Arch asks the train Friend Computer to slow down. 1,3,3 The train keeps moving. He leaps 6 and makes it.
-bing- Attention, citizen, you have entered the train in an unsafe manner. Please enjoy this brief instructional video on proper monorail safety. -bing-
For the period of the trip, Arch watches scenes of various train disasters.
edited 9th Sep '16 5:06:23 PM by Nodrog
Much to everyone's amazement, the train arrives safely at the BSK train station.
The platform is mostly empty, with only two people at the station: A man in a red uniform behind the information counter, and a man in a red torn jumpsuit strumming a guitar.
The man with the guitar is wearing an odd button, that sort of looks like an upside down Y. Members of the MYSTIC secret society can recognize it as a button worn by certain members and may try contacting him.
The man behind the counter is wearing a suspiciously shiny Teela O'Mally Fanclub button. He may (or may not) be a member of the FREE ENTERPRISE secret society and may be willing to provide information for either a fee or a fellow FREE ENTERPRISE society member.
There is a door marked by a small Sickle sign. A member of the COMMUNIST secret society could try the secret knock to see if the door will open.
You can try to find a medical center to get help for Clayr.
You can try to go to Charles-Y-BSK-4 's office.
Or you can try something else entirely. This is YOUR adventure, after all.
edited 10th Sep '16 2:25:33 AM by Nodrog
Phoenix notices the identifier of the Mystic society and casually, not suspiciously at all, makes his way over to the man to try and contact him.
"Hello. Nice button you've got there."
"Like, hey, man." The guy says, playing a few chords on his guitar, looking tense. He relaxes as Pheonix flashes two fingers in a secret hand signal. "You like, looking for the Tambourine Man?" he asks. "Need the low down on the uptown here? Or just touchin' bases?"
Arch looks to Clayr for guidance, waiting on her go. Ingratiating himself to his team leader also doesn't sound like a bad idea.
edited 10th Sep '16 6:49:00 AM by pblades
"Whoah, man..." the man says, looking at Clayr. "Her legs are like, totes grody... she gonna need some sexual healing?"
At this point, I should point out that due to all citizens of Alpha Citizen being genetically engineered clones, no one really has a clear understanding what 'sexual' means.
edited 10th Sep '16 12:03:47 PM by Nodrog
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Clayr starts to move towards the nearest medical facility.
"I could use some medical help, so I'll be heading there."
[TOP SECRET]
Clayr's knowledge of similar sectors 1+Brains+Alpha Complex=6, 4, 1, 6 is sufficient she can figure out where the nearest medical facility.
Clayr enters a medical center divided into two sections, one section set up as a first aid clinic and the other an operating theater. Looking into the operating area, Clayr can see a naked dead body being examined by an infrared class women dressed in black medical scrubs and a black spiked dog collar, the woman's black hair pulled into two pigtails. An old man with gray hair and an orange medical scrubs enters the first aid center. "Hello, I'm Doctor Mallard-O-NCS-4. How may I help you?"
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Clayr waved at the doctor.
"Hello Doctor Mallard. I was wondering if I may get my legs looked at."
Clayr turned on the charm, fully aware that the doctor outranked her.
[TOP SECRET]
Mallard examines Clayr's legs. "Mmm, the left leg appears sprained and should be ok. The right leg was broken, you apparently hit something hard at high speed...I can put it in a cast and it will heal in several months, or for a small fee I can have your leg replaced with a fully functional leg."
Do you want to use a cast or pay the XP to have your leg replaced?
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"I'll have my leg replaced, please."
[TOP SECRET]
Mallard has Clayr lay back on a table and holds a face mask to Clayr's face. Clayr inhales a deep breath of sweet smelling air, and then falls unconscious.
When Clayr awakes, she sees Mallard working in the other chamber with the infrared woman, examining the body. Clayr's legs and feet now feel fine but, looking down, she discovers that her right foot and leg has been replaced with replacements that looks almost identical to her left foot and leg. In fact, Clayr now literally has two left feet. A pop-up message on Clayr's vision informs her that her new XP balance is 50 XP Points, with 50 XP points having been paid out to the BSK body part supply bank.
edited 11th Sep '16 12:01:59 AM by Nodrog
Silence turns to Clayr and questions if she is alright.
"Gimme the low down on the place, and...who's the Tambourine Man?"
"Hey, man, this place used to be like coolesville" the guitarist says. "Lot of green growy things, not a lot of wifi, lot of places to be chill. But then some of the others, if you know what I'm sezzing, grokked in the coolness and started movin' in, and then a lot of like spooky-shit been happening. Weird noises and things going on, specially down in area 17. Heard the bossman was snooping around down there, saw something the fat cats didn't like, and they unleashed some sort of monster on him. Chased him till it scared 'im to death, then they stripped him for some reason, but thats all I know of that."
"The tambourine man? He be the one be running pipe here for us brothers. If you be needing a lot of the jingle-jangle, he the one you be needin if you know what I'm laying down. Got himself a nice little pad and set up for some major production."
Translation: This place is good for secret meetings, but lately other secret organizations having been moving in. Free Enterprise (the fat cats) are doing something in level 17 and may have been the cause of the death you were ordered to investigate. The tambourine man is the code name for the head of the local chapter of the Mystics. If you need large quantities of drugs or anything else from the Mystics, he can supply it.
In the medical area:
Before Clayr can answer, there is a muted explosion. The light panels in the main area flicker out, and many of the lights in the morgue area go dim. You can still see through the glass wall what is going on in there, but people in the morgue may not be able to see you. Mallard and the IR woman wearing a collar look up, startled, as someone starts cutting into the morgue through an outer wall.
Clayr, Silence, and anyone else in the room:
Your HUD flickers out, a sign that something is interfering with the local wi-fi signal. According to a diagnostic message, the Wi-Fi signal here is now too low to try to contact Friend Computer, but you might be able to contact members of your team as long as you keep the message short.
You only have a few minutes to decide whether you want to try to leave, try to hide, or go into the morgue area to help Mallard and the IR woman.
Silence decides to hide.
Two figures in gray ski masks and jumpsuits break into the morgue. Both are carrying zip guns, improvised laser pistols. One is carrying a phreak-box, a highly treasonous device that interferes with local wi fi. They fire at random, one shot passing through the window and killing Clayr. One of them clubs Canard on the head, then the two pick up the dead body in the morgue and stuffs the body into a biological waste trash chute. The other man, the one carrying the phreak-box, exits the booth and goes over to Clayr's body. He starts dragging Clayr into the morgue.
edited 20th Sep '16 11:17:23 PM by Nodrog
Arch asks the train to stop moving and opens the door for him to board. He tries to phrase it like he was directing the request to Friend Computer.
If it doesn't work, he tries the jump.