Hi, ay, and I'll low everybody that you didn't expect me on this
side of the mic. But welcome to another recording of the Broken Lords podcast.
It is I Jordan. We've hit the emergency glass, we've broken out
the sprawl, and we're gonna do a nice, hopeful one shot for y'all.
Okay, y'all heard the air quotes as I said it with me?
Are my wonderful players? Sound off as you see fit, guys, We'll
do the top to bottom on our cord. I guess sir it newards.
Where's that on the discord? That's you. Let's oh well, hello,
it's Lydia again, because why not? Hi everybody? Who are you playing
Lydia? Oh right, that's important. Midge j Burgibrinca rolling in to smoke
your hot goods or something. We go fast. That's my motto, smoke
your hot goods. That has been that is that has been noted into the
Rollodecks Episode one, episode one title mm hmm smoke your hot Yeah. Actually
we literally write that down now. Fuck all right, cool, I'm here
to smoke a ball. Take it away, smithely, that's me that's here
playing U rend bray infiltrator likes to get into all the places he's not supposed
to be and make money off. What's your guy look like now? He's
tall, lanky, blackhead, does his best of blending and not look to
stand out Lydia, Could I have a short description of say? Can I
have a short description of a midge? If you will? Jay Bird wears
what she wants all the time. It's hard to look at her. She's
so purlescented and sparkly, and whenever she takes her pink shades off, the
world is very green. But she loves them, so she wears them all
the time and has hair big enough to make the eighties notice. Oh fuck,
you're driving yep, Socks, you spoke. It is now your turn
to introduce yourself and your character. It's me, Socks. You know me.
You probably hate me. I'm playing Bitsnake Turbo. Pretty average height guy.
Apart from his weird bionic eyes, you'd think he was just another corpse
in a worn out suit. But he's not. He left the corporate life
a long time ago and now he runs shit on the streets. Hell ya,
thank you, and it is I Hello everyone. I am the editor
of the Broken Lords podcast. You probably haven't heard my voice on this side
of the mic in a long time. My name is zub De med Into.
I will be playing the enigmatic ice Pick Prescott, a man who is
best described as a thumb swaddled in nondescript clothing with cold dead emerald eyes.
Are the implants are the actual just green? They are green? Okay?
Noted? All right? Beautiful, all right. So we're gonna set the
scene here. As we zoom in, the area outside is a lot of
arid desert. We find ourselves in the American West Metropolis Zone fifty one aka
Neo Flagstaff, Arizona. It's around seven pm. The sun is mostly set.
There is just bright flashing neo lights from the city. Big nightlife going
down right now. Where our present company finds ourselves is a little bit different,
I'd say a mile or so outside of the commercial zone. It's a
lot more more rusty, it's a lot more black, and we're in a
more industrial area. Not quite abandoned warehouses, but unkempt. There are some
like factory type situations, definitely some power plants. You see a lot of
chimneys with smoke going up in the sky. But it's past the working day
and so not nearly as populated as other parts of neoflag Staff. But you're
all here on a mission. You were all basically given a drop off point
to set the scene further work in the past two months, for y'all has
been dry enough. Most of the big corporations that work out of Neo flag
Staff m plants, Check Off Research and Manufacturing or CRM, Exotic Transports,
which is a subsidiary of Exotics United, and Big Corn, which is big
out in America Midwest, if you can imagine, it have been as far
as you know, mostly going to rounds. There's been no big plays because
of that, Like no one's really making any big deals. Work for the
most part is dried up. There's not even been like enough like them trying
to fight each other like they normally do. That's weird. Indeed, indeed,
it feels like one month in recession kind of shit has happened before two
months in. It's kind of feeling like somebody or somebody's know something y'all don't.
However, how is a person supposed to go party and flex in front
of the boys if there's no pay coming in that bank? Account is not
looking good. You've you've been making most of the problem, Yes, most
of you have. Management had been managing to scrape by, like crime syndicaans
are always the thing, right and so there's always gonna be work. But
the work has been shitty and not paying well. So you've getting by,
but you've been sick of it. However, you find yourselves where you are
now to drop off point, basically contacted from a fixer that you've all been
done work with before. Melanie Uhara Turbo or Bitsnake Turbo has had dorm don't
work with her before. She usually likes to have secure communications when she's giving
it, so he fines in the like the dead drop point like a communications
USB like it's it's a way basically securing the line from somewhere. And you
do know that Midge has a radio communicate like outside of you know, your
cell phone's inner car. Yeah, I've also got a cyber deck, an
encrypted comms relay. One might say, okay, you have that like as
part of your like, yeah, I just have that where in general.
Okay, yeah, then you can you can plug it in, no problem.
That probably works better than talking over a non encrypted comms. Really,
that's fair. That's fair. It wouldn't be. Yeah. The idea is
that if she plugged it into encrypted encrypto community in the communicat. But if
you have a way of talking in your brain matter, then that works too.
I'm discree, So just plug that into wherever my neural interfaces. It's
probably somewhere in the back of your neck. Sure, it's disquieting. Likely
after what looks like some doss window loading screens show up as connections are being
made. Malware is being deleted, some shit's being downloaded into your brain.
You know how it goes? Yeah, Melanie, her like waiting icon appears,
and then she appears on screen. Melanie, well known fixer in the
area, pink Afro. She's kind of on the shorter side. You could
see her at her what looks like a desk in her home. There's like
blue mood lighting in the background, pretty calm, chill vibes. Must be
nice to work from home, if only right? Right? Ah, sirr
bo on time as usual? What's the scoop, Melanie? Is the rest
of the people I hired with you? There should be three others. They're
all here, good, good, good, all we need is a low
down all right, Well, this is hot scoop from the United Fixers organization,
but the job is going to be a hit against Exotics Transports. There's
gonna be big noise with Exotics Transports. They've always been like a small time
branch for Exotics United. It's usually like, you know, new fangled cars
and shit like that. But however, big news happened last week. There
was both a shipment direct from Exotics United to them and a bunch of high
level C suite level executives have been coming over here, and to be quite
honest from word on the street, there shouldn't be a reason why, you
know, in sleepy little neo flag Staff, these guys should be here like
their net worth is bigger than this town itself ten times over. And most
people are figuring if there's smoke, there's fire. So we want you all
to infiltrate their corporate headquarters. If you cannot get exactly the shipment directly back
to us, we want at least all the C suite exacts data that they
brought with them, any data inforbs like shipment info, and preferably what the
shipment was. If you can get it physically bring to the drop off point.
There's a lot of people eager to know what's going down here because this
is the first big movie we've seen in months. It looks like they're trying
to do something. Business has run cold. Ice Pick says, underneath his
three layers of garbage, he's just ninety eight pounds soaking wet. I think
right now, docs, yeah, it is time for you to get the
job. This is another negotiation phase. So socks, can you roll edge
for me? How forward? Am I? Zero? Forward? Oh?
Show? Okay? That's respect cool. So you get to choose one of
these. You can either have the employer provide useful information, which gets you
one intel, which is like a resource you can spend to like juice your
roles. The employer can provide useful assets, which is gear that you can
cash in for, like a piece of gear that you need at any given
time. The job pays well, the meeting does not attract attention, or
the employer's identifiable. You get to choose in one of these. I feel
like I would prefer to have a useful asset. Got it? Okay?
So Melanie will continue with the deats she gives you at least three of the
names of the sea level at Egg executives that are from the Anxiety ere United
that are staying at the Exotic Transport's main hub. Here there is Lingway,
there is Jonathan Gresham, and then there is Natalie Cole as the three imports
from Exotics United that are here for some reason that no one can really identify.
And in the dead drop, now we don't need to name this piece
of gear right now. The idea with gear is that you have it and
then when it's time for you to call on it, if you have a
situation that it's going to be useful to you, you tell me what you
have, right Yeah, but let's just say in the dead drop that you
found the link that would make your communications secure. She had something stashed for
you as help with the mission. Excellent. Basically, the ideal pay is
going to be three credits for each of y'all. Is how this split's going
to be. Lydia has no idea if that's good or not. You know
what, it's decent. It's the better pay day than you've seen in money.
It's a payday at all. First of all, so it's more money
than you've seen in a WHI right sind shitty crimeb contracts are like a credit.
Basically, Hey, payday is a payday? Yeah special Thanks to Toys
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