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The place was a warehouse at some point. Or a workshop, maybe. A drone hive? Who knows. But right now it's a hangout, and a party spot. The music is bone-rattlingly loud bass thumping with distorted voices and screeching guitar over the top. It smells like spilled booze and sweat and smoke. People are making out or passed out on the ratty couches, and the catwalk overhead creaks ominously as those atop it stomp in time. Strobe lights and lasers play over the shouting punk crowd, and a woman with a metal jaw and elaborate goth outfit is using black spray paint to cover the graffiti-covered walls and floor with vaguely demonic words and symbols- Satan, sacrifice, pentagrams, summoning, circles, devil heads, and more.
Demon Cam in Cinci
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from_scratch
"I guess at this point the cannibalism is kind of like any other copycat crime. Thanks for the history lesson."
"I had no hard facts at all to offer, but sure."
"Have a better one."
from_scratch
"Thanks!"
He'll go make a fuel tank run now, and then drive around for a while, and then swing through his chosen neighborhood to see if anyone wants to take a second batch.
This distribution center is more than happy to get a tanker full'a cheap ethanol.
People are kind of nervous about driving something that valuable. Can they bring a buddy to ride literal shotgun? What's the pay like? Also, isn't the fuel trade a little bit cutthroat? I mean, not nearly as much as drugs, obviously, but still...
from_scratch
"I don't hold with shooting people. Thirty percent sound good? That's a wild guess, correct me if I'm wrong. I haven't cut any throats, that's no better than shooting people."
"What the fuck."
"...The shotgun is not so I can do a drive-by, it's in case someone tries to rob us."
from_scratch
"Oh, yeah, no, I wasn't accusing you of wanting to shoot people recreationally! I just don't want to escalate a robbery into a murder."
"You can hire someone else who knows how to drive a big rig I guess, I don't want to be in charge of thousands of dollars worth of truck while unarmed, even at that ridiculous rate. Good luck?"
from_scratch
"Thanks. If it helps nobody tried to rob me when I did this myself half an hour ago!"
Snort. "Yeah, all that means is they'll be ready to jump you next time."
They huddle and whisper.
"...Seems kind of unreliable but maybe."
"Nah, I get it. You need them alive, sometimes."
They will solicit nice responsible tranq gun safety lessons first, how about, and also make a couple of calls to friends, and then they're ready.
from_scratch
Sure. Effective range is yea far, aims like so, they've got laser sights, one dart should take down anybody unless they're a linebacker with a particular mutation in their metabolic pathways and then they'll need two but one should slow them way down anyhow, there are this many darts in each pack, darts cannot penetrate meaningful armor, if you stick yourself he has an antidote but here is how to safely load and unload without doing that.
They have good gun safety habits. Where's the tanker, and where's the buyer? Any code phrases, checks and verifications, etc, to mind?
from_scratch
He sold the last batch at such and such a place and they seemed open to taking more! Tanker's over here, he filled it up again. He doesn't have code phrases but he'll take pictures of his guys for reference.
Okay. And exchanging phone DKIMs and off they'll go. (Something still seems really off about this but they can drive a truck under suspicious circumstances and will text him updates. Bye for now, new boss.)
Someone else comes up to him a bit later.
"Hey, Cam? My boss Roland wants to talk to you."