Conversation · Noid

"Yo, man. What's on your mind?" He drops a bolt into his toolbox.

"I found a radio transceiver."

"So your cop ways came through again. Impressive. Let's see what you got."

"Someone was using this to coordinate a drug smuggling operation." (Use the highly advanced transceiver.)

"Thought I felt a special sine coming off this one. I'll just have Egg pop in a frequency dial here, and we should be set..."

Rarely has there been a more apt pairing of man and transceiver. This is a portent of great success.

"Alright, lawfarer, we're ready to do this. I have to warn you, though, once we commit, there's no stopping until we've seen it all the way through. No pauses, no second-chances. This is our shot. You got it?"

"So any cop-prep you've got to do, you do it now. We'll wait if we have to."

"I'm ready now. Let's do this."

"Rest of the crew has got to stay here." He gives you a solemn nod. "Can't afford to let the beat drop right as we're getting off the ground."

"MUCH LOVE TO MY HARD CORE ANTENNA BROTHERS!"

"Good luck, guys."

"Try to squeeze in a promo spot while you're on-air, we've got to start putting the word out."

"Back across the waterlock. At least we're getting our exercise in today."

"Now give me a hand with these cables. It's a long walk to the roundabout..."

"Now give me a hand with these cables. It's a long walk to the roundabout..."

"Yeah, I should get some things in order first."

"Do what you have to do. We're not going anywhere."

"Hard core church! Nowhere else to go!"

"Like Egg said."

"What kind of 'cop-prep' do I need to do?"

"How should I know? It's up to everyone to know their own needs. Whatever keeps your body and soul in top working condition..."

At the very least, you should make sure you're wearing a good pair of gloves.

"Personally, I'm gonna make sure I've got a steady supply of PREPTIDE handy."

Now he's playing your tune! Better make sure you're ready to blast while circuit-bending!

But what's this? You're all out! Maybe this freak will spot you some...

Nah, I'm good without it.

Hope you don't get any little wires crossed because you lost your concentration, Mr. Clean-and-Sober.

(Whisper.) "Say, Noid. My PREPTIDE supply is a little low -- think you could hook me up?"

"Here, you'll like this. It's got a little straw and everything so you can slurp while you work."

The lieutenant politely averts his eyes as you make a drug deal in a house of worship, but make no mistake: He's less than thrilled about it.

Fuck what the lieutenant thinks! We're off to the races, baby!

"You'll probably wanna take a minute to get your gear situation sorted out."

HEIGH-HO, HEIGH-HO, it's off to the races we go!

The speed is to get you through the tedious detail-oriented parts of the work. Maybe this freak will spot you some?

"Wait, didn't you say we need some kind of power supply?"

"Don't sweat that. Egg found something down near the waterlock. Some maniac abandoned a perfectly good power source..."

That 'maniac' is obviously you, which makes the 'power source' your half-sunken Coupris 40.

"What do you mean someone abandoned a power source?"

"I know, it's completely mental, but someone drove a perfectly good Coupris MC straight into the bay. Carriage is totalled, but luckily the engine on the back is still working..."

You really should look into this totalled MC when you have a chance. Seems important...

"All I have to do is run a cable from the engine up the centaur-man's memorial. It won't last forever, but it should buy us enough time to get you synced up with the Big Bad."

"You mean the motor carriage that I crashed into the bay?"

"That explains why it was covered in cop colours. Whole thing's totalled, but lucky for us the engine on the back is still perfectly good..."

"Ah, well as long as it works, I don't need to know the details."

"Right, that's your call then."

An 'abandoned power source'? What could he be referring to?

Whatever it is, it was abandoned for good reason. Best to leave some stones unturned...

"I found this in an office by the harbour." (Use the perfectly adequate transceiver.)

"An ordinary white-collar transceiver joins the hard core underground. Yeah, this should do nicely..."

A nice story to tell himself, but don't forget, it really is just a normal, run-of-the-mill transceiver unit.

"I got this beauty down at the pawnshop." (Use the highly expensive transceiver.)

"Didn't know cops made that kind of lucre. This is a brilliant piece of equipment. Maybe even too brilliant. Feels out of step with our whole operation..."

He wants to keep it at a distance. He's afraid of what powers are contained therein...

"Why are you so suspicious about everything?"

"Suspicious people are esoteric people. We don't go around spilling everything to Johnny Law. They don't call me Noid for nothing."

"It took us setting out for this whole enterprise to get our sines synced..."

"Why are you called Noid anyway?"

"It's short for paranoid."

"What are you suspicious of?"