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The CrayCovian Job
| "So we've heard. But we also are aware that you are something of a... folk hero, in the online community, as well as "meatspace." We are therefore certain that your chance of success will be greater than zero."
| "*Sigh* And what exactly do you have in mind then? No offense but the way I keep running into your Corp, you don't instill a lot of confidence or trust."
| >>104283
"Nor does the possibility of you simply backstabbing any employer you disagree with and deleting the evidence, hacker. Of course you wouldn't trust us. But we venture to believe that you trust our intended target far, far less. For reasons that we are quite eager to learn about."
"Should you decide to share it with us."
| >>104445
>He just stares at the person in the suit, seemingly unfazed by all the guns pointed in his direction.
"...Who's the target?"
| >>104453
"There isn't any. If anything, we weren't interested in any of VeriaTech's services, nor property, aside from the occasional curious flip through seemingly endless pages of horror stories, yellow journalism, muck raking and gossip. But then, an interesting thread of information glowed, within the fantastical nonsense about zombies and mutants. A virus. That only affects lilims and the augmented?"
"Do you understand where we're going with this?"
| >>104466
"Goodness, no. At least, not for the reasons you're probably thinking. We wish to study it. To immunize against it. And ultimately, to destroy it."
"We may have no quarrel with VeriaTech as long as they remain decidedly out of the retail and residential markets. But we *will* have an issue if their supposed pet virus... assuming that any of this actually exists- were to infect our security forces."
"These aren't cheap, after all. All we need is a sample."
| "We would prefer not having to resort to fielding mechanized, "meaty" infantry when there is such an abundant supply of artificial labor available planetside."
| >>104473
"No deal. Besides I have on good authority that a cure already existence it's just... very difficult to come by. Now of course if you just want it to protect yourself then I'm sure we can work with me obtaining the cure instead... unless of course you secretly had other plans for the sample?"
| >>104479
"If by "other plans" you meant "mass producing it," then yes, by all means... we have plenty of plans for a hypothetical cure for a hypothetically world-ending super virus that apparently takes over lilims and drones and turns people into the living dead."
| >>104484
"Well I'm sure sharing a sample of the cure should I find it shouldn't be too hard, I would want the virus eradicated as much as you do. However what do I get in exchange? This kind of thing would take some time and effort after all to obtain. I'm sure you've been around long enough to know how much... influence VT has around lately."
| >>104489
"In exchange, we will suffer these losses today as an unfortunate side effect of an economy that is struggling to recover from the horrors of the recent riot, as well as the civil war..."
| "...and we will forget about a certain bar in Uptown, which until recently was well past due on its rent, with interest, and has recently undergone significant renovations."
"Manned by an old man, a young asian man with orange glasses, and a number of waiters with strange animal-like protrusions from their skulls."
| >>104493
"...And you also make a public apology involving your attack on the safe zone and the representatives of White Lightning."
| >>104501
"We shall make an apology for our use of excessive force, in response to defending our holdings against overly aggressive law enforcement and corporate security forces."
| >>104508
"We are glad we can come to an agreement," >The voice says, before the suit turns around and begins to stomp off. The lilims follow in their wake.
>Another suit steps up to your side as the rest scurry off.
"When you have this 'cure,' inform us via your regular channels. We -will- be watching. We trust you will make post-haste."
>They, too, stomp off.
| "Tch, this shit always leaves a bad taste in my mouth..."
>CN grumbles to himself as he walks back to the safe zone.
"Hey everyone, I talked to CrayCo. And I've come up with an agreement where they'll leave the safe zone alone from now on and issue a public apology... I know it's not much considering what happened but it was the best I could do with no leverage."
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| >A camera, one of the few that isn't destroyed in a thousand pieces by now, zooms in on a tall man with brunette hair and a large cyberdeck on his back as he speaks with a heavily armored powered suit... or a drone. It's hard to tell which. He's surrounded on all sides by heavily armed lilims, and the camera's rudimentary audio speakers burst on.
>We now join them as they continue their discussions from a previous thread. (Speak normally, without the pink text.)