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And now, a sneak preview

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of our latest Patreon episode, Connecting

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the Bots.

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Rip and Winkle sidles up

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to Pluto. She does

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look amazing for her age. Sometimes

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I wish I looked a little bit younger. Maybe

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then I'd have a chance. I think

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she's a space angel, Rip. I

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think that means that chances

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are not part

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of the equation. I

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know, just that when you get to be as old as

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me, the most attractive thing is the

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specter of death. And an angel,

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she's Louise. She's got a specter

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from the top of her head all the way down.

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But she'll never give me the

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time of day. Now looking

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as old as I do. Pal,

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you look pretty good. Alright, thanks

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old-timer. You're okay again

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in my book. Let's go see if there's

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something to shoot out here. Alright,

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this is the sound I make when I use my cane.

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So, Bob's Reel

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has meandered over to

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one of the computers on

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deck of the spacecraft and she's investigating

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it.

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Bob's Reel, make a lasers roll. Okay.

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That sounds like a perfect instance for a lasers roll.

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I failed. Bob's

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Reel, you can tell that this computer

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is dead. Wow. It's

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a dead black screen. There's no power to

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the ship. There hasn't been for a very long

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time.

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Oh dear, it doesn't work. She's

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pressing the enter button over and over

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again. Bob's Reel, make

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another lasers roll.

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It's another failure. She's

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still pressing that enter key. It's not working.

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It's dead. Bob's Reel, wait.

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I may know something about a situation like

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this. You see, this

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computer has more than

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one button.

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This... No. Oh,

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my apologies. Pluto, as you

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prepared a mansplain, you

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noticed that this computer does not have

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more buttons.

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Make a prepared laser's roll.

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See if that does you any good. Didn't do anything for

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me. I got a success! Pluto,

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you noticed something very interesting about

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this computer. It doesn't have

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a very large keyboard at all, but

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it has many, many ports.

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Oh, those aren't buttons.

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Those are holes for wires.

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If we could find the right wire, or wires,

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perhaps we could interface. Oh,

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well, Kacha gave me this. And

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Bubzreal rummages around in

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a fanny pack and holds

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out a cluster of wires. It's one

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of those adapters where

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multiple wires with different connectors

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are coming out of the same main

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wire.

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A Quasitronic multi-wire.

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I'll just jam one of those in there. Hold

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up before you plug anything in.

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I have a way with old technology

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because I'm so old myself. And

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what you gotta do is... ...flow

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into the open socket so it's clean

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and free of dust before you insert

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whatever dongle you wanna put in. So

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allow me, Bubzreal,

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to flow into this socket.

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Bubzreal

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watches with a mixture of pity

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and disgust and then says, Rip,

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rip! I must beg you to

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stop doing that. This is not old

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technology. Our scans indicate

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that the technology aboard this ship is

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actually very advanced. Far

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more advanced than anything we've ever seen before.

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I thought you said the ship was ancient.

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Like me. That's the conundrum!

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And she starts

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slugging away trying to find

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a good fit.

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Bubzreal, you don't have to... who roll for this.

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Unfortunately, this tech is so ancient

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that even your variety of adapters

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doesn't seem to have a fit. All of these

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ports are diamond-shaped.

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Well,

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if I wasn't a mere Lieutenant Junior

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girl that I could use my angelic powers to

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warp the space-time continuum

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and alter the state of physicality

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of this watery self, why,

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I could make the port the shape of my

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face! But alas, I

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am a lowly Lieutenant Junior grade.

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And it's not the Vanguard way to

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cheat like God. Excuse

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me? Excuse me? You're

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excused. We're going to have to find

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our answers to the old-fashioned ware. Pluto

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Cloud Atlas taps his cybernetic

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monocle, activating a scanner

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that might allow him to search

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the derelict ship safely

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and find something that might link

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up with the computer. Pluto, make

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a laser's roll. That's an appropriate time

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to do so, I think. I

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failed! Pluto, your

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scans are coming up as short as

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Bubzreal's wires. Without

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power, there's not much else to learn. Unless

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you took some parts of the ship back to the Cavalier

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or restore power to the ship, you're not going to get

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a lot more info. Hm.

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Bubzreal has walked

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over to yet another computer

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interface and has started clicking

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more buttons, trying to jam

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more cords in. Bubzreal, your

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devotion to your task, to your mission,

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is admirable. Oh! When

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someone is so laser-focused, maybe

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they'll miss an important detail. Rip,

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can you make a feelings roll? Success.

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Rip, you notice that at the very

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console that Bubzreal has crossed

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to, sitting in a chair is

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a skeleton.

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Bubzreal,

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stand back!

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It's a spooky mirror! It

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