NPC Account
At the Doc Painless Memorial Service in District 9...
"I went for weeks without knowing what had happened to my grandson after he disappeared. Every time the comm sounded I thought it was him, and I waited up every night just in case my Bylli walked through the door..." the old woman's rummy eyes fluttered with the memory. "He'd been held at that Eden Mall the whole time, locked up by CorpSec for whatever it was they took him for. It wasn't anything right until Doc Painless made it that way." Kybele "Old Lass Pel" Peleus looked down at the holo in her hand, and a thin smile warmed her face behind the harsh, blue glow. "Did you know what an impact you made on his life? I never thought Bylli was one for hero worship until he started talking up Doc Painless every time he heard of something new, then it was all 'Doc this' and 'Doc that...'" She looked up at the crowd, a brief reminder that they were there. She added a few pages of flimsis to the memorial in front of her, adorned with the colorful artwork of younglings. "The kids made these for the Doc, you all know we don't get many heroes around here anymore. It seemed right to honor one. I may not to get much to live on these days, what without a pension, but when I started Painless Preschool I said to myself that I'd accept any child from friends of Doc. It's the least I can do to keep his name alive."
Everyone who had assembled tonight had some reason to honor the cyborg man. Some were like Old Lass Pel, whose lives were touched by Doc Painless without really knowing him. Some were gangsters of District 9, who allowed the Doc to operate, and kept him safe to do so, so long as he'd treat them: no questions asked. And some, risking everything to be here, were friends and compatriots of the Darkwire Shadowrunner who had seen them through the worst times with a strength and optimism he reserved for everyone else.
"I guess I'll say something..." Jakab Profirio stood up, known by few in the crowd. A soft, slow light blinked beneath the skin of his neck, evidence of the cybernetics that had helped him survive. "Doc Painless saved my life." The barely-perceptible click of the oxygen regulation implant sounded before Jakab drew in a breath, "Without him, I wouldn't still be able to work. I probably wouldn't even have all my digits." He held them up to the crowd, still Factory Default and functioning. "Doc found me in the snow, during that freak storm last year, and if not for him I'd be an icicle. So I...just wanted to come here to say thanks. If only I could have found a way to say it before he...well, you know." Jakab set a paper copy of a paystub, his first after going back to work, into the memorial before he stepped back into the crowd again.
Silence hung in the room for a few moments, until the 3PO unit who had served as the clinic's greeter droid shuffled to the front again. It held up a hand to the mourner offering him some of the travel biscuits —among other baked goodies— being passed around. If it was possible for a droid to look both offended and impressed at the same time, the greeter droid might have looked just like that, until it shifted in that miniscule, stuttering way that droids did to turn its photorecptors on the crowd, "Does anyone else have something to say? You may remain as long as you wish in my former employer's clinic, however I would recommend keeping your visit short for those on CorpSec's watchlist."
The droid wasn't wrong.
At that very moment, CorpSec sniffers were on the ground. An anonymous tip set the precincts of District 9 on alert, looking for known Shadowrunners or those trying just a little too hard to blend in. Discretely, a few of CorpSec's top Darkwire experts had crossed the district boundaries to put their keen noses and uncanny senses to the task. If there was a Darkwire gathering happening in the district, they would find it eventually.
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OOC:
Whether you are Shadowrunner, CorpSec, or an interested party nonetheless, the objectives are simple. Pay Your Respects or Seek Out Justice.
There is a one-page moratorium on PVP. After that, the gloves are off.
P.S. All thread participants are eligible to acquire a Doc Painless Memorial HoloCoin.
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Aren D'Shade
Brie Jaxx
Cartri Keswoll
Cassus Akovin
Daiya
Daven Tooms
@Emily Kolburn
Glade
Hex
Samuel Exel
Tarus Undara
Under Foot
Yula Perl
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