A Pound of Flesh
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ShadowHaven Tamanous | |||||||||
| Template:Lil' Boomer | Template:Grieving Father, Girlfriend | ||||||||
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| Grieving Father | |||||||||
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Summary
Lil' Boomer is tasked with playing courier for a street doc that provides meals for the infected in Seattle. He's met with several along the way that view him with fear, discomfort, and vengeance. LB meets those responses in kind before completing the delivery.
Background
Several morgues and street docs around Seattle pay a flesh tax to keep Ghouls fed and out of sight. Others pay a flesh tax for a little scratch. In either case, a morgue in the northern half of Seattle prepared a cooler for transport to Doctor O+ in Puyallup.
The Pickup
LB receives a call from his Fixer, Patches. A morgue in Redmond has a cooler of value for a Ghoul-friendly street doc in Puyallup, and Tamanous dispatches him to play courier. Utilizing taxi services from Zigzag, Lil' Boomer arrives at the morgue without any trouble. The mortician, terrified to be interacting with ghouls in general and LB in particular, is curt but polite. As Lil' Boomer exits the morgue, he finds his ally and ride, Zigzag, caught in an argument with an individual whose aura he does not recognize. Given the general shape of the figure's clothing and headwear, LB realizes that this individual is law enforcement, so he changes direction to catch a bus. Thanks to some good luck, the bus was headed to Puyallup.
LB'S NOTES:
I get a call from Patches about a pickup. Patches is absolute drek and will sell anything he can to anyone who will buy it. That's handy for me; scruples don't pay the bills or help you sleep at night. So, I gotta barter with Zig for a while. She wants half the fee and her flesh fee to boot. That seems crazy to me; we know if someone starts shootin', I'm going to be the one rolling out of the car to return fire. We settle on 60-40, and I toss in a snack. Fine.
We roll down to the morgue and I pop in. The Mortician looks like she's sees a ghost when I walk in. She's stammering and askin' me not to eat her. Lady, I'm not gonna eat you. You're all gristle, and I had breakfast. I grab the cooler, but the damn thing's as big as I am. It's not even that it's heavy, it's just...it's just too big, you know? So I start draggin' this thing out, and the rough plastic bottom of the cooler is just like--grinding on the floor. It's making this terrible sandpaper sound as I slowly head to the door, and it just looks like it's eating her soul the entire way. I woulda felt bad for her in the moment if she didn't despise me just for existing.
So, I finally make my way outside, and the cops are giving Zag the business. "what's a ghoul doing parked outside a morgue, do you have a license, blah blah blah." Pigs make me sick...just let us eat and we won't eat you instead. Fraggin' idiots. I give her a nod and push my way over to the bus stop and climb on the first bus rolling through. I get lucky when I realize the route's gonna make its way to Puyallup eventually.
The Bus
The Clinic
Aftermath
Rewards
4k Yuyen Doctor O+ at Loyalty 1 6 karma Ordeal for IG 1