Index: n2020.txt ================================================================== --- n2020.txt +++ n2020.txt @@ -1278,10 +1278,82 @@ tolerance profile change? How will she meet the black war veteran and Carmen plus Cliff again later? I kinda feel like she should. Maybe she should meet the girl from the first kid's car, too, but probably not the kid himself again. + Maybe the black war veteran former Army Ranger tough guy shows up again as + a service provider, with her as a customer, when later she needs to be + transported surreptitiously and clandestinely from one place to another, + equivalent to what's going on with similar scenarios in other stories out + there. This could be a good way to get him back into the story and in + contact with her. She could also, then, end up having the opportunity to + pay him back the twenty dollars he doesn't even realize she owes him. + + Perhaps something Alley could do for one of the other study participants is + do reasearch on people who are trying to find a particular issue of a + particular comic book series to complete a collection, because maybe this + other study participant is in need of money and has a comic book in + excellent condition that could bring in some money like that. Should Alley + end up charging the guy then, when the guy talks to the potential buyer, + the deal falls through, leaving the guy with no money to speak of, and in + fact with less than when he started because he had to pay Alley? Will this + be a case where Alley pays the guy back, because even if she did the work + she realizes the guy is in financial trouble and needs the money, and part + of the reason he's in such financial trouble is that the research he paid + her to perform -- though effective and well completed for him -- did not + actually bear fruit for him? Is there some possibility this will turn out + to be bad for one or both of them if it gets back to the professor and his + spooky spook government intelligence contractors that the prioritizer is + cross pollenating a bit between study participants that should be kept + separate from each other? + + Will Alley end up running a courier job on a motorcycle? That seems fun. + + Will Alley have to bail some guy out of jail? Perhaps a criminal of some + kind, wanted by the police, has the money to bail out a co conspirator + needs someone else to go in to pay the bail -- someone who is not wanted by + the police, and thus can get away with it. That would be fun. The + question is really how I should arrange for her to do this *before* she + ends up on the lam, because afterward she's probably a bit afraid to go + into a police station. Perhaps the criminal paying for things has some + half crippled old lady (or perhaps the half crippled old lady *is* the + criminal!) talk her into paying the bail for her poor grandson or whatever + the hell he is. That could be extra fun, of course. Now I just need an + excuse for Alley to have to pay the bail under her own name instead of + delivering payment for the half crippled old lady or something like that. + Hell, maybe she (the old lady) pretends she is afraid of being on camera + because the government is full of horrible people who will do bad things + with the video, or to her, or whatever. Maybe she's afraid of being sent + to a nursing home that is almost prisonlike in how it runs things, + according to the old lady's sob story. + + Maybe the lawyer of some crime boss is just arranging her to carry the + payment down there and pay the bail as a courier, thus the motorcycle + courier job. That seems like the most likely scenario so far, but very far + from the most fun. If she does it with a motorcycle, though, that means + she's doing it after she's on the lam, I think, which means I have to + figure out how to get her to be willing to go to the place to pay bail. + That might be a bit harder. + +*/ + +/* + +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. + +Maybe Alley could just carry drugs for someone. Again, this is pretty sketchy, and is probably not appropriate right now. + +*/ + +/* + +SUMMARY: + +Alley should, after discussing plans with the prioritizer for what they'll do next, get up the next day and have to deal with the arrival of scary people with sunglasses who want to talk to her about the fact the prioritizer is not properly logging her activities the way they expect. They want to know what's going on, and get a bit of a "conversation" with the prioritizer through her interface or something like that. They should probably check out the glasses just to make sure there's nothing fishy going on with them such that they might somehow be preventing the prioritizer from properly capturing data and detecting activity and so on. They should probably intimate that she will potentially lose her study participation payments if she doesn't allow the prioritizer further into her life to log everything she's doing and provide material they can use to analyze stuff about her and so on. + +A reason for this visit is, of course, the way the prioritizer has been redacting logs to keep activities in line with Alley's goal of greater personal and digital privacy inher life, protecting her from intrusive shit from police and other law enforcement things, and others as well. + */ /* At some point, she should set up a meeting for an exchange in a private conference room at a co-working space. Someone should recognize her and ask whether she's meeting a client, to which she replies vaguely in a positively interpretable fashion without literally confirming that assumption with her words.