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"What's your angle here?" Uno presses on.
<span class="mu-b">"Man, if we were talking under different circumstances, I would give you a different answer.</span> <span class="mu-r">Or maybe you'd be dead on the floor.</span> <span class="mu-g">But it's lunch right now, so who gives a shit?"</span>
He gestures obscenely, and you notice the overcompensation, the sluggish movements, the slight sway of his body.
[MADNESS] You feel an overwhelming mix of disgust and disappointment.
The sniper sighs and walks off. "I'll be watching the perimeter, Sarge." He doesn't acknowledge his leave.
"Can you believe people live in this shithole of a District? (You bristle.) I've had enough of this - the zombies, Public Safety prowling around, that friggin red Star of the City hanging over our heads."
He coughs and the noise is horribly garbled.
"<span class="mu-r">The infestation is surging up again from the lower levels.</span> There must be an entire strata underneath us, just underfoot. Imagine that! An entire level of this wonderful, shining City filled with the hungry dead, just <span class="mu-i">waiting</span> down there in the darkness, waiting, waiting, waiting."
"And if things weren't bad enough, there's H Company gutting our Before team right on the onset of the operation. For what fucking purpose? Bunch of homicidal psychotics wearing suits and ties, like you... (The four of your bristle at that.) But with a worse sense of fashion. <span class="mu-b">Maybe not suits, but all of them have hats."</span>
"And let's not forget the monsters... Always the fucking monsters. Always 'sometimes' monsters." He points a thumb at the covered body. "I'm not paid enough for this shit..."
"Any way to proceed further down?" You ask. You think you're meant to go down, at least. The others seem to know where they're going.
He points to the stairs and mutters something else under his breath. "Go on. Bark at me all you'd like until the Second Coming! But we're both alike, we're both sick, we both can't rest until our work is done. We can't stop each other even if we did, so go on! Stop looking at me as if I entertain you..."
[HEARTLESS] He would be sneering if it weren't for the mask.
[MADNESS] He would be screaming if it weren't for his task.
>AUTORESOLVE (DOWN. Thank him for his service and be on your way.)
>[HEARTLESS] OPTION LOCKED. ROLL 1d100 TO OVERRIDE. ("We have a spare pen, don't we?" "We're not helping a stranger, Uno." "Look at him. Dos can't use these anymore, anyhow.")
>ATTACK
>SUPPRESS
>LAUGH, CRY, SEETHE
>ASK BOBBERT A QUESTION
>TALK TO PARTY MEMBERS
>WRITE IN
>CONSUMABLE ITEMS: 3 MEDIKITS, 2 MENTAL STABILIZER PENS, 3 SMOKE GRENADES, 1 FLASHBANG
