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    unwillingness to just fully embrace the agoristic life?

*/

/*

    Who has at least one cybernetic eye?  I feel like someone definitely should
    have one in here (this story, that is), before they get to the cyberpunk
    world (for some definition of "they").

    Actually, now that I think about it, maybe George's connection is more
    specifically to the cyberpunks while Dalton can get her in touch with the
    Second Realm people, so that would probably be why the Second Realm is her
    next stop, even if George is close to the people with whom Alley eventually
    needs to form an alliance for a shadowrun.  After all, she'll never get
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    prioritizer.  Thus, she will end up going off to some industrial shipping
    container storage hard where people actually have whole hacking stations in
    portable boxes made of steel with surprising levels of convenience inside
    them for the underground hacker lifestyle.

*/





































/*

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?

Maybe Alley could just carry drugs for someone.  Again, this is pretty sketchy, and is probably not appropriate right now.

    unwillingness to just fully embrace the agoristic life?

*/

/*

    Who has at least one cybernetic eye?  I feel like someone definitely should
    have one in here (in this story, that is), before they get to the cyberpunk
    world (for some definition of "they").

    Actually, now that I think about it, maybe George's connection is more
    specifically to the cyberpunks while Dalton can get her in touch with the
    Second Realm people, so that would probably be why the Second Realm is her
    next stop, even if George is close to the people with whom Alley eventually
    needs to form an alliance for a shadowrun.  After all, she'll never get
................................................................................
    prioritizer.  Thus, she will end up going off to some industrial shipping
    container storage hard where people actually have whole hacking stations in
    portable boxes made of steel with surprising levels of convenience inside
    them for the underground hacker lifestyle.

*/

/* skip ahead to the Second Realm */

/*

    There's a storage yard in an industrial zone on the fringes of habitation,
    as such industrial zones tend to be until they get swallowed up by growing
    urbanization.  The yard involves a chain link fence with dilapidated
    concertina wire atop the fence.  Dalton arranges for transport of not just
    Alley but also the motorcycle to this storage yard, via truck.  When they
    arrive, the gate opens itself to let the truck back in.  After a few
    moments of Alley sitting in the back wondering what's happening, someone
    finally comes out to talk to Dalton.  There's a greeting involving
    handshakes and half hugs, and the back of the truck opens up.  Alley gets
    the bike unstrapped in the back of the truck and rolls it out, possibly
    with help if there's someone else in the back of the truck with her to
    offer that help.

    It turns out Dalton is on good, if somewhat distant, terms with a couple of
    people at this Second Realm locale.  His influence here is mostly connected
    to his closer acquaintance with someone who isn't at this temporary
    autonomous zone, but is respected by the people at this temporary
    autonomous zone.  The big question is whether the Smuggler analogue is at
    this locale or the (currently absent) person Dalton actually interviewed
    for his podcast.  In any case, there should have already been some talk
    (probably not at the Temp Auto Zone location, of course) in which some hint
    of what's going on with the prioritizer got across to the Second Realm
    people, catching their interest.

    They of course don't know all the details Alley knows, or even all of them
    Dalton learned from Alley.  As such, they'll have to talk directly with
    Alley to get some of the details of this stuff and start planning next
    steps in the artificial intelligence prioritizer system liberation
    operation.

*/

/*

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?

Maybe Alley could just carry drugs for someone.  Again, this is pretty sketchy, and is probably not appropriate right now.