PRIVATE Good Cop, Bad(lands) Cop

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It was a quiet day at... wherever this was.

Where was this exactly? Shit. Mulligan didn't know, and didn't care, beyond His Jurisdiction. The beer was passable, and people were leaving him alone. That's the excuse, of course. He's here for work. Namely, someone's gonna try and make this shithole a little less peaceful. That... won't fly.

See, there's a perception of order to be maintained out here, he supposed, checking the remaining booze in the can with a swill and a squint, like an alchemist turning hops into an elixir that gives eternal life to bad habits. Yeah. A perception of order. Fuck up a few tourist campers? Ah, nobody'll miss 'em. But a drinking-hole like this is what keeps a lot of residents sane, he imagined, or at least distracted enough not to create more fuckin' problems. There were enough problems, and never enough beer, some might say. Mulligan, at first, just liked the free beer. But any cascades? Not a fan, not a fan at all of that concept. So this shithole he couldn't remember the name of, on the corner of Sand and More Sand, he'd keep clean.

He reclined in his chair, snapping the beer-tab off his latest empty, before sitting up normally. With a flick of the thumb, he sent it across the room in the direction of the trashcan.

Hook, line, and... you know the rest. He grinned in such a way that let slip the weight of the darkness in his soul; nary a fucking feather. This was the life, he thought, humming along to the radio as it played. Relax, recline, kill three guys tops, score a bag of synthcoke for his troubles, go home a hero and trade half the drugs for a quickie in a car with comfier backseats than his cruiser. Couldn't ask for a better routine short of giving an Arabian oil lamp a handy.
 

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Vibe: Kill The Sun


Nothing like the diverse flora of scrap hills and burning tires of the Badlands. A place where trash bags sprouted more often than grass. Blythe's motorbike was gliding on the blacktop, flicking gravel under its big wheels. It was an old Kusanagi racer, the kind where one had to lean into the turns. She had made it her mission to restore it to its former glory when arduous, suffocating, superincumbent commitments weren't getting in the way. Her sergeant had been giving her near-cold cases to work on—courtesy of being undercover for years in service of the same people she didn't give a flying fuck about. The case led with the disappearance and subsequent murder of thirteen women, whose bodies were found among the scrapyards. Likely a cult.

Blythe never liked that area, save for the wind farms. There was something soothing about those proud giants, manmade to serve the unique purpose of generating the electricity that Night City once sustained itself on. All machines are slaves, she mused. Yet despite the vastness of this wasteland, she could never shake the feeling that someone was watching her.


BANG!

That being said, it sounds almost ridiculous to think you wouldn't see a pack of vehicles cut across the speedway, stampeding through the dead vegetation like dust devils. Perhaps the roar of the engine muted theirs or the blurring speed obscured them better than she thought. This pack of savage dogs blasted through a mound of old, rusted cars and junk, as if they were a confetti cannon. Leading the surprise party was a Militech border patrol truck, chased by three cars, modded and driven by Wraiths. The truck hit a cement barrier, coming to an abrupt stop, followed by the skidding tires of the cars.

Metals of different tembres sang as they clattered along the road, flying off in different directions. Hitting the brakes on her motorbike just wouldn't work. She had to zip between the dangerously tight gap between the cars and come out of the other side unscathed. What must have been a tire's rim came hurdling towards her in a flurry of sparks. She swerved abruptly and the nose of her bike was no longer headed towards the narrow gap. It collided with the rear of one of the cars in a loud crash, sending Blythe tumbling across the asphalt at a dangerous speed. She spun for a good few metres before drifting to a stop. Her leather jacket hardly saved her from the friction and her skin had already peeled off at the hinge joints. The burning sensation started to set in and, almost of its own accord, the pain editor subdued Blythe's sensitivity. Thank god she invested in good subdermal armour, second to buying an expensive helmet. Instincts kicked in before conscience and she rolled behind what seemed like cover.

"Fuck!" You can never misinterpret that one.

That was not her problem to fix. S.IN. agents didn't deal with gang squabbles; that was for Homicide to clean up. And yet, here she was—scraped skin and the meek cover of a barrel. She took a cautious peek, but the setting sun glared in her eyes. She made out the hazy silhouettes of a dozen men; some were already trading bullets while others prowled towards her. She thought to reach for her revolver that lay sprawled out in the open, but a bullet landed between the weapon and her, warning her otherwise.


Blythe shook in frustration, taking advantage of the pain editor's numbness, then sighed in defeat. She reached for her tablet, still miraculously hanging onto her shoulder strap, and spoke into the comms.

"Dispatch, this is Thorne," she took a moment to catch her breath, plunging a hand into her pocket. "Ran into a little Wraith problem, or about a dozen, and a Militech—" she glanced to confirm, taunted by more incoming bullets, "—a Militech patrol truck. Casualties unknown. Send immediate backup at Route 43, a mile and a half down the stretch." She fished out an EMP grenade. "Before I have to take attendance with a body count!"

She removed the safety, flipped the switch and lobbed it towards the shootout. Four seconds later, a nasty blast crackled, allowing her to snatch the revolver and prepare to paint the asphalt red.






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