01 [rejection]

[selfreflexivity]

[ACCIDENTAL VOICE POST]

[fingers tapping on a metallic surface]

[pause]

[then mechanical laughter can be heard]

"Come back when you have some money, buddy!"

...Hn.

[more tapping; laughter follows soon after]

"Come back when you have some money, budd--"

[one swift pound can be heard over the voice, a punch to the vending machine, and the

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[savedusall]

[... that guy looks armed to the teeth. and sort of pissed. keeps a hand on the back of his holstered gun just in case]

I don't think you're gonna get anything out of it doing that.

[selfreflexivity]

[looks over] Nope.

But it alleviates stress to a degree.

[savedusall]

We might need that... thing, so try not to break it.

[a pause.]

Are you the man I just spoke to before?

Your voice sounds the same.

[selfreflexivity]

Hngh.

[has a pretty good idea who this guy is talking about, but he gives him an intense stare all the same]

Don't know. I don't recall ever talking to you.

[savedusall]

[hm. weird.]

Forget it.

I'm trying to find Andrew Ryan, or at least a transport to the surface.

[selfreflexivity]

Hm.

You're not the only one.

[notes his holster and gun]

Cop?

[savedusall]

Yeah. Leon Kennedy, CIA.

[offers a handshake, anyway]

I'm hunting a fugitive named Ada Wong. Heard of her?

[selfreflexivity]

CIA, huh.

[tentative handshake] Iroquois Plisken.

Can't say that I have. Have a description?

[savedusall]

[sighs. he wasn't expecting her to show up in rapture anyways. that would make things too easy. she was probably lounging in hawaii with the sample, for all he knew.]

She's got a flowing red dress and short black hair. Got a gun strapped to her thigh.

She's not an easy woman to corner.

[selfreflexivity]

[nods] They usually aren't.

If I see her, I'll be sure to notify you.