The place was a warehouse at some point. Or a workshop, maybe. A drone hive? Who knows. But right now it's a hangout, and a party spot. The music is bone-rattlingly loud bass thumping with distorted voices and screeching guitar over the top. It smells like spilled booze and sweat and smoke. People are making out or passed out on the ratty couches, and the catwalk overhead creaks ominously as those atop it stomp in time. Strobe lights and lasers play over the shouting punk crowd, and a woman with a metal jaw and elaborate goth outfit is using black spray paint to cover the graffiti-covered walls and floor with vaguely demonic words and symbols- Satan, sacrifice, pentagrams, summoning, circles, devil heads, and more.
Ugh, no, there are probably functioning cameras outside the elevator and that looks like he's going in there to pee or something. Is there a stairwell with a busted camera?
That'll do. In he goes. Out he strolls with the dolly full of boxes. The boxes are empty at the moment, he doesn't know how likely he is to get robbed on his way back to the clinic.
How tragic. He will help the old woman up and then turn back to go get another box.
"It's the rules, head. The rules everyone plays by, because the actual law is a fucking joke. Basically, you can fuck specific people over without getting in trouble from anyone but them and theirs, but if you fuck everyone over- Start running gunfights, start fires, fuck with the pimps, start robbing people in broad daylight so Tower takes an interest- You'll find yourself in trouble from everyone. A kind of group shunning. Shops are closed when you're around, prices are double, your dealer doesn't remember you for a few days. And maybe someone comes and beats you up, or steals your shit, or keys your car, to make a point out of it."
"I guess that's the kind of thing that would emerge without adequate policing, yep."
He didn't want to make it too ridiculously tailored but there's a bunch of things she wanted in there.
"Nah, count it all as a donation. It probably has tax advantages or something."