- Hey guys, and welcome to M House.
How can I help you?
- The dice has told us you
have deeply problematic
parasocial relationships with guys.
- Okay.
- So you're casting makeup
artist for your makeup show.
So you can see sort of in the back area
behind to Tiberius and Luke,
they have like an equipment cage,
so there's a whole bunch of them,
but you find one that looks a little weird
and it seems to have some
sort of specialized software
or hardware that's been
attached to it to make it
more programmable and also more mobile.
- I type in strawberry
sponge cake SmackDown.
- You get access to the computer.
So you click through one of the other tabs
is a series of DMS between PPPO and, D5V
we just did this this morning.
I can't believe you're
already posting about it.
This is how we're gonna get caught.
I can't believe you're like,
I know you've never
robbed anybody before C4A,
but holy cow, you're supposed
to lay low on the goods.
- Quickly, I turned around
to Burger Chainz and I say,
I know that you're not gonna
be able to do this well,
but act natural C4A is about to be here,
and she stole the things.
- If Hypo knew that this
was an existing problem,
they would have to like
recall all of their cameras.
They would probably go bankrupt from this.
And I'll be honest, you can't tell them
because they'll probably
just kill anybody who knows
and guess who knows now, you four.
Look, I hate it here.
And I hate what this
is doing to me and PPPO.
I just want PPPO and I
to live a better life.
And we can't do that while we're here.
- You don't have to be
held responsible for this.
M can be held responsible for this.
It seems like the three of us
should go back to the warehouse
and tamper with those cameras,
time to frame someone.
- We return to find our
team of heroes question mark
in the van on their way to the warehouse.
- You can just say assholes.
- I doubt it.
Team of ne'er do wells on
their way to the warehouse.
- If I can get somewhere behind the scenes
and like affect the
video in a certain way,
I imagine we can immediately
tell these people
or make it basically flub
the same effect happening,
once or twice while they're watching,
then we'll be able to prove
that it was just a fluke
and that, then if we need
to we'll, plant the evidence
that it was M that was
the one who took that.
- Talk me through the
story from the beginning.
What happened in our version?
- So no, no, no, no, no,
no, Dasha, you got it.
- You got the big brain Dasha.
- Yes and I'm going to use it now.
In our version M, thirsty
for more luxury makeup,
was walking by noticed
that the cameras were down,
cut through the fence, went in with a bag.
No.
How would she, it just
happened to have a bag on her.
Well, she planned it, somehow.
The cameras happened to be down.
She cut through the fence.
She went and grabbed what
she could and got out
before the cameras started back up.
It wasn't a big thing like you said,
it was just a technical fluke.
And we're going to make that clear
with our little bit of vandalism.
- Now, here's the thing.
I will say that I've been...
As a fan of M's X fan,
it does suck a little bit
that we're gonna frame her,
but my thought is that,
it was like, what?
Like a couple hundred credits.
What's the currency.
- It's not like, again,
this isn't a situation
where she exploited an
incredibly large vulnerability
in the camera system.
She just happened to see an
opportunity and exploited.
I'm sure there'll be very lenient on her.
- Honestly, most streamers
when there's a little bit of controversy,
it ups their view counts.
And so she'll probably
bounce back from it.
- Sure she will.
- Now I'm gonna try to put
my trust in the two of you,
because I'm obviously not the smartest one
in the group here, but
I'm imagining somebody
telling me the story you just told me.
And I got a lot of questions.
- Well, ask him, let's see
if let's practice here.
Let's do a little back and forth.
See if I can answer them.
- How did somebody know
the system was down?
- Vang0, do you know
how somebody could tell
the system was down?
- Oh, we don't have a plan.
Do we?
We don't have a plan.
- No, yeah.
That's a good point.
- Vang0, would you do some
sort of tech roll for me
to be able to come up with a solution?
- Basic tech.
I'll do that one.
- We've always got the dead body plan.
If this doesn't work out.
- Yup, so that's 22.
- Beautiful.
Great roll.
So with a 22, you know that some,
if it's a networked series
of security cameras,
it's possible to hack into the network
and disrupt it that way.
And it's super, super, super hard
cause these are pretty nice cameras,
but it's not impossible.
So hypothetically, somebody
could connect to their network
and shut it down that way
you would just have to be like
a really exceptional hacker.
- All right.
Here's the thing.
I am the moderator of Jumptrash.
If I were to go plant some evidence
saying that someone was planning
to disrupt the network at a certain time,
then it would make sense that
someone who's on Jumptrash,
such as M could see that and
then try to exploit that.
So therefore it's not that like someone,
it's not that she was walking
by and just knew it was open
it's that she got a tip
from an anonymous user
that happens to be on my forum.
And that's why she decided to
go ahead and make use of it.
I think that's fine.
And honestly, I mean, I'll
just, when they're like,
Oh, you know, this person's bad.
Let's go find the anonymous person.
I'll be like, well, they deleted
their account or something.
I'll make sure that-
- It's perfect out frisk.
Because at that point we
say, well, we've done.
We've done what you asked.
We did your job pay us,
but we're not interested
in pursuing this further.
And then we skedaddle.
- Yeah, Burger Chainz being
a man of three intelligence,
pumps his fist and says, hell yeah, but I,
this is a terrible plan.
This is a bad plan, but you know what?
I'm role playing.
So this is the issue.
Is that I have to role play
someone who has 10 intelligence.
They probably, and I don't
think I have 10 intelligence.
So what do I really do in this situation?
- Well, I think as with all,
I think this is actually
not a terrible plan.
I had no idea what plan you
guys were going to come up with
to put forth.
If you went to this option,
and this is better than I expected,
it's gonna be a matter of selling it.
So anything you can fabricate
that will support this
lie would be beneficial.
- Here's what I've got.
We're gonna plant two pieces
of evidence on Jumptrash.
The first one, which
explained the first night
that happened.
The second one saying
that tonight at 6:00 PM,
it'll happen again. At that
point at 6:00 PM, we are there,
we shut off the video system
at that point in time,
proving that it was
another dedicated attack.
And then we have evidence
that it was just that
and that someone was coming
to take advantage of it.
There we have proof and
we can prove it to them
on the day of as well.
- So did we remember
to bring one of those
flashy things with us?
- So we're not using the flashy thing
because we want to save that
for when we want to use it
when we're doing heists.
- Okay.
- So instead I'm gonna hack in.
- Here's my big brain take.
We could go back there
asking if we could borrow it.
One of us could time it on the outside
with your supposeed hacking attempt.
Cause we guaranteed know that
motherfucker's gonna work.
And I know that you're
quite the hacker Lothario
but I'm just trying to
make this easy for you.
Well, we've just, I guess, you know what,
we're already on the way.
Fuck it.
- Trust me.
When have I ever screwed up?
- Vang0, I think we could
make this even more convincing
if we fabricate a motive for
M, she's a makeup artist.
She wants more makeup
and clout potentially.
And she exploited a vulnerability
that was publicized on the
Jumptrash forums by anonymous.
We're not going to find out
who that's not our business
and we saved the day.
- Now I do worry a little bit.
If I say that there's going
to be another downturn tonight
at 6:00 PM, that actual
robbers will show up.
- That would be great.
How would that not be bad?
- Would it?
- How would that be bad?
- How would that not be bad?
- How would that be bad
if actual robbers show up,
that's just icing on the cake for us.
That's Hey, that's proving the
vulnerability was public.
- I gotta tell ya.
I am loving this plant.
We'll just plan the evidence of a crime
on the server that Vang0 runs.
A crime with far reaching implications
on a place where we control it.
And they can try to subpoena us,
but what power do they have
over what goes on on your internet?
- This is Night City, Burger Chainz. Isn't that a constitutional right?
- And then we rely on your ability-
- Everyone, I'm sorry
Burger. Stop the van. Erk!
Whenever Burger says a word
like subpoena, I get worried.
So maybe we should rethink our plan.
- Do you want to go
with the dead body idea?
Because I think that was a fine idea.
You won't even have to kill anyone.
- (laughs) What did we do?
- Literally just go steal a
dead body, bring it in and say,
"Hey, here's your guy," and it's done.
It's the easiest thing.
If you don't want to send
a real human to jail,
let's steal a body.
- We can't do this every time.
- Vang0 Bang0 more than
anything in his life
wants to leave the room right now,
but he's in a van on
the side of the highway.
So he just opens up the door
and stands on the side of the highway.
Just like leaning over
the like median strip,
trying to figure out what the hell like-
- If you guys don't like
my idea, that's fine.
- We accidentally made
a Coen brothers movie.
(crowd laughs)
- Okay.
Whatever you decide to do,
I'm prepared to play out.
I think your first plan of,
I think any plan that
you go with is gonna live
or die by your ability to lie.
So, there's that?
- I haven't figured out
the to or what our lies are
or if we're cool with that.
- I will give you like
bonuses to your attempts
if your lies are consistent.
And if you have any
evidence to support them.
- I can't figure out how to-
- This is, we have made
it a hard nut to crack.
- It's not a hard nut to crack.
- I did not expect it
to be this difficult.
I mean, basically,
you've got some options,
but your two big ones are,
you can tell the truth
or you can lie.
And telling the truth is the easy option,
but has consequences and lying is harder
and has different consequences.
- I think the problem is that I wanna lie
while also saving both of
these without having any,
repercussions to the M House.
But I also-
- Think of all you have to gain Vang0.
Muna could gain more prominence in M House
with M out of the way, the
M could stand for Muna now.
I forgot her name, C4A
and Peach Pudding Punch
were their names, C4A and-
- You don't even care about them Dasha.
You couldn't even remember their names.
Don't you dare try to use this on me.
- That was Simone.
They could have a
lucrative career together.
Their relationship could be saved.
We could get access to
some incredible technology
and still we don't have
to disappoint Hypo.
We don't have to disappoint Edgar.
Everything-
- Hypo will understand.
- This is tough for Vang0
because he's trusts Dasha
just slightly more than
he trusts most people.
And so I think Vang0 has finally Vang0
like pulls himself off of
the median and he's like,
all right, you're right.
This is the only way to
grow a brand, I guess.
Let's go do it.
- And uh, Burger has Burger feelings,
but two of his best friends
want to do this thing.
- Oh my God.
- He was like, well.
- So you pull up to the
warehouse and the van says,
party on good fellows and lets
you lets you out of the van.
- Thanks van.
- Has Vang0 planted the
evidence on the forum yet?
- Yeah, I've popped all
that on to Jumptrash.
- Yeah.
We're gonna keep our story consistent.
We're gonna do a really good job.
Have I gotten a text from C4A
that the makeup has been planted yet?
- Yeah, she'll just send you,
I was gonna say, she'd
send you a picture, but no,
that's too dicey.
She just says, G2G.
Good to go.
- That means good to go.
It's for yeah.
I have confirmation.
I think we are, Oh boy.
Let's do it.
Let's get in there.
Get paid.
Do the right thing. For us.
- Okay.
So you approach and Edgar
who has been monitoring
the security cameras better
than they're usually monitored
in this place, sees you and
he goes down to meet you
and he says, wow, you
guys are back so quickly.
- What's up Edmond.
I have, so look, we,
I just found something
it's on a weird part of
the Jumptrash forums
is normally I don't check
this stuff very much,
but it seems like
somebody might've planted,
like a far away hack to cut
down on those video feeds
and make them reboot.
It's the best option is for you
to put me into the control room.
So I can try to stop the next attack,
which according to this post
might be happening tonight.
- And do you like show him the post?
- Yeah, sure.
- He looks at it and says, okay.
Dang, you guys are good at your jobs.
I didn't totally believe Hypo.
I trust Hypo, I mean
it's Herp co, so yeah.
I appreciate that.
Thank you guys.
Excellent.
All right.
So you, do you just want
to monitor the cameras?
- Well, if you just put
me where the wires are,
I'll take care of the rest of it.
- And can you like fix it?
So it doesn't happen again.
- That's the hope is that, if
I see it happening in time,
then I will be able to figure
out how they're doing it.
And then I can set up a little security
for it to happen afterward.
This is Vang0 slowly
slipping into Burger Chainz.
And that it's the only
way he's ever seen someone
be convincing and friendly to a person.
But I think this is
probably a persuasion check
because I'm doing this just so
I can be where I need to be.
- It'll be a low check cause
Edgar trusts you, but go for it.
- Well it's good because
I have no persuasion help.
What is it?
It's cool?
- Yeah.
I believe it.
Or, persuasion...
Yeah, it's cool.
- Great.
Oh, thank God it's a nine plus three.
Still not great.
- Well, I'm gonna give you a bonus
because you had the Jumptrash forum posts
that you can point to.
So he says, okay.
Let me show you to the room
where everything happens
and he takes you up to
like the control room
for where all the camera equipment is.
And he says, yep, here it is just
let me know what you need access to.
- I'll just pop on my agent
and just monitor it for right now.
- And I think it's probably
later in the evening,
it's probably relatively for
the sake of storytelling.
It's very close to the time
in which the Jumptrash forum
said they would go down.
- Great.
- So as it approaches the moment
that is listed in jump
trash, what do you do?
- So I start to check into
the like actual system itself
and basically I'm just
gonna like do a reboot.
I think it's pretty simple, right?
Like it's just doing a hard
restart on this system.
Just opening it up in
safe mode or whatever.
And-
- Just go ahead and do it.
And give me a tech roll
again, it'll be pretty easy,
but this is more about being stealthy
with what you're doing.
- Okay. Yeah.
So this is basic tech, right?
- Yeah.
- Okay, nice.
That would be a 16 plus
another nine, so 25.
- Okay, excellent.
So even though-
- You successfully turn
it off and turn it on-
- Successfully, click the button.
- You successfully convince Edgar
that you're doing something different
from what you're doing, which
is just rebooting the system.
- Yeah.
What I do while that's happening,
right as I'm about to turn it off, I go,
"Oh no, they're in the main frame."
And then I start tapping
really hard on my keyboard
and trying to like fight
back against the hackers
that are just me.
So quick, quick question
for internal logic's sake.
Can we assume that Edmond is like lower
in the totem pole at-
- Oh yeah.
- Harp and maybe he doesn't
want his supervisors
to find out they're having this problem.
- You can't make that assumption.
But it is fair to say that he's like,
he's not very high up
in like in this company.
He's not a company man.
And he, you get the impression
that this warehouse mostly relies
on the technology basically.
And therefore are not well
funding the human aspect,
which would be more effective
at capturing these sorts of issues.
- Gotcha.
- So he hears you say that
and he gets really intense
and he's like, yeah, this is happening.
This is so exciting.
I can't believe we're really doing this.
And he sees you typing rapidly.
And then he sees all the cameras go down
like a sweeping wave
comes over all the screens
as they go down.
And he's like, "Oh, this
is exactly what happened.
"And now they're rebooting.
"Oh my God, I can't believe
you guys cracked this
"all from a jump forum post.
"Wow."
It's incredible what
people will post online.
- That's extremely true.
- Disgusting.
- Did you catch the person
who actually did it?
Cause I have to have
something to take to my boss.
- The thing is we do have a
lead, a very strong suspicion.
And I think that if you
searched this person's premises,
you would find the missing makeup.
But I'm afraid to tell you who it is
because this person is quite
popular actually online.
- Yeah.
That's a great instinct.
In fact, don't tell me, we're
gonna go talk to my boss
and then you can tell him.
- Okay.
- Oh, I love talking to bosses.
This is gonna be great.
- Yes.
It certainly will be.
So he's like-
- While this is happening, sorry,
I'm sitting at the desk
still and being like,
yeah, you guys should go on without me.
I have got to do a lot of
coding to fix this problem.
I just don't want to have to go up there.
I'd have to talk to more people.
- Edgar says, no, you misunderstand.
Hypo representatives
want to talk to you.
Oh, this is not optional.
- All of us, or really could just-
One of us be a spokesperson
for the whole investigative crew.
- He'll want to see all
three of you, but I don't,
I guess one of you can
talk if you'd like. My boss,
his name is Gio.
He's a great guy.
You're gonna love him.
He sent a car and the car
is waiting for you up front.
So just whenever you're ready.
- Oh, we can take mine.
- Okay, whatever you want.
- I've never said this
before in my goddamn life,
but I would much prefer to be in
Burger Chainz van right now.
- And just one quick
question there, Edmonton,
is it possible for us
to get paid right now?
Before I get into my van maybe?
- He says, no, no.
I'm afraid.
Gio is really the one who
could cut a check for you.
- Gotcha.
- Great.
- Cool.
Well, let's go.
Let's go do that.
- Let's go do it.
- So when you go back
out front to the van,
there are two cars waiting.
And a drivers outside of either one.
He's like, yeah, we
didn't know if you wanted
to take the van or we can escort you.
Or if you wanna just ride in here.
- I'm going to take my van and my boat.
- I said, we really can't
leave the boat here alone.
We've got to really take
the van and the boat.
- It's just basic maritime law.
- That's fair.
Yeah, absolutely.
We'll do one in front and one behind.
- Sounds great.
Thank you so much.
Are you concerned about our
safety because of the hackers?
Is that why the escort?
- This is not an escort.
We were just trying to
provide you with the luxury
and comfort that we provide
for all of our contractors.
- I appreciate that so much.
It's been so long since my comfort
has been considered like that.
Thank you.
- Yeah, absolutely.
- I'm happy, let's go.
- (laughs) Great.
- So we're running a little motorcade now.
- Yeah.
Burger Chainz, you
wanted to do any sort of,
if you wanted to try to
like evasive maneuver
away from the situation,
you certainly could.
- I know I just got this boats,
but I've got some Lethal Weapon-ass ideas.
I'm going to pitch these,
we're driving in the thing
and I'm like, listen, guys,
I know this is your kind of mission.
This is a smart people
mission with computers
and hacking and putting on makeup.
But I have got some ideas.
- Oh, okay.
- You know I love this boat.
Vang0, you're small.
You could get back there.
You could get to the trailer hitch.
You could pull that off.
We shake our tail.
We slip away from the head.
Oh, we just pretend
this job never happened.
- So, Vang0 at this point
in time is on his agent,
just going through all the old posts of M
and just enjoy, just
remembering the good times
and think about all the cool
makeup tutorials he's watched
to help him like get to sleep some nights.
And he's like, okay guys,
all we told them is that
I've managed to lie and tell
them that the things rebooted,
but like in a weird way,
we don't have to do any more of this.
We could just let's do it.
You know what?
I haven't had any good
streaming content today anyway.
Let's freaking do it, Burger Chainz.
And so I start streaming immediately.
- Hang on-
- Jenna, I am so sorry.
- No, I love this, I love it.
- So can you-
- Do what?
- Dasha, is I think yeah
let Dasha talk for a bit
because she hasn't said a goddamn thing
through this entire moment.
- You want to - you want
to destroy the vehicles
of the second largest security
company in Night City
and run away after an attack
has been done on their warehouse.
So while we were inside it,
after we told them how
their robbery was committed,
that's what you want to do.
That's your plan?
- Yes.
- Why?
- Listen, we're in the frying pan now and-
- Weren't in the frying pan.
We'll listen, if you don't want
to throw her under the bus.
Let's just go tell them it was a hacker.
Maybe I don't know who it is after all.
We can't...
We will be hunted down
in the street and shot.
It's literally an act
of violence on Hypo.
That's what you want?
- Vang0 is just on the van door back
and he's just listening.
He's like, okay.
Sorry, that sounds good.
That does sound okay.
That does sound bad.
That was I'm sorry.
I was just getting a little caught up
in the heat of the moment.
- Me too.
- Sometimes we get a little
Burger Vang0 thing going on
and we just need to pump
the brakes a little bit.
That's why we're here, Dasha-
- Put your Burger brain back
in its bun and let's go.
- (laughs) I really thought I
was gonna be able to bait you
into a high speed car chase,
even though that is not at all
what I have planned and have
nothing, no plans in that vein.
I just thought it'd be really funny,
but Dasha is 100% correct.
Yeah, for sure.
- Yeah.
That's true.
So we're going, it will be.
- So the cars to transport you
to the Corporate Center of Night City,
which is just like lots of tall buildings
and where a lot of it's very
nice, nice, very safe area.
All the corporations, the
big corps in Night City
have headquarters here.
And he pulls you, the
cars pull you out in front
of a nondescript, large
building and they get out
and they lead you into the building
and they lead you into an elevator.
And that elevator goes up very,
very tall in the building.
And it gets out into-
- On each floor Burger thinking,
okay, I could survive this jump.
I can survive this jump.
I could survive this jumping.
Now I'm in sort of in the danger zone.
Okay.
Nope, shit.
It's just looking at the escape plans,
getting checked off the list.
- The elevator opens and
it's just a single floor
and you can see the floor it's
big and it's mostly empty.
And at the far end of one
of the corners you see
some big window, a couch,
a chair and a table.
And there's a man with his back to you
staring out the windows
of this little setup.
- That sounds like a
thing a good guy would do.
- I have all, yeah, the only
movies I've ever watched
have the good guys sitting
backwards in a chair,
not facing us in a very
intense corporate building.
- That's good.
He gives you a moment to step
out so he can be very dramatic
and he turns and faces you.
And he says, hello, you must be the three
that are helping us out in the warehouse.
- Pleasure to meet you, I'm Dasha,
are you Gio?
- I'm Gio, Gio Rubicone
please, please come in.
I know our offices are a little Spartan,
but this is just sort of a,
this is just the level in
which we talk to people
and sort of just spend time together.
- That's how the work gets done, right?
- Yeah, he's got a very stern face.
He looks very friendly, but
you get an unnerving impression
just from seeing him.
He's got a very nice, very casual suit on
clearly expensive, but
not like very flashy.
And he's got a long scar
that starts on his neck
and then disappears into
the collar of his shirt.
He hasn't done anything outright hostile,
but you still are somewhat
unnerved by his presence.
- Can I roll human perception just to see
if there's anything I can
do to get on his good side
right off the bat.
- Yeah.
Go for it.
- 15.
- Okay.
- You get the impression
that he's a professional
and he's just here doing a job.
He has no emotional stakes
in what's happening.
He just wants to get to the
bottom of this weird thing
that happened under Hypo
security and close the case
and just sort of move on.
But he's also very savvy
and he's very with it.
So you get the impression
that just being clear
and forthright and succinct
is going to be your best bet.
- All right.
Well, I won't waste your time.
- We know how to do that.
- Mr. Rubicone.
Let's get right down to business.
- Absolutely, please have a seat.
- Thank you.
My colleague Vang0 Bang0-
- Who want to sit next to who?
- Okay, I'm sitting
down here in the middle
and you guys can sit wherever you like.
- I've always kind of considered myself
your right hand man.
So I'll be sitting here-
- Thanks Burger Chainz, you'll
be sitting on my right side.
- Should I be sitting on your right or?
- You can sit down on my right side.
- So it's like stage right?
Cause I want to-
- Be on my right side.
- Vang0 Bang0 sits on the left side.
- If I sit on your left side-
- No that my right side.
That's my right hand.
Nope.
It's an empty chair, Burger
Chainz, please sit down.
Please sit down in the
empty chair, Burger Chainz.
- Okay.
- As soon as the three of
you sit down on the couch,
the couch is sloped in such a way that
you just sort of like collide
together like Newton's cradle
and it's incredibly uncomfortable
and Gio sits in the empty
chair across from you.
- Do regret being in the middle.
My colleague Vang0 Bang0 can
explain extremely succinctly
and with clarity, the
hack that was perpetrated
against your cameras.
- Great. As soon as he sits down,
you get an overwhelming feeling
that you are suddenly in a
boss battle because you are,
you each have three lives.
Every time you fail at telling
an untruth, you lose a life.
And if one of you loses all your lives,
it becomes much harder to lie to Gio.
As long as you all have
one life, basically
it will still be, it'll be
as difficult to lie to him
as it has been.
But if one of you tells too
many lies and is caught out
basically it will become harder.
And if you all lose all of
your lives before you tell him,
then he will know that you're lying
and there will be repercussions.
Does that all make sense?
- That does, I'm guessing all of these
are persuasion checks.
- Yes.
They will all be persuasion checks.
You can get bonuses for being consistent
and for having evidence
and for just, yeah.
So you get it.
If you can weave truths into this,
that will lessen the number of lies
you have to tell basically.
- God, Oh great.
This is good.
This is good.
I've been able to do a
lot up until this point,
at which case okay.
Joey or whatever.
So we had-
- Gio.
- basically, sorry, I'm so bad with names.
The thing is that on
this junk trash forum,
there was a guy his name
is x7ballsboy7x.
And here's the thing, he constantly
he's been a real jerk on this.
Then he keeps making
different burner accounts.
And he posted that he was
going to hack into the system
last night.
And then he mentioned the same thing
that he was going to do it again today,
which we obviously just saw happened.
- Yes.
Edgar told me.
Excellent.
And so I assume you'd like
show him that the posts.
- Yeah I show him the posts.
- Okay.
Go ahead and give me a roll.
- So that is a minus nine plus three.
So that would be a negative five,
but I'm pretty sure the
lowest you could go is a one.
So it's still just a one.
- But one is the lowest you can go despite
your best attempts.
- Cute.
You see Gio kind of
like he squints his eyes
at you a little and he says interesting.
Based on what Edgar told me,
it seems like you just
rebooted the computers
while you were there.
- Lie.
- You lose one life.
- Yeah.
I don't say anything after that.
I just could clam up immediately.
- He turns to the other two and he says,
tell me more about how
your investigation went.
- Well, So from Dasha's
perspective, we have to do this now.
We immediately, of course suspected
because it was a large stock of makeup
and because some luxury
brands were stolen,
that it was probably somebody
involved in the makeup industry.
And we got a tip, an
anonymous tip to go to M House
and investigate there,
which is what we did.
- Interesting.
And that's the truth.
- That was the true.
At M House we found a house in discord
where none of- haha, discord,
the house functions on
drama, Mr... fuck. Rubicone.
- Mr. Fuck.
- No, the house functions on drama,
the people there do not get along.
I believe that the leader
of the house Emmanuella Wong
was the person who
broke into the warehouse
and took the makeup.
And I believe that if you go there now
and search the premises of her office,
you would find the stolen goods.
So I will say, as I roll
what of the things I just said,
only one is a lie.
And that's what I believe
she did it because hopefully-
- I'm gonna give you a bonus for that.
I'm gonna give you a big bonus
since the actual lie you told
was very small.
- Three plus seven that's 10 plus four 14.
- Okay.
With the bonus you get for
telling mostly the truth,
that is one success.
So you need only two more successes
to completely convince him.
- He says interesting.
Can you tell me more about
why you believe she did this?
- Vang0 Bang0 is a streamer
and I'm sure he can also,
he can back me up.
When I say that-
- Don't ask me to say things.
- I will just ask you to nod.
When I say that streamers are
always hungry for more views
they're hungry to make
new and exciting content.
And I am sure that with
this expensive makeup,
someone like Emmanuella
could do exciting looks
that would gain her attraction online.
And there's even the
potential that someday
she could gain clout from
confessing to her crimes.
- I see.
So that's another situation in which
you didn't technically tell any lie.
So there will not be a check.
That was very smartly played.
- I can't wait to continue being quiet
because I think Burger Chainz
isn't like fight or flight.
And I think that usually
just turns to fight for him.
So I think he's just like
struggling really hard
not to like, do something
physical, he's vibrating
and hopefully hoping
that nobody notices that
- I'm pressed against you physically.
And I sense that tension
and I'm just gonna like
pat your knee gently.
- And so Gio says, that's interesting.
So how are you suggesting that Emmanuelle
knew about the supposedly
technical failure?
- Well, if it was posted
publicly on Jumptrash,
I can only jump to the conclusion
that's where she must've seen it.
To be honest, I don't really
concern myself with that.
You hired me to find a
culprit for this crime
and I believe I've done so.
- Interesting.
Give me a persuasion roll on that.
I will also give you
bonuses because once again,
you have managed to not
technically lie, which is so good.
- Seven plus seven.
So that's 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.
- Beautiful.
- Thank God we've got a fixer. Seriously.
- For real, for real.
So he nods and says, fair enough.
I want to circle back
on this technical issue
because I know Hypo
technology front and back
it is my business after all
it's built a full empire.
But I think the people above me even
will have more questions
about the so-called failure.
It is after all, the thing
that we are actually concerned with
the petty theft of some spectacular
makeup is its own issue.
But our investment is
really in making sure
the rest of our properties stay as safe
as our Bessemer cosmetics
warehouse should be.
- If I can speak, frankly,
sir, I think in that case,
you should bring in the
person who made this post
or bring in Emmanuella
because we weren't hired
to figure out what technical
exploit was used in this.
We were hired to find
out who stole the makeup.
- You were hired to figure out
what the technical expert is.
- Shit.
Okay, let's do this.
- Can you give me any more information
about how this happened?
I've seen the video tape
that Edgar provided you.
- If I may provide an
explanation of how this happened
and what I mean by this is
some sort of corporate miscommunication
leading to Hypo hiring
myself and my associates
for the job of an IT company.
I think maybe you might've
called the wrong number
or contacted the wrong person.
Because earlier today I
broke a glass over my head
because I thought it
would convince somebody
that I was credible.
I think maybe the solution to your problem
is to let the three of
us walk out of this room
and talk to your IT administrator.
- Amazing gambit.
I love it.
And this is out of character.
I love this.
Is that a persuasion check?
- He does have blood running
down his face probably still.
So, you know-
- Bonus.
Yeah, he definitely had like a smear.
I assume he hasn't cleaned up.
- I live in a van and a boat.
- He's a man of two vehicles.
- Oh, great.
I'm gonna let's God, is
that persuasion though?
- Or is that a desperate plea?
- I think I'll give it to
you as a persuasion check.
- I'll roll a 10.
Oh my Lord.
I rolled the 10.
- Oh fuck (laughs)
- Give me your actual score
and don't forget to re roll your 10
for your critical success.
- Okay.
- I got so enthusiastic.
I went out of focus again
briefly, but I'm back.
- So I only got a one for the bonus,
but I have so that's 10
plus my cool, which is nine.
So that's 19 plus 21, that's 23.
- Oh my God.
Amazing.
Congratulations.
You have successfully passed the buck.
- (laughs) I can't believe it
the way we passed this boss
battle was about to be like,
please let us leave.
You gotta let us leave, please.
We are so in over our heads, please just let us go.
(laughs)
- God, a circus is what it is.
So and Gio, like, there's
a long, long pause
where Gio is like cocks his head at you.
And as you can see, like
raptor like intelligence
turning in behind his eyes
where he's considering
what you're saying.
And after a long, long
pause, he says, fair enough.
We'll send our crew out
to pick up this Emmanuella
and see what she has to say.
I have already gathered all of
your bank account information
and we'll send the
payment on as agreed upon.
- Thank you so much.
- Thank you so much for your
participation in this endeavor.
- It was a pleasure
doing business with you.
- Yes, if you ever have
free time in the future,
is it okay if a Harp
co reaches out to you?
- Of course.
- Excellent.
You guys have a good day.
- Thank you.
- As I'm leaving the office,
I turn around and say,
also, if you want more information
on x7ballsboy7x,
the guy who
posted I'll send it to you.
I'll just say I'll send it
to someone at Hypo code.
- And he stands back up
and turns his back to you
and looks out the window again, as though,
as though resetting.
- For the next meeting he has.
- Basically yeah.
He's just like, yeah, you pass three more.
You pass three more ne'er-do-wells
on your way out.
I have another meeting with me.
- Can we do the scene where we
try to get up from the couch?
- Yes, please do describe
it in minute detail.
- I tried to stand up from the couch,
but my center of balance is clearly off
because I'm sagging in towards Dasha.
So I just sort of,
I fall over a little bit onto Dasha's lap.
And then I'm trying to push myself off.
- I'm just saying ow, ow, please,
Burger don't embarrass me, please.
We're so close out.
- And then we get out of there.
- And we get out of there.
- We pass by the three, ne'er do wells.
And it's like that Shaun of the dead scene
where they're the same
exact build and type as us.
And they're going into
the exact same meeting.
- Excellent.
so you exit the elevator, the
cars that were escorting you
are no longer there to be seen
and you peers you are free to
go about your way. As you pile-
- Should we go warn Emmanuella?.
- I think we should just go to the beach
and stay there for a few days.
- Oh yeah.
You all get pings that you now
have a decent amount of cash
has been funded directly
to your bank accounts.
You do not know how Harp
Co got that information,
but they certainly have it.
- Really terrifying
after we go to the beach.
I'd like to go to the bank
and change my bank account.
- Yeah.
That'll solve that.
Is there anything else
you'd like to do at the end?
Do you want to reach out
to M House or anybody?
- I think what happens for
Vang0 is that he goes back home
to his streaming setup.
And he immediately subscribes to that.
Sorry, what was the name of the channel?
That was like the
subscription-based of D5B
but what was the name of that?
- Oh, FamCam.
- FamCam.
So I think Vang0 Bang0 goes back home
to his dark streaming
space where he moderates
and he logs in and he
becomes one of the...
He takes the money that
he got from this job.
And he just puts it all back
and becomes one of the top
subscribers to the D5B fan cam.
And he just posts a single message,
which is sorry about all this.
- Excellent.
so a few days after this has happened
Vang0, you receive a package in the mail
and when you open it up inside,
there is an empty ring box
with a note that says "IOU" and that's it.
- Oh yeah.
- Okay, nice.
- So we have the device now?
- No, you just have an empty,
sorry an actual ring box.
- From the thing that-
- The proposal.
They're getting married.
- I'm so glad that, I
am very glad about that,
but I also do immediately
text Dasha and Burger Chainz
and say we got fucking scammed.
- It's not like we can't find her again.
- I thought we're supposed
to get the ring light thing.
- Listen when we need
to we'll find her again.
She owes us now.
- That's true.
- I'll leave that up to you, Dasha.
- I'm certain she'll appear again.
Excellent.
Congratulations everybody.
- Oh, we did an adventure.
- Do we have, I was going to ask is there
like a little moment considering
she's a pretty popular
makeup streamer,
Do we have any notice of
her being hauled away to
prison or anything?
- There's no like public announcement
of anything that happens, but you do note
it's like a couple of weeks pass
and like-- her videos are
still being posted as regular
and then they just stop
and nobody in M House
acknowledges it or talks about it.
But you notice also that
it appears that PPPO and C4A
are no longer a part of the house either.
So question mark as to what's
gonna happen to M House
and what is happening
to all of the members,
but everybody's very
excited about that drama.
Exactly.
All of the subscribers are like blowing up
and it's pushing all of the M House people
up to higher subscriber rates
than they've ever experienced.
So that's something.
- A lot of solo channels launching.
- Probably.
- Any room for Vang0 Bang0 in there?
- Tune in next time to find out.
But no.
- Spoiler alert.
No, absolutely not.
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