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Okay, so…

[Amado's tucked away somewhere, away from the rain and the attention of anybody he might not want to see him recording this. Nearby are Zari and Laphicet.]

Everything's pretty chaotic right now with the planned slave labor and the jail and stuff, but you guys have gotta see this shit. Me n'Zari n'Laphi managed to snoop around that broadcast station for a bit before the cops showed up and like...okay. Did anybody else have to deal with people who had KlarTech cybernetics and now they're useless 'cause the government pulled their sponsorship? There was a big scene about it and me'n Majima had to deal with it and apparently Laphi did too and afterwards we were wonderin' why it even happened in the first place, so the three of us decided to try and look and see if we could find anything.

Here's what we found.

[He attaches a copy of the recording they found. The CEO of KlarTech slighted the Prime minister in some insignificant social setting and as a response, the Prime Minister issued a recall on the business' cybernetics and pull their state sponsorship, which, as anyone who dealt with it themselves will know, caused a hell of a lot problems for KlarTech's consumers.]

Not that we needed anymore proof, but this guy's completely off his freakin' rocker. I think the only questions here are how and when do we show this to everybody with a functioning pair of eyes and if anybody managed to find anything else like this.

[Find some juicy info while exploring in the Electric Sheep log? Now'd be a great time to share it! Also note, Zari and Laphicet will be out in this post as well!]

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[ Good times, man. Good times. ]

Ginko and I talked to some of those upper class folks. Most of them know that what's happening now's wrong, but it ain't like they're actually doin' anything about it. Couple of hardliners into the Vakdir takin' out the trash, if ya know what I mean.

Mostly what you'd expect. It don't affect them personally -- so until it does, they're not gonna give two shits.

[ Remember when he stabbed that one guy, that was great ]

Somehow that doesn't surprise me, at all.

[Her tone is oh so dry and she shakes her head.]

Did you run into anyone we might be able to turn into an ally?

Nah. Never that easy, right? When you're up on that ladder and ya don't agree with the guy up top, ya don't broadcast it if you wanna keep your head.

[ It'd probably require more investigation than the two of them had put in to suss out real sympathizers. ]

Mostly been running around springin' prisoners and dodging lasers, shit like that.

Fair enough.

[They have had bigger problems on their plate than trying to turn spies. But hopefully with more bits of information like this, maybe they'll be able to turn things around.]

At least we have some leverage now.

Yeah. Maybe it'll finally wake some people up.

[ And if it didn't, they'd just have to find something else. ]

In my experience, people can be pretty stuck in their ways unless the world gets in their way.

[She hopes that somehow making them angry enough to do something will drive them to action.]

Maybe we'll be able to find some information that will make the wealthy turn on him.

Yeah. Somethin' that really hits 'em where they live.

Although if that plan we broadcasted doesn't count...

[ yikes ]

[She gives a small shrug in return.]

People who can afford to be self-focused tend to be, at least in my experience.

[I remember panicking when you stabbed that guy.]

Well, it's gonna affect 'em sooner or later. It seems like this guy is just getting crazier and crazier as time goes on. At least if we shove this stuff in their faces, they might realize that their Prime Minister can come after them for whatever stupid reason gets into his head whenever he wants to.

[ God, he hoped so. ]

Yeah. Although this is the kinda thing that happens all the time back home. Good ol' fashioned political corruption.

Granted, they were usually a little smarter about it.

I'd at least like to think that Japan ain't this bad. This place is totally beyond the pale.

[ Someday maybe he'd ask Amado if his Japan had helicopters opening fire on office buidings. Someday. ]

And anything we did to smooth things over at KlarTech's only gonna be a band-aid till the real cause gets addressed.

Hfff...

This place was already messed up even before the Prime Minister went completely Disney Villain Psycho on everything, according to the dossier. I think this place needs a complete overhaul, frankly, but like...what do we do after we get rid of the yahoos in charge?

...Can't we convince the upper class citizens? We do have negotiators.

I dunno. Their powers work that well?

[ Because if so, this mission suddenly got a lot easier. Which was fine with Majima tbh, maybe all they'd have to do then would be make a broadcast of their own. ]

Jason managed to convince the angry crowd to disperse with his negotiator ability. Well, some of them.

[ Both he and Jason still have low level specializations. He had to crank up the effectiveness with his inventor skills. ]

How did you and Mr. Amado deal with that, anyway?

We reasoned with them.... uh, reasonably.

[ wow, so convincing. the weird part was that it was true ]

Got the administration to see it as a PR opportunity, and dusted off a couple of guys who were up to no good.

Oh. Okay?

[ Reasoned reasonably sounds weird, but okay. He'll take that answer. ]

"Dusted off"? What's that mean?

We beat 'em up before they could beat anyone else up.

[ To, you know. Varying degrees of 'requires immediate medical attention'. It was fine, probably. ]

So what'd you do with the ones it didn't work on?

[ There's a small pause before he answers that seems to indicate his surprise. ]

...oh. Wow. Then everyone started listening to you?

I wouldn't say Jason's powers failed entirely. They calmed down, but they were more hesitant to leave. We just took that chance to speak with the doctors before they changed their mind.

Yeah. Y'know how people always say 'violence doesn't solve anything'? They're wrong. Once we roughed up a couple of those guys, their friends mostly backed off.

And the hospital staff were grateful they didn't have to deal with any prosthetics to the back of the head, so they were a lot more open to listen.

[ The moral of this story was that violence solved literally everything, the end. ]

We did have to cut out before the cops showed, though.

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