green ticket. Craig received a blue ticket. I'm going to put that down here. Think I received green or you're typing it thank god. Yeah. You literally just told me I was like uh. Was I supposed to be paying attention?

[00:04:33] By the way Joe my character is colorblind. Well that's going to be real good. I bet it all on gray. Right here and banshee. Joe sort of ever always bet on woman in light. Waits an easy color to see. So uh.

[00:05:03] I'm just gonna like look over at Julian just kind of like pleadingly like tell me what is going on. You guys don't know anything about the colors. You don't know what that means. I don't know what's going on. I just like gotta call it.

[00:05:15] Okay you're gonna tell them in character what's going down. Well Craig we're going to go play with some new toys uh furnished by uh friendly local gun dealers aka corporate gun dealers. There's a Warren Pierce corporation. Yeah of course our friends at Warren Pierce.

[00:05:37] We are currently going to infiltrate as the name on your badge. You are currently known as wizard for reasons. Okay. There's going to be a thing called the fracas underneath I think it's the fracas. That's right. I've heard about fracas before.

[00:05:58] Yeah we're it's this year it's being held in the sewers so we're trying to get all the people out of the sewers so they don't become casualties. I did take care of quite a few of those people early.

[00:06:08] That's right we we cleaned out the old row house that we you know had our last stand in last time. We turned we flipped it and now it is a somewhat nice house that has been cleaned of all the bodies that were in it.

[00:06:24] Most bodies but it's okay the people who are still in there are cleaning the rest of the bodies for us. That's right a little miss sunshine is very good at what she does but to get the blood out of the carpets.

[00:06:39] But yeah it's in the sewers we're trying to get the sewer people out and we also have to kill a Mr. Colonel Brent Starling. We're also at the moment we're trying to make it sound like an

[00:06:51] make it look like an accident by up in the amperage on the bullets that we're using. What actually is going to happen who knows I'm just looking forward to not getting shot.

[00:07:00] So what I think I can do here is I'll start recording as soon as the fracas starts and I'll do everything I can to spin it so it looks like an accident. Oh yeah we did put cameras up like discrete cameras up too that we could ping.

[00:07:17] Yeah you gained access to the cameras installed by Sigen they got a deal to advertise the fracas overseas to high level subscribers. As it is right now I think we're going to try has the primary missions to do to take care of Mr. Starling but the secondary objective

[00:07:42] is I think we were going to party him out to the countries that hate him because he is a very big war criminal. That's right yeah there was definitely a lengthy discussion about how you were going to

[00:07:51] contact the various governments who have bounties on his head and then party parts out to prove that he's dead and receive the funds. Not a bad idea a bit cold-blooded but hey that's life. Hey we're balancing it out by saving sewer people.

[00:08:09] David Joe did a really great job is like talking about this guy and he started talking about all the war crimes and horrible things the man's done but the end of it everybody here even brownie was like yeah this guy's gonna die like.

[00:08:22] Okay I'll cede to your old judgment I wasn't there. That's the general gist of what's going on we'll find out what happens when the rubber hits the road. Okay sounds good I just wanted to be brought in the loop. The chat has the names that we're going by.

[00:08:42] So to begin the fracas you go to the Warren Pierce Casino which is cowboy themed. Oh we had one last piece of intel we were getting off of Dr. Frank about his cybernetics too.

[00:08:56] Oh right Dr. Frank okay so um yeah he's he is a dangerous individual Dr. Frank does get back to his yeah I got some contacts in uh in Eastern Europe and uh you know a lot of those guys

[00:09:12] went and put the stuff in this guy it's uh it's a little antiquated but he's pretty wired chrome everywhere I mean discrete discrete chrome but he's gonna be much stronger than your average human

[00:09:32] much tougher a lot of armor plating um he's got some he's got some claws so getting close uh and he has uh at least one hand deployable gun so he's got a gun in his arm at least one

[00:09:54] arm possibly more okay so that's just all the stuff that we know like he may have had upgrades between now and the time that the intel came in but uh yeah uh that is for that is what is known

[00:10:08] about his upgrades okay he's fairly wealthy uh and he um as such he may have a doctor on staff to put in new stuff he probably frankly based on his record he probably got a little bit of an upgrade

[00:10:26] before he came out here any type of electronic shielding like that would stop the waves uh if it's antiquated that's why i'm curious I mean yeah he's he's still gonna be vulnerable to like EMPs and stuff if that's what you're asking

[00:10:44] about if you're asking about uh like shock rounds they're not really going to affect them unless they're like lethal and then they'll just be a taze okay well thanks doctor so the way to cool

[00:10:59] well we have rounds that we can basically customize from what brownie was doing last time like we we initially said shock rounds but we could basically customize them to whatever we want

[00:11:10] they were not shock rounds as much as shock and awe we we expected to put some magnesium to make them into hyper flares so there's a lot of boom there's a lot of blast and there's a

[00:11:23] lot of bright all at once because everybody is going to be going on low light vision for sewer because it's sewer so we're going to basically overload all of his circuits and if he does not

[00:11:35] have the high grade anti-dazzle he is going to be dazzled is easy enough to go to second round of ammunition as EMP so that we dazzle him and then once he's dazzled then we look him down

[00:11:51] look him down like where your head's at Elena that's why that's the main one of the big reasons we keep you around the other one just because i love your company oh you are so sweet mr black also you're really really good at killing people

[00:12:10] da is what Elena do good to know what you're good at uh all right uh any other unfinished business uh i mean unless less craig has any last minute things that he can do i'd say we're probably

[00:12:31] heading over to the thing yeah we're we're at the our clock's limit i think yeah that's i assumed we were so that's why i didn't say anything yeah let me take yeah like where clock is at 2200

[00:12:42] soon have two more hours left yeah all right so uh i'll get i'll wing it you roll into uh first floor of warren pierce it's a cowboy themed casino uh they're playing the usual trash country music

[00:13:00] not that's not commentary on country music it is a commentary on the type of music they're playing no matter what kind of country you like this is a trash version of it so jason all day got it

[00:13:16] thank you for undoing everything i just said i would know what if it sounds if i was listening to it i just thought of a name keep going um it's very crowded uh you do recognize some people there are

[00:13:31] some high-level executives from various corporations here a whole suite of side gen guys who are babbling excitedly to themselves they're probably running uh rigs so they can uh record the whole thing um a bunch of they uh hassled a bunch of the their influence influencers in um

[00:13:57] um let's say a number of people from uh the other corporations some corporations that are out of towners you don't know them but you can tell by the way people were dressed uh who is here as a

[00:14:15] who's who who is here as a pro those are easily identifiable who are here who's here as uh for fun and who is here uh as a corporate yeah corporate event

[00:14:36] this is their team building exercise next is the trust falls yeah so to uh set the scene just a tiny bit um we know that alina is very obvious when she walks into most places because woman in white

[00:14:51] yeah and um deference to the group and the fact that i am using an alias uh she has switched her monochrome for a different chrome so today she is the woman in red with a garish wig to match

[00:15:07] that makes sense alina i say this in the nicest way possible you look like pipi long stocking who is pipi longstock have i do we have contract on her somebody should probably make an

[00:15:20] assess roll sure i can do that i'll uh i'll see what i can do as well nice that's a 10 uh you get three holds he can ask your three questions is it just one or do i need ten i rolls well

[00:15:38] uh i it's a large crowd i'll let you roll as well okay so i'm trying to pull up my i forgot to pull up my sprawl book that's okay that's a 13 we are accessing fools we are going to get our

[00:15:53] asses shut off later yeah you're like oh no i'm gonna know everything about this place i'm gonna know exactly what's gonna kill me okay so what potential complication do i need to be

[00:16:06] wary of so uh the tickets they strangely align with the wealth level and there's a serious cutoff junior executives they got green mercenaries they got green those streamers over there they got green

[00:16:25] uh vice president of uh biogenetics for weber bachi bachi galupi uh he's got a blue ticket um that corporate team from out of town they all have blue tickets ooh that doesn't seem good those tickets seem real classist

[00:16:52] all right so um i'll just forward that to everyone it's like all right we we got a split up from lana and banshee um because you're less important than us to these people

[00:17:08] and uh you you get the feeling that half of the group the group with the blue tickets know what the deal is and the group of the green tickets don't yeah so uh julian you and i are

[00:17:22] of a better class than these folks so yeah we gotta we gotta play that up yeah let's go mingle uh that means we'll have my like ratty jeans hey man it's a statement tech pros can be uh the most

[00:17:36] ratty-looking people ever yeah that means i guess we need to come in earlier than they do or no you can come in at the same time this was the only differentiator besides obvious other other class indicators also exist but the the only thing everybody has shown up randomly

[00:17:55] so you don't have to worry about you just know that there is a distant uh a difference and it is going to be used during the game somehow okay well we could also just make them make them seem like

[00:18:07] there are bodyguards aka like disposable ah you notice that the people who came in the rich folks who came in with bodyguards or bodyguards also got blue tickets oh well never

[00:18:16] mind it yeah no we've we've gotta play it up like class divide um so where can i gain the most advantage where can you gain the most advantage as outlawed so yeah yeah yeah uh so there's a group

[00:18:39] of uh nano link dudes over there uh they're all obviously cybert up chrome limbs and the whole deal uh and then uh wb's got uh another load of dudes and ladies who are all like ultra muscly

[00:18:58] they do it with jeans instead um it looks like if you had to guess that they're they're running these folks through as a test like hey we're gonna cyber you up you get to keep them but this

[00:19:13] you know we're gonna put you through a live fire exercise which is this the fracas they're going to be extremely dangerous if you don't want to get tagged out but for the end of the match

[00:19:25] you got two groups to hook up with gotcha you might have to pay them but that's all that's all within the rules there's nothing wrong with that as far as the rules go

[00:19:37] of the game all right i think i i think i know how i can play that um and let's see what do i notice despite an effort to conceal it but you notice quite an effort to conceal it

[00:20:00] um there you've been in this casino before it's real trashy and it purports to be low tech you know sort of fitting in with the theme uh but your fucked up cyber eyes uh did pick up a real

[00:20:20] heavy scan cyber um cyber ears picked up a real heavy scan uh you got sudden tinnitus as you went through the the doorway so they're scanning everybody real hard to make sure nobody's

[00:20:36] bringing in any outside materials that they're going to be able to sneak in uh or at least they want to know about it nobody has been stopped and you can be morally certain somebody's got live ammo

[00:20:49] here but they haven't stopped you what they for fucking sure know about it all right um before we eventually break up i will relate that to the crew and also remember you got encrypted

[00:21:05] uh encrypted communications gear and stuff too so true that's all fine yeah did it care well i'm just saying like for our pc for your purposes yeah yeah yeah and i'm always basically record my my uh

[00:21:23] recording software is encrypted in my ears so it's gonna be easier for me to hide it all right julian you should probably ask some questions too uh what's the best way out

[00:21:35] best way out that's sort of context dependent um pine box your best way out on your bank probably gonna be have somebody come in with a boat and get you uh you're gonna be faster than

[00:21:55] basically everybody um some of the sewers are actually surprisingly deep um that is gonna be your best way out of the sewers uh you can see nobody is prepared for instant exfiltration so think nobody is there to to catch you oh you do notice the the colonel

[00:22:24] he's sort of standing in a corner by himself with the two heavy hitters next to him uh colonel starling who is that is by the way okay um let's see who is the biggest threatened situation biggest

[00:22:48] threatened situation is uh the warren pierce hits quads there are regular security guys it seems like at first but a second glance tells you that just the way they're moving their it that's

[00:23:04] somewhat alien it's it's far too smooth um and too quick just a just a tiny bit too quick to be natural and they're carrying a lot of heavy guns and from what you can tell they're ready to deploy

[00:23:24] into the sewers at a moment's notice so if you pull off the hit these are the guys to avoid because they will kill your ass real fast or kill squad and are serious um in fact when you take a

[00:23:41] closer look at their armor it seems like regular sort of military grade kevlar with the ceramic plates but there are clear heavy weapons mounts where can i gain the most advantage gaining the most advantage uh where can you gain the most advantage schmooze some of the mercenaries

[00:24:02] like the individual guys or or gals uh run over them talk them up let them know any information that you know they'll they'll have your back if you can figure

[00:24:16] something out uh and you let them know they're going to repay you because uh this is this is a perfect for them this is their trade show right they're coming out here to show the skills to the

[00:24:32] other attendees so they can get contracts for the next year uh if you can make them look good that is worthwhile they will help you out now they won't get themselves killed or anything

[00:24:46] but they'll help and they'll accept it on its face like they'll they know what the deal is like they know you're helping them for some reason but it does not matter okay yeah they're just

[00:24:57] they're just make it they're just trying to get money that's right all right so i think the smart move here is um you go talk to the mercs i'll try to get in with like the nano link group

[00:25:08] they're going to be higher risk but that's good for us because if they're higher risks then that means there's higher chance that they'll fuck up and we can use that as um smoke screen yep all right any other actions anybody wants to take right at this moment

[00:25:23] well if they're gonna tell me about the uh hey let's at least try to get some of these mercs on our side i'm going to make an assess roll of my own see if i see any former colleagues people that i know

[00:25:38] people to actually say no well let's chat up this one because if we talk to yeah yeah oh man if you fail this roll then you're you found found one that you definitely should not chat up

[00:25:52] it's going to be an enemy an enemy of yours particularly good enough so what are you rolling against there uh let's see that was my edge for the same i think it's assess to find that yeah

[00:26:13] if you get a plus one from craig or i so for the the intel of telling us telling him hey like these are what they're looking for for the mercs and stuff like that yeah that would actually that's

[00:26:23] right that's 10 okay i have found the perfect person for us to talk to all right you're gonna love who this is it's neocrome sleeves is in the crowd oh boy that dude announce so who's neocrome sleeves

[00:26:49] for for those of us i'm not sure definitely not johnny silverhand nice so i'm gonna drop definitely not a chipped up johnny silverhand i am going to um sidle over to where he's at at the bar by him his favorite drink water and just fancy seeing you

[00:27:16] here johnny if that is the name you are going for this time no i'm just it's gonna be neo going by my my regular handle hey elena what the hell are you doing here this isn't your

[00:27:34] normal get up it's not elena today am portia okay portion i gotcha elena would never be called dead in a place like this because after all you know or in pierce and their substandard stuff

[00:27:52] well you're telling me but you gotta advertise somewhere am i right a lot of fucking suits jesus da which is why portion here portion have not necessarily job but portion is going to be very very busy later today would like to suggest to friend neo

[00:28:16] perhaps neo should stay as high as possible avoid the sewers the sewers are going to be a rather nasty place he looks around and he says all right i'm gonna play some white noise

[00:28:34] tell me what the target is i'll stay away from you got it seem reasonable they won't be able to hear us i'm not entirely sure that this colonel is not going to hear us talking he's got

[00:28:48] ears like a shit that guy oh fuck good luck but you think he is stronger than woman invite uh i don't know but i heard some things i don't don't fuck around

[00:29:06] you know what i'm gonna say and now listen also is me have i ever once fucked around no no now you're right you're right but he is very very bad man and has done some very very

[00:29:21] bad things he definitely has nobody here's gonna cry any tears if he gets if he gets cacked right but you know warren pierce they got those kill squats listen do you um you ready to uh do the deed shoot me a message i'll make a big old distraction

[00:29:46] is very sweet of you neo if you do elena will remember all right good because i feel like oh you won yeah we're gonna make that happen okay all right yeah

[00:30:01] i'm gonna be catching in that favor shortly uh so i'll let you know but i'll give you a couple weeks to cool off from the heat you're gonna generate from this shit all right good luck

[00:30:14] claps you on the shoulder drinks his downs his water like it's a shot and bounces he thinks it looks cool but he does think it looks cool but it doesn't it's not cool at all so if

[00:30:25] he have a bit of backup he's good yeah and every little bit will help so the the just the book on neocrim sleeves is that uh he doesn't have any of his own skills um his skill is being willing

[00:30:41] to put his body on the line for everything else he's chipped okay take the chips out he doesn't have anything but if you want a competent job he's perfectly competent the same way a computer

[00:30:58] would be perfectly competent if you gave it very clear instructions okay all right all right with that any other actions banshee needs to do something banshee's kind of looking in the audience i look

[00:31:15] you know walking around understands that she's slummin it a bit and actually kind of gauging the ever uh the impressions of other people looking at the kernel like does it look like he there's

[00:31:29] anyone else gunning for him there does there any long hard stairs kind of whispered conversations hush kind of you know i'm wondering if there's anyone else plotting against him or have beef

[00:31:42] they'd like to settle uh who the kernel yeah against the kernel yeah uh there are stairs but they don't look as they look more surprised than hostile like everybody in the crowd knows who

[00:31:56] this guy is i mean you guys might not have known except for alana and craig probably would know um maybe julie okay but uh in this crowd he is exceedingly well known um as a very effective

[00:32:15] monster uh the mercenaries know what he's done and the risk it would be the the risk there would be to take him on especially here since they would get killed maybe by the kill squads

[00:32:30] uh the the suits are looking at him and considering whether he's come out of retirement and what utility he might be to them for that uh and whether it's worth the reputational risk uh and also the the

[00:32:46] risk of uh escalating any incidents he's involved in because he is the escalator yeah i don't i don't if he ever breaks down he will just be the stairs i don't like escalators i don't

[00:33:04] know what they're up to oh okay hmm well that seemed like my my my action there uh okay uh anything gay after i kind of gauge that if i were gonna make a row it houses the kill squad

[00:33:21] operate how are they in communication possible means to interrupt or delay their responses so um it's gonna be a ss again okay they're gonna have the same sort of you don't have to just guess work you guys are running a pretty quality

[00:33:42] tech net basically uh they're gonna have the same there's probably will be routed through a central central processor if you can get somebody to hack that you could disrupt them not long term like it'll give you like a minute before they manage to switch

[00:34:00] into individual team comms which are going to be on a secondary system and probably will be able to beat the hacker because they're taking this really seriously they don't want to kill their top they don't want to kill their corporate allies they don't want them to get

[00:34:16] killed uh this is a big deal for warn peers like this is their trade show as well where they show off all their new gear and uh it's a reputation thing like they run this fucking thing every time

[00:34:34] this one's bigger and better than the last one specifically because the last one went so poorly so many players got killed they're taking security extra seriously now okay

[00:34:46] if you threw a hacker into that you'd get a minute or two tops and that guy's life would be in literal ass danger well i was gonna say we should uh get my uh brother-in-law we've been never

[00:34:59] mind we've been talking about your brother-in-law this is his last job that's fair yeah we already had it he's the one that got us uh got us the feeds he's tired of this shit well we

[00:35:15] your funerals are awkward so i'll pass along that uh i don't know if i even mentioned the how could we get i mean communication would be monitored going out as well so if we contacted

[00:35:28] i know a guy outside help yeah i don't know but banshee's conscious she's not gonna mention necessarily suggest another hacker for this this is just gonna be a row of the dice

[00:35:43] i can still declare a contract to declare a contact yes i mean he's not going to be the only hacker you know he's just the only one you know who works cheap yeah he's the only one who was married to

[00:35:54] my sister that's right that you know of i mean hey i don't know what she's into yeah who's good for her she's got a type and she's getting it if she's she wants a polycule she can have a

[00:36:08] polycule i don't care all right i see my turn okay with that up uh then i'm gonna take over i'm walking over to the nano link guys all right hey how's everybody doing here today

[00:36:27] uh where are i buddy how are you doing pretty good my name is uh wizard i'm uh the vp of uh media direction over on over at otj it's over inside gen here's my card and i flashed them my

[00:36:43] faked documentation yeah yeah they take it like okay yeah great um wow uh uh you know like there are guys at art this is is this a are you running a scam on us like

[00:36:59] we're competitors yeah i know you are and that's actually what i wanted to talk to you about see uh some some folks over uh in the the ride alongside uh side of our businesses are getting

[00:37:11] a little big for their britches so i thought i would show them a little bit uh a little bit of my own thing hop in on their hop in on their way and uh show them that otj is a little bit

[00:37:22] better than ride along and we're not we're not biased like they are anyone has to help you oh no i want to help you see this is this is this is kind of a back and forth situation

[00:37:36] like you helped me by uh building up my platform i help you by giving you guys a bigger platform yourselves i mean i don't want to tell you how many followers i have on otj hold on let

[00:37:49] me set this up the ladder and he just sort of looks off into the distance you know it's sure what what the fuck sure that sounds like fun yeah i'll encourage hey os and your corporate structure

[00:38:01] great yeah and if you really want to if you really want to have some fun there we can also show you i can you can also do some stunts for otj i'll be able to maximize your platform even more

[00:38:13] do you know who's on our website uh frankly i'm not allowed to look corporate rules well you know how it is yeah well let me just say it's a few of your bosses whoa okay that's

[00:38:29] going to be uh let's let's bring out some fast talk for that shit and convince them to help you because they're actually helping their boss uh this is gonna be a plus one forward because i'm

[00:38:41] using yeah yeah using your information that's right ha nice they will they're gonna cover your ass man like yeah like listen i don't know about any stunts but if you want to see us mow down some

[00:38:54] of these dumb motherfuckers and put it on your platform and make you look good make us look good sounds like fun uh do you want us to take out the uh the ride along crowd first or last

[00:39:08] i'd say last but you're the pro yeah i'd say last like right we we really want to like be able to showcase our footage versus theirs and show how show how our footage is so much better you know

[00:39:19] i got you there's nothing we gotta install right this is all gonna be on your end oh no nothing you gotta install whatsoever all right then we're fucking in the clear my man

[00:39:29] he gives you a fist bump hell yeah we're gonna fuck them up you know that they're gonna use that as advertising copy for the uh the new implants so everybody wins yeah oh yeah no it's great and

[00:39:42] they're definitely not gonna be my patsies now oh no not not at all i guess it's uh i'm up um is there any of the mercs that are kind of i don't know almost standing there looking a little uneasy

[00:39:55] or kind of like off by themselves or anything like that like they haven't really like they don't really have a like a like a solid team the ones who would be in the kitchen at a at a college party

[00:40:06] yeah basically uh mecha mullets there he's looking a little out of place oh no shit he told you he was gonna be in i don't want him to i don't want him to make it i don't want to make him the

[00:40:17] patsy though okay all right yeah uh yeah he knows me hold on let me uh let me generate some names we can remove the name generating oh shit is that gumptoder it's gumptoder is here but she's just watching she's got an invite very exactly where did

[00:40:46] gumptoder get a plunging evening dress like that that slit is all the way up we can see all the way to her stitches yeah i just imagine like kregg and gumptoder see each other from like across the

[00:40:59] hallway across the room and it's like that one it's always sunny until the last thing where like max sees charlie and charlie sees mac they're just like uh look away what are you doing here yeah

[00:41:10] oh no they also have a scheme oh there is a lexy is one of the mercenaries she is here she's a very heavily armed but she's looking a little nervous okay i'll walk up to lexy he's like

[00:41:28] she hold out my hand hi hundred seven or a hundred seven nice to meet you and your name is uh yeah they just call me lexy but my name is lexy why rick she shakes your hands she's got a firm handshake

[00:41:43] is it uh is it miss her hand is a little sweaty uh it's miss okay miss i sorry i didn't want to didn't want to uh didn't want to assume uh hundred seven nice to meet you i can't help

[00:41:53] but notice that you seem a little nervous about all this uh just wanted to come over and see you know this is the first time here like like what's going on you know you're looking nervous great

[00:42:04] well that's what i'm here for like you know i have a team i was just wondering if you were affiliated with anybody just wanted to see if you you know you know i know you all are here trying

[00:42:13] to you know make your bones and and uh you know get some exposure and i have a small team that could potentially you know use an extra if uh if you're feel so inclined you seem you know i have

[00:42:23] an eye for talent so i mean she also has a green ticket uh she says yeah actually you know it the amount of bribes i had to drop to get into this the fucking thing and now i'm looking around at the

[00:42:39] gear these people are carrying i'm feeling like i'm gonna get bounced uh right off the bat so yeah if you if you got a spot i will happily take that spot better in a team

[00:42:52] oh yeah i definitely have a charge um and you know just remember that some people tend to compensate with big fancy toys like you can't you can't uh you can't substitute that with raw talent like

[00:43:03] you know just because you're a little nervous nervous is good nervous keeps you you know keeps you alert you see all these guys walking around looking all you know relaxed like they like they're

[00:43:10] king of the world you know those guys don't know what they're up for like they're walking around with all these fancy equipment you you know i mean that lady over there i mean she's

[00:43:19] wearing red but if i didn't know better i'd say she was the goddamn lady in white i mean looks can be deceiving like you know maybe maybe she's that like she looks like she knows what she's doing and i feel

[00:43:32] like i'm at a high school dance uh so you know well i mean funny that let me you would you like an introduction like uh you know i could i can uh she on your team i mean uh she may or

[00:43:46] may not be you know depending on how this interaction goes uh yeah i'll take an introduction okay i'm gonna walk over and be like Porsche Porsche this is uh this is my new friend uh Lexi uh Lexi

[00:43:58] this is Porsche uh you know we're we're looking for uh looking for an extra spot on the team so you know i figure you know i figured if you guys can get all acquainted and talk some shop you

[00:44:08] know i'm uh i'm not that i'm not the guy that's good at this type of stuff and you are so uh i'll leave you to be Porsche it's nice to meet you uh you look like you've been at these things before

[00:44:20] actually is my first time competing oh my god how do you look so confident i don't understand it oh this is work it's just work nothing personal with any of the shots it's just business i mean i

[00:44:35] can already tell you oh oh you haven't done this before have you you've now it's this is my 100 first time okay let me show you the ropes so you see those two over there they are walking around

[00:44:49] with those holsters on their hips they're over compensating they're trying to make up with swagger what they lack in professionalism those two over there nice you see those two guys that look like gorillas in suits that's because they actually have gorilla DNA injected they're

[00:45:07] still getting used to it you throw a banana that way they're going to look at your funny and they're going to realize that it is the insult bartender they salivate it's the funniest thing ever

[00:45:18] bartender would you be so kindest to get two banana margaritas for my friends over there tell them that Porsche said uh yeah yeah no problem no problem ladies get right over and that's the thing you find

[00:45:33] out and they're like look at them they're drooling it's the pet uh look at all these plebs and i just walk away see that is the thing you figure out who does not belong here and you figure out who

[00:45:46] has the small fish and then it's up to you to just realize which sharks you need to avoid you see those gorillas they are not going to be a problem by end of day okay they are going

[00:45:59] to stumble into the wrong path and then they are going to be medivac if are lucky those two okay those two van the big cowboys they're literally in cowboy gear with with old six-shooter single

[00:46:20] actions they've said yee-ha several times they aren't american they call themselves the root and tootin cowboy shooting crew yeah so of course they're going to be at the root and tootin fracas they are going to be dead by dawn i thought nobody was allowed to get killed

[00:46:41] they are going to shoot their own heads off by accident everybody here is going to avoid them because they are going to be dead by dawn i believe in these things you can spot the cool

[00:46:56] professional from a distance you see that man over there the one that is just watching almost like a lighthouse he just stands and surveys and anytime somebody gets too close he

[00:47:11] just simply steps aside he is doing everything in his power to pull punches not his man to avoid okay Porsche used to date ah okay that makes a lot of sense uh boy i'm glad i'm glad julien

[00:47:33] or whatever god hunter i'm glad hunter got in touch with me i i feel a lot better with you around he's okay you just shoot when Elena tells you to shoot and duck when Elena tells you to duck you'll

[00:47:47] be fine i'm in the background give me the head look i'm a cowboy yee haw turn that back know your place and i put the cowboy hat on and walk away we're gonna see you later later

[00:48:08] remember the greens don't know the difference between the blues and the greens but the blues do know that's right and that is hilarious hey mr wizard look i'm a cowboy i will be playing the uh role of obnoxious twitter troll tonight just so you all know

[00:48:27] all right stretch just all right with that uh a man climbs up on top of the bar and says shawty there's uh some fireworks shoot off behind him uh if you're anyone who's close to the bar can

[00:48:51] see behind him two bartenders almost lighting their hairs on fire shooting roman candles behind him johnny nitro is wearing a combination of uh rough lord cowboy gear and uh uh fourth of july memorabilia i'm glad i have this hat on welcome to the

[00:49:15] bracket so now there's more fireworks go off a little bit of the ceiling goes on fire you know there's a sprinkler's spray fire suppressing on it there's some scattered clapping now i got a special treat for you fellas and lingonese and indeterminate folks uh

[00:49:40] tonight's gonna be recorded and uh certain special fellow people out across the world we'll be watching your performances now remember you're here to test and experiment and have a good time warren pierce is newest gadgets don't be shy unless you're killing somebody then be very shy

[00:50:08] no no killing no killing anyone in the contest don't do that everybody else fair game we don't give a shit you're in the contest no murder now i understand there are some teams that spot however

[00:50:27] anyone with a green ticket must enter the sewers first uh you can see at the end of the room there is a stairwell down our very helpful guide to guide you into the sewers from the bottom

[00:50:38] of this building once there wait you'll tell you when to proceed everyone with blue tickets remain here now this is going to be the hottest show you've ever been at i see a bunch of veterans

[00:50:54] out here no practice is going to be like this practice we got a lot of surprises we got a lot of new faces some i'm very excited to see and uh i know that we are all gonna have a great time

[00:51:09] now if you're ready let's get started green ticket holders to the basement green ticket holders please so everybody's got a green ticket the ticket lights up like outback steakhouse or table tree they start buzzing a little bit

[00:51:32] it looks like we are going to be eating a blooming onion and the uh the very heavily armed kill squad guards i'll show you guys to the basement i introduce myself so uh you can

[00:51:48] once you're down there uh you go down through uh stairwell basically looks like a firescape into the basement or into the basement pass the basement into the sewers you notice that uh there are guards at the doors that exit on any floor that is not the sewer

[00:52:06] and you also notice that the sewer door uh has a wide range scanner and a uh a vulcan machine gun guarding it and it you know roams back and forth it's pretty heavily secured as you pass through this one's for free there are some laser emitters

[00:52:30] uh so if they are activated that would be bad to be in so it's just basically a warning that if you try and use this door to get into war on pierce tonight or some other time it's pretty heavily

[00:52:43] secured okay once down there you're all kind of milling around stinks to hell um this is this is a pretty tall sewer um it's a big vaults you came out of a door in the wall of one of the

[00:53:00] vaults there is a river of literal sewage in the center but the the tops of the building are probably two three stories above you a bunch of the other green ticket holders ask the guards what the hell they're supposed to do guard shrug there's some complaints and confusion

[00:53:22] but nobody takes any action yet unless you guys do checking the safeties making sure that they are set to off right looking at lexie eyeballing her guns the same way Delilah's chun bubblegum and bloodline bubbles big loud pop uh lexie is copying exactly what

[00:53:49] ever elena does oh you have it's like into the spider verse um yeah you've got an impromptu protege meanwhile with all the blue ticket holders janny nitro steps off the bar and says

[00:54:10] folks when i said we got some real surprises i was serious and there is full god blue tickets this is not usual practice for those of you who are new typically uh fracas is not

[00:54:24] an equal moist players but tonight hour for the fracas if it's not over and trust me if it's over by hour four that'll be the fastest on right the green ticket holders are now open game they

[00:54:41] may be shocked with live ammunition i immediately send that to the other crew with our crit through our encrypted channel good uh we are going to provide you with live ammo do not load it into your guns

[00:54:56] for hour four if you're found with live ammo you will be killed we'll make any apologies required to your corporation uh you guys know that that isn't true what they'll do is if

[00:55:09] you're rich enough or important enough they'll just put you aside and ban you uh but uh do not shoot each other only green ticket holders of course anyone who is not a participant in the game

[00:55:21] is uh free to be shot killed however we wish um we had the service cleaned out wink and no one is supposed to be there we have friends of them from the city uh they are would be trespassers

[00:55:37] and of course trespassers may be shot now friends i'm gonna be up here i'm gonna be announcing we're going to be hopping from feet to feet side gen has any nods at the side gen executives has graciously

[00:55:50] provided us with the full silver coverage um so make yourselves look good have a good time and enjoy our technology we honestly want some honest reviews some of these guns got a little

[00:56:06] craziness uh you don't have to use them but if you use the guns give us an honest review would or bad we'll look at it as a marker in your fate all right you may now go with the basement

[00:56:22] you don't need guys you don't need guys and then the rest of you file into the basement and down into down the uh down the stairs and into the sewer at the rest of them so i've

[00:56:39] presumed the nano leak link crew i hooked up with were uh blue say that again i presume the nano link crew i hooked up with were blue tickets yeah they're blue tickets okay perfect this is gonna end well

[00:56:57] so obviously we need to kill the major or a colonel colonel we need to kill the colonel before the hour four mark to cause a huge problem and bounce or do something to where we can spike

[00:57:14] it until the point like if we have what we have the the like the the special rounds that watch made if we could do something that would we could hit him with make it feel like it's a

[00:57:26] like it's a normal round and then like have an injector on it to where it it pops at a certain time god i wish we had watch here because we could try to get them to spike uh to hijack the

[00:57:36] colonel's ticket to make it look like a green ticket oh yeah looks like we're going to have to go with plan v what's plan v very destructive victory violent so in violence yes so i figure that as

[00:57:56] soon as the bell dings um we or we see the countdown as it's working its way down just i'm gonna look around at all of the other bank or all of the other

[00:58:09] green ticket holders just how do you gentlemen and ladies feel about bank or cruels oh wait we we also had um sorry we also had uh coverings for a face too yeah no fun shoot till can hits floor just heading into lexie all right and it's

[00:58:35] toss that up at second five uh thank you listen i look uh i know you're more experienced than me but i got a real bad feeling suddenly i feel like this is this is a bad place to be

[00:58:50] and that feeling is usually not wrong uh so just let's just stick together and we'll be okay right right no throw can uh she shoots it oh no throw can once it hits like ground that's when they start

[00:59:12] shooting oh yeah she throws the can while it is in the air at the top of its arc pull guns unload on everybody who is stupid enough to be right here can i assist in that just we're spraying

[00:59:29] everybody nice okay we're playing a little kick the can boys okay so yeah um shit uh craig julian well craig you're you're off with your nano link dudes uh you're not where Elena and Vancey are

[00:59:51] and then suddenly a burst of gunfire erupts and like so there are about a thousand people down here and 50 of them go down immediately so uh yeah yeah Jesus okay

[01:00:16] tell me how you want that to go exactly oh that's clearly mixing it up that is um as i said throw can right and everybody falls down and then the can just ding ding

[01:00:35] uh yeah so everyone scatters after that they all race off and run for cover uh everyone who saw that suddenly gets the same ideas now it's an open firefight or uh uh Vancey Papagets were gun drowned

[01:00:49] by the way oh shit now we throw or reach over to one of the guys that's on the ground and while Lexi is sitting there going ah yeah she's she's rolled somebody on top of her

[01:01:07] she's hit the dirt and is using one of the knocked out still spazzing fellows as protection i'm just gonna reach down pull one of the green tickets snap it

[01:01:18] and drop it on top of that guy and just Medevac is going to be here stack the bodies right there so that they can fight them the at least we get non-combatants out of the way because if anybody

[01:01:28] is stupid enough to fall for that old saw they deserve to be shot i thought you're gonna say stack them up to use them as a cover i mean little a little b uh yeah she's like okay so she

[01:01:43] she slings this guy over her shoulders and then takes a belt off and ties his hands like in a loop around her neck to use them as a human shield and she starts stacking the bodies um the nano link

[01:02:00] guys as soon as that starts happening craig they immediately also start shooting people around them so fine by me uh yeah so it clears out pretty fast um that is idea for our one our one we are

[01:02:20] going to spend shooting everybody that we can with these less than lethal varin pierce rounds so that they drop and they can be evoked everybody that we shoot now is somebody who is not going

[01:02:32] to be shot later oh okay who's gonna get shot later what what about our two or three like what's going on here our two and our three we are going to be going to work but for now oh shit oh fuck you're

[01:02:52] on a different job ultra violence lexie your look at me look at me look at Elena lexie okay okay yes all right focus focus we are doing the job and the job is ultra violence you'll see anyone

[01:03:12] who is not with Elena you'll shoot okay yes i do want to point out you're just dropping your name now yes she knows who you are now sick okay so i wasn't wrong all right okay uh

[01:03:31] joe i got a quick question sure so if a man were or a woman in my case were to like you know to start picking up all the spare rounds of the the electro ones i wonder if what kind of row one would make

[01:03:47] to take all the small electrical charge rounds and make them into a big electrical charge bomb so uh the problem with that is there's still bullets right um you'd have to take the shells off

[01:04:02] and then knock the gunpowder out uh the charge bit is the top of the bullet it's basically the plastic shell that when it strikes uh it initiates you know a small power cell small but

[01:04:15] powerful power cell uh that sends shoots voltage through your body so it's basically got a nycad ion reactor on the front of it yeah basically yeah so okay so um now you could make a shrapnel bomb

[01:04:31] out of that where it just fires these whole shock bullets yeah um but that would just basically be some glue in a regular grenade you know what i was kind of thinking if if a person took a bunch

[01:04:46] it could lay a trap then basically you have all those rounds and then if you had some way to ignite it it's not like when i asked my neighbor found out when you hit a bullet with flames like it

[01:05:03] explodes out from the side it's not the it's not the you know the slug that's going it's the hull that explodes off of it right so yeah you know the one that's made of brass

[01:05:16] it went through his leg i'm not surprised he did it with a blow torch a lot of a lot of dumb asses out there man yeah he's on a subscriber it's okay i mean i'd be surprised

[01:05:33] passionate about three or two things blow torches and actual play podcast that's right i'm always on the lookout for a new one okay well i mean if i can in i'll i'll try to work on my shrapnel

[01:05:47] grenade it's at least something that's working so you know walking over a lane is dead and just dropping them into a bag yeah so uh i would say is that a research or mind i guess i have a negative

[01:06:04] to that but i'm just gonna say mind okay so it's gonna be how can i make this adhere to another explosive device all right such that it does what i want it to well that would

[01:06:16] have been a negative six with my i mean not negative six i didn't roll negative numbers so six i just have a bag full bullets and no idea what to do with them that's a base yeah you can't figure it out

[01:06:27] it's like i don't know how to make this work you get a bag full of loose bullets i just beat it's like a sock for rocks i'll just beat the buck i mean i guess if you hit somebody with the bag it might go off

[01:06:42] four row for that later okay thank you all right now to more serious players all right so um all right um is julian uh in the sewers with us or is he up top

[01:06:57] he's in the sewers with you guys uh the nano link team has already taken off they're making sure you're in the center they're guarding you like you're a vip yeah um i'm gonna like

[01:07:07] try to coordinate them in one direction i was gonna say juli wasn't planning on being in the sewers so this is new to him oh i'm sorry you have to be you're really game my man oh shit uh

[01:07:22] well all right then good thing you're the fixer and you can see some some boys who owe you money i'm sure there's something you can find a crew that's kind of your job that's your super

[01:07:33] power that is true well my first uh my first instinct is uh see if i can find some people that were that were shocked and see if i can strip of strip them of some armor and some weapons

[01:07:42] because i have neither you definitely can but you don't want to hang around the entrance for too long oh no so uh i will say this julian you do have one item of value you can use to hire a crew

[01:08:00] impromptu the target if you say i'll cut you in on the part out and you can positively identify that this guy's here then you're gonna get a lot of takers um have you called in a contact yet

[01:08:18] uh i i believe yes but you get two uh yeah you're right i do so maybe you see somebody it's like oh hey it's that guy hey come here yeah i guess uh what's what's uh try and make that happen

[01:08:35] then all right what's this dude's name or lady's name um or anything or non-binary pal's name um i get a name generator i could come up with something uh let's just call him 100k 100k 100k thompson yeah 100k thompson all right 100k rolls up

[01:09:01] oh mr red what the hell are you doing in these sewers oh you know i'm just uh just down here you know working working my way trying to make some money you know i i work and here i thought you

[01:09:14] would made it big and you end told your pal 100k i mean i did and i was standing here i figured i just watched the show but you know uh you know strange things happen and all of a sudden you

[01:09:25] end up in a sewers like uh like the normal people but you know sometimes you gotta uh gotta break some eggs to make some omelets you know you gotta make chicken salad chicken shit so

[01:09:34] you know here we are mr red you gotta read those contracts they told you you were gonna be on the game jeez yeah well i had people to read those for me and you know those people will be fired

[01:09:42] soon as soon as i get out of this stinky ass pit i think that's a good move so speaking of uh you know i will have i'll be having some openings here soon because i'm about to fire some people so uh

[01:09:55] how about uh how about being a part of my crew you know i got a little bit of a team here uh you know or trying to uh assemble a little bit of a team here now that i'm kind of in a pinch uh

[01:10:06] you know kind of uh trying to work my way towards a man that's uh roughly associated with a bird name uh you know with starling so um all right so your crew is i don't know her

[01:10:20] that looks like uh alina luba chava in disguise now that's portia that's uh that's some lost long cousin you know we don't ask questions about these things now do we hunt you're right my apologies mr red we don't ask questions about these things yes

[01:10:37] portia happy to meet you whatever your name is and miss happy to meet you if uh if your partner here is uh who i think she might be and uh i'm here and mr red's here this is going to be a hell of an

[01:10:54] apprenticeship for you it will be a hell of a party that's uh that's that's miss one that's mr uh that's miss portia and then that is over there is um uh delilah miss miss lex or miss uh

[01:11:08] miss lexie lexie is who he was talking to yeah uh and of course we have uh yeah you're not a gun hand that's uh that over there is hey there delilah you know we'll just we'll just go from there

[01:11:23] they call me delilah right because i should do samsung made him cut his hair that's a terrible joke that joke's awful 100k knows 100k jokes better than that wow hey i don't pay her to be i don't pay her to

[01:11:39] be a comedian but you know every once in a while can i can i know what you do pay her for me or no no we don't ask questions now do we do we hunt you got me again you got me again

[01:11:50] damn mr red all right it's gonna be a fun one let's go let's do it i don't know what we're doing but we're doing it well you just uh you just follow miss uh miss portia's lead and uh we

[01:11:59] won't steal your own all right give me a roll because you still really get this guy to do the thing oh all right don't have any bonuses by anything otherwise just straight style uh you still have

[01:12:12] your bonus for you're gonna have craig's bonus for eyeball and the mercenaries okay good good go good god oh that's 11 nice all right could we say 100k's uh mercenary philosophy is

[01:12:29] technology oriented because i have a way we could use yeah yeah yeah 100k loves tech all right so keep in mind we have a we have we're under heavy surveillance right now like i'm patching this into

[01:12:43] julian as i see what he's doing we're under heavy surveillance right now so what we need to do is knock out their surveillance for a little bit when we get to the kernel and that's when things

[01:12:52] will need to pop off thank you buddy can do that hey hundred you're still good with them uh them a little little motion thing or the uh the technologies the uh they're making sure that things don't see

[01:13:03] things that you shouldn't see it's all part of 100k service mr red you know this that's true that's true that's why you're the best now i will say this yep if i recall correctly this is

[01:13:15] looped into hacker man's access to the side in cameras you have a two and you can briefly shut them down now what 100k would provide he can either do that then locally uh it's gonna give basically

[01:13:29] give you two opportunities to shut the cameras down okay if 100k survives doesn't doesn't shot that's up to him like deferment of blame hey joe all right so yes i'll go ahead i'm sorry i was like would it be too big of a role for me to

[01:13:54] throw out um that i'm trying to position the car in our general area like slowly you know for quick escape or you know something else creative um no uh what that is going to mean is while you're

[01:14:10] moving the car while you're operating the car you're not going to be able to do much down here uh because it's a heavy load it's you don't have to roll for it you can just do it

[01:14:19] it's just a heavy cognitive load because your brain has to be like okay we're here and above the surface using the cars like radar and light are you know where the car is so you can

[01:14:33] make sure the car is around where you're at at all times okay not any time you can stop doing that but if you do and then you have to like make a run for it you're not going to be able to get the

[01:14:45] car to move to where you're at until later okay well i've got how about this and and i'm sorry to interrupt you earlier just kind of occurred to me uh since we already kind of have a map and

[01:14:57] lay out of the place anyway i would say that i have it several blocks or whatever down the street right now at least i would have to stop what i'm doing to navigate the car here obviously but i

[01:15:11] at this point maybe i have it remotely close or close ish maybe i don't know i don't want to i mean you could what you can say is you go to a place do send the car there like the car

[01:15:24] can drive itself sort of so you're not pushing it too hard okay that's not good we also have the boat too don't we well yeah the boat but he doesn't have brain control over the boat okay okay that's cool

[01:15:39] anyway please continue with the same i interrupt i apologize that's all right no those are pertinent questions so uh craig to guide the nano link team in a direction you want um

[01:15:56] the first thing somebody needs to do uh this is going to be like one of their dedicated things on either side it's going to be identifying where the kernel is at any time uh while you're doing

[01:16:09] that you take no further actions because again you're switching through camera feeds to find this guy you know what he looks like but you're not like ultra familiar with his face right and i was kind

[01:16:21] of thrown in here last minute anyways um if you're going to guide your your folks that way you would want to use probably fast talk would work may i do one of my uh reporter roles since

[01:16:36] i wasn't here for the first session absolutely okay so what i'm thinking is i'm just going to go full on gonzo journalist with this okay i mean that's kind of what they're expecting yeah so um i'm gonna

[01:16:48] roll nose for a story i've never once succeeded at that role that's unfortunate you never have a nose for the story i they threw me in at the last goddamn moment okay you're like i never i did

[01:17:03] crap i'm ready all right um i will uh try to go for uh research as my um i'll use my mind ability to just like look through uh yeah run through all this stuff yeah but hey i'm supposed to be there um

[01:17:22] i'm supposed to be their uh hide value target anyway so that's right they can protect me yeah so they're gonna go kill dudes in real cool ways uh expect you to record it right hey um let's head down this way there's gonna be a real interesting there's some

[01:17:41] real interesting tech over here that'll work really well with your nano stuff all right well let's do it so is that for research yeah that was my research okay so

[01:17:51] you have do you want to ask one of those questions sure um where would i find the kernel yeah uh so he's further along he's in uh he's already made his way to the old sewers which is fucking fast uh

[01:18:08] all right um i'll ping in the private our private chat where he is right then right i'm like i'm guiding them through this route and like i'll make like a little like stick drawing like of which

[01:18:21] way direction i'm directing the guys in the sewers okay i need you to cut them off somewhere if you guys have a full map uh and you know what to do i gotta cut them off there's a number of routes

[01:18:35] to do that uh banshee is probably a move for you uh act under pressure so what you're looking to do is get everybody there without getting shot i imagine um because one shot one hit like if you

[01:18:50] guys get hit with a bullet you're down yeah okay that sounds good so i get a plus two on that no other bonuses i imagine i don't know i craig you also have one intel sweet all right so plus i guess

[01:19:06] i just had the plus two in with the forward don't know yeah okay ten nice so is that a completers had a mixed oh it's complete okay so yeah this is what he pays me for

[01:19:25] and then you know ducking and weaving uh yeah right sees muzzle and flash signals people to go forward follows up you know kind of stuff like that so alana um i'm gonna make you make one mix

[01:19:46] it up roll this is going to be to shoot people on your way uh if you succeed besides whatever yeah besides uh whatever other results it will be it'll be uh protecting you'll have protected

[01:20:07] one of the party from being shot if you fail that somebody gets taken out immediately on on the way to the the assassination well wow hey the dice guy's coming through

[01:20:19] stay down if you want to leave yeah so uh at one point uh lexie is shooting down a corridor after a flink guy she gets him she does a fist pump she's about to get winged

[01:20:36] yeah yeah show for one hand gary casually just down the other hallway all right you catch three of them um it's like oh Jesus oh my god 100 k is doing his job um it's a k boss we want these cameras up or

[01:20:56] what uh we'll give you the signal you got it i think casually just tosses uh mpmp down a hallway down a yeah a hallway when you come to an intersection just hear a boom and then there are a bunch of sparks it's everybody's cyberware down there is fried

[01:21:20] this is really cruel i i really shouldn't be doing this i'm all cybered up myself god i'd almost die that would suck huh that too bad i mean sucks for them they should have been

[01:21:34] they should have been uh duck here boss he puts you down and plays somebody in front of you all right good looking out all right let's keep moving thanks bub pat him on the shoulder let's keep going

[01:21:47] all right i'm fake recording the nanolink folks i mean you could be real recording it like if you want like this is a story i am real recording it too like i'm going to use it it's

[01:21:59] just uh not the way they expect yeah i'm just i'll send them links of like their coolest bits their coolest right this is all stuff that's gonna get cut um depends it really depends on how the

[01:22:13] job goes i could make them look like martyrs yeah yeah all right so uh you come across your first roadblock uh it's a tea corridor here and uh you can see down it uh they have a group has

[01:22:36] what they've done what was suggested earlier which is uh were semi-suggested uh taken a bunch of the disabled people and stacked them up to create a barrier and cover for themselves so

[01:22:52] your nanolink guy's like uh yeah we could break it but you know we'd have to use real munitions i don't think we want to do that i don't i don't want to tag him with any kill squads at least

[01:23:07] not this early i have an idea that could look really good on the feed okay late on me man how much do you know about roman legions uh only what they taught us in high school like uh

[01:23:26] you know tough guys deal armor turtles they're really good at thing called a phalanx which is when you get into a t position everyone together and just rush forward as fast as possible the

[01:23:37] person at the front gets as much forward momentum behind him and just breaks through the wall can't give me a give me a roll for that complete work it don't it's such a

[01:23:52] it's so fucking long what you're gonna do is you're gonna put your head down you're just gonna run straight at him that's right it works every time they'll never expect it all right that's

[01:24:01] a fast talk that is definitely a fast talk i'm just trying to see if i have any uh things i can use help with that uh you could spend your intel i feel like i'm gonna need that later okay

[01:24:23] like i'm pretty sure that's exactly what they didn't do i'm almost certain they didn't do that are you trying to make us look like fools man come on no man it would just it would look fucking

[01:24:35] badass i mean it would look badass so that we get obliterated no thank you look we're just gonna have to go around man i'm sorry maybe we can hit him in the flank all right look cool my man jeez

[01:24:49] hey man you're not a tactician it's not your fault it's not your fault there's a reason i'm there's a reason i work in marketing let's put it that way i get you i get yeah all right pal um

[01:25:00] i'll just read oh i'll reach back to the others in the private chat it's like all right i'm rerouting um and i guess i'll do another research role to make sure i have uh the current position down

[01:25:13] yeah because uh this means you're not going to be able to catch him in time to pin him there against the pencer yeah like i'm gonna have to reroute we're gonna have to find a different

[01:25:21] pencer point all right okay so i want to have to reroute yeah move to location b yeah so you found another place uh he is he's found um a little bit of a sniper perch it looks like

[01:25:45] they reconstructed the sewers here but didn't remove all the sewers above just cut holes so that the waste material can fall down to the newer expanded sections he's hiding up there picking people off as they come by he's working on that sponsorship from coman for camping supplies

[01:26:01] okay so change of plans see if you can get your buddy 100 k to uh try to blow a camera behind him to distract him then we can set off the pencer movement they'll do whenever we get near it i'll uh i'll

[01:26:17] spring the trap lexie elena have very important job for you yeah pick that guy up uh you you got it boss uh picking this guy up she picks him up carry him with okay then then what elena will

[01:26:42] explain the rest when we arrive i'm gonna check the guy's credentials like all right did we grab an actual bad guy please tell me we grabbed actual bad guy uh he's not a good guy

[01:26:58] that means that this is going to hurt just as much it's okay it's fine all right mr k this is what we was what we're gonna do when i give you the signal i'm gonna have you

[01:27:09] blow a camera i'm gonna point out i don't want you to do it okay um you're making your way there you also come into a roadblock now what you run into is it uh those two cowboys

[01:27:27] of course i like the root and toot and shut cowboy shooting crew yeah and they're shooting at you and they're shooting six shooters but they're not uh pistols they're grenade launchers

[01:27:38] oh uh they have not been they have not been uh they haven't been banned yet because nobody's died yet they'll definitely get banned but uh and probably killed when they kill somebody but uh

[01:27:58] it looks like they want to kill you first can i do in this case buddy hey how about this yeah a lot of yaws we're coming for you son we're coming can i do an assist to see uh like the best place for elaine to shoot

[01:28:19] oh absolutely all right full auto full auto that's good they're ducking out of the way but the thing about a grenade launcher is you don't need an exact hit so they can just shoot

[01:28:31] they're just kind of like peeking around the corner and pulling the trigger that is a nine all right let's take a look at the s s so he's like bring up the range one hold

[01:28:45] all right ask one of them questions um where can i gain the most advantage uh if you use a map you can flog them you can flank them i should say uh you could technically

[01:29:06] there's not great coverage here especially if the explosions you could climb up out of the sewers and then drop down behind them i'm relaying all this to elaine because i am not a sewer shark more of a street shark that's right it's okay don't worry elaine i have

[01:29:27] so i'm just gonna wait until they fired number five right and then i'm gonna pop up and take them out when they're aiming for number six okay uh mix it up well wow damn that'll do it

[01:29:41] yeah it was exactly as planned flanking is for people who met them i'm gonna walk up i'm going to take their six shooters i'm going to squeeze them in my metal hands

[01:29:54] and i'm just going to drop the ruined weapons let's see take uh we could use those take their pants and no we are not going to use the vibrant pants okay what are we doing the pants i'll tell

[01:30:11] you when to drop but for now and she pick up grenades we do not use grenade launchers for grenades we don't have to have launchers we've got launchers we've got elaine come on let's go

[01:30:22] all right you've got some tubular grenades don't drop them on the nose they're always live so you're just gonna like throw football throw grenades at the kernel well there it could be the bag full of shock rails or it's just going to drop the grenade place the grenades

[01:30:42] gingerly in the bag full of shock rounds swinging over his head then throw that threat and hope something goes okay drop it all in whirl it around like a sling and then just fling it and

[01:30:54] then we might sometimes happen we may not be able to part much out but i mean it's like survive we've got more pieces to work i'm gonna walk over to one of them that's that's currently

[01:31:07] in like shocked and be like yee haw cowboy and i put the hat on or put his hat over its face and walk off oh no i would have justified and took it taking his hat i'm gonna take the other one's hat

[01:31:17] the one that i haven't been wearing all right it's good luck mr red i like it thank you as it's hard work employing the right people but you know what whenever i find the right people they're the best

[01:31:29] when we make at 100 when we make at 100 yards away we hug those pants down different alleyways different side tunnels they'll find their pants eventually or they'll walk out with their hands covering their beats either way they learn better than to shoot grenades at

[01:31:48] alena and trust us we got they got off better than getting killed by a kill squad so that's a win in the ring that's one in the wind column yeah so far all right so craig you and your squad reaches

[01:32:08] the kill station or the his little perch um you're coming up from behind uh julian you and your uh higher links uh show up uh in front of it now uh the the nano link fellows are going to be within his scope

[01:32:32] range as a matter of fact one gets taken out as soon as you guys step around a court pardon me a corner and he goes down immediately the rest of them fall back god we got a sniper up there

[01:32:44] all right i think i think i can help out help out with this guys watch this okay julian do you think all right hey uh hundred k you see that's a little black box behind the

[01:32:56] the uh man in the perch there do you mind uh making that little party favor for me uh you got it hold on let me just send this little drone out and we'll drone pops out of his arm

[01:33:07] flies off all right lexie is very important you have that gun i told you to pick up yeah talking these grenades into his pocket okay okay and when i say three you are going to

[01:33:22] the can oh god all right oh Jesus this guy's gonna die only if he gets shot by sniper there's a sniper up there he's gonna get shot by him then that's when you hear just a three all right

[01:33:45] she throws it yeah the cameras go off she chucks it he sees it blasts guy explodes he falls out of the perch and now it's go time uh i contact my

[01:34:01] brother-in-law and say hey do whatever they told you to do uh craig you woke up all right you got it all the kit all the camera systems go down they're all down and now we take the kernel

[01:34:16] all right boys cameras are off you can do whatever you want here well shit son it's time for some murdering craig make sure you're recording because we need uh we need this for uh you know

[01:34:30] busterity i am live and on the air all right sleep okay do it uh they're gonna roll on up now craig you don't have any tactical abilities and you got um five out of six of a brand new

[01:34:49] nano link cyber up uh they're not a kill squad exactly but they're close you're recording um which means i'm also safe because i yeah you're safe right yeah you're you're peeking away around the corner they roll up on this guy he gets up from being exploded out

[01:35:10] of a sniper's perch it was probably 20 feet up like he rolled out of bed um blasts one blasts the second one they scramble one dives into the sewage he gets gotten anyway um he's mowing these nano link dudes down like it's nobody's business

[01:35:33] that's why they're distractions oh they are distracted yeah all right alaina uh he is distracted okay so does that give me a bonus to my role i would say so yes i'll give you a plus one at least

[01:35:50] all right so let's roll with that plus one forward and survey says show me potato salad Jesus get fucked all right fucking describe it man like how does it go down okay so while he is

[01:36:07] down and shooting at all of those guys i'm just going to casually walk up close make sure that i've got the bead i'm just going to fire emp round emp round emp round emp round directly into the

[01:36:21] small of his back yeah uh you hit him and he twitches and he starts the turn and you hit him again and again and again and he's slowing down and there are active sparks of electricity uh

[01:36:35] arcing onto all of his limbs and then he sees you and then just falls over face half in the sewage um he's still alive because you can see him staring daggers at you his eyes are still open

[01:36:51] but he cannot move i'm going to climb they're locked up hey uh banshee can you take out the nano link guys who are still out i mean how many are up just a one

[01:37:04] yep i mean fuck yeah i guess i guess i could do that for you and i guess i'll just is that meat uh yes is he looking at me uh he is he's climbing up out of from behind a pile of miscellany

[01:37:25] looks like bundled up paper towels and a loaf of grease he's just like looking up out of that because he does no clue what has just happened

[01:37:38] is there do i get a bonus for that or um yeah i'll give you a plus one he's not ready for you guys to be back there and 11 all right damn uh what do you want to do just hit him with shot crown

[01:37:55] knock him out yeah all right yeah he's out his head face slumps face uh forwarded to the shitty paper towels and grease immediately start a set to decide and start pulling a car around here

[01:38:07] all right uh the car will be approximately 20 yards away uh vertically and you'll have to climb up into that second level somehow okay all right uh from what i got here guys we have about

[01:38:25] two minutes before the cameras go back up so let's let's go fast get that hack go fast so first things first um binding the kernel like handcuffs yeah collar whatever we have to okay yeah pick it up

[01:38:42] like a piece of meat i mean i got an idea we could just put one of these grenade rounds in his mouth and then just tip him back over that would work i mean do we need to head joe you just need

[01:38:56] record that you killed him okay well i mean honestly he's gonna need to see he needs what your contact needs to say uh unedited footage that this guy has beefed it oh god do you got trying to

[01:39:11] keep pieces so we can sell to the higher bidders i mean there'll be a torso that's true pretty short head is uh highest look do you want proof that these men is dead come on hurry up

[01:39:25] i'm recording already we don't have time to discuss oh we could just do a boys thing shut the board up his ass and shoot the i don't know far far far fuck sake pulls out katara against the

[01:39:38] deck okay now he's dead he's totally definitely dead you carry head i will carry body you hug two grenades at that particular wall right there to give us exit i look like he throws the grenades and she looks over at lexie and goes after she notices lexie

[01:39:59] staring at her i don't mind you on a fucking business peaches i'm working through some shit but oh i see your accent changed again oh yeah this is my venezuela next hit so this was the job 100k like pat's shoulder yesterday this was the job

[01:40:19] and i told you you had talent you was gonna be uh you was gonna be you know out for exposure you you you're you're trial by fire let's get going great yeah i'm i'm i love that we're all

[01:40:28] being very positive let's fucking move get up here all right how we go okay so uh yeah uh you get through the hole um because we got kills gods on the way right now yeah you do yeah yeah it's not

[01:40:42] good i'm up uh give me i'm gonna need a act under pressure roll from everybody there's one julian uh if you fail you'll be able to sacrifice one of the two mercenaries you

[01:40:56] picked up oh well done you could also sacrifice them to somebody else for a bad role for them or you could sacrifice craig yeah where craig could beef it either way nope didn't fail that's a 12

[01:41:10] all right so christ also don't forget you have your point that you never use yet unless you're still holding oh yeah no i saw my intel yeah i saw my intel as well so i'm gonna use that all right good

[01:41:21] um let's take a look all right we'll see oh shit eight mix success mix success so mix success for both of you uh so i mean everything down here is covered in filth uh so both of you like

[01:41:44] see banshee you grab a an old brick that just crumbles in your hand so you fall back down when you were halfway up craig you just can't get a grip immediately um and it's only when

[01:41:56] you remember that like these re these uh walls had reinforced rebar and you look back and in the hole that you could climb a rebar up but the delay means that there's going to be a problem

[01:42:07] i give up on the ladder because it's too slimy so i'm just climbing the rebar um here is your ugly choice you can uh ask lexie and hundred k for help they will help you

[01:42:28] they will definitely die and you won't you'll be alive and unhurt but these two perfectly nice people will be totally dead and they won't be used to be able to be used as contacts in the future

[01:42:42] um or or you can uh delay and the kill squads won't kill you they'll shoot you up real bad but you'll be able to get out of here i remind that i am live and on the air and i roll 10 with that

[01:43:01] that's true so i'm here um i get the shot i want and i am escorted to a position of safety so for you craig when you identify yourself as press what's going to happen is and when you let them

[01:43:14] know that you're recording they will escort you to a place of safety but they will know who exactly who you are where you live and you can expect consequences later and you're also the one

[01:43:25] with the footage we need to get paid all right so maybe not that's i don't think i'm let's just take our chances for getting shot again so you'll be able to get now don't get

[01:43:35] me wrong you'll be able to get the footage to your employer everybody will still get paid warren pierce isn't going to do anything stupid they're not going to like okay we're going to escort you to a place of safety then assassinate you that night i mean isn't warren

[01:43:49] pierce already out from my head uh not yet they're not you're not a fan they're not a fan of viewers um but they don't have you on our shit list yet this will get you at the top of the

[01:44:04] shit list okay uh i'm just gonna take the bullet then all right um i'm gonna yell i'm just like hey get the driver without the complication without the complications okay so

[01:44:18] joey's taking the choice out of your hands hundred k says you got a cause say hey go get her we need she's the driver no i can't leave her behind i'll waver i'll wave him off i don't want anyone else

[01:44:32] dying for me i got this i got this i got and then uh out of the wall across from you bursts the kill squad and they do not wait they just light your ass up um take three harm

[01:44:52] well that puts me up to 2100 no like one two three so 21 yeah 1100 alert alert yeah it's not good uh you're not yet critical at least yeah hundred k drops an arm down uh you can grab it he will haul your ass out of there

[01:45:13] he's not exposed lexie starts low-key panicking she does say anything but she is sweating profusely anyway i can kind of try and talk her down like to get her back she'll be good she'll be good enough

[01:45:26] um she's not gonna like run off or do anything stupid she knows she's into shit is what it is um so yeah you get lit up uh you're gonna need some help with that hundred k is basically carrying you over his shoulders i hope you got a

[01:45:44] hope you got a hard link with this car whatever the fuck it is a lady don't tell jesus smiles bloody teeth thumbs up yeah you hustle down the uh the hallway to the nearest exit of the sewers climb up the cars they're waiting for you

[01:46:05] tearing you always cry craig um that's a good question craig you were hiding behind some rocks uh the air is full of stone dust and bullets uh you've been hit a couple times and little fragments of uh brick

[01:46:26] are slicing you up everywhere who's going back for craig you will not be hard i will um can i say that this is some this is a part of me being driven because i am crazy about fucking

[01:46:44] up corporations uh yeah all right that makes sense yeah you got left you didn't get left behind you stayed to make sure you got the shot that these guys are trying to murder your ass yeah so

[01:46:56] i'm gonna make roll that edge real fast sure don't forget to um yeah roll that edge yeah all right so i get one hold great all right what would be the best way to get out of here

[01:47:16] if you shot the down side jen person with another electric around he would twitch that's true he sure would you know that's a very good point i don't have a gun they gave everybody a gun they gave everybody guns you have a gun yeah yeah it's a shitty

[01:47:35] gun but it's a gun it'll work all right so what would that be mix it up mix it up well meanwhile i am going back for him i'm telling everybody do not wait just go if it's a nice yeah that's a 12

[01:47:53] with my the one hold i spent on driven nice like now i'm getting this shot and i'm getting the fuck out of here okay so the body twitches exactly in a fashion that made it look like he's

[01:48:06] rolling out of cover to shoot them so they'd light that dude up he i mean it's gonna be a great shot but he gets torn to shreds by uh armor piercing fire uh

[01:48:22] and well they're doing rounds yeah i'm running all right you will escape yeah uh alana when you get there that too went back right mm-hmm yeah alana when you get there craig is gone the kill

[01:48:37] squad is gone uh there is one eviscerated corpse it does not appear to be craig now craig you can radio them and let them know you got it you got out you got clear yeah um i'll

[01:48:53] message him i'm like i'm out uh uh where's the car i had to get out of the difference location i will make new exit ron david with craig hold up the bag of grenades

[01:49:11] hot quad at wall and out we walk and by the way at that moment dropping the wig behind hundred k nods well fellas that was cool as hell and ladies i apologize fellas and ladies that

[01:49:27] was cool as hell uh i'm gonna get paid for this right like i didn't just do this for for the fuck of it i'm just staring into the middle distance that guy's seen some shit anyway the monies

[01:49:42] i'll toss him a cred hey good enough man listen mr red i will see your ass around uh don't forget to call when you fire those folks uh if you're a fire in anybody anyway uh it was real real cool

[01:50:01] figure once we start parsing out the dude hey yeah yeah leave me at the uh leave me at the waffle house you know the hellens waffle house oh yeah tell tell uh tell hellen uh well actually

[01:50:13] you got money yes go what day is it ah this is a pecan pie day my man oh man have some pecan pie man that's it's only second to custard pie day and that was yesterday that's right well you folks

[01:50:27] go do what you gotta do see you later hey lexie you want to come with me this pecan pie is amazing if you haven't been to hellens waffle house you're gonna come with me to hellens waffle house she's like

[01:50:38] do i do i go with them i mean that's entirely up to you hi i kind of want to see what the fuck is even going on here no you know you really know pie is therapeutic

[01:50:52] you're either going to enjoy the pie or you're going to see us cutting this man up and butchering him like a hog oh a pie it is pie very good dog yes yes yes uh get your friend to shower when you

[01:51:09] can it's a lot of blood mud on them yeah hey uh guys would you mind uh getting into damn car i'm i'm about a quart low myself all right so off you go drop them off to the waffle house

[01:51:27] where are you gonna meet your contacts well we should probably butcher up the corpse first okay yeah i feel like i feel like uh i feel like elaine would be better at best at butchery

[01:51:44] does anybody want to uh hit the streets and find a uh an abandoned uh very cold place for butchering and storing corpses maybe maybe one of you all should check and see if he's

[01:51:55] got a tag that's uh flagging our location i mean shit that's a good idea well didn't think that one think of that before uh well before k jumps out of the car he'd be like hey man can you scan this

[01:52:08] thing make sure there's no one there is the other thing to keep in mind if the guy did have a tag it's gotta be completely analog because we fried him with four emp rounds to the small of the

[01:52:19] back so if there is a tag it ain't broadcasting i mean you could it could be rebooted okay so we'll uh he's gonna run a scan it's like uh no man everything's dead

[01:52:37] all right fair enough you got the guarantee he's dead as hell well that's the only way that i like these guys especially this guy he's an asshole well band she will do the uh finger guns

[01:52:50] at hunter k and i guess blood is just slinging off of her hands right now yeah if you like splatter blood on his chest he's like oh god come on lady ew i'm gonna go red get a better crew god i mean

[01:53:06] sometimes you just gotta take a look at listen that was some real hot ship let me explain as he guides her away hey can elena put down lighter in the distance can elena put down a lexie is a uh

[01:53:22] is a contact now since we she's kind of took her in order wing well at a certain point we we had put her in as a player character the way we're playing that is true uh uh

[01:53:36] yeah so somebody find me a cold plate cold place to be oh what about that place from season one the factory or whatever were the experiments were going on oh the one we cleaned up

[01:53:46] well do we clean that one up too yeah we've cleaned up a few buildings it's kind of like flip this crime lab yeah like basically the way we act is like as a criminal cartel taking over meth labs

[01:54:01] okay we're not exactly the moral heroes all right um well i know i mean i get off the street i i know a guy i know i i know a guy it runs a chop shop and by my name

[01:54:16] by chop shop i mean he's a butcher oh you mean billy the butcher uh yeah you know billy baron beg yeah billy he's great mr. williams yeah don't ask about the last part

[01:54:32] wait hold on me she hits her head against the window i'm accident's back oh shit all right so um okay uh this guy a butcher and also say a cyber butcher mm-hmm i'm kind of thinking of a mission off of

[01:54:50] cyberpunk 2077 where they were basically stripping cyberware off people and reselling them yeah you did that well we did do that and uh all right and i assume that i'm gonna be putting down as a contact and i guess i

[01:55:11] needed to find a relationship um yeah contacts i don't forget to roll style as well okay that's style i guess i wrote that first i get zero in style anyway got a nine nice so i say this will

[01:55:28] indent me to him probably no it just means uh they'll do what you said if you got a 10 plus you they would do it and you'd get a little extra okay yeah okay so

[01:55:43] all right so yeah you roll on up yeah billy the butcher after giving him a phone call mm-hmm hey hey banshee it's been a long time uh yes i'm sorry love i've been i've been kind of busy

[01:55:58] you know but if you're not doing those death races anymore it's it's a word bad for the uh shall we say number of limbs inexpensive of the the market for inexpensive cyber limbs is really taking a turn for the worst that you quit

[01:56:19] those races but uh what can i do for you well honey i i knew this your break was going to be coming up here in just a hair and i thought that uh perhaps uh you could go get uh go get a dinner

[01:56:32] and we will uh we'll hang around here and keep it on a shop and then she winks while still covered in her own blood i got you i got you all right all right yeah i'll be out of there and uh

[01:56:47] two hours gonna be long enough it's been a long day oh yeah i think i'd be fine all right good over the waffle house here's some interesting stories so i guess i would just pay i'm paying

[01:56:58] his dinner and whatever yeah that's not gonna cost anything it's like an accountant that's a credit okay god um i like we how we like put nick descriptions on people in this game i mean i definitely wasn't making a the boys reference

[01:57:16] oh now i found a cut up with it i have not watched or read the boys all right so um yeah you show up that's exactly what you need take them apart put them together

[01:57:29] i'll mostly take them apart putting them together would be a little harder here you just angle yeah cannot so i kind of feel like there's also a shower or uh i kind of feel like this is where uh

[01:57:42] craig and julian get to get together and figure out okay so what favors do we trade for what parts and who gives us the money and who gives us the oh how do i put this in words there's gonna come

[01:57:58] a time in the probably not too distant future where we will need a multi's passport yeah we'll be who will give us money who will give us favors and who will give us asylum

[01:58:08] that is also all three good good thanks uh well first i want to take a shower yeah they also have a first aid kit in here okay can i row first aid on myself i guess or yeah with the kit you can or

[01:58:22] somebody else can do it either way i've got a what do you got in cool i got two two okay so i've got a one all right i'll just go ahead and see if i fix myself up well can i assist to give him a plus

[01:58:36] one i since i have first aid yeah okay so i'll add three in there let's pray to the gods above 12 there you go thank you so how much do i heal i might as well heal well um let me check

[01:58:56] because there's a specific thing for that check first aid i mean luckily you weren't in critical condition so it shouldn't be too bad uh reduce it by two segments okay wait hold on you rolled

[01:59:12] let me check what you rolled i don't let me look at that 12 yeah reduce it by two segments okay some at 15 i'm at one alert so okay you know um plug so you're prepping to uh you're getting your first aid kreg's getting a shower julian's helping you

[01:59:31] alaina you're getting prepared to chop this guy up uh when the headless corpse comes alive he's just christ god damn it it pulls it pulls some guns so it's gonna try and uh shoot you guys

[01:59:46] it's he's got a dead man switch and i've got a dead man's twitch i'm gonna take those hands yeah i'm probably a good idea uh okay so uh you make too much noise uh you can advance the relevant mission clock

[02:00:14] that's not gonna hurt you so that one is uh unavailable you're gonna take harm or an ally takes harm or something of value breaks i'm going to take harm all right and gated xd right you choose two okay so louder than expected

[02:00:36] i'm i'm kind of leaning towards no one okay i know how i'll make that work i won't advance submission clock it'll advance the uh uh warren pierce clock it would also be really funny if

[02:00:47] you chose an ally took took harm and just kreg got shot in the shower why don't we go for the funny because the funny yeah okay so you take a couple bullets

[02:01:03] and then a straight bullet bounces off of the tile uh into the bathroom where kreg is at and shatters the shower the shower glass and it's kreg in the leg it's not dangerous but it hurts it's like man i'm so glad that mission's over no

[02:01:26] it's like i'm so lucky i didn't get shot um you cut its hands off but now it's just trying to grapple you with its stumps so it's like that scene from evil dead when his hands trying to choke itself choking yeah yeah

[02:01:41] the hands themselves are just kind of like flopping around on the ground uh like turtle's rear backs sweep the leg it just yeah you're holding it down what's up van kertel grab those freaking hands i run out of the shower as soon as i hear that

[02:02:04] like nope i just i'm just trash can right there bare-ass naked throwing them in there where's the power supply where's the power supply we just gotta get this power supply on this chest somewhere yeah uh you figure it out but only after wrestling with this uh

[02:02:20] extensively bleeding corpse for like another two minutes you shut them down is it kind of like we just had a sword in the neck oh just kind of stabbing around it in there yeah so you hit it

[02:02:34] you're like okay all right all right then it collapses in the ground and now if he gets back to the boot shopping good thing i'm wearing red today alina i i finished my shower i go out

[02:02:45] i check my messages i see a message from guptoder at like 8 p.m it's like what are you doing here and then at like 11 p.m never mind yeah yeah yeah okay guptoders like you're gonna get yourself

[02:03:01] killed craig we got do some crazy shit i just like the thumbs up symbol i guys because oh i say be careful about his arm and he's got a gun in one of his arms don't forget

[02:03:18] we take that arm first all right so uh i'm gonna get you two hit the streets for uh craig one for craig one for julian all right it's just a straight roll in it

[02:03:35] it's uh it's gonna be plus style okay i'm not very stylish so let's see what i can do oh nice nice it's nice so you find plenty of takers for that uh let's say what will people take they'll take

[02:04:01] hands feet and then somebody's gonna want the what's left of the corpse i mean i don't have time with that we could also remove both of his eyeballs individually and hand them out okay i'll allow it each one of those will earn you two cred

[02:04:16] you can choose to accept the two cred or you could accept official government sanction for removal one of those buyers is a let's say a an indian corporation an indian megacorp uh whom he has done terrible shit to do to you uh they will

[02:04:42] pay for your extraction from any location on the planet in exchange instead of two cred they hate this guy is that for one person or everybody uh that's gonna be one person each

[02:04:56] two cred is cash now that is a cash out later like you can you could take the lump sum or you can get the annuity so if we decide to go with the annuity that mean basically we forego the 10

[02:05:07] cred altogether that's right and that means all of us how to get out of jail free card yeah provided you're not captured were killed yeah if you're in the shit and then something

[02:05:19] happens uh and it goes pear shaped and you manage to escape temporarily they'll be able to get you out if you get captured it's 50 50 if you're killed you're dead obviously okay i mean i like that

[02:05:34] i'm gonna go for the annuity yeah i think i'm gonna do that so also annuity because yeah reasons and i'm sure the good people at arumikorp are more than more than charitable to us yeah that's probably the smart move he says reluctantly

[02:06:02] so that leaves two credits left over that will let brownie decide whether he wants to keep or um all right and uh now i think if you if one of the characters takes that throughout the game

[02:06:13] this is what happens when you retire your character yeah sounds good it seems like all we got to do now is to do the meetup with the perv yep that's right would it make more sense if i

[02:06:25] went up if i went up and did they get paid job since they know you already julian uh yeah i mean depending on like what's the role uh that's that depends on how much legwork we

[02:06:41] have oh yeah i mean it's up to you i mean uh you've got three legwells uh two legwork left all right so that gets us plus two bonus and say i can roll it you can roll it or we can have david roll it considering he generally rolls

[02:06:59] hot um i'll take over for this one julian uh it'll probably look better if somebody comes up i'll bust it up and bruised and alana's never busted up or bruised that's also true and somehow

[02:07:14] i got all of my appendages attacked intact this time also i have my recording and by the way you know what you know what hurts worse than uh having your legs broken by a car getting shot

[02:07:26] uh well i got a shot and my legs broken by a car so you've got some catching up to do injury competition right injury poker that's right the game where everybody who plays loses

[02:07:41] okay my bingo card's getting full all right so anyways um what's the name of the contact and it was mr black mr black uh what can you guys tell me about mr black uh he's not my dad

[02:07:55] he is nondescript where's the suit uh he has a contact uh you can ping him at his contact location and he will meet you wherever you want to meet him yeah we got little to no things because i got

[02:08:09] just a shit roll whenever we do that we'll go to uh teresia's waffle house it's not as good teresia it's just a standard waffle house you know it it was her cousin and like yeah hell and god

[02:08:22] her the job and helped her out with the franchise and uh it's i mean it's fine it's fine it's like it's the denny's to the original pancake house yeah yeah so uh i'll sit down in a booth

[02:08:36] and just kind of like look around looking battered all right about 10 minutes later mr black rolls up you hear about the uh the kernel matter i've been known to appreciate some fried

[02:08:54] chicken on occasion so when he sits down so you have some proof for me you got some cash for me uh i believe so uh let's see the proof you don't have to give it to me you can just show it to me

[02:09:14] and then i will pay you and then i'll have it all right um so i will pull out a like a little data piece that is encrypted in such a way that it will immediately uh erase itself

[02:09:30] upon playing right yeah okay he chips it in nods it's okay it looks like you did the job what happened to the body you didn't ask for the body no no it's just curiosity

[02:09:49] let me ask you a question okay do you really want to know the answer to that oh that bit huh no i don't no i do not all right uh all right give me that legwork roll sure

[02:10:10] payment roll i should say okay let's roll 2d6 meanwhile a neodythial truck is picking up the torso hey yeah really why is this why does this package feel so much like a oh holy shit nice nice all right

[02:10:29] choose three okay let's see what the ones are it's not a setup or an ambush you're paying full the employer is identifiable the meeting doesn't attract the attention of outside parties um i'm gonna say it's not a setup or an ambush okay we're paid in full okay and

[02:10:49] the meeting does not attract the attention of outside parties so sorry y'all not getting the experience uh that's fine because i'm gonna tell you what experience you mark shortly mm-hmm uh yeah so let's scroll on up to how much you've deposited for this job

[02:11:07] i'll just assume i somehow threw in two bounty early too cred makes sense thank everybody threw in two yeah i'm screwing up man we've talked a lot since then it's been a couple weeks a team theme is too far

[02:11:24] pretty sure we all threw in two i thought so i thought i funded with five but i could be wrong no you might have i know i threw in two and then um banshee well uh julian to watch to banche to alana five all right so 13 total 13 total

[02:11:46] all right so i guess i'll add another two credits to my uh sheet right so we break it even on this one i'm basically not nothing more than yeah you guys spent a lot of money on it i spent a lot of money

[02:11:58] um let's see you mark an experience for completing the hit you could mark an experience for escaping the fracas and you mark experience for providing proof of the completed job so everybody can mark

[02:12:10] three experience all right how many credit did you say it was per person yeah uh how exactly do crowds will work again is it just one in one out um that should be you should get double what

[02:12:24] you invested so 26 26 right by by six that's four each four and a third somebody can get an extra one or everybody just gets double what they put in that same yeah yeah that's fine with me i'm not

[02:12:41] going to take from alana i was not particularly useful on this uh mission came through and i liked uh the shoot them up at the end there and you recorded it so we didn't

[02:12:54] have to try and try and you know use the hacked feed to get the information so that was good all right that was the fracas uh questions comments suggestions issues i was fine i hope i never

[02:13:08] see those nano link guys again because if i do i'm fucked you really are but hopefully the kill squad took care of that should we don't worry there's not very many of them left should we uh mark

[02:13:19] and you're also known as mr wizard so you're gonna mark you go like somebody against you now as a nano link group does that is that how this works like you know it's more just a

[02:13:31] role-playing thing okay yeah i do i liked it i like the fact that we started out doing good and even the ones that we ended up sacrificing or you know turning into a glitter bomb of sorts

[02:13:48] i mean they were the same cowardly as us so um you know i don't have you ever killed anyone yeah but they were all bad technically craig has never killed anyone directly

[02:14:01] i you you built this guy really well joe like i just i was you know for two weeks i'm like how in the fuck are we gonna do this i mean at one point i started trying to think like can i get a chain

[02:14:13] to the car because that's the only weapon i really have is if i hook to him and just pull him apart chain him to a car in a wall we're ripping the shreds

[02:14:23] okay if it works it works you made you made a good bad guy yeah i liked 100k Thompson by the way guys that's uh i feel bad for lexie

[02:14:38] lexie is going to be the next killer like the next time that we uh beat a killer for the playbook that's who do you think we're going with i love that that looks like the woman white

[02:14:49] except she's all red oh wait a minute i actually think if lexie showed up showed up back as the soldier yes like uh i went a little more professional i went a different direction

[02:15:04] either way when he comes back it's going to be well that's lexie after she's seen a lot of shit the two ticket twist show was nice too i liked the fact that we all of a sudden we were the

[02:15:15] the fodder to be chewed through yeah it also meant you guys didn't waste any fucking time because there was an opportunity for you guys to be like if we just i was what i was like

[02:15:27] thinking was like everybody should be like you know we could loot all these guys be filthy rich i was like oh well i can't have that yeah that's why i was very specifically at the end like we gotta go

[02:15:41] but yeah that was a lot of fun joe that was a good time like we really had to kind of thinking strategize and smooths and all of us i think all of us had a really good

[02:15:52] like a time to shine whether it be you know craig and i you know networking or banshee and and uh elena doing the doing most of the work and then you know all of us coming together is

[02:16:05] you know getting mercs and getting you know fodder or whatever else we needed and actually building a strategy as opposed to just coming in guns blazing i also appreciate how interesting it was

[02:16:14] how uh you're and my character differentiate how we negotiate uh oh yeah there i mean like you actually like know people and go around talk to them i'm just like straight up lying through

[02:16:23] my teeth all the time mm-hmm also i gotta laugh that i made the reference to the bankock rules and literally nobody caught it i should be beautiful um uh snake pliskin at the start of escape from la

[02:16:42] oh yeah this is the first hit squad how about a little bit of bankock rules gentlemen nobody draws until this can hits the ground and while it's up in the air and they're looking at the can he just

[02:16:51] wastes all of them i thought okay this fits perfectly for just the start of this just how about the little bankock rules the best thing that they could have done at that point is either run or shoot me

[02:17:05] then it's like you know i mean it would have effectively been the same result a bunch of people would have went down still works like david i've honest to god i i've the fact that you were here

[02:17:22] president i knew we were gonna like make some more progress like this entire time i'm like well what the fuck am i gonna do what the fuck am i gonna do i'm gonna back david's play what i'm gonna

[02:17:36] like i was talking with uh side note here but i was talking with uh craze on today and i have this little problem guys for gaming i have just add for these kind of things i'll like oh

[02:17:50] corleola sister is great i'm gonna do kids on bikes and i was like man i'd really like to get back to nice black agents i was talking to crazy on about it like i just want to see what david would

[02:17:59] do like just just just you know give him a jason born in a vampire i just want i want to see that because i don't think you've ever at least on mike i can't even recall you ever playing

[02:18:09] nice black agents at least any of the rppr ones i've listened to uh tribes of tokyo oh you were in that one yeah i was but i'll tell you um with absolutely zero ego um you put me into any

[02:18:27] kind of game with calib where there is strategizing involved and where there are insane plans and insane plots suddenly i have forgotten how to run i've forgotten how to walk and i'm crawling along

[02:18:41] and it is a glorious glorious feeling like i will be outmaneuvered the second that he opens his mouth which is great it's a lovely feeling um everything that i have learned about plotting

[02:18:59] i've learned by playing games with ross and by playing games with calib yeah and those two are the chess masters and i am just sitting here faking it with checkers but it would be a good game

[02:19:14] to play again and just actually like wait a minute i know how to do this it's not going to be operation black dolphin and i'm not going to be able to draw the full on conspiramid but i've got a thought or

[02:19:23] two don't worry that's what i'm here for i may not be as good as ross or calib but i'm still pretty good strategy i'm just playing 52 pickup yeah i just react i'm just chewing on the checkers

[02:19:39] i shoot from the hip and it works and when i have a plan it's not a very well thought out one as much as is like okay this is somebody we could use as a human shield i'm going to throw him out as a decoy

[02:19:52] and the thought is we toss this guy out so that you know there is a target for the sniper that is not one of us but at the same time if the plan goes perfectly well we don't need to have a

[02:20:05] backup fall guy quite literally and having a sack full of grenades worked out for the best but um i will say that crushing the grenade launchers seems like it was a bad idea but my thought was

[02:20:21] um these guys are going to come to in a little bit deep hands disarmed thoroughly embarrassed and their weapons are completely ruined so they're going to they're either going to become our sworn

[02:20:36] enemies and come at us much much later after they've taken a correspondence course or something i don't know or they're going to get out of the business because they realize just how outclass

[02:20:47] they were in that moment or three they're dead they're probably dead probably there's a lot of death there is a lot of death but i'm hoping that they were such a pathetic target that even the other

[02:21:01] blue ticket holders are like uh no yeah whenever i did that i was like well i'm waiting to see how joe brings this back uh i mean i i didn't have an opportunity to because you went right

[02:21:17] after it you weren't fucking around uh nobody was like hey can i settle any scores or can i should i have an eye for what's going on later because there's all these executives here and we

[02:21:28] could get in on them none of that happened everybody was like nope nope eyes on the prize baby i mean if i was a part of the first session you know i would have been doing some

[02:21:40] horrible schmoozing and like evil shit but craig was like there last minute so it's like ah fuck i didn't have time to prepare also got a throw out there um neo of chrome sleeves was in our wheelhouse and we could have used him when everything started going down

[02:21:58] yes but we did not that's true so technically i don't owe him a favor uh no he's gonna ask you for it but when you when he shows up you could be like that go eat shit dude you didn't help us

[02:22:12] yeah you were on deck to help we didn't need the help but thank you for the offer but if you want to negotiate in good faith for a job sure

[02:22:24] allow me to point you to this is mr black mr black talk to neo find out what neo wants i let him do all of my negotiations so that i don't end up you know

[02:22:37] stuck doing things for free that makes sense makes sense so yeah he's i mean i will tell you straight up that the next job is going to be him uh he's gonna ask for you and you're not

[02:22:50] going to do it for free he's gonna have to pay you like hey dude sure we'll help but cost money yeah and you know we are worth every petty yeah we also got a car race to deal with too that's right

[02:23:06] yeah yeah well there's favors to be called in like that's one of the reasons why favors to the you know favors to npcs are always a bad idea because they never ask you for something simple like

[02:23:24] feed my plant or water my fish no it's always something complicated our roles were just that bad to where we were like oh yeah we'll definitely owe you a favor for this great well we actually

[02:23:40] saved some dude from getting expunged and got the information from him in order in return banshee's got to do a car race uh for mecca mullet right yep that's why i didn't want to deal with

[02:23:50] him whenever we saw him well maybe we lucked out maybe mullet got you know clipped got got he did not get got now he flexed at the bullets and they fell away no he got shot early with the

[02:24:06] with the free with the round so he got collected uh oh he got shot out in the initial shoot out yeah yeah he's he was obeying the back he should know better this is like the fifth time you followed for that one

[02:24:27] he couldn't remember what it was he was like bang Kakrus i know i've heard that somewhere before oh shit every time he just walks right into bullet i don't tell you he's dumb

[02:24:40] okay or at least not thoughtful let's say that you know you would have died a long time ago if you weren't so adorable that's probably true i definitely appreciate you running this show thanks uh you

[02:24:56] know everybody else thanks for playing i i was happy to be a part of this yeah it was fun it's all right i'm glad you had a good time awesome it's one of the games that i really do truly

[02:25:09] look forward to every week and i am so sorry about last week oh dude don't worry about it man oh man your your health comes first don't don't worry about it it's all good well i'm just waiting

[02:25:21] till they cyber me up i if i could get that nice cyber heart now that would be yeah i'll take a whole cyber body thanks then i can work forever oh no like oh no the future it's worse than we thought

[02:25:42] awesome well guys thanks for playing joe thanks for running again and for those of you tuning in thanks so much for downloading checking out this episode and until next time we'll see you later bye bye bye everybody everybody peace sleep well

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