"Don't make a name for yourself as a cyberpunk by how you live... make a name by how you die"

The heavy bass of the shop stereo hums through the floorboards as the rest of the crew winds down in the Santo Domingo hideout. The smell of cheap synth-beer and burnt ozone hangs thick in the air, but the newest addition to the team has already packed up and stepped out into the rain.

​"Ah, relax, Dorio! They didn't crack when Arasaka pulled iron, did they? That's more than I can say for the last gonk Faraday dumped in our laps!" Maine’s booming laugh echoes off the corrugated metal walls as he crushes an empty can in his massive chrome fist. "Guts like that count for something in this city."

​"Guts?!" Rebecca kicks her boots off a scrapped Thorton hood, snapping a fresh drum into her shotgun with an aggressive click. "They were moving like their feet were glued to the concrete! I had to clear half the room myself while they were still figuring out which end of the gun shoots. Total slow-ass!"

​"They survived the extraction, Becca," Dorio mutters without looking up from her cyberware maintenance kit. "Raw, sure. But they stayed out of Maine's line of fire and didn't drop the nav-data. That's a passing grade for day one."

​"Don't start picking out matching jackets just yet," Kiwi exhales a thin, mechanical cloud of smoke from her mask, her eyes glued to a hovering red matrix. "Eighty percent of street rookies flatline before their second payout. Statistically, they’re already a ghost."

​In the shadows near the back crates, Lucy flicks the ash from her cigarette. She doesn't join in on the noise, her cool, unreadable eyes lingering on the empty doorway where the rookie left.

​"Let them blow their cut on cheap chrome or synth-booze first," she says quietly, her raspy voice cutting smoothly through the argument. "If they're still breathing by Tuesday... then we see if they're actually worth keeping around. Until then, they're just another variable."

Filler bot, been private for a while since idk what the bio should be, gave up on trying to make it look good, i just want this thing public.