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Post by honestiago on Jun 25, 2022 17:18:20 GMT
Broccoli Rob immediately turns a car over to attempt to create cover from the remaining energy weapons fire. this impala (a '55, not the '73) and then starts lobbing chunks of concrete, wheels, chainsaws, anything he can get his hands on really, trying to lay down suppressive fire for his allies.
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Post by Planetbox on Jun 25, 2022 17:31:32 GMT
The ruffian Mercy knocked out proceeds to drive his hoverbike into a car causing a big explosion. He survives somehow, even after getting his arm eaten. It was one of his five prosthetics (the one he called the "sensual arm"), so he doesn't bleed out or anything.
The other ruffian gets up from where he collided with the forcefield and dusts himself off. He continues his ranged assault but is hindered by Rob's suppressive fire—and getting his arm eaten. He doesn't seem to be doing so well.
Meanwhile, the leader aims a slice at Leslie. Whether it hits or not, he drives through the crowd and into the Pod. He activates a fire-proof suit over his whole body, but it doesn't cover his mohawk so that's just kinda sticking up in the air. He enters the fire, does something with Leon's body, and exits with a black chip in his hand.
It's the Black Box containing Leon's last memories! No doubt he wants to destroy the evidence! The gang has to get it back!
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Post by JaytheBluPirate on Jun 25, 2022 17:37:46 GMT
Kolton dives behind a car before he pulls out a pistol.
"Was this all a trap?!" Kolton yells as he exchanged fire with the toughs. Then he sees the leader come out of the Pod with a Black Box.
"Oh no, you motherfucker! You're not getting away with my old man's memories!" The heir shouted as he began firing at the leader, trying to avoid hitting the Black Box, as it could contains a clue on how his father died.
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Post by Neotelenta on Jun 25, 2022 17:54:08 GMT
In response to the news of Leon being killed, Lancer's mind had been racing. He had been taking notes on who may be the killer. At least until he realized that if the pod was sealed, then surely the killer was still in the pod!
...Oh wait, the knife wasn't there anymore. Inconvenient. Also, some irritable guests arrived. Inconvenient (x2).
Lancer goes over to his mop and dunks the head of it in his push bucket that had been put out of the way. He fishes out what looks like a small bath bomb out of one of his pockets and tosses it in the water. Immediately, the water begins fizzling and making rather unhealthy corrosive sounds. With a quick snap, Lancer expands the mop stick, which seems to absorb some of the water through the mop head and folds out the top part of the mop to reveal a hidden barrel. He takes careful aim at the leader through the noise and anticipating where he would try to get away...His goggles greatly assisting with this as they zoom in and display a digital reticle connected to the swiss army mop as it were.
"hissss...BANG, BANG!" the mop stick speaks and sends two highly-pressurized acid-water bullets directly at each of the leader's shoulders.
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Post by dootdoot on Jun 25, 2022 18:02:26 GMT
Finding themselves in a dangerous situation, Mona's body engaged every one of its bleeding edge self defense options.
First, their screen displayed an angry face (Artist's rendition: >:[). Then, their body made an ear splitting car alarm sound (it should be noted cars haven't made this sound in over 50 years, it having been phased out in favor of silent alarms and DNA locks). Then, like an octopus creating a cloud of ink to escape a predator, the top of their head began to print and disgorge fake money. This accomplishes nothing, but it does distract one of the goons for a moment.
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Post by Kachu on Jun 25, 2022 18:42:14 GMT
"What the fuck are you doing!?" Athena shouts at Mona during all the commotion. "Is your brain malfunctioning? Are you stupid?"
Acting quickly between shouts, Athena rolls away from some fire and towards the goon leader. Kneeled on the floor, she aims her prosthetic arm at the enemy and lifts her wrist up, shooting several, high velocity bullets in their direction. But as she's rarely meant to be shooting from far away, it's likely that her aim is extremely off. She hopes this can at least slow them down, however. Or at least provide a little support to the others also firing.
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Post by Panda on Jun 25, 2022 18:46:15 GMT
Seeing Lancer shoot at the leader, Mercy recalled her butterfly drones and took a breather. If it was him, she had every confidence the leader was already dealt with.
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Post by Planetbox on Jun 25, 2022 19:06:53 GMT
Kolton pulls out his gun and tries to shoot and KILL the leader for some reason, luckily the leader read the post so he raises his arm and extends it into a riot shield. The bullets bounce harmlessly off. The leader tries to rush right away from the Pod, but Athena's bad shots block his escape route. He finds himself caught and gets nailed by Lancer's acid bullets. The riot shield is no match for them, but it does slightly minimize he damage to the leader's arm. He still comes away with some pretty impressive burns, drops the Black Box, and collapses in a heap on the floor.
The other mobster shoots the second pizza rat, barely saving his arm from digestion, but gets distracted by Mona's fake money. Now's the chance to take him out!
Unfortunately, backup arrives in the form of two androids riding a tandem lightcycle. In their teens, they tried to revolutionize their appearance with cybernetic enhancements, but they just wound up looking like Daft Punk cosplayers. The Guy-Manuel lookalike jumps off the bike and begins loading a bazooka, while the Thomas lookalike drives straight for the group, shooting a flamethrower from the front of the vehicle.
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Post by dootdoot on Jun 25, 2022 19:16:21 GMT
"What the fuck are you doing!?" Athena shouts at Mona during all the commotion. "Is your brain malfunctioning? Are you stupid?" "Shut uuuuuuup!" Mona disgorged money more violently for a few seconds. "I am under a lot of stress right now! I can't die until brain uploading is possible!"
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Post by Collin1002 on Jun 25, 2022 19:17:42 GMT
Aust had mainly been keeping to himself because his writer has been busy, quietly observing the others for any potential evidence against them. When he saw Leon's body earlier, all he could do was silently mourn the man before the sudden attack, in which he mainly laid down covering fire with a pistol. As the leader of the group fell, though, he noticed the black box with him and eyed it for a few moments, plotting out a route.
"Cover me!" he barked out before charging forward as quickly as he could to obtain the black box, his robotic legs making it quite easy to sprint faster than any normal man without getting tired.
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Post by Panda on Jun 25, 2022 19:24:37 GMT
"Oh for the love of-" Mercy grumbled, seeing Aust run straight out into enemy fire. She picked up a nearby stone and threw it sharply at the bazooka guy's bazooka, knocking it off-target just before he fired. The missile shot out, flew past Diana Tower and blew up some random shmuck's apartment, which was definitely not her problem.
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Post by JaytheBluPirate on Jun 25, 2022 19:38:44 GMT
"Curses! The leader saw it coming and blocked my shots! Dammit!" Kolton shouts just before seeing the leader be taken down by Lancer's acid bullets. "Nice shot, Lancer!"
Then he sees the back-up shows up to the party.
"Fuck! How many more of those motherfuckers are they gonna send at us?!" The heir screams before he sees Aust makes a dash for the Black Box, directly in enemy fire.
Kolton knew that he needs to get everyone to within the safety of Diana Tower. He looks up from his cover and noted the positions of the bazooka guy and flamethrower guy. And then he ducked back down to avoid getting hit by a stray bullet. He started thinking up possible routes that would ensure everyone can get to safety without any Lunetti causalities.
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Post by Planetbox on Jun 25, 2022 20:41:33 GMT
Austin sprints over to the Black Box and lands a sick slide, accidentally kicking the leader in the head and knocking him unconscious. He grabs the Black Box and then takes cover behind a car, safe once more.
Of course, Austin could scan the device himself, but he might be better off waiting until everyone’s inside to display it on a monitor for everyone. Would stop him from getting blasted in the face as well.
Guy-Manuel, seeing his bazooka plan fail, loss another shot and aims it at Mercy. The other approaches Kolton’s position.
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Newton. But where is Oldton?
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Post by Rosa on Jun 25, 2022 20:44:13 GMT
"I'll help, Kolty!" Leslie shouted towards Kolton, after dodging the leader's attacks and doing a bunch of cool moves herself they were so awesome dude I bet you wish you saw them so bad. She then did an epic ninja kick towards the bazooka guy before he could shoot at Mercy, knocking him to the ground, uncharacteristically athletic for her age.
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Post by Panda on Jun 25, 2022 21:09:01 GMT
Mercy, who was still in cover behind the car, leapt backwards a short distance to be clear of the blast if the bazooka was fired at it. Thankfully it was an unnecessary precaution, as Leslie totally annihilated the guy before he could fire.
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Post by Collin1002 on Jun 25, 2022 21:17:31 GMT
Now that the black box was safe, Aust held it carefully in his human hand while he held his pistol in his robotic one, providing any covering fire that was necessary.
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Post by JaytheBluPirate on Jun 25, 2022 22:20:36 GMT
Kolton peers from his position and see that the flamethrower guy was coming for where he is.
"Shit, this isn't looking good for me!" Kolton shouts before he heard his mother's voice over the gunfire. "Thanks, Mom!"
The only problem is... To stop the flamethrower android, one would have to shoot at the tank, which is probably on the android's back. Shooting at the tank from where Kolton is risky as the android would burn him alive.
Now only if a miracle would occur...
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Jun 25, 2022 22:42:49 GMT
Thankfully, nobody noticed that a bunch of rats were about to save the day (it is hard to account for the many rats on the battlefield).
Or maybe they just watched while someone else saved the day.
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Post by Planetbox on Jun 25, 2022 22:49:46 GMT
After Leslie completely destroyed the Guy-Manuel cosplayer, Austin took down the last remaining thug from the original gang with a shot the knee. Kolton backed away from Thomas, convinced he was about to die…
When miraculously Thomas was sent flying off the bike with a shotgun shot!
Kolton’s head whipped to the side. He saw a cyber-redneck swinging a shotgun behind his back and spitting onto the ground.
“Y’uns ruined my car,” he nodded his head to the destroyed 2073 Chevy Impala. “Y’uns ruined my house!” He gestured to the destroyed apartment. “But y’uns ain’t ruining my country!”
“Sorry,” Mercy said. “We didn’t mean to make such a mess of things. Can you put the gun down?”
“Hunh?” the redneck replied. “What you apologizing for? I just hate lib’rals.”
The redneck walked back to the smoking remains of his home, never to be seen again. He left behind five knocked out bodies and some very confused mobsters.
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Post by Bad Player on Jun 25, 2022 22:58:34 GMT
Countess Elizabeth Arette Pistachio Charlemagne Natalia Marie Clementine Montague du Bois begins to clap enthusiastically.
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Post by Collin1002 on Jun 25, 2022 23:01:31 GMT
"... Think he'd be willing to be a new recruit?" Aust asked.
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Post by JaytheBluPirate on Jun 25, 2022 23:15:32 GMT
Kolton was breathing in and out. "My life just flashed before my eyes. I thought I was going to get burnt alive."
He glances in the direction where the redneck had gone to.
"Considering that the guy lost his car and apartment... I'd agree with you, Aust. We might need a guy like him to be part of the family... Once I'm the new head of the family, that is. And in addition to that, we might need to dig up some information on the guy." The heir replied to Austin.
He turns his attention to the rest of the group. "Anyway, now that we got our hands on the Black Box with my old man's memories... Only the Black Box may give us some insight in what the hell happened in the Pod." He glances over to the gang that were knocked out. "And more importantly, what's the deal with the leader's obsession with getting the Black Box? Did someone send the gang to attack us? Was it the undercover cops' doing? It's almost as if... they didn't want us to view what was on my old man's Black Box."
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Post by Bad Player on Jun 25, 2022 23:20:21 GMT
Hearing the group discuss inducting some random redneck off the street, Countess Elizabeth Arette Pistachio Charlemagne Natalia Marie Clementine Montague du Bois felt like Countess Elizabeth Arette Pistachio Charlemagne Natalia Marie Clementine Montague du Bois was beginning to understand just how four cops managed to breach the inner circle of the Lunetti crime family.
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Post by Panda on Jun 25, 2022 23:44:41 GMT
"That's right, hubby wubby," Mercy cooed, jogging on over to Kolton to give him a big old hug after that scary battle. "First they burned the evidence," she continued, glancing over at the wrecked pod, "and then they tried to run off with the black box. This was all quite a large-scale plan; granted, nothing less would have sufficed for assassinating Leon Lunetti."
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Post by Planetbox on Jun 26, 2022 0:00:43 GMT
“Well, no point waiting around then,” Kolton said. “Let’s get inside and take a look at that Black Box.” “One moment,” Leslie added. “I think we should bring the leader of that gang in as a hostage. We might be able to get some information out of him. Assuming we think of a good way to bring him inside.” Taking this as their cue, the swarm of rats grab the leader by the Mohawk and drag his horribly scarred body into Diana Tower. “Err, yeah, that works, I guess,” Athena sighed. “Let’s just get inside before more weirdos jump on our ass.” The gang follows the rats into the building. ---------------------------------------------- After locking the unconscious ruffian in some random supply closet and tying him up, the group entered a dull grey room filled with lab tables, computer boxes, and holoscreens. Buckets of nanotechnology and microchips covered the floor, some of them overturned. This was Leon’s main work area. Seeing him bounding around this room, tapping buttons all over the place, was certainly a sight to behold. But now, the group knew they wouldn’t find him here. Instead, they’d come to discover what happened to him. Austin approached Leon’s main console at the far side of the room. He placed the Black Box in a slot in Leon’s long silver desk. The entire far wall lit up with a computer screen, and Austin opened the file on the chip. Leon’s memories began to play… [#spoiler=Black Box]Liquid poured into a container. A sniff. It sloshed around then was delicately sipped. A quiet groan and a thump into a chair. More sips. The quiet shuffling of pages. Then silence. This was satisfied silence. An electronic tone rang. An exhausted sigh. “Hello? What is it?”Porcelain rattled in a clenched hand. “Look. It’s my birthday. Is now really the time?”A long sip. Porcelain set down. “I told you I’d have it ready by next week. I have a perfect test subject right here in the house. Patience is a virtue, understand?”More groans. Feet tapping. Creaking of a chair and an old, tattered back. “Don’t act so self-righteous. We’re not making the world better. We’re making ourselves richer. At least I have the strength to admit—”Leon sat in a cushioned chair, his finger touching his telelink. A book lay open in his lap. An empty tea cup sat on a small table within arms reach, on top of a paper giving step-by-step instructions on how to exit the Pod. The view outside the window was excellent. No one else was obstructing it.[/spoiler] The gang stared blankly at the image, disappointed to say the least. A notification flashed in the corner of the screen. Austin clicked on it and discovered an email sent to Leon from Leon’s own account. Judging by the subject—“Message to those who Found my Body”—Leon had likely programmed it to send in the event of his death.
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Post by Neotelenta on Jun 26, 2022 0:13:33 GMT
As Lancer was about to make some more decisive shots, he realized that there were no more decisions to be made. Everyone had been accounted for. He stands up from his distant position and tosses a different-colored 'bath bomb' into the water. It returns to a mostly normal water state. He makes a mental note to get more of those later at some point.
He then turns to the mess that had been made. He feels gratitude for the fact that he has vacation days saved up. He then feels sadness as he realizes the person who initially gave him those vacation days had just died. He then feels he should sort out this chain reaction of feelings later for the sake of plot progression, but mostly because some of the mess was actively on fire.
Lancer begins going over to anything that happens to be undesirably ablaze and starts putting them out with a fire extinguisher. He almost sprays some of Uncle Pizza's pizza from earlier, but thankfully realizes there are bigger priorities. One such priority being the black box memories. After he puts out any particularly uncontrolled flames, he squints and frowns from behind his goggles and mask at the footage. Disappointment.
But he peers over the shoulders of others to read the email...
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Post by JaytheBluPirate on Jun 26, 2022 0:30:12 GMT
"... The stabbing was likely a red herring to confuse us about the cause of death." Kolton mused after the group have viewed his father's final memories. "My old man being poisoned would be most likely, given what we've seen. Though, it's only a guess as there's other explanations for what could have happened to my old man."
And then the group noticed the email.
"Why would he send an email to himself?" The heir asked no one in particular. "Let's see what my old man wrote in the email. Aust, if you would."
Kolton looks at the computer screen to read the email along with the others.
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Post by Planetbox on Jun 26, 2022 3:05:43 GMT
A bunch of people actually ran downstairs really fast and investigated the Pod because I forgot to have people do that and after this post it will be pretty much impossible to make that happen. They reported their results to everyone else. [#spoiler=Investigation Results] - Leon was super burned. It was hard to really make out anything about the corpse anymore, but they could still see the wound on his chest (mostly because they saw it before).
- Leon made ocular software to spot common poisons. Sure enough, there was no poison in Leon’s tea.
- There was a small, flat object lying on the floor. It seemed to have a lens on it. The back was covered with ash. No one had seen anything like it before.
- The knife was not found anywhere in the Pod or in the parking lot outside.
- A scanner took note of everyone’s DNA signatures as they entered the Pod. Checking the logs revealed that Leon was the only one who’d entered and exited the Pod for nearly half a year. However, the scanner didn’t check for dog DNA, so Leo could have theoretically entered unnoticed (and probably has, since Leon occasionally brought him in).
[/spoiler] The email contained another video file. Austin opened it on the big screen. It was a recording of Leon—maybe a couple years younger. He smiled calmly into the camera and began to speak. “Hello. If you are viewing this video, it means I have been murdered,” Leon said. “I don’t know the circumstances of my death, so I can't say much more than that. Apologies for my uselessness during this trying time. “I suspect my killer believes they are doing the world a great service. They are likely some cop desperate to bag their white whale, thinking it will somehow cleanse the world of sin. However, there’s one thing they’ve forgotten that makes all their efforts meaningless.” Leon paused for a moment and put a hand on his chest. “In this world, I am God.” His cybernetic eye flashed red, and he momentarily struck a manic grin. “There is a script hidden in this video. Don’t bother closing the file. It’s too late now. You see, I suspect based on the fact you just uploaded my Black Box file that you don’t know who killed me. That means it’s likely the killer is still in the building. In order to help you find my murderer, I have locked all the exits to the building for a three day period. There’s no escape, so don’t bother trying.” He stared over his nose at his audience, as if he was looking from a pulpit—or down on a sacrificial altar. “You know what to do now. I have collected additional information on the terminal near the door that may be useful for you. “Now go make me proud, children.” The video abruptly ended, and Leon’s face was lost again. No doubt people had emotional responses to this video, but Countess Elizabeth Arette Pistachio Charlemagne Natalia Marie Clementine Montague du Bois elected to put those aside and check out the terminal Leon mentioned. It was an old machine, set in a box nearly as tall as her. She pressed the power button, and the machine flooded with text, some of which was corrupted. [#spoiler=Role List] Billionaire: gQVVGEm—0yofNwaNgHlIdpR7zY0q—Cc9y0zkVBdvim083uB4n Chief: qfwAlQ—r34Iti9CgVDzKtC—1N9APQs9HuI2VQI8OMUjtJCG5 Doctor: Nc04tCu—Y1Oc0WTbn8ZJx359vLmv—HPzJGd1r4hqnHOUNTYLP Epicman: 7sP4RFe9Lq—5X6RBKZBy6v3Wdct2bo4—RHrzqNrhfj6qua2zBPO5 Escort: oFQdsr9xkmg—wwzWCgqeGkRlqfeocEK9—SsGRNW6PypmufdwFqD0V Gambler: Re84YC87—t8gLp0f4QLx1fjF4jhUA—ZIEL9b9CKMsoDbKtQpu7 Hunter: LlvMjbPK—gBuvPNDEA5UqkXknNlkl—lemDlq78CmZJb677Db9V Livestreamer: JgUSw4—ob8ADHxWA61DaaMuj06M—HlhreMxGp2dZijAiVAZl Pickpocket: A5rYiwCE—SZlPvJqsOSIsqtOKQ2jR—mZ6UO6YYUK4PzU8fSk95 Private Eye: 8GFDgsx—Ziw7xBrccWNSw3I1lGDm—cHqq6vtUmxM5VVCapaSp Scientist: quWrVf—Ze8NANpkziTdmdGonV2g—I3blgeqXg9xk676ajZaT Taco Salesman: TVcje1LD—44bhmH0XSbnBkkySPWIV—RXSLEGz8jNVahumcKPBP Technician: 91aB63Q—WoJgdeX2X9F7NuTCL4Qy—wwuLFr4ssswPeCdt5cv2 Torturer: LIDa4Qu—zeU67jD98oq8NjtRg0ci—4icMS78VQrScNr2Wb3JW Watchguard: oqfwAlQ—5TY9hRzXUx5762HLh5V4—gi9dhCYSN6oJ9bO7xXaV[/spoiler] That was all the information they had for now. All that was left to do was search for more and track down Leon’s killer! [You may now make your first Carnage Actions. Please have them in by tomorrow night. Once all Actions are received and processed the first Arc will begin in earnest.] [#spoiler=Extra Note]I forgot if I said this but the Arcs will end at the fourth Carnage Phase. There will be no discussion after this phase; a winner is immediately declared.[/spoiler]
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Post by JaytheBluPirate on Jun 26, 2022 4:09:43 GMT
Kolton couldn't be more pissed off after they watched the video.
"Fucking unbelievable... We're stuck inside the Diana Tower with 4 undercover cops and one of them is my old man's murderer." Kolton frowns as he takes out the box of cigarettes and lighter. He takes one from the box and put it in his mouth. Then he lights his cigarette with the lighter.
...
A flame appears. Thankfully, Kolton remembered to refill his lighter with lighter fluid. His cigarette was ignited by the lighter.
The heir inhales before letting out a puff of grey smoke. The same smoke that they've seen back when he was stressing out over the task. He looks towards the others.
"If we're going to be stuck here, so be it." How Kolton managed to talk with the cigarette in his mouth is an impressive feat, indeed. "Of course, you know this means war."
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Jun 26, 2022 5:23:18 GMT
Deep Rat looks around confused (which kinda looks adorable through all the different rats. “So Leon ate da big one? I dint even know! Dat dang strombolihead had me out for longer den usual!”
One of the rats shoots Lancer a meaningful look, like somehow it’s his fault if Uncle Pizza doesn’t fall into a trap for a while.
“A billionaire, a taco salesman? Do we really got dose types in our ranks?” The rats review the notes, “Dis all is seemsing pretty unlikely.”
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