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>Naomi, Alexis, and Kiara will take 1 less RESTRAINT damage when UNSTABLE acts out.
>Naomi, Alexis, and Kiara will sometimes be able to heal your RESTRAINT when UNSTABLE acts out.
"Something about a safety net?" She shrugs. "Let's move on from it."
[UNSTABLE] THE OTHER ALLIES CAN LEARN LATER. BUT THEY NEEDED TO KNOW.
"U-uh. Okay?" All you can think of is that somehow, your body was highjacked for a moment. The last hour or so is a complete blur to you now. You take a look around in the more urban section of District 24. In stark contrast to a lot of other districts, it's shockingly...welcoming?
The streets and buildings are statured in bright, warm colors that remind you of summertime. Bright yellows, oranges, pinks and reds as far as your eye can see. Most of the buildings around you are decorated with equally inviting and bright decorations as well, as if they were family owned businesses instead of the soulless and nameless businesses you normally have to go to.
Most of the people passing by on the streets are remarkably healthy and clean looking. No scars, no tattoos, no one too obese or too skinny. As your group walks through the streets, most of the passersbys give you a warm smile and a polite greeting. "Hello!" "Hey!" "Welcome to X-Gamma-2!" "Enjoy your time here!" "Nice antlers!"
The cars passing by through the roads also look remarkably new and well maintained, same with the roads they're driving on. Pleasant ambience is playing in every single business you pass by and, for a moment, you thought your eyes were playing tricks on you. As you two take a right turn, you see something in the distance that shocks you.
A park. An honest to god park. With actual real grass, trees, and wild animals going through it. It's not even gated off, you could go right in there if you wanted to. A few families are walking around in there, small children playing in it like there's nothing wrong going on. No paranoia.
[SCHOLAR OF THE CITY] Yet you know this isn't a Nest. Normally Nests require extensive paperwork and going through a border more armed than fifty X-Corp bases combined.
[SCHOLAR OF THE CITY] This is a normal District section. Maybe not even far away from the ghettos. When your Company is the one protecting the City, both inside and outside its walls?
[SCHOLAR OF THE CITY] Corps give you a LOT of resources. And your citizens are given AMAZING peace of mind. Imagine what a NEST here must be like.
"Wow." You and Kiara mutter at the same time. Naomi is too busy wistfully watching the happy-go-lucky citizens to bother saying anything. Alexis eventually points towards a remarkably boring looking restaurant that, from the outside, looks nothing like what an unofficial Alphabet Company meeting spot would be. Yet it has the name 'SUGAR MOUNTAIN' so you know it's the right place.
As the four of you head over and enter it, you realize two things immediately.
1: WOW THAT'S A <span class="mu-r">LOT OF SECURITY</span>.
2: The outside was VERY deceiving.