Venn suggested visiting Reli’s Relics on Level 19 in Fulsom Alley. We saw a lot of cool things — I think Widget bought something. There are a lot of outsiders on this level. Hmm. Anyway, Reli suggested that we go to Level 42, where we can hopefully find more clues talking to the Station Rats (not ysoki!), specifically the leader Knuckles.
We said our goodbyes and thanked him, then left to head to that level. I noticed a lone cab waiting nearby. This didn’t seem like the best neighborhood to wait around, or to pick up passengers– we hadn’t actually called for a cab yet. Ash decides to forge ahead, or at least past the cab. Not wanting to split up, we decide to follow. Lexx kicks a rear tire on the cab as he makes to go past, when it explodes.
He’s mostly okay, but the boom brought a few people out to check on us, with guns. We are immediately attacked by two vesk, a technomage, and an ysoki who had been hiding behind a dumpster. A quick, and probably nosier skirmish ensues. We have some new vesk weapons now, at least, as well as a healthy/healthier distrust of cabs. We also now have something Widget calls an “emotional therapy toaster.”