>>6165191Just the single custom bullet, Agent? I... guess the budget can handle that. Don't miss, now, okay?
>>6165224>>6165168>>6165073>>6164854>>6164822>>6164818Speaking of 'cool' and holding your guns sideways while missing a lot, let me introduce you tonights delightful cavalcade of people with poor impulse control and marked opinions about getting into your personal space.
So, I mentioned the market is owned in truth by the Hong8, and they do keep an eye on things. But the actual street level day to day boils down to local gangs and groups. Money flows up into Hong8 coffers somewhere, and if anyone steps too far out of line into Bad Business, they'll bring the hammer, but the people grounside we're interested in is this lot. They've got different uniforms, threads, philosophies and opinions, but we can cluster for commonality when we resolve their intelligence profile.
You've got Cherry Bloom mercs posted up centre, they run protection rackets and bully people between security jobs. Lots of ex military types, big on "oh shit did you SEE that" and beers. They'll probably join in any brawl you start, but they're... Well harmless is so not the right word, but in it for the good time? Nice enough people.
The Golden Koi and a lot of vendors loosely belong to the 非常に危険な風, which... I think it means something very spooky in kanji but everyone just calls them the Fogsteppers. You're all thinking it, so I am going to do us the indignity of saying it out loud: If you make fart or 'breaking wind' jokes around these people *you are going to die*. Out of everyone in the market, these people are probably the most dead serious slicks-in-suits. But they keep a good, clean eye on things and run gambling, alcohol, animals and other services. Be polite and you'll get along fine.
Up north-east in the techier section you're dealing with the Rootpierce Community-Collective. They're -- I'm going to not be reductive and simply link you their manifesto so you can all read their stance on the ingration of humanity with 'mother gaia' as best practiced by getting hammered out of your mind on psychedelics and going 'woah dude, look at my hands' to girls at parties until they join up.
Finally, Blackwater Bay' Brigades are here. The Fogsteppers have tense, serious territorial issues with the Brigades and the Brigades are making in-roads into everything, so watch those guys in particular and their hard-on brand of anti-government militant ethnostate edgerunning.
I've scored them based on their standard metrics. Affability rates your odds of talking your way out of trouble - the Fogsteppers and Rootpiercers are philosophically or polite so they'll negotiate mostly. Brigade members and Bloom mercs, well, if you're in a fight with them it ends up becoming a 'face' thing and you'll probably need to be clever if you want them not to break your bones.
