Episode 10 - Culture Fit
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Fun City Ventures - Episode 10 - Culture Fit [ Transcription by Matthew Wang Downing ] [ 00:00:00 ] [ Intro Theme begins ] > Molly Templeton / "Artemis": [ IC ] In the early 21st century, magic reawakened on Earth, and alongside it, a new human race, with orcs, elves, trolls, dwarves, and others. Humanity became metahumanity. As technology proliferated and greatly advanced in the awakened world, global megacorporations seized ever more power, becoming de facto states with their own laws, courts, and armed forces. The corporations attempt to control all aspects of modern life. This has led to a vast and complex criminal underground which works for and against corporate interests. The independent career criminals who do what others can't or won't are called Shadowrunners. The year is 2101. Welcome to Fun City. [ Intro Theme ends ] [ Main Theme begins ] > Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Previously on Fun City, the team is hired by Mo Ashina of Combinatorial Limited to disgrace police union bureaucrat Verne Sollix, and end his architecting a strike of the NYPD Incorporated Police Force. Upon confrontation at the Police Expo, Verne claims that triple-A biotechnology megacorporation, Evo, is experimenting on police, who are contractually obligated to see the company for medical care. A strike is the only way to get leverage and stop them. He offers to hire the team, but a riot breaks out. Viv melts Cairn Holbrook, an NYPD reserve detection mage, and Luxe takes a call from Yuri, who has another job for them. Frazzled - but free - the team heads to The Ball Pit to regroup. There, they meet a many-armed man, who shows them an illusion of a horrifically dismembered Gabe. He says to never work with Yuri again, to remain out of Jast Columnar’s business, and he searches their memories for Jast’s gun, which Viv gave to the sea. Concerned about their shipmate, the crew races to the Mrs. Egg, to find the lingering astral signature of the many-armed man. We join them as they board the boat, hoping to find Gabe - and find him alive. [ Main Theme concludes ] > Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: The voice that you hear is not Gabe’s but Artemis’. > Molly / “Artemis”: [ IC ] Artemis on. Would you like to hear the weather? > Nick Guercio / “Luxe Scythe”: [IC] Artemis, can you hear us? Wh- Where’s Gabe? > Molly / “Artemis”: [ IC ] Searching for Gabe. Gabe found. Gabe is in his quarters, tied to a chair, with ropes. > Mike / G.M.: You hear [ muffled attempts to yell through a gag ] > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Oh shit! > Jenn de la Vega / "Vivian Lakewood": [ IC ] Oh my goodness. > Shannon Odell / "Lash Goodbog": [ IC ] Oh my god— > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] We rush towards his quarters. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah, we run. I run very fast— > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Much faster than me— > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Lash is the fastest— [ Shannon laughing ] > Mike / G.M.: One boat per second— > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah. [ Shannon laughs ] > Molly / “Artemis”: [ IC ] Ropes are often made of natural fibers, used to entwine humans and objects. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Okay, off, Artemis! > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Thank you, Artemis. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] I’m running after Lash. She’s twice as fast as me, easily. > Mike / G.M.: Uh, you get to Gabe’s quarters, the door is closed. But you hear him on the other side, sort of muffled yelling. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I kick it open, even though it’s open. [ Nick and Mike laugh ] > Mike / G.M.: The door swings open and hits his workbench [ Shannon laughs ] with such force that some of the buckets of electronics sort of fall down. [ Shannon laughs ] You don’t do any permanent damage, but you do see him. He is there in a zebra bathrobe, tied to a chair with a sock stuffed in his mouth and tape around his head. And he’s, he’s yeah, he’s fully restrained and as soon as you walk in, his eyes, his eyes like, open really wide, and then he just sort of like relaxes, and hangs his head, like, “Ohh, thank God.” > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Gabe, we thought you were dead. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I quickly start to untangle him. > Mike Rugnetta / “Gabriel ‘Gabe’ Oziman”: [ IC ] [ Urgent, muffled attempts to talk ] > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I take his, his thing out. > Mike / “Gabe”: [ IC ] Uhh— Uhhhg— Some I dunno, there’s some red guy who’s coming, did you see this freaking—this red guy with the arms? > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] —Mm, yes. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] —Yes. Yes. > Mike / “Gabe”: [ IC ] Okay, you don’t seem—you seem, what? > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] He made an illusion that you were, you were decapitated. I freaked out. > Mike / “Gabe”: [ IC ] Oh god. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah— > Mike / “Gabe”: [ IC ] —Is he— > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] —It was terrible. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] We all freaked out. We were all cryin’. > Mike / “Gabe”: [ IC ] Aww, that’s, I mean, that sounds very upsetting, but also... how nice. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Uhm, yeah, everybody was visibly upset. [ Shannon laughs ] I’m really glad that you’re alive, Gabe. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Did he ask you anything? > Mike / “Gabe”: [ IC ] You know, it was the strangest thing. I was just—I was working on the bridge, and here was just this guy, dressed in all gold, floating, with a tiny crown—who wears a crown? > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Good question. > Mike / “Gabe”: [ IC ] And he started asking me questions about uh, Jast, and he started saying all this stuff about not going back, and about like, you know, his bosses, and The Seven, and like all this—I don’t know, like. And then uh, and then, I don’t know, like—I just—I guess I fell asleep? I don’t know, he must’ve done something. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Hm. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Well I’m just glad you’re okay, but this guy knows where we live. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Viv moves to help Gabe get out of the ropes. > Mike / “Gabe”: [ IC ] Hey, I appreciate that. As much as I like being tied to things, like, you know... [ 00:05:02 ] > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Understood. > Bijan Stephen / "T.K.": [ OOC ] Like everybody in this universe... > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Is horny! [ Mike laughs ] > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] They love to be horny. [ Shannon laughs ] > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] We—How much do you care about Yuri? I think he might be in trouble. > Mike / “Gabe”: [ IC ] If Yuri were to die... > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Right. > Mike / “Gabe”: [ IC ] ...I do not think I would be extremely upset. [ Shannon laughs ] > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] ‘Kay, that’s a good answer. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] I would be very upset. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Lash would be upset. > Mike / “Gabe”: [ IC ] Yeah, you ain’t seen him when he’s mad. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] No... > Bijan / "T.K.": [ IC ] We have seen those eggs. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] And I have to admit, he did say that the eggs were nice and hot and fresh, and that in two days we could get those. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] We could get more information about whoever this is that is terrorizing us. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah, we’re in a pickle with quite a few Johnsons right now. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah... We are in a double pickle situation. So, Gabe, let me tell you where we are. We did get the scans on Verne. > Mike / “Gabe”: [ IC ] Oh, this is the Ashina job! > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah. > Mike / “Gabe”: [ IC ] Yeah, okay, all right. Nice, nice. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] We believe—we believe that there is a massive conspiracy that is putting the lives of many, many millions of citizens and officers in danger, and that by giving this data over to them, we would be supporting an Evo-led conspiracy. > Mike / “Gabe”: [ IC ] E-Evo?! > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] We think they’re involved somehow because we think that they’re involved with making some of these cops—maybe—turn bad, or different, or something. > Mike / “Gabe”: [ IC ] I mean they’re the biggest of the Big Ten in the city, like, you’ve got to be careful about—I don’t mean you, sorry— > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I’m gonna throw this out there, guys, and if you don’t want to go along with me on this, that’s fine, but I’m thinking about breaking into Evo... itself... and getting some fucking answers. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Sounds like a, a large task. [ People laugh ] > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] That’s what I thought I’d hear. And honestly, I can’t do any of this myself, except for maybe talk to the guard. [ Jenn and Mike laugh ] So— > Mike / G.M.: So, just for background— > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yep. > Mike / G.M.: Evo has many satellite locations in New York, but they have one main location. And it is around 14th St. in Manhattan, very far on the West Side, but it sprawls like, a dozen square blocks. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Right. > Mike / G.M.: And it’s what in the Shadowrun universe is called an Arcology. It is essentially a city within the city. It is places where Evo citizens work, live, go to school—you know—own property if Evo allows them to own it. You know, there’s—as you’ve learned— there’s a hospital there. It’s, it’s like a—it’s not hermetically sealed, people can come and go, but it is essentially a civilization within a civilization. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] On what you were saying— > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Mhmhm.