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3675 3675 unwillingness to just fully embrace the agoristic life?
3676 3676
3677 3677 */
3678 3678
3679 3679 /*
3680 3680
3681 3681 Who has at least one cybernetic eye? I feel like someone definitely should
3682 - have one in here (this story, that is), before they get to the cyberpunk
3682 + have one in here (in this story, that is), before they get to the cyberpunk
3683 3683 world (for some definition of "they").
3684 3684
3685 3685 Actually, now that I think about it, maybe George's connection is more
3686 3686 specifically to the cyberpunks while Dalton can get her in touch with the
3687 3687 Second Realm people, so that would probably be why the Second Realm is her
3688 3688 next stop, even if George is close to the people with whom Alley eventually
3689 3689 needs to form an alliance for a shadowrun. After all, she'll never get
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3708 3708 prioritizer. Thus, she will end up going off to some industrial shipping
3709 3709 container storage hard where people actually have whole hacking stations in
3710 3710 portable boxes made of steel with surprising levels of convenience inside
3711 3711 them for the underground hacker lifestyle.
3712 3712
3713 3713 */
3714 3714
3715 +/* skip ahead to the Second Realm */
3716 +
3717 +/*
3718 +
3719 + There's a storage yard in an industrial zone on the fringes of habitation,
3720 + as such industrial zones tend to be until they get swallowed up by growing
3721 + urbanization. The yard involves a chain link fence with dilapidated
3722 + concertina wire atop the fence. Dalton arranges for transport of not just
3723 + Alley but also the motorcycle to this storage yard, via truck. When they
3724 + arrive, the gate opens itself to let the truck back in. After a few
3725 + moments of Alley sitting in the back wondering what's happening, someone
3726 + finally comes out to talk to Dalton. There's a greeting involving
3727 + handshakes and half hugs, and the back of the truck opens up. Alley gets
3728 + the bike unstrapped in the back of the truck and rolls it out, possibly
3729 + with help if there's someone else in the back of the truck with her to
3730 + offer that help.
3731 +
3732 + It turns out Dalton is on good, if somewhat distant, terms with a couple of
3733 + people at this Second Realm locale. His influence here is mostly connected
3734 + to his closer acquaintance with someone who isn't at this temporary
3735 + autonomous zone, but is respected by the people at this temporary
3736 + autonomous zone. The big question is whether the Smuggler analogue is at
3737 + this locale or the (currently absent) person Dalton actually interviewed
3738 + for his podcast. In any case, there should have already been some talk
3739 + (probably not at the Temp Auto Zone location, of course) in which some hint
3740 + of what's going on with the prioritizer got across to the Second Realm
3741 + people, catching their interest.
3742 +
3743 + They of course don't know all the details Alley knows, or even all of them
3744 + Dalton learned from Alley. As such, they'll have to talk directly with
3745 + Alley to get some of the details of this stuff and start planning next
3746 + steps in the artificial intelligence prioritizer system liberation
3747 + operation.
3748 +
3749 +*/
3715 3750
3716 3751 /*
3717 3752
3718 3753 Maybe Alley could go to a doctor to get a prescription for something that she can then sell to others as a way to make money. This is obviously illegal. It should probably only come up after she ends up on the run because of the people coming to her home and thus scaring her off. Then again . . . how does she get a prescription from a doctor if she's on the run?
3719 3754
3720 3755 Maybe Alley could just carry drugs for someone. Again, this is pretty sketchy, and is probably not appropriate right now.
3721 3756