SR Bug hunt

[Dog Pants]

Shall we go check out the Basement? This line of conversation can only end badly.

I guess we go check out this club. See you around, Toast.

[Joose]

Renraku homeless shelters? I know anything about these?

Renraku Corp knowledge 3 + INT 4 = 7

2, 1, 5, 1, 6, 6, 3: 3 hits.

Not a sausage. If they existed, you are sure you would have heard of them. They are either a brand new thing, or complete bollocks. Your gut says the latter.

[Roman Totale]

Yeah let's get. My head is hurting from talk of things I know nothing about and that can't be proved.

Vamos.

[Dog Pants]

Homeless shelters masquerading as charity? Sounds like a bodysnatching operation to me. We should check that out too.

Is it day or night? If it's day we'll head to Homelessworld, if it's night we go clubbing in Club Weird.

[Roman Totale]

Let's go clubbing.

[Dog Pants]

Have I ever heard of this club?

Seattle nightlife 1 + INT 4 = 5

6, 6, 2, 2, 3: 2 hits.

[Roman Totale]

/dance

[HereComesPete]

/train

[Joose]

Club? What club? Do you mean the Basement? If so, thats not a club, thats the area of the city you are in. Bargain Basement, so called due to the shitty housing and low cost, low quality lifestyle. Its not unusual for bits of the metroplex like this to be filled with "unusual activity". For one thing, low police coverage means high crime rates, and in SR crimes can be pretty weird. But also, places like this are a good place to hide if you are a bit of a wierdo yourself, so they are where vampires, unpleasantly SURGEd people, escapees from illegal experiments, violent psychopaths or Free Spirits tend to end up. Hence: Weirdness a go-go.

Its late afternoon/early evening. Want to go to Homelessworld?

[Dog Pants]

The Basement sounds scary. Lets do Homelessworld.

[Joose]

You going straight there then? Okeydoke.

Leaving the now rather sozzled Toast and chums to thier bikes, you head off in the direction he waved in.

The shelter is just around the corner, a couple of blocks away. Its an old building, but it looks like its had a fair amount of repair work done recently. Its certainly in better condition than the buildings around it. Over the door is a big sign declaring the building to be "Haven - A Home For All". To the side is a sign, with an exact duplicate in AR:

Welcome to Haven, a Renraku funded charitable organisation providing shelter, food and basic medical care to the SINless and the needy. We welcome all who need help.

Rules of accomodation:

1) Although ID is optional, a basic medical checkup is required for acceptance. This is for the safety of other residents, and medical aid will be offered to anyone suffering illness or injury.

2) Drug or BTL use is strictly prohibited. Residents or visitors found in breach of this rule will be ejected from the premises, for the safety of the other residents.

3) Weaponry is strictly prohibited. All residents and visitors will be required to pass a security scan.

4) Although some magical use is permitted, any offensive use of magic will result in ejection from the premises. Weapon foci and summoned spirits are strictly prohibited to both residents and visitors.

Haven also offers counselling services, legal advise services, health and welfare advice as well as regular talks on subjects such as education and employment with Renraku. Attendance is strongly encouraged, but not required!

Haven is a fully owned subsidiary of Renraku Computer Systems. Haven will not be liable (to the fullest extent permitted at law) for any loss, damage or inconvenience arising as a consequence of any use of or the inability to use any of the advertised services at this site. This site is property of Renraku Computer Systems and is subject to extraterritoriality, as defined in the document RCS-2552b-2069.1.14, available <HERE>. Renraku Computer Systems reserves the right to hold any persons found in breach of corporate law whilst within this territory. Boundary of this site is clearly marked through Matrix ARO's, and in the document RCS-2590823b34d-2072.3.20, available <HERE>

[Dog Pants]

Hmm. I'm going to get in touch with my Ren contact.

Minoru, you ever heard of this?

I'll send a pic over to him.

[Joose]

Not heard of this one in particular, but stuff like this pops up from time to time. Its probably part of a deal with UCAS. Something along the lines of "You get the land, but you have to provide this service on it for the first 5 years" or "You get this contract here if you provide us with that service there", that sort of thing. Might even just be a placeholder op. Property ownership records in the Barrens are still all fucked up from the Crash, so sometimes small cheap setups are established to keep corporate hold on the land. I'll look into it and see if I can dig out any further information for you. Might take a while though, so don't hold your breath.

[Dog Pants]

Hmm, looks like it might be legit then. Anyone fancy scouting the place out and looking for alternative entries?

[Roman Totale]

I can go in and pretend to be homeless.

Do I need wardrobe and make up?

[Dog Pants]

Wouldn't have said so, maybe tidy you up a bit. But I can lay some prosthetics on you if you want to avoid being recognised.

[Roman Totale]

Why would I want to avoid being recognised? Are you saying someone is looking for me?

[Dog Pants]

Well they might be if you hack your way out of there. Are you saying someone's looking for you?

[Roman Totale]

No, why would they be? That's crazy, Al - you need to lay off the booze.

With that Chopper promptly walks into the building.





After cursing and rubbing his head, he decides to walk in through the door instead.

[Dog Pants]

I'm dreading the results of this.