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Max and Steve run back through the door while bullets hit the wall and pierce the door.
SFX: BAM BAM BAM BAM
Max: Get out of here!

Max: Gun turrets in a music production studio? I don't think so. That place is hiding something big.
Steve: We must get inside. But, this shotgun won't do, not even with its mighty SQRL Destroyer slugs. Does our ally at the other end of the simulation have a solution?

View of OIB-A271 in the real-world office.
OIB-A271: I am making progress in obtaining more control, but am not quite there. It would be helpful if you could take down some of that weaponry at your end.
Heidi (voice): OK, back to the weapons store then. We might need our budget spiced up a notch.
OIB-A271: Your wish is my command.

Setting: back at the entrance of the “POOP” store.
Adil: Back at the weapons store to buy more “POOP.” Told you, we need a rocket launcher!
Steve: I admit, you were right. We may need a lot more than that, though.
Alana: Let's prepare for the worst. I suspect that turret not to be the only obstacle to defeat.

Store owner: Back so soon? Must be having a real serious squirrel problem.
Steve: Yeah… really nasty ones. Big and aggressive. The shotgun alone won't do. We need the heavy stuff.
Store owner: Damn fluffy pest! Rocket launchers and flamethrowers in the back.

Zhang: Don't we need a license for such things?
Store owner: A what? Squirrels ate your brain? You just pay and it's yours!
Zhang: Oh right… I forgot that anything lethal is highly encouraged here.

Max: Hey, we are in the future, right? I want to try something. Excuse me, do you have a phased plasma rifle in the 40 Watt range?
Shop clerk: Sure. Here, I recommend our own POOP brand. Best value for money.
Max: I'll be damned.

Max: It even looks like the weapons from the movie. I do wonder what the 40 W refers to, seems quite low power for a weapon.
Heidi: It may refer to the plasma generator. The actual plasma pulse will deliver a whole lot more instant power.
Max: There is actual science behind this?

Heidi: Someone must have designed these before everyone went dumb… maybe around the time the “Event” war broke out. At least that's what I hope. Otherwise we might just explode when trying to use it.
Max: Only one way to find out. We would respawn anyway…
Heidi: Good point.

Max: Hey, if we're going full Arnie anyway… do you also have the “oozie nine millimeda?”
Shop clerk: You're in luck, they just started making those again. Discount: 2 for the price of 1!
Steve: Can't go wrong with a bullet hose. Too bad they don't have the Micro Uzi for maximal hosing.

Zhang: Look at this… a “tactical baseball bat.”
Adil: That is just a baseball bat with a scope mounted on it, what the heck?
Zhang: It is so stupid that I badly want one.

Alana: I think we have what we need. Backpacks would be helpful… unless OIB-A271 can hack the simulation to offer us videogame-like weapon switching.
Heidi: That would be nice, but impossible, due to limits imposed by the quantum link.
Max: No inventory stacking hacks like in the original Deus Ex either?
Heidi: I'm afraid not.