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people think I got ejected from the
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saloon because I'm three sheets to the
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Well, swear I almost had it this time.
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Everything all lined up. Easy mark,
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guaranteed money maker, favorable terms.
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Practically the recipe for success. Look
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like you've had your share of troubles.
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Ever had the perfect opportunity just
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slip through your fingers?
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Why choose any choice when you could
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in Auntie's choice, high finance is life
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and death. friend. I had just the thing
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to get me a fasttrack promotion to lower
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middle management. Now, you you seem
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like someone who knows a good deal and
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wouldn't be adverse to helping me out.
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It's like this. I agreed to meet with a
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business associate to finalize a deal,
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but the location got set for Spy Grove.
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Problem is, you've been outside of
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Fairfield. The finicular to Spy Grove
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broke recently, so I got no way to get
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up there. I'd break my neck scaling that
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cliff for sure. There's a long way
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around, but it's not for me. Why, the
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path there might be lousy with raftodons
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for all I know. Wasn't before, but
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mayhap they were just lulling me into a
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false sense of complacency so they can
1:46
While exploring facilities to the north,
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my partner unearthed the hereto for
1:50
unexploited advanced protectorate
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technology. Couldn't or wouldn't go into
1:55
details, but he promised every household
1:57
would want one. That it would
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revolutionize the daily life of
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anti-choice citizens.
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Typical research type focused on all the
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wrong things. Not particularly motivated
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by competition or social advancement.
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Strange bird. Pitched him the dumbest
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deal I could think of. Told him I'd
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trade him my entire tossball card
2:22
collection for schematics or a
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prototype. Said sure. Complete rude.
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Didn't even ask about condition. My
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Kelvin Tran rookie card isn't even ultra
2:32
fine. Got a piece of nicotine chewing
2:44
Y'all want to bargain? None. Might
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suspicious you ask me. Like maybe I
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ought to end this here conversation.
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I have a few bits I can offer you. Not
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much, but if it turns out a roaring
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success like it ought to, and I get a
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fat promotion, I promise I'll see you
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Splendid. Go parlay with Jackson CL
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up at Spire Grove. It's some kind of
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agricultural harvesting encampment
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southwest of here near a mess of them
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rocky spires. He'll provide the agreed
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Well, the broke down finicular is due
3:36
west of here. Dextrous looking so and so
3:39
like yourself could probably scarf her
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up it in a jiffy. From there, it's just
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up the hill a smidge. So close, but so
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far away. At least for me, anyhow.
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Truth is in the slightest. You know, the
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protectorate have all the most advanced
4:06
technology, though. Probably something
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straight out of an aetherwave cereal.
4:10
Edible space suits, Nray specs, matter
4:12
transllocation. It could be anything. If
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Jackson's all fired up about it, it'll
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be beyond comprehension, I'm sure.
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All right, then. Don't let me keep you.
