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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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Sounds like it'll do the trick. As for a place... We'd need to be discreet about it, so—maybe the hotel? Then again, Rost's hideout might be better. I've been meaning to throw this stuff at them too, anyway.

Hideout sounds good. I can meet you there in an hour?

[That'll give her time to round up all her tech and make sure she isn't being followed.]

Can do. I'll see you then.

[ When Zari shows up, she might be able to catch 9S at the tail end of a conversation with a member of Rost; the woman he speaks with gives him an offer of thanks before they split off. With nothing to do but wait now, 9S moves out of the way of others and opts to lean against the nearby wall, arms folded over his chest. All the meanwhile, a peculiar little bot remains hovered over 9S' head, moving along wherever he does. ]

[And Zari will just wander her way over, waiting until he's finished before smirking at his robot friend.]

Cute bot. He come with you from home?

[ —Ah, there she is. In the next moment, he straightens his posture almost immediately. ]

Oh, Pod? Yup, that's my support unit, though it blends in pretty well in this city, huh?

[ Small blessings, really; it was a hassle trying to hide his Pod around the Hanabira lands. ]

[She can imagine. She was able to stash her tablet in a bag for most of that trip, and thankfully her amulet just looks like really ornate jewelry a lot of the time.]

Yeah, that's pretty lucky. I can imagine how that wouldn't always go well in a job like this.

[She says, as a time traveler who has complained about the lack of the internet in the 1930s.]

Well, so far it hasn't been too troublesome, at least. 'Sides, I'd never leave it behind– [ 9S glances upward. ] –right?

[ From the little bot comes a tinny, monotone female voice that doesn't miss a beat in responding: ] It is not recommended that unit 9S separate from this pod under most circumstances. It would hinder several functionalities, as well as reduce your range of—

—Oookay, that's enough. You don't have to make her think I'd be useless without you...

[She grins a bit at that.]

In my experience, AIs tend to think we'd all lose our heads if they weren't screwed on. The one on my ship, Gideon, is definitely like the disembodied mom we never really asked for.

[ If he had to be honest, 9S isn't actually sure what it's like to have a mother around. Though, from his understanding, he thinks he gets the gist of it... And while he would certainly never consider his Pod a paternal figure by any means, it certainly gets naggy, at times. (Nevermind the entire point of a Pod is to look after the android it's assigned to.)

Her comment still gets some contrary commentary out of him— ]

I wouldn't say every AI... [ He says, a little defensively; 9S would never be that bad about it, if you asked him.

But he realizes they're getting wildly off track. ] —Anyway, you said you had a tablet, right? I'm ready to get all this footage off of me.

[Yep, back to business. Zari reaches into her shoulder bag and flips it open to fish out her tablet, before holding one hand out to him for what she's assuming is a flash drive or a USB cable or what have you.]

Let's do it.

[ Nothing of the sort. Instead: ]

—One sec.

[ Rather than some sort of plug or chip, 9S pokes at the air in front of him, and in place a holographic screen flickers to life; it resembles something like a computer screen loaded with all sorts of system information. He takes a few seconds more to prod at buttons and scroll through windows. ]

Aaand... there. I've established a link you can connect to—as soon as you do that, I'll send it right through.

[ Like weird robot wifi. ]

[Her eyebrows go up a bit at that, before she pulls out her tablet to hop on to the connection.]

So what, you're like your own walking hot spot?

Oh, well... It's standard for androids like myself, since we needed to be able to send data on the fly often. A wired connection is possible too, but this is a little easier.

[ With one more press of a button, an upload bar appears on his screen. ]

It's going through now, but it might take a few minutes.

No worries.

[She's patient. Usually. It depends on what she's waiting for.]

So androids are pretty common where you're from?

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