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Welcome to the Hard Knock sorority podcast, a Shadow Run 4th Edition actual play podcast.

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My name is Paul, and I am your host in GM.

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Player characters are given voice and agency by Veronica, playing Cecile, aka College Girl,

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a literal college girl who finds herself abruptly entangled with the sixth world's shadows.

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Elizabeth playing Grace, aka Nightingale, a literal pony on a quixotic self-imposed research

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expedition to the sixth world.

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Valerie playing Ollie, aka Boxer, ex-merk and literal catwoman who now applies the shadows

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in search of redemption.

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And finally, Cat playing Dandre, an elven ex-cop who is in search of her brother in Seattle

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and is literally prettier than any elf has any right to be.

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All along as we muddle our way through the Shadow Run 4th Edition rules.

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Please feel free to contact us on the Hard Knock sorority website.

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Boy Tummers, this is Zach Flash with KSAF, your last bastion of free and independent news

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in Seattle.

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Stick with us, Tummers, as we bring you the breaking news of an attempted terrorist kidnapping

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in the very heart of our beloved Metroplex.

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You heard that right, Ome, right here in downtown Seattle.

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Shadow Runners.

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More terrorists, depending on your view of the sixth world, attempted to kidnap a highly

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qualified research assistant, deployed by one of our favorite corporate overlords, Eva,

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at their Washington U research facility.

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We are set to report that this promising young woman's career was cut short in a blaze of

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terrorist gunfire.

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More details at the top of the alley.

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Coming off, this is Zach Flash with KSAF, bringing you my favorite rock opera, Mother

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of the Sea by Shieldwall.

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This scene opens up in an opulent office, high in the Seattle skyline.

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Floor to ceiling windows on one wall provide views of Puget Sound and Council Island.

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The walls appear to be clad in real wood paneling of a deep red color, and are lined with shells

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populated with books and curios.

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The floor is covered in a deep cream colored carpet, while the ceiling is covered in a

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single piece of translucent white material with the luster of jade.

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It is backlit and diffuses an even warm light across the room.

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Lush plants stand in the far corners of the room, and at its center sits a massive desk,

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with a slate tabletop and a cabinet made of the same wood as the wall paneling.

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The chair behind the desk has a tall back, and it is turned towards the view of the sound.

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A soft chime echoes through the room, and a section of the paneling slides away.

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Woman of Asian descent steps through the opening and approaches within a meter of the desk.

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She stops.

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Her hands are clasped behind her back, and her head is bowed.

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A male voice speaks from behind the high back of the chair.

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How did this happen, Alice?

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The woman starts to speak, but the man in the chair raises a hand and silences her with

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a gesture.

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The hand is out of a human male.

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The hand is fair, but appears thin and fragile.

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You were confident the girl was acting alone, and now I hear that she has escaped.

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Assisted by several accomplices, who brazenly snatched her from your grasp.

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The woman bows deeply towards the chair.

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I was wrong, she says, simply.

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The man in the chair responds with a dry laugh.

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Indeed, well, four warned is four armed.

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So it is said, you'll find her and her team and learn who their employer is.

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There can be no more underestimation, underestimating the gravity of this intrusion, Alice.

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Alice straightens.

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May I ask what is in the files this girl's seal accessed?

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It might help me analyze the threat vector.

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The content of the files is irrelevant.

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It is history, and should remain so.

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The man in the chair, the man in the chair responds.

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Take them alive.

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At a minimum, this is a seal.

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Maximum effort, Alice.

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Leave no stone unturned.

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Alice responds.

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It will be so.

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She bows again and begins walking towards the door.

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As she passes through the opening, the man behind it, S, says, with your shield or on

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it, Alice, her step hesitates briefly, and then the door closes softly behind her.

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Camera pans out across the city, swoops down into the streets of Seattle, or see a

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motorcycle with two people on it speeding through the traffic, followed closely by a

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large van.

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All right, you guys, you're up.

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When we left off, you had snatched to seal from the limousine and boxer you had thrown

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a smoke grenade to obscure your escape, and now you're dodging and weaving through traffic

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head to where?

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That's me.

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Where's the Seattle map?

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Not here.

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So what boxer is doing is she's trying to hit multiple different corporate or jurisdictional

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areas to throw off any pursuit, or at least make it take longer.

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Basically, she's taking advantage of data vulcanization so that she's going through

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areas where the monitoring systems are divided between different entities that will have

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to go through bureaucratic processes, etc.

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Does boxer use AR?

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Yes.

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Is it glasses or goggles or is it?

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Cyber eyes.

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Cyber eyes, okay.

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So you pull up them.

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You've got a map of Seattle and the various jurisdictions brought up in your AR, and are

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you sharing the feed with Grace who's following you?

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Yes.

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So Grace, you get that in your, how are you in AR again?

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Grace doesn't have AR glasses or anything, so I suppose the info would have to go to

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her calm link.

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It could also be superimposed on the car, right?

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I mean, it'd have smart window.

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Exactly.

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You've got it transmitted from Boxer's feed onto your heads-up display on the windshield.

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And Boxer, I believe Kirsten had given you a destination of a nightclub or a club in

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Auburn to head towards.

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You've given us both that.

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So Grace, you're driving the van.

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So you're on your motorcycle plotting a route through the multiple corporate districts in

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Seattle and Cecile, what are you doing?

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Cecile is not quite hyperventilating, you know, but she looks shaken and is just quiet.

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Yeah, you find yourself in a van with what appears to be a small horse or pony, which

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in some ways resembles a para creature you've heard of before, a unicorn.

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And this unicorn, this small horse, appears to be driving the van without any real fear

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of physical input.

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Yeah, Cecile's just quiet and like she has her feet up on the seat and her arms around

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her legs just kind of like, no, she's coming down from a lot of adrenaline.

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Grace is just happy that she has stopped screaming.

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Trying to open the door and jump out.

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That would have been awkward.

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Great.

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You rescued her only for her to run away from you.

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I imagine Kirsten would also be talking to her still.

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Are they?

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They are not at the moment.

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Cecile did rescue her comlink from Alice's hands.

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So Cecile does have her comlink on her at this time.

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Box, do you have any navigation skills?

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Let me check this.

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I do not believe.

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No.

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All right.

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Let's make just a logic and intuition.

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All right.

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That's it.

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She wants to say if Grace or anyone else were to look closely at Cecile, she has around

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her fingertips a bit of a blackness to her flesh, like a poison is setting in.

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I can just set the car to drive, right?

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It can do that, right?

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You'd have to set it to follow.

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You're going to set it to follow Boxer, right?

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I was thinking to set it to go to the address that I'd been given.

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Okay.

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So you're just going to go straight there?

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Well, I had already pulled off and done some evasive driving through.

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Just set the follow Boxer, sure.

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Okay.

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Because Boxer is basically headed from downtown Seattle.

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She's not headed through Bellevue because of the tight security.

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And so she's headed south from downtown towards Renton and potentially Tacoma and then east

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towards Bellevue, or not Bellevue, sorry, Auburn.

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All right.

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You guys make it without further incident to Auburn, which is your home, which is sort

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of your stomping.

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Hold on.

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I want to know what's wrong with Cecil's hands before anything.

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Have you noticed it?

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What I have?

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Do you want me to make a roll for that?

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Looking back at you?

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Sure.

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Make a perception test.

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Okay.

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I mean, you were driving.

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I can give it to the robot.

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It's okay.

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Where is perception?

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What is perception?

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A skill.

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Okay.

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So I need to find out.

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So I need to fault it looks.

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I think everybody has a clicky for perception.

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Where is it?

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It's a skill.

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It's an active skill.

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Okay.

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Well, then what is its attribute?

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Intuition.

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Intuition.

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I guess I did not notice.

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But yeah, just go ahead and drive.

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Drive there.

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Take her there.

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So what was happening with your hands again, Cecil?

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I'll DM you.

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A rare form of gangrene is setting it.

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If only.

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All right.

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So all right.

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So you don't see any signs of pursuit as you head through down the streets of downtown

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and into Renton and then cutting back west towards Tacoma and then into the blue collar

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areas of Auburn that are, you know, your stomping grounds boxer.

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This is where you live and where you have your networks.

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So you're aware of this club that Kirsten has given you as a destination.

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And it's sort of a known as a, it's a very blue collar club.

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Very, they play a version of orcish country music.

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And you know, it's the kind of place where you get a lot of line dancing and a lot of

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orcs in plaid shirts and cowboy hats and cowboy boots on Friday nights and Saturday nights.

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Usually you can count on some kind of brawl or fight happening in the parking lot.

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And you've heard a lot of this from your friend Vicente who works, works around this area.

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But at this time of day, late morning on Tuesday, as you're pulling to the parking lot, the

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parking lot is empty and the club appears to be deserted.

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And about 30 seconds later, Grace and pulls into the parking lot behind you with the van.

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That's basically just a, you know, an asphalt covered space.

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The building that the club is housed in is a pretty mundane rectangular building.

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The walls are painted gray, the exterior walls.

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There's a big sign over the door that at night is neon lit, proclaiming the name of the club,

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which I haven't decided at this point.

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But you know, all sorts of fake country, western type nuances in the name.

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But it's Kirsten.

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We're here.

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I assume you have some plan.

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Kirsten gets off the bike and you can tell you've, you know, from your experience, from

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your experiences in the past, in your past employment, you see this sort of that this

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girl, the girl's coming down off sort of the, the adrenaline rush and high of excitement

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of combat and, you know, the chase.

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And she's, she's almost sort of shaking a little bit, but she's got an elated grin

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on her face as she says, we did it.

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We did it.

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We rescued her.

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And then she, she throws a big hug around you box her and then immediately pulls back

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when she remembers that she doesn't, you know, she doesn't really know you like that.

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She says, thank you very much.

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I, you know, I owe you one.

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So Cecilia, sorry, Cecilia and Grace, as you're pulling in, you see, you see Kirsten having

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hopped off the motorcycle is sort of bouncing up and down and then throws a quick hug around

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box her and then backs off and then waves towards you guys as you pull into the parking

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lot.

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And she says, how loud despite what you would imagine, Cecilia does not immediately get

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out, but gets up very slowly and carefully.

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Kirsten immediately comes running up to you.

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She's all effervescent with, you know, with the aftermath of the adrenaline and pleased,

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obviously pleased with herself.

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And she grins at you and she says, you know, you should have taken my call, Cecilia.

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Yeah, yeah, sure.

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I know you don't like me, but we're still friends, which is a very weird thing to say.

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Kirsten is a weird girl.

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Um, Cecilia is clearly not having a conversation right now.

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She's just brushing everything off with like a single word response.

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While Kirsten is talking at Cecil, my girl gets out of the car.

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Kirsten just laughs and says, you're so stubborn.

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God, just be happy you got out of there.

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That wasn't going to end well.

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Oh, no, that wasn't the, uh, those are very bad people.

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Indeed, but what I want to know is what makes you, she points at Cecilia with the trouble

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to whom?

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I'm not at all.

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I doubt that.

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I mean, as much as any other mage, probably.

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And what else?

253
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They don't.

254
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But it's, tell me what happened.

255
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What happened to them?

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Anything you have?

257
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It's maybe we should go inside before we have this conversation.

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Just a thought.

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah.

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She's Kirsten says, sorry, I've got to call my friend.

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He's a bouncer here.

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I assume there is a private space inside of there with which we can commune privately.

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Well, it's, it's locked right now.

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It's closed.

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Let me, let me give him a quick call.

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She gets on her com link and you see her having, you know, firing texts backs and forth.

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You can tell by her eyes, she's in AR and then she looks back at you.

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He'll be right, he'll be right here.

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He lives right around the corner.

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Good.

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And if I know him about two minutes later, a large male or comes sauntering up dressed

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in a very standard working Auburn style of clothes, you know, aside from being, aside

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from him being in work, there isn't that much that is stand out about him.

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And he, Kirsten runs up to him and gives him a big hug and he puts an arm around her and

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then they walk up and he says, so what's going on here?

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Chalmers?

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We need a place to talk privately and my friend here has mentioned your fine establishment

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as such a place.

280
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Oh, okay.

281
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Um, well, let me get the door unlocked.

282
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I've got the key and he walks over to the door and unlocks it and motions you over and

283
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takes a quick look around and then he looks at box and he says, no trouble following you,

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I imagine.

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Okay.

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Good.

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Are your vehicles, should your vehicles be hidden?

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Please don't touch my bike.

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Okay.

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Then however is up to actually with the grace be visible.

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So, Hanan Gal is, I imagine she's not invisible and she's just been kind of standing there

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awkwardly, maybe a little bit visibly tense and anxious as this new person arrives.

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She's trying not to call attention to herself, but still and obviously not engaging in the

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social situation now occurring, but there's a very awkward moment for her.

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The orc looks over at Grace and says, oh, your pet's not going to make a mess in here,

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is she?

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No, no, she wants to make a mess.

298
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You know what, just leave the van as well.

299
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Okay.

300
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I just don't want any trouble around here.

301
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Relax.

302
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If she makes any messes, I will clean up after her.

303
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All right.

304
00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:06,680
Well, that's, no, I was more worried about the vehicles.

305
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If you've got the heat on you, you might want to park them under cover.

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Hanan Gal just suddenly grabs her keys from one of her front pockets and tosses it at

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the orc.

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He looks startled, but instinctively, reflexively catches them and then looks at Grace and then

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at Kirsten and Kirsten just punches him in the shoulder and says, don't worry about it.

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It's all going to be okay.

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Just get the vehicles, pull them out back and get them under the overhang.

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And he looks skeptical and then he said, oh, shrugs and all right.

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And he heads off for the van and climbs in and heads off.

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And Kirsten's got the door open for you guys.

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And as I imagine you guys are all going in with her.

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Before that, sorry.

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Boxer takes out her comma and commands her bike to follow the van to the hidden area.

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Okay.

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Hanan Gal sighs a breath of relief as the guy steps and climbs up into her van and he

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scrolls into the doorway as soon as it's open, as soon as she's invited in by Kirsten.

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The interior of the club is dark and the lights are mostly off except for some courtesy lights

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that are lit.

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The floor is sort of a rough, hewn, fake faux wood made to look like faux planks and covered

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in a material that's made to imitate sawdust.

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It's very much a, the theme would be something like you would imagine seeing out of a, maybe

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the interior of a barn with the, with booths.

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Things upholstered in red faux leather and the walls are adorned with sort of faux pseudo

328
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western paraphernalia or what in, in Seattle and in the sixth world, sort of a, a stereotype

329
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might be of, of western stuff with, with cacti and cow skulls and things like that, of that

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nature.

331
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Some of the few oddities on the walls are what are probably fake taxidermied paracritters

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of the Southwest, but other than that, the interior of the club appears to be empty.

333
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The seal is reacting and looking around as though every surface is covered in spikes.

334
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She doesn't touch anything.

335
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:56,400
Not exactly my kind of diet, but doable.

336
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So she, she starts, she says, Oh, wow.

337
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I thought this was a Native American.

338
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And then she suddenly jumps whenever she looks over and sees one of the taxidermied paracritters.

339
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And there is the closest thing to like a, it's just a very light, loud squeak.

340
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She stares for a long moment and then she relaxes.

341
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She processes what she's looking at.

342
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:28,800
Yeah, I guess everybody could make a perception check again if they wanted to.

343
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:30,800
Well, except for Cecil.

344
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Perception.

345
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The seals at least looking at stuffed animals.

346
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Stuffed animals.

347
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I got a three.

348
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I got a three and Liz got a one.

349
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:49,560
So Olly, you see that you notice that there's a strange, that this, this woman that you've

350
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rescued, the Cecil characters, there's a strange, something is strange about her, odd about

351
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her hands.

352
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It almost appears like as if there's been a color change under skin around her, around

353
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her fingertips.

354
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,400
Grace, you don't notice it, but you do notice.

355
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:16,800
I mean, you're, you're enthralled or maybe appalled by the, by the taxidermied road runners

356
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:21,560
and mutated armadillos that are hanging on the wall.

357
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:23,640
You go let's go.

358
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:25,640
You imagine your image, right?

359
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,880
Yeah, sure.

360
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:32,160
And that's what have something to do with what is occurring with your hands.

361
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:35,240
Yeah, don't worry about it.

362
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:36,920
I am worrying about it.

363
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,040
That is my job to worry.

364
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,760
Cecil just crosses her arms and looks away.

365
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:47,600
This is something that will pose a problem, I need to know it unless you want it to become

366
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:48,600
worse.

367
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:52,600
And it will not mean me that it's not a problem.

368
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:53,600
Kirsten.

369
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,400
Kirsten's starting to calm down.

370
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:59,640
I mean, a lot of a bit of the adrenaline has faded out and she's looking a little bit

371
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more subdued at this point.

372
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:08,520
And she's, you know, some of the, the jovial effervescent mood that she had outside and

373
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:12,120
during the rescue is starting to fade a little bit.

374
00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:18,440
She wraps her jacket a little bit tighter around her to cover herself up a little bit.

375
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:24,960
And she's looking at Cecil with some little bit of worry as well.

376
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:26,760
So this is not normal.

377
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:27,760
I take it.

378
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:36,840
I understand that you don't want to talk about it, but at least tell me what is happening.

379
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,040
It's fine, it just happens sometimes.

380
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:40,040
Right.

381
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:42,280
And does anything happen when this happens?

382
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:44,200
Look, don't worry about it.

383
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:45,920
I am worrying about it.

384
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,120
Cecil just walks off.

385
00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:57,280
Olly, that's, that's, that's like a, it's like being sore after exercising, but for

386
00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:58,480
magic.

387
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,760
That's what that is with her fingers.

388
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:01,760
I'm pretty sure.

389
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:03,920
I'm not the major, I wouldn't know.

390
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:10,200
All right, Kirsten says, all right, so, so what are we going to do?

391
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,160
Do you have a place for her to stay?

392
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:17,880
I, I, I, what is it like there?

393
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,080
Surveillance, corporate presence, government.

394
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:21,080
Really?

395
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:28,040
This is ideal, assuming you have a place to stay.

396
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:33,480
I'm sure one of the community members would be fine with taking her in.

397
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:40,680
I imagine this girl would have some manner of bounty or other monetary incentive for

398
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:41,680
her.

399
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:49,120
Well, as opposed to dependence, we still don't know why she is wanted and by whom.

400
00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:52,640
Kirsten said, I don't know a lot.

401
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:56,560
I can't really tell you where I came.

402
00:26:56,560 --> 00:27:02,360
I got the information, but I saw the people who were coming to get her.

403
00:27:02,360 --> 00:27:08,440
And I knew, well, I knew by, from the look of them, who they were.

404
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:15,680
But I can tell you that it is definitely a corporation that is after her.

405
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:16,680
Wonderful.

406
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:23,600
All right, in that case, your buying community.

407
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,480
What are the people like there?

408
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,480
Are they wage-lifes?

409
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:28,480
No.

410
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:37,400
I guess it's honestly really similar to my village where I come from.

411
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,120
Everyone works for everyone else.

412
00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:46,360
And of course, some of us have lives outside of Pines, but it's not.

413
00:27:46,360 --> 00:27:47,360
Communist.

414
00:27:47,360 --> 00:27:48,360
Lovely.

415
00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:53,120
Well, I thought you were a communist.

416
00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:54,960
It means you live in a commune.

417
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:55,960
Okay.

418
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:57,960
Yeah, I guess that's what I am.

419
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:11,240
At that point, the door opens and the orc walks in and says, well, I got the vehicles hidden

420
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:18,440
and he walks up to you guys and looks over at Kirsten and says, well, by the way, my

421
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,000
name is Moe.

422
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,080
Would you guys like a drink?

423
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,240
You're welcome to sit down, take any of the booze.

424
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:29,280
I'll go back behind the bar and get you a drink if you want.

425
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,760
Just making sure, Veronica, are you comfortable with us?

426
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:33,760
Yeah.

427
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:34,760
Okay, good.

428
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:38,560
Cecil's not responding?

429
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,120
Yes.

430
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:45,000
Fuck it.

431
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:46,800
Get me something you like.

432
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,040
Okay.

433
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:54,360
He looks at Grayson says, I can get you some water too for your horsey.

434
00:28:54,360 --> 00:29:00,920
I don't suppose you have anything involving fruit?

435
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:02,640
Not real fruit, of course.

436
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,680
Oh, I'm sure we do.

437
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:10,840
There's usually some pineapple juice and some other orange juice.

438
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,840
Orange juice.

439
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,840
Get us some orange juice.

440
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:16,840
Okay.

441
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:24,320
He saunters off towards the bar and Kirsten looks over and says, fine.

442
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:28,840
Let's grab a seat while we talk this through.

443
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:29,840
Indeed.

444
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:35,320
I do believe your friend will be able to stay with these communists.

445
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:44,040
However, if that is not viable, I do have a place where she could stay and be secure.

446
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:51,800
It is not comfortable per se, but it is secure and tolerable.

447
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:57,720
I suppose you should contact whoever you intend to.

448
00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,920
Not in jail.

449
00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:00,920
Oh, okay.

450
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:07,960
My name is Mel, it goes for her con link with her magic and the stylus.

451
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,520
I think she's going to seat herself while she does this and she fumbles with it for a

452
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,520
little while until she can text Ms. Magnumfoot.

453
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:15,520
Okay.

454
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:16,520
Moe comes back.

455
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:24,440
I've got a picture of orange juice and several glasses and he has a small stainless steel

456
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:29,400
bowl with water in it that he puts down on the ground near Grace.

457
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,080
Oh, the juice was for her.

458
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:38,920
I see what the horse drinks orange juice.

459
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,200
The horse likes sweet things.

460
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,200
Oh, okay.

461
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:48,640
He takes the picture and he just dumps the water unceremoniously on the floor and pours

462
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:53,720
the orange juice into the... Before he can even do that, Knight and Gale just takes

463
00:30:53,720 --> 00:31:02,120
the picture from him with her psycho kinesis while she's still fussing with her con link.

464
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:09,880
He sort of dirks back and his hands go up to his shoulders and start a look on his face.

465
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:10,880
Okay.

466
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:16,120
And yes, I did... Did you guys want anything to drink?

467
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,840
As I said, get me something alcoholic that you like.

468
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:21,680
Nothing too intense, no.

469
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:22,840
Okay.

470
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:28,120
And he... A little bit less nonchalantly hustles back towards the bar with a glance

471
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,120
back over his shoulder.

472
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,800
Yeah, quite a spin.

473
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:34,760
Oh, I mean, Grace.

474
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,920
Grace does kind of stare him down while he's walking.

475
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,360
It's not really malicious.

476
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:44,240
He's just kind of weirded out self.

477
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:49,360
Still is kind of weird having people treat you like that.

478
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:53,240
He's going to go ahead and drink directly from the pitcher like an animal.

479
00:31:53,240 --> 00:32:01,400
Take a glug or two and then go back to trying to text Miss Magnumfoot, which he's going

480
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,880
to do that now.

481
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:09,160
What would Miss Magnumfoot be doing on a mid-Tuesday morning, late-Tuesday morning?

482
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:15,320
Assuming she's not doing any shadows work, she's probably like hending to the community

483
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:27,680
garden or helping with some project around town or watching cowboy movies.

484
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,640
He watches old cowboy movies.

485
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,360
Oh, that's beautiful.

486
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,600
Are you texting her directly or calling her directly?

487
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:37,600
Texting.

488
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,800
Before emojis, I assume.

489
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:41,800
Tree emojis.

490
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:42,800
Tree emoji.

491
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:46,240
I'm going to text her.

492
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,240
Hi, Miss Magnumfoot.

493
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:49,240
Grace.

494
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:53,240
And then, delete that, the Grace.

495
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:59,320
I have someone who needs somewhere to go.

496
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,160
They're not safe in Seattle.

497
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:07,840
It's a human girl, like 20-something.

498
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:16,080
It's kind of serious, but we don't really have anywhere else for them to go outside of the

499
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:17,080
city.

500
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,120
It would be temporary, obviously.

501
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,720
And then I'll send that.

502
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,400
And Moe comes back with a...

503
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:25,400
Tree emoji.

504
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:26,400
Send.

505
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,240
Moe comes back.

506
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:36,640
He's got a picture of water and a picture of what looks like probably some kind of soy

507
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:43,960
beer and some glasses and sets them tentatively on the table in front of you guys and then

508
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:50,000
looks at Kirsten and says, so do you need anything else right now or should I just...

509
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,440
But you know what?

510
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,360
I'll just go stand by the door and make sure nothing's going on.

511
00:33:54,360 --> 00:34:01,600
And he walks off and stays inside the door, but he's watching outside.

512
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:09,560
And you get a message back from Miss Magnumfoot almost immediately.

513
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:16,840
And Miss Magnumfoot texts, as long as you don't bring trouble to our doorstep, that

514
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,360
will be fine.

515
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,920
I will try to be studious and sharing.

516
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:25,160
There's no way that they can track us off to Pines.

517
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:26,160
Period, send.

518
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,160
She texts back very well.

519
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:29,160
Thank you.

520
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:30,160
Period, send.

521
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:31,560
Just remember, this is our home.

522
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:35,880
And if we bring trouble back here, it won't be our home anymore.

523
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:36,880
I know Miss Magnumfoot.

524
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,480
Mininggelsen's another tree emoji.

525
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:43,440
And then you get the four tree emojis back from Miss Magnumfoot.

526
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:44,440
Kirsten.

527
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:50,760
Which sort of means affirmative, all good, go for it.

528
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:52,040
Beautiful.

529
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:53,120
Yes, then.

530
00:34:53,120 --> 00:35:02,200
I do not suppose you would be willing to pay for Cecil's, a good guide for Cecil.

531
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:07,120
I do feel that reusing these vehicles to take her out there would be something about risk

532
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,280
that we should not take.

533
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:13,880
Kirsten says, oh yeah, sure, I can do that.

534
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:14,880
Good.

535
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:15,880
I know what guide.

536
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,800
Mininggelsen stows her for calmly in one of her pockets.

537
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:25,280
Wait, wait, wait, I'm not taking my van back to Pines?

538
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:32,720
It is probably best if we leave both of our vehicles in a secure place for a little while

539
00:35:32,720 --> 00:35:39,840
and long enough for the trail to go at least a little more cold.

540
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,880
Don't worry, you won't have to be hurt for too long.

541
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:43,880
Honestly.

542
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,120
Well, I should probably get my stuff from my car.

543
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:50,000
I keep everything in there, including my camping supplies.

544
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,000
All right.

545
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:57,800
Yeah, I'm going to miss my bike.

546
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:05,240
So we have arranged that, assuming of course, and she looks to Cecil that...

547
00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:07,760
What do you want?

548
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:11,640
Is Cecil sitting at the table or is she still wandered off on her own?

549
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:13,160
She's in the corner.

550
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:15,160
She's standing leverally in the corner.

551
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,160
Of an MC bar?

552
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,840
You, Cecil, university girl.

553
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:20,840
I don't know.

554
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:21,840
Don't care.

555
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,160
Look, we have so much safe for you to go.

556
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:32,520
Let alone for a little while until I have someone who can help possibly with arranging

557
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:34,320
a new identity to...

558
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:35,320
Hold on, hold on.

559
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,320
Why was that part?

560
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,840
It's about the real location.

561
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:41,840
New identity?

562
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:42,840
Yes.

563
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:47,000
We may need to make you something temporary or permanent, depending on who you pissed

564
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:48,000
off.

565
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,160
How long am I going to have to stay with you?

566
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,040
I haven't agreed to anything.

567
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:54,600
Oh, yes.

568
00:36:54,600 --> 00:37:05,080
But, well, you are aware of why people take armed guards to escort nobodies, or so you

569
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:12,360
say, nobody, out the middle of a dock, nowhere, in other words.

570
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,400
Probably just a misunderstanding.

571
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:18,400
My classmates probably played some kind of prank on me.

572
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,000
Yes, what is it?

573
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,080
I don't think this is a misunderstanding, Cecil.

574
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:25,080
Look, I don't...

575
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,080
Clearly it's a very serious one.

576
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,760
I don't care to get in your dirty laundry.

577
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:35,800
However, whatever you did or have been accused of doing has clearly upset some people in

578
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,560
powerful places.

579
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:45,440
You cannot afford to trapeze along, especially in outfits like that, which are rather distinct.

580
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:49,360
Our outfit isn't actually that expensive.

581
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:55,280
Yeah, but to Boxer, it probably looks quite different.

582
00:37:55,280 --> 00:38:03,680
I mean, Boxer comes from a blue-collar part of town and has a very different backstory,

583
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:06,000
lifestyle upbringing than you do.

584
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,000
Right.

585
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,240
All you do is draw attention.

586
00:38:09,240 --> 00:38:14,960
So you're going to Lailo and you are going to become a new person, at least temporarily.

587
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:22,560
Look, it's unfortunate, it's difficult, I get it, but it is also necessary.

588
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:26,600
And unless you want to take another trip in the limousine with people who are going to

589
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:32,400
be far, far less nice to you after you have an armed escape from them.

590
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:38,320
Well, I suggest you get to work on figuring out what you want your new name to be.

591
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:42,600
This deal looks expectantly at Kirsten.

592
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:46,200
Kirsten looks back at you like, what, me?

593
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,040
She's calling a grid guide.

594
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:52,120
Your friend hired us to help you.

595
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:53,760
And that's what we are doing.

596
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:55,880
We are helping you.

597
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:57,440
Kirsten blushes nervously.

598
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,280
I don't know if I said hired.

599
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:01,280
Oh my God.

600
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:05,920
I was hoping this was sort of a fave for boxer.

601
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,440
You said that I could call you if I needed help.

602
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,920
She now has a hand on her head.

603
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:15,200
Like, oh, this idiot.

604
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:19,800
At the very least, I have to expand the fuel for my motorcycle.

605
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,120
I'm unisoned for my weapons.

606
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:25,120
I may have to repair my body armor.

607
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:30,800
Look, these are not insignificant expenses associated with this.

608
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,040
And furthermore, I'm a professional.

609
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:34,680
I do not do this for fun.

610
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:36,680
They require payment.

611
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:46,000
Now, I understand if you cannot pay my normal rates, however, you will at least cover my

612
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:54,760
expenses, which if we are to involve getting her a new identity will be notable.

613
00:39:54,760 --> 00:40:06,040
First looks at Cecilia, she's got her hands up like, hey, and she says, Cecilia, say

614
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:07,800
something, I mean, we rescued you.

615
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:08,800
I was helping you.

616
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:14,000
You want me to put the bill for your hired goons?

617
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:18,000
I am not a goon.

618
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,000
Get used to it, Don.

619
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:24,160
I haven't heard that for a while.

620
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:25,160
Thank you.

621
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,760
For all I know, I don't have any money anymore.

622
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:32,240
Okay, my bank account was through Evo.

623
00:40:32,240 --> 00:40:37,520
So if they're trying to kill me, I don't know why they'd cash my checks.

624
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:39,320
That is rather unfortunate.

625
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,200
I'm not like, use the seal.

626
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:47,280
I don't have the big, the big brain getting sponsored by corporate.

627
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,000
I have to pay my own way.

628
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,200
I work two jobs so that I can go to school.

629
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:56,200
How do you think I've always tired and don't have notes and I'm coming to you for help

630
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:57,200
steadying?

631
00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,200
What, you think I don't have debt too?

632
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,200
Oh, it's Cecilia.

633
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,560
Do you have anything you can liquidate?

634
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:09,440
Feel gives a look like, are you serious?

635
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,640
Look, this isn't just me requiring this.

636
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:16,080
I have to pay for professionals to handle your problem.

637
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:22,160
Kirsten says, looks at Boxer and says, I don't really have anything.

638
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:27,720
I'm not paying a value, but I do have some contacts and I can make an introduction for

639
00:41:27,720 --> 00:41:31,400
you that could be profitable for you Boxer.

640
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:39,120
And she looks around and the rest of this group, she looks at Grace and says, you rescued

641
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:40,800
Cecilia.

642
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:47,640
So you have some skills and I know people who are willing to pay for those skills.

643
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:48,640
Let's just say.

644
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:52,520
Well, if there are anything like these people, I'm sure they're lovely.

645
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:53,520
Why, thank you.

646
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:54,520
I'm here all day.

647
00:41:54,520 --> 00:42:01,520
You asked me to foot the bill or pawn my possessions after I got kidnapped.

648
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,520
I don't know.

649
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,160
Can we please stop with the raised voices?

650
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:13,520
Everyone where, hey, I understand everything's really stressful.

651
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,720
I understand she doesn't understand.

652
00:42:16,720 --> 00:42:20,960
He seems a little out of it right now, but that makes sense.

653
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,360
If he went through what she went through, you probably would be.

654
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:27,880
If I went through what she went through, it would be Tuesday.

655
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:29,880
It is Tuesday.

656
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,760
Cecilia, your comment rings.

657
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,520
Cecilia picks up immediately.

658
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:41,960
Boxer, give me a logic plus intuition check.

659
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:45,040
Actually, Grace, you do too.

660
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:46,040
Logic plus intuition.

661
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,920
I don't actually care what the caller ID said.

662
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:52,560
Cecilia just doesn't want to be part of this conversation anymore.

663
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:54,560
Far.

664
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:56,560
Two.

665
00:42:56,560 --> 00:43:08,240
So Grace is pretty certain that the fact that this Cecile person's calm link is still

666
00:43:08,240 --> 00:43:11,320
active is a very dangerous situation.

667
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:17,280
Boxer, to a lesser extent, you are looking at Cecile with the calm link thinking, why

668
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:19,440
does she still have her calm link on?

669
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:23,680
Hey, they're going to track you by that.

670
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:28,920
So Cecile, you answer the calm link and it is your roommate.

671
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:30,240
What's your roommate's name?

672
00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:31,240
Hold on.

673
00:43:31,240 --> 00:43:32,240
You got that paper?

674
00:43:32,240 --> 00:43:39,400
Grace's ears prick and swivel to focus on Cecile.

675
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:45,280
I'm not sure if I'd be able to actually hear the conversation, but I have the equivalent

676
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:48,080
of audio enhancement.

677
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:50,240
Her name is Siang-Ben Yoon.

678
00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:51,240
Oh my God.

679
00:43:51,240 --> 00:43:53,360
You have to turn it off.

680
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:55,480
Actually off power, none.

681
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:57,120
Siang-Ben Yoon?

682
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:58,120
Siang-Ben Yoon.

683
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:01,520
I'll text it to you.

684
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:02,520
You want it off?

685
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:03,520
Siang-Ben Yoon.

686
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:04,520
Siang-Ben Yoon.

687
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:05,520
You said it yourself.

688
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:06,520
You used the cracker.

689
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:12,280
Okay, so you answer and it's your roommate.

690
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:16,200
Oh, probably just by Yoon.

691
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:17,200
Okay.

692
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:20,720
Do you hear her voice on the calm link?

693
00:44:20,720 --> 00:44:25,840
It sounds rather tense and nervous.

694
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:30,280
And she says, Cecile, what is happening?

695
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:31,280
Where are you?

696
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,800
I look, it's a long story.

697
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:34,800
Are you okay?

698
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,320
No, I'm not okay.

699
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:43,640
They sent, they sent corp security to our place.

700
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:44,640
Boxer is intervening.

701
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:47,560
She's trying to take that calm link if she has to.

702
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:48,560
All right.

703
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:50,440
I bet you it's going to be fist to cuffs.

704
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:54,400
Yeah, and I know how that's going to go.

705
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:58,160
So you're going to try and grab the calm link out of Cecile's hand?

706
00:44:58,160 --> 00:44:59,160
Yes.

707
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:00,160
Right.

708
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:02,800
Cecile does not let that happen.

709
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:05,800
So we're going to have to make an opposed test here.

710
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:09,800
What are we rolling?

711
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:13,880
Agility plus strength seems like a reasonable.

712
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:15,920
Well since I failed this role.

713
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:17,240
That's right.

714
00:45:17,240 --> 00:45:19,680
Oh, never mind.

715
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:21,320
Did you both get a one?

716
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:22,320
Yes.

717
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:23,320
It's actually even.

718
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:27,800
I guess Cecile just really wants to hang on to this calm link.

719
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:29,800
All right.

720
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:37,200
Boxer you reached to grab the phone and Cecile's apparently anticipated your action and now

721
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:41,560
you find yourself both struggling for the phone.

722
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:48,880
And from the calm link you still hear Yoon's voice saying Cecile, Cecile what's going on?

723
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:50,560
They threw the whole apartment.

724
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:51,800
They've searched everything.

725
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:52,800
Yeah.

726
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:55,800
Look, just call me if anything happens.

727
00:45:55,800 --> 00:46:00,440
It's at that point that Nightingale intervenes with her own psychokinesis.

728
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:06,040
She's risen from the booth and she reaches out with her magic and tries to snatch it

729
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:10,680
away from them too while they fuss and fumble with it.

730
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:11,680
All right.

731
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:13,800
Everybody make another test.

732
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:18,800
Effective strength would be willpower plus magic.

733
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:19,800
One.

734
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:20,800
Nope.

735
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:21,800
Grace.

736
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:26,800
One, two, three, four, five.

737
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:30,800
Yes, because it's willpower plus magic.

738
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:31,800
Jesus.

739
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:39,520
So, Grace, you snatched the, as the two of them are awkwardly tussling for the phone

740
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:45,040
trying to get control of it, you just snatch it out of Cecile's fingers and it levitates

741
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:46,800
through the air towards you.

742
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:54,280
The promptly snaps it in half and then dunks it into the orange juice.

743
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:56,000
Nothing happens.

744
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:57,600
It's waterproof.

745
00:46:57,600 --> 00:46:59,080
She snapped it in half.

746
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:02,640
Oh, no, you can't do that.

747
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:04,680
It's pretty sturdy.

748
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:09,440
Cecile did not invest in the cheap ass calmly.

749
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:10,440
Just turn it off.

750
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,280
God, remove the battery if you have to.

751
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:17,680
So, what if you were mapping it in half, not actually not work?

752
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:21,000
Would I not be able to do that with psychokinesis?

753
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:24,720
You would have to make a damage test at least.

754
00:47:24,720 --> 00:47:27,840
How do I do that?

755
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:28,840
Yeah.

756
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:34,840
If Cecile sees you start trying to do that somehow, she will engage you.

757
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:36,800
All right.

758
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:37,800
You guys.

759
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:38,800
Yeah.

760
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:39,800
Roll initiative.

761
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:43,400
Seriously?

762
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:47,280
Oh, my God.

763
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:48,280
Okay.

764
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:49,280
Okay.

765
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:50,280
I did roll properly.

766
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:56,640
I have the same one as I had before, so it works out.

767
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,080
I'm going to put that down as 11.

768
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:04,440
I forgot to send that to the turn tracker.

769
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:05,440
We can modify it.

770
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:06,440
There we go.

771
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:09,440
All right.

772
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:15,280
So, Boxer, you've been reaching for this comlink.

773
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:19,560
Cecile was struggling against you, and suddenly it was snatched from both of your hands by

774
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:27,400
magic and is now, appears to be under the control of Grace.

775
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:28,400
What are you doing?

776
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,800
Remember, you can hold actions too.

777
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:37,520
She's holding until after night and go ask one way or another and using free action to

778
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:38,520
say.

779
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:43,560
Burn it off, pull it off, not just on standby or remove the battery.

780
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:46,440
After that, holding action.

781
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:48,160
It doesn't have a battery.

782
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:49,160
How does?

783
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:50,160
Shatter on.

784
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:51,160
It's magic.

785
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:52,160
Don't worry about it.

786
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:58,840
So, Cecile, make a logic and intuition test.

787
00:48:58,840 --> 00:48:59,840
Sure.

788
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:00,840
Logic and intuition.

789
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:06,640
Logic plus intuition, that would be three.

790
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:11,360
You recognize the validity of these people's concerns at this point.

791
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:17,120
We weren't thinking about it earlier, but in light of the situation and having an active

792
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:23,880
com that is on file with the school and with Evo, I mean, you're aware of the validity

793
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:25,560
of their concerns at this point.

794
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:31,160
Cecile immediately goes, ah, turns it off.

795
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:32,360
Just mentally.

796
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:37,840
She also runs over to the horse at the start of her combat term.

797
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:38,840
All right.

798
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:44,480
So, Nightingale, you see the common link go dark?

799
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:49,920
I think if the screen goes dark, Nightingale isn't going to dunk it into the orange juice.

800
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:50,920
Okay.

801
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:54,320
Any other action that you're going to take at this point?

802
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:58,400
Because it didn't break as easily as she was expecting, but now it's off.

803
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:07,960
Okay, so Kirsten goes next and her action is basically just to slap her hand down on

804
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:10,920
the table and say, cut it out, guys.

805
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:12,160
We don't need this right now.

806
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:15,440
We're in enough trouble if we're not fighting amongst ourselves.

807
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:17,000
And Cecile, it's your turn.

808
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,200
Where is the common link right now?

809
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:20,720
It's lying on the table.

810
00:50:20,720 --> 00:50:21,720
Okay.

811
00:50:21,720 --> 00:50:32,240
In that case, once again, I'm going to cast a Force 2 Levitate.

812
00:50:32,240 --> 00:50:34,080
And then we would drain test.

813
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:35,920
So I take one stun.

814
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:39,320
It's going into her hand again.

815
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:41,080
She cannot let that thing go.

816
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:42,080
All right.

817
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:46,400
We can go out of, I take it we can go out of initiative at this point.

818
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:47,400
Correct.

819
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:48,400
Yeah.

820
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:49,400
I would have.

821
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:54,000
Yes, the shortest combat in D&D.

822
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:59,080
So your roommate is fine is what I heard.

823
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:00,320
She's not in trouble.

824
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:01,840
She's not in danger.

825
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:06,520
If anything, that conversation she just had with her put her, with you put her in more

826
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:07,520
danger.

827
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:09,000
I don't know what corporate security is going to do.

828
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:10,760
I don't know what's going on.

829
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,200
No one's explained anything to me.

830
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:17,160
The first person that kidnapped me explained more than you all have.

831
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:23,720
You, Kirsten, Kirsten, have a sit down with her.

832
00:51:23,720 --> 00:51:25,080
Have a nice long talk.

833
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:27,360
Please explain everything.

834
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:28,360
Answer her questions.

835
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:29,360
Me?

836
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:30,360
I don't know.

837
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:31,360
I can see that she's a...

838
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:32,360
Then you guys do it at this point.

839
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:33,360
Yeah.

840
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:34,360
I didn't hire you.

841
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:35,360
You're the one that hired us.

842
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:39,720
And you know, you know what I mean.

843
00:51:39,720 --> 00:51:41,520
And you know more about Evo than I do.

844
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:43,000
I don't know anything.

845
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:47,280
I know that I heard something...

846
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:50,360
You guys are going to make me say it, aren't you?

847
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:52,440
Yes, spit it out.

848
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:57,480
I heard something from somebody who works in the court.

849
00:51:57,480 --> 00:51:59,480
I wasn't supposed to hear it.

850
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:03,880
Evo, then, we are up against Evo.

851
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:04,880
Great.

852
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:12,800
At that point, Moe turns towards you guys and say, oh, there looks to be a good guy.

853
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,000
Pulling into the parking lot.

854
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:16,000
Who?

855
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,000
A good guy?

856
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:25,440
That's what the people are associated here and my equine friend.

857
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:26,440
Where am I going?

858
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:28,440
Are you taking me?

859
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:33,920
You're going somewhere more secure than a club and outside of the city.

860
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:40,040
So you don't have to worry about whatever the hell Evo is going to lose on you.

861
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,400
So I recommend that you call her.

862
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,480
Sorry, where outside of the city?

863
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:47,760
It's some commune.

864
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:48,760
She says it's different.

865
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:49,760
Oh, great.

866
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:50,760
Lovely.

867
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:53,080
Yeah, it actually is very nice.

868
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:56,240
All of the people, very considerate.

869
00:52:56,240 --> 00:53:01,720
We just do things for one another and most of us, we don't know each other.

870
00:53:01,720 --> 00:53:06,840
We haven't been there our entire lives, but it feels like home, like family.

871
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:07,840
Right.

872
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:10,800
I'm going to be staying with a bunch of crazy in the woods.

873
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:12,760
This is just perfect, Kirsten.

874
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:16,720
Would you rather be dead or would you rather spend time with me?

875
00:53:16,720 --> 00:53:19,160
I don't know who you are.

876
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:25,920
I am decidedly less pleasant than a bunch of hippies in the woods if you're going to

877
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:27,560
act like that.

878
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:28,760
Sure, whatever.

879
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:30,560
Cecile just walks outside.

880
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:32,760
She's done.

881
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:35,000
Kirsten just looks exasperated.

882
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:40,760
She looks over at Boxer and says, I'm sorry, but I will get you more.

883
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:44,920
I will get you some contacts that will make you money.

884
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:47,320
That's acceptable.

885
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:49,320
And I owe you one.

886
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:50,320
Yeah.

887
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:51,320
Yeah.

888
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:52,320
All right.

889
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:56,760
What are you guys doing?

890
00:53:56,760 --> 00:53:59,280
The seal hasn't gotten in that car.

891
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:11,120
I think it's got to whatever you arranged.

892
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:14,920
I need to talk to the police.

893
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:15,920
Okay.

894
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:19,800
Just how is my audio quality?

895
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:20,800
Is it much different?

896
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,800
It's mostly the same.

897
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:24,800
A bit.

898
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:25,800
Is it like noticeable?

899
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:26,800
Oh, whatever.

900
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:42,240
I'm going to step out with, sorry, step out with Cecile and try and gently hurt her over

901
00:54:42,240 --> 00:54:50,920
to the grid guide saying, you can ask me any questions you have.

902
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:54,200
I've lived in Pines for about a year now.

903
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:56,880
I know quite a bit about the people there.

904
00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:57,880
I don't know you.

905
00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:00,880
I'm not going out of the city with you.

906
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,840
Well, what do you want to do then?

907
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:04,840
What are you?

908
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:05,840
I don't know.

909
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:07,840
Well, we'll see.

910
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:16,800
There's an issue there because some rich people don't like you and they operate in large

911
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:18,880
part in the city.

912
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:20,680
Cecile's just facing back and forth now.

913
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:22,160
She's not listening.

914
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:32,240
It's kind of a matter of, I don't like the word because it sounds very intense and severe,

915
00:55:32,240 --> 00:55:33,240
but survival.

916
00:55:33,240 --> 00:55:39,160
I know that you're scared and you're confused and that's okay.

917
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:41,600
Your emotions are perfectly reasonable.

918
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:45,800
Your situation is strenuous and strange.

919
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:53,480
But for that exact reason, you have to be willing to trust others and to take leaps

920
00:55:53,480 --> 00:56:02,280
here because otherwise, if you play it safe, well, they have the keys to the safe world.

921
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:06,520
Cecile runs back inside and yells at Kirsten.

922
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:08,840
Kirsten, get over here.

923
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:13,280
She huffs and flounces out of the booth and comes over to you.

924
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:15,440
Kirsten, what is our plan?

925
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:17,920
I don't have a plan.

926
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:21,240
I just wanted to rescue you.

927
00:56:21,240 --> 00:56:26,240
What you do now, I don't know what to do.

928
00:56:26,240 --> 00:56:28,760
I can't take responsibility for you, Cecile.

929
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:30,760
You've got to take responsibility for yourself.

930
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:34,240
Why can't I just watch with you?

931
00:56:34,240 --> 00:56:36,520
No, no, no, no.

932
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:42,000
We're friends, but we're not that kind of friends.

933
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:43,000
Great.

934
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:49,160
So you saved my life and now you're not giving me a place to stay, huh?

935
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:50,800
You can't stay with me, Cecile.

936
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:51,800
I'm sorry.

937
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:55,040
It's for the best.

938
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:58,680
Your friend is associated with where you came from.

939
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:03,400
I have no doubts that they will be examining her.

940
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:07,440
But I say, not have you been in a room when that happens.

941
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:12,960
Look, if you don't want to stay out in the middle of nowhere, you can stay with me.

942
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:21,200
Well, I'm sure that this is not exactly appealed to you and you would have some greater measure

943
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:26,280
of privacy with my equine associate.

944
00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:28,000
So this is your choice.

945
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:29,000
I do.

946
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:30,000
You, whatever.

947
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:31,000
I don't care.

948
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:32,000
Just ugh.

949
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:39,160
Oh, uh, Nightingale brushes past Cecile's legs.

950
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:40,160
Moe's standing at the front.

951
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:41,160
Where is Moe?

952
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:44,520
She's on the outside but standing at the door looking outside at the grid guide.

953
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:45,520
Oh, it's back.

954
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:49,160
There's an overhang where the loading docks are.

955
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:51,160
The horses are hot.

956
00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:57,920
I'm sure he's been watching at this entire time and he was probably surprised at first

957
00:57:57,920 --> 00:57:58,920
when he was like, okay.

958
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:03,920
He's sort of studiously just staring outside the grid.

959
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:04,920
Where exactly?

960
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:11,960
Can you give me like an address that we can send the grid guide to so that I can get my

961
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:12,960
stuff?

962
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:13,960
Oh, right.

963
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:14,960
Oh, also the keys.

964
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:15,960
Can you please?

965
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:20,720
So, it holds the keys out questioningly like, how are you going to take this?

966
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:24,160
Nightingale takes it with her magic.

967
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:32,880
It's consumed in this weird, what almost looks like a translucent blob of plasma and she

968
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:35,320
clusters it away into the pockets.

969
00:58:35,320 --> 00:58:40,160
Sweating a little bit and he says, well, I can show you.

970
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:42,800
We can get out to your car through the back door.

971
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:43,800
Oh, yes.

972
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:50,440
It's just in behind this building where the loading docks are where we load our food and

973
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:51,440
liquor shipments.

974
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:53,880
Oh, yeah, let's go do that.

975
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:54,880
Okay.

976
00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:56,920
Would you be okay helping me carry stuff?

977
00:58:56,920 --> 00:58:57,920
He looks out.

978
00:58:57,920 --> 00:58:58,920
Right.

979
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:01,760
Kirsten just shrugs and shakes her head.

980
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:13,080
Boxer approaches Kirsten and she says, but it's I don't suppose you have any side-by-side

981
00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:14,080
kits.

982
00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:17,080
Who are you talking to me?

983
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:18,080
Yes, Kirsten.

984
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:21,520
Or if you're near Kirsten, I guess you'd hear.

985
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:23,920
You're talking to steal or Kirsten?

986
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:27,720
Kirsten, but if the seals nearby, well, she can reject.

987
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:32,240
It's your cousin.

988
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:37,720
No, I don't have any cybersecurity skills.

989
00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:39,680
All right.

990
00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:45,080
I was hoping to make talking us a little less easy.

991
00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:51,960
Are you asking you want them to not be able to track us?

992
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:52,960
Yes.

993
00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:57,200
I enjoy not being in prison and I imagined you enjoy not being dead.

994
00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:59,440
Give me a tag eraser.

995
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:04,000
Well, you do have one, don't you?

996
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:05,000
Not on me.

997
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:07,200
I wasn't expecting this.

998
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:08,200
What?

999
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:12,920
Do you think this is a video game and I carry everything with me?

1000
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:20,480
At this point, Kirsten is standing close to Seel and just reaches out and pats her on

1001
01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:23,440
the shoulder and says, okay.

1002
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:28,320
Okay, Seel, be in touch and she runs out the front door.

1003
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:29,320
Wait, Kirsten.

1004
01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:33,320
She's dumped into a grid guide and it leaves.

1005
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:34,320
All right.

1006
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:36,560
So who are you?

1007
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:37,560
What's your deal?

1008
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:41,960
What's the gas mask thing?

1009
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:44,160
Is that for intimidation purposes?

1010
01:00:44,160 --> 01:00:52,840
No, that is because I'm rather identifiable and because I enjoy having a bunked-

1011
01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:53,840
No, no, no.

1012
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:54,840
Just take the grid guide.

1013
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:58,400
I'm well aware of what the pollution in this city does.

1014
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:04,520
The grid guide that you had called for Seel left since nobody got into it.

1015
01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:07,840
Kirsten called her own grid guide.

1016
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:18,080
So Moe and Grace are walking back behind the bar through the kitchen area and out to the

1017
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:24,240
back door and there's a loading dock with a roof over it, sort of a lean two-style roof

1018
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:30,160
and your van and Boxer's motorcycle are parked underneath of it.

1019
01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:40,040
I provide security of the unconventional and unofficial kind to this area and others.

1020
01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:41,680
Could you repeat that?

1021
01:01:41,680 --> 01:01:52,080
I provide security of the unconventional and unofficial kind to this area.

1022
01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:55,000
So, what, you shake people down?

1023
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:56,000
I don't...

1024
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,640
No, I am not a common criminal.

1025
01:01:58,640 --> 01:02:02,240
Right, you're an uncommon criminal, of course.

1026
01:02:02,240 --> 01:02:04,800
Yes, and so are you.

1027
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:07,280
I have done nothing illegal.

1028
01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:08,280
Yet.

1029
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:16,280
Really, you've done something that wants your apprehension with these people?

1030
01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:18,480
Ostensibly so, yeah.

1031
01:02:18,480 --> 01:02:22,160
Look, God, I hate this term.

1032
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:25,200
I am what people like to call a shadow runner.

1033
01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:31,400
I think it's a bit of an overblown term, but whatever, people recognize it.

1034
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:33,560
You had a runner criminal, it's all the same.

1035
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:35,120
I don't care what you call yourself.

1036
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:36,440
We just get out of here.

1037
01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:40,640
I assume you want to go with me, I'm not my associate.

1038
01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:44,120
Yes, I would prefer that you have arms.

1039
01:02:44,120 --> 01:02:46,440
I heard that.

1040
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:49,440
Chris, I...

1041
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:59,360
I guess we can say at that point Grace comes back with Moe and she's loaded Moe up with

1042
01:02:59,360 --> 01:03:01,880
a bunch of gear.

1043
01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:03,880
It is literally everything.

1044
01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:07,200
Just about everything she owns.

1045
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:10,880
You know, backpack on and bags hanging off of him.

1046
01:03:10,880 --> 01:03:15,640
His arms are stacked full so he can't barely see where he's going.

1047
01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:16,640
Aw.

1048
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:21,800
And nine ago, she's doing some of her...

1049
01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:27,960
I mean, Grace, she's doing some of her own part, carrying her stuff, but she's evidently

1050
01:03:27,960 --> 01:03:33,480
appreciative to have him and Tom love her burdens too.

1051
01:03:33,480 --> 01:03:37,320
But she comes on up and she says, oh, this is not...

1052
01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:39,480
You're not going to be coming with me?

1053
01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:41,480
No, unfortunately not.

1054
01:03:41,480 --> 01:03:42,480
So, so...

1055
01:03:42,480 --> 01:03:43,480
Fine.

1056
01:03:43,480 --> 01:03:44,480
It's your choice.

1057
01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:45,480
It's fine.

1058
01:03:45,480 --> 01:03:46,480
That's it.

1059
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:47,480
Grace, you...

1060
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:48,480
Well...

1061
01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:56,400
I don't suppose there's anything magical that has been done to her that would require

1062
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:59,240
your expertise?

1063
01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:05,560
Nine ago, very promptly blinks in a senses and then astrally perceives and goes onto a

1064
01:04:05,560 --> 01:04:06,560
sense...

1065
01:04:06,560 --> 01:04:07,560
Both...

1066
01:04:07,560 --> 01:04:13,880
Well, first, Cecile, but then she'll also check herself a little bit.

1067
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:14,880
Sure.

1068
01:04:14,880 --> 01:04:16,960
Is she making a sense in your own?

1069
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:19,960
I actually don't know if you can sense yourself.

1070
01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:20,960
I think you can.

1071
01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:25,920
Well, I wouldn't say that is my instinct.

1072
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:26,920
So...

1073
01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:30,520
I think you're going to have more than half or more than half.

1074
01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:33,560
More than half for glitch.

1075
01:04:33,560 --> 01:04:35,560
More than half for...

1076
01:04:35,560 --> 01:04:36,560
Yeah.

1077
01:04:36,560 --> 01:04:38,560
More than successes for glitches.

1078
01:04:38,560 --> 01:04:41,600
No successes for critical.

1079
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:44,120
So you didn't glitch.

1080
01:04:44,120 --> 01:04:49,360
So Cecile, aside from...

1081
01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:50,760
How is Cecile feeling right now?

1082
01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:52,560
What's her emotional state?

1083
01:04:52,560 --> 01:04:53,560
Emotion.

1084
01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:58,440
She's just annoyed, kind of panicking silently.

1085
01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:00,000
Very tired.

1086
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:03,480
So Grace, that's the aura you get from her.

1087
01:05:03,480 --> 01:05:07,040
You don't see any spells on her.

1088
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:10,680
There's no astral tracking of her.

1089
01:05:10,680 --> 01:05:12,440
She...

1090
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:19,800
The woman's Cecile does appear to be magically active, so she's not mundane.

1091
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:23,920
And you yourself are...

1092
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:25,720
There's nothing attached to you either.

1093
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:30,200
There are no spirits around at the moment, and there's nothing astrally perceiving, and

1094
01:05:30,200 --> 01:05:36,200
there's nothing magically spellcasting-wise been attached to you.

1095
01:05:36,200 --> 01:05:37,200
Okay.

1096
01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:41,920
Gaging Cecile, can I tell what her magic rate is relative to me?

1097
01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:48,080
I don't think two is enough for that.

1098
01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:50,080
Presentable.

1099
01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:57,480
Hits to presence and location of cyberware, class of a magical subject, environmental manipulation

1100
01:05:57,480 --> 01:05:59,840
spell power focus.

1101
01:05:59,840 --> 01:06:04,440
If you have seen the subject, or before, you may recognize it regardless of physical disguises.

1102
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:10,160
For one, state of subject's health, emotional state, happy, sad, angry.

1103
01:06:10,160 --> 01:06:11,560
What subject is mundane?

1104
01:06:11,560 --> 01:06:12,560
Okay.

1105
01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:17,560
So I can tell that she is an aspect of me?

1106
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:20,560
Or is she just a...

1107
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:21,560
Full-mage?

1108
01:06:21,560 --> 01:06:22,560
Okay.

1109
01:06:22,560 --> 01:06:28,880
You do not have enough to determine what her magic rating is at all.

1110
01:06:28,880 --> 01:06:31,560
So you guys are all...

1111
01:06:31,560 --> 01:06:35,040
We're still suffering the effects of combat too, right guys?

1112
01:06:35,040 --> 01:06:38,880
So you still got damage trackers?

1113
01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:39,880
Yes.

1114
01:06:39,880 --> 01:06:40,880
Yes.

1115
01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:41,880
So...

1116
01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:42,880
I want to help her.

1117
01:06:42,880 --> 01:06:45,480
She has a lot of stun.

1118
01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:50,440
Yeah, Boxer has seven boxes of stun.

1119
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:52,760
Cecile has two boxes of stun.

1120
01:06:52,760 --> 01:06:54,480
No, wrong Cecile.

1121
01:06:54,480 --> 01:06:55,480
Wrong Cecile.

1122
01:06:55,480 --> 01:06:57,800
Nightingale has two boxes of stun.

1123
01:06:57,800 --> 01:06:59,680
Which Cecile am I supposed to be looking at?

1124
01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:02,000
The normal Cecile, not the one with the picture.

1125
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:03,000
Okay.

1126
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:04,800
Cecile has two physical and one stun.

1127
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:05,800
She's hurt.

1128
01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:06,800
Ow.

1129
01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:11,240
Yeah, so all three of you are looking somewhat the worst for the wear.

1130
01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:18,320
Cecile's Boxer's carrying it more better because she's used to it or has experienced it before.

1131
01:07:18,320 --> 01:07:23,000
But Cecile's looking quite run down as well.

1132
01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:26,600
Her shoulder of her dress is...

1133
01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:27,600
Or Blouse is torn.

1134
01:07:27,600 --> 01:07:28,600
No, no, no.

1135
01:07:28,600 --> 01:07:30,240
She hasn't taken damage.

1136
01:07:30,240 --> 01:07:32,240
She's just taken drain.

1137
01:07:32,240 --> 01:07:35,560
I thought her condition tracks as two physical.

1138
01:07:35,560 --> 01:07:37,600
Yes, but that's drain.

1139
01:07:37,600 --> 01:07:40,520
Well your Blouse is still torn.

1140
01:07:40,520 --> 01:07:44,200
GM's Ferocious.

1141
01:07:44,200 --> 01:07:49,000
As you got dragged out of the car, your Blouse caught on a sharp edge of a metal and was

1142
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:50,500
torn.

1143
01:07:50,500 --> 01:07:53,560
Another inconvenience you can thank this whole situation for.

1144
01:07:53,560 --> 01:07:54,560
It's fine.

1145
01:07:54,560 --> 01:07:55,560
She can fix it.

1146
01:07:55,560 --> 01:08:01,640
In fact, I should note, in case any of you looked hard enough, Cecile is wearing real

1147
01:08:01,640 --> 01:08:06,160
cotton.

1148
01:08:06,160 --> 01:08:10,440
Boxer would like literally not care.

1149
01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:15,480
She would probably wonder why when there's so much better stuff to be had.

1150
01:08:15,480 --> 01:08:18,080
I mean, she can actually protect the gunfire.

1151
01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:22,440
All right, it's up to you guys to figure out what we're doing here.

1152
01:08:22,440 --> 01:08:27,120
So, apparently Cecile is coming back to Boxer.

1153
01:08:27,120 --> 01:08:33,360
Unfortunately for her, there's a shape house.

1154
01:08:33,360 --> 01:08:34,360
It's not nice.

1155
01:08:34,360 --> 01:08:38,520
It's rather decidedly less nice than Boxer's actual place.

1156
01:08:38,520 --> 01:08:40,720
It's more secure.

1157
01:08:40,720 --> 01:08:44,120
Grace, are you guys, so what are you guys doing?

1158
01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:46,520
Are you getting a plan together?

1159
01:08:46,520 --> 01:08:47,520
Grace?

1160
01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:50,640
That's a great question.

1161
01:08:50,640 --> 01:08:55,920
I don't actually know what to do here because the good guide is gone.

1162
01:08:55,920 --> 01:08:58,320
How much do good guides typically cost?

1163
01:08:58,320 --> 01:08:59,320
Wow.

1164
01:08:59,320 --> 01:09:00,320
Oh, really?

1165
01:09:00,320 --> 01:09:04,400
No, it's just part of your overall cost of living, which is sort of your lifestyle cost

1166
01:09:04,400 --> 01:09:06,600
at the end of every month.

1167
01:09:06,600 --> 01:09:08,120
Oh, wow.

1168
01:09:08,120 --> 01:09:09,120
Okay.

1169
01:09:09,120 --> 01:09:11,400
That makes them a lot easier.

1170
01:09:11,400 --> 01:09:14,840
Definitely not the kind of thing that I would want to track in my new ship.

1171
01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:22,360
But if your lifestyle was like squatter or homeless, then yes, you'd probably have to

1172
01:09:22,360 --> 01:09:23,360
pay for it.

1173
01:09:23,360 --> 01:09:26,440
But I don't think any of you guys are at that lifestyle.

1174
01:09:26,440 --> 01:09:28,440
I mean, now?

1175
01:09:28,440 --> 01:09:29,440
Yeah.

1176
01:09:29,440 --> 01:09:33,800
Technically, Cecile is homeless at this point.

1177
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:36,200
Technically, 90 gallons of squatter.

1178
01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:37,680
Boxer can pick up the bill.

1179
01:09:37,680 --> 01:09:41,560
If you want one too, you'll have to ask, but you can't.

1180
01:09:41,560 --> 01:09:46,520
I'm going to do that because I don't have very much money.

1181
01:09:46,520 --> 01:09:49,040
Though I kind of don't want to leave town now.

1182
01:09:49,040 --> 01:09:53,480
If Cecile isn't coming with me, I could do stuff staying in town.

1183
01:09:53,480 --> 01:09:54,480
I suppose.

1184
01:09:54,480 --> 01:09:57,480
Maybe want to lay low because you are rather distinct.

1185
01:09:57,480 --> 01:09:58,480
I don't know what.

1186
01:09:58,480 --> 01:10:02,360
I mean, if you were invisible for the majority of that.

1187
01:10:02,360 --> 01:10:03,360
Sorry.

1188
01:10:03,360 --> 01:10:04,360
Wait.

1189
01:10:04,360 --> 01:10:06,680
In what context are we talking?

1190
01:10:06,680 --> 01:10:07,680
Right.

1191
01:10:07,680 --> 01:10:08,680
In character.

1192
01:10:08,680 --> 01:10:09,680
Sorry.

1193
01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:11,680
You may want to lay low.

1194
01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:12,920
Boxer, boxer.

1195
01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:14,680
You may want to lay low.

1196
01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:15,680
Nightingale.

1197
01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:24,280
I imagine that someone as distinct as you, even given a limited appearance, maybe best

1198
01:10:24,280 --> 01:10:26,160
self to laying low.

1199
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:29,800
I, well, there's a reason I kept my helmet on.

1200
01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:31,200
Just say that.

1201
01:10:31,200 --> 01:10:32,200
Yeah.

1202
01:10:32,200 --> 01:10:33,200
I know.

1203
01:10:33,200 --> 01:10:43,280
What I typically do is that I walk the streets invisible or perhaps taking on the form of

1204
01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:44,280
a dog.

1205
01:10:44,280 --> 01:10:45,280
I people watch.

1206
01:10:45,280 --> 01:10:46,280
I listen to people.

1207
01:10:46,280 --> 01:10:51,040
I listen to the sounds coming from people's homes.

1208
01:10:51,040 --> 01:10:54,600
That sounds normal and not worth mentioning.

1209
01:10:54,600 --> 01:10:55,600
Anyhow.

1210
01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:56,600
Yes.

1211
01:10:56,600 --> 01:11:05,080
Let's get you to see some of the words a little less.

1212
01:11:05,080 --> 01:11:07,280
A little more.

1213
01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:08,280
Sure.

1214
01:11:08,280 --> 01:11:10,040
If you want.

1215
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:12,400
Can I come with?

1216
01:11:12,400 --> 01:11:13,400
Okay.

1217
01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:16,520
That sounds good to me.

1218
01:11:16,520 --> 01:11:20,000
Do you want to stay with her?

1219
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:21,400
Actually yes.

1220
01:11:21,400 --> 01:11:23,640
We're all staying up.

1221
01:11:23,640 --> 01:11:26,720
Yes, you can come with.

1222
01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:29,440
I can't promise that I'll be comfortable though.

1223
01:11:29,440 --> 01:11:32,640
Oh, I sleep on a stack of hay.

1224
01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:34,640
I'm not worried about it.

1225
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:36,640
I'm not worried about it.

1226
01:11:36,640 --> 01:11:38,640
My cup of morning.

1227
01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:40,640
God, thank God.

1228
01:11:40,640 --> 01:11:42,640
Letting go.

1229
01:11:42,640 --> 01:11:44,640
I giggled.

1230
01:11:44,640 --> 01:11:51,440
And anyway, we should probably call the grid guide so that Moe here, yeah, he looks like

1231
01:11:51,440 --> 01:11:52,440
he's about to break.

1232
01:11:52,440 --> 01:11:55,440
He's just been standing there due to the entire time.

1233
01:11:55,440 --> 01:11:57,440
That was fine.

1234
01:11:57,440 --> 01:11:59,440
He's a big work.

1235
01:11:59,440 --> 01:12:05,440
Boxer thoughtlessly just calls it up with an AR thingy.

1236
01:12:05,440 --> 01:12:06,440
All right.

1237
01:12:06,440 --> 01:12:08,440
You're ordering a grid guide.

1238
01:12:08,440 --> 01:12:11,440
Are you ordering manned or unmanned?

1239
01:12:11,440 --> 01:12:12,440
Oh, unmanned.

1240
01:12:12,440 --> 01:12:13,440
All right.

1241
01:12:13,440 --> 01:12:17,440
It only takes about a minute before the, I take it you ordered a larger grid guide of

1242
01:12:17,440 --> 01:12:18,440
van or something.

1243
01:12:18,440 --> 01:12:19,440
Yes.

1244
01:12:19,440 --> 01:12:26,440
Before the, the van pulls into the parking lot and the doors open and you guys climb in

1245
01:12:26,440 --> 01:12:33,440
and Moe deposits the, the gear that he's got in the back of the van and then he waves it

1246
01:12:33,440 --> 01:12:38,440
you guys and says, well, say hello to, to Kirsten when you see her again.

1247
01:12:38,440 --> 01:12:40,440
It was good to see her.

1248
01:12:40,440 --> 01:12:42,440
Nice meeting you guys.

1249
01:12:42,440 --> 01:12:43,440
Yes.

1250
01:12:43,440 --> 01:12:44,440
Nice to meet you too.

1251
01:12:44,440 --> 01:12:47,440
Have a good rest of your hour long.

1252
01:12:47,440 --> 01:12:49,440
Come by anytime.

1253
01:12:49,440 --> 01:12:50,440
And go.

1254
01:12:50,440 --> 01:12:52,440
Boxer always smiles at that.

1255
01:12:52,440 --> 01:12:55,440
No, he said we're a friendly bunch.

1256
01:12:55,440 --> 01:12:57,440
What did he say?

1257
01:12:57,440 --> 01:13:00,440
And then he, he heads off and locks the door.

1258
01:13:00,440 --> 01:13:06,440
So the grid guide boxer, you're, you're giving a destination to the grid guide.

1259
01:13:06,440 --> 01:13:13,440
Oh, that would be to the second, second lifestyle, which is the safe house.

1260
01:13:13,440 --> 01:13:14,440
Sad lumpy one.

1261
01:13:14,440 --> 01:13:16,440
Sad lumpy one.

1262
01:13:16,440 --> 01:13:17,440
Sorry.

1263
01:13:17,440 --> 01:13:23,440
That's never, she's, she's taken them to the safe house or safe house.

1264
01:13:23,440 --> 01:13:24,440
She has one.

1265
01:13:24,440 --> 01:13:25,440
Okay.

1266
01:13:25,440 --> 01:13:26,440
Cat bed one.

1267
01:13:26,440 --> 01:13:27,440
All right.

1268
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So where, where is cat bed one?

1269
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I imagine it's not in Auburn.

1270
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It's like in one of the less pleasant areas, not like what's it called red, red demand.

1271
01:13:40,440 --> 01:13:45,440
Just like some industrial shit hole.

1272
01:13:45,440 --> 01:13:51,440
Auburn is probably the industrial shit hole.

1273
01:13:51,440 --> 01:13:58,440
Well, it is, but you can also go to Puyallup or Tacoma is not great either.

1274
01:13:58,440 --> 01:14:01,440
Tacoma is down by the docks.

1275
01:14:01,440 --> 01:14:10,440
And it's pretty crappy too, but between Auburn, Puyallup and Tacoma, Puyallup is probably the worst.

1276
01:14:10,440 --> 01:14:13,440
It's basically a step below Redmond.

1277
01:14:13,440 --> 01:14:16,440
Yet below the Redmond barren.

1278
01:14:16,440 --> 01:14:17,440
Step above, sorry.

1279
01:14:17,440 --> 01:14:19,440
Wrong direction.

1280
01:14:19,440 --> 01:14:23,440
Well, they're going on a trip to a sketchy place.

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