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I don't know, I'm not sure.

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Alright, so now that we're recording, we're going to do

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the

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towards the mountains.

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One of them is Procop, the other is Ice.

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They are each holding a glass of amber liquid

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in one hand and a cigar in the other.

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The men are silent until Ice asks,

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do you think it'll work?

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Procop shrugs and raises his glass

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towards the rising sun.

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If anyone knows what happened,

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it will be that bastard George Vannhausen.

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Ice raises his glass as well.

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What happens if he's still alive?

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Procop shrugs again and says, to Riga mortis,

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to the little bastard, Ice responds,

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then he grins, I can't believe you're teaming me up

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with an elf, a cat, and some talking pericritic

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talking horse.

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You always were a softfrager, Procop.

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Trying to save everyone.

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Doesn't work, you know, Procop grins.

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Who's talking?

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If Riga were still alive,

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you know exactly what you are going to do.

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They both drain their glasses.

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Behind them, the changing angles of the rays

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illuminate the woman Nadja standing silently behind them.

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And that's it.

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Mm.

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So we left off last time with Cecile

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and Dien Der stayed at the Sanivar.

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And Boxer and Grace headed back towards Boxer's safe house,

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only to be warned away by the Sensei,

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who told them that there had been a gun battle

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and that the safe house was destroyed.

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So did anybody leave any equipment or gear

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or other possessions there?

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At the Sanivar?

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At Boxer's safe house.

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At Boxer's safe house?

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Cecile definitely didn't.

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Yeah, because Cecile didn't have anything.

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And I'm going to go left everything in her truck

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like a reasonable person.

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Boxer had a whole lot of rations,

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all of which I'm going to delete from my character sheet.

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Let's see how many they are.

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One, two, three, four, five.

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There were 200 rations in there with 1,000 new ones.

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200 rations?

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I buy in bulk.

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Why were they all there?

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Why were they to live the apocalypse?

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Yes.

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Haven't you seen what's outside there?

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Haven't you seen what's outside?

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Boxer is a prepper.

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Boxer is a prepper.

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You don't fuck with Boxer in her rations.

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I don't think those cool preppers

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are not one of the lame ones that make you want to die

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when they start talking.

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If the ghost dance happens again, Boxer will be ready.

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Not anymore.

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Her rations are gone.

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But she does have enough ammunition to kill God.

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Exactly.

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Only sometimes.

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Cecile's ghost dance.

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Approximately enough ammunition to shoot away a hurricane.

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You know that crappy movie with the sharks?

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Yeah, I should go back.

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Sharknado.

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Yes.

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Just going to do that.

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It's a scene with the chainsaw in Sharknado.

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So the first thing that I'm going to do

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is I'm going to contact Prakka and ask him

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about anonymous banking services in this area.

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So what time do you get up?

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Cecile very early, like 5 AM.

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Dindar's already up.

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Dindar's already up.

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She's just sitting there with a notebook out, writing.

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All right.

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So when you wake up and call Procop,

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he is actually still awake.

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So he answers.

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You'll just call Procop.

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She messages Procop.

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She's very respectful of Procop's time.

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OK.

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Well, it turns out he's awake.

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He was literally just having his nightcap up on the roof.

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Interesting.

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He texts you back.

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And so what were you looking for again?

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Anonymous banking services in the Seattle area.

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Ah, OK.

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Yeah, so Cecile probably asks, what's a good one?

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Do they have in-person locations?

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Can you set that up for me?

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He takes you back right away and he sends you another.

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He sends you a contact.

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Good.

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Something to add to the character sheet?

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Sure.

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Let's make up a name real quick.

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All right.

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So the name of the contact just comes across as Cilus.

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But not actually Cilus, like dot, dot, dot.

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No, Cilus, S-I-L-A-S.

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Wait, can you spell that for me again?

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S-I-L-A-S.

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That?

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No, S-I-L-A-S.

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Oh, OK.

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I thought you said silence.

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I was like, that's a very funny name.

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So I want to make a joke about it.

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Especially for a shadow banker.

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That would be the perfect name, actually.

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I don't say shit to nobody.

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I got an angel.

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It's in my name.

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Oh, you should be aware that these shadow banks do actually

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have to be like big actual banks.

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They just have to be shady.

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They just have to be shady.

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The example in the book is given as the Malaysian

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independent bank.

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Shady.

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Well, you'll have to hook up with Cilus

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and see what they can tell him.

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That's probably going to be an issue since confirming

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Cecile's ID would be difficult.

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But sure, let's leave Cilus a call at 5 AM, probably not

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standard operating hours.

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You have ProCops token.

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Token?

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Token.

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Token.

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Token.

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Is it like the banking token or like credit state?

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Go to GM.

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Wait, no, where did that go?

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Go to text channels in character.

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Ah, the seal.

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So it just passed that along to Cilus, then.

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Right.

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That's like your.

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OK.

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Cecile will also text that seal.

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And what are you saying?

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Cecile politely types up a message

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saying that she would like to establish an account at their

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fine establishment, preferably anonymous.

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OK.

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And Boxer and Grace, how did you and where did you spend the

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night?

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Would Grace stick with Boxer when she goes to her apartment?

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But yeah, Grace would have wanted to come with Boxer if

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she could help because she doesn't really have any

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wash to go besides maybe like Greg's.

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Well, in that case, Grace could just sleep on the couch.

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It's a relatively comfy couch, so she's all good.

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What time do they wake up?

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So we've established at D&Dare and Cecile are early birds,

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but it's been a long night for you, long disappointing night

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for you since you found out your safe house was compromised.

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Boxer gets up six per day, something that was instilled

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in her when she was in service.

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And I know about Nightingale.

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If she wakes up earlier, it's possible she could wake up Boxer.

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Nightingale rises basically almost all the time with the sun,

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even if she can't see the sun.

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She is, I was going to say, descendant from,

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but that doesn't exactly make sense for what she is.

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It's more like she lived among rural farmers

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for a good bit of her early life.

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So she wakes up early.

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I don't know if that would be around the time that Boxer does

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because I don't know when the sun would

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rise in this part of the country at this time of year.

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Well, either way, we've established

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they're all relatively early riders, I guess.

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Yeah, you guys are all up.

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Cecil is trying to find a means of establishing

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a shadow account of some sorts.

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Deander is taking notes, and you guys

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are hanging out at the moment, at least in Boxer's apartment.

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So just, Cecil, you haven't gotten the response yet.

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So what are you guys doing?

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Cecil's pacing very uncomfortably.

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I think every now and then Deander

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looks up at Cecil, but then doesn't do anything

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and continues writing.

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It takes a good 30 minutes before Deander

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is willing to say anything.

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She'll be pacing for like an hour.

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She'll be pacing until she hears something from Silas,

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apparently.

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You're going to wear a hole in the floor.

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Perhaps.

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Well, since you're waiting for something, so nonchalantly.

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Why don't we go grab a soy calf?

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And Deander hops up and puts her shoes and clothes on.

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I'm not a fan of coffee, personally, but sure.

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Where are you getting coffee in this city?

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The store?

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I think this is like as we're walking out, right?

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You know, when I met you, I thought you were some two-bit

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poser.

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Poser?

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Mm-hmm.

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In what sense?

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I thought that was fairly obvious.

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Posing to be but.

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I don't know.

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A rich girl?

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Oh, I assure you, I think I'm rich.

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At least not that.

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At least not that girl from the news.

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Isn't it?

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Oh, you heard about that?

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Maybe.

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I shall be rather annoyed if that's the only thing

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people recognize before.

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Well, I think most people in the city

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have heard of you that way and no other way.

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Most mages have heard of me a different way.

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Well, I'm painfully mundane.

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That much is obvious.

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Sorry.

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Do you think that much is time to your mother?

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I can't.

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She's dead.

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I'm old enough to be hers.

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Good for you.

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Sorry, Paul.

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What were you going to say?

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Deander, you, as you're trying to find a place to go get coffee,

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you find that there is a place called Older's Pune, not too

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far from your location.

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I think we get out and then Deander just tosses the second bike

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helmet to Cecile.

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You're not going to call it a grid guide, are you?

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I'm not serious.

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I'm taking the death travel.

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I'll have you know I'm an excellent driver.

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Fine.

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Ceil's slowing up reviews for the restaurant

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while they drive.

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Yeah, Olga's tea room is known for being a Russian style

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tea room that serves imported teas and coffees

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with a special emphasis on Russian and Eastern European

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varieties.

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Boxer and Grace, what are you guys getting up to?

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Boxer being prepared breakfast for budget.

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Probably not be anything especially great.

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Hey, Liz.

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Yeah?

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We've got some static on your end.

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It appears to have disappeared.

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It's horse magic to get rid of it.

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Horse magic.

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Anyway, Nightingale is helping like a child.

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What?

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Nightingale would offer to help with breakfast.

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And I added like a child because I

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imagine she isn't very familiar with cooking with the ingredients

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that medic humans use.

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Oh, man.

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It's going to be a lot of soy and stuff.

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I was going to say, chopped up vegetables that I remember.

279
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So I'll have to afford vegetables.

280
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Your water boils at 150, right?

281
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Wait, can you repeat that?

282
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Your water boils at 150, right?

283
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Right?

284
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That's really weird for a like that.

285
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That is very stupid.

286
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Did the US adopt Fahrenheit?

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I mean, not Fahrenheit Celsius.

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They tried.

289
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I mean, did UCAS adopt Celsius and metric?

290
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Yes, veteran is all in metric.

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And they said Japanese imperialism didn't have benefits.

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Oh, my god.

293
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So.

294
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Yeah, so what do you guys want to do today?

295
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You guys want to continue role playing?

296
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Do you guys have anything that you want to accomplish today?

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Do you just want to skip forward until you

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have to meet the Mr. Johnson or until Silas calls Cecile back?

299
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We know we're going to meet the Mr. Johnson, right?

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I would like to scout out the area where we're

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supposed to meet him.

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The murdered Mime?

303
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Cecile would probably not accompany you on that.

304
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It's not really a stick out kind of gal.

305
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She just was laid out.

306
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That's her sleep, my god.

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Let's say she waits in Olga's tea house and lets

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Diedra do her thing.

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Her cop thing.

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Fucking cop.

311
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Gosh.

312
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Are you guys in communication with the boxer and Grace?

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Possibly.

314
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I imagine Diedra has forgotten to message them at this point

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because we're supposed to meet them at like 6 PM

316
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to the Mr. Johnson, right?

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And I try pulling up some intel on ICE.

318
00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:07,240
All right, so you're going to do some matrix searching on ICE.

319
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And Diedra is going to go scout the area of the murdered Mime.

320
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I think that's the plan.

321
00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:20,360
And Grace and Boxer, what are you guys up to?

322
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Oh, god.

323
00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,280
No, honey, don't.

324
00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:23,960
Not ICE.

325
00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:25,520
Not that ICE.

326
00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:31,960
Anyway, Boxer's going to do a gear check on herself.

327
00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:38,520
And if Nightingale were a letter, Nightingale stuff.

328
00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:39,880
Nightingale's OK.

329
00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,960
Yeah, you can poke my stuff.

330
00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:45,760
And once you can watch, she will explain it because she

331
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is enthusiastic about this kind of thing.

332
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She has many questions about firearms.

333
00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:55,680
And there's just firearms, but equipment in general, all of it.

334
00:16:55,680 --> 00:17:02,080
All right, so Cecile, you launch into your search for ICE.

335
00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:03,560
How exactly are you going to do it?

336
00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:05,080
Right now you know him as ICE.

337
00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:10,920
You did you take a picture of him?

338
00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:12,680
Oh, that's a good question.

339
00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:16,720
I don't think Cecile would be so rude as to take

340
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pictures of her employers associate during a meeting.

341
00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:23,720
Yeah, you didn't pull out your comm and just take a pic.

342
00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:24,680
No.

343
00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:27,760
And you weren't wearing goggles or glasses that

344
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had the capability to do so.

345
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And as you are logging into your comm,

346
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you see that there is a notification.

347
00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:43,480
There's a period of time that aligns with the time

348
00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:47,080
that you spent in the Samovar in which you did not

349
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have matrix access.

350
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You didn't even realize it because you

351
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were conversing with ProCup.

352
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But it turns out that there was probably some heavy duty

353
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Wi-Fi jamming going on in that vicinity.

354
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Understandable.

355
00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:07,280
In that case, detective time.

356
00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:13,080
Cecile would probably try to locate ICE

357
00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:16,040
by trying to find a connection to ProCup

358
00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:20,000
or trying to find rumors about comings and goings

359
00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,720
through Samovar, like nearby street cameras or something.

360
00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:25,440
Although she can't hack those yet,

361
00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:28,400
so it would have to be sous-vailence or something.

362
00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:29,120
OK.

363
00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:33,840
You know, any sous-vailence tag, geotagged,

364
00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:37,240
for that specific area she'd be looking through.

365
00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:39,920
OK.

366
00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,960
All right, D&D, you set off on your motorcycle.

367
00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:46,520
Let's say it's about 8 AM at this point.

368
00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:50,480
And downtown Tacoma is pretty busy.

369
00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:51,800
It's got the docks.

370
00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:53,240
It's a very blue-collar place.

371
00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:56,200
But you've also got most of the Megas have moved in

372
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and started buying up real estate.

373
00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,640
So there's a lot of traffic of all sorts,

374
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commercial and private.

375
00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:06,840
And the murdered mime is all the way up in Renton.

376
00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:10,840
So it's going to be a good 40-minute drive there.

377
00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:11,840
So.

378
00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:16,440
Um, see, I don't think Brown Dog does anything in Renton.

379
00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:19,720
So I'm not going to bother him, especially at this hour.

380
00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:21,880
Brown Dog's pretty small time, too.

381
00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:22,640
Yeah.

382
00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:24,680
Although at this point, you'd probably be ecstatic

383
00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:26,560
if you called him because he's, he really

384
00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:29,280
wants to get in on this action.

385
00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:30,760
He's not allowed.

386
00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:32,280
He doesn't have clearance.

387
00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:34,520
This is a federal operation now.

388
00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:36,960
This is an FBI jurisdiction.

389
00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:37,440
Yeah.

390
00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:40,880
So D&Dare's driving, Cecile's matrix searching,

391
00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:43,800
Boxer's doing a gear check.

392
00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:48,440
About 40 minutes later, D&Dare's pulling into the area

393
00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:51,280
where the, of the murdered mime.

394
00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:56,920
It's apparently quite a fashionable area, Renton.

395
00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:01,240
Lots of apartment communities, you know, gated apartment

396
00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:02,240
places.

397
00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:05,240
Pretty hip, pretty wealthy looking type stuff.

398
00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:09,880
The murdered mime, as you go past by it on the street,

399
00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:14,280
is, looks like it's actually just now starting to

400
00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:19,600
disgorge, like, its last revelers of the night.

401
00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:25,480
Um, party people of all stripes and colors, shapes and sizes.

402
00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:30,320
Um, the building itself is done up in just black and white.

403
00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:35,880
And, not very imaginative reference to the name.

404
00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,760
So yeah, it looks like a fairly popular club here in

405
00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:40,760
Renton.

406
00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:42,880
There's security at the door.

407
00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:45,200
Doesn't seem to pay you any mind.

408
00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,720
Make a, make, give me a perception check.

409
00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:48,720
Perception?

410
00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:49,720
Yep.

411
00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:50,720
Let's see.

412
00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:51,720
No modifiers.

413
00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:53,720
No, just.

414
00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:54,720
Yeah.

415
00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:55,720
One.

416
00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:56,720
Okay.

417
00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:03,920
You notice that right across the street is a, another

418
00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:09,240
establishment called the Italiano.

419
00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,560
And there's a bunch of, a couple of, not a bunch, a couple of

420
00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,800
security people around it too.

421
00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:19,600
And, so there's, looks like there's, this is sort of a

422
00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:21,400
happening kind of area.

423
00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,400
Are you looking for anything specific as you're driving around the area?

424
00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:28,800
I think she's just trying to get like a layout of the blocks, like

425
00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:30,320
locally in her brain.

426
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:31,320
Okay.

427
00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:33,200
What's a good place for her to park her bike.

428
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,000
That would be easy to get to.

429
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,440
And the event that they would need to get away quickly and would be

430
00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:42,240
safe enough where she could like start her bike and stuff while it

431
00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,880
was, uh, while being in a good place for cover.

432
00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:50,040
It looks like there's valet parking if you wanted to go that route.

433
00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:54,240
Um, there's on street parking in the area.

434
00:21:54,240 --> 00:22:00,640
And, uh, alleyways and it looks like there's even like a public parking

435
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,320
garage right around the corner.

436
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:08,600
And then, uh, the next thing that she would do is probably like

437
00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:13,400
attempt to walk all the way around the murdered mine, like from the, from one

438
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,160
corner, like all the way around the back of it.

439
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:17,160
Okay.

440
00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:18,160
Yep.

441
00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,600
There's an alleyway, um, around it.

442
00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,840
And then there's a sort of a back alley that's a little bit of a larger

443
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:28,000
alley that has access for, you know, delivery trucks and stuff like that.

444
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,120
And there's also, that's where the service entrances are.

445
00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:37,800
Um, the murdered mime is on the, seems to occupy the lower quarter of the

446
00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:44,760
larger building that looks like it has, um, some fairly upscale storefronts on

447
00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:46,920
the other lower quarter.

448
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:52,360
And then the upper half looks like it might be a fairly high end residential

449
00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:54,880
type, um, units.

450
00:22:54,880 --> 00:23:01,520
There's a, there's an entrance that has two uniformed doorman and, uh, cameras.

451
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,640
So it looks like a fairly high end, highly secure, well, not highly

452
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:09,080
secured, but for a residential area, secure kind of location.

453
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:15,280
I think the, the last two things she'd try to do is like get not a perfect

454
00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:20,160
layout, but like a good enough layout of the like interior of the murdered

455
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:25,880
mime, like where rooms and doors and stuff are, uh, and then she'd try to

456
00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:31,480
interact with some of the staff, I guess, and just like see what business is like.

457
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:33,160
Well, you can't get in.

458
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:41,400
Um, so unless you're, unless you want to try and infiltrate, um, the, the

459
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:46,840
service entrances are closed and have a camera surveillance.

460
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:52,960
The front entrance has the, uh, the security guards the night, um, you know,

461
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,800
the bouncers and the guys sort of keeping, you know, making sure there

462
00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,560
aren't any fights and undesirables aren't getting in.

463
00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:03,560
So, um, you could interact with them if you wanted.

464
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:07,960
I think, um, I think D&R would try to interact with the bouncers.

465
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:08,960
Okay.

466
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:12,440
They're, uh, as you approach, they look like, uh, well, give me a quick

467
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:13,440
perception check again.

468
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,920
I want to give everything another one.

469
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:16,920
Yeah.

470
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:18,160
It looks like sort of your standard.

471
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:24,080
A lot of, uh, private security bouncers, they're dressed in, uh, relatively

472
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:31,840
fashionable high end night wear, um, and are, uh, the variety of metahuman

473
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:41,880
types, including the obvious orc muscle and, um, you know, elven, elven, uh,

474
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:43,400
face type people.

475
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:48,440
Um, you approach and, uh, one of the, uh, one of the elves steps towards

476
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:55,280
you with a pretty neutral expression on his face and his hand just sort of

477
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:59,880
barely held up as if to say no entrance were closed.

478
00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:04,280
I think, um, she just like, as soon as the hand comes up, she just stops

479
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:06,400
and then she just starts talking.

480
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:07,400
Okay.

481
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:12,400
You're about six feet from the, uh, she's talking in spirethial, spirethial.

482
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:13,400
Okay.

483
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:18,880
Um, as he starts talking in spirethial, he, uh, he grins and he just sort of

484
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:23,240
mimes like the no abla kind of look at you.

485
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:31,640
Oh, um, there's, there, there is a, a very, very, very, uh, derogatory term in

486
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:35,240
spirethial for an elf who cannot speak spirethial.

487
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:40,480
Uh, she just says it straight up and goes back to talking in, uh, English.

488
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:41,480
Whoa.

489
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:42,480
Slur, gosh.

490
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:43,480
Uh,

491
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,600
I'm actually dropping slur is my favorite thing.

492
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,160
Give me an etiquette test.

493
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,040
I am not good.

494
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,040
I am defaulting on that one.

495
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:53,640
I think let me make sure.

496
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:59,800
In fact, I cannot speak a lot of well, any of some Asian languages, but I know

497
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:01,720
enough to know the slurs.

498
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,000
That's what that's what Diender's about to find out.

499
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,000
Okay.

500
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:10,960
I get a plus three from glamour, uh, but I don't get anything else and it's

501
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:11,960
defaulting.

502
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,880
So three, the wrong thing.

503
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,600
It's a charisma skill and it's three, two.

504
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:19,600
All right.

505
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:20,600
Yeah.

506
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:25,840
You, you see a, a sudden sort of a very brief, but sort of narrowing of his

507
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:31,120
eyes at the expression, but he, he maintains his professional demeanor as you

508
00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:33,920
continue speaking to him in, in English.

509
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,800
I think she's just like, she starts bombarding with just like normal questions

510
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:39,600
like, oh, I'm not from around here.

511
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:40,920
Uh, what's, uh, I'm coming.

512
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,440
I'm going to visit, uh, uh, my brother.

513
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:48,120
Um, he, uh, I was wondering if there was anything anywhere good to eat around.

514
00:26:48,120 --> 00:26:52,720
Do you have, uh, any city speak skill?

515
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:53,720
City speak.

516
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:55,480
So that would be like a knowledge skill.

517
00:26:55,480 --> 00:27:01,400
Uh, have a Portland area knowledge, but don't have one for Seattle.

518
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:02,400
All right.

519
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:07,800
So he responds to you in sort of a pigeon that you catch some words of.

520
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:13,680
It's, uh, seems like it sounds like it's a bit of Japanese, a bit of, oh, uh, English,

521
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:16,680
a bit of Orzette, maybe, but nothing Japanese.

522
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,000
She's just going to start talking in Japanese.

523
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,880
He just keeps talking to you in, in city speak.

524
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:29,440
Um, but then, then he relents and, and says in English, um, well, we're, we're closed

525
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,560
the last of the, uh, our patrons are leaving, but you're of course welcome to come back

526
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:38,280
tonight, we open at, uh, 8pm.

527
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,440
Well, what about the other things in the area?

528
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,160
Surely, you know, something around here.

529
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:43,640
What would you recommend?

530
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:49,440
He glances over at the establishment across the street and, uh, he says, uh, well, there's

531
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,760
always the Italiano over there.

532
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,840
Um, but they are closing at this time as well.

533
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:59,160
Um, but I personally am not from this area.

534
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,200
Um, well, thank you very much for your help.

535
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:08,680
I think she like ends up walking around the street for a bit, trying to find just any

536
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,640
place that is going to stay open.

537
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:11,640
All right.

538
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:15,480
So it's about 9am right now.

539
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:20,480
So at this is the point where most of the retail stuff in the area is starting to open

540
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:21,480
up.

541
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:26,320
Um, so there's, uh, you know, there's people are starting to come out on the streets.

542
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:32,760
The, uh, the retail stores are opening, but most of the restaurants are closed, except

543
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:38,480
for maybe, um, you find a cafe or a diner that's open.

544
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:39,760
If that's what you're looking for.

545
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,520
Uh, does it have line of sight on the, the mine?

546
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:44,520
No.

547
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:45,520
Okay.

548
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:46,520
It doesn't help me.

549
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,960
Does the mine, here, I was assuming something about the mine, but I didn't ask.

550
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,280
Does the mind have like a glass front?

551
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,840
Or is it like, it, can you see into the mine from the outside?

552
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:56,840
No.

553
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:57,840
Okay.

554
00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:58,840
It doesn't help me.

555
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:02,440
No, it's basically the mimes just is, is a nightclub.

556
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:07,920
So everything is solid so that the lights aren't spilling out or in.

557
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:08,920
Yeah.

558
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,120
It's just like a, it's not a white lock in it, but it's like, there's some lights

559
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,000
filling out because you can't perfectly do that.

560
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,520
It's just like it's black glass, right?

561
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:20,400
Or like, is it just bricked up in the front?

562
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:21,920
It's, it's just bricked up.

563
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:23,280
It's actually not even bricked up.

564
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:28,360
It's, it's white marble with some, with black, black marble trim.

565
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:33,160
It's, they're, they're really playing heavily on the whole mime, black and white kind of

566
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:34,160
thing.

567
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:40,760
Well, I think I, at this point, I have exhausted a certain amount of my, is the door to the

568
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,640
murdered mime glass?

569
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,360
Or is it like a wooden door or something?

570
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,320
It does appear to be glass, actually.

571
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:48,320
Okay.

572
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,280
But do you're not, do you can't see in from there?

573
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:56,800
Oh, I have something that I wanted to, that I thought I bought from spy gear, but let

574
00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,800
me check and look in the book and see if it does what I think it does.

575
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:04,800
Well, you're doing that around 9am.

576
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:06,960
What are Boxer and Grace up to?

577
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,280
You guys done with your gear check?

578
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:10,280
Yeah.

579
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:11,280
Okay.

580
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:19,720
I imagine Grace has Boxer search for a lot of her burning questions on the matrix that

581
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,280
she hasn't been able to actually do herself.

582
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:28,080
I can't imagine what those would be right now, but yeah.

583
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,680
But at a certain point, they're definitely going to be free.

584
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:35,200
Grace doesn't have anything on her mind that she feels she needs to do today.

585
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:39,120
Honestly, she thinks maybe laying low would be a bit of a good idea.

586
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:43,160
They don't have any business besides the job they have to do tonight.

587
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,160
Grace is feeling a little paranoid?

588
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:46,160
Yeah.

589
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:47,160
A little.

590
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,160
But why?

591
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:56,840
Well, it could be because Shadowrunners were sent after her.

592
00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:04,680
I mean, she doesn't know it was her that they were after, but obviously the secret

593
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:08,840
Evo versus Sill.

594
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:09,840
You know?

595
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:11,640
Yeah, I get it.

596
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:12,640
I get it.

597
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:13,800
Grace is feeling paranoid.

598
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,640
How's Boxer feeling right now about the situation?

599
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:22,120
She is, so we say, rather unhappy.

600
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,720
And why is that?

601
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:30,400
Well, her safe house is gone, then she costs money and she's feeling it now.

602
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:35,160
She had to pull everything out of her account, stick it on a credit stick.

603
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,320
So she's feeling the economics.

604
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:42,360
She wants to escape from that, which means she's diving headfirst into her favorite

605
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:43,360
addiction.

606
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:44,360
Yeah.

607
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:49,640
And probably she might be a little irritated too because she got told pretty bluntly last

608
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:53,040
night that she wasn't going to get paid for rescuing Cecile.

609
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:54,040
Yeah.

610
00:31:54,040 --> 00:32:01,520
But at the same time, I can imagine that Boxer might be feeling a little bit, not necessarily

611
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:09,480
happy, but energized by the sense of maybe being back in action a little bit, right?

612
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:10,480
Oh, yeah.

613
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:17,640
That's exactly why she was doing the games, that's why she's so hard in coping with autism.

614
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:21,560
So being able to be back in the game.

615
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:22,560
Yeah.

616
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,200
All right.

617
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:28,080
So let's cut back to Cecile then.

618
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:32,600
You do find a couple of things actually on ice.

619
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:39,200
So as you've been searching and sifting, you realize that when you did your sort of in-depth

620
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:46,480
dive on Procop, you did some of the stuff that you caught and hadn't, you know, weren't

621
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:52,560
really paying attention to because it wasn't pertinent at the time, mentioned ice as well.

622
00:32:52,560 --> 00:33:01,840
So it turns out that ice was a known shadow runner in the mid to late 2050s in the Seattle

623
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:10,200
area and is known to have been one of the shadow runners who was on the team that ended

624
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:18,320
up on the disastrous run that caused Procop to go into hiding for about five years.

625
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:19,320
Okay.

626
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:20,320
Okay.

627
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,240
So he's an old man.

628
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:23,440
Yeah.

629
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,200
You don't know much about him.

630
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,520
I mean, there's not a lot of detail anymore.

631
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:32,000
So much information from that period was lost in the crash.

632
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:38,120
More recently, what you do find as you're, you know, looking at public surveillance footage

633
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:48,440
in and around Tacoma and especially in the area of the, of Samovar is only very recently,

634
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:54,880
as recently as three days ago was the first footage that you find in which you see, you

635
00:33:54,880 --> 00:34:01,320
clearly see ice and Procop actually entering Samovar.

636
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:06,440
And then after that, you see him at regular intervals, intervals leaving and re-entering

637
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:11,280
Samovar, but not with Procop anymore.

638
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,040
You only see him leaving and entering on his own.

639
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:15,040
Okay.

640
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:16,040
That's good.

641
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:20,360
In fact, you realize as you're looking at the security footage, it almost appears as

642
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,960
if Procop never leaves the place.

643
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:23,960
Interesting.

644
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:24,960
Okay.

645
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:30,440
Can I use those images I got from the security to just widen my search, just look for their

646
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:34,720
picture in the matrix through Sue's Valence and stuff.

647
00:34:34,720 --> 00:34:39,760
See if I can pick up on any like disparate places that they've been.

648
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,000
Yep.

649
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:51,480
You search rather extensively and you're not running any special programs or algorithms

650
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,040
that might help correlate some data.

651
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:59,400
It's really just you searching and trying to pick the other than her integrated browse

652
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,000
program, probably has a lot of those.

653
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,480
And that's how she's like doing the skill and stuff.

654
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,880
It's not like she has an agent or anything.

655
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:07,880
Okay.

656
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:09,200
We don't need to roll on this.

657
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:17,440
This was, you know, you've got plenty of time and the skill to find what's out there.

658
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:29,480
You think you may have a hit and it's obvious that the person that you know as ICE has spent

659
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:39,600
the last 20 years or so making a very hard effort to not show up anywhere.

660
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:41,760
Understandable.

661
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:55,200
The only thing that you find is a flight suborbital from Boston to Seattle and you'll find that

662
00:35:55,200 --> 00:36:00,920
ProCup and ICE were on the flight from Boston to Seattle four days ago.

663
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:05,960
And then you do a little backtracking and you see that ProCup had flown from Seattle

664
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:10,440
to Boston the day before that.

665
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:16,920
But other than that, the only other thing that you really find that might be ICE and

666
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:25,720
might have a relationship to ICE is an article about or written by a, actually it's called

667
00:36:25,720 --> 00:36:35,520
a research paper written by a perizoologist who briefly mentions a perichrider hunter

668
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:39,920
that they had employed whose description somewhat matches ICE's.

669
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:40,920
Interesting.

670
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:51,160
And the perizoologist is writing about a, the paper is about the rather inordinate density

671
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:57,640
of perichritters in the Newfoundland area of Canada.

672
00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:58,640
Interesting.

673
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:02,520
So, Seelcozette saves that paper for reading later.

674
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:09,680
Yeah, it looks like a rather interesting paper and like the description of ICE is there

675
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:16,840
and it just sort of mentions how that they had hired this person as a local guide and

676
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:22,800
the fact that he was locally renowned as a hunter of perichritters.

677
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:23,800
Cool.

678
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:24,800
Okay.

679
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:34,840
I think that's as much as I'm really going to get at the moment without having more information

680
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:36,840
to pull at.

681
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,960
That's pretty good anyways.

682
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:43,160
Yeah, I'll let some time pass so other people can do stuff.

683
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:44,160
Yeah.

684
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:45,160
What are other people doing?

685
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,640
How much time is passed?

686
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:52,120
It's getting late in the morning and it's really up to you guys.

687
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:56,600
We can, we don't have to play through, you know, the whole day if you guys say, well,

688
00:37:56,600 --> 00:38:00,560
we're just, we're pretty much just going to lie low and, you know, eat and wait for,

689
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:02,280
for that time to roll around.

690
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:07,400
One thing I am curious about guys is you haven't really mentioned that you've, you guys are

691
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,360
all sort of on your own.

692
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:13,120
Is the team going to do anything, any planning together?

693
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,160
All right.

694
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:16,880
I'm going to take initiative.

695
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:27,720
I think Nightingale would first message Ms. Magnumfoot and say, just say good morning.

696
00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:29,840
Hi.

697
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:37,040
I think that I may have some not good people interested in me in Seattle.

698
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:40,960
I'm probably not going to be coming home for a good while.

699
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:47,880
When I do, I'm going to make sure I don't bring trouble to Pines.

700
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:52,880
I don't know when next I'm going to see you or anyone, but be safe.

701
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:53,880
Heart.

702
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:59,320
And then she's, let me go read the text chat thing that you, you have posted.

703
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:00,320
Where is it?

704
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:01,320
In character.

705
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,320
Ms. Magnumfoot texts you back.

706
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:08,160
You know from personal experience Grace that this kind of morning that you're having in

707
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:14,320
January where it's not raining and the air is clear and the sun is coming up is probably

708
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:20,400
one of those prime Ms. Magnumfoot where she's out and about enjoying the weather taking

709
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,680
in the smells.

710
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:26,320
She's probably up on one of the grassy hills rolling around.

711
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,680
So you know she's out and about enjoying this.

712
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:33,760
You can just picture it in your mind because you've accompanied her on some of these John's

713
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:37,680
Walkabout in the forest and fields around.

714
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:44,080
And sure enough, a couple of minutes after you send the message, you get a message back

715
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:48,000
to the effect that, you know, thank you for letting me know.

716
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:52,400
We were wondering where you were and be safe.

717
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,040
And if you need anything, let us know.

718
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,640
Followed, of course, by a tree emoji.

719
00:39:56,640 --> 00:40:01,920
And then Gelsen sends the tree emoji back and she says, I'll be sure to thank you.

720
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:05,320
Well, like all lowercase no punctuation.

721
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,840
She still doesn't know what the tree emoji means.

722
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:12,080
Well, Ms. Magnumfoot likes trees.

723
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,520
That makes sense.

724
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:17,880
How exactly does a boxer game?

725
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,000
I'm curious.

726
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:25,520
So is it just like she lays down and then she's just, you don't see anything of her?

727
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:27,960
I mentioned it's like Sword Art Online.

728
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:29,240
Yeah, pretty much.

729
00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:30,240
Both of you are.

730
00:40:30,240 --> 00:40:31,240
Both goes on.

731
00:40:31,240 --> 00:40:34,680
There is no, like, screen that one could look at.

732
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:38,240
I mean, if you ask before she gets on.

733
00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:39,800
Is it a lot of shooting?

734
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:41,800
It's milsim, so sometimes.

735
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:44,800
A lot of walking, some shooting.

736
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:45,800
It's milsim.

737
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:50,400
It's a lot of sitting, a lot of driving.

738
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:55,840
A lot of like hurrying up to wait is what it is.

739
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:59,320
Forget if she has the thing.

740
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,600
Well, because it's, it's, it's hot sim, right?

741
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,760
So it would be able to move faster than real time.

742
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:07,280
Hot sim is illegal.

743
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:10,320
Oh, wait, what the fuck is hot sim?

744
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:17,240
Hot sim is risking actual damage to your self, whereas cold sim is just like stun.

745
00:41:17,240 --> 00:41:23,600
So recently cold sim is pretty, pretty good, pretty good.

746
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:30,160
They specifically state that it's a little bit like pushing the boundary.

747
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:36,280
Hot sim may be legal, but I would imagine that most gamers have at least tweaked themselves

748
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:37,800
really close to it.

749
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:38,800
Yeah, yeah.

750
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:42,720
She didn't really serious like movie watchers.

751
00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:48,120
You've got to have those last, you know, 10 thousands of a second to be competitive.

752
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:54,520
But if you were a fly on the wall or inside the game as is, there would be, yeah, a lot

753
00:41:54,520 --> 00:42:00,920
of sitting around walking, some shooting, some pretty in depth medical stuff first aid.

754
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:01,920
All right.

755
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:05,800
So at this point, you guys are basically just killing time until the meat.

756
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:11,960
I was going to message the group via com link, while probably while sitting at the foot of

757
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:18,000
Boxer's bed where she has her little sword art online helmet on.

758
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,640
You get her screen.

759
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:24,000
She may have asked for it, but it's her inner point.

760
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:25,400
It's going to get boring.

761
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:32,040
So she's going to text the rest of the group and say, do plan have.

762
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:35,920
I think at this point, Diender would have like given up trying to just watch the place

763
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:40,840
and is just like sitting on her bike, playing on her com link, on link moment.

764
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,760
But do plan have.

765
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:47,480
She probably like immediately text you back.

766
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:53,240
I imagine we'll go in and if things go bad, we'll bust her way out.

767
00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:59,680
I think then she just like sends a picture of the place.

768
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:03,120
She just like norm girl, figure out what this is.

769
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,720
Figure out any deets on this place.

770
00:43:05,720 --> 00:43:10,680
Looking at it, how far is the murdered mime from Boxer's apartment?

771
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:18,680
Boxer's apartment is in Auburn, so she's probably about 30 minutes at the most.

772
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:20,680
30 minutes.

773
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:28,120
30 minutes in the meat.

774
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,360
Nightingale's going to actually project.

775
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:35,520
She wants to at least go look at the place.

776
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:36,960
Go fly over there.

777
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:42,240
Look at the place and then probably go right back to her body unless something catches

778
00:43:42,240 --> 00:43:43,240
her attention.

779
00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:47,480
Do you have the magical security?

780
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:51,800
If she knows the rough direction and like nearby landmarks she should be able to.

781
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,320
Do you have Seattle knowledge skill?

782
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:55,320
I should.

783
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:56,320
Hold on.

784
00:43:56,320 --> 00:44:00,480
Let me check my my chummer or well, let me just check this.

785
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:01,480
Chummer, sorry.

786
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:03,960
Because otherwise I think you probably.

787
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:07,560
I have a knowledge Seattle, you want me to roll?

788
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,520
I do want you to roll.

789
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:11,880
This is a ruleable offense.

790
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:15,360
No, no modifiers.

791
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:16,360
No modifiers.

792
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:17,360
Six.

793
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:18,360
Damn.

794
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:20,360
I played the sixth.

795
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:22,360
Played the sixth.

796
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:23,360
No.

797
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,360
Which one is the sixth again?

798
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,360
I don't know.

799
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:31,320
It was a very, very bad dad joke.

800
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:32,720
Because you rolled a six.

801
00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:34,080
Right to a trial.

802
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:35,080
I see that.

803
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:36,640
Wait, does that mean that?

804
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:37,640
Veronica.

805
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:38,640
Yes.

806
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:43,880
Not incriminate also before the right to a trial.

807
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:44,880
That's weird.

808
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:48,040
That seems kind of like the other way around, you know.

809
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,320
Anyway, you don't incriminate yourself.

810
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,320
You don't want it.

811
00:44:53,320 --> 00:45:02,480
So yes, you you enter the astral as your your companion and maybe friend boxer has

812
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:10,120
appeared to sunk into her electronic world and zip off through the streets of Auburn

813
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:11,120
towards Renton.

814
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:17,160
Yeah, I guess Astroly, you know, as you're traveling in the Astral, you're sort of flying.

815
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:21,640
Are you flying as right just basically passing through buildings and.

816
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:23,320
You want to pass through buildings.

817
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:27,880
It would be too easy to bonk into a man a barrier like that.

818
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:31,800
She and so to be spotted like a watcher spirit or something.

819
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:37,760
She's flying over the city and looking down like from a bird eye a bird's eye view, even

820
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:43,160
if someone like there was actually perceiving at the time looked up and noticed her.

821
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:46,920
She's just like a random fucking spirit fucking around.

822
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:47,920
Okay.

823
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:53,400
So you're you're always flying over the city like this in Astral is always a bit of an

824
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,600
awe inspiring experience for you.

825
00:45:55,600 --> 00:46:02,240
And just looking down at this sort of teaming massive astral signatures and textures, you

826
00:46:02,240 --> 00:46:05,600
know, over this sort of gray backdrop of the.

827
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,160
You know, I didn't really.

828
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:13,360
But obviously it takes you virtually no time as you register that you're pretty much there

829
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:21,960
in in Renton and you even actually make a is Astral perception thing.

830
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:24,760
Yes, it is Astral perception check.

831
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:32,280
So well, actually I looked it up perception is used like is used generally for perceiving

832
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:34,800
your surroundings and noticing things.

833
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:39,560
A sensing is used for understanding things in the astral.

834
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:40,560
If that makes sense.

835
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:44,880
If that helps you know which perception.

836
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:45,880
Okay.

837
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:46,880
Where are you?

838
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:47,880
Do I not have it?

839
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:48,880
Yes, I don't.

840
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:55,920
How do you not have astral perception?

841
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,200
Now I have a sensing.

842
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:02,600
I just don't have the actual skill perception.

843
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:06,520
I think let me double check before I call that though.

844
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:08,520
Is it just default then?

845
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:09,520
Yep.

846
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:10,520
I'm going to have to default.

847
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:11,520
It's so unfortunate.

848
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:12,520
Here I go.

849
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:15,520
Default attribute no modifiers.

850
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:16,520
Zero.

851
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:24,200
All right, so you find the murdered mime by through your knowledge of Seattle and the

852
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:33,720
streets and the location and so now what are you doing?

853
00:47:33,720 --> 00:47:38,400
I want to see if it has any kind of medical security first and foremost.

854
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:41,320
Medical magical magical.

855
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:45,840
It does not appear so at least not at the moment.

856
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:48,120
I duck in there and check.

857
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:52,720
What was the difference between astral perception and astral?

858
00:47:52,720 --> 00:47:55,120
Perception and a sensing.

859
00:47:55,120 --> 00:48:00,800
Perception is used just to notice things in general and like you know all that sort of

860
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:01,800
stuff.

861
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:06,320
A sensing is used to understand specifically astral things.

862
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:11,240
So like say if you were trying to notice someone sitting in a field while actually perceiving

863
00:48:11,240 --> 00:48:16,680
you want to use a sensing you would use perception but you would use a sensing to determine if

864
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:18,680
they're malicious.

865
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:20,080
Okay.

866
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:29,040
Yes you see perceive that there are several people standing around the front door.

867
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:36,920
None of them seem to be astrally active although at least one of them appears to have some

868
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:43,240
form of be somehow awakened but not observing in the astral and not observing you and there's

869
00:48:43,240 --> 00:48:46,640
no barriers or rewards in the area right now.

870
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,680
So if you wanted to enter through the front door or through the wall you.

871
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:54,840
Yeah I want to enter through the wall and just look at everyone here.

872
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:58,080
Confirm that there's no other mages I suppose.

873
00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:01,560
Well actually is that I guess I would make a sensing test.

874
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:05,000
Is that person that I noticed a mage specifically?

875
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:09,000
Yeah why don't you go make why don't you make a sensing test.

876
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:12,200
Okay no modifiers right.

877
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:13,200
No.

878
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:19,600
They are not a mage they're probably an adept.

879
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:22,080
I guess a meat mage.

880
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:24,000
They're a meat mage.

881
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:25,000
Meat mage.

882
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:26,000
Job's done.

883
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:27,000
Meet the meat mage.

884
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:28,000
Help me.

885
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:29,000
The meat mage.

886
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:38,920
But yeah and she wants to go look around in the actual cafe if there's any spirits just

887
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:45,000
viving maybe say hi to them ask them like if they've seen anything but otherwise you know

888
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:46,000
poking around.

889
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,000
Inside the murdered mime.

890
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:55,400
Are there any like intense astral signatures that she notices or other awakened individuals

891
00:49:55,400 --> 00:50:00,160
or even as I said just like spirits just kind of free floating.

892
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:01,520
Inside the murdered mime no.

893
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:06,320
There are very few people in the murdered mime at this time of day.

894
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:13,160
It looks like the most legious people cleaning, crepping, setting things up for the night.

895
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:16,880
It's also there's a lot of technology and stuff in here so there's a lot of you know

896
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:22,000
just sort of dull you know very boring and uninteresting stuff in here that isn't really

897
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:24,240
registering on the astral.

898
00:50:24,240 --> 00:50:29,920
You don't see any well make another I guess make another sensing test and see if there

899
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:33,560
are signatures or other.

900
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:36,240
Three.

901
00:50:36,240 --> 00:50:44,800
There is the astral aftermath let's say of you know a massive party in here.

902
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:52,360
With all of the highs and lows that come with that you know the happiness the pleasure

903
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:57,040
the jealousy the anger you know all that kind of stuff.

904
00:50:57,040 --> 00:51:02,360
When she whenever she comes down from like the roof while she's looking at this and

905
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:09,520
whenever her hooves lands on the floor he immediately bounces up almost like a like

906
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:19,120
a cartoon cartoon cat and she gives a little shake of her hoof sloshing away a unpleasant

907
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:22,840
looking slimy miasma of intoxication.

908
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:27,000
Yeah the whole you know you can imagine I guess you know since we're talking about it

909
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:30,280
you can imagine what kind of astral signature here.

910
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:32,440
Paragl, gross.

911
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:35,360
Party in the botry.

912
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:43,920
Certainly you know a lot of people were magically active in here but not in a not in any kind

913
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:47,760
of sense other than just people you know human people doing this.

914
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:54,600
And Danes leaving their signatures all over everything.

915
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,320
Yep.

916
00:51:57,320 --> 00:52:04,920
You do with three hits you do get you catch you're exploring a little bit right.

917
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:05,920
I'm just imagining.

918
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:12,760
It's just kind of floating around the halls and stuff poking my head in the stuff.

919
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:20,040
You're getting towards more towards the back areas there's it appears that the club has

920
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:26,640
some back rooms and some upper rooms in some of them you get signatures that are more have

921
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:33,120
more to do with anger and fear and despair and you also get some sense that there's

922
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:39,000
there's some things going on in back here and in the upper rooms and some of these areas

923
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:44,920
there are some bad people that that are here and bad things have happened up there.

924
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:46,920
Backgrounds.

925
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:52,760
But I presume this.

926
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:56,240
How old are those signatures?

927
00:52:56,240 --> 00:52:57,240
They're fresh.

928
00:52:57,240 --> 00:52:58,240
Oh.

929
00:52:58,240 --> 00:53:05,520
Yeah, I imagine I imagine that whatever react that you know the shaking of the hoof reaction

930
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:09,200
has been magnified 10 times in these areas.

931
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:16,040
I'm imagining that those those emotions and I presume there's also some dripping of malice

932
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:22,400
to or at least like a very very inhumane apathy.

933
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:23,400
It's a.

934
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:24,400
Oh.

935
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:25,400
Dispair.

936
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:31,280
Probably puke if she had a stomach with which to puke if that makes sense.

937
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:32,280
Yep.

938
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:33,600
You feel astraly nauseous.

939
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:37,400
He's going to go at that point.

940
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:41,960
He's going to go just just up through the roof back up across Seattle.

941
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:48,200
Just flying for a little while going back in the vague direction of Boxer's apartment.

942
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:49,200
Okay.

943
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:50,720
Enjoying the astral sunshine.

944
00:53:50,720 --> 00:53:51,720
Yeah.

945
00:53:51,720 --> 00:53:53,920
And the literal astral sunshine.

946
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:54,920
Yes.

947
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:59,280
And also enjoying appreciating the vastness of Seattle.

948
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:04,160
I imagine it's actually like bigger than the the Gilded City that is to say the the

949
00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:09,760
capital of the question because it's it's a modern city with millions of people.

950
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:14,520
It's like it's and there's all like squished together.

951
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:20,600
Like when you're this high up, it's like it's like a painting on the night sky.

952
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:24,920
And with all the astral stuff going on, I mean, you're catching not just the sort of

953
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:28,320
the mundane view of it, which is probably pretty beautiful this morning.

954
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:31,840
Anyways, you're catching this the astral glow of the city.

955
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:35,480
I can imagine that the whole city sort of glows with its own astral signature.

956
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:37,640
It's very particular.

957
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:39,560
It's different from the countryside.

958
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:45,880
And it has a sort of like just with the sheer mass of thinking life.

959
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:51,560
It's almost like a living thing into itself kind of like a hive.

960
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:55,440
But give me another, you know, have perception.

961
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:56,440
What a bummer.

962
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:58,440
I can just default.

963
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:00,440
I have intuition.

964
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:04,440
Give us a default role then.

965
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:05,440
Modifiers?

966
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:06,440
No.

967
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:08,440
Okay, then.

968
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:10,120
You blightly go on your way.

969
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:12,720
He goes home back to the body.

970
00:55:12,720 --> 00:55:13,720
Yeah.

971
00:55:13,720 --> 00:55:18,440
Unbeknownst to you off in the distance, you see the astral signature of a dragon in the

972
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:19,440
mountains.

973
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:24,320
Oh, this is one of the last time that this is canonically one of the last times that

974
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:26,560
has to be was ever seen.

975
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:28,480
Oh, wow.

976
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:30,880
That's really sad that I rolled poorly there.

977
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:34,320
It would have been cool.

978
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:35,320
Okay.

979
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:40,120
I'm going to go fly home, go back to my stupid body.

980
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:43,120
God, can't talk to dragons.

981
00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:45,560
All right, yeah.

982
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:47,240
But that's that's her trip.

983
00:55:47,240 --> 00:55:49,600
To seal you.

984
00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:53,320
You got D&Dir's message on doing a search on the mime.

985
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:54,240
Did I?

986
00:55:54,240 --> 00:55:59,520
Yeah, we have like a group chat, I guess, at this point.

987
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:05,800
I don't know how night and gal would have sent a message to everybody without either

988
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:10,920
setting a group chat up or sending it not to like everyone individually.

989
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:13,440
Sure, makes sense to me.

990
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:18,480
I think all D&Dir said was norm girl, please search this up.

991
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:21,360
You want me to do a matrix search on the mime?

992
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:23,720
Isn't that what I said?

993
00:56:23,720 --> 00:56:26,520
Okay, sure.

994
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:34,000
I guess I'll do a matrix search on the mime specifically looking for like ownership, reviews,

995
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:35,800
goings on.

996
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:37,720
All right.

997
00:56:37,720 --> 00:56:41,640
The mime is very easy to find on the matrix.

998
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:50,720
Obviously, it has its own matrix location and actually its own matrix, you know, VR

999
00:56:50,720 --> 00:56:51,720
entrance and club.

1000
00:56:51,720 --> 00:56:56,240
I don't know if you're going there or going into it at all, but you know that that exists.

1001
00:56:56,240 --> 00:57:00,640
I don't imagine Cecil would go there in the matrix yet.

1002
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:01,640
Yep.

1003
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:04,600
So that's a possibility for you.

1004
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:10,640
You find multitudinous reviews on all of the local city papers.

1005
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:20,320
The murdered mime is one of Renton's hottest night spots and features lots of up and coming

1006
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:23,240
local musical acts.

1007
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:29,680
It's known for its massive dance floor and it's wide variety.

1008
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:32,800
It's wide and deep menu.

1009
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:40,720
It's sort of one of the places to go if you consider yourself, anybody in the area and

1010
00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:43,680
or want to be seen by anybody in the area.

1011
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:46,720
It's just that kind of place.

1012
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:58,760
You do as you dive a little bit deeper, you also find traces that it is probably a Yakuza

1013
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:00,440
front.

1014
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:09,480
The Yakuza are rumored to operate the mime and operate some small time vise out of the

1015
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:15,960
mime and use it as a training ground for some of their younger fresher recruits.

1016
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:19,760
I send that over to Deandra.

1017
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:25,440
I think Deandra just like in the most boomer way possible sends like a laughing till crying

1018
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:26,440
emoji.

1019
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:28,440
That's all I'm good at.

1020
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:29,440
What?

1021
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:30,440
Yeah.

1022
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:32,560
Because that's what my dad does all the time.

1023
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:33,560
I'm adorable.

1024
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:36,520
Ron, because I got a thing in this.

1025
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:38,800
She wasn't talking about me.

1026
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:44,080
Alright, so anything else before the meet?

1027
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:46,880
I think Nightingale is going to inform them of what she saw.

1028
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:49,480
Can I do like before the meet?

1029
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:53,960
Can Cecile do a search on the female associate of Procup?

1030
00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:55,560
I've forgotten her name.

1031
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:56,560
Nadia.

1032
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:58,200
There was Nadia and there was Talia.

1033
00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:00,040
Two of them.

1034
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:09,760
Nadia was the smaller older one who led you back into the Samovar and Talia was the woman

1035
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:11,000
standing behind Procup.

1036
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:15,400
She is a little bit more interested in Talia right now.

1037
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:18,320
You can send that over to me at some point.

1038
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:24,760
It's not pressing enough to hold up the story for it.

1039
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:35,720
I think Dindare probably drove back to where Cecile is and then like sat and tried to get

1040
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:42,240
in contact with one of her contacts from Portland.

1041
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:43,240
What is it?

1042
00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:44,240
What's his name?

1043
00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:50,000
Rory Callum, the librarian in Carseer.

1044
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:51,000
Okay.

1045
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:57,720
I think she would probably ask him if there's anything on like paracritters that are horses

1046
00:59:57,720 --> 01:00:02,680
that can speak and that he can get back to me at any point on that.

1047
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:09,640
All right, so you both have a request out there.

1048
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:16,920
What I will do is I will get back to you probably on the in-character text board.

1049
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:17,920
Okay.

1050
01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:18,920
Sure.

1051
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:24,160
In that case, Cecile is just going to message to the group chat like, so we need to go pick

1052
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:25,160
up ICE.

1053
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:26,160
Do we?

1054
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:28,880
Yes, we have to go pick up ICE first.

1055
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:29,880
ICE?

1056
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:31,040
Question mark, question mark, question mark.

1057
01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:33,280
ICE will be accompanying us.

1058
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:35,240
It'll be accompanying us.

1059
01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:39,920
I think I'll post a picture of Ice Cubes.

1060
01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:43,040
Did we get a contact?

1061
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:46,000
Oh, you're breaking up, Dindare.

1062
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:48,120
Did we get a bad one?

1063
01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:50,320
I think it's pretty bad.

1064
01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:53,400
In the rest of you guys here, Dindare, okay?

1065
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:54,920
I know it's breaking up.

1066
01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:56,760
Got to live that in there.

1067
01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:57,760
What is going on?

1068
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:00,560
I'm the only person in this house on this internet.

1069
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:02,160
Not in your neighborhood.

1070
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:04,160
That's right.

1071
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:08,200
I'm using only one of the ICE.

1072
01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:12,040
Oh, it's better.

1073
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:13,040
Okay.

1074
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:17,240
Did we ever get ICE's contact information?

1075
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:18,240
No.

1076
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:23,560
However, in the in-character chat, there is a pin at ICE's location.

1077
01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:25,080
This way?

1078
01:01:25,080 --> 01:01:26,080
Yes.

1079
01:01:26,080 --> 01:01:31,360
Dindare will need to pick up internal combustion engine at this location, pin.

1080
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:41,000
Glad that got one laugh.

1081
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:47,160
I think Cecile would probably offer to the group, not Cecile, sorry.

1082
01:01:47,160 --> 01:01:52,560
Dindare would probably offer that she can pick up ICE on the bike if someone would come

1083
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:53,560
and get Cecile.

1084
01:01:53,560 --> 01:01:55,160
If Cecile could take a taxi.

1085
01:01:55,160 --> 01:01:57,280
Yeah, you could take a grid guide.

1086
01:01:57,280 --> 01:02:01,320
But Chris being looked upon disdainfully by everyone with a car.

1087
01:02:01,320 --> 01:02:02,320
With a vehicle.

1088
01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:05,000
But the three of us that have a vehicle.

1089
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:10,440
Cecile could probably also take public transit because apparently even in the cyber dystopia,

1090
01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:13,120
public transit continues to exist in Seattle.

1091
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:15,480
And is also better than modern America.

1092
01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:18,640
Maybe we're out of dystopia.

1093
01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:20,720
Your wage slaves have to get to work somehow.

1094
01:02:20,720 --> 01:02:23,960
You're not paying them enough to get a car, so.

1095
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:24,960
That's not true.

1096
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:27,200
That's the British railway system.

1097
01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:32,320
Yeah, Cecile probably just pick a bus or something.

1098
01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:38,280
All right, so Dindare is going to go pick up Procop.

1099
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:42,600
What how, how are you guys planning to get there?

1100
01:02:42,600 --> 01:02:47,960
Not by what conveyance, but are you getting there early or how are you working it?

1101
01:02:47,960 --> 01:02:52,240
I think Dindare is attempting to get there early.

1102
01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:57,440
But as previously stated, she is picking up ice, which there's a wrench into her get

1103
01:02:57,440 --> 01:02:58,920
there early plans.

1104
01:02:58,920 --> 01:02:59,920
Yep.

1105
01:02:59,920 --> 01:03:01,600
And you have no way of contacting ice.

1106
01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:07,640
So she's definitely like at the pin, kind of passive aggressively playing on her.

1107
01:03:07,640 --> 01:03:13,360
I'd say she's idling the engine, but it's an electric vehicle.

1108
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:17,240
Yeah, ice is already there.

1109
01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:25,560
And there there is a is a pawn shop sort of old dusty pawn shop, and he is standing in

1110
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:32,600
the doorway, sort of pretending to be nonchalant, but not really pulling it off wearing clothes

1111
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:40,720
that fit him quite well and our modern evening wear club wear clothes, but look completely

1112
01:03:40,720 --> 01:03:42,680
out of place on him.

1113
01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:49,400
I think Dindare like pulls up, looks him up and down and he goes, nice hot norm boy.

1114
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:56,440
He grins sort of mirthlessly and looks at you and he says, so they sent you on.

1115
01:03:56,440 --> 01:03:59,960
Well, I volunteered actually.

1116
01:03:59,960 --> 01:04:00,960
Well that was nice of you.

1117
01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:05,160
Well, you gotta say one thing, I do appreciate your being here early.

1118
01:04:05,160 --> 01:04:07,360
I'll give up for you after all.

1119
01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:08,360
I still want to be there early.

1120
01:04:08,360 --> 01:04:14,000
He climbs on the back and puts on the helmet, which you're not sure how well it fits him.

1121
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:15,760
He's got a big head.

1122
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:20,760
The helmets are wide, like a company big ears.

1123
01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:24,280
So I imagine they fit incredibly poorly on norms.

1124
01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:27,440
Yeah, he's got a bit of a big head.

1125
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:31,160
Actually, may I ask a question?

1126
01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:38,960
Because does ice recognize Dindare as a triad?

1127
01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:40,520
Probably not.

1128
01:04:40,520 --> 01:04:48,280
But probably considers her an elf with augmentation to make her look the way she is.

1129
01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:49,280
Okay, I'm just curious.

1130
01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:50,280
He is super sophisticated.

1131
01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:55,640
So he hasn't seen a picture of Dindare through a camera yet?

1132
01:04:55,640 --> 01:05:00,120
No, he is not augmented in that way.

1133
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:01,120
Okay.

1134
01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:05,120
Oh, actually, that's a good point.

1135
01:05:05,120 --> 01:05:11,000
That means that boxer would never be able to see the glamour effects through cameras.

1136
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:13,840
Cyber eyes count as eyes.

1137
01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:19,240
But if you looked at like surveillance footage with Dindare in it, you would find green tree

1138
01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:20,240
girl.

1139
01:05:20,240 --> 01:05:25,640
Yeah, or if you recorded an image through the eyes, it would be not green.

1140
01:05:25,640 --> 01:05:27,800
It'd be human looking.

1141
01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:31,800
Dindare is not green if you take a picture of her.

1142
01:05:31,800 --> 01:05:33,800
But you don't know that yet.

1143
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:35,800
What the fuck?

1144
01:05:35,800 --> 01:05:36,800
Glamour.

1145
01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:37,800
Okay.

1146
01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:39,800
All right.

1147
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:45,480
So, Cecil, you get picked up by a grid guide.

1148
01:05:45,480 --> 01:05:47,800
Boxer and Nightingale are taking Nightingale's view.

1149
01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:52,800
No, I haven't taken a grid guide since Nightingale wants to lay low at the van.

1150
01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:53,800
Okay.

1151
01:05:53,800 --> 01:05:54,800
Yeah, grid guide mama.

1152
01:05:54,800 --> 01:05:55,800
This is a grid guide.

1153
01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:57,800
She has taken the form of a dog.

1154
01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:01,800
I don't know why a boxer keeps bringing her dog everywhere.

1155
01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:03,800
Mark, I serve as animal.

1156
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:05,640
It's my emotional support animal.

1157
01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:08,800
It's a legitimate classification of support animal.

1158
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:16,800
Dindare, you get to the area of the mind first, obviously.

1159
01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:19,800
You're about, let's say, half an hour early.

1160
01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:21,800
Sound about right?

1161
01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:24,800
Dindare would probably be there at least 45 minutes early.

1162
01:06:24,800 --> 01:06:29,800
And any special actions that you're doing there, where are you parking or how are you approaching?

1163
01:06:29,800 --> 01:06:36,800
I think she, like, in her casing of the area earlier, she figured out a place that was

1164
01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:45,400
close enough to the main entrance to get there quickly, but was out of line of sight of the

1165
01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:46,800
main entrance.

1166
01:06:46,800 --> 01:06:47,800
Okay.

1167
01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:49,800
So, like an alley nearby.

1168
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:50,800
Yep.

1169
01:06:50,800 --> 01:06:52,800
Maybe a building or two over.

1170
01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:56,800
But at night, the entire area is packed.

1171
01:06:56,800 --> 01:06:58,800
There's heavy traffic.

1172
01:06:58,800 --> 01:07:08,800
There is the sidewalks and foot areas are inundated with clubgoers and restaurant goers and late

1173
01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:12,800
shoppers and, you know, just people walking around.

1174
01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:18,800
This area of Renton's an absolute hive of nightlife at the moment.

1175
01:07:18,800 --> 01:07:23,800
Even, you know, even in the alleyways and back streets, there's definitely foot traffic.

1176
01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:31,800
I think on the way over, Dindare would probably ask Ice in every language he knows if he speaks,

1177
01:07:31,800 --> 01:07:35,800
every language she knows if he speaks any of them.

1178
01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:38,800
Which languages does she know?

1179
01:07:38,800 --> 01:07:41,800
Cantonese, Japanese, and spirit soul.

1180
01:07:41,800 --> 01:07:42,800
All right.

1181
01:07:42,800 --> 01:07:47,800
Well, let's remind myself what Ice knows.

1182
01:07:47,800 --> 01:07:49,800
Ice is under in peace.

1183
01:07:49,800 --> 01:07:53,800
And don't forget about real time machine translation.

1184
01:07:53,800 --> 01:07:55,800
Who does that?

1185
01:07:55,800 --> 01:08:02,800
I don't think either Dindare or Ice can do that.

1186
01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:03,800
Interesting.

1187
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:05,800
Ice has no language skills.

1188
01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:07,800
No, he has no language skills.

1189
01:08:07,800 --> 01:08:08,800
Nope.

1190
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:14,800
I probably need to go look at his 5e character sheet because that's where I, well, let's not

1191
01:08:14,800 --> 01:08:17,800
get bogged down in that.

1192
01:08:17,800 --> 01:08:24,800
You are able to ascertain that Ice knows English and French and potentially a smattering

1193
01:08:24,800 --> 01:08:34,800
of other odd languages, but not Japanese or anything or Spirethiel.

1194
01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:37,800
I doubt he would have spoken Spirethiel.

1195
01:08:37,800 --> 01:08:44,800
And he is very short and not forthcoming in his answers either.

1196
01:08:44,800 --> 01:08:47,800
I think she just spends the rest of the time talking at him.

1197
01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:54,800
Kind of just like recounting stories of what she's done like way in the past, nothing recent.

1198
01:08:54,800 --> 01:09:00,800
Yeah, I think that's probably where you get the most connection with Ice is the distant

1199
01:09:00,800 --> 01:09:02,800
history type stuff.

1200
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:07,800
It doesn't seem to really get into reaction or interest from him.

1201
01:09:07,800 --> 01:09:11,800
If you start talking about the 2050s, he gets interested.

1202
01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:18,800
I think in equivalents with Ice, Dindare's 2050s are probably incredibly boring.

1203
01:09:18,800 --> 01:09:30,800
Like you have cases cleaned up probably a go-go-go or two, but nothing like Shadowrunner or anything.

1204
01:09:30,800 --> 01:09:34,800
So you guys pull up and park in the spot that you had found earlier.

1205
01:09:34,800 --> 01:09:40,800
And like I said, this area is just crowded with people and revelers.

1206
01:09:40,800 --> 01:09:46,800
Make me another perception check, please.

1207
01:09:46,800 --> 01:09:51,800
At least on my end, Boxer has a little bit of echo for everyone.

1208
01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:53,800
I don't know if that's fixed.

1209
01:09:53,800 --> 01:09:54,800
Let's see.

1210
01:09:54,800 --> 01:09:55,800
I think it is.

1211
01:09:55,800 --> 01:09:57,800
Oh, well, perception for...

1212
01:09:57,800 --> 01:09:59,800
Nope, it's back.

1213
01:09:59,800 --> 01:10:00,800
I'll give her a little bit of echo.

1214
01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:02,800
Who's making the perception check?

1215
01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:09,800
Dindare's making a perception check as she pulls into her chosen parking spot at the Mime.

1216
01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:11,800
Am I echoing or...

1217
01:10:11,800 --> 01:10:15,800
I hear myself echoing, but I'm not sure where the echo is.

1218
01:10:15,800 --> 01:10:21,800
It's coming from her Valerie Boxer.

1219
01:10:21,800 --> 01:10:23,800
Is she with us?

1220
01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:24,800
I'm here.

1221
01:10:24,800 --> 01:10:28,800
Perception or hits, nice.

1222
01:10:28,800 --> 01:10:34,800
You know, you go past the Mime and you're sort of surreptitiously using, glancing around,

1223
01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:38,800
using the visor on your helmet to cover your glances.

1224
01:10:38,800 --> 01:10:44,800
You get the distinct impression that the Italiano on the across the street from the Mime

1225
01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:52,800
and the Mime security forces are potentially beefing, not overtly at the moment,

1226
01:10:52,800 --> 01:10:55,800
but you catch that sort of vibe from them.

1227
01:10:55,800 --> 01:11:03,800
And you also see that there's a line down the block of people waiting to get into the Mime.

1228
01:11:03,800 --> 01:11:09,800
And you see that the security detail, different group of people than you saw this morning when you were there,

1229
01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:13,800
but you see the security detail, they're eight deep.

1230
01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:15,800
Four of them are orcs.

1231
01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:19,800
They're all, they're all look pretty heavy and intimidating.

1232
01:11:19,800 --> 01:11:26,800
And you, as you pass, you notice that certain select people are going right in rather than waiting in line.

1233
01:11:26,800 --> 01:11:33,800
You also notice that there's a valet service that is, you know, taking people's cars.

1234
01:11:33,800 --> 01:11:37,800
So, yeah, this is a happening place.

1235
01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:43,800
Our Boxer and Grace and Cecil attempting to show up as early as the end there.

1236
01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:45,800
About as early as.

1237
01:11:45,800 --> 01:11:46,800
Okay.

1238
01:11:46,800 --> 01:11:48,800
Not on last night in Galantsists.

1239
01:11:48,800 --> 01:11:58,800
Make out does not have a conception of always having to arrive early for things unlike humans, many humans, them and their unhealthy work culture.

1240
01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:05,800
All right, so Cecil pulls up as well, the good guy gets out and makes a perception change.

1241
01:12:05,800 --> 01:12:07,800
Perception.

1242
01:12:07,800 --> 01:12:18,800
One, one, you're not quite as perceptive as Deander was as she passed through here as you get out of the grid guide.

1243
01:12:18,800 --> 01:12:24,800
You do obviously observe the giant line of people waiting to get in to the mime.

1244
01:12:24,800 --> 01:12:31,800
And you see that there is an exceptional amount of security in front of the mime.

1245
01:12:31,800 --> 01:12:38,800
So you recognize it from your matrix search, and that's all that you sort of notice about place.

1246
01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:46,800
Cecil starts walking towards the door with Procox symbol on her tumbling.

1247
01:12:46,800 --> 01:12:48,800
Okay.

1248
01:12:48,800 --> 01:12:50,800
Deander and ice.

1249
01:12:50,800 --> 01:13:00,800
So when you park Deander, ice sort of made an appreciative comment on the fact that you had chosen a good location and says something to the effect of well,

1250
01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:02,800
this might go okay after all.

1251
01:13:02,800 --> 01:13:10,800
I think in like almost a snide way she says back might.

1252
01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:11,800
He grins.

1253
01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:13,800
All right, shall we?

1254
01:13:13,800 --> 01:13:15,800
I assume you're my ticket in.

1255
01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:16,800
So let's go.

1256
01:13:16,800 --> 01:13:17,800
All right.

1257
01:13:17,800 --> 01:13:27,800
You see Cecil pull up in a grid guide and walk towards the main entrance and Cecil as you walk forward,

1258
01:13:27,800 --> 01:13:34,800
you see the security eyeing you as you approach probably anticipating actually how are you addressed?

1259
01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:37,800
The same as she was.

1260
01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:41,800
She hasn't had the opportunity to change her clothes yet.

1261
01:13:41,800 --> 01:13:43,800
So she is still not had a chance to.

1262
01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:49,800
She doesn't she's not wearing any fancy club gear.

1263
01:13:49,800 --> 01:14:04,800
All right, so you're approaching you see them sort of one or two of them get into a posture like, you know, they're not overly signal signaling that they're going to intercept you but you can sort of get the impression that they're like, oh boy, here we go.

1264
01:14:04,800 --> 01:14:08,800
And one of them sort of holds out his hand as if to stop you.

1265
01:14:08,800 --> 01:14:29,800
And you show him the you flash in the symbol, the seal, and he looks over at one of the other orcs over there and sort of makes a head motion and then he gives you sort of the the thumbs over his shoulder going as if you know, you go in.

1266
01:14:29,800 --> 01:14:39,800
The seal.

1267
01:14:39,800 --> 01:15:00,800
Feel this not for this environment.

1268
01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:09,800
And there's a thing there and ice approach, one of the York steps out to a sort of intercept you. And here's here's the thing.

1269
01:15:09,800 --> 01:15:11,800
Ice doesn't have a common link on him.

1270
01:15:11,800 --> 01:15:17,800
So he looks at you as if to say, All right, get us in.

1271
01:15:17,800 --> 01:15:38,800
And then D and Dery looks back at him not with like surprise but almost like kind of I expected you to do this. A look that says that, and then kind of fiddles with our common link for a second, and then pulls up the symbol, and the guy nods again and sort of shrugs at one of the other orcs and, you know, motions you to

1272
01:15:38,800 --> 01:15:49,800
the other orcs are, you know, some of the people in line are starting to lose it and the orcs are just sort of amused by this. D and Aaron Cecile as you enter the murdered mime.

1273
01:15:49,800 --> 01:15:55,800
You are just hammered by a wave of music.

1274
01:15:55,800 --> 01:16:12,800
And then the exploitation rock is playing at, you know, you're splitting volume, and the, the decor is all black and white and minimalist. There's a there's a massive black and white checkered dance floor that you actually can't really see the dance floor

1275
01:16:12,800 --> 01:16:21,800
itself because there's just this, heaving massive meta humanity. And are you in doing anything in AR Cecile.

1276
01:16:21,800 --> 01:16:23,800
Oh, always.

1277
01:16:23,800 --> 01:16:26,800
Accepting the AR invitation of the club.

1278
01:16:26,800 --> 01:16:44,800
All right, so you're getting the full on AR bombardment, which makes the interior of the club even more bombastic with just all sorts of laser holographics, projecting mimes of all shapes and sizes.

1279
01:16:44,800 --> 01:16:53,800
The mimes are like walking up the walls as if the walls were the floor and they're murdering each other and all sorts of stylized imaginative ways.

1280
01:16:53,800 --> 01:17:04,800
And the place is just a cacophony of, of noise and lights and smells and it's just, it's intense.

1281
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:18,800
And both you and Diender as you walk in are just struck by this and wondering, probably both having exactly the same thought of how in heck, how the frag are we going to find the Mr Johnson in here and how are we going to have any kind of meeting.

1282
01:17:35,800 --> 01:17:53,800
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