[Editor's note: Third night. He's starting to recognize you.]
All right, you must love me, man, 'cause you keep coming back. I'm guessing I'm gonna have to see you every day now.
Don't take too much of my money, though. I gotta still feed my kid when I get home. And the woman? We don't wanna talk about her while we're at the bar, do we?
Anyway.
NetSure Solutions. They're the big guys here.
Yes, there's tons of companies here. Tons of corporate investment that came in when the city was founded. But they were the real ones that wanted to say this was their city. Just about every single device, if you look at it closely when you're looking at the city infrastructure, you'll probably see their name on it. Or the name of their parent company: NetSurge MicroComm.
They're the ones that build tons of consumer products. Tons of appliances. The entire city's infrastructure was at least partially designed by them.
Again, other corporations are here. But they're the big guys in town.
Anyway, some people say there's a dark past behind them. Something about "removing externalities that don't fit the bottom line" or whatever. Basically: if you got a real complaint against that corporation, it's better if you just shut the fuck up and keep it moving. Or else you'll get a Sweeper agent coming to your door saying that your commlink has been violating laws while you slept and, well, they gotta "retire" you.
Pffft.
More like "disappearance in retirement." No visits, no cushy pension with a nice payout every week. Ain't no real retirement out here.
So just, warning: before you get really deep into this shit, whatever you do, don't fuck with the corps. They'll pick you up, chew you down, and spit you back out before you can even say "I love Nuevo Bay."
Anyway.
Have you been outside the main city? Out to the Outmarch area? There's a nice freaking bowling alley I like over there. It's run by this old Asian lady. She makes a mean jjigae.
And then, if you really know the code out there, just tell her the passphrase she has, and deeper into the building there's a whole fucking karaoke lounge. And the drinks are free there. You just gotta pay like a hundred credits to be able to actually do some karaoke for an hour.
But shhhhh. We don't talk about that.
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