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Dream Wish
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Crush switches the feed back. For a moment the stream’s view is a giant’s arm and a titan’s chest before the red neumono tilts her hand away, facing the drone’s lenses toward her face.
“Good for a moment? Let me catch up with the chat, just a sec…”
The position she’s holding her arm in must be awkward, at best, but there’s an appeal to the shot that’s no bet intentional. It takes a moment for Crush to get her bearings on the stream of messages, which allows you to notice the devil-rats’ scratching at the door behind her going quiet. She smiles, and begins to move away.
“Nice enthusiasm. Ok. Quickfire - I’m doing good and the pest control’s still on the tracks, I’ll explain more in a minute. CyberSlamDunk, happy you’re in money, don’t think I’ve ever seen a live Yich anywhere on Chacht. I’m sure there’s farms but not anywhere near here, sorry. Kome, the stream’s safe for you, that’s what this site’s for, but hide behind some more proxies if you’re nervous… Ha, yeah, fishtank, I’m a wizard! Street wiz, anyway, more technically I’m a shaman, mystic adept. You can probably eat devil-rats if you can find some that haven’t been eating trash and poison, but if you’ve hiked out into the wilds to do that, take those pristine rats to the talismonger for cash instead. Yeah I have a respirator, it’s in the bag, I wasn’t planning to use the gas. I’m fast and tough, it wasn’t going to be a problem. BigTail, you know I’m not much of a hardware girl! Sword, pistol for backup and special ammo, little protection, and the rest’s my fists and claws and good ol’ MysAd magic. Unless you meant something else? I’ve got a few tricks in my bag, but you’ll have to wait for those. And… You’ll see what I can retrieve from my chest later, too, Expres. Ok, both those last c- first couple, I said wait, so let me tell you what waiting means! Even if you might not be waiting much at all, this many people. Actually, let me give you the background, first. It’ll take me a little while, but we gotta get it out of the way for you anyway, so…”
Crush picks up a bag, but keeps talking.
“Here’s the run - we set it for ourselves, but we’re shadowrunners, we’re working, it’s a run. Right now I’m on the first basement under an office building. Thanks to a scandal and some corpo legal dick measuring bullshit or other, no-one’s worked here for months now. They still have it lit up to like, save face against being just a big black box on the street every night. Can’t look like we’re poor, right? Waste to start with, but then the devil-rats moved in. These aren’t just big. They’re tough, they’re magic, they’re usually at least half-crazy from eating out of the most polluted garbage holes the city provides, and when they’re not doing that they’ll eat your legs, so that when you fall down they can eat your face. They chew on wires and pipes and foundations, but only as practice for chewing on stray pets, stray children, homeless folks and anyone else in the wrong place at the wrong time. They’re a menace. And since whatever corporate assholes are supposed to be in charge of this place either don’t want to admit that it’s their job to hire the expensive pest control, or else want the place to be ruined for some rivalry or tax writeoff insurance crap, there’s tons of them here. Not a lot of regular rats, though, so that’s good - normally when you fight devil-rats they’ll call up the little ones to help them. Hasn’t happened, doesn’t look like it will, which makes me a lot happier! Still. Way more of the big squeaks than we expected, even. We were actually aiming to get them done with before the stream started! So, think of it as a bonus. You get some extra action to watch! Maybe. If we’re really lucky, these were the only ones left, and I just dealt with them, but… I’m not gonna bet on it.”
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