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It's the day to meet up with Cheryl. You admit to preening yourself a bit more then normal, and then hurry along to meet her. You take a few of the back alleys, more familiar to you now with your new double life, and then you happen to see somebody in particular.
Is that...
You think it's the <span class="mu-s">Rhino</span>, but it's hard to tell from this distance. One of the major punks, and the one who bowed down the Viking recently, according to Carlos. You don't know exactly what that means, but you have a strange feeling it's important. You watch as he, with a small gang, moves past one of the giant washes in the city. He looks around skeptically, and then tosses a small object (a bottle?) down into the ditch. Then, he keeps walking.
Damn. That's a problem.
You <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-i">didn't bring your vigilante gear</span></span> with you to meet Cheryl; you get a little nervous carrying that nearby the security checkpoint between levels, and besides, you had no interest in using it when not on patrol. Better if you get searched or if something else happens. So you can't just go over the gang of punks and beat the information out of them, if you even wanted to go looking for trouble like that... Not like they've done anything wrong. Yet.
But secondly, he just threw something away in a <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-s">city wash</span></span>. These giant ditches carved into level 5 are specifically designed to not only take the rain water to prevent flooding, but also the rush of water from higher levels. Everything from sewage to industrial byproduct to moisture sinks all expunged down the massive pipes to lower levels of the city; down to level 5. It's actually really important for the industry and recycling down on level 5, as all that water is recaptured, cleaned, filtered, and used for various purposes in the factories and important facilities on this level.
You'd really like to get that bottle and see what it's about. This could be important evidence. This wasn't just a piece of random trash, the <span class="mu-s">Rhino</span> wanted to dispose of it intentionally where nobody could ever find it. The problem? These washes are extremely dangerous. At any moment, water from the city above could rush like a flood, washing away anything. From a young age, kids on level 5 are taught to <span class="mu-i">never</span> play or go scavenging in the washes for salvage, because at any moment it could kill you.
Getting down is easy enough. There's no fence or anything, but getting back out quickly is the hard part. How will you escape from the wash?
>Improvise a useful tool
>Be aware of your surroundings
>High speed agility and parkour
