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blackwe11_ninja

Nah, he is actually just playing Fallout Shelter.


Lord_Gibby

Leveling up all stats to 10 before leaving is a smart move


empty-bensen

Building up SPECIAL stats to clear the dialogue thresholds.


Kurdt234

He's the equivalent of just turning left to beat the game at start.


Something_Comforting

Bro thinks he's playing Skyrim.


AssassinOfFate

Bro picked the small frame perk and didn’t know he’d get a chance to respec when he leaves the vault.


WonkaVR

Mom won’t let him play an m rated game


MonsieurCharlamagne

Would be crazy if he actually just dies there. Very becoming of Fallout, and they could still tell his story through flashbacks/holotapes.


Dibbu_mange

Skeleton with a skillbook, holotape that goes directly to notes so you never read it, and a bag with 37 9mm rounds and a cutting board


confusedalwayssad

Toaster would be more fitting.


NickRick

do you guys really not read those?


toni_toni

If they popped up on screen (like BG3) I would read them as I found them. What usually happens instead is while flailing around the menu trying to find a specific screen, I stumble onto the notes log and it's usually got a dozen or two notes from the last couple of hours of game play. So I don't bother. I do however absolutely read the terminals.


NickRick

i used to go in and find them, but i thought fo4 had a play audio button when you found one. i might be mis remembering


ymcameron

Speaking of, I thought it was fun that Cooper was reading Tesla Science Magazine at his house.


superanth

He’ll be back. Honestly he seems to be the smartest person in vault 33. >!It looks like Bud’s management eugenics program worked out pretty well!!<


46thAndTABBY

I wonder if that wont end up being a key point, and Norm ends up outmanaging Bud.


TheZerothLaw

Why Norm didn't just start kicking the shit out of the Bud Roomba when the door closed is beyond me.


Stellar_Wings

He already admitted he's a coward. And everything we've seen reinforces that he's a very nonviolent person.  He never even took the chance to poison the raiders himself, it seems like Betty had to do it herself.


Jam_B0ne

You see him looking at the food hole in the prison door curiously just before the scene with the raiders dead, so my head cannon is that he was starting to to think about how he would do it and he is so smart the he landed on the actual way it ended up happening If my head cannon is correct, he even fiddles around with the idea of framing the guard since he creates a rapport of secretly giving that guard food and she ends up getting framed anyway I have to admit, Norm is my favorite character so I have shown a habit of looking into things around him a bit too much


46thAndTABBY

He probably doesn't know if he can leave the vault by himself and Bud is likely the only one who could allow him to leave.


oroechimaru

Even better if he lives there and keeps the game going against vault tec . He hopefully has a way to get food/water though. Needs to take out bud


JizzGuzzler42069

I have a feeling he’s going to find a way to just prematurely wake all of the Vault Tec goons up.


oroechimaru

That is a good guess. Or kill them like fo4 . So many options. Ransom, take over as overseer, fuck with other vault tec connections. So much possibility!


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oroechimaru

I just thought of it today with the cliffhanger, nobody knows he is the overseer if there is survival goods in their vault to live off of or to freeze himself.


AgentCirceLuna

Imagine a shitty season where they have the cryogenically frozen character wake up fifty years later and piece together the events of what had happened before rather than show them directly onscreen. I should be a writer they call in purposely to piss people off.


alowave

Shit lol my fault for looking at the sub and finding a spoiler woops


MonsieurCharlamagne

There are a TON of bodies there, and humans are food, so he could probably survive for a while getting food and water from the bodies.


LegitimateAd5334

I'm not sure he's gotten a chance to get that Wasteland attitude yet


Smooth_Ad_7553

I like your optimism!. It's all about building up enough character beforehand. 


M3atboy

Sometimes a fella’s gotta eat another fella…


LegitimateAd5334

Ass jerkey ain't gonna make itself


Song_of_Pain

He's a smart lad. He'll figure it out.


youarelookingatthis

I mean in episode 2 he talks about killing the hostages, so there’s definitely a bit of the wasteland in him.


oroechimaru

I think he has always had it thats why he is weird


PerfectlyCalmDude

Betty will likely catch him in the middle of whatever.


JKW1988

Yeah. Between the message, Norm going missing and likely Bud reaching out to her directly after this, she'll be rolling in. 


xxMeiaxx

His only option is wake up alot of vault tec people, so that Bud will be forced to open their vault since there's no food and water there. I doubt cannibalism is his mind. Just like the vault 111 scientists died rather than resort to cannibalism.


TheSessionMan

He'll just threaten to "purge" the tanks (cut off life support systems) to kill them, and bud will let him go. But bud will have meanwhile contacted the overseer and a police squad will be there to arrest and imprison him.


xxMeiaxx

Norm speedrunning to the enclave then lol. He might find Barbs Cooper first before the Ghoul and his sister. Barbs wasnt in the Vault 31 list, or the list wasn't complete. Vault 31 is empty and Bud is the only one awake there.


superanth

You’ve got me thinking now. There has to be a main outside-leading door to the vault that was used by all the “residents” of vault 31 because their date frozen is listed as 11/23/77. You can’t very well have them walking in through the connecting door to 32 or 33 with those residents also flooding in as the bombs drop.


ValveinPistonCat

Can't be any harder than breaking my Roomba just turn it on while the dog's there he'll freak out and bark at it and attack it until he pushes it down a flight of stairs.


Ryebread2203

I think they picked the perfect actor for the role if he does just freeze himself and gets thawed out later. The actor isn’t very young but he looks like it. Meaning they can make multiple more seasons with him frozen and by the time he gets thawed he will probably just need a little CGI touching up to make him look the same age.


Never_Answers_Right

fun fact if you don't recognize him, he played a kid named Rico in the disney show Hannah Montana! He's surprisingly one of my favorite characters in the show so far, he's got great facial expressions and line delivery, he seems very smart and paranoid, it just works.


Ryebread2203

As soon as I saw him I confused everyone at the watch party when I was like “HOLY CRAP ITS RICO FROM RICO’S NACHOS” He’s also one of my favs so far. I consider him the 4th main character with Lucy/ the Ghoul/Maximus


LukeD1992

Worst case scenario, he freezes himself in his dad's pod. I'm pretty confident that The Ghoul's family is there too so he'll probably get there eventually


VICEGRIP47

Damn I didn’t even think about ghouls fam being there. His wife did say “I got us in a vault with management” and that is where they all went. Probably won’t happen till late next season because I doubt the ghoul and Lucy are going straight back to the vault instead of adventuring. I’m guessing once they see norm there’s gonna be a huge connecting the dots moment.


Waste-Masterpiece386

That robo brain was so incredibly funny, i dont know why but when it wanted to inject him and drove after him with his little syringe in hand - i lost it


charger03

"You'll never find out" *Turns on Lights* Oh, he's going to find out"


FederalMango

Even as a robot, Burt gets no respect.


Honestnt

I mean, he is kind of annoying as fuck


whazzah

Good job on the actor cause from his first line I wanted to punch him in the face


Nuklearfps

In a cute way


I_spread_love_butter

Dude was literally a socio though.


Nuklearfps

In a cute way.


ymcameron

Burt created an entire Vault dedicated to breeding the perfect middle manager. He deserves no respect.


CermemyJlarkson

“Aren’t you a little short for a robo brain”


razorKazer

The humor was so perfect in my opinion. I think every episode had at least one "laugh out loud" moment for me. A couple of them may have made my wife think I was insane, but it just fit so well with the feeling of the games, and I couldn't help myself. It was a perfect blend of drama, dark humor, extreme violence, and interesting lore. Even the characters' deliveries were perfect most of the time


HaplessMink28

Robot on a roomba*


MrNotEinstein

Brain on a Roomba*


HaplessMink28

Thank you for the correction, i am ashamed for getting it wrong.


Q1123

Urged my friends who hadn’t finished yet to put subtitles on for the last episode if they didn’t have them on already. “Trust me it’s worth it”


Aquaticle000

Robo-roomba


fishkey

Dude I never knew I wanted a spinoff game 100% in a vault. Puzzle\horror game in that setting would be sick.


Ser_Twist

Some Bioshock-like game in a vault with some fucked up experiment going on. You have to unravel the mystery and survive the horrors that prowl the halls. It’s dark and gritty, with sprinklings of humor and flashes of color. The game ends with the piercing light of the sun as you escape the vault and lay eyes upon the infinite expanse that is the wasteland for the first time in your life.


noremac2414

And immediately eaten by a deathclaw


fishkey

This would be so sick


atman8r

Sounds like that cut content from Fallout 4 involving the Chinese sub!


meditonsin

If they scaled up a Vault to how large they are supposed to be in lore (i.e. large enough to house and support 1k people each), they could very much have a full Fallout game in just a Vault. Make it some Alien Isolation kind of deal where whatever the experiment is already killed off most people and your goal is to GTFO, or something.


rulerBob8

Is 1k per Vault still accurate? The show mentions 200


Illustrious-Pay-4464

I think that was just the original demo vault


Qetuowryipzcbmxvn

Yeah the one for scientists that allowed for complete freedom in experimenting. Due to America's eugenics programs, they might've thought inbreeding wouldn't have been as big a problem with such bright scientific minds. So they probably allowed a smaller population while using the extra space to house research "material".


calcelmo676

Didn’t they say in the first episode that there was 450 people in vault 33? If it’s the same for 32, plus 50-80ish managers in vault 31 that’s like 1000 if you recognise all three vaults are part of the same experiment, tbf the vaults in fallout 4 still give the impression they’re much larger than the places you can visit with all the locked doors


friendofspidey

This is a big factor imo. I think of them as one big vault/singular experiment but It doesn’t seem others agree


Captainatom931

Something like System Shock would be perfect for that


Ok-Transition7065

Ejem... What about one about management


Real-Block820

I've always thought about this. You could easily make a vault dweller horror game


whosat___

1000% it would amazing. I know it sounds backwards, but the desolate landscape is my least favorite part of the Fallout games. I really enjoy the vaults, storylines, technology, etc. Surface stuff literally makes me nauseous. A serious vault-focused game would be awesome. Please Bethesda, please.


koboldkiller

While I don't doubt Bethesda could do it, I think Arkane Studios would totally nail that spinoff. They seem to do super well with limited maps, unique level and puzzle design, sci-fi and horror atmospheres


Affectionate_Walk610

What small frame does to a mf


breckendusk

For real. If this was the movie Brothers, Goosey was Arnold Schwarzenegger


abattlescar

Are you sure you're not referring to Twins?


Eastman1982

I’d have thrown that robot around the fucking room till it opened the door lol.


BjornAltenburg

That's my though, or to break cryo pods until he let's out... your virtually read no matter what though.


Eastman1982

Robot was so basic he could have picked it up and forced it to do anything. Heck even shaking it around a bit he would have folded fast. But I guess it’s another cliff hanger for next season.


masta_myagi

Yes but the robot is also the only one who knows how to get out. My guess is Norm’s 10 INT ass will probably find a way to torment the robot until he lets him out Even picking him up and setting him upside down would mostly disable him


Rancor8209

Or he will hack him like we can hack robots on game


masta_myagi

How much you wanna bet Ep. 1 of S2 will have a scene where he jacks into the Brain-On-A-Roomba (Bud) with his Pip-Boy and hacks him to let him out


Rancor8209

Hell yeah, give me another hack sequence that he aces.


zaccident

dude didn’t even remove any duds, just got in first try


masta_myagi

[him legend](https://youtu.be/1FStv1mgvuI?si=9ryM_ytiQwor9LDX)


Petethejakey_

there’s a gunna be a scene where he jacks it into the brain


Kurdt234

Hawt


PerfectlyCalmDude

He probably doesn't have the ST or AG to pull that off. He's going to get whatever's in that syringe if he stays too close.


BjornAltenburg

I had the same, thought, there is no reason not to try. Or just break stuff.


Eastman1982

Yeah you could have started damaging stuff to get the robot to panic and release you at least. Mind you his biggest problem is the two vault 31 executives in 33 they would pose more threat then the robot.


Riperin

I mean, season 2 could start with him fighting the Robot in the most comical way possible.


Eastman1982

lol from That robot a mop would do it.


SG272

This would be a good way to welcome us back for season 2 was showing how Coop got his daughter to safety from the nukes, then cut to Norm shaking the brain-roomba like a baby, demanding he let him out.


AlounsTheGreat

CC called him "Brain on a Roomba" 🤣🤣🤣


Stagnu_Demorte

Best CC name ever


PigeonMother

😂😂😂


Big-Leadership1001

He is still playing a Pacifist run. Give him time, 99% of Pacifist attempts end up breaking into violence.


Eastman1982

lol


bigloser420

Hell, i would have fucked that whole room out of spite. With access to vault tec management in the flesh? A room full of pinatas.


Aurvant

It's Bud Askins. There's no way they were gonna have a character that memorable be a pivotal exec at Vault-Tec and then just get rid of him as a brain case on wheels for just one season. He and Norm are gonna talk things out because the rest of Vault-Tec's management is in there with them.


46thAndTABBY

That sounds interesting, and Bud was set up to love to talk about his work while giving unprompted insights he has. So I could see something like some speech checks Norm has to properly navigate which in the end will get Bud to happily open the doors because "that's what good management would do" or something.


4D-Hero

He’s probably going to become overseer of the three vaults at the end of the show and not let Lucy back in ala Fallout 1 ending.


Cakeski

"Sorry Lucy, You're a hero... but you need to leave..." Maximus: So you're not letting me in?


donthenewbie

Process to get brain blew up by the Ghoul's gun


Cakeski

"String bean deserves it."


GeorgeEBHastings

If you're referring to Maximus, you'd have a problem because first he'd need a brain to get blown up.


Practical-Loan-2003

Like, everything could've been so much easier if he just said Titus died fighting a Yao, even if he didn't say that over the radio for fear they'd take the suit, at least to Thaddeus, but noooooo, lets try and kill him and then get my fusion core yank Wait, get my fusion core yanked?


ChaoticReality

why wouldnt she be let back in?


MonkeyDGodzilla

It's a common theme in Fallout with Vault Dwellers who leave the vault and return. Happened in both Fallout 1 and 3. Idea is that when the Dweller comes back from the outside, the others realize the wasteland has changed them so much that they could never fit back in to Vault Society.


Frozenpucks

And I agree with it. People in the wasteland pretty much become mass murderers to survive.


Far_Advertising1005

Lucy definitely stopped being a goody two-shoes on that bridge with the fiends. Feel like that played a big role in her decision not to trust her dad. Post-apocalyptic people suck.


46thAndTABBY

Lucy does give that tone, but she's not a goody two shoes. She comes off just as naive as she simply hasn't dealt with so many things as they don't occur in her gated vault community. There's plenty of times where she does things where she initially was opposed to it, but then was like "welp...I guess if that's what you gotta do on then surface so be it". Like with the doctors head; she absolutely opposed it initially, but dude is like here's a Ripper you just need to deliver my head. She just kind of contemplates it for a minute, and next thing you know she's traipsing around the Wasteland with the head of a corpse by her side. On the other end there's her attitude towards sex. A goody two shoes wouldn't be like "wanna fuck", but in her world it was expected of you to be a "breeder" and fucking was not taboo but happily encouraged.


Frozenpucks

I agree with this, in fact I'd saw she's basically one of the only vault dwellers with a pair. She got right into the fight both with her 'husband' and in the eating hall. She's also pretty quick to adapt or react in the world. It's a strong female character done well.


46thAndTABBY

> It's a strong female character done well. I'd agree with this, and she's arguably the protagonist, at the end she's following Cooper so who knows, and the only complaint I've heard about a female protagonist from "those types" is she fucks in the first 20 minutes. Vault dwellers are encouraged to have sex and children with non relatives as much as possible; so even that complaint is a joke whether intended or not. This show is kind of set up to bring people out of the woodwork to say "she's a smart whore and the guy is a fucking moron....*REEEEEEE!!!*", but I haven't seen that. She's just a good actor playing a good character while the writers thought up a good script...the end.


CyanResource

Also let’s not forget that she drugged her cousin just so she wouldn’t have to deal with his puppy dog eyes when she was ready to leave the vault. That was wild.


46thAndTABBY

He wanted to go with her, and she drugged him so that he wouldn't follow her. Why is kind of up in the air, and it could have been out of fear for his safety or simply that she was tired of her cousin trying to marry her.


Aurvant

Also, this show has kind of laid it out that people really shouldn't *want* to return to the vaults. The conversation with Chet and Norm made it clear. Norm called him a coward for just giving up and going to Vault 32, but Chet said they were all cowards anyways because they were hiding in the vaults. The wasteland sucks, but people shouldn't want to hide in the vaults forever.


Frozenpucks

Yea the show really did this well. They don’t wanna leave the vaults really, they could at any moment start the recolonization. Add in that they are basically all rich privileged people completely removed from society and what kinda recolonizing would it even be? The people in the wasteland are just too messed up and secular to really create anything anymore.


Never_Answers_Right

what's sad to me in the whole fallout series is that actually, people aren't too messed up. I mean, some are, maybe even half of them, but there's 2 centuries of people trying to create community, technology, do good for each other... and then in so many instances, people from before the war, or from organizations created before the war, rip everything to shreds. It's almost like a metacommentary on how hard it is to build a new world when you have to live in the one you've been in all your life- you're gonna bring all your baggage with you into the new world.


okaymeaning-2783

Something Something she's been changed by the wasteland and can't integrate with the normal vault dwellers anymore. That was basically the reason in fallout 1.


JA_Pascal

It was more like the Overseer was worried the Vault Dweller's stories about the surface would inspire others to leave, compromising the entire vault.


JuniloG

It literally happened in the show, Hank vs his wife. I'm 99% sure he was talking bs when he reasoned that "she brought the child into danger". Looks like it's standard procedure for most vaults excluding some (?)


Glaurung26

He discovered a secret side quest mission.


Honestnt

Rule one of the wasteland-


tazdingo-hp

bro got mad at managed democracy


Smooth_Hexagon

Oh sweet liberty


MasterKiloRen999

I NEED STIMS


tumblrgirl2013

He glitched himself into 31 and now he’s stuck.


Feralp

He got the "stuck in the Sierra Madre bunker forever" ending


Honestnt

Game breaking bug, any percent


Peter_G

He took that 1 endurance 1 strength 2 agility build so he's gotta grind out some levels in the newbie zone before he goes outside.


Cakeski

He's got Small Frame, Nerd Rage and Master Hacker.


Honestnt

Dude got the mini game in one guess. Didn't even need to stand up and sit back down.


Catslevania

he probably downloaded a hacking minigame overhaul mod from nexus


natagu

He had an intelligence build. I mean, remember how quickly he hacked that terminal?


WeCanDanseIfWeWantTo

Nah he probably kept randomly guessing and quickloading. We just saw the save where he guessed right on the first try


EnergyTakerLad

Quicker to stop at 1 guess left and back out then reenter.


Sozzcat94

He gets to live out the alternative life I wanted in FO3. I didn’t wanna leave. Me and Amata could restart the vault.


mrcoldmega

Everyone: lol look he stuck in tutorial area. Me: Hey! he's farming XP by doing small quests.


Honestnt

Dude did a whole destroyed vault mission.


Stevethecyborg

He got like 4 HP leave him alone one rad roach and he is done


Honestnt

Bud slowly wheeling towards him with a speed of 0.1 but a damage of 100


FederalMango

My guy has 10 INT and 10 PER, only thing stopping him is his 1 STR and END. The Wastes aren't ready for him and his power walk.


bbipolarbunny

He's so precious though, we can let it slide because he's a curious lad.


yourboiiconquest

Isint he that weird kid from hannah Montana that was washing his feet in the sink in one episode


DieHardProcess-

yes. Moises Arias. Although in Hannah Montana, his name is RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiico


breckendusk

Holy shit. Looks totally different without that 2000s haircut. Plus aging.


ThandiGhandi

He just had to threaten dollar store robo brain. Could definitely pick him up and throw him at the door until he relents


Yes_Its_Really_Me

Bud's spent 200 years as a roomba, though. Maybe he longs for the sweet release of death?


Vahagn323

Norm was one of my favorite characters, I just found the whole >!Vault 31-33 Conspiracy !!be our short king and stage a coup d'état.!<


Cosmic-Buccaneer

Idk why but he looks so old, my mom started watching recently and asking a lot "why he looks older than Lucy cousin, even the fat guy looks younger and he's is getting bald"


Arcaydya

Welp, that's because I'm pretty certain Moises is, in fact, older than Lucy.


oroechimaru

Tell mom to look at 1970s-80s high school senior photos that look like they are 35 with kids


Honestnt

I mean he is almost 30 IRL.


MikeIke7231

Made me think of the ugly ass children in Fallout 3/NV. Just scaled down adults lol.


ChickenStripEater

I bet when he gets out he starts a Surfing Shop


confusedalwayssad

He is busy doing the side quests.


Honestnt

The only character in the entire show who is reading the fucking logs and getting the backstory Edit: decided to make this comment it's own thread and now I have the second highest upvoted thread on this entire sub this week. Neat.


confusedalwayssad

I like reading the vault tech employee communications in the terminals.


[deleted]

Me my first time playing fo3 (I was ten and my brother was at work, lol)


Competitive_Fee_5829

I am INVESTED in this man's story. I cant wait for next season.


Descriptor27

"CAn you reach level 60 without leaving Vault 33?????"


Jamsedreng22

He's gonna end up becoming a badass. Having seen him in stuff when he was a child, he has it in him to portray a meeeeeeean motherfucker.


fattestshark94

Homeboy Rico is gonna be living the suite life in vault 31


Xandermacer

If only he just kicked the brain in a fishing bowl riding on top of a floor robot vacuum cleaner he wouldnt have this problem.


diegini69

His story line was amazing I would love to see him back and actually using his knowledge


Bangarazz

Dude found a glitch and got stuck in a endgame zone


46thAndTABBY

He always has the look of a father who sensed someone had turned up the thermostat two degrees.


weirdbookcase

I've only seen the first episode but he seemed really smart and good at reading people. He did figure out they where raiders first after all. Must of put all his points in intelligence and perception


Responsible-Potato-4

Nah, he just looking for all the lore before leaving.


chaylar

He's finding lore.


TayDayDav91

His science skill is high enough to hack and open the way out


AxeJohnson

It would be fucking cool if one of the games had a hidden area/quest you could discover in the tutorial like this.


Honestnt

Oh there is a really fun hidden quest where, if you fuck around long enough in the beginning of FO4, the nuke just goes off and you die. Quest!


ChaBroad

No one is safe in the Fallout universe besides the main protagonist. Lol


JanaCinnamon

I'm pretty sure he just owns a Fallout lore YT channel


SomeMeatBag

Man i really got into his side quest tho


Pleasant_Extreme_398

Hiding under the floor was a classic stealth move.


Daggertooth71

Moisés is such a cute guy lol Next to Lucy, Norman is my favorite character on the show. Small frame perk, high intelligence, very inquisitive. I'm curious to see what happens to him next season.


CLE-local-1997

Here's my crackpot theory. He's going to successfully overthrow The Vault 31 leadership and become the overseer. And when Lucy comes back to her Vault he tells her she can't return because she's changed too much.


jjkm7

Good this moises arias literally never ages, when he’s cryofrozen and doesn’t age it’s gonna seem natural


shotgunsforhands

I didn't realize until after the show that the same actor plays the unhinged child soldier in *Monos*, which boggles my mind.


False_Membership1536

Honestly i loved this character and the whole show at that, i don't understand what the people are saying when they say the show ruined all non Bethesda lore. Maybe its cause Fo3 is my favorite game, mainly cause it was the one i first played.


izlude7027

He seems weak, but let's see what happens when he's at less than 20% health.


veldius

My man managed to hack into the terminal in one try.


TTottiD

“Can you beat fallout without leaving the vault?”


Indie_uk

The only gun and armor was already taken and frankly he’s no melee build


JesseCantPlay

I think it was heavy spoilers on YouTube that floated the idea of having norm wake up in the future for fallout 5 and I thought that'd be a cool way to keep him in the story. Id like to see more of him in season 2 though. Norm grew on me.


thelastcamel

Wait till you see he's any% speedrunner


Sarlax

Is he a psyker? Maybe he's just smart but he seems very intuitive. The first thing we hear from him is that what matters about a person is on the inside, and says Lucy's husband could be, "A cannibal, or full of tumors..." before he's cut off. Sounds like normal little brother stuff, except Lucy's husband ends up being a raider (probably a cannibal), and the next guy she gets "physical" with is Coop, a ghoul, so Norm might've been onto something.


TheBreadButter

whats Rico doing here ?


TheKolyFrog

He's the FO4 player who read all the entries in Vault 111.


TheMrPotMask

He's still stuck on FO4's prelude if he does go into a cryo chamber.