Obviously expensive, though the stickiness is probably not part of the original design.

Plastic threads show signs of stretching before having snapped. Effort was needed to achieve this.

It is imbued with its history. Psychic receptors bristle at something that is not quite a scent but is burned forever into the object.

Now that you have both parts you could try repairing it.

With how attached the materially wealthy are to their items, there's no telling how much they'd give to have something so precious back.

You could try getting the other half and repairing it.

Show it to EMTERR's spineless junior negotiator. He can't ignore this!

Alternatively, now that you have both parts you could try repairing it. With how attached these rich people are to their items, there's no telling what he might give to have it back.

Alternatively, you could try getting the other half and repairing it. With how attached these rich people are to their items, there's no telling what he might give to have it back.

Whoever attended the debaucherous party that was held here should have a good idea of which orifice you should check next.

Whoever attended whatever it was that went down here should have a good idea of which orifice you should check next.

A stickiness now taints your fingertips. You try to ignore the faint smell of lube and fecal residue.

The sound of wet flesh slapping.

The stink of chlorine and guilt.

They don't have to answer to you. Thus, they won't.

You are flea. Insignificant. Squishable.

Foreign accent, questions about the area... you're nothing but a lost tourist.

An apartment block housing hundreds of families who were displaced after their original homes were seized by eminent domain, victims of the city's mid-century ambitions.

Unhappy to be stuck down here, on the street, when there is action elsewhere.

There are rumours that a high-speed bullet train is being constructed from Cicatriz-Frontera to the Tenantries of St. Ulwen, connecting Luz's thousands of miles of territory in a trip that takes less than a day.

Not bootlegs or knock-offs, but the genuine article.

And much like their clothes, the trio blocking your path is genuinely Luzian.

DOESN'T THEIR PRIDE IN THEIR AUTHORITARIAN HERITAGE SICKEN YOU? DOESN'T IT MAKE YOU QUAKE WITH IMPOTENT RAGE?

No one's confronted them about it so far.

The threat of La Luz has been passed down for generations in Portofiro, the colonial boogeyman in the night -- the shadow that bore them, beat them.

The few members of the Illuminated Empire allowed to expatriate find themselves in high demand throughout the Developed World as mercenaries and bodyguards.

Gun. Gun. Knife and gun.

Those don't count as actual weapons.

Purring in your pocket.

With none of the griminess of the surrounding neighbourhood.

BOOOOOO. HISSSSSSS.

Shit, should we have been doing that? A gäng uniform?

They wear their clothes like the very mannequins they were sewn on.

Outfits made for these people. Or, people made for these outfits.

Then they'll see... they'll all see how cool we really are...

Agh! Debased! Destroyed!

That's what she thinks of your 'taste'.

Something about this rejection feels more than just embarrassing. It feels dangerous.

He couldn't care less about your opinion.

The way you phrased that makes it sound like you're in possession of a knock-off.

Sour sickness on the back of your tongue.

They're going to think you're a phoney. A fraud. A poseur!

They're judging you right now.

Look at their clothes -- these people are decked out!

Speak to Constanz. She must have a way of getting in here.

It's you, but from a bad dream.

Faint but frantic chatter audible through the wood, PSEUDOPOD's voice.

The half-animal in you freezes. You're alone. Split from herd. Vulnerable.

Has the null entity lured you into an obvious trap?

The tunnel, it's everything you imagined it to be.

Checks