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<span class="mu-i">The watch gets you into Big Easy and what's left of that kill switch out of your spine. The change they hand you is more money than you've seen in your entire life, but you keep a straight face.</span>
<span class="mu-i">There are miraculously no complications from the surgery besides scarring and residual pain. Despite this, you have to get back into working to pay for your lodging and food almost immediately.</span>
<span class="mu-i">You take up a temporary job working for the hotel [u:lit]Mer Primitive[/u:lit] where you're staying, sleeping in the kitchen like most laborers did in the past. The hours aren't bad, and the owner is reasonable.</span>
<span class="mu-i">The local gambler's dietary preferences push you to make barbecue shrimp with actual barbecue and actual shrimp. He smokes too, but has access to fine cigars, and often lets you take a pull.</span>
<span class="mu-i">It turns out that gambler is more than a gambler, and works as a local detective. He manages to bag a murderer and two thieves while you're working there.</span>
<span class="mu-i">The bartender is a handsome young man, but he's not interested in you. That helps remind you that you're looking to move on anyway.</span>
<span class="mu-i">You have no idea what happened to Wade. If he made it to New Orleans, you don't know about it.</span>
<span class="mu-i">That woman you sold out remains dead. Oh well. You can't win them all.</span>
<span class="mu-i">The terrorist attack becomes nationwide news, passed through radio. It seems like several firms in Mossless were targeted by a rogue cyborg. One of their machines, turning on its masters.</span>
<span class="mu-i">[u:lit]Hope Home Cooking[/u:lit] has been totally destroyed. Good riddance, you didn't need that place anyway.</span>
<span class="mu-i">Once you have enough cash in your pocket for one last night on the town and a ticket out West, you take your refined skills along with your hangover the morning of and go.</span>
<span class="mu-i">No one from Mossless Stone knows what happened to you. That's for the best.</span>
<span class="mu-s">THE END</span>
