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| Comment: | outline.txt: outline into the future a bit |
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| User & Date: | ren on 2020-11-16 06:45:43 |
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2020-11-24
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| 01:25 | commit a bunch of changes that got ignored check-in: a6ab6196fd user: ren tags: n2020-draft1 | |
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2020-11-16
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| 06:45 | outline.txt: outline into the future a bit check-in: 8be4aa4dca user: ren tags: n2020-draft1 | |
| 06:45 | n2020.txt: George tries to lead Alley to salvation check-in: ff532e46c0 user: ren tags: n2020-draft1 | |
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Modified outline.txt from [f5f2328793] to [e1e939f211].
392 392 for why the friend would be at Alley's home, because the latter is less 393 393 "coincidence" to deal with. In novels, there should basically be no 394 394 coincidence unless the coincidence is itself a key part of the theme, and not 395 395 just a mechanism to use to reach the goal of illustrating the theme. 396 396 397 397 ### Alley seeks answers from George. 398 398 399 -Alley gets in touch with George and end up getting a Deliv gig to courier boxes of books to a used book store in Newport Beach before heading north into Huntington Beach to meet up at George's home again. They talk about stuff, including Alley's ex (Dalton Schaeffer-Hearst) and science fiction authors, which is actually how we learn about the ATF thing. It turns out George knows about Dalton 399 +Alley gets in touch with George and end up getting a Deliv gig to courier boxes 400 +of books to a used book store in Newport Beach before heading north into 401 +Huntington Beach to meet up at George's home again. They talk about stuff, 402 +including Alley's ex (Dalton Schaeffer-Hearst) and science fiction authors, 403 +which is actually how we learn about the ATF thing. It turns out George knows 404 +about Dalton, and about the COIN Corp MIBs who came to harass Alley. They're a 405 +very serious existential threat to their targets, and George answers her 406 +questions about what he does with his time that requires him to buy frames for 407 +handguns by telling her that he supplies things for people whose lives largely 408 +revolve around illegal and potentially dangerous work that, at times, includes 409 +helping innocent people like Alley escape from shitty evil technocratic 410 +corporate agents like those at COIN Corp. He advises her on that, and gives 411 +her some reading material. They have dinner at the end of it. 400 412 401 413 ### George helps intimidate potential problem customers for a courier gig. 402 414 403 -Alley 415 +Alley goes to pick up a package for delivery for a courier gig. George knows 416 +the neighborhood, and offers to provide some backup because it might be a 417 +little sketchy. He follows in his own car, then when she makes her pickup and 418 +heads out they part ways before he goes home. At the other end of the 419 +delivery, Alley finds that the people receiving the package are somewhat 420 +respectful despite also seeming criminal, and everything goes well. She then 421 +goes home and opens one of the books George gave her. 422 + 423 +### Alley reads and thinks and maybe decides to "prepare". 424 + 425 +* Alley finds agorism interesting, in theory, and agrees with it, in principle, 426 + but is not comfortable with the idea of trying to dive into that head first. 427 + 428 +* Alley finds some of Underground OpSec pretty extreme and irrelevant to her, 429 + but she learns some things from the stuff she thinks is more applicable and 430 + chooses to try incorporating some basic skills from it into her life. 431 + 432 +* Alley is not fully convinced that the worst will happen. That was her 433 + uncle's friend, after all! 434 + 435 +* Alley is still too invested in getting "back" into the mainstream economy 436 + herself rather than going the other way like George suggested. 437 + 438 +### Alley goes out to do some deals. 439 + 440 +* Alley has stuff in her trunk in case she has to bug out, thinking that this 441 + is a good time to prepare that even if she's trying to convince herself it's 442 + not going to happen now. This is all just about being prepared in general, 443 + or at least that's what she tells herself. 444 + 445 +* Alley makes some money, of course, and her deals edge toward the legally 446 + sketchy side of things somewhat. She also does some more Deliv work, though, 447 + so she's still doing work that's more on the legal side, if only gig economy. 448 + 449 +* The prioritizer actually advises Alley that, despite being ostensibly somehow 450 + connected to the legal and white market world, this COIN Corp situation 451 + really does rank in the very high risk severity realm that the prioritizer 452 + was previously led to believe was a definite no-no for Alley's goals. This 453 + may cause some reassessment. 454 + 455 +* Alley should get directed to a deal with another study participant. That 456 + could be a problem, of course, because that other study participant's 457 + activities won't have logs redacted as much as Alley. 458 + 459 +* I need to backfill some stuff in the story about Alley and the prioritizer 460 + carefully balancing the privacy and appearance of copious logging aspects of 461 + things. I don't think that has been properly handled, really. 462 + 463 +### Alley gets her hands on a secure mobile telephony device. 464 + 465 +* Alley needs to install MaximOS on her new secure mobile telephony device. 466 + She actually gets one from the company that sells MaximOS, I think, or maybe 467 + she gets one used and goes to experts for replacement of key hardware to 468 + avoid getting screwed by potential for surveillance compromised internals. 469 + 470 +### Alley breaks down and goes to a mechanic while Men In Black raid her home. 471 + 472 +* Alley finds out the Men In Black are raiding her home. It may be that the 473 + prioritizer has a fellow study participant in the area as a way of ensuring 474 + the prioritizer can learn about the meatspace world around Alley's area and 475 + keep an eye on things. It should turn out that the prioritizer has been 476 + using other study participants to do other things to help her out without her 477 + knowledge because Alley is being a little too willfully blind to the danger 478 + of the Men In Black who are coming for her. 479 + 480 +* Once the car is fixed, the prioritizer has her searching classifieds for 481 + something she can use, and it ends up guiding her to trade her car for a 482 + motorcycle she can use for a while without having to register it or let 483 + anyone in government know about it. The prioritizer also starts feeding the 484 + Men In Black even more inaccurate log data than before as a way to protect 485 + her from their digital surveillance and tracking. 486 + 487 +* Maybe Alley actually needs to abandon the car and get a ride from someone the 488 + prioritizer directs her to find, or someone who is a fellow study 489 + participant. This could be the beginning of the very earnest false trail in 490 + the logs and so on. I like this idea, and it kinda sorta parallels some of 491 + the potential for a character to become a MacGuffin without actually turning 492 + her into one. Yeah, I really like this idea. She'll end up getting the 493 + motorcycle later. 494 + 495 +* The prioritizer can arrange for a fellow study participant to pick up Alley's 496 + car and arrange the sale of the vehicle, and get a cut of the sale price. 497 + The remainder, then, goes to Alley, of course, and that in turn can be used 498 + for her to get a motorcycle later. 499 + 500 +### Alley seeks help, but she can't get George to come. 501 + 502 +* Alley *might* actually get in touch with George, but get told she needs to go 503 + to ground somewhere and he'll find her when it's safe. 504 + 505 +* Perhaps the George situation is that he contacts her about the time she's 506 + just finding out about the raid and says something like "I've been burned. 507 + My place is getting raided right now. If you're not at home, don't go back. 508 + If you are at home, and you haven't been hit by COIN, get out now. Get out 509 + and make absolutely sure it's safe before you ever risk going back. I'll try 510 + to get in touch later, help you out, but right now I have to go dark. I'm 511 + sorry. Find someone you can trust who they won't know about or who has 512 + enough influence and money to keep them at bay." That seems like it might be 513 + a great idea. Maybe George drops out of the story for a little while. He 514 + might come back later, when it's time for her to start looking into 515 + connections in the underground, the cyberpunk world, because of the 516 + eventually need for a shadowrun to recover or liberate the prioritizer or 517 + something like that. 518 + 519 +* Alley may go back to Carmen at this point. I'm not sure what that'll entail, 520 + why she's doing it, or whatever, but it seems like a fun idea. This should 521 + probably be fraught with danger, though. I might need to backfill something 522 + about Alley not wanting to carry a gun with her, then perhaps deciding she 523 + needs one after all when the fit hits the shan, so Carmen might be a good 524 + contact for filling that need. That, however, may lead to Carmen and Cliff 525 + getting burned, thus showing Alley that her past decisions resulted in Carmen 526 + and Cliff getting hurt. 527 + 528 +### Alley goes to ground as the prioritizer mobilizes its network. 529 + 530 +* Alley has to figure out what she's going to do in the short term, and ends up 531 + hunkering down somewhere with her motorcycle and the prioritizer as she tries 532 + to figure it out. 533 + 534 +* The prioritizer explains to Alley that it's shifting video records between 535 + study participants to confuse the Men In Black and create a false trail that 536 + should help keep them off her back. 537 + 538 +* Alley probably needs to do some things herself at this point, and maybe she 539 + gets a ride. 540 + 541 +### Dalton smuggles her to somewhere safe "for now". 542 + 543 +* Alley ends up having to get in touch with Dalton to get help. That should 544 + lead to some fun and interesting scenes.