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House as it swims through the

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depths of your... Ropa. Cell Complex

2:01

A is a fucking massacre. The

2:03

base security at some point for

2:05

some reason went from sell to

2:07

sell to sell and executed everyone.

2:09

Jack Denton swears and then gives

2:11

you a look. I'm going to

2:14

give an explanation on this one.

2:16

It is not for me to

2:18

say why anybody would do anything.

2:20

Jack Denton. I'm not here to

2:22

make any kind of moral judgment.

2:24

I'm here to do a job.

2:27

I'm here to do a job.

2:29

I'm here to do a job.

2:31

I'm here to do a job.

2:33

He nods. He, yeah, you, a

2:35

seat has been signed. Well, shit.

2:37

You take that vent up into

2:40

the barracks. The vents, I don't

2:42

know if I've described this, you

2:44

are crouching, getting real low and...

2:46

not crawling, they're large enough I

2:48

should say that you can move

2:50

through them at a crouch, just

2:52

kind of imagine for example in

2:55

alien. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, when

2:57

they're in the vents. No worries,

2:59

yeah. That's sort of a size.

3:01

Cool. You make your way into

3:03

the barracks, another room, and the

3:05

corridor in between. Still more creepers.

3:08

You don't know how, but they

3:10

were here and then somebody got

3:12

rid of them. Yeah, we're here,

3:14

then someone got rid of them.

3:16

This place is, like a lot

3:18

of the other rooms you've been

3:21

through, is a scene of absolute

3:23

butchery. The dead here are impossible

3:25

to count, and there is enough

3:27

blood for a small army, but

3:29

there's not a single body here.

3:31

No corpses in this room whatsoever.

3:34

Does it seem like human blood?

3:36

If I like crouched down, get

3:38

some in my hand to rub

3:40

up between my fingers, does it

3:42

feel like human blood? Putting your

3:44

hand in the blood, bringing it

3:46

up, you can tell it's, it

3:49

is human blood, but it's not

3:51

just human blood. You take one

3:53

sifting it through your fingers, you

3:55

realize it's everything. Okay. You are

3:57

standing in liquified human. Okay, how

3:59

far does my torch reach? It

4:02

can reach anywhere in this room.

4:04

So I can see the ceiling

4:06

and stuff? Sure, yeah. Like I

4:08

imagine maybe I'm crouched now with

4:10

my fingers in the blood and

4:12

then I stand up very straight

4:15

and just sort of whip my

4:17

head around just checking to see

4:19

that we're not inside something. Looking

4:21

at the ceiling, it's like looking

4:23

at flesh covered in goosebumps. The

4:25

Y guys, the two prongs, the

4:28

top part of the Y is

4:30

attached to the ceiling with the

4:32

little, that little downward... Stretch pointing

4:34

straight down at you. They don't

4:36

react when you shine the light

4:38

on them, but they carpet the

4:40

ceiling Okay, that's fine, but time

4:43

to be really quiet I turn

4:45

around I put my fingers to

4:47

my lips to Jack Danton I

4:49

curse the deuce model for not

4:51

having some way to do this

4:53

without talking There is no mute

4:56

button on the juice and I

4:58

know if I say Juice don't

5:00

talk it will go chchchchchchch affirmative.

5:02

You better believe so very deep

5:04

in that if then code that

5:06

makes all of juice up there

5:09

is a if told to be

5:11

quiet then say affirmative. Well they

5:13

need to know that you that

5:15

they're doing it so okay fuck.

5:17

Well then my best bet with

5:19

juice to give him no instructions

5:22

and let him see nothing. And

5:24

then just hope that at any

5:26

point he doesn't do some sort

5:28

of notification. Do I think this

5:30

may be a robotics role? You

5:32

have one new message. Do I

5:34

think this may be a role?

5:37

If I were to blind deuce.

5:39

Yes. Like I don't, because I

5:41

don't want him saying the wise

5:43

on the ceiling and then like,

5:45

danger detected. It's kind of what

5:47

I'm thinking. So if I don't

5:50

necessarily like pop his eyes out

5:52

or something, but if I wrap

5:54

like, if I tear a bit

5:56

of my shirt off or something,

5:58

and wrap it around his eyes,

6:00

he'll probably. Say some shit like,

6:03

why are you doing that? Okay.

6:05

Yeah. Okay. Okay. Another robotics question.

6:07

You know what? You get a point

6:09

of stress. Yeah, thanks man.

6:11

I'm feeling it. I just

6:13

think you should. Yep. Okay,

6:16

another robotics question. Yeah.

6:18

Is there a way to

6:20

turn juice off briefly? You

6:22

can turn deuce on and

6:24

off. Absolutely. Unfortunately, it's a

6:27

verbal command. I'll go

6:29

up to, I'll slosh

6:31

up to deuce, and

6:34

I'll get close to

6:36

wherever his hearing fucking

6:38

boxes. I'll be like,

6:40

deuce, your services are

6:42

no longer required at

6:45

B Smart Holdings. Highs

6:47

or lows. Highs. Highs.

6:49

Oh no. You sure

6:51

about that one buddy?

6:54

Make it lows, please.

6:56

Ooh. I wait a brief

6:58

second. And then I

7:00

gesture to Jack to grab the other

7:02

end of juice. Because we're going to

7:04

need to keep them moving. Sure, yeah.

7:06

And we're going to carry them through

7:08

the barracks to the next exit out

7:10

to try and get on the other

7:12

side. I suppose the exit down into

7:15

that long corridor where the water wasn't,

7:17

if that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

7:19

You can read, yeah, you can get

7:21

back into that same corridor that you

7:23

just left to get out of the

7:25

water, but where water isn't. Basically, having

7:27

used the cell blocks and the barracks

7:29

as kind of like an antichamber.

7:32

Yeah, yeah. You will need

7:34

to make a mobility agility

7:36

check. You get a plus

7:39

one, because Jack Denton is

7:41

helping you. You get a

7:43

negative three because juice. You're

7:46

carrying a robot. So you

7:48

have zero for this check. But

7:50

you have six stress times.

7:53

Okay. Which you still get

7:55

to roll and the negative

7:57

doesn't come out of them.

7:59

Hey, that actually works in

8:01

my favor. Oh, actually, I

8:04

think by the rules of

8:06

the game. Yeah, I think

8:08

by the rules of the

8:10

game you get at least

8:12

one dice no matter what.

8:14

So you do actually roll

8:16

seven total. Beautiful. That's actually

8:18

wonderful. Just as long as

8:21

I don't panic and start

8:23

screaming or something. No success

8:25

on the regular dice. Okay.

8:27

Two successes on a panic.

8:29

Oh, fuck. My stress is

8:31

so high. Think I forgot

8:33

to do this earlier, but

8:35

when you panic, you get

8:38

an extra point of stress

8:40

goes up. But you got

8:42

two successes. Let me find

8:44

out what happens and then

8:46

we'll determine if you actually,

8:48

because you could not fail.

8:50

Okay. You got 12 in

8:52

total. Let me read 12

8:55

to you. Scream. You scream

8:57

your lungs out for one

8:59

round, which... I will let

9:01

you know how long is

9:03

around? Well, around is a

9:05

whole 5 to 10 seconds.

9:07

For 5 to 10 seconds,

9:09

you scream your lungs out,

9:12

losing your next slow action.

9:14

Your stress level is decreased

9:16

by one. Hey, I'll take

9:18

it, baby. But every friendly

9:20

character who hears your scream

9:22

must make an immediate panic

9:24

roll. Drop item!

9:26

Oh my god. Whether

9:29

by stress, confusion, or

9:31

the realization that you're

9:33

all going to die

9:35

anyway, you drop a

9:37

weapon or other important

9:39

item, the DM decides

9:41

which one. Your stress

9:43

level increases by one.

9:46

Jack drops juice? Maybe

9:48

Jack dropping juice is

9:50

what makes me scream.

9:52

Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah,

9:54

yeah. Okay. So

9:57

it's their turn first. Oh,

10:00

yeah, great. Unfortunately, both of

10:02

you get stuck. One of

10:05

the antibodies latches on, then

10:07

another funk latches on. You've

10:09

got one on your arm,

10:12

one on your leg. Okay.

10:14

Duce gets one, not do,

10:16

sorry, Jack gets one on

10:19

his back. Okay. As soon

10:21

as that happens, your motion

10:24

detector. Oh my fucking god.

10:26

Okay. And then it is

10:28

Oscar, your turn. Can I

10:31

use my stun baton to

10:33

zap them off me? No

10:35

successes. Would you like to

10:38

push? Yeah, fuck it, let's

10:40

do it. No success. On

10:43

the regular? Okay. But on

10:45

the stress, and you've got

10:47

seven. Three ones. Freeze!

10:50

You're frozen by fear or stress

10:52

for one round losing your next

10:54

slow action. Your stress level and

10:56

the stress level of old friendly

10:58

NPCs in short range increases by

11:00

one. So your stress goes up

11:02

to eight. Okay. It's Jack's turn.

11:04

Jack also uses his stun baton.

11:06

He shocks the antibodies off him

11:08

and then I'll get the girl

11:10

for you. It's not sprinting into

11:12

the corridor. Okay, okay, that's fine.

11:14

That's fine. And that is his

11:17

turn. It's back to the swarm's

11:19

turn. Could I also have, or

11:21

would have this- Your hair looks

11:23

amazing right now. Sorry. Would this

11:25

also, would this have been one

11:27

of my actions? Could I say,

11:29

deuce, your services are required, that

11:31

to be smart cold things. All

11:33

right. That'll turn deuce, deuce. Octavating!

11:35

Hey, maybe that'll draw more of

11:37

the fucking wise to you. Honestly,

11:39

it's insane stuff for each other.

11:41

So loud. Bismarck Jingle. Yeah. Dus

11:43

starts turning on. He will act

11:45

at the end of next turn

11:47

and he doesn't have a slow

11:49

action. Yep. But he is on.

11:51

Cool. All right. It's the swarm's

11:54

turn. The swarm actually has already

11:56

stuck you. So and it's stuck

11:58

you and Jack has left. Yeah.

12:00

Oh, Dus is active. Never mind.

12:02

Yeah. Dus gets stuck. Okay. Okay,

12:04

then Oski it's your turn. Okay,

12:06

is this the turn that I've

12:08

lost? You yeah, you don't have

12:10

a slow action You just have

12:12

a fast action. Okay, so you

12:14

can use it to just catch

12:16

up to Jack. Yeah, that's what

12:18

I'll do. Yeah, you are you

12:20

still have anti body money Yeah,

12:22

that's fine. But I'll catch up

12:24

to Jack's turn He is gonna

12:26

just keep sprinting he gets I

12:29

guess he doesn't actually know a

12:31

hundred percent where he's Well he

12:33

knows where not to go and

12:35

there's only one, there's two directions.

12:37

Yeah yeah. So he turns and

12:39

no he knows the command, there's

12:41

like little arrows and stuff like

12:43

that pointing in the right direction.

12:45

So he can follow those. He

12:47

gets to, there's a T intersection

12:49

that leads to either the control

12:51

room or the other side of

12:53

medical and the engineering hole. Okay.

12:55

He gets to that intersection and

12:57

you see he skids to a

12:59

stop on his heels and then

13:01

chchchchch. Okay. And that was Jack's

13:04

turn. Juice. You just turned him

13:06

on. Yeah. He stands up. Okay.

13:08

Hey, fabulous. It's the swarm's turn.

13:10

And you can see what Jack

13:12

was looking at as one of

13:14

those white blood cells. Yeah. Streams

13:16

past him because he doesn't have

13:18

any antibodies on him and keeps

13:20

making its way for you The

13:22

white blood cell can only just

13:24

get to you. It is an

13:26

engaged range though. So it's kind

13:28

of like fills up

13:30

the corridor, expanding

13:32

itself out, blocking

13:34

you from going

13:36

any further. And

13:39

you will need

13:41

to roll to

13:43

get past it

13:45

if you want

13:47

to go forward.

13:49

OK, OK, no

13:51

worries. It's that

13:53

is its turn.

13:55

It's your turn,

13:57

Oskie. So here's

13:59

Oskie's dilemma. Yes,

14:01

so I could

14:03

roll to get

14:05

past it. But

14:07

also one of

14:09

my talents is

14:11

that if I

14:13

am attacked, I

14:16

can make a

14:18

manipulation roll to

14:20

make somebody else

14:22

suffer the damage

14:24

I was going

14:26

to suffer. So

14:28

possibly I could risk the

14:30

roll, which is using stats that

14:32

aren't great, or I could

14:35

wait till it attacks me and

14:37

push Jack Denton in the

14:39

way. I

14:41

think I'll wait. So

14:43

it's Jack's turn. You

14:46

hear footsteps. Huh?

14:48

Retreating footsteps. Oh,

14:51

like he's fleeing. Yeah, he's left

14:53

you. Well, I know the

14:55

direction he's going, I guess. I can try

14:57

and catch up with him. It's Deuce's turn.

14:59

Did you want to, on your turn, you

15:01

could have still as a free action given?

15:03

Yeah, I would have said Deuce, like, follow

15:05

us and protect us, basically. Deuce is behind

15:07

you, then. Cool. And do you say follow

15:09

and protect? Yeah, I would say so. Well,

15:11

in that case, Deuce understands that the white

15:13

blood cell is a hostile entity. So he

15:15

attacks it with, what does he have? He

15:18

doesn't have much. Bonk,

15:22

bonk, bonk with his one good arm.

15:24

I actually know he can use the

15:26

cutting torch. Oh, yeah. No, he can't.

15:28

No, no, yeah. He needs someone else

15:30

to light the cutting torch for him.

15:32

He attacks with a wrench. He's wrenching

15:34

the white blood cell. Engaging

15:38

Bismarck defense protocol. Why

15:42

is it called that?

15:44

That's all. It's the specific

15:46

Bismarck one. Please be

15:48

aware of the following things.

15:51

Terms and conditions state

15:53

that using a

15:56

John Watson in a

15:58

combat capacity is

16:00

not part of the

16:02

war. your John Watson model. If

16:04

you wish a combat upgrade, we recommend

16:06

switching to the... To the... Sergeant

16:09

Pepper. To the Sergeant

16:11

Pepper model of robot.

16:13

He swings, he gets one

16:15

success. Okay, great. So he

16:17

deals... I think the wrench

16:19

does a plus one in

16:22

his hands, so he deals

16:24

two points of damage to

16:26

the white blood cell. Well

16:28

that's Duce's turn. Oscar, that's the end

16:30

of this round of initiative so I

16:32

guess you want to have your turn?

16:35

Yeah, yeah, well yeah. Denton didn't stay

16:37

for you? Yeah, okay, well I will

16:39

fall back with Denton then I guess.

16:42

Well he's going forward. Oh he went,

16:44

oh fuck. Yeah he's going towards presumably

16:47

the control room? Okay, well

16:49

I'll have to do the same then.

16:51

All right, he's fucked me. Gonna need

16:54

to make a mobility check to get

16:56

past the white blood cell. Two regular

16:58

dice. Eight. Stress dice. But

17:01

I'm keeping it together.

17:03

Aside from that scream

17:05

in the other room. No

17:08

successes on the regular.

17:10

Two successes and one

17:12

panic. Okay, that's fine.

17:15

All right, so first off,

17:17

it's a low one. You rolled

17:19

about as low as you can

17:22

roll and eight. Trimble. Oh my

17:24

God. No, sorry nine drop item

17:26

the GM decides which one and

17:29

your stress increases by one so your

17:31

stress goes up to nine I'm nearly

17:33

at full stress. Yeah You can The

17:35

fastest way to lower your stress is

17:38

to interact with your signature item. Okay.

17:40

Do you yeah? Do you remember what

17:42

that is? I do I don't really

17:44

know if I'd have it with me.

17:47

That's my work mug that says I'd

17:49

rather be fishing. You just probably don't.

17:51

Yep. That'll be back on the OUES

17:54

long house. I could say that you

17:56

had it in your briefcase. I think

17:58

that will be insane. Okay. Yeah, yeah,

18:00

then it takes five to 10

18:03

minutes. What about my ability, Merciless,

18:05

which I just have written, coulda

18:07

grow without empathy, empathy, distress. You

18:10

normally need to succeed on an

18:12

empathy check to coulda grow someone?

18:14

You don't need to. And I

18:17

think it distresses me too. from

18:19

memory. That's crazy. I'll look at

18:21

it, well we'll cross that bridge

18:24

when we come to it. I'm

18:26

in a position to cut a

18:28

cry anybody. Exactly, that's fine. I'll

18:31

just sneak past. So you, oh

18:33

yeah, do you have an item

18:35

in your hands? I probably wouldn't

18:38

really. Yeah, I mean I might

18:40

have the stun baton. No, you

18:42

would have the stun baton. You

18:45

drop the stun baton? Fuck. Okay.

18:47

So. lose the stun baton and

18:49

then you well with two successes

18:52

though you do sneak past and

18:54

that's even not only do you

18:56

successfully sneak past but you can

18:59

give one success to another character

19:01

okay give yourself an extra success

19:03

or sorry a plus one in

19:06

the future yeah to a related

19:08

role or impress someone. I'll give

19:10

that extra point very impressive. I

19:13

reckon I'll give that extra point

19:15

to Duce. Because I know Duce

19:17

is going to have to do

19:20

the same thing at some point.

19:22

Oh, that's very true. Okay, you

19:24

know, that's actually great. Yeah, stick

19:27

behind Duce and then I'll... Okay.

19:29

Well, Duce will just automatically success

19:31

then on getting past. Cool. And

19:34

you get to the other side,

19:36

you see Denton, just the heels

19:38

of his feet as it turns

19:41

the corner heading towards the command

19:43

room. Duce has also been... Okay,

19:45

eyes or lows? What? Loaves? Capture?

19:48

Well, we've lost use. That's fine.

19:50

The cell attacks, uh, with, oh

19:52

my God, and if it causes

19:55

any damage, it pulls itself into

19:57

it, pulls the creature into it,

19:59

paralyzing it. Okay, this might be

20:02

it for Duce. Yeah, well, he

20:04

had a good run. On the

20:06

bright side, the white, this is

20:09

kind of the end for this

20:11

white blood cell. Yeah, okay. It's

20:13

going to now. I mean, now

20:16

it's going to like, jest state

20:18

Duce. It's having to think about

20:20

what it wants to do with

20:23

Duce. Okay. Yeah, there's a larger,

20:25

it's very funny as well. This

20:27

is part of a larger response

20:30

that these things do. I wish

20:32

there was a scientist here. Instead

20:34

of a corporate stoog. Yeah. Oh

20:37

my god. There's not a single

20:39

success here. Oh my god. Holy

20:41

shit. Juice lives. Yeah. It doesn't

20:44

hit deuce. What the fuck? It

20:46

gets its second attack then. Well,

20:48

you know. Hey. Okay. One for

20:51

all. The cell launches itself at

20:53

the largest group of enemies. You're

20:55

lucky, this could have targeted you,

20:58

but you've moved out of range.

21:00

Okay. Well, this is once again,

21:02

just targeting Duce. All right, Duce

21:05

is... Okay, he remains standing? Duce

21:07

is super lucky. The white blood

21:09

cell actually does nothing. Okay, beautiful.

21:12

The white blood cell, you can

21:14

see it's trying to throw itself

21:16

at Duce. Duce puts both of

21:19

his arms up. Both of his

21:21

arms? Ah. This puts his remaining

21:23

arm up and it's like he's

21:26

pushing off a giant water balloon.

21:28

He knocks it aside and then

21:30

with that success he is able

21:33

to just walk straight past. Beautiful.

21:35

Following. Following Yeah, yeah,

21:37

yeah, good stuff. Following. Dues is

21:39

truly the alarm that goes when

21:41

nothing's wrong, you know, and when

21:43

it stops, you know, there's a

21:46

problem. He's the boy who cried

21:48

wolf 100% Well, that's the that's

21:50

their turn. Okay, Oski you've changed

21:52

your initiative order. So it's Denton's

21:54

turn, Denton keeps moving you following

21:56

behind him. Mm-hmm You and Duce

21:59

make it into the control room.

22:01

The second you pass through the

22:03

doors, I'm assuming, because the white

22:05

blood cells hot on your heels.

22:07

Yeah, close the door. Yes, yeah,

22:10

absolutely. Yeah, you close the door.

22:12

Okay. Initiative is over. Okay. You

22:14

are in the control room. So

22:16

the control room, like so many

22:18

rooms that you've been through recently,

22:20

is kind of a mess. And

22:23

worse than that, it is. a

22:25

human mass. You see that there

22:27

is a lot of liquid human

22:29

on the ground, but it looks

22:31

like it looks like a last

22:34

stand was made here. You can

22:36

see that some of the facility

22:38

security fended off as best as

22:40

they could, a lot of the

22:42

antibodies and even a white blood

22:44

cell. You can see, there's little

22:47

Y things and it's so funny

22:49

to imagine them riddled with bullets.

22:51

But they are, there's a bunch

22:53

of them riddled with bullets all

22:55

around the place and one, the

22:57

blob, the dead blob of a

23:00

white blood cell. It now looks,

23:02

dead, it looks remarkably similar to

23:04

the creature you saw in the

23:06

sub coming here. So this room

23:08

is covered in creepers as well,

23:11

but they look dead and with

23:13

it. Okay. There are a bunch

23:15

of control panels here, but all

23:17

of them are off right now.

23:19

There are two, three, sorry, doors

23:21

that you can see. One leads

23:24

to the armory. You've been on

23:26

the other side of this door.

23:28

It is destroyed. One leads to

23:30

something called specimen observation. Okay. And

23:32

one leads to Combs slash Arena.

23:35

Is Nagano in here? No, she's

23:37

not in here. You can't see

23:39

her. You know, I don't, you

23:41

don't need a role, you don't

23:43

know where it is, but these

23:45

facilities typically have a panic room

23:48

that you would find here, or

23:50

at least near. So is the,

23:52

the armory just like fucks, like

23:54

if there's nothing? You're not getting

23:56

through that door, and you know

23:58

on the other side, the, there's

24:01

nothing. All of the equipment is

24:03

destroyed. Cool, cool, cool. All right.

24:05

I guess I'll start searching for

24:07

the panic room. Okay. Yeah. I'll

24:09

tell Juice and Jack to do

24:12

the same thing. Okay. Nagano will

24:14

be somewhere here in the panic

24:16

room finder. And then we can

24:18

make our way out. All right.

24:20

They each give you a plus

24:22

one to your check. You are

24:25

making a observation wits roll. So

24:27

that will be four plus five.

24:29

Plus nine. I'll pull the regular

24:31

dice first. That is one success

24:33

so far. Okay. And I still

24:35

got nine dice up my sleeve

24:38

out of it. Yeah. Just you

24:40

wait. Two successes? Yeah. So you

24:42

find, yeah, in here, sure enough,

24:44

you can find a little, it's

24:46

just the. barest outline of a

24:49

panel you can just barely tell

24:51

that it's here that will be

24:53

observation so I'll find you now

24:55

it is your options are is

24:57

it coming for me are there

24:59

more of them close by how

25:02

do I get in pasts or

25:04

away I guess how do I

25:06

get in That's fair enough. You

25:08

can see that if the facility

25:10

were powered, you might be able

25:13

to use one of the consoles

25:15

to open it. There's an executive

25:17

console, actually. You'd be able to

25:19

use the executive console to open

25:21

this door. Otherwise, it opens from

25:23

the inside. Right. And was there...

25:26

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25:28

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What? What, man? Flea. You just can't

26:34

take it anymore. You must flee

26:36

to a safe space and refuse

26:39

to leave it. You won't attack

26:41

anyone and you won't attempt anything

26:43

dangerous. You are not allowed to

26:45

make a retreat role, which is

26:48

irrelevant because you're not in combat.

26:50

Your stress level is decreased by

26:52

one, but every friendly character

26:54

who sees you must make

26:56

an immediate panic roll. Just

26:58

does not. Then starts panicking with

27:01

you. Let me in, Nagano. Let

27:03

me in, let me in, Nagano.

27:05

The door opens. Inside there is

27:07

a panic room. The panic room

27:10

is the size of a janitorial

27:12

closet. It's not very big, but

27:14

it is laid out. Despite its

27:16

size, it's laid, it's bedecked with

27:19

as much finery as Bismarck Holdings

27:21

could possibly put in such a

27:23

place. It looks positively decadent.

27:25

It is a single seat

27:27

which doubles as a toilet.

27:30

Awesome. A little unfolding tray

27:32

which you know from previous

27:34

experiences, not with this necessarily,

27:36

but with situations like this,

27:38

you know that there is

27:41

a fabricator of sorts here

27:43

and there would be, the

27:45

menu would definitely have lobsters

27:47

somewhere. Eating lobster on the

27:49

toilet. Yeah, it's like a

27:52

bismark way. It's a fancy

27:54

panic room. Presumably only for

27:56

the directors. You don't know why

27:58

Nagano is here. The corpse of

28:00

the facility director is sitting on

28:03

the toilet. You can see, no,

28:05

she's probably moved him. Yeah. There's

28:08

a big whelt on his head,

28:10

which is obviously the cause of

28:12

death. Okay. Yeah, I get it.

28:15

That's okay. She's... I try and

28:17

get in there with her. Okay.

28:19

I'm playing it. To safety. Okay,

28:22

there's a little control panel, you

28:24

hit that, shut the door behind

28:26

you. Dead. Do said tent there

28:29

on the other side. Can I

28:31

take a moment to distress while

28:33

I'm in there? Yeah, absolutely. If

28:36

you take five to ten minutes,

28:38

you will make Denton furious, but

28:40

you then, I'll quickly look up,

28:43

you lose at least some of

28:45

your stress. I think it's worth

28:47

doing, and while I'm doing that,

28:50

I'll have a conversation with the

28:52

Ghana. Hey, she says, how are

28:55

you? Yeah, I, not so good.

28:57

The facility is not in a

28:59

good way, but I too, as

29:02

you're talking. going to speak to

29:04

arena to try and get any

29:06

backups of all the information retained

29:09

here in the facility? I, uh,

29:11

yeah, I got the backup. Oh,

29:13

okay. As you told me, yeah,

29:16

can I do you have it

29:18

on like an info disk or

29:20

dot the pad? She, unfortunately for

29:23

her... Earlier you were quite successful

29:25

in assuring her that you were

29:27

coming to save her. So she

29:30

has made no preparations to ensure

29:32

her own survival. She hands you

29:34

the data disk. You are very

29:37

confident even in your stress state.

29:39

You can see this is it.

29:42

There's no deception going on. You

29:44

have what you need. This is

29:46

worth more than any human life

29:49

on this facility. I tuck it

29:51

into my into my suit. Yeah.

29:53

And then I will decompress and

29:56

give her a sit wrap of

29:58

basically everything we've been through. My

30:00

question for you, Nagano, is the

30:03

umbilical to the only safe submarine

30:05

out of here is current. locked

30:07

down. Can we unlock it and

30:10

make it safe to navigate from

30:12

here? It would be hard to

30:14

know for sure from here, but

30:17

from the facility black box, I

30:19

think the umbilical is completely torn

30:21

open. If we would unseal those

30:24

doors, we'd be exposing ourselves to...

30:26

Then we will need pressure suits

30:29

to make it to the submarine.

30:31

Sure. Do you know... How did

30:33

you come here? It was a

30:36

long trip. Do you not have

30:38

your sub? The sub that I

30:40

arrived on has been compromised. Oh,

30:43

okay. Well, the UES long house

30:45

remains, but the deep dart, which

30:47

we would use to go between

30:50

them, has been compromised. Either way,

30:52

we will require a pressure suit.

30:54

Yes. I think when we leave

30:57

this room, the panic room, we

30:59

should turn on the facility briefly.

31:01

reactivate to try and get some

31:04

idea of the situation and the

31:06

best route to navigate back to

31:08

a submersible or some way of

31:11

escaping. Yes. On the state of

31:13

loading dock A, loading dock B,

31:16

to try and figure out the

31:18

best way. They are the creatures,

31:20

they do still, they are still

31:23

somewhat active. when the facility isn't

31:25

powered down, but I'm just letting

31:27

you know if we turn things

31:30

back on, they get real aggressive.

31:32

I would then turn everything off

31:34

after we check. Okay. Do you

31:37

think that they would become too

31:39

aggressive in the period of time

31:41

where we investigated the two loading

31:44

base or? It's hard to say

31:46

exactly. I don't know how, but

31:48

they are aware of the difference

31:51

between things like... even like an

31:53

Android and just a ship they

31:55

wouldn't they wouldn't attack anything that

31:58

either wasn't an Android or a

32:00

human or didn't have one in

32:03

it. Okay though. But they're a

32:05

little bit disruptive to some, so

32:07

I don't understand the full extent

32:10

of it, but they do have

32:12

some understanding of, like, like they

32:14

went for the armory when everything

32:17

happens. So some level of intelligence.

32:19

Yeah. Okay. I think they're learning.

32:21

Well, make a note of it.

32:24

Right. So that we can tell

32:26

Bismarck when we are out. It's

32:28

on the disk, she says. Good.

32:31

My God, thank you so much.

32:33

It has been a nightmare. Yeah,

32:35

yeah. The facility is obviously compromised.

32:38

There is no salvage here. Right,

32:40

right. We will leave in the

32:42

absence of salvage. I believe destruction

32:45

was the next choice. Well, we

32:47

need to be sure because the

32:50

confirmation thing for setting off the

32:52

bomb as far as I'm away

32:54

needs to be done it. Needs

32:57

to be done at arena, and

32:59

then she can only give us

33:01

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33:04

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33:06

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