Curiosity Killed The Cat Event

## Curiosity Killed The Cat

The Message,

Mercy

Talia

Allergic Reactions,

Imprisonment.

An event hosted to bring the community together, lavish rewards and sleazy punishments upon the route or item one chooses. Every participant obtains chargens for merely participating, as well as depending on the item they’ve chosen.

## The Start

An anonymous message has been sent nation-wide (refer to image on the right), to which a lot seemed to ignore it as it's common for spam messages to spread around the neon dripped city, but to those who can't help but let curiosity get to the best of them had decided to open it.

## The Message

Curiosity is a damn cruel mistress; but here in Eden, she’s probably one of the few friends you’ll ever have. Though curiosity tonight has brought you to the city’s most sketchiest places, and unsurprisingly, in the whole world even.

But what brought you here?

Maybe it was all the hookers that openly welcomed you into their brothels?

Perhaps you were looking for a cheap and easy boost?

Or maybe, just maybe, it was the cryptic message left on your S-IC from an unknown sender.

Whatever the reasons, your curiosity has brought you here to slake a thirst you didn’t know you had.

> *"Can find me in da second alley to the left. I’s aint hard to miss. ya aint wanna miss dis opportunity, baka..."*
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## The Visit

You roam the crowded street, immediately greeted with hookers and dealers offering you the 'best sensations you'll ever experience', but you dismiss them with a single wave of hand.

Then you find it, the second alley on the left, snuggled tightly between the Guns&Girls Stripclub and a hidden *brothel*. You decide to make a detour down the dimly lit passageway and there you saw him... or it? A man, a humanoid carcass, a thing, sitting in front of a make-shift table made out of cardboard boxes piled atop one another.

In the poor lighting at first, it's hard to notice... but as he leans forward more into the faint neon lighting, it becomes clear that this man, indeed doesn't have a head - but mechanical eyeballs twitching, barely supported by his techy spinal cords; extremely severed at the neck as smoke drifts lazily from a windpipe, faint sounds of machinery humming.

Though the lacking mouth doesn't seem to hinder his ability to speak to you nor the lack of eyelids negate that weight of eyes watching.

What would've been a beautiful android, now left as scraps and leftovers, an easy target in the dome for spares to sell and re-use.

He motions for you to take a seat before pulling out a handful of items from under the cardboard table, neatly presenting them infront of you. None of the items seem to make any sense to you, but apparently that's the point of this.

## The Choices (Taken from RP)

### Eyeless

*“Ilheun pondered for a moment, slender digits grazing his jawline in contemplation. Nothing was what it looked like, that much he knew. But there was one thing tempting his long ago retired hacker ways.*

*The flash drive was marked Nexus. The sleep object weighed little in his hand, but it might be heavy with secrets that he could profit off. Or that could end him."*

> **Eyeless has chosen the neXus FlashDrive**
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### Mercy

*"Mercy closed his eyes and reached out his hands., slowly hovering it above all the items. He can’t see them though so it’s a hit or miss when choosing a normal looking item.*

*Lowering his hand to grab something, in which he did. “...do I have to?” He said as he opened his eyes, examining the item he grabbed and to the android questioningly.*

*Still no response from the android, so he really must be serious. Reluctantly, Mercy stuffed the item in his pockets, leaving with a long sigh before he turned on his heels to finally walk away."*

> **Mercy has chosen the Waifu Panties.**
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### Talia

*"She examined each item as best she could, weighing her options and see that the old flash drive and condom caught her attention the most, the flash drive seeming like a very important relic that she could have someone help decipher for her. The condom seemed like a humorous option, the cute photo and pun making her smile.*

*She shrugged and reached for the condom, approving her pick, seeing the figure cackle and smile, clapping their hands in glee and exclaiming, “the immy chose protection!” in an off-key tune. With a roll of her eyes and a small smile, she turned away, stuffing the condom into her pocket."*

> **Talia has chosen the Limited Edition Condom**.
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### Spade

*"Adjusting his goggles, his opticwares began to scan each item separately, but none to his advantage, the information provided was useless - they were all crap items that either held no meaning, or unexplainable reasoning - not even the brick phone, though, was an immediate interest; hesitantly.*

*Dowoon reached out and touched a finger over its rotting number pads. When was the last time he’d seen one of these? He was probably too young to even experience its full capability.*

*The condom wrapper with the phone number was intriguing enough - hilarious that it was an option, though unsurprised. The neXus USB was an obvious choice but having a long history with the founding father of the dome proved nothing of interest to him; it just seemed like the choice of an idiot protagonist.*

*So he decided to settle for the bible book instead. An unorthodox choice, but a very likely one for a chummer like him. “Time’s to says hi to Papa J.” He picked up the book and waved it around in front of the moribund android who simply just nodded his head, waving him away without another word and Spade did just that."*

> **Spade has picked the Old Bible with Secrets.**
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## The Aftermath

### Waifu Panties With A Note Inside

As you pick up the thin fabric, you question at first whether it had been a mistake to have chosen this in the first place... what if it contained some sort of STD that was ready to infect you. You expect the droid to say something else, or to provide some more context into why it was there amongst the items to choose from or whether you've passed his wicked little test. But standing there in one of the city's menacing alleyways... all you got was silence.

Perhaps you've wasted your time?

But as you inspect the piece of undergarments and prepare to just leave with it, you start to notice something peculiar about it. Turning over to the inside part of the crotch, you noticed a little number scribbled across it - six digits, all which somewhat made sense, or not at all.

As you turn to leave, perplexed by this information, the anonymous chummer finally speaks.

*"So, it seems that you'r just a mindless pervert. But, in this dome, most perverts get rewarded for their sins... Head to Eden Bank, and look to have access into Futa Lockhead's bank account, give that code to them. I promise you, you will be paid pretty chargens."*

> **Mercy has received 12,000 chargens.**
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### Old Bible With Secrets

You are unsure what made you lean over to pick up the Bible book, perhaps a bit of you missed being holy in a city that had none of it; the lack of scripture and dogma could probably be the reason for the messed up happenings around this damned city. And perhaps you needed to seek serenity in the words of christ.

But was this the opportunity that this dying android was preaching about?

You looked up to glance at him, only to receive a bare nod as if to urge you to go ahead and open - maybe read a verse or two to entertain him.

And you did… only to be greeted with a sick prank of getting smacked in the face with powder. It smelled rotten, like a collection of dust, chalk and probably cremation. And evidently, your body didn’t digest it properly.

Within seconds, you feel your face hot and tender… swelling up to a degree where it got harder to breath, you start to experience dizziness, nausea, and everything horrible, and you start believe that this is the end.

*"God has his ways of showing his creations how much he loves them. Some are fortunate, some are unfortunate. So maybe it was never his fault to begin with.” was all you hear before everything faded off into the darkness.*

> **Spade has now been infected with some sort of virus and have been brought to Bloodline Clinic/Mercury Hospital by some street sam where you will undergo special aid**.
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### neXus Flashdrive

Old world tech seemed like the perfect answer. After all, whatever was on here had to be valuable if it managed to not only survive the war, but also the greedy fucks of Eden’s tech scrapping industry.

But as excited as you are to wander back home to find something capable of reading the flashdrive, curiosity continues to eat you up as you discover a folder of videos of what seemed like video logs of a neXus scientist documenting their everyday life in the facility.

But before you can continue watching forward, your computer screen glitches out and turns itself off. And the next time you turn it back on, all that remains of your screen is the neXus logo in bright red, glitching massively and a piece of text beneath it: *“You don’t speak of this to anyone. What you’ve seen so far is not to be shared. If we hear you breathe a word of this, you will experience much more severe consequences than this. To secure this deal, you’ll be sent some chargens. Hopefully with this, you’ll learn to keep your mouth shut, chummer.”*

> **Eyeless has received 10,000 chargens.**
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### Limited Edition Condom

A silly joke is what it seemed like, and you can only assume that this tincan was a joke of its nature for putting such a thing as an item for his victims to choose from. And so you picked it up, to abide to his nature and he seemed pleased as his mechanics whirr up in excitement.

*“Some bakas are quite interesting to observe. You may find this item useful for you, or not. Otherwise, you can just tear it open and see how adorable this kitty condom is.”*

And for whatever reason, a part of you chose to do so. Tearing open the wrap, your expectations to whatever the tincan had challenged you to do almost seemed inevitable as he felt the slippery slime wipe itself against your skin only for it to take seconds to feel a burning sensation, etching out over the rest of your arm - followed by an unexplainable pain.

> **Talia is now experiencing some sort of allergic reaction and has been brought to Bloodline Clinic/Mercury Hospital by some passerby medic where you will undergo special aid.**
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### Shard of Holographic Glass

It looked interesting in theory. In this cyber world, hologram glass is pretty special, so surely this broken piece of technology at least means in the way of an awesome opportunity.

But as you turn over the shard in your hand, a sliver of the gass nicks at your skin and immediately you understand why the anonymous slagbrain suddenly packed his things and left without you even noticing he’d be gone. It’s a horrid feeling that engulfs you, one on a deep level that shakes you to your core as it becomes clear why this piece of glass had a surrealistic touch. It seems this glass was infected with some sort of ailment - and as the liquid sink into your wound - so are you.

You’re now infected.

> **You are now infected with some sort of virus and have been brought to Bloodline Clinic/Mercury Hospital by some street sam where you will undergo special aid.**
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### Working Brick Phone

As you pick up the hefty item, you wonder whether it still worked. Such an item only one can see in the old-dated films, and especially at pawn shops with handsome prices stuck onto them - you’re starting to think you’ve hit the jackpot with this one.

But you had to make sure, so you turned to the android and stared at him. It didn’t take long for him to speak again, *“such an old thing in the midst of everything ahead of it by a trillion. When you turn down this alley, and right before you pass by the Drome, be sure to show this to the bouncer. He’ll pay pretty char to never see it again.”*

> **You have received ¢7,000 !**
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