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| /Hello! Welcome to the CreditCorp Online Banking System! How may I serve you today?/ >It says happily. The viewer ignores it and makes their way within.
/Please enjoy your stay!/ >The semi-AI says as they pass. Behind the viewer, he pops on again, just as cheery as earlier.
/Hello! Welcome to the CreditCorp Online Banking System! How may I serve you today?/
>Ahead, a plethora of deckers are standing on the outskirts of an open space prepared just in front of the fake teller machines. They've formed something resembling a ring, and consist of a dozen other avatars of varying design- the ones that stick out amongst the hodgepodge of standard personas are an enormous ogre with a blue and red mask on his face, designed like a Japanese Tengu,
>A shimering, vibrating, short female avatar with white hair, who seems to phase in and out of reality constantly,
>An anthropomorphic man shaped like a tiger,
>And a suit of armor outlined in glowing purple and orange.
>Several of the avatars are speaking with each other excitedly as two people break the ring and enter the center...
| >On one end, a man dressed in a flourish of clothing that would have been common sometime in the 18th or early 19th century. On the other... a simple, blue colored avatar.
| >The fight begins! The well suited man throws several knives at the blue avatar, but the blue avatar hides behind a digital facsimile of a terminal!
>The blue avatar summons a big bulky Shield ESP and an Assassin program! The bulky shield ESP tanks an attack as the well dressed gentlemen throws some "potions" at him, but the shield disappears! The Assassin moves in for the attack, dodging just as a gigantic butcher knife falls into the ground!
| >The Assassin connects! It slashes at the other avatar's legs!
>The blue boy winces as a knife appears out of the ground and stabs him through the leg!
>On the other side, the big butcher knife topples backwards and slices the Assassin's "arms" off! The gentlemen picks it up and throws it at the Shield ESP, but it misses entirely and embeds itself in a wall!
| >The assassin ESP and what's left of the shield ESP restrain the man! The shield ESP begins to punch him repeatedly in the face, despite his attempts to free himself with a digital knife!
>The two cripples continue to wail on the well dressed man as the blue avatar pops up from behind the terminal! The other assassin ESP follows along!
>The well dressed gentlemen's arms suddenly turn into blades! They cut through what remains of the crippled assassin ESP!
| >The gentlemen lunges at the blue avatar and seemingly slices it apart... but it was a ruse! The body turns transforms into an ASSASSIN ESP, while the one behind it turns back into the blue avatar!
>Together, they surround the well dressed gentleman and hit him with a two pronged attack! He sinks to the ground, defeated!
>Around the circle, the assembled onlookers chatter at the end of the battle; some of the ones with custom avatars don't look so impressed. The big "oni" looking avatar is laughing, while the armored one stands still, arms folded.
| >The pair wave at the audience as the livestream rolls...
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| >A "livestream" of some kind pops up on the Matrix- it's being funneled through some chummer's VR jack, but cleverly augmented with a one way port so as to inhibit any nasty jokers who might try to take control of the viewer.
>It seems to be inside an old CreditCorp mainframe that hadn't been taken offline yet, probably inside an abandoned building or server. The trappings of the old building's aesthetic remain; mint green furnishings with tasteful borders and outlines that resemble (non functioning) tellers, and even an old manager agent, unaware that his creators have long since abandoned the network.