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S3E6: Stalemate | A Starforged Actual Play · Maia’s Game Room

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[SPEAKER_02]: previously on Iron Rising.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The episode flashed back a few months ago to reveal the Kavara siblings' secret lives.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Celine takes a break, disguising herself to enter the violet district, to meet her secret lover, Kael, a violet artist.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Meanwhile, Dorian travels to the red district to meet his close friend Ross, a red worker
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[SPEAKER_02]: Ross reveals his desperate fools gambit, a plan to liberate every single red in the city immediately.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We now return to present day where Saline has just discovered a harsh truth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Strength is duty.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Duty is order.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Order gold.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Order gold.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So lean, you need to let me explain.
1:21
[SPEAKER_02]: So lean, you need to let me explain.
1:27
[SPEAKER_02]: He says with all the courage he could muster as his body is literally trembling, as well as the room, as well as everything on the floor, is trembling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Her body is extremely vibrating and you can see that she has these gauntlets on her wrists.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The gauntlets are called kinetic amplifiers, so her power is being wielded through these gauntlets, but it also amplifies them even more.
2:03
[SPEAKER_00]: So, what could be a little thing, the room starts to shake, and even like the door handle starts to shake as well, and the sound of people running down the hallway to knock on the door to see what's going on, can be heard on the other side of the room.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Baker is one of the doors.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Seline is shaking.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A person in the robot and he's nervous.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She turns her face to look at you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You see her eyes are wide and unblinking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like she's looking at you and through you at the same time, and not even seeing you, and I think she's about to explode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You see it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As things are starting to lift up around her, she is standing now, the chair that she was once sitting on is shaking, just all objects are rising as you're seeing her body shake with more anger
3:08
[SPEAKER_02]: Celine.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You need to let me explain.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She is going to explode, unless you can think of something.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Dorian is going to, against his better judgment, walk towards her with his arms out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He drops his jacket down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That would protect him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He taps the shoulder piece where Ajax would protect him, and Ajax reluctantly jumps off of him, and hides under the jacket.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's just Dorian in a regular shirt, no protection with his arms out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: In a supinated position, like a beggar's pleading hands, holding an invisible hat that's not there for coin or food.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Looking up at her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You see, the chair that she was sitting on, shoots back with lightning speed and goes, and there's like a hairline crack on the window as you say, please.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Celine, I am your brother, I am your blood.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That makes her more angry, and you see one of your computer screens is thrown against the wall immediately cracks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Second one goes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The third one that was on the wall is stripped from the wall and slams on the ground.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There are a lot of people banging on the door now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you hear it kind of muffled.
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[SPEAKER_02]: alert any evacuation of the building and Icarus pulls on a piece of from the door panel and an alarm that caused any evacuation begins to ring and bellow throughout the building.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Your feet are beginning to slide back a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Selene, I was afraid to tell you because of this exact reason.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But you know who taught me how to be brave?
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know who taught me?
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[SPEAKER_02]: You.
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[SPEAKER_02]: In front of you, right now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, R-055 is my friend.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He is my deep, dark secret.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's a little bit of venom when he says that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Your body's going to get thrown back, unless you can make this a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It sounds like a face danger or a compel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can try, you can try compel.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm absolutely using heart here, which is only a plus two, but now it's just a plus one with the minus one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But now he's going to use his heart saying, you know, you taught me to be brave.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're going up against her because I don't want it to be like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is weird, like PvP here, right?
6:11
[SPEAKER_00]: We can't even, let's say you do, let's say, let's say you do a strong hit with the match, but I feel like still, she fills this way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna say my idea is that it's going up against her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like a contested role, that makes sense.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so it's going up against, she's going to, it's going to be, it's either face danger or it's strike.
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[SPEAKER_00]: go for the strike yeah you go for the strike you're in control I think you are very much in control of the situation okay so you go ahead and roll compel at that at the minus one I I truly think
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[SPEAKER_00]: As you're saying, like, this is my friend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is my deep dark secret.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's only making, like, in her mind, she is not, she's kind of not even here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is very much out of body experience.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And your voice is coming in like an echo.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's just making her angry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So go ahead and roll, compel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see what happens.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm bad as good as I thought.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, I'm good at rolling poorly, this situation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, on a miss, they refuse or make a demand that costs me greatly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're using, she's going to strike, and she's using her, of course, she's using her kinetic billies.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She also has the dominance.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A Dorian Kilvara's original.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Dorian did make those.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to use them, but I also lose two momentum.
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[SPEAKER_00]: but the kinetic gauntlets also add another plus one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Do it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Dorian's making sure there's no collateral.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, it's a weak hit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The move technically says Mark progress ties, but this is not like a progress check type thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So what would we say?
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll just do a regular like success with the complication type thing?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think that's what makes sense here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, what does Celine do in a weak hit?
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[SPEAKER_00]: a success with the complication, I'm gonna say, Dex gets hurt as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he's going to lose a point of health.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think a shockwave sends Dex against the window and he like hits it, hits it and falls down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Doesn't go through it, but like hits it and like bounces off of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you can hear the sound of Dex being thrown your immediately thrown as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think happens to you?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think Dorian gets blasted.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think blasted back against the desk he has there where the hologram was playing the video.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I think he gets hit, he hits against his back and he tumbles backwards over it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mechanically, what do you think happens?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mechanically, he definitely takes help.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would say that I think that Celine takes a hit to her health
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'd say it so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that there is a lot of stuff, I think all at once, there is like this shock wave of explosion that is expelled from her body.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And everything in this room is pushed back from her and thrown in different directions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She's hit, there's like, different devices you have in this room, you see, she gets knocked in the head by some metal objects, you can't tell.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That, I think that's the thing that snaps her out of it, as she falls to the ground and then everything else falls to the ground.
10:07
[SPEAKER_02]: And they alarm, they alarm is still going.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I, her eyes are wide and she's looking around.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Dex.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Dex, where are you?
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's over here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Dorian sees Dex up pinned under a chair and he crawls over.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he's not a small cap.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It like he picks him up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he looks don't.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't touch him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Come Dex, come.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I go to pick him up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I need to find help for it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Come.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And she goes to pick him up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You hurt him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't talk to me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You need to let me explain.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There is nothing to explain.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's actually a lot to explain.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Four years!
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[SPEAKER_00]: Four years you've hid this from me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: With good reason based on how you've reacted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There is no good reason for this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Don't you talk to me about breaking the rules.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Don't you lecture me about what's forbidden?
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[SPEAKER_00]: A red, Dorian.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not just any red.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They read.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't know it was him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You had to have known, you've known something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's four years, Dorian.
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[SPEAKER_00]: God damn it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Silly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't talk to me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's just throws, throws like stuff out of the way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She has decks in her arms and she like goes to kick the door open and it slams off the walls.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they're the blues that were on the other side like scatter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think one of the most gets cut.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah, I think I guess probably some would have still been there trying to open the door.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And she is like, she's barely in out of there with Dex and her arms.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mom!
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[SPEAKER_00]: And she like shouts at some of the meta in their way, me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: like just scared frightened.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And she has like a little bit of that energy still on her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's what helped like just throw the door off its off its hinges.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Dorian's gonna rush over to the command, like one of the command podiums in his room that aren't damaged, calls over Icarus Icarus, lock every door between here and the exit, deactivate the elevator.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And she's trying to, she's going to get out of here, eyes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Dex is a little hurt, he's still good, but he is still crimson red, as she's holding him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And she's looking for, she finds one of the doors and see like there is like them some security that are holding the door, she doesn't open it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is Dorian Kelvaris on the loudspeaker.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let her be.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She knows so well that she arms you, she'll be brought before the Grand Out Victory.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Dorian, I know that you can hear me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let me out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'd let you leave when we finish our conversation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he's actually, I don't know if it's, I don't know how I roll for a dick move, but Dorian's gonna
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have sought to walk in the barns of the building.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, the forest in the river to distress signal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No media is going to be able to get here, unless I could do our backup.
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[UNKNOWN]: I don't think you want the media here, nor the authorities.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Have some sense, and come talk to me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're not in a position to threaten me right now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is where the face danger's gonna come in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm going to argue to utilize my tech role because I am configuring and hacking my own system here so that I get a plus one on this role.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And if I get a weak hit, I can press my luck to try again.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Strong hit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Take plus one one too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What was your goal here?
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[SPEAKER_02]: His goal was to force, not to force him, but basically show you that leaving is a bad idea.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So what he's going to do is he's going to send a private message to you on your, actually, no, he's not going.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's just going to say, we don't want our conversation to leak to the media.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Eyes wide open.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She sees that there are a couple blues.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, it's a couple of gray security guards in a security room.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're separated by glass, but there is like some double doors that you know, to let them in and out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She looks at their names.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She sees the names, Torren and Zevren.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't let me out, I will remember you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And there will be nothing you can do, once I hunt for you and your family and find you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Get me out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It sounds like a compel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It does, doesn't it?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: My sister is unwell.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a week it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they have a counteroffer for me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They look over.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're like,
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[SPEAKER_02]: they look at you and they see like what does Celine look like right now as far as like her facial expressions her condition what does she look like at this moment
16:09
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, absolutely crazy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just wild, wild, eyed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She's, you can see the breathing, like the breasts are coming hard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And she's holding decks, which is like this large panther and the, and dex is red.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So dex looks scary as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She's holding decks and just looks crazy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely, crazy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They look in there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And after hearing what I just said, I'm not in her calm.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think you might be better to bring down your brother.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That where we know the situation is under control.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because right now it does not.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We might have to call back up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I wish you would call back up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I like a challenge.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You hear Dorina again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right now, there are metal doors that are stopping her from getting out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're reinforced, so it's hard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She's gonna set decks down and try to just use force to get those open.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was gonna say Dorian is gonna try to do something too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I would like to roll check your gear to see if I have a tool that could bring
17:27
[SPEAKER_02]: venture to my building to see if it was damaged in the situation, you know, some in the ship to come to us on a guided point system.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I think that's what he's thinking to do because like we have to he's like, not only do I have to gather, but I have to get this situation out of here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't know if you want to roll yours first, well, and then I'll go that is going to be supply, which right now is five.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That is a weak hit, so you have it, but must choose one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Your supplies diminished.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's not quite right, lose momentum or on a miss.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You don't have it in situations more perilous.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to sacrifice resources and say that I do have it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But the damage to my place is like, I'm actually losing power and I think the situation, if you were to do what you're doing, I will lose control of the building.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I can see like the levels are going down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like this should be like a progress track.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It should be, let's do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think it should be called family drama, something.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Endure the crash out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not just indoor, but we have to get through it.
18:40
[SPEAKER_02]: Break through the breakdown.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Break through, yes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Or just break through, a break through.
18:47
[SPEAKER_02]: And we want to put that dangerous for a middle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's like dangerous.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Dangerous, okay.
18:51
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to put at least one marker progress
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[SPEAKER_00]: SLEAN.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I guess I'll break their works for both of us.
18:59
[SPEAKER_00]: She's trying to break through these doors.
19:00
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, one way or the other.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm just going to do a classic face danger.
19:09
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh-oh.
19:12
[SPEAKER_00]: So that is a weak hit, so I succeed, but not without a cost, make a suffer move.
19:16
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's I think because she's using both of her physical body and her power, she is draining herself physically and mentally.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So her spirit is going to go down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That makes sense to me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to mark progress.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I think because it says I succeeded, I think she is able to, she slams through the door.
19:39
[SPEAKER_00]: And there's a huge dent and just a space for her to get through and dex jumps through as well.
19:46
[SPEAKER_00]: And you can hear it, you could see it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There are some blues that are down the hall that are kind of stuck just by changing fear.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And she is, I mean, this is just step one.
19:58
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a still, this is just to get out of your sector in this hall.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you can tell the elevator and then out the middle.
20:09
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
20:10
[SPEAKER_00]: So now she's like rushing and like she's trying for the elevator.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then dammit, it's locked.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.
20:22
[SPEAKER_02]: Celine, do you feel like talking?
20:24
[SPEAKER_00]: She's just looking left and right, trying to get out of here.
20:27
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I truly wish and still do that you'd be more open-minded than mother, and that's what made you better than her.
20:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you talking like through comms or?
20:37
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you're talking through the comms.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because the comms to you, this is the personal comm.
20:41
[SPEAKER_02]: You are wearing tech.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're wearing tech, so he has a way to communicate with you.
20:46
[SPEAKER_00]: I think if there's some type of earpiece that she has in for the comms for our communicating, she, if you're watching, if there's any way you can watch her through like cameras or anything.
20:58
[SPEAKER_02]: There was eye, his eye, his eye, his eye, his eye, his axis, his whole building.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You see her, she takes the earpiece out of her ear, slams it on the ground and then crushes it with her foot.
21:10
[SPEAKER_02]: Dorian looks to address, you're going to have to drive.
21:14
[SPEAKER_00]: and just like an angry lion or tiger, she has her hands on her hips, and she's like stalking back and forth, and you could see her just like trying to think of something.
21:27
[SPEAKER_00]: She's looking down the hallway to see if there's... See if there's a staircase.
21:34
[SPEAKER_02]: How long do we think it would take venture to get over to the blue district?
21:38
[SPEAKER_02]: Ventures pretty quick, probably 10 minutes.
21:44
[SPEAKER_00]: actually looking for the emergency stair exit.
21:48
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
21:48
[SPEAKER_02]: So I think what my work here is, honestly, it's going to be like, you're going to have to get her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The only way, you are going to have to knock her out.
22:01
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this is what I'm gonna do.
22:02
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Dorian's gonna try to override the secure, like some of the tech in the room to expand beyond his lab to see if he can like shut the cut the lights, turn on the emergency showers, and like try to slow you down.
22:19
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that's the face danger because I would be putting my, you know, I'm essentially attaching myself to the network.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
22:27
[SPEAKER_02]: So we're gonna face danger.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That is a strong hit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, nice.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He takes his hand, he puts it into the inner calm.
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[SPEAKER_02]: His little crab, Ajax crawls back up on his shoulder, while Icarus is preparing to like open up the windows for the venture to kind of sit to the side of the building.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Any seas, he looks through the grid, he can kind of see digitally in digital space where you are pacing back and forth, loing that you're just around the corner.
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[SPEAKER_02]: From the emergency exit, snaps his fingers, and the lights go out in the entire building.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It shuts down as if it's lost complete power, and the straight, the sprays begin spraying cold water down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: as if there was a fire and that causes a lock down on all the emergency exits.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that causes, that's progress as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I would say that's progress because that's just so you don't at least a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, she says, um, water would not slow me down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't done this move yet, but I'm also going to check my gear.
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[SPEAKER_00]: See if I have anything that would be helpful for me, I'm thinking, does she have anything that's like, she have like a little tool kit, you know, a multi-tool?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, a little multi-tool kit, some type of tech kit, it's not her area of expertise, but another thing, Jory and probably gave her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, she's not completely helpless, so let's see.
23:58
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's just role-plus supply.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a weak hit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I have it, but I got to choose one.
24:06
[SPEAKER_00]: I think sacrifice resources make sense.
24:07
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So she is like, she's checking on her body and then like inside one of her pockets.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She pulls out this kind of a digital multi-tool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: still lights up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not connected to any of the grids here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's going to take time, but she goes to try to connect it to the digital pad.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the emergency panel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's connected to the the stairway.
24:36
[SPEAKER_02]: I think being one with the security network now, Dorian can see you, and you see one of the security cameras turns and it does have a of microphone capability.
24:49
[SPEAKER_02]: I remember when I gave you that.
24:52
[SPEAKER_02]: Celine, this is not you.
24:53
[SPEAKER_02]: You're not thinking clearly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She's going to use her power to break the security camera.
25:00
[SPEAKER_00]: And you just see it happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like her hand goes up the enormous amount of wind and force push, cracks it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He activates on the digital panel you're working on.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not saying I'm talking to you.
25:14
[SPEAKER_02]: I can keep this up all night.
25:17
[SPEAKER_02]: Can't break this one.
25:18
[SPEAKER_02]: You break this, you're stuck in here, and I'm thinking you're running out of fuel.
25:24
[SPEAKER_02]: Silly.
25:24
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll get out of here, I'm getting out of here one way or another.
25:27
[SPEAKER_02]: And then what?
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know where he is.
25:31
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I'm finishing the mission.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whith or without you?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or maybe just without you, since I don't think you need to see the death of your best friend.
25:41
[SPEAKER_02]: If you think he won't see you coming, you are sorely mistaken.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'll be ready.
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[SPEAKER_00]: been training my entire life for this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You think I'm not ready?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you're willing to step on me to get to where you want to be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're willing to betray your creed for this friend.
26:04
[SPEAKER_02]: It's more complicated than that.
26:06
[SPEAKER_02]: And you should know about complicated things, silly.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You hypocrite.
26:11
[SPEAKER_02]: You're going to lash out at me when you've been having your own
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[SPEAKER_02]: That I have kept secret.
26:19
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not the same and you know it.
26:22
[SPEAKER_02]: Regardless, we both have something that could ruin us.
26:27
[SPEAKER_00]: She's gonna try to open the door.
26:29
[SPEAKER_02]: I would like to roll.
26:30
[SPEAKER_02]: I would like to roll the compel.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
26:33
[SPEAKER_02]: And this is what I'm gonna say.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
26:35
[SPEAKER_02]: Celine, if you try to leave without me, without speaking to me, I will expose it.
26:43
[SPEAKER_02]: There's more to this than you understand.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and you just can sit and talk to me.
26:49
[SPEAKER_02]: Brother to sister, we can come to an understanding.
26:54
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know why Ross is doing this in this manner.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, we used about ways that perhaps the reds could be looked upon less destainfully.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, maybe we talked about a way where there could be more harmony between everything, so that everybody could benefit from the glory of Hyperion City and survive together.
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[SPEAKER_02]: but I did not know he was going to do this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think if I can talk to him, we can avoid escalating this further.
27:26
[SPEAKER_02]: But if you aren't gonna give me a chance to speak, I will throw a nightmare in your path.
27:34
[SPEAKER_02]: You taught me, and I think you remember that you bring a gun to a negotiation.
27:41
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
27:42
[SPEAKER_02]: That's my compel.
27:45
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, I talked big game.
27:46
[SPEAKER_02]: I better not bif this.
27:49
[SPEAKER_02]: Alright, a weak hit.
27:51
[SPEAKER_02]: And we have to take the momentum.
27:52
[SPEAKER_02]: And I guess you can decide how Celine hears that, based on weak hit.
27:58
[SPEAKER_00]: I think all the possibilities are running through her head about her entire life blowing up.
28:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Who's situation is worse?
28:05
[SPEAKER_00]: She knows it's yours.
28:07
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you might be like scandily ruined.
28:09
[SPEAKER_02]: He'd be executed or exiled.
28:15
[SPEAKER_00]: Where do you want to meet?
28:18
[SPEAKER_02]: Come back to the lab.
28:20
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going back to your damn lab.
28:23
[SPEAKER_02]: Then go to the roof.
28:24
[SPEAKER_00]: We will talk.
28:26
[SPEAKER_00]: Then let me up to the roof.
28:29
[SPEAKER_02]: A light illuminates to the elevator.
28:32
[SPEAKER_02]: And we can see like that opens.
28:34
[SPEAKER_02]: You can see the open-like sky.
28:36
[SPEAKER_02]: And the green arrow pointing up.
28:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
28:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Thuring has a waiting.
28:40
[SPEAKER_00]: You look at my progress on the uh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's it.
28:44
[SPEAKER_00]: On a break through.
28:46
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't see that counts, I'd say that counts.
28:49
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it does.
28:50
[SPEAKER_00]: Seline walks to the elevator, decks his following, and she makes her right up to the roof.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Presses the little R button.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm guessing Venture is already there.
29:08
[SPEAKER_02]: Adventure is there.
29:10
[SPEAKER_02]: It is just off the roof, like floating there, with Dorian in front, with Echorus, like floating over to the ship.
29:20
[SPEAKER_02]: And he's standing there with his jacket back on and you can see the golden plate that's Ajax that's like sitting there vigilant.
29:26
[SPEAKER_02]: His arms are folded.
29:27
[SPEAKER_02]: He's got a head wound from the impact from earlier.
29:31
[SPEAKER_02]: So there's a bit of streaks of dry blood down the one side of his face.
29:34
[SPEAKER_02]: But he's standing there waiting for you.
29:38
[SPEAKER_00]: You're in front of Venture?
29:41
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, she makes her way over to Venture.
29:48
[SPEAKER_00]: So walk up to you.
29:51
[SPEAKER_00]: If you threaten me again, I will end you.
29:55
[SPEAKER_00]: And then the entire Kilvars family will be done.
30:00
[SPEAKER_00]: And she's gonna walk into Venture.
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[SPEAKER_02]: during sits there for a minute, a very painful minute.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There are worse fates, any turns and steps into venture.
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