Part 8

Con's wallet is starting to make him walk funny. Perhaps Asano can assist us getting rid of some of the surplus!



The glare of chrome makes you squint as you enter Asano Computing. Asano smiles pleasantly, making a quick mental estimate of how much you are worth. Gleaming new cyberdecks line the display shelves, beckoning...






That's still a little out of our league! But Asano seems like a reasonable man, maybe we can sweet-talk him?








Having this conversation with Asano gives us a discount on everything. It's still too little, but we could in theory buy the Ninja 5000 or the Samurai Seven with a little extra cash from the bodyshop.

But that's not good enough for our man Con. He deserves the best. With the discount the Cyberspace VII is 44000. That's our new goal.

First, we'll get ourselves an off-shore account, with Comlink 6.0 we can finally access BZO, which turns out to be:




To this day I have no idea how you're supposed to access this bank without Sequencer 1.0. Hitting enter at the password screen gives you access denied, so I figure it's a special bank for cowboys???




As soon as we've signed up we get a welcome message from the manager, and another message:



How did Matt know we'd open an account here?

Oh, and a bit more of the games odd sense of humour:




Enough messing around. We need to see the Moderns about what they know, about Sense/Net and maybe they can tell us something useful about the banks.

We know Larry is one of them, it's time to confront him!








(If you try to bribe him he'll just take the money and not tell you anything.)

Fine Larry, you asked for this. You work for Fuji, which means you by association work for the Yaks. I'm... gonna tell on you!





If you look closely you can see I actually mistyped the word there.



I then wasted 2500 on upgrading cryptology to skill 4 and typed it in correctly.




A small change to the arrest warrant list. That'll teach you not to leave your BAMA id in places people might find them such as inside a non public database locked by a level 2 password!



We're too late for the fireworks, but it looks like Larry has some time to think about how he treats friendly cowboys in the future.



The meeting room of the Panther Moderns, presently occupied by their leader, Lupus Yonderboy. He's dressed in polycarbon suit and his eyes have been modified to look like a cat's. Lupus is watching you with a slight smile on his lips. Tatooed on his hand is the word, "CHAOS".






Did he just hand us an account to steal money from, no questions asked? Matt must really have convinced him we're the shit.

I also asked him about Sense/Net and he offered to sell us a security pass that would allow us to get a ROM construct. Con has no idea what constructs they have there, so we'll hold off on getting the pass.



Our secret account starts with 7 so we quickly reach the conclusion Lupuses secret well must be with Gemeinshaft.



Oh, it's the 30000 we read about earlier.



Next: Con buys a cyberdeck and jacks in at last!