The team deals with the man in the box, gains some karma, loses some money and meets with Yuri.
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[ Transcription note: IC denotes in character speech, OOC denotes out of character. ]
[00:00:00] [ Intro theme begins ]
> Molly Templeton / "Artemis": In the early 21st century, magic reawakened on Earth, and alongside it, a new human race, with orcs, elves, trolls, dwarves, and others. Humanity became metahumanity.
As technology proliferated and greatly advanced in the awakened world, global megacorporations seized ever more power, becoming de facto states with their own laws, courts, and armed forces. The corporations attempt to control all aspects of modern life. This has led to a vast and complex criminal underground which works for and against corporate interests. The independent career criminals who do what others can't or won't are called Shadowrunners.
The year is 2101. Welcome to Fun City.
[ Intro theme concludes ]
[ Main theme begins ]
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Previously on Fun City, the team had a knock-down drag-out fight with KitKat, Dish, Sunshine, and Dragonfly - better known collectively as B-Team. They were sent by Mo Ashina to collect biometric data the team had gathered in the course of a plot to frame Severin Verne Sollix, the chief negotiator of the NYPD police union.
The team decided instead to work with Verne, who claims biotechnology megacorp Evo is performing mysterious experiments on police. After returning from a meeting with lawyer Odina Loulax, KitKat told the crew they could hand the data over peacefully or his team would take it the hard way. By the end of the night, Dish and Sunshine were dead, T.K. was shot, Dragonfly had fled into the night, Viv had been torched and stuck with a dart, and KitKat was locked in a shipping container, where he remains.
We join the team the next morning on the Mrs. Egg where they tend to their wounds and plot their day. On the agenda: wrap KitKat and in not too long, head to New Jersey for a meeting with Yuri.
[ Main theme concludes ]
> Taylor Moore / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] Are you two talking at each other from hospital beds on the boat? [ Shannon and Jenn laugh ] Like there's a little curtain separating you?
> Bijan Stephen / "T.K.": [ OOC ] I think - I feel like - Do you think we - Do you think we'd set up - like make the kitchen like a little triage area? [ Bijan and Jenn laugh ]
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] There would be an infirmary on the boat. It's an old military vessel.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Oh you're right!
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] Yeah, there are definitely be an infirmary.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Shit, we are maybe in the infirmary.
> Jenn de la Vega / "Vivian Lakewood": [ OOC ] Yeah, Viv is still in her bikini because her caftan got burned off.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Oh, right.
> Shannon Odell / "Lash Goodbog": [ OOC ] Oh yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Oh no, the burnt caftan, that's right.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] As a result, she has blue veining burns on her legs.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] Sure.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Lash is fully healed, and she is also there, and she has two bottles of Gatorade, one in each hand and she's trying to convince both T.K. and Viv to drink the whole bottle, because it makes you feel great! [ Shannon laughs ]
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] T.K. takes the whole bottle - he just takes it to the face.
> Mike / G.M.: It is -
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Chugs it down.
> Mike / G.M.: Bright yellow.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Yeah. [ Shannon laughs ]
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Thank you. Thank you Lash. I feel better.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] I don't subscribe to this religion. [ Mike laughs ]
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] No, I'm telling you Viv -
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Just do it.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Just - it's gonna make you feel great.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] I feel so good. I feel so much better.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] [ Sighs ] Fine. [ OOC ] And she unwillingly unscrews the cap and just sips it very like slowly like -
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] It's kind of salty, isn't it, Viv?
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] I guess I like that part of it.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Viv do you want me to try out my spell though?
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] [ Sighs ]I guess it would be a good time to start practicing.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] T.K.'s never used - never used this before.
> Jenn / "Viv":[ OOC ] So - so you want to risk drain?
> Bijan / "T.K.":[ OOC ] Yeah. [ Jenn laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: So wait, okay,
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Takin' it easy.
> Mike / G.M.: So set the scene for me here. Like what does the infirmary look like? And how are you guys set up so that you're offering Viv...?
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] I think we're in - I think we're in just, beds next to each other [ Bijan laughs ] and you know.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Are they hammocks? Because it's a boat. [ Jenn laughs ]
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] T.K.'s on a bed. He's like nah, nah.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Okay.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] But it's like maybe slightly too small for him. I think his legs maybe hanging off a little bit. But yeah, you know like hospital style, just weird sterile sheets and pillows.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] The head part of the bed is like a little leaned up, right?
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Yeah, just a little bit. How do I use a spell? Let's see.
> Mike / G.M.: So it is your - [ Mike and Bijan laugh ] - it is your magic rating.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] My magic - his magic rating is five, actually.
> Mike / G.M.: Plus your spell-casting skill.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] And his spell-casting skill is... one.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] [ Faintly ] Yay.
> Mike / G.M.: With a limit of the force of the spell.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Yeah for every -
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] It heals a number of boxes of physical damage equal to the spell's hits from the spell-casting test. Hits can also be used to reduce the base time for the spell to become permanent. Each hit spent this way shaves off one combat turn. Any phys - any boxes of physical damage your target still has after any boxes are healed magically can only be healed by time and rest. So, you can - you only can do it once.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Fine. [ Jenn laughs ] That's fine.
[00:05:00] > Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] So, I guess every hit I get gives you a box of damage back.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Alright.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Do you have any healing spells?
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] I do.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Maybe we can just do a heal-off.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Just heal each other. [ Jenn and Shannon laugh ] I get more drain from it! [ Jenn laughs ]
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] But also T.K. is like "Fuck it, like this is the time, you know. I gotta - I gotta try it."
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] We can try.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] We're not in combat. This is the first dice roll of the -
> Mike / G.M.: Hey-O!
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] - of the new year.
> Mike / G.M.: Of 2020!
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Hey!
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] We did it! T.K. gets out of his bed and walks over to Viv and like sort of holds his hands out, like above her, like just not - not touching her skin, but like just very close, so she can sort of feel the warmth from his hands. He just like closes eyes and concentrates. And like he's thinking of like - because he's a - he's - I believe he's a chaos magician. I say that I believe, but he is. And so like his spells, his magic comes from emotions. [ Gentle humming tone, white noise play ] So he's like thinking about the battle and thinking about like, you know, like almost losing his friend and is you know, very like intent on making things right. And so yeah, I'm rolling six dice, casting the spell at a force of three, which means I think I can only heal three boxes damage like, if everything goes right. And that is one hit, so you got one box back. [ Healing Bloop sounds ]
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] Thank you.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] He opens his eyes. He's like - [ IC ] Ugh! So I guess I gotta resist drain now. [ Bijan, Mike, Taylor laugh ]
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": Was he - Was he grossed out by it?
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] No he's just like - [ IC ] Agh!
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] It's a new sensation for him!
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Because he's just like - [ IC ] Eugh...
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, you suddenly feel - it's like a switch getting flipped. You're like, "Oh, god. I'm like a little bit more tired. Well, I was already tired and now I just feel a little bit more drained." So yeah roll it and see how bad.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] That's nine dice. Shit yeah, good tradition T.K. two hits, so no drain.
> Mike / G.M.: Nice.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Great. So this was the first magic that T.K. has ever done?
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Well, that isn't like, combat magic. But yeah, like.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Wow.
> Mike / G.M.: How does that feel?
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Feels good.
> Mike / G.M.: Do you feel powerful?
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] No, he's just like -
> Mike / G.M.: [ Mike laughs ] No, not at all!
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] I think he's like - it's like - it's like, he has the feeling of like, making an origami crane. He's like, I made something. I did something -
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Mmm.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] - like something - it feels productive. And like I think he's like, very pleased with himself.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] I see my meditation has worked. [ Mike laughs ]
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] A little bit, just a little. I've been listening to the tapes. [ Jenn laughs ]
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Viv is pretty proud of T.K., but to return the favor she sits up in the bed and is about to heal him as well.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Before you do anything, you should know: T.K. has an adept skill power thing called "Rapid Healing", which means that it adds one die to your dice pool for every level, and he's like, it's - I think it's level two. So he's - you have two extra dice to spend.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Whoa, note to future selves: Viv's dice pool is already 12. [ Shannon laughs ]
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Heal me.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] [ Jenn laughs ] From her six magic skill and six spell-casting. [ Laughing ] And so this is 14?
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Yeah, let's go!
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Die?
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Wow!
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Alright, let's try -
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] It's funny because T.K. is like "Yeah, I did it!" and [ Bijan and Jenn laugh ]
> Mike / G.M.: One hit.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] One hit!
> Mike / G.M.: Watch the master at work now.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Let's try a healing at a force of five, with a roll of 13. That's crazy. [ Laughing ] She got six hits.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Hell yeah!
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] [ Shannon and Jenn laugh ] Very nice!
> Mike / G.M.: Way to show - way to show the noob what's up. [ Bijan and Shannon laugh ]
> Nick Guercio / "Luxe Scythe": [ OOC ] [ Faintly ] Get good. [ Bijan laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: Say it into the mic, Nick.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] [ Louder ] Get good.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] It's like putting a Band-Aid over someone versus like performing open heart surgery. [ Shannon and Jenn laugh ]
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Wow, that was - that was - Nick, I appreciate your toxicity over there. [ Nick laughs ] So I just got six fucking... oh my god. T.K.'s like back to fucking normal. [ Bijan laughs ] He's taken two damage now.
> Mike / G.M.: But now keep in mind that any remaining cannot be healed by anything other than medical attention or rest.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Yeah, and I think that's - that seems fine.
> Mike / G.M.: Great.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] He's working with - he's got - he's got 10 health now. T.K. thanks - just looks at Viv and thanks her.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] She collapses back into the bed because she still has seven damage and is tired. [ Jenn and Bijan laugh ]
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Aw, seven damage still.
> Mike / G.M.: How's Luxe doin'?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Well Luxe - Luxe feels bad cause he ran out of med kits. So, he is making a little soup -
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Aw.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] - for Viv and T.K. He's about to come into the room with it and he just catches the end of Viv healing T.K. and he says - [ IC ] One day T.K., you're gonna be able to do that, alright?
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] One day. Yeah, I just gotta - gotta practice meditating more.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] [ Nick laughs ] Yeah. Anyway made you guys some soup. [ OOC ] And so he gives them the soup. It's a soy-based soup, as you can imagine. He also gives T.K. a ball, and this is a special ball. It's a - it's a... called a VirtuBall and it's a little thing that he - Luxe would always play with whenever he was sick. It's a ball that generates a virtual hoop that you can -
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Aww.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] - kind of play and it always returns to the owner. So I would - it's something fun to do in the sick bed. And then he says - [ IC ] Alright guys, I'm gonna go deal with, you know, the thing in the box. [ Nick and Mike laugh ]
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] Our friend.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Do you need me to come with you?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yes, please.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Awesome.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] T.K. gives you a thumbs up and just like fall - he just falls asleep.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] This ball is awesome. Can I try once? Please.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Don't give this to Lash, please. [ Bijan and Shannon laugh ] She's gonna break it.
> Mike / G.M.: I will say, the infirmary is in the interior of the ship and there are no portholes or windows. [ Bijan, Shannon, Nick laugh ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Well that's good.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Yeah, T.K.'s already asleep so there's no answer. [ Nick laughs ]
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Alright, next time T.K.!
> Mike / G.M.: So are Viv and T.K. gonna hang out in the infirmary for a little bit while -
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: - Lash and Luxe go and deal with KitKat?
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Sounds like a plan.
> Mike / G.M.: So yeah, you have a man in a box -
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: - in a parking lot that is short walking distance from the Mrs. Egg. He was sent to kill you but you trapped him in a shipping container.
[00:10:03] > Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Yes. So, I grab one of the two shotguns we have, I hand the other -
> Mike / G.M.: Um, those were tossed into the sea by Gabe.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Oh, right. Now I'm much less confident. [ Nick, Mike, Shannon laugh ]
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Don't worry, you got me! [ Nick laughs ] Bodyguard!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Okay. Well, I'll just have to trust Lash.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] You load up those pepper punchers?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah, the pepper punchers are on me. So, we'll hope those help.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] I got a couple extra narcojets, I got - [ Nick laughs ] - didn't work so well last time, but...
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Maybe if he's trapped in a box. [ Shannon laughs ] There's not as many places you can miss.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] You got it.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Okay, great. We'll see. [ OOC ] Alright, so we go down the - What is it called? One of -
> Mike / G.M.: Pier?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": Gangway.
> Mike / G.M.: Gangway?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] The gangway.
> Mike / G.M.: You get outside and it's a very gray, oppressively humid day. It is summer in New York and it's - feels like you're swimming as you're walking through the city. You have to take a - like a five or so minute walk to get back to the parking lot / junkyard where you fought B-Team, and where KitKat is currently imprisoned. And by the time you get there, you're both dripping with sweat because it's just like, 90% humidity, really gross, 80 degrees outside. You can see there's a fine dew - like a fine condensation just on everything. And as you approach the container that KitKat is in, you don't hear anything, but there is no evidence that it has been opened. It is still jammed shut the way that you left it, Lash.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] I knock on the door, and I say - [ IC ] Hey B-Team! How we doing in there?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC as "KitKat" ] Bad.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Alright. We're going to open up, alright? Can you drop your uhh... your sidearm for me?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] You hear nothing for a second, and then clink clank [ Clattering sound ] the absolute sound of a gun hitting the bottom of a shipping container.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] I look at Lash, I say - [ IC ] Can you ready your blowdart for me?
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Oh, absolutely! I've been asking - I've been hoping you would ask me that my whole life. [ Mike laughs ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Don't - don't point it at me.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Okay.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Even, really quickly, at all.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] [ Shannon laughs ] Okay.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] So Luxe tries to open the door, and he just turns to Lash and - [ Nick laughs ] - when he realizes this was closed real tight.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Do you need me to open the door?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yes, if you could open the door.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Okay, cool. [ OOC ] And Lash tries to open the door because she's stronger than Luxe.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: There is a bunch of loud clanking and a slow creak [ Clanking, Creaking sounds ] as the really heavy door is opened. It's a little awkward for you, Lash, because you're also trying to juggle your blow-dart gun. [ Nick laughs ]
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: And your narcojet.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] I'm holding it in my mouth. [ Shannon and Nick laugh ]
> Mike / G.M.: But sure enough as you open it, you see KitKat standing about five feet back into the container. And you can see behind him he's dropped his sidearm into the corner of the tiny room that he's been trapped in, and he's just standing there.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] And his clothes are also on the floor. He's wearing nothing but his underwear and he's absolutely dripping with sweat. He is about to fall down.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] I toss him a bottle of Gatorade.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] It hits him - [ Two thuds ] - and he falls over. [ All laugh ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Uh, KitKat, you alright?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Ugh... summertime out there, innit?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yes, it is. Reach near your right hand, I got you a Gatorade.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] He feels around, he grabs the bottle, and feels that it's cold, and then he just rip the top off and chugs it.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Alright, you just sit there. We're just going to talk for a second, okay?
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Wait! Grab the gun.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] I grab the gun.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] You walk past and he does not make a move to touch you at all.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] So I grab his sidearm and I check to see if it has any security that makes it not usable by other people?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] Yep.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] It does?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] It's got a fingerprint scanner.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Okay, so I'm not going to be able to use it? That's fine. So I just tuck it in my - in my pants and I say - [ IC ] I'm sorry we had to do this to you. I know that it's - it's very warm out here. The other alternative was to kill you. We had serious wounds, that your your team did to us. Most of them are either dead or gone. Alright, so your your future here as it pertains to this job isn't very bright. Okay? So what we did was we told Mo Ashina that you killed us and that we had no data on us. You're free to do whatever you want, now, we're going to let you free, okay? Here's what I'm thinking. You're a talented man. Alright, we have some very big stuff going on right now that's going all the way to the top.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] This is great. I'm glad things are going great with you.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] It's not. Nor is it with the city. There's a lot of people who are being experimented on right now, and we're trying to get to the bottom of it.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Oh, wow.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Experimented on.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] What are they doing? Put them in metal boxes in the middle of the day in summertime? [ Nick laughs ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Well, if you're amenable to it, we may need to get a lot of teams, shadowrunners, for this job. In the future. If you were - if you were available.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Well I think given that you just, uh, murdered half of a pretty well known gang. I'd say that folks on the scene -
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Uh-huh.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] - are going to be eager to work with you now.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah, I guess.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Yeah, that's a good plan.
[00:15:00] > Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Okay. Well. I feel like you're being sarcastic - [ Nick laughs ] - but I can't tell.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I am.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Okay. Well, you know, it's like one of those things where when one should shadowrun team tries to kill another and the other defend themselves... I think that everybody understands that that's how this is going to go down. I told you not to do it, but you went ahead and did it and now half of 'em are dead. If you don't want to work with us, you don't have to. Okay?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] That's your plan, string bean? Hire me?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Not right now, but possibly in the future.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] He sort of stumbles up to his feet and he goes over and he picks up his clothes and he's holding them in a ball in one hand. He says - [ IC ] If my options, now, are between being gotten rid of and giving you my cell phone number.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Mhmm.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] My cell phone number is 718 - [ Mike, Nick, Bijan, Shannon laugh ] - 678-34 [ Bleep ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Hold on. I forgot we added three more digits in 2060. [ Mike and Nick laugh ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yes.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] 260. [ Laughs ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Look, I'm not asking to make any decisions. Now, you've had a hell of a night, but I'm just telling you I may be in contact if we need help. If you don't - want to say no then, say no then.
> Mike / G.M.: What is going through KitKat's mind right now?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] Well, he wants to survive but he can't not give this asshole shit for the insane thing that he's asking.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Alright, we're gonna take you somewhere. You're gonna be fine, but I'm gonna need you to get in the trunk of Henley.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] We got a - we got a car out here. We're going to put you in the trunk and then we're going to drive you somewhere and drop you off.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Why the trunk?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Lash? [ Nick laughs ]
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Some people like the trunk.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I know I'm not really in a position to be bargaining with you. But please don't make me... get in the trunk?
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Listen. [ Mike laughs ] I don't like you, you know, Luxe said what he had to say, that's his opinion. I don't want anything to do with you. I want you for far away from me.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Lash, you want to go grab the car?
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] [ Whispered ] Absolutely.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Okay, um -
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Lash runs, takes the car. [ Laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, you're sort of in the lot where it hangs out, so. You're a couple dozen yards away.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah. She didn't like how you shot your friend in the face.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Me either.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah. Well, I'm just telling you that's why she wants you in the trunk. I don't really care.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Well heaven forbid any of you ever have to make a decision like that. Heaven forbid.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah. Well, um... I, again, I'm.... Actually I'm not that sorry. You guys just attacked us.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] You don't have to talk. [ All laugh ]
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Lash arrives with Henley.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Alright, and we put him in the trunk and we -
> Mike / G.M.: Does he - does he willingly -
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Do you willingly get in the trunk?
> Mike / G.M.: - get in the trunk?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] Yeah, yeah.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Okay. Gets in the trunk, we drive him to...
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] I, in a act of mercy, I throw another bottle of Gatorade in there.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] It hits him in the lip [ Thud ] [ Shannon and Nick laugh ] and his lip starts bleeding.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] I close the trunk, and we drive off.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Where you thinking we drop this guy?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Guess it doesn't really matter. He knows where we live.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Sure.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] So, I mean, unless we want to drive him somewhere where he can never get back - [ Nick laughs ] - anywhere... Then we might as well just drop them off around the corner.
> Mike / G.M.: I think that's - I think that's just called killing someone.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Yeah! [ Nick, Mike, Shannon laugh ]
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Yeah, okay!
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] [ Faintly ] I can hear you! [ Mike laughs ]
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Okay, around the corner.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah. Alright. [ Shannon, Nick, Taylor, Mike laugh ] [ OOC ] We go - we go literally one block. We open the trunk and I'm like -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Why did you drive me one block?
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Get out!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Just get out.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Lash pops the trunk - [ IC ] Get out! And don't ever talk to us again, unless we get in contact with you.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] No promises.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] She throws out another bottle of Gatorade out the window. [ Shannon laughs ]
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] It hits him in the face. [ Thud ]
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] And speeds away. [ Bijan and Jenn laugh ]
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Does it do any - like any stun damage?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] [ Laughing ] No.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] And we go back to the Mrs. Egg.
> Mike / G.M.: By the third one, he just takes it on the chin. [ Mike, Jenn, Taylor laugh ]
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] [ Laughing ] He's just motionless, no motion to catch it, right in the neck.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] I mean because this is really like - I feel like Lash's nature is to like everyone and to want to help, but she hates this guy because of what she saw him do, but at the same time she's just like - I don't know, there's a lot of internal struggle with her.
> Mike / G.M.: Meanwhile KitKat looks up at the monuments which are just barely further away. [ Shannon and Nick laugh ] It's like, "What's the deal with these people?"
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] I also love that like, it's just such an inconvenient place to be regardless, like. [ Nick, Mike, Shannon, Bijan laugh ]
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] Yeah!
> Mike / G.M.: You're already in the Hudson Yard, how much further away from anything could you get?
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Yeah, yeah! That's so funny.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] I think that went pretty well, don't you think?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] No, I do not.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] We make a great team.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah, I would agree with that.
> Mike / G.M.: As you drive away, a block, KitKat doesn't even fade into the horizon. You can see him very clearly the entire time you're going back home.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] I wave at him.
> Mike / G.M.: He slowly starts walking in the other direction?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, alright. Does he put his pants on at least?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] Exit stage left. Not yet. [ Mike and Taylor laugh ]
> Mike / G.M.: It's New York.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] It's too hot.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Too warm.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] It's swampy.
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[ All out of character until next mentioned ]
> Mike / G.M.: With the KitKat loose end tied up, I'm going to say that that is the end of the Mo Ashina mission. [ Nick and Jenn woo, laugh ]
And that you guys have - you guys will continue to live out the - [ Mike laughs ] - consequences of your actions -
> Shannon / "Lash": Sure.
> Mike / G.M.: - and that there will still be impacts from your choices.
> Nick / "Luxe": Definitely.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": I hope that the listeners can hear the severity of the air quotes when I say [ Heavily Emphasized ] "Job!" "Well!" "Done." [ Shannon and Jenn laugh ]
> Nick / "Luxe": There were no air quotes which actually would have helped me - [ Taylor laughs ] - because I don't know -
> Bijan / "T.K.": Yeah.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": Oh, "job" gets its own quotes. "Well" -
> Nick / "Luxe": Okay, all of them did! Okay.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": And then also "Done" gets its own. [ Taylor laughs ]
> Nick / "Luxe": All three of them, okay.
> Bijan / "T.K.": It's like we're at a grocery store in a small town. [ Shannon and Mike laugh ]
> Mike / G.M.: That's I was just going to say it's like I'm at my corner deli.
> Nick / "Luxe": Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: [ Heavily Emphasized ] "New" "Ingredients".
> Nick / "Luxe": Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: What does that mean? So, with your second run concluded... you get karma! [ Jenn woos ]
> Shannon / "Lash": Yay!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ Sung ] Karma!
> Bijan / "T.K.": Do we have a karma song?
> Mike / G.M.: We do actually have a little karma fanfare, that I will insert right here.
[ Fanfare plays ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ Mimicking fanfare ] Do-do-do-doo!
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ Sung ] Get-ting kar-ma! Up-ping our points! [ Nick sings note ] ...In ...to skills! [ Nick sings another note ]
> Mike / G.M.: From this point forward, we're going to be changing up how we do karma on the show, a little bit. We're going to have the conversation where I ask you a bunch of questions and we figure out how much karma you get. But then, when any of you spend that karma to train new skills or whatever, that's going to be a separate episode which will be for Omae patrons only. We talked about this before recording, it sounds like none of y'all are going to spend any karma this time around, so that will just happen when it happens. That make sense?
> Shannon / "Lash": Alright.
> Nick / "Luxe": Sweet.
> Jenn / "Viv": Yay, bone cone!
> Mike / G.M.: Bone cone.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Bone cone for the bone zone. Wait. [ Shannon and Jenn laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: I mean, sure, why not?
> Bijan / "T.K.": The bonus zone! What did you think I mean? [ Shannon laughs ]
> Jenn / "Viv": The bone zone.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ Sung ] The bone zone!
> Mike / G.M.: So here we go. We're going to distribute some karma.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ Gasps ] Can we get that karma sound again?
[ Fanfare plays again ]
> Mike / G.M.: There it is. [ Bijan laughs ]
> Nick / "Luxe": Nice. [ Shannon laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: Mo Ashina's conditions for, what feels like an age ago, framing Verne Sollix, were to get 3D scan of his body. You would be rewarded extra for iris scans and fingerprint scans, and extra extra if you were both quick and quiet about it. [ Taylor and Nick laugh ]
> Jenn / "Viv": Oh, that's what it was? [ Shannon laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: So you did manage to get all three.
> Nick / "Luxe": Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: You got body scans, iris scan, fingerprint scan. It was... not slow, not quick, and it was decidedly unquiet. [ Nick laughs ]
> Nick / "Luxe": The least quiet thing to happen in an age.
> Bijan / "T.K.": But it got done, which is the important part.
> Jenn / "Viv": Quite smelly.
> Mike / G.M.: And in the end, you decided, either way, that Mo Ashina could take her job and shove it.
> Shannon / "Lash": Mhmm.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Yes.
> Nick / "Luxe": Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: Normally, I would give you three karma for finishing a job, and an additional one karma for all of the bonus items. So there was a chance, depending upon how you slice it that if you guys had done this job exactly how Mo Ashina asked, each of you would start with eight karma.
But since you did not do that, you're not going to get eight karma. I'm going to give you four karma.
> Shannon / "Lash": Sweet!
> Nick / "Luxe": Nice.
> Mike / G.M.: Mainly for refusing to do a corporation's dirty work.
> Shannon / "Lash": Yeah!
> Jenn / "Viv": Booyah!
> Nick / "Luxe": Sweet!
> Bijan / "T.K.": Yay, more karma!
> Mike / G.M.: So if I - if we could just get, hands in the middle here, and just get a quick :"Fuck The Man".
> Bijan / "T.K.": Get in here. [ Nick laughs ]
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": I will not participate in this. As "The Man" I refuse. [ Jenn laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: So a quick "Go fuck The Man".
> All, except Taylor: Gooooo Fuck The Man!
> Mike / G.M.: All right, cool. Great. So you're starting off with four karma. There is a cost to this - [ Nick gasps ]
> Shannon / "Lash": Oh no.
> Mike / G.M.: - or a consequence, I guess. There are costs but we'll get to those later. The first consequence is that your reputation has increased. Your reputation has increased with, of course, Combinatorial Limited, Mo Ashina's company. They will definitely not hire you again. Who knows what sorts of things Mo Ashina has in store now that you have offed and scared away B-Team. They will definitely consider you an ongoing danger to their business.
> Nick / "Luxe": I'm taking this to mean that they do not believe KitKat's comm message saying "We killed them and found no evidence or no tapes".
> Mike / G.M.: You do not know.
> Nick / "Luxe": Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: But even if they believed it, you still caused them trouble.
> Nick / "Luxe": So it doesn't matter.
[00:24:58] > Mike / G.M.: And so if you come up again -
> Nick / "Luxe": They're not gonna wear with dead people either. [ Shannon laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah. If you do - if you do manage to come across their database again as still working -
> Nick / "Luxe": Right.
> Mike / G.M.: - or they see a picture of you, they're like, "Well, okay those - we're definitely not hiring them."
> Nick / "Luxe": Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: You will also be considered somewhat of a known quantity amongst other corporations of its size. So in the class that they operate there's a lot of shared information and you would likely know that this would jeopardize either some employment opportunities with those corporations in the future or your ability to command an asking price, but we will cross that bridge when we get to it.
Your reputation has also increased amongst the criminal element in New York because you have taken a job, at least so it seems, with the police union and this is like -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": Oh! Who's fucking the man now? Who's fucking the man now?
> Nick / "Luxe": Whooo.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": Oh let's all put our hands in the circle! [ Chanted ] "Friends of police!" [ Jenn laughs ]
> Shannon / "Lash": The world is complicated.
> Mike / G.M.: It's true. And this is - this is much less regimented than your reputation amongst the corporations that are the size of Combinatorial Limited, which is both a blessing and a curse. Your crew has been inserted into the shadowrun rumor mill. Some of the stories about you are accurate, some of the stories about you are blown way out of proportion. Some of them make you seem much worse than you really are. Some of them make you seem like you're just trying to do the right thing and like, you know, you're a confused group of people trying to make it in the world.
But that is going to be something that you will have to contend with when interacting with other parts of the criminal organizations that are in and around New York, and might even lead to you having to answer some questions with your contacts.
Next question is now we get into the things where not everybody is going to be awarded this karma. Did anyone completely fill up, between now and the last time we did karma, their stun damage track?
> Bijan / "T.K.": Yes, T.K. did.
> Mike / G.M.: Anyone else?
> Jenn / "Viv": I don't think I did
> Mike / G.M.: T.K. please award yourself one additional karma.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Yeet.
> Nick / "Luxe": Nice.
> Jenn / "Viv": Woo!
> Mike / G.M.: Did anyone completely fill up their physical damage track?
> Jenn / "Viv": Viv did!
> Mike / G.M.: In the - in the most recent fight?
> Jenn / "Viv": Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: So, Viv, please award yourself two additional karma.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ Gasps ] Woo!
> Shannon / "Lash": Wow!
> Nick / "Luxe": Nice.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Congrats on not dying!
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": Vivian.
> Nick / "Luxe": Vivian. [ Shannon laughs ]
> Jenn / "Viv": Still currently injured.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Hey, I tried.
> Mike / G.M.: If only you could spend karma on feelin' better. [ Bijan laughs ] Did anyone face down a fear? I have a corollary to this, which is Luxe, you gained a phobia of water.
> Nick / "Luxe": Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: From having been toxic waved by Jast, but you didn't have to face that down?
> Nick / "Luxe": No, I mean, unless being in heavy rain -
> Mike / G.M.: No I think that's alright.
> Nick / "Luxe": - counted but I don't think it did, no.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah it's like being in open bodies of water. Like, yeah.
> Nick / "Luxe": Yeah, I was not in an open body of water, other than on a boat.
> Mike / G.M.: Does anyone else feel like they faced down a fear of any kind?
> Bijan / "T.K.": Hmm, T.K. ran at a gun, I mean, I don't know.
> Mike / G.M.: I mean, you were also - I mean, I would - I would argue maybe that -
> Bijan / "T.K.": It was not in his mind. He was not in his right mind.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, and like if you're - if you're in Berserker's Rage, you're like, the point of that is that you can sort of push past a lot of that.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Yeah it's not - Yeah, oof god.
> Mike / G.M.: The next one, I think we all know the answer to it. I think there's going to be some discussion, but in our heart of hearts, I think we're all going to be able to come to an agreement. Did anyone die as a result of your actions, and if so, who?
> Bijan / "T.K.": Rest in peace, Sunshine!
> Mike / G.M.: Sunshine.
> Nick / "Luxe": Sunshine would be number one.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Yeah.
> Shannon / "Lash": Puddle man.
> Jenn / "Viv": Dish.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Dish. I think that's it though.
> Shannon / "Lash": Wait, puddle man! Wait is that Dish?
> Jenn / "Viv": Cairn. Cairn.
> Shannon / "Lash": Cairn.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Oh, right, oof.
> Nick / "Luxe": Yeah...
> Shannon / "Lash": Sorry puddle man, Cairn.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Sorry. I said our body count was low earlier, it's low, but it was all on one mission. [ Laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: So it's - so it's three?
> Bijan / "T.K.": Three.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay. Cairn, the detection mage from the NYPD Reserve. Sunshine, the decker from B-Team, and Dish, the street samurai from B-Team.
> Shannon / "Lash": Wow, that's a big body count.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, so here's - so since we didn't have to do this last time, I'm gonna explain how this is gonna work. And I have - I want you to agree with me. Like I want you to - I want you to tell me if you think this is fair. I'm going to charge you karma for killing people.
> Jenn / "Viv": Ohhh.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Sorry. [ Jenn laughs ] Sorry guys.
> Mike / G.M.: There is - Taylor and I have had an extended conversation about what's fair. I wanted to charge you one karma for every body.
> Nick / "Luxe": Mhmm.
> Mike / G.M.: Taylor said that that was extremely unfair, so in a bizarre turn of course, Taylor was the one who was like you should go easier on them.
> Shannon / "Lash": Oh wow!
> Nick / "Luxe": Thank you!
> Jenn / "Viv": What!
> Mike / G.M.: How would you feel if we treated this sort of like wound modifiers, and that for every - for every two people, you lose one karma.
> Shannon / "Lash": Sure.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: Which means for three people, you would lose two karma.
> Nick / "Luxe": Yeah.
> Shannon / "Lash": Okay.
> Jenn / "Viv": For all of us?
> Mike / G.M.: That was that maybe the other question to ask is like, do you feel like it's because, you know -
> Jenn / "Viv": I caused -
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, I'm gonna say - I don't wanna -
> Bijan / "T.K.": Well, yeah, I also -
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, I don't want to point fingers but like, I feel like Lash and Luxe should suffer the consequences of their teammates' -
> Shannon / "Lash": Yeah, sure.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Man, heightened emotional states, really not good for us. [ Jenn laughs ]
[00:29:49] > Mike / G.M.: So, please deduct two karma from what you already have. Okay, and we're in the - we're in the last couple. Over the course of this mission, you guys had to make a bunch of very complicated, like weighty decisions all in a row, and you're - I mean, you're still going to have to make a bunch of those in the next couple days of game. It has been a very tense week. It's been an extremely tense like, 24 hours. It's been very very tense and very hard.
Who, throughout all of this, do you think had the best attitude?
> Bijan / "T.K.": Lash.
> Jenn / "Viv": Lash!
> Nick / "Luxe": Lash always the best attitude! [ Bijan, Nick, Jenn laugh ]
> Mike / G.M.: I guess that's probably true. [ Mike laughs ]
> Bijan / "T.K.": I always thought that was a trick question.
> Jenn / "Viv": And she really stuck with it too! I mean she told KitKat what she thought of him too.
> Nick / "Luxe": Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: So Lash, please award yourself an additional Karma.
> Shannon / "Lash": Wow! Thanks guys!
> Jenn / "Viv": Yay!
> Bijan / "T.K.": I mean it's the least we could do. [ Shannon laughs ] After, killing people.
> Mike / G.M.: You all have also spent the last several days learning a lot about the city that you live in and about the world and the underground world that keeps it running, like the police union, you met with Odina, and you got to see Morgantown. You, I think, are having some of your assumptions challenged? You've had to reckon with why it is you do what you do, and I wonder if there's someone in the group that you feel has - has... I don't know exactly how to ask this question, like, who has changed the most or who has done the most sort of reflecting? Because of what you have seen and what you've had to deal with?
> Jenn / "Viv": That's Luxe.
> Shannon / "Lash": Yeah, I would say Luxe as well, has done the most having to really think of -
> Jenn / "Viv": Process out loud. [ Jenn laughs ]
> Shannon / "Lash": Yeah, his allegiances and...
> Bijan / "T.K.": Yeah, and he's been in a lot of fights where he hasn't - hasn't been able to do much. [ Nick and Shannon laugh ]
> Nick / "Luxe": So I had time to reflect.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Hiding behind a riot shield, genius.
> Nick / "Luxe": Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: If that is - is that consensus?
> Shannon / "Lash": Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay.
> Jenn / "Viv": I agree with that.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Luxe, please award yourself an additional karma.
> Nick / "Luxe": Nice.
> Mike / G.M.: The next one is a familiar one. Who had the best assist?
> Shannon / "Lash": Assist?
> Jenn / "Viv": Oh my god.
> Nick / "Luxe": Hmm.
> Mike / G.M.: You can think of -
> Jenn / "Viv": I mean consider we've had several battles. Just, consider that.
> Nick / "Luxe": Alright, can we list out the battles real quick? It was B-Team, Cairn -
> Mike / G.M.: The two police officers.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Riot cops.
> Nick / "Luxe": Two riot cops, yes.
> Jenn / "Viv": Mhmm.
> Nick / "Luxe": What would -
> Bijan / "T.K.": I mean we had the stinky clam flip.
> Nick / "Luxe": Stinky clam flip? Can't - can't underestimate that.
> Jenn / "Viv": Lash did hit me accidentally. [ Jenn laughs ]
> Shannon / "Lash": Yeah, Lash is definitely out.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Yeah, out of contention. [ Jenn laughs ]
> Shannon / "Lash": She assisted in no way. She was causing trouble. Anything that she's - she did beforehand. I was going to say with this assist, maybe T.K. because when I was going and traveling up into the elevator?
> Bijan / "T.K.": Oh, yeah, I was hacking.
> Shannon / "Lash": T.K. did a really great job.
> Jenn / "Viv": He was walking you through.
> Nick / "Luxe": Yeah, that was good. Yeah.
> Jenn / "Viv": Yeah, T.K.!
> Bijan / "T.K.": I got the little Bavarian town.
> Jenn / "Viv": And you did all this research.
> Shannon / "Lash": Mhmm. Yes.
> Jenn / "Viv": So much research.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Gotta have research.
> Jenn / "Viv": Hector!
> Mike / G.M.: Alright, we can - is that consensus?
> Shannon / "Lash": Yeah. I'd say T.K.
> Nick / "Luxe": Yes.
> Jenn / "Viv": Yes.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Aw, thanks guys.
> Mike / G.M.: T.K., please award yourself an additional karma. And, by fiat, I am going to award two additional edge, not karma, but edge, to the best German accent - [ All gasp and aww ] - Shannon Odell. [ All laugh ]
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": Dammit!
> Bijan / "T.K.": Taylor was so excited.
> Nick / "Luxe": He was like, "I get something!"
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] I get an edge?
> Bijan, Nick, and Mike: Two.
> Jenn / "Viv": Whoa!
> Shannon / "Lash": Whoa! Now I have five edge!
> Nick / "Luxe": Nice. [ Jenn laughs ]
[ Music plays ]
> Mike / G.M.: The next thing that we need to do - your characters are unaware of this - but I need to know, as the universe, for a sort of off-screen action, that you will learn the impacts of soon enough, about your system identification numbers, which are your SINs. It's kind of like the Shadowrun version of a social security number. The identities - the fake identities that are associated with those, because at character creation, I believe you all made like two or three fake identities. Is that right?
> Jenn / "Viv": Mhmm.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah. How good those fake identities are, and also how many of your total assets - money, property, whatever - are digitally associated with those identities. And just a little bit of background for the audience, it's kind of like everything moved to the blockchain. There's no cash. All money that you have is stored in a ledger that is varying degrees of public or private, highly encrypted, only lightly encrypted. And there are many different ways that people can manage their money from a very particular homebrew situation, which is kind of like just running your own server that is your bank, to a very complicated, very expensive, either corporate or custom system that uses artificial intelligence to manage and distribute and invest your money, do smart things with it so that you don't have to think about it... The trade-off, of course being that those systems require a high monthly upkeep fee and require a high minimum balance.
And so what I would like you guys to tell me, and I know you've already done a little bit of thinking about this, is, for each of your identities, how much money is associated with it and how complicated the system that is storing and keeping track of that money is. Does that make sense?
[00:35:25] > Bijan / "T.K.": Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: So what we're going to do is: just tell me these things, I'm going to write them down, and then I'm going to roll a bunch of very mysterious dice rolls to determine some things about your identities and your money.
> Nick / "Luxe": Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: So let's, I think maybe let's just go around the table?
> Nick / "Luxe": Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay. Who wants to go first?
> Bijan / "T.K.": Jenn.
> Jenn / "Viv": What? [ Shannon and Bijan laugh ] I have a lot going on. [ Jenn Laughs ]
> Shannon / "Lash": Jenn first cause she's the best at this.
> Jenn / "Viv": Thank you. Alright. Well Viv herself, she's very old, so she's had many identities. The oldest fake identity she has is Rumour Mille. It's Rumour -- R-U-M-O-U-R -
> Mike / G.M.: Rumor - Rumour - Rumour Mille, as in like a thousand rumors?
> Jenn / "Viv": "Mill-eh" Yeah, yeah, yeah. [ Jenn, Bijan, Mike Laugh ]
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": That sounds like a new wave band! I love it!
> Jenn / "Viv": This is when she used to work for Horizon Group in L.A. because she lived on the beach. The money that she has in that account is still in the 401k controlled by the corp. So that is on a corporate level, controlled.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, and how much money is that?
> Jenn / "Viv": This is 25,000 nuyen.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay.
> Jenn / "Viv": Nikola Stevenson was Viv's identity living in a retirement home at Esalen, in Big Sur, and she trusted a neighbor's son to fund his startup called Mojito and she forgot the password.
> Mike / G.M.: So a neighbor's son had like a financial management startup -
> Jenn / "Viv": Like Mint or something, or something that was, you know, showing you how much you spent every week. But she forgot the password. It was 5,000 nuyen that she considers lost.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay. Got it. No password. That's funny. Okay,
> Jenn / "Viv": And then her international identity, because she went to - she had a postdoc opportunity in the U.K. and in France, and trusted a fellow student with a server in their basement. That's about 2,000 nuyen that she also doesn't know where it is, or if this person is still alive and maintaining it.
> Mike / G.M.: So that was a while ago.
> Jenn / "Viv": Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: So what is that person's name?
> Jenn / "Viv": Dr. Tusk Itali. [ Jenn laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: Tusk Itali, very good.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": Spelled Italy?
> Jenn / "Viv": I-T-A-L-I.
> Mike / G.M.: So that's $2,000. That's like - okay a postdoc at some point was just sort of managing her money...
> Jenn / "Viv": As a student, so.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, okay. So Viv's total assets are 32,000 nuyen.
> Jenn / "Viv": Oh, that's for the identities. But -
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah.
> Jenn / "Viv": What she still has is about 34.
> Mike / G.M.: Left over after that?
> Jenn / "Viv": Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: And where is that?
> Jenn / "Viv": In a blockchain that sounded most like the ocean. [ Jenn Laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: So that's just like randomly stored in some like, company that she -
> Jenn / "Viv": Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay. [ Jenn Laughs ]
> Jenn / "Viv": It's called Polyp.
> Mike / G.M.: [ Disgusted ] Eugh!
> Nick / "Luxe": Ugh.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ Laughing ] Love it!
> Jenn / "Viv": No, like a starfish has polyps!
> Bijan / "T.K.": Still a gross word. [ Bijan and Jenn laugh ]
> Mike / G.M.: And that's just - that's just Viv herself.
> Jenn / "Viv": Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: That's like Viv -
> Jenn / "Viv": That's under her actual name.
> Mike / G.M.: Vivian Lakewood.
> Jenn / "Viv": Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay. T.K.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Yeah. So T.K. has three SINs. They are Sunshine - rest in peace Sunshine.
> Mike / G.M.: Is that just a coincidence?
> Bijan / "T.K.": He like, he spun up a - in his like downtime in his hospital bed he spun up another SIN, which is like very low rating but you know.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay.
> Bijan / "T.K.": He's - I think he's feeling troubled by what he did.
> Mike / G.M.: He's like trying to - He's like trying to excise or exercise.
> Bijan / "T.K.": He doesn't want to forget.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, he goes - goes and - goes and just changes the display name on his Twitter account.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Yeah, basically. Which is something that I do, personally. The other one is Arthur Morgan, and the third is Hiro Edge. Yeah.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ Jenn laughs ] What?
> Mike / G.M.: Mhmm, mhmm. Hiro - Hiro Edge?
> Bijan / "T.K.": H-I-R-O
> Jenn / "Viv": Singular.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, I got it, yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: That's like naming - [ Taylor laughs ]
> Bijan / "T.K.": Yep. Yep! Yep!
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": - like uhhh, Champion Dollar. [ Taylor laughs ]
> Bijan / "T.K.": Yep. [ Bijan laughs ] So he's - so the thing about these SINs is that he's never used them, because he also doesn't give people his real name anyway, but his money - he's got - he's built a custom like, solution because he's a decker and has like, had time when he was learning magic. Yeah, and so he's got like - hold on. How do I put this? I'm thinking of this as like a sort of a black box that like, he's like built sort of a custom bank solution for himself.
> Mike / G.M.: Sure, like you have a server, or that's in -
> Bijan / "T.K.": So like he has a - yeah and it stores his money and it also like, invests - like he's got an algorithm investing in whatever is going on, based on like rules that he's set. He's just like, you know, it's sort of like set it and forget it.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah.
> Bijan / "T.K.": And he transfers money when he needs it, but he just like, you know.
> Mike / G.M.: He got - he got an algorithm that he either developed or paid for...
> Bijan / "T.K.": He developed it, yeah. No, he - he - yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, and he was like, please like medium risk. Like do what you want, medium risk.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Exactly, exactly. And so yeah, he's - he just like, he likes knowing that the money is there but doesn't really - like it's not crucial to him? Like he just, he doesn't like spend that much money.
> Mike / G.M.: And where is the server?
> Bijan / "T.K.": It's where he lives, like he takes it with him.
> Mike / G.M.: It's where - So it's on the Mrs. Egg somewhere?
> Bijan / "T.K.": Yeah, it's on Mrs. Egg.
> Mike / G.M.: He like loaded it in?
> Bijan / "T.K.": Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Because he doesn't like being that far away from his money.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Also, he doesn't trust the cloud.
> Mike / G.M.: Got it.
[00:39:50] > Shannon / "Lash": Lash has three fake SINs. The first fake is Fran Johansson. This is a level 4 fake SIN that she uses for corporate tasks. This is actually the first SIN she had. This fake SIN, Fran Johansson, she went to a corporate university and she has a wife and two kids. This fake SIN is married to Jan Johansson who is a fake SIN for another shadowrunner that she met early on in her running days.
> Mike / G.M.: Hmm!
> Jenn / "Viv": Oh!
> Shannon / "Lash": [ Shannon laughs ] So it's her oldest fake SIN. It's -
> Mike / G.M.: So she - it is a sham marriage?
> Shannon / "Lash": It's a sham marriage. It's - everything's sham. It was like one of the first friends that she used to run with. But it only has 5,000 nuyen in it. Obviously Lash doesn't keep money for long. So then the next fake SIN is Ashley Simpson, which is a level 3. [ Mike laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: Jesus.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Hell yeah!
> Jenn / "Viv": Spelled with two Es?
> Shannon / "Lash": No, with E-Y.
> Jenn / "Viv": Oh, ok!
> Mike / G.M.: Oh, I wrote L-E-I-G-H.
> Shannon / "Lash": Oh wow!
> Bijan / "T.K.": Where is your brain, Mike? [ Mike laughs ]
> Jenn / "Viv": That's London style, yeah, wow.
> Shannon / "Lash": Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: "Ash-lechhh". [ Jenn laughs ]
> Shannon / "Lash": So this fake SIN, she's a freelance - [ Taylor, Mike, Jenn laugh ]
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ Thick Scottish Accent ] "Ah eat Ashleighs!" [ Shannon, Jenn, Mike, Taylor laugh ]
> Shannon / "Lash": So Ashley Simpson is a freelance computer programmer and actually - and this money is all stored legally - Lash literally uses this SIN sometimes to do freelance computer programming jobs. Right now it has 5,000 nuyen in it. And then her last fake SIN is called Big Sally. This is a level 3 SIN that she uses for gambling and gaming.
> Mike / G.M.: Of the New Jersey Sallys.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ Laughing ] Of the New Jersey Sallys. [ Jenn laughs ] This is like clearly just for gambling and gaming. It has 25 nuyen in it.
> Mike / G.M.: [ Laughing ] Okay.
> Shannon / "Lash": That's it. Because obviously any money that she makes, she spends. And then all of her actual money - she has about 20,000 nuyen that she's gotten from like, school scholarships, athletic scholarships, in like bonds that she got from birth, and that's all stored at her home in Connecticut. Her father has some kind of homemade server that has kind of held her money forever. And so whenever she gets a chunk of change she normally just sends it there and doesn't really think about it.
> Mike / G.M.: Right, Tuck would definitely be the kind of guy that has -
> Shannon / "Lash": Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: - a homebrew banking solution -
> Shannon / "Lash": One hundred percent.
> Mike / G.M.: - in the garage. Right. Explains to Shell over dinner, for far too long, how it works.
> Shannon / "Lash": Right, and would be incredibly hurt if I was to store money anywhere else -
> Mike / G.M.: Mhmm.
> Shannon / "Lash": - but there.
> Mike / G.M.: Mhmm. Luxe?
> Nick / "Luxe": Okay. This is a main thing with Luxe is making IDs and things like that. So, he has a way of duping SINs and things like that, but he does - but he does have three fake SINs that are what are considered stolen. They were custom jobs that Luxe - either himself or did with professionals to create them in the best possible way. His permanent one is Walter Potts. This is, you know, the most - designed to be the most boring, white bread kind of thing. Nothing extraordinary about this one at all. His worker and Res - is that Resident? - one is Puck Loewen. This one is much - much the same, just with a different identity. His - his more special one is Nox Moonhollow. It is designed to come from this very tight-knit, shamanistic group of elves that do not recognize any types of external identification and things like that. So there's like, this is - this is the hardest one to get it. So that's -
> Mike / G.M.: It sounds like - It sounds like, if I could - if I could put a label to it that is familiar for us, it sounds like it's something like a - like a diplomat ID.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": Mmm.
> Nick / "Luxe": Yes. Yes, that's what this is designed to be, cause I think there are some restrictions on like permanent guest ones, but I think this is designed to kind of do away with those.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, and I should say for people who are familiar with Shadowrun who are wondering what it means when we're talking about worker, resident, guest. There is an additional layer of security in our game for getting around Manhattan, which you guys haven't had to contend with yet.
> Nick / "Luxe": Right.
> Mike / G.M.: Like except for once during the lockdown after the riot at the Javits-Bloomberg Center. That basically there are certain neighborhoods that you're not allowed in at night, or not allowed to go through, unless you have a particular kind of ID, but that there are certain IDs that allow you to get into them. If you are a worker - if you - if you work there and it's your shift, or if someone who is there has given you a guest pass. So that's what all of these things mean. It's basically are you allowed to get into the Upper East Side at three o'clock in the morning. Well, it depends upon your ID status.
> Nick / "Luxe": You know, in terms of where his money is, I think a third of my money is with each of my true SINs.
> Mike / G.M.: And can you tell me what amount a third, a third, and a third is?
> Nick / "Luxe": Oh, my total money right now is at 80... 87,250 credits or nuyen.
[00:44:37] [ Low, dramatic music begins ]
> Mike / G.M.: In Tribeca, in a marble-lined and otherwise ambivalently decorated corporate enclave, a dozen faces sit, lit by the floating blue-green projections of their cyber decks. At the front of the room stands a Japanese woman in a dark blue pantsuit, lapels sharp, and looking as if they've been sharpened. Mo Ashina presides over her bevy of deckers and instructs them, rotely, that another report has come in confirming A-Team has fully welched on the job, and that it appears only two members of B-Team have survived the encounter.
The screen behind her populates with blurry, distant photos of Luxe, Lash, Viv, and T.K. A few known aliases and SINs appear under each.
"I want maximum take with minimum cycles wasted." she says, looking out over her squadron. "I want to make a point now, but we also still have this police strike bullshit to deal with, so move in and move on. We're putting a private contract out for this too, so don't waste too many of your resources. Verstanden?" There are few scattered affirmations as Mo sits her large AR glasses back over her nose and returns to her office.
Interface and navigational fill the room as Combinatorial's cyber strike team gets to work emptying whatever accounts they can find.
[ Music slowly concludes ]
> Mike / G.M.: So we're gonna go in order. Viv.
> Jenn / "Viv": Uh oh.
> Mike / G.M.: Mo Ashina was able to find your identity that stored money in Polyp.
> Jenn / "Viv": Nooo!
> Mike / G.M.: And she took 10,200 nuyen from you.
> Jenn / "Viv": A good chunk.
> Mike / G.M.: She was able to find Rumour Mille. She took 10,000 nuyen from Rumour Mille. She was able to find Nikola Stevenson, and she took 2,000 nuyen. She was not able to find Dr. Tusk Itali.
> Jenn / "Viv": Woo!
> Mike / G.M.: 10,200... 10,000... and 2 grand from Tusk Itali.
> Jenn / "Viv": Ouch.
> Mike / G.M.: T.K.
> Shannon / "Lash": Oh my gosh.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Oh boy.
> Mike / G.M.: I'm sorry. Mo Ashina's deckers were able to find your highly secure -
> Bijan / "T.K.": Mmm.
> Mike / G.M.: - server that is on the Mrs. Egg.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Mm.
> Mike / G.M.: It was literally their best roll.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Great.
> Mike / G.M.: You rolled valiantly, but.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": It was their Forrest Gump. [ Taylor laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: And they took 29,330 nuyen from you.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Ah that's fucked.
> Mike / G.M.: In addition, they also found and destroyed every record for Arthur Morgan.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Oh that seems fine. Also, rest in peace, my big TB-having boy.
> Mike / G.M.: [ Laughing ] Arthur Morgan's the guy from Red Dead Redemption. Yeah.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Yeah, 2. [ Jenn laughs ] He dies of TB!
> Mike / G.M.: Spoiler!
> Bijan / "T.K.": Spoiler! Also, like if you haven't played the game by now like, it's-
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah. [ Shannon laughs ]
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": I tried to play it. I was like, I can just - I can just go to the woods and build a campfire and cook chili on it if I want. [ Mike and Shannon laugh ]
> Jenn / "Viv": Ahh.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": And then I literally did.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Most people can't!
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": Well.
> Jenn / "Viv": I love doing that, let's do that.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": Welcome to my copy of Red Dead. [ Nick and Taylor laugh ]
> Mike / G.M.: Leave it to Taylor. Lash.
> Shannon / "Lash": Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: Mo Ashina's deckers were able to find Fran Johansson -
> Shannon / "Lash": Mmm.
> Mike / G.M.: - and not only took all of her money -
> Shannon / "Lash": Mhmm.
> Mike / G.M.: - but destroyed all of her records.
> Shannon / "Lash": Bye, Fran.
> Mike / G.M.: So, I'm sorry. That was your sham marriage, right?
> Shannon / "Lash": That was my sham marriage.
> Jenn / "Viv": Nooo!
> Nick / "Luxe": Aww.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, it is - it is no more.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Ended in divorce.
> Shannon / "Lash": Yeah, sucks.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Dammit, this fucking sucks. Also money doesn't really matter, but still.
> Mike / G.M.: She's just showing you who's boss.
> Shannon / "Lash": Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: They were able to find Ashley Simpson -
> Shannon / "Lash": Ugh.
> Mike / G.M.: - and they took 2,000 nuyen.
> Shannon / "Lash": Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: [ Laughing ] They were able to find Big Sally -
> Shannon / "Lash": Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: -and took 4 nuyen. [ All laugh ]
> Nick / "Luxe": 4 nuyen!?
> Jenn / "Viv": All that work!
> Shannon / "Lash": Yeah.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Keepin' her on her toes.
> Jenn / "Viv": Can you imagine the report back to Mo Ashina?
> Shannon / "Lash": Yeah, 4.
> Jenn / "Viv": Like, "Why is this line item 4?"
> Mike / G.M.: They were also -
> Nick / "Luxe": "We took a chicken sandwich from her." [ Shannon laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: It's funny, like also, what money management software is just like moving 4 nuyen around? [ Jenn laughs ]
> Nick / "Luxe": Yeah.
> Shannon / "Lash": I know.
> Mike / G.M.: From this piggy bank to this other piggy bank. They also found the private server that Tuck maintains for you.
> Shannon / "Lash": Poor Tuck.
> Mike / G.M.: They were able to only take 4,000 nuyen.
> Shannon / "Lash": Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: Luxe?
> Nick / "Luxe": Yes?
> Mike / G.M.: You lost 3 grand from each identity.
> Nick / "Luxe": Okay, so that's 9 total?
> Mike / G.M.: Yep.
> Nick / "Luxe": Alright.
> Mike / G.M.: They also - yours - one of the ones that they rolled against you was the only crit that they got.
> Nick / "Luxe": Oh, wow.
> Mike / G.M.: So.
> Jenn / "Viv": Viv doesn't even remember the passwords for the old ones, so... [ Jenn, Nick, Shannon laugh ] Wasn't even an issue!
> Mike / G.M.: You guys are - you guys are in the Mrs. Egg, tending to your wounds, feeling great about your accomplishments and at least metaphysically, appreciating all of the karma that you have just gained. I don't know how that feels for your characters? Just basking in accomplishment and being like "Well, I feel accomplished. I guess I'm going to go train some new skills."
> Shannon / "Lash": Yeah. [ Nick laughs ]
> Jenn / "Viv": Mmmmm. [ Jenn laughs ]
[00:50:00] > Mike / G.M.: You feel empowered?
> Bijan / "T.K.": Oh, yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: And I think you just get various alerts on your comm links letting you know, insofar as these are things that you do know about, because like Viv, you know, if you have accounts that you're not even really looking at, then they're not going to alert you, but those of you that have tabs on your assets and your identities - think that you would - you would get various messages letting you know that there are authorized withdrawals for huge amounts of money that you have lost. That things have been siphoned from your accounts. Think you would all basically know what's going on here. It's no secret.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Right.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Oh, well that feels bad. How much did you guys lose?
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Not that much.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] 22,000 nuyen. [ Jenn laughs ]
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Well. [ Bijan laughs ]
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] Which I could be using for magical artifacts.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] 11,004 dollars. [ Bijan laughs ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Oh my god. They got your 4, didn't they?
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] They got that 4.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] I lost 23.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": Oof.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Oy.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Big hit.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": How much does a car cost?
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] 49,000 dollars for the - nuyen for the Bentley.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": And that is an - is a hyper luxury car.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] It is an extreme amount. Or no, I'm sorry, the Bentley's 65,000.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": So you lost a third of an -
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] A third of Henley.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": - extremely expensive luxury car.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Still gotta pay for that fucking window.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Oh.
> Mike / G.M.: That's true.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] I have something for that, actually.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] You got a spell?
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] I have Fix. [ Bijan and Jenn laugh ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Ah!
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Oh my god.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] I gotta see this.
> Mike / G.M.: Y'all have a meeting with Yuri soon in the next, let's say, hour or two. So if there's anything that you want to do before you head off, you can get some things done. Otherwise, you got to head back to mainland New Jersey to your favorite egg haver and bank liver.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] T.K. looks at Viv and says - [ IC ] Fix?
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] [ Raspy ] Yeah, one moment. [ OOC ] She hobbles out of the bed.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Oh right, you're still super injured!
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Yeah. She hobbles out of the bed, goes to the mirage, and puts on some clothes.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Because she's been in a bathing suit this whole time?
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Aw.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Yes.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] I don't know you knew this? And because of the burns, she starts to put on fish scale patterned breeches.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Hmm.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] And keep sort of like, the bathing suit top and throw some netting over it.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] What.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] And her hair now, because she was burned so badly, is asymmetrical, so she just sort of like rubs her hands together and runs it through her hair and now she has crimped asymmetrical hair like Stevie Nicks.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Mhmm.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Alright.
> Mike / G.M.: Very 1980s.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Yes.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Nice.
> Mike / G.M.: I like it.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] And she comes back out to meet with T.K.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Um, yeah, so I guess the car is parked in the adjacent lot and Henley is looking, to T.K.'s eyes, looking pretty sad, because you know, like you walk around - it looks fine from one angle and you walk around, stepping over piles of trash, that we accumulated in this lot, and you see that - just like the hole -the hole in the car. That's because the window is a hole. Anyway. [ Jenn laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: A missing window.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] A missing window. And it's like - it's like looking like a to- looking at a tooth punched out of somebody's mouth, for T.K. He's just like, upset by it.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Okay, so I have a spell called Fix Type and I chose to fix cars.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Oh, actually?
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Yeah. I've a spell called Fix and you can choose a type of thing -
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Jesus, magics.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] - that you can, you know, fix.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] I love magic.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Can I do that?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": You get a bonus if it's that certain kind of thing or you can only fix?
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] I can only really fix whatever cars.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Can I learn that?
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Yeah, it's a spell, you can learn it. It's physical. It has an oppose test because it's a nonliving object?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": Fans, look. [ Nick laughs ] I've never seen a better fucking layup for fan art than Viv wearing a net and shorts bent over - [ Nick, Jenn, Taylor laugh ] - the engine hot car.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": I'm not telling you to objectify one of our characters. [ Muttered ] But if there were - if you wanted to do that. [ Shannon and Nick laugh ]
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] I mean...
> Mike / G.M.: This is like - you're talking about a pinup, basically.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Pinup girl, yeah.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": I mean, Viv, and then wearing a net, fixing a car!
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] She's old! [ Nick laughs]
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] I mean, and it's hot and sweaty.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": That's okay!
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] It's sweaty. T.K.'s standing nearby very tactically but like, out of frame.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] She's old but Viv is canon hot!
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": Viv is canon hot!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Yeah that's true.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Canon hot! [ Jenn laughs ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Lash can be throwing a Gatorade on her.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] [ Laughing ] Yeah.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Oh my god. Alright.
> Mike / G.M.: So this is your Megan Fox moment, is what - Okay.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Sure.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] His name is Henley not Bumblebee. [ Mike and Nick laugh ]
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] T.K. I need you to find a glass bottle. I can't materialize glass. [ Jenn laughs ]
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] You can't?
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] No!
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": You idiot!
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] That's news to me. I thought you could do whatever with this magic stuff.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] Just rummage through that trash over there.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Alright, alright. [ OOC ] T.K. goes over to a dumpster and pulls out like - it's like not even like a bottle - it like - it's just like a piece of broken glass that he finds. Just like, from somebody's window.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] Okay. Now throw it below the window.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Throw it?
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] And smash it even further. Yeah. We need broken glass.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Okay, okay, more bro -. Okay, okay, I'll get more broken glass! [ OOC ] And he just like, I guess he crushes it with his cyber arm. [ Glass Breaking ]
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Fix is just a physical spell. Object resistance. Would you say it's the window or the whole car, because it makes a huge difference.
> Mike / G.M.: Because you have Fix Car and not Fix Window, I'm going to say it's the car.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Oh, okay. So high - manufactured high-tech object requires eight.
[00:55:01] > Mike / G.M.: Okay.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Oh boy, gonna risk some drain here. I will cast Fix on the car at a force of, let's start with 5.
> Mike / G.M.: I just roll its object type?
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: Great. I have done that.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] I'm going to roll spell casting which is 12 and magic. We got three hits on it.
> Mike / G.M.: Henley the Bentley got zero hits.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Ohhh!
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Thank you Henley.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Well, she just moves her hands over the window as it starts to seal up the cracks.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, I think it looks like you have all the little - all of the little bits of, you know, like when you break tempered glass -
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Mmm.
> Mike / G.M.: - it crumbles into those, you know, little bits and pieces? They all float up from the interior of the door and then arrange themselves in a window shape, and then just slowly all of the cracks start to fade away and you hear like a little - [ Glass Clinking, Air Pressurizing Schwoop ]
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] T.K. opens the door, gets in, and starts playing with the power window just to make sure everything's working. [ Power Windows Whirring ]
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] [ Mimics Power Windows ] [ Nick laughs ]
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Exactly.
> Mike / G.M.: Sounds exactly like you would expect. Sound even a little bit newer.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Nice!
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] Anything else you guys want to do before you head to Yuri?
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Do we want to - is there anything we need to tell Gabe?
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] Should talk to Gabe before we leave? Is that what you wanna do?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Okay, yeah.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Yeah. Yeah.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Okay, let's walk up to the bridge and talk to him.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] All of us? Because it's going to see - it's going to seem really serious.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Well it is.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Okay, well I was -
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] You don't have to come if you don't -
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] No I'll go. I'll go.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Okay. Uh, hey, Gabe.
> Mike / G.M.: Gabe is sitting in the captain's chair, hooked into the neural link to the boat. And when he hears you come in, his hand goes up and he disconnects the universal data connector. And he turns around and you can see that he's like, tired, a little sweaty because it's gross out, and he gets up and turns around. He's like -
[ IC as Gabe ] Hey, how are you guys feeling? [ OOC ] He looks at Viv and he's like -
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] Better, but not fully recovered.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] How you feelin' T.K.?
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] You know, I'm actually feeling pretty good. Viv did an extremely good job with that healing spell.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] You're welcome.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] I did - I did one too, but it didn't go so well.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] What -
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] I appreciate it.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] What'd you guys do with what's-his-bucket that was stuck in the -
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Oh, we drove him a whole block. Away.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] We showed him who's boss.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] You drove - You drove him a block away?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] And then...?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Let him out. [ Mike laughs ]
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Let him out and told him! Gave him a Gatorade and told him! [ Mike laughs ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah we gave him three Gatorades and offered him a job. Teach him to do that to us again.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] [ Laughing ] We showed him!
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] You did what?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Look, guys.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Yeah, I was asleep!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] We're not here to talk about that. We have to talk about Gabe, okay? Gabe, we're gonna - we're gonna go talk to Yuri. I just want you to know we're not set on taking any job from him. And if we did we wouldn't ask you to be a part of it. We want to know why he thinks he had to kill a bunch of technomancers that were - that he raised. We want to know why this multiple-armed thing told us not to talk with him. And we want to know if he knows anything about what's going on with Evo.
So we have a lot of information we want, but I wanted you to be - wanted to be upfront about the fact that we're going to meet with him now.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] I mean, I can't tell you anything about the guy with all the arms.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Mhmm.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] That's news to me. You know, he knocked me out.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Real quick.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Real quick. He had some - he said some weird shit, asked some very strange questions and then you know, you found me tied up. I mean, you know I don't want anything to do with Yuri.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] And I... I don't want you to want to have anything to do with him, for your safety. I mean, you know.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Do you think we might be in trouble, or in danger, going and talk to Yuri right now?
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] I think anybody who takes a job with him runs - Just be careful.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] You just gotta - just be careful and don't tr - don't trust him!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] He's a dang - He is a dangerous man, who is only in it for himself. And he is gonna seem like he's your best friend and you know what? For a minute, maybe he is, maybe he is your best friend! But there - there's - it always happens. Something's gonna come, he's not going to need you anymore, you're gonna do something, and then it's just over. So you just, be careful. Just be careful. And I mean like, I really like you guys, I know we haven't known each other for very long, but I feel like we get along really well. I am - I want to help you, but you gotta understand I don't want to owe Yuri anything and I don't want to help him.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yep.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] That's the needle that I'm trying to thread. That's the line I'm trying to walk.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] That makes sense.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] Your debt has been paid.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Well, unless you open up a new one. [ Mike laughs IC ] And then there's a new - and then there's another debt, and I just - I got - there's not a lot left in the bank. If you're picking up what I'm putting down.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah. Alright, guys, you want to go?
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Let's go.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Yeah. Thanks Gabe.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Yeah. Jack back in buddy.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] He gives you a silent nod and gets back to working on the boat. And I think that like you guys, you know, over the - over the short amount of time that you've known Gabe and that he's been on the boat, it's like his dedication to working on this thing has been kind of unflagging. That like he, every time you see him, he's like puttering with something, fixing a thing, got a screw gun in his hand, is jacked into some weird panel somewhere in some hallway. And that is just like, he kind of turns back to that focus. Eyes cast down a little bit, but not dissuaded.
[01:00:00] > Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] So we go and get in Bentley, we had to New Jersey.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] What do you guys want to listen to?
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] Yeah, Artemis!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Oh can you play Doom and Gloom? [ Mike laughs ]
> Molly / "Artemis": [ IC ] Playing: Doom and Gloom Archipelago.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ Mimics Sick Guitar Riffs ]
[ Song "Doom and Gloom Archipelago" by Matt Lee plays ]
[ Verse 1 ]
The tides are rising
And we’re unprepared
Our homes are sinking
And none will be spared
Choking on water
Thick with our waste
This is our slaughter
Our crimes that we face
[ Verse 2 ]
Corpses are floating
They turn and they stare
Their bodies are bloating
They beg that we care
I climb the dead
I try to escape
This planet is bled
This is our fate
[ Chorus 1 ]
Death / Is the / only / thing / that we / know
It / is our / reward / for / our life’s / sin
We / are the / poison / that / has killed / us
Turn / the blade / to our / own / heart and / thrust
[ Verse 3 ]
Coughing and choking
It’s filling my lungs
The world is corroding
What have we done
Under the surface...
[ Song fades, ends]
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] As we get out of the car, even though Viv is normally last in the group, Lash is last in the group. It's still weighing a little bit on her that Yuri killed technomancers, specifically. Young technomancers at that, so she's a little freaked out by the situation but she's not one to really show it.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] T.K.'s quiet because he's still sort of injured, but also is like thinking about Sunshine.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] And we make our way into the building?
> Mike / G.M.: You guys tell me. Do you go inside?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Yes.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Yes.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": As you knock, the door swings open and through the little crack, you see that Yuri is exactly where he was last time, behind his big griddle in this beautiful marble kitchen space. [ IC as Yuri ] Hello!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Hey, Yuri!
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Come in, come in!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yep. [ OOC ] And I come in.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Come, please!
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Sure. Yeah, we're coming, were coming!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah, we're walking, we're walking, we're walking.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Sit, sit, sit! Sit down, sit down with the stool. Everyone - stool for everybody.
> Mike / G.M.: It looks very familiar. It is the setting that you saw last time. You see a large projection television. There's the big "Entering the Yosemite Valley" - Is that what it is? Or "The Yosemite Valley"? We always forget. [ Nick laughs ]
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] I - I have complicated feelings - I don't have a short pithy answer this, Mike.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, alright.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] Because I got the name of the painting wrong in the episode, but now it's cannon in the show! [ Nick laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, "Entering the Yosemite Valley".
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] [ Exasperated ] Oh! Stop bringing it up!
> Mike / G.M.: You see all of the - all of the lighted refrigerators from when this was a Rite Aid, before it was whatever it was before Yuri had it. There's the kitchen island with the sink in it and four very nicely upholstered stools, and Yuri is standing there at the kitchen counter, cooking as he always is, standing by. What's he cooking? Is he cooking anything this time? Yeah.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] No!
> Mike / G.M.: Okay.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": He has just cooked something.
> Mike / G.M.: Alright.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] And there is a tray on the bar with a big sort of metal bell over it, you know?
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] A cloche.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] A cloche! Thank you. There's a big metal cloche over it. [ IC ] Sit, sit, sit, sit down!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] I sit down.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I have something for you.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: He's clearly very excited.
> Nick / "Luxe": Yes. We sit down.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] We all sit down.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] He's very much excited. He puts his hand on the cloche and pulls it off! And you see a platter of pieces of white bread toast - real bread made from wheat, you could tell it from the smell - and in the center of each slice of toast a hole has been cut and an egg has been fried in that hole. [ IC ] I - Baskets!
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] What?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Oh, yeah!
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Baskets!
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] Toad in the hole.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I made it, ba - what?
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] Toad in the hole.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] No - Egg in bread.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] Egg in the basket?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Well bread - in this case, bread called basket!
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] One-eyed Susan?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] This called baskets. I made baskets!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Ah! I'd like baskets!
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Uhh, are those for us?
> Mike / G.M.: They smell really good.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Are those for us?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Basket? Basket? [ OOC ] He's passing them out. [ IC ] Basket? Basket?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] I'll take a basket, yeah.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Thank you.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Okay, thank you.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] Basket.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] I wait to eat it until everyone else. I switch mine with T.K.'s! [ Bijan, Shannon, Mike, Jenn laugh ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] I eat my basket even though I'm very reserved to speak to Yuri, but I still eat the basket.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] T.K. just eats the egg out of the hole, leaves the bread.
[01:05:00] > Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Viv is slowly nibbling because she is very tired and injured still.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I, uhh, I'm so glad you come, as part of me think maybe you not come. Part of me hope you do! That most part - biggest part hope that. But you... you all seem sad to be here. Is everything alright?
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] We, uh, had a fight.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Not with each other, with somebody else.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Oh, okay.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] We did.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] You are all well? You do look tired. I'm not saying you look bad, but I know when someone been working hard.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] We're not doing well, Yuri, to to be honest with you. And the fight, though it wasn't related, came on the heels of another event that does involve you.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Who did you fight? Wait, what sorry? [ Shannon and Mike laugh ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] We were -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Come again?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] We were threatened.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] By who?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Um, you know.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Who threatens?
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] A mage. A very powerful mage.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] A many-armed mage -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] How many?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] - threatened to kill us.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] How many?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] One? How many arms?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Hundreds. Hundreds.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] At once?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] At once, yes.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Did they give you name?
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] No.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] We didn't get a name, but he said we're not to work with you? We might be in trouble now just being here. What's going on?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] This guy sounds like an asshole to me. [ Shannon laughs ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah! Yeah, he pret - I mean he made an illusion that - that our friend, Gabe -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Oh no!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] - was dead.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] He scared you with illusion?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yes.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Mages do this all the time.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Okay, well -
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] Hmm.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Not you, Viv! No, too high class for this, no? Yes?
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] Yes.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] I would like to know -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Low class mage make you scare - show you picture, scary thing, blood.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I've seen this before.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] It was it was disturbing. You've seen this particular one before?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Oh, mages! I - I've - I've hired illusion mage work for me.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Mhmm.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Long time!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] How many arms did they have?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Normal.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Normal number? Well, Yuri do you have any idea who this person would be or -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] No.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] - why they would be threatening us?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] No! Look. [ Taylor laughs IC ] This is not a mystery to you.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Uh-huh.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] There's many people that, they do not like me!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] There's many people that don't even know me but think I should not do what I do.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Right.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I feel that maybe you are in the same boat?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] No.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Yes? Some people not like you?
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] No, they like me.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Mmm, I think police not like you!
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Police like me.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I - Mmm.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] They don't like me.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I think sometimes you're on the enemies, otherwise you not have weapons. Otherwise you not do crime as a profession!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Sure.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Right?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Yeah, yeah, so no, I'm - there's people who do not like me, there's people who do not want me to succeed. I have enemies in competition, same as you!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Mhmm.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] But I - No, I not know man with hundred arms, no.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Okay. Well, without any way to secure our safety...
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I secure your safety.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] I mean for us to secure our own safety -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I do it for you.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] I appreciate that, Yuri -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I'm sorry. I keep interrupting, you have something on your mind. You talk.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] I appreciate that Yuri. But it's going to be very hard for us to take a job with you, and I have to also be honest with you, Yuri, it's also going to be hard for us to take your word, considering what we've heard about past jobs you've done, with people you've worked with.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Oh no! The rumor mill is going 90 miles second! [ Nick and Shannon laugh ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] I'm not talking about the ye - the rumor mill.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Rumor mill go so fast! You do one good thing, no one find out.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Right.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Someone start rumor? whole town know in a minute.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Whole town, 90 miles a second. Yeah. Yuri, we found out about the - the technomancers. The enclave of young technomancers you worked with. You want to tell us what happened?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] No, it's very sad.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Okay. Right. What happened?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I do not discuss, in the way I would not discuss my contractor work with you with future people I might know meet. I do not discuss detail of past job, especially one very hurtful to my memory.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] I understand Yuri, it's just that it's hard for me - Me! As you know, uhhh, you might have noticed.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Lash.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Yeah?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] You! You, Lash.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Yeah, you might have noticed that I am a little, you know, different? You might notice that I'm a technomancer.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Yes.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Oh, you knew.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Yeah, it's not secret. I mean you all have certain abilities and -
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Oh, right.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] - areas of expertise that are different but compatible.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Mm.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] I try to keep that on the DL but um...
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] You shouldn't! It's maybe your best and most important feature.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Yeah, but you know, people don't really trust us.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I trust you.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] It's just harder for -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] You're in my house! Basket!
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] I know, Yuri! I wanna eat this -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Some people like ketchup on basket, you want ketchup?
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] You have ketchup?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] It's synthetic ketchup. I not go big on the ketchup. It's, you know.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Hm.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] I love ketchup.
> Mike / G.M.: He opens the refrigerator door and there's actually many different kinds of ketchup. [ Jenn and Nick laugh ] It's like, you know how Heinz has just released ketchup mayo, ketchup mustard, mustard mayo?
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] [ Laughing ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: It's that but in every possible permutation of every topping liquid that exists.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] You have the spicy mustard ketchup mayo?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] It Heinz N+1. [ Taylor laughs ]
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] I would like some of that. So Yuri, I'm just feeling a little uncomfortable hearing -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] [ Makes fart sounds, mimicking squeezing a ketchup bottle ] [ Jenn laughs ]
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Oh, yeah, one more. [ Taylor continues ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Let him finish.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] One more. That's good.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] It's almost out. [ Shannon laughs ] [ Taylor makes more sounds ]
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] So I'm just feeling a little - [ OOC ] As she takes a huge bite. [ All laugh ] [ IC ] [ As though mouth is full ] I'm just feeling a little uncomfortable.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] [ Still as though chewing ] Knowing this, all about you. I don't know if you have an issue with technomancers!
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] No, not at all.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] I just, I...
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Thank you.
[01:09:55] > Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yuri. I'm afraid that we're probably not going to be able to take any jobs because - if we had information about the person threatening us, and we had a way - a plan of action to counteract any type of aggression that they would - they would bring to us, that would be one thing. If we had more information from you about why it would be possibly - possibly justified for you to kill, I think it was six, technomancers you worked with, who trusted you, who you raised -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Wow, the rumor mill going overboard today. Very sad to hear.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Well, what -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Have you ever killed people? Have you killed someone?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Not - nobody on our team -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] I'm looking - he's looking directly at Viv.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] Of course I have. [ Mike laughs ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Nobody on our team, we haven't!
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I trust you!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] I've never killed anybody I've raised! I've never killed anybody I -
> Mike / G.M.: He -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] The room is fucking silent. [ Long pause ]
> Mike / G.M.: He - you can - when you say this, he like, his eyes narrow. And you can - he like, his brow flattens.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] This is a hard life we lead. All of us. We have made decision to live outside law, outside behavior everyone else says is good. We say "I'll do bad, because my life only happens if I can do bad things". That is decision all of us in this room have made.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Mhm.
> Mike / G.M.: He's getting like a little red, which is - you haven't seen him - he's basically only been happy and jovial. You can see that his face is getting a little, you know, the blood is rushing to his cheeks.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I offer protection to you. I trust you. You're in my home. Did I search you for weapons?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] [ Softly ] No.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] This is the only way life is possible! The way we live only way life possible, to occasionally trust each other! Have - I paid you for a job.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Mm.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Job you did well. Pay you very - Pay you better for more! This is the way things go.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] I hear you, Yuri.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I protect!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] I hear you Yuri, but do you understand why I'm asking? The - the point is that you're saying that we live in a world outside of the law. If you could tell us, "Hey look this is what happened. And this is why it happened. And this is why the exception was made in which I became an untrustworthy person to these people. These - these technomancers I was work with - I was working with." If you'd give me information like that, maybe I would be persuaded. Maybe I wouldn't.
But out - But with you completely denying any - us any information whatsoever about people threatening us, about your past misdeeds, towards your own team, which we would be! Outside of that, my hands are tied! I can't take any jobs from you, Yuri. These guys could speak for themselves, but I have to - I have to follow my gut here and - and - and not work with you based on that - based on that alone.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] What I tell you now, is most I have told anyone about this job. If technomancers had lived, I would be the one to die. It's self-defense. I think you do same, you're in same position. That is all I will say about that. I don't want to think about it anymore.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] What would you have us do?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] [ Sigh of relief ] Well, first of all, eat basket! [ Nick laughs ]
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] I already ate mine!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] I ate mine, it was really good.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] T.K.'s done, yeah.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I have good news for you! Yeah? I - I read, I know what's going on. Mo Ashina? You think I don't know about Mo Ashina?
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] You heard?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Taken care of.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] What do you mean?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Mo Ashina put out contract on you today.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Uh-huh.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] Again?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I - No, I took care of it.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] What did you do?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I took care of it, no more contract.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Oh. Well, thanks.
> Mike / G.M.: If you guys want to do any matrix searches or anything -
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: - to try to judge the veracity of what he's saying -
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Yeah, I'll -
> Mike / G.M.: - you are welcome to.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] I will do that. I'm gonna try and - yeah, I guess I'll search for Mo - I guess I'll search Mo Ashina because "taken care of" either mean she's dead or something else happened.
> Mike / G.M.: There are a number of Craigslist-style, hard to access but easy for you to access, job boards -
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Mhmm.
> Mike / G.M.: - where you can search for Combinatorial Limited or warship, battleship, party barge, and you would likely find something.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Yeah, I'll do a matrix search. Three hits.
> Mike / G.M.: Whatever you're imagining -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: -he saw? They find whatever it is. So that's you - can describe.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] But it sounds canceled.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah. Yeah.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] It's like - it's like when they - when a Craigslist post is like "Sold!" [ Taylor laughs ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] It's just, it's a - it's a listing coded in, you know, the lingo, about what's going on. Someone wants to "order some pizzas".
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Mhmm.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] [ Clicks tongue ] Wink wink. You know. And it's like no, this posting is - has been cancelled and removed. Maybe you just find comments being like "Hey, where'd it go?" "Where'd that post go?" It's gone. It's cancelled.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Hmm. Yeah, he's telling the truth.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Okay. Well, thank you.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] It's my pleasure. This is my pleasure. I want you to succeed. I want you to live and be well and be prosperous. You understand?
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Cha-ching! Money fall from sky! All of us! Same boat. What's a - how you say, water come in and all boats go up.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Flood?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Everybody! Flood? All boats good in flood.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] A rising tide lifts all ships?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Rising tide ships. All ships.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] All the ships.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] No ships on bottom, all ships go up.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Okay.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] We ships! Tide make us go up together, like balloon. [ Loudly ] We're in balloon! [ Shannon and Nick laugh ] We're in a balloon basket, but when balloon basket all together? We go up down together.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] I see.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Yeah?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yuri? Why don't you tell us about the job and then we'll decide if we could do it.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] [ Claps hands together ] First off. I have more good news.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Okay.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I have money for you! [ Yelling ] Hector!
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC as Hector ] [ Yelling from distance ] Yeah, what's up?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Bring down the cred sticks!
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Right now? Ooh, are they here?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Yes, they're here!
[01:15:00] > Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Oh okay! I'll be there in a second! [ OOC ] And you hear -
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] What's -
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] - really loud footsteps - [ Footsteps thudding ] -upstairs.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] - happening?
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] And you hear a door slowly open and then you hear very heavy footfalls - [ Footsteps grow louder ] - come down a stairway that is just to the side and behind the kitchenette. Coming from upstairs. The upstairs, you don't know, office? Bedroom? Something? In the top of this building. You see a figure that you recognize from the matrix searches that you have done.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Mhmm.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] This is Hector Rodriguez. Hector is a tall, jet-black minotaur, in a jet-black track suit, and he has a fanny pack that is pushed to the side on his hip. He is very muscular. He is wearing bright white high-top sneakers, and you - he's hot! [ Jenn laughs ] You cannot deny that though he is a minotaur with like, a bull ring and huge horns, like gold-tipped horns, snaking up from the top of his head, like he's an attractive... man?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] - notaur.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] - mataur? notaur? [ Mike laughs ]
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Manotaur.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] So, bull legs, bull tail, but man body, man arms, bull face. Bull head.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] Bull head.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] Yeah. Man - muscular -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] Keep going. [ Nick, Mike, Taylor laugh ]
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Let's name every body part and say if it's a bull or a if it's a man.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Or a man.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] Yeah, you could fit a roll of quarters in those vas deferens, buddy, let me tell you. [ All laugh ]
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] How about - [ Mike laughs loudly ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] That's what I was trying to ask, but like a gentleman. [ Taylor still laughing ]
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] I was gonna ask more like, umm, stomach.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] If you cut that, that's going for Omae in the Patreon thing.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] You would notice, or you would think, from how he is dressed that he does have human feet.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Okay. [ Jenn laughs ]
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] Oh he does? Human feet?
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] Human feet.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] That's so weird, cause -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] Uh, yeah, yeah.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] You can see shoes.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Not hooves.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] Yeah, not hooves.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] Ah, shit.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] I take the - Tom Scocca wrote about this a number of years ago? Which is that a minotaur is too big and heavy in order to stand appropriately on hooves? So they probably have to have big toes which means they have to have feet? Anyways.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Huh!
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] He comes out and he's got a salad bowl in his arm and he sees all of you and he's like - [ IC ] Hey! It is so nice to finally meet you. I have heard so much about - about you, about your adventures. I mean, thank you so much for the boat thing. Yuri told me all about it. It was, man what a caper, am I right? [ OOC ] And he looks expectantly at all of you.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] Quite.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] This is my valet Hector, you have met? No? First time?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] We've talked to him. Hey Hector, nice to meet you.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] It is - Listen. The pleasure is all mine. [ OOC ] And he very awkwardly shifts the bowl over to the other arm and very keenly puts his hand out to shake Luxe's hand.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Luxe grabs his hand.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] It's - he nearly crushes your hand.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Yeah, it's huge.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] He's - and then he looks at Yuri and he's like - [ IC ] Okay, what do I do? Do we care? Do we just? Do I hand 'em out?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Yeah. Rising tide, eh? Eh? [ OOC ] He looks at everyone - [ IC ] Rising tide, all boats, balloon time!
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] T.K.'s like - [ IC ] What's this? What's this for?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Welcome to balloon!
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] So Hector looks at you, he's like - [ IC ] Okay, put your hands out!
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Okay, what is - before I take anything, what is this?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ OOC ] These are, visibly, cred sticks.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] You can see in the salad bowl is just a pile. It's like - it's like piled like Halloween candy. It's just cred sticks.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] It's money. Yeah, T.K. puts out his hand.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] Hector literally just piles a handful of cred sticks into your - into your open hands. You got - you got eight cred sticks.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] That seems like a lot of cred sticks.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] Yeah. You don't know how much is on them, but like, you got eight cred sticks. Does everybody, does everybody else put their hand out?
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] That's eight more nuyen than I had before, at least.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I think, why make the work then get money. Why not give money, you know, we work together go on, you know, we're partners now! Balloon! Welcome to balloon.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] Viv, does Viv put her hands out?
> Jenn / "Viv": [ OOC ] She puts one hand out. [ Jenn laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] Okay, then in that case Viv get seven cred sticks. [ Jenn laughs ] Lash?
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Lash says - [ IC ] Wait, partners? I'm not partners with anyone except for my crew.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] But, balloon! Money come from me, you do jobs.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] She looks at -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Do you not want to get paid? [ Taylor laughs IC ] Hector! This is first for me. I love these people, but this is first for me.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] They have a lot of personality, right boss? I mean, you know. [ Taylor laughs IC ]
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I understand, if you not want cred stick, you don't have to take cred stick.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] She looks directly at Luxe, because she feels like, she's confused in her moral compass and she's like, she just trusts Luxe as to where to go. She's very childlike right now.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] And Hector's like looking at you excitedly and like trying to dump cred sticks into your hand.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] Being like, "Come on, like just take them. It's fine."
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] I can't take your money.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Okay, you don't have to. But if you do job and later on you want it, you can have - We got money, I mean...
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] They're not going anywhere.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Yeah, they're right here.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] No sweat. [ OOC ] And he puts the salad bowl back down.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Alright. Hector, thank you so much.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Yeah, my pleasure! Hey it's really nice to meet you guys.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Nice to meet you Hector.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] It's nice to meet you.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Good to see you Hector.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] And he goes and he just sits on the couch nearby.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Ihave, guess what? New job. And I think this one, although lengthy and complex, fairly simple for you to do.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] What is it?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I have a friend. Her name is Irina. Irina lives in "G.C. staysh".
[01:20:02] > Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] In what?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] "G.C. staysh"?
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] "G.C. staysh"...
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] Grand Central.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Oh.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Oh! Arecia, you said?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] "G.C. staysh"? I just learned this what kids called Grand Central Station.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Right, "G.C. staysh". Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] Irina.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Irina.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] I-R-I-N-A.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ OOC ] Irina.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Now. [ Sighs ] Irina and me, we have interesting relationship. We not see eye to eye. Understand? She's not friend like we are together. Not in our balloon. However, every once in a while, our interests lock together like, um, spoke on wheel in machine. You understand? She needs something done. I do not know what. But you go do this job for her, I'm sure it'll be fine. Very easy, not like fight at junkyard. [ Taylor laughs IC ] Easy time, alright? You know, do whatever she wants, whatever it costs, you let me know, I pay balloon. Eh? Now, whenever you do this thing for Irina, she is going to give you very important necklace, talisman.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Right.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Am I say - I say this right?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yes.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Talisman. Irina give you talisman. Now, I don't know anything about this, this is just what consultants say, you need to talisman. Magic necklace.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Right.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Alright.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Talisman is right. I want you to know.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Talisman is correct?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yes, talisman is correct.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] You - Everyone's very downcast, very -
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] - it's throwing off my personality. [ All laugh ]
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] Man, I'm gonna pull that one out at the next - [ Taylor laughs loudly ] - the next time everybody's in a real mood, and I'm like, out at dinner, be like "Man, everybody's - really throwing off my personality!"
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Throwing off my personality.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] But I need you understand, light in the tunnel bright. Now, you need talisman because... you know Highland Island? You know this place?
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Would we know it?
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] This is a place that you would know, it is a strip of high land that is where Brooklyn transitions into Long Island. It starts at the Grand Central Parkway and goes until the Northern Parkway and when the sea levels rose after the climate catastrophe, this stayed above ground. And so this is like, formerly it began at Highland Boulevard, but it has since become Highland or Highland Island.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Right.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] And it is a city that built up around the former Highway. And at the far end of it, is where there is a lot of manufacturing business.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Mmm.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] So that's kind of what Highland Island is most known for, being a very dense city on a very small island. At the far eastern edge of which, is a lot of warehouses, manufacturing facilities, all kinds of stuff. Both big and small, for huge megacorporations and just like, like the guys in Bushwick now that make nuts and bolts. So you guys would roughly know, yeah.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah, yeah, we know - we know Highland Island.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] You know Highland Island?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yes.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Great. I just bought big warehouse, incredible deal. I mean soup to nuts money. Is that? Ah, no, wait. Bottom barrel - No. I get such a good deal on this warehouse for new project I'm building.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Mhm.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Highland Island. I buy a warehouse. You go take talisman to new warehouse, clean it out. And then? [ Claps hands twice ] Balloon time. That's it.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] What do we need to clean out of the warehouse?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Big ghost of bug!
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] Excuse me?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Ghost - bug ghost. Ghost of bug.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] What kind of bug?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I'm not touching. I'm not seeing. Take this burden from your buddy, Yuri.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Ghost of bug?
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Bug ghost.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Did I stutter? [ Taylor laughs IC ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] We've never dealt with a big ghost bug before.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Me neither, nor will I.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Right. Is this talisman going to help us?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Yes, that's the whole point of going to get it.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Ah.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I've hire some consultant, they say ghost bug gone? You need necklace, important necklace.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Ah.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] Viv, have you ever dealt with a ghost bug?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Viv, have you ever trapped a big ghost bug in a necklace?
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] No!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Are you sure? Really think about it.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I don't know if there's trap. I don't know any of this. [ Jenn sighs IC ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Oh. It might just destroy it.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I don't know.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Hmm.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] Conceivably Irina will be able to tell you how - It sounds like Yuri has no clue.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] Maybe. [ Nick laughs ] Okay.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I'm like - I'm like contractor. I not know plumbing, I hire you do plumbing.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Sure, yes.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Hire Irina do... either -
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Makes sense.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] When do you need this done by?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] No rush, take time.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] No rush?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] No, take time.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Okay.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Can you send us Irina's information?
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] He does that.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Cause right now we got a lot of - lot of projects and I just looked up in my calendar and oh, boy!
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah, your calendar, especially.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] It's just a to-do list and it's all on Monday.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Everybody's so busy these days.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yes.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] What are you doing? "Oh, I'm busy." I want to live in past, everything simple and slow.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Mhmm.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Well Yuri, I think we're going to have to, before we can accept this job, talk to Irina, get some ducks in a row. We have some other things on the go.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Well, the job is - job involve talk to Irina. So you talk jobs, say "Yes, balloon time! We already take money!" You go, meet Irina. She give you job, do favor for her. She give you important, uh, talisman? Talisman. You go take care of my big bug ghost.
[01:24:52] > Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] I just - I understand. [ Shannon laughs loudly ] I understand it's very simple for you. But I just want you to know, we're not formally taking the job yet. I just wanted that to be clear -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Okay.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] - because I didn't want you to be mad at us if we didn't take the job. I'm just letting you know. I have a lot of the same concerns as I did when I walked in this building -
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Okay.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] - and so I'm not taking the job yet. But I've heard everything you had to say.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Well I give out cred sticks, I tell I bought warehouse, that's intelligence and secret stuff I tell.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Mmm.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] You take jobs as - as jobs. You are professional job takers.
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] As this conversation is happening Hector stands up and he's listening. He's kind of standing there with his arms crossed in his giant shoulders just slowly moving up and down as he's breathing and you know, just listening to the conversation. And he walks over to Yuri as he saying this and he puts his arm around Yuri and he's like - [ IC ] Hey! Give him a minute. Let him - let him think it through. It's fine - Look at them. Look at how tired they are. They've been through so - I think this one is still bleeding.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Yeah. This is why I say take time, Hector you are right.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Tell you what, as a show of good faith?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Mhmm.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] You know, you guys - you guys are still on the boat?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] You guys are still on the boat. We'll send you a fruit basket. Real fruit! Real fruit!
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Oh, of course.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Oh, wow. Wow, I've never seen -
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Never seen real fruit.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] I'm so embarrassed I not think of this.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] We'll send you a fruit basket.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Send you a fruit basket!
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Not - free - not - any. No expectations. Just take it, eat a real banana.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Only expectation: Enjoy the fruit.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] I take it back, one expectation: Enjoy the fruit.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Thank you Hector.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Thank you Hector.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] I think it will make you feel better.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] I think we've got everything we need to consider the job and we'll be on our way. Thank you so much. We look forward to the fruit basket.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Any food allergies? Anyone have?
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] I don't think so?
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Like we wouldn't - I wouldn't know.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] We wouldn't know?
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] I don't know.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] You would know. You'd be only one to know.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] I just don't eat beef.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": [ IC ] Okay, Hector write it down.
> Taylor and Mike: [ IC ] No beef in the fruit basket!
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> Mike: You are now leaving Fun City. Thank you for listening, if you want to support the show, get access to ad-free episodes, our Discord, our bi-weekly post-episode chat show "Fun Chatty", and more, head to patreon.com/funcityventures.
And of course, thanks to all of our current patrons for help keeping this ship afloat. If you like the show, you can give us a rating on iTunes, tell your pals about it, or just come say hey to any or all of us on Twitter.
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> Bijan: I am Bijan Stephen, and I am T.K. You can find me online @bijanstephen on Twitter, which is B-I-J-A-N S-T-E-P-H-E-N. Or on Instagram, and you should just google that.
> Jenn: I'm Jenn de la Vega! I am Viv. You can find me online @randwiches, that's the word sandwiches but just replace the S with an R.
> Nick: This is Nick Guercio, I play Luxe Scythe. You can find me on Twitter @nguersh and Instagram @nguercio, G-U-E-R-C-I-O.
> Shannon: This is Shannon Odell, I play Lash Goodbog. You can find me on Instagram and Twitter @shodell, S-H-O-D-E-L-L.
> Taylor: This is Taylor Moore and I play all the Bad Boys. I'm @taylordotbiz.
> Mike: My name is Mike Rugnetta, I am your G.M. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram @mikerugnetta.
You can find the show on Twitter @funcityventures. Fun City was recorded at Fortunate Horse, in beautiful Greenpoint, Brooklyn. It was produced, edited, and sound designed by me, Mike Rugnetta.
Pixlriffs would never talk about past jobs, especially not ones that hurt his heart such as this. Special shout out this episode to Matt Lee for the use of his track "Doom and Gloom Archipelago". You can find Matt on Twitter @NiceWizardMusic, as well as SoundCloud and Patreon at the same. I'll include some links in the show notes. You should definitely go check out Matt's work.
The rest of the show's music is by Sam Tyndall. Our art is by Tess Stone. Our Discord mods are Olivia Gulin, Kit, and Kestrel. And the voice of Artemis is Molly Templeton.
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[ Out of character until mentioned ]
[01:29:55] > Mike / G.M.: You got 2,390.
> Jenn / "Viv": [ Laughing ] What?
> Nick / "Luxe": On one.
> Mike / G.M.: On one.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Oh! Fuck. Hold on. Let me - let me hit the calculator.
> Taylor / "The Bad Boys": Hoo boy.
> Mike / G.M.: 1,616.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: 5,445.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ Under breath ] Jesus.
> Jenn / "Viv": Hell yeah, T.K.
> Mike / G.M.: 4,257. 6,511.
> Jenn / "Viv": Wow.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Christ.
> Mike / G.M.: 3,038.
> Bijan / "T.K.": Uh-huh?
> Mike / G.M.: 5,010.
> Jenn / "Viv": What?
> Nick / "Luxe": Wow.
> Mike / G.M.: And 5,527. Viv, how many did you get?
> Jenn / "Viv": Seven.
> Bijan / "T.K.": That is 33,794 nuyen.
> Nick / "Luxe": Nice! Pretty much back - your whole -
> Shannon / "Lash": Oh my god.
> Jenn / "Viv": Alright, Viv had seven.
> Mike / G.M.: Seven, you said?
> Jenn / "Viv": Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: 2,298.
> Jenn / "Viv": Mhmm.
> Mike / G.M.: 3,712. 1,364.
> Jenn / "Viv": Mhm.
> Mike / G.M.: 4,097.
> Jenn / "Viv": Whoa! Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: 6,945.
> Jenn / "Viv": Ooh!
> Bijan / "T.K.": Jeez.
> Mike / G.M.: And 2,644. These are all completely untraceable. This is basically the black magic of money. You do not know how these are made, you just are - when you plug them in, it just says like, "Which account would you like to transfer this to?" and then it just does it.
> Bijan / "T.K.": How much did you get?
> Jenn / "Viv": 26,229.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ OOC ] So yeah, I'm just sticking cred sticks in my deck or whatever. [ IC ] So Yuri just gave me... 33,000 nuyen.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Oh my god!
> Jenn / "Viv": [ IC ] And I've just gotten 26,229.
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] You guys missed out.
> Shannon / "Lash": [ IC ] [ Sighs ]
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Yeah. That was a balloon that I should have...
> Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] Do you want some? I mean, I don't...
> Nick / "Luxe": [ IC ] Popped. [ Bijan laughs ]
[01:31:18] > Shannon / "Lash":[ IC ] I'm glad I didn't take any.