penned by desu
Joined March 2020
๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ; ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ, ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ - ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ญ
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( from the outside of the building, she can already tell thisโ€™ll be a tricky escape . but she wonโ€™t let it deter her ! clawed fingers dug into the buildingโ€™s outward structure as she climbed higher and higher, scanning for a way to transfer to another area .
( the cerberusโ€™s a maintenance model , and alt had possess the buildingโ€™s layout the moment she broke into the localnet โ€ฆ taliaโ€™s escape would be cut short as she can see the massive mech chasing after her in almost breakneck speed , going through air vents , +
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the 37th level gave her an out . right next to the NCART lines . bingo ! without hesitation, she jumped from the side paneling and fell a decent distance before hitting the ground in a roll . or rather, hitting the top of the NCART track . it canโ€™t follow her here, can it ? )
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nope ! ( quickly ducking behind the cover of that building, now using her cybernetics to climb up as far as possible . no way sheโ€™s letting that thing scan her ! )
( walking closer towards the lass . ) i find your excuse refutable . ( mechanic limbs pressing closer , its red illuminated head scans talia from top to bottom . )
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capri isnโ€™t anything to worry about . least as far as Iโ€™m concerned . โ€˜sides, if they wanted to implant it, they wouldโ€™ve tried it already . havenโ€™t yet . not that I trust โ€˜em .
Mhm, the news spread wide, especially in netrunning world. I'll hope you will not be proven otherwise, Talia. Alas... you can never expect to be better than those gangoons corporations hire.
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you mean capri ? Iโ€™d kill him if he tried . all the execs too . they know Iโ€™d be fast enough to merc โ€˜em before that AI dataset even transferred .
Your father is working for Kang Tao. It's a matter of time his employer will demand a vessel for whatever AI they have running around their systems.
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( immediate pause . ) uh . . . sightseeing ? ( please buy the lie, please buy the lie . . . )
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good . theyโ€™ll fall easier if the smaller chips are off the board . used as a weapon by who, huh ? think Iโ€™d let some corp shuffle my body around like a damn puppet ?
Oh no, darling. I was doing that the entire time since 2045. It is not an issue. Quite the opposite. You'd be used as a weapon.
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youโ€™re telling me no one ever thought of destabilizing ? ugh, fucking grown - ups . . . whatever . whyโ€™s my chrome tolerance such an issue ? donโ€™t see a problem with it, long as Iโ€™m not psycho .
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thatโ€™s why I said the small ones . less competition means they loosen up . not that complicated .
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( woah . . . thatโ€™s fucking new to her . peeking around the corner to watch it roam . curious . )
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. . . huh . Arasakaโ€™s an international corp . hitting the small ones makes more sense to start, then work your way up . start with the biggest fish, get the biggest fuckery .
'Eve Arasaka' no, but 'Eve Akira' would. Just saying. Destroying a corporation takes time, alas... Look at Arasaka. The blow delivered in 2077 proved too weak to fully remove them from existence.
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AI this, AI that, itโ€™s all bullshit . people too hyped up on BDs nowadays ๐Ÿ˜’
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eve . . . good . bet โ€˜eve arasakaโ€™ wonโ€™t give any pings in the wider net, huh ? anyways, donโ€™t matter if good people donโ€™t exist . they can, if corpos stopped existing .
I'm not a 'good' corpo. There are no good people in Night City, Talia. And if there were, they are dead. Well, that's fair. My name's Eve.
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damn . . . didnโ€™t take you for a โ€˜goodโ€™ corpo . but since you took shit from me, now I get to know something about you . whatโ€™s your name ?
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yeah, you fit the corpo bogeyman role . . . fine . think itโ€™s time I upgraded anyways . sure your business daddyโ€™s stuffโ€™s better than what my old man or maelstrom could get me . but I wonโ€™t be on arasakaโ€™s payroll .
Replying to @ARASAKASCRUSHER
< ๐šข๐š˜๐šž ๐š๐š›๐š˜๐š– ๐š๐šŠ๐š•๐š”๐š’๐š—๐š ๐š๐š˜ ๐š๐š‘๐šŽ๐š–. ๐™ฐ๐š—๐š ๐šข๐š˜๐šž๐š› ๐š•๐š’๐š๐š๐š•๐šŽ ๐š๐š›๐š’๐šŽ๐š—๐š๐šœ? ๐šƒ๐š‘๐šŽ๐šข ๐šœ๐š‘๐š˜๐šž๐š•๐š ๐š‹๐šŽ ๐š๐š’๐š—๐šŽ ๐š๐š’๐šŸ๐šŽ๐š— ๐š๐š‘๐šŽ๐šข ๐š๐š˜๐š—'๐š ๐šŒ๐š›๐š˜๐šœ๐šœ ๐šŠ๐š›๐šŠ๐šœ๐šŠ๐š”๐šŠ.
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no missions, no dives, no nothing . donโ€™t want my name dragged through the mud of their shadows . just donโ€™t wanna end up as a stain this early in life .
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children arenโ€™t safe here, you know that better than anyone . your company uses โ€˜em for shit, donโ€™t they ? or so I heard from deep - dive circuits .
Please. For one, I'm too old for games like that. Two, you are a child, I may be a cyborg but I am not a heartless monster. Let's say, and that will be enough of information, that a long time ago Arasaka did something even I found inhumane.
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// aaaaand twitter just made me look at Shota shit bc it recommended it under a post about Roman ๐Ÿ˜ญ Iโ€™m gonna fucking blow up the Internet one day, I stg
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. . . huh ? youโ€™re a fucking corpo, but you wonโ€™t sell the data you scrapped off me ? thatโ€™s rich . whatโ€™s your deal, anyways ? you talk like a corp, but something doest add up . . .
That'll be a lesson. Be careful when you talk to adults who work for major corporations... You can't trust anyone. Now. Don't worry. Your top secrets are safe with me.
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. . . so youโ€™re saying I donโ€™t got a choice ? either I go with you back to Arasaka and become a corpo - borg, or . . . ? I . . . my folks are already worried about me . if I up and disappear like that . . .
Replying to @ARASAKASCRUSHER
< ๐šŒ๐š‘๐š›๐š˜๐š–๐šŽ. ๐™ฝ๐š˜๐š ๐š๐š‘๐šŠ๐š ๐šœ๐š‘๐š˜๐š๐š๐šข ๐š‹๐š•๐šŠ๐šŒ๐š” ๐š–๐šŠ๐š›๐š”๐šŽ๐š ๐š๐š›๐šŠ๐šœ๐š‘. ๐šƒ๐š‘๐š’๐š—๐š” ๐šŠ๐š‹๐š˜๐šž๐š ๐š’๐š ๐šŒ๐š‘๐š’๐š•๐š, ๐š’๐š ๐š ๐š˜๐šž๐š•๐š ๐š‹๐šŽ ๐šŠ ๐šœ๐š‘๐šŠ๐š–๐šŽ ๐š๐š˜ ๐š‘๐šŠ๐šŸ๐šŽ ๐šŒ๐š›๐šž๐šœ๐š‘ ๐šข๐š˜๐šž ๐š•๐š’๐š”๐šŽ ๐š๐š‘๐šŽ ๐š›๐šŽ๐šœ๐š ๐š˜๐š ๐š๐š‘๐šŽ ๐š๐š•๐šŽ๐šœ๐š‘ ๐š‹๐šŠ๐š๐šœ ๐šŠ๐š›๐š˜๐šž๐š—๐š.
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( donโ€™t lie to yourself, Talia . they know youโ€™re already too far gone . ) ( they wonโ€™t love you either way . ) . . . promise youโ€™ll keep my friends out of this . . .
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