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| >"Hello, would you be in need of directions?"
>"Certainly, young man..."
>"Would you happen to be the commanding officer of the forces here?"
| > "I am the quartermaster, and the Commander is busy, But I can handle any requests. And please refrain from calling me a young man, I am 44 after all."
| >The man turns around and yells behind him:
>"We have someone requesting to see the commander! Relay the info!"
>He turns back around.
>"Sorry about that, we prefer to keep transparent to the public and ourselves."
| >As the man leaves, the recorder speaks, raising their arms and gesturing to the camp.
>"Expensive,"
>"Hard to believe that all of this,"
>"Is at the hands of a single corporation. No. This is a coalition of some kind."
| >A large imposing lilim approaches the recorder and begins speaking.
>"...Ain't th'commander but m'one 'o 'er bodyguards. I can tell 'er whatever needs be told to 'er. What cannae do fer yeh?"
| >The recorder replies:
>"I represent a number of Concerned Businesses in the immediate downtown area, who as you may be aware were affected greatly by the riots and mass protesting a few weeks ago,"
>"As such, while we certainly welcome your efforts, we must discuss the issue of territorial boundaries in the immediate Downtown area..."
| >The recorder turns to look to their sides as a few GCPD officers approach.
>"Excuse me sir..."
| >The recorder continues anyway,
>"...preferably not with a mere bodyguard."
| >The recorder turns back to the GCPD officers.
>"How may I help you?"
| >"If it isn't any problem, we need to check you for weapons sir,"
>The officers say, moving to perform a pat down.
| >As the officers move to do so, the lilim continues.
> "We got proper channels fer that. Most businesses 'ould know y'can just call 'n give yer inquiries."
>"As far's territorial boundaries go tho' th'safe zones'll be temporary till 'veryone's been 'elped. But a'right. Yeh can talk with th'business folks 'bout territory. Just make sure yeh call at 800-XXX-XXX, 'n request th'business line. You'll make yer appointment 'n we'll book yeh soon's possible."
| >The recorder continues,
>"Go ahead, gentlemen. You'll soon find that I have no reason to carry firearms on my person,"
>"Unfortunately, that will not be acceptable; for one thing, I am not making an "inquiry," Mister bouncer..."
>"This is a demand."
| >The cops continue.
>"Thank you for your cooperation sir."
>"Do you have any augmentations on you sir?"
| >The recorder appears to open their coat.
>"In a manner of speaking."
| >The cops reply:
>"If you wouldn't mind, we'd like to see.
And if you can tell us.. type and model.
Sorry, Lieutenants orders."
| >The lilim says:
>"Demands, eh? N'what are yer demands? I'll go 'head 'n tell yeh straight. Yer goin' 'bout this all th'wrong ways. Ain't nuttin' gonna happen but a shit-show th'way yer cruisin'"
| >"'ll 'ear you out..but if yeh realleh wanna talk t'the head 'o this effort yeh'll wanna change tactics real quick like."
| >The recorder speaks:
>"A Type-23 REC-S model humanoid drone,"
>"Equipped with a tailored micro-pulse proton cortex bomb, connected with both a low-band remote detonation trigger and a deadman's switch,"
>"Tell me, officer, how much is your life insurance policy worth?"
| >The lilim steps back.
>"Eh..Th'hell?!"
>The recorder continues,
>"I already gave my demands, Mr. Bouncer. I wish to speak with the commanding officer of this coalition of aliens and greenhorns,"
| >"We will -not- be playing phone tag."
| >The officers step back.
>"L-Lets not get hasty here now.."
| >The recorder continues:
>"Yes, let's not. Drones are expensive, and these rioters have already cost us a few million nuyen,"
| >"Have I made myself clear?"
| >Suddenly, the recorder shifts to a corner to his left side as the "quartermaster" from earlier returns, yelling and brandishing a weapon!
>"NO, FUCK OFF OLD MAN"
| >A canister rolls to the ground and bursts with smoke! The recorder sparks with static as ion blue blasts hit the recorder!
| >Despite the messy feed, someone is yelling "EVERYONE GET BACK" in the recording!
>Then the recorder shudders, and various warning symbols appear on the HUD of the camera recording...
>"Amateurs," the recorder says, before the feed suddenly cuts out.
| tfw you go into the city with guns and tanks and shit saying ur gunna make peace and then u shoot the guy trying to talk to u even after they tell u they're armed to the teeth with a big ol'bomb.
10/10, would watch suicide by stupidity again
| ...Wow.
I actually don't know what was worse... the dick stroking between the recorder and the lilim, or the idiot going full rambo and getting everyone killed.
That's why I prefer the matrix. less of these idiots. -DarkSmokePuncher
| Shit-show is right. Jesus christ. - R.eM
| Greaaatt. And this surprises absolutely fucking no one.
Don't trust corps, kiddies. You know that old saying... test someone's character, give them power.
Not like this city hasn't been a warzone for the past year and a half anyhow. -BlasterJack
| Isn't this fight still going on? How did they get the recording up so fast? And who did? -VV
| Yeah. It is.
-AnoMeat, Quartermaster.
| >>100539
Hehe, I doubt it though. More likely a decker was riding the system and decided to take the piss out of the owner of the bot... or the other side. Or both. -VV
| I heard that this upload was intentional, but I can't be sure. The owner's kind of secretive, even by you-know-who's standards. -DarkSmokePuncher
| >>100541
Well if it isn't the man of the hour... *starts a slow clap!*
Congratulations buddy, not sure how you managed to survive that, but, looks like you won't be surviving much longer... -BlasterJack
| I got an apology to make. I was the one who opened fire on the man. I did it out of the fear of my life and the life of those around me. I am sure WL will have something to say about all of this, but don't listen. I caused all of this chaos, It's all my fault. Don't listen to the media. WL is innocent, being run by a naive little girl. Don't look for me.
-AnoMeat
| >>100541
My, only a short time has passed and you are already at the behest of Death's scythe. Again.
You are making unrest to your underling. Don't die, it would make our effort to save you a waste. -Uni
| >>100559
...so what yer sayin,
Is that some "naive girl," who runs an internet corp, hired some trigger-happy son of a bitch street samurai to do security, who ends up shooting a guy wanting to talk, knowing full well that he has a fucking proton- get this- a proton bomb in his head, thereby getting everybody killed and starting off yet another shooting war.
Wow. Yes, thank you so much, genius. You've pretty much told everyone online all they need to know about this new corp.
| Uni. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for hiding Shepherd. Say sorry to Cain, and tell her all my assets are now hers. I will live, but not as AnoMeat anymore.
-AnoMeat.
| And yerself.
...wait shit aren't you the guy that also runs that gun shop that opened up recently.
This just gets BETTER and BETTER! -BlasterJack
| I was never hired, I came to offer some radio and fortification supplies spontaneously. I joked about being a quartermaster.
-AM
| >>100559
The fact that you're still alive is a blessing in itself. Chalk it up to newbie's luck.
Take my advice- get off the streets. I've seen you post around here before and cause a ruckuss; corpers and powers that be don't like unknowns. Especially explosive ones.
If they aren't already, they will be coming for you. You and the White Lightninf girl. -The Neon Knight
| >>100568
Get off that sorry from us. We don't deserve nor need it. You left Cain all by herself with worries in her head.
Don't die, AnoMeat. -Uni
| goodbye, Anomeat.
-Shepherd
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| ... what kind of idiot tries to tame the city with nothing but a twice reformed police department, some rent a cops, and a crazy gunshop owner anyway...? -cyb~il
| >>100582
The same kind that also goes around helping out superheroes and saving small children that he can't afford to feed.
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...that's strange. He hasn't responded yet. -The Neon Knight
| Okay, enough for all these nifty bites of opinion. As much wrongs as the groups has caused, there is not a single point trying to meddle opinions to a chaos currently inhibiting the situation.
At the hands of fate, there is no mucking around and sitting with echoes of opinions. If it was pointless to save the city, then would it be fruitful if we save the situation now? -Uni
| >>100567
Because y'know. Suicide bombers loooove to 'talk' on an even playing field. Can we just agree that it's clear both sides have no idea how to hold a goddamn real conversation? Dunno about you...But I don't often strap myself to explosives when I have a heart to heart with another bloke. - RemmingtonRage
| >>100583
I'm here. I've just been quietly observing this whole mess. I've met Anomeat before and while personality-wise he's fine, I found him to trigger happy for my liking. Maybe something to do with his past but I digress. -CN
| >>100599
I'm pretty sure the bomb was supposed to just be a potential threat so he can just start negotiations. Given the area and the manner of speaking from the drone, I have a good idea who he represented, and the Corp in question is not shy for strong arm tactics. That being said, blown up or not, the bomb let them have the advantage by giving them what they wanted. -CN
| Glad I sat out on this one. I was actually just really late, so I didn't get bombed to shit. Nice rash decision making there Rambo Jr.
-RaIn
| >>100918
What do you think is going to happen now? Personally I think the uh "local businesses" are going to use this to make more aggressive terms. -CN
| >>100931
GC has relatively little to offer apart from an urban warzone. Trigger happy hippies with hammers as tools will always look at all problems as nails. And then people wonder why GC attracts the scum of the world?
So what will happen is more people showing with wargear. The shoot fitrst ask questions later type. You can't be a sweet cucumber in a vinegar jar.
- Angry cat boomer
| >>100946
The owners of that drone couldn't care about the violence involving this city. They just want to control more and more property. -CN
| >>100931
Probably. Either that or they're just going to consolidate their holdings- but the more damage done to the locals, the easier they're going to be to buy out.
The trigger-happy guy pretty much sealed the relief effort's fate. But you know all of that already.
Why aren't you helping them out? -The Neon Knight
| >>100953
I was dealing with some personal stuff earlier this week so I wasn't able to help directly, I was keeping an eye on things from home during that time though. I'm probably going to head my way there now soon and see if I can help with "negotiations". -CN
| >>100960
Make sure you restrain that idiot. No telling what he'll do if he thinks that shooting a man with a cortex bomb is a good idea. -The Neon Knight
| We will handle AnoMeat/Shepherd personally. Please, leave this to us. -Uni
| >>100991
I understand where you're coming from Uni but based off that one job you posted AM tends to be... flighty. It's just a precaution. -CN
| >>100992
(I didn't post any job.. CN, are you reading the future?)
Just. Please. We can't let this be outside our grasp. -Uni
| >>100993
I'm not going to stop you from taking him but certain priorities need to be taken first here. (Re sorry, I meant the job from before posted by Cain) -CN
| (That job was finished a while back, I guess I will do an update.)
| (I'm just using it as a justification to tie him up since ites evidence that AM tends to disappear.)
| >>100997
We understand that. We wholly do. It would be foolish, radical, and brash for us to not have that under our knowledge.
Yet, sadly, we think that this time, it would be best if we ignore this. As irrational as it is, we are only trying to save a friend. -Uni
| >>101010
Uni I ignored him in the past and that didn't help. When we met up to sell that button he practically shot up a bar looking for me. He needs help. The kind neither of us can provide. But for that to happen I have to make sure he stays in one place first. -CN
| >>101017
... We know how much disillusioned we are. Seeing him crawling in his sanity simply breaks our trust of any of his decision — and with our own eyes, we have seen this happen.
It's stupid. We are stupid. A dunce is what of a title we deserve for our decision.
Our decision may even be cruelly more insane than that of AnoMeat's mental state, but what we wanted is not to save a lost soul: not that.
We simply wanted to have our message across the already-lost AnoMeat. -Uni
| >>101023
Then once things calm down head over to the safe zone. That's what I'm planning on doing. That would be your best chance to say your piece, but at this point it's too late for AM to go consequence free. -CN
| >>101032
That would be the best of plans, yes. But you are a bit too late on saying that.
Maybe a tad bit longer than "too late", but we find no word to describe it better. -Uni
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| More and more I am convinced that GC is nothing else but a city sized lab researching social interactions and herd behaviour theory.
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| >A recording is uploaded to the interweb which seems to have been shot in first person perspective. Someone is walking up to a heavily fortified area, full of barbed wire, armored police vehicles, GCPD officers and security officers of different stripes. As the recorder enters the area, they are stopped by a middle aged man in their early forties, and a conversation begins.