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GORE WARNING", "writing": "Raw Upgrade\n\nby Kiaki_Longtail\n\n\t``How many times am I going to have to find you like this?'' asked Kelsei to a groaning mouse. Two empty plastic bottles rattled off his chest and clattered on the sidewalk. It was midday in Seattle, though beneath two miles of neon and sky scrapers it was hard to tell. The highways flanking the park roared with self driving cars. Ferrying their wage slave owners to or from work.\n\n\tOl groaned and shielded his eyes. Retinas burning from the multicoloured nightmare that was Lower Seattle?s skyline. ``I?d like to be left to die thank you very much'' he said through shivers and a splitting headache.\n\n\tA swift application of a steel toed boot to Ol?s leg was Kelsei?s response. ``Any other day I?d let you feel sorry for yourself but I need your help.''\n\n\t``That jacket doesn?t make you look fat'' offered a tired Ol before curling up on the bench.\n\nAnother boot to Ol?s leg knocked the sarcasm from Ol?s attitude.\n\n\tAfter a tried sigh Ol spoke ``What do you need?''\n\n\t``A bit of a favour to be honest''\n\n\tTo say that they were in the bad side of the lower city somehow implied there was a good side. Or even a moderately okay side. No. It was all the deep end in Seattle?s lower city. Good manners and mental stability was a lot like sunlight down there. Not a lot of it reached the ground. Kelsei kept her paws on the 9mm pocket pistol in her pocket in case any of the locals decided they wanted a piece of her. Ol, still half asleep, thumbed the pocket knife he kept in his left pocket and rubbed it like a security blanket. Though the only tool he ever used on it was the bottle opener.\n\n\t``So clearly we?ve taken a short cut right? And whatever this favour is it doesn?t involve this tetanus infested hellhole?''\n\nKelsei rubbed her neck and cleared her throat''\n\n\t``You trust me right?''\n\n\t``I?m not sure what would ever give that impression no''\n\n\tKelsei grunted ``Look we went to school together, best friends''\n\n\t``Our friendship has more to do with geography than anything else. You and I are the product of mutual social retardation''\n\n\t``Are you saying that our friendship means nothing?'' tried Kelsei\n\n\t``If it involves a favour in this shithole then yes''\n\n\t``Jackass''\n\n\tOl shrugged and stumbled to a alcho-vendo machine and started trying to put a credit stick into it.\n\n\t``The pay is twelve k. Split between us that?s...''\n\n\t``Six per'' finished Ol as a biodegradable jug of fireball fell into the chute''\n\n\tKelsei hummed and ha?d ``I was thinking more...eight and four k''\n\n\t``-but you need me'' finished Ol. A plastic cap clattered on the ground. He wouldn?t be needing that.\n\n\t``Okay six per. But you need to get some wet-ware''\n\n\tCinnamon flavoured whisky was sprayed into a fine mist. Ol coughed in disbelief ``What the ever-loving fuck are you up to Kel?'' he shouted. Looking around and not wanting to draw attention he resumed in a whisper ``You?re not running are you?'' he asked. Every class in every low income high school knew of that kid. The kid who hacked the school computers and was just a little too good with a knife for their own good. Odds are after graduation...if they graduated. They lived it up for a few months and then nobody heard from them ever again. Shadowrunning paid well. But most runners don?t need to think about retirement and what not.\n\n\t``I...Ol you know me'' she said in protest\n\n\t``Yes. Yes I do. Answer the fucking question''\n\n\t``...I took a job from that guy that I dated back in grade eleven. You know? The cute one with the dick that''\n\n\t``Vibrates'' finished Ol. Recalling Kelsei describing his cock as a, quote ``sexy ebony jack hammer''\n\n\tKelsei took a moment to admire the memory and resumed. ``Well...he knows a guy whose looking for some talent to do some penetration testing for an accounting firm''\n\nOl shrugged ``Pen testing? That?s industry standard. Why are you making this sound so sketchy?''\n\nKelsei laughed awkwardly ``It?s...it?s not exactly a penetration test that they requested...''\n\nOl sighed ``So they want to break into an accounting office and steal data and anything not nailed down. And you want me to do the hacking'' he said bluntly. He?d seen the movies and read the news stories.\n\n\t``Yup'' said Kelsei. ``That?s um...that?s about it''\n\nThe two friends stood in the dust covered streets of the under city, quiet and contemplating. Eventually Ol sighed and nodded.\n\n\t``Sure. Why the fuck not what else do I have going on in my life'' he said, already regretting his decision.\n\n\tKelsei jumped and gave Ol a little hug. Ol cleared his throat and looked around ``Just one problem Kel'' he said, feeling a little smug. He took a long chug at the last remnants of his fireball.\n\n\t``That being?'' asked Kelsei.\n\n\tA long burp from Ol who whiped his mouth to reveal a cocky grin. ``I don?t have a couple hundred thousand credits to spend on the wet ware. So unless you want me to super glue a TI-84 to my forehead I?m not sure how you plan to get me equipped to hack anything. Let alone a commercial server''\n\n\t``This is where I need that trust'' said Kelsei ``That friend of mine? He has some...previously owned Wetware and we have a guy who is offering to install for free.\n\nOl looked at Kelsei like she had lobsters growing out of her ears ``This is Seattle Kel! Nobody does anything for free,what?s the catch?''\n\n\tKelsei knew what the cost was but if she told Ol now he?d never go along with it. She sighed and put that silver tongue to use. ``Alley surgeon owes my friend a favour. He?s cashing it for this job''\n\n\t``Alright. I swear I?m going to regret this'' said Ol. He had no idea how right he was.\n\n\t\n\n\tDr. Isaac is man who fell and never hit the ground. His fur cleaned meticulously to the point that his hands and arms were faded to white. His eyes twitch at the slightest movement and fingers constantly grab at the air. There?s a diploma with his name on it somewhere, it belongs to a different man now. A man with a family and dignity.\n\n\tNow though, he filled and his pockets by patching up dumb ass kids robbing and killing their way to the top. Watching their eyes fill with fear was what he lived for. To watch them squirm as he used two decades of medical knowledge to keep their worthless lives going. A little sadism to fill the empty hole in him where joy used to be. When Kelsei and Ol walked into his workshop he was washing away the blood from a previous patient. He recognized Kelsei, she?d done work and needed a knife wound cleaned on the cheap. If he were the sentimental type he?d call her a good kid who could?ve had a bright future. As it was she was just like the rest of them. A bag of blood and bad ideas in equal measure. And behind her he deduced, was the poor bastard dumb enough to trust her.\n\n\tThe operation chair was a stainless steel and sporting seven leather straps. All to keep the patient held down during the operation. Something far more necessary when you skimp on the aesthetic. Ol?s heart-rate was up to 134bpm when the final strap was tightened. Dr. Isaac hummed to himself and gave his paws one more dousing of bleach treated water. Some fuckhole had spray painted his wall. A ten foot tall mural of an anatomically correct mouse taking a German Shepherd?s big dick up the ass. He?d spent the day cleaning it and was in a hell of a mood. Nothing would bring him more joy than to make this wannabe shadowrunner squirm.\n\n\tIt wasn?t often he got to be upfront about wanting to hurt someone for the sake of pure sadism. It tended to drive away the clients. But this dumb mouse was at his mercy with nowhere to go. The scent of credits keeping his ass firmly planted in his operating chair.\n\n\t``Now Mr. Ol I know we?re installing some wetware today. Is that correct?'' he asked.\n\n\tOl nodded, or at least he tried to with the leather strap on his forehead. ``Uh huh''\n\n\tIsaac perused through a selection of scalpels like a paint with brushes. He whirred his bone drill while the mouse writhed under his restraints. ``Good. Good...Now. Because I?m doing this gradis we are going to play by my rules. That means you feel everything. I?m not going to numb you at all. There?s no benefit to this, in fact it increases the risk to you quite greatly. It?s exclusively because I enjoy inflicting pain in new and exciting ways. Also. When you start screaming and begging for it to stop do keep in mind not to bite your tongue off. It happens quite a bit''\n\n\tOl?s mouth quivered and he tried to say something. Anything. But he was unable to even protest. Isaac smiled, something he rarely did. The first step in an operation like this was straight forward. Remove fur in the target area. Isaac took out a straight razor and made a show of running it along Ol?s scalp. He watched with sadistic glee as ribbons of red coursed through his hair and matted the fur. After this he chipped away at the hair and tossed the cut, blood matted fur onto the floor to be cleaned later. With that same straight razor\n\n\tBut oh...here comes one of many moments he was looking forward to. Biting his lip and his heart singing he pushed into Ol?s scalp and cut a thin channel into the mouse?s head. Whimpers and sobs echoed in the confined space. Kelsei sat on a bench outside the shop and rocked back and fourth. It was a good deal, she kept telling herself. He?d trust me in time.\n\n\tThree more cuts into Ol?s scalp allowed Isaac to peel back the skin to reveal the bloody skull underneath. The mouse was shaking too much. He could toy with a patient but a dead one gave him a bad...worse reputation. His bleached fingers reached for a soldering iron which he dabbed at the bleeding tissue. He cleaned up the operating site, all while Ol squeezed his eyes shut and sobbed in pitiful agony.\n\n\tIn the future whenever Ol heard a mechanical whir he?d break down into a pathetic fit of tears and panic. Having a bone drill three inches from your ear digging through un-numbed bone would do that. His finger nails broke on the operating chair with hard cracks. He squeezed and tried to manage the unbearable agony of a fine drill cutting a inch and a half circle in his skull. He was straining and tearing muscles all over his body as he turned more taught than bridge wire. Agony was all he knew.\n\n\t\n\n\tA coin sized chunk of skull fell into Dr. Isaac?s collection beaker for admiration later on. No time for that though, he still had so much fun to have at this mouse?s expense.\n\n\tThe wetware was a Fairlight Caliban comlink with a Shiawase Cyber-5 cyberdeck. It was, on it?s own, enough for a slummer to retire on. The degenerates of the lower city didn?t deserve kit like this, though Isaac. And if this mouse knew what was good for him he?d get the gear pulled out when the job was done and cash in. Which was why his employer told him to include a kernel sized implant with it. A small shaped charge that would turn the mouse?s cerebral cortex into a god damn sponge. Any tampering, or if whoever had the detonator got bored and...boom. Wetware back on the seller?s market.\n\n\t``I probably shouldn?t tell you this but... you see this?'' he said, showing the micro charge. ``This is a little insurance of your cooperation. We don?t want you wandering around with a quarter million credits worth of gear. If I were you I?d try not to think about how one crossed wire or errant button press and you?ll die before you hit the ground. But that?s just me'' Isaac gave Ol a playful slap on the face and resumed the work.\n\n\tAs much as he wanted to turn the mouse into an idiot savant he was under orders to keep him intact. With much regret Isaac picked up the freshly cleaned wet ware package. A metal ring to give the wet ware an anchor point.\n\n\tEight screws penetrated the skull and held the mounting point in place. He lifted the small flash drive sized wetware package and locked it onto the mounting point. As it calibrated and prepared to push aside the brain matter Isaac decided to toy with the mouse one more time.\n\nBy this time Ol was entirely out of it and in shock. His abused brain in pure survival mode. Isaac doubted he was capable of coherent speech.\n\n\t``Keep your head steady boy, or you?ll find out first hand what a lobotomy is like'' he teased. Now that the wetware was locked into place it would install itself. But he didn?t have his fill.\n\n\t``Why don?t we play some games while we wait for the install to finish hm?'' he asked.\n\nGrabbing a scalpel Isaac pulled up Ol?s pants and cut a three by three grid into Ol?s flesh. ``Tick tack toe?'' he asked ``If you win I?ll get you high on some sweet grade pain killers. You won?t remember any of this. If you lose I get your nuts''\n\n\tOl didn?t even know what he was agreeing to. He just tapped on his leg in the centre square. Rolling his eyes Isaac cut a deep circle in Ol?s thigh flesh. He cut an X. And they went back and fourth.\n\n\tMaybe he was too busy enjoying inflicting pain and wondering how he?d remove the mouse?s nut but he did end up in a tie. He dropped his spent scalpel in a dish of disinfectant and pulled out another.\n\n\t``Fine. One nut, and I get you high but not enough to forget this. Don?t think I?m happy about this''\n\n", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "Raw Upgrade

by Kiaki_Longtail

\t``How many times am I going to have to find you like this?'' asked Kelsei to a groaning mouse. Two empty plastic bottles rattled off his chest and clattered on the sidewalk. It was midday in Seattle, though beneath two miles of neon and sky scrapers it was hard to tell. The highways flanking the park roared with self driving cars. Ferrying their wage slave owners to or from work.

\tOl groaned and shielded his eyes. Retinas burning from the multicoloured nightmare that was Lower Seattle?s skyline. ``I?d like to be left to die thank you very much'' he said through shivers and a splitting headache.

\tA swift application of a steel toed boot to Ol?s leg was Kelsei?s response. ``Any other day I?d let you feel sorry for yourself but I need your help.''

\t``That jacket doesn?t make you look fat'' offered a tired Ol before curling up on the bench.

Another boot to Ol?s leg knocked the sarcasm from Ol?s attitude.

\tAfter a tried sigh Ol spoke ``What do you need?''

\t``A bit of a favour to be honest''

\tTo say that they were in the bad side of the lower city somehow implied there was a good side. Or even a moderately okay side. No. It was all the deep end in Seattle?s lower city. Good manners and mental stability was a lot like sunlight down there. Not a lot of it reached the ground. Kelsei kept her paws on the 9mm pocket pistol in her pocket in case any of the locals decided they wanted a piece of her. Ol, still half asleep, thumbed the pocket knife he kept in his left pocket and rubbed it like a security blanket. Though the only tool he ever used on it was the bottle opener.

\t``So clearly we?ve taken a short cut right? And whatever this favour is it doesn?t involve this tetanus infested hellhole?''

Kelsei rubbed her neck and cleared her throat''

\t``You trust me right?''

\t``I?m not sure what would ever give that impression no''

\tKelsei grunted ``Look we went to school together, best friends''

\t``Our friendship has more to do with geography than anything else. You and I are the product of mutual social retardation''

\t``Are you saying that our friendship means nothing?'' tried Kelsei

\t``If it involves a favour in this shithole then yes''

\t``Jackass''

\tOl shrugged and stumbled to a alcho-vendo machine and started trying to put a credit stick into it.

\t``The pay is twelve k. Split between us that?s...''

\t``Six per'' finished Ol as a biodegradable jug of fireball fell into the chute''

\tKelsei hummed and ha?d ``I was thinking more...eight and four k''

\t``-but you need me'' finished Ol. A plastic cap clattered on the ground. He wouldn?t be needing that.

\t``Okay six per. But you need to get some wet-ware''

\tCinnamon flavoured whisky was sprayed into a fine mist. Ol coughed in disbelief ``What the ever-loving fuck are you up to Kel?'' he shouted. Looking around and not wanting to draw attention he resumed in a whisper ``You?re not running are you?'' he asked. Every class in every low income high school knew of that kid. The kid who hacked the school computers and was just a little too good with a knife for their own good. Odds are after graduation...if they graduated. They lived it up for a few months and then nobody heard from them ever again. Shadowrunning paid well. But most runners don?t need to think about retirement and what not.

\t``I...Ol you know me'' she said in protest

\t``Yes. Yes I do. Answer the fucking question''

\t``...I took a job from that guy that I dated back in grade eleven. You know? The cute one with the dick that''

\t``Vibrates'' finished Ol. Recalling Kelsei describing his cock as a, quote ``sexy ebony jack hammer''

\tKelsei took a moment to admire the memory and resumed. ``Well...he knows a guy whose looking for some talent to do some penetration testing for an accounting firm''

Ol shrugged ``Pen testing? That?s industry standard. Why are you making this sound so sketchy?''

Kelsei laughed awkwardly ``It?s...it?s not exactly a penetration test that they requested...''

Ol sighed ``So they want to break into an accounting office and steal data and anything not nailed down. And you want me to do the hacking'' he said bluntly. He?d seen the movies and read the news stories.

\t``Yup'' said Kelsei. ``That?s um...that?s about it''

The two friends stood in the dust covered streets of the under city, quiet and contemplating. Eventually Ol sighed and nodded.

\t``Sure. Why the fuck not what else do I have going on in my life'' he said, already regretting his decision.

\tKelsei jumped and gave Ol a little hug. Ol cleared his throat and looked around ``Just one problem Kel'' he said, feeling a little smug. He took a long chug at the last remnants of his fireball.

\t``That being?'' asked Kelsei.

\tA long burp from Ol who whiped his mouth to reveal a cocky grin. ``I don?t have a couple hundred thousand credits to spend on the wet ware. So unless you want me to super glue a TI-84 to my forehead I?m not sure how you plan to get me equipped to hack anything. Let alone a commercial server''

\t``This is where I need that trust'' said Kelsei ``That friend of mine? He has some...previously owned Wetware and we have a guy who is offering to install for free.

Ol looked at Kelsei like she had lobsters growing out of her ears ``This is Seattle Kel! Nobody does anything for free,what?s the catch?''

\tKelsei knew what the cost was but if she told Ol now he?d never go along with it. She sighed and put that silver tongue to use. ``Alley surgeon owes my friend a favour. He?s cashing it for this job''

\t``Alright. I swear I?m going to regret this'' said Ol. He had no idea how right he was.

\t

\tDr. Isaac is man who fell and never hit the ground. His fur cleaned meticulously to the point that his hands and arms were faded to white. His eyes twitch at the slightest movement and fingers constantly grab at the air. There?s a diploma with his name on it somewhere, it belongs to a different man now. A man with a family and dignity.

\tNow though, he filled and his pockets by patching up dumb ass kids robbing and killing their way to the top. Watching their eyes fill with fear was what he lived for. To watch them squirm as he used two decades of medical knowledge to keep their worthless lives going. A little sadism to fill the empty hole in him where joy used to be. When Kelsei and Ol walked into his workshop he was washing away the blood from a previous patient. He recognized Kelsei, she?d done work and needed a knife wound cleaned on the cheap. If he were the sentimental type he?d call her a good kid who could?ve had a bright future. As it was she was just like the rest of them. A bag of blood and bad ideas in equal measure. And behind her he deduced, was the poor bastard dumb enough to trust her.

\tThe operation chair was a stainless steel and sporting seven leather straps. All to keep the patient held down during the operation. Something far more necessary when you skimp on the aesthetic. Ol?s heart-rate was up to 134bpm when the final strap was tightened. Dr. Isaac hummed to himself and gave his paws one more dousing of bleach treated water. Some fuckhole had spray painted his wall. A ten foot tall mural of an anatomically correct mouse taking a German Shepherd?s big dick up the ass. He?d spent the day cleaning it and was in a hell of a mood. Nothing would bring him more joy than to make this wannabe shadowrunner squirm.

\tIt wasn?t often he got to be upfront about wanting to hurt someone for the sake of pure sadism. It tended to drive away the clients. But this dumb mouse was at his mercy with nowhere to go. The scent of credits keeping his ass firmly planted in his operating chair.

\t``Now Mr. Ol I know we?re installing some wetware today. Is that correct?'' he asked.

\tOl nodded, or at least he tried to with the leather strap on his forehead. ``Uh huh''

\tIsaac perused through a selection of scalpels like a paint with brushes. He whirred his bone drill while the mouse writhed under his restraints. ``Good. Good...Now. Because I?m doing this gradis we are going to play by my rules. That means you feel everything. I?m not going to numb you at all. There?s no benefit to this, in fact it increases the risk to you quite greatly. It?s exclusively because I enjoy inflicting pain in new and exciting ways. Also. When you start screaming and begging for it to stop do keep in mind not to bite your tongue off. It happens quite a bit''

\tOl?s mouth quivered and he tried to say something. Anything. But he was unable to even protest. Isaac smiled, something he rarely did. The first step in an operation like this was straight forward. Remove fur in the target area. Isaac took out a straight razor and made a show of running it along Ol?s scalp. He watched with sadistic glee as ribbons of red coursed through his hair and matted the fur. After this he chipped away at the hair and tossed the cut, blood matted fur onto the floor to be cleaned later. With that same straight razor

\tBut oh...here comes one of many moments he was looking forward to. Biting his lip and his heart singing he pushed into Ol?s scalp and cut a thin channel into the mouse?s head. Whimpers and sobs echoed in the confined space. Kelsei sat on a bench outside the shop and rocked back and fourth. It was a good deal, she kept telling herself. He?d trust me in time.

\tThree more cuts into Ol?s scalp allowed Isaac to peel back the skin to reveal the bloody skull underneath. The mouse was shaking too much. He could toy with a patient but a dead one gave him a bad...worse reputation. His bleached fingers reached for a soldering iron which he dabbed at the bleeding tissue. He cleaned up the operating site, all while Ol squeezed his eyes shut and sobbed in pitiful agony.

\tIn the future whenever Ol heard a mechanical whir he?d break down into a pathetic fit of tears and panic. Having a bone drill three inches from your ear digging through un-numbed bone would do that. His finger nails broke on the operating chair with hard cracks. He squeezed and tried to manage the unbearable agony of a fine drill cutting a inch and a half circle in his skull. He was straining and tearing muscles all over his body as he turned more taught than bridge wire. Agony was all he knew.

\t

\tA coin sized chunk of skull fell into Dr. Isaac?s collection beaker for admiration later on. No time for that though, he still had so much fun to have at this mouse?s expense.

\tThe wetware was a Fairlight Caliban comlink with a Shiawase Cyber-5 cyberdeck. It was, on it?s own, enough for a slummer to retire on. The degenerates of the lower city didn?t deserve kit like this, though Isaac. And if this mouse knew what was good for him he?d get the gear pulled out when the job was done and cash in. Which was why his employer told him to include a kernel sized implant with it. A small shaped charge that would turn the mouse?s cerebral cortex into a god damn sponge. Any tampering, or if whoever had the detonator got bored and...boom. Wetware back on the seller?s market.

\t``I probably shouldn?t tell you this but... you see this?'' he said, showing the micro charge. ``This is a little insurance of your cooperation. We don?t want you wandering around with a quarter million credits worth of gear. If I were you I?d try not to think about how one crossed wire or errant button press and you?ll die before you hit the ground. But that?s just me'' Isaac gave Ol a playful slap on the face and resumed the work.

\tAs much as he wanted to turn the mouse into an idiot savant he was under orders to keep him intact. With much regret Isaac picked up the freshly cleaned wet ware package. A metal ring to give the wet ware an anchor point.

\tEight screws penetrated the skull and held the mounting point in place. He lifted the small flash drive sized wetware package and locked it onto the mounting point. As it calibrated and prepared to push aside the brain matter Isaac decided to toy with the mouse one more time.

By this time Ol was entirely out of it and in shock. His abused brain in pure survival mode. Isaac doubted he was capable of coherent speech.

\t``Keep your head steady boy, or you?ll find out first hand what a lobotomy is like'' he teased. Now that the wetware was locked into place it would install itself. But he didn?t have his fill.

\t``Why don?t we play some games while we wait for the install to finish hm?'' he asked.

Grabbing a scalpel Isaac pulled up Ol?s pants and cut a three by three grid into Ol?s flesh. ``Tick tack toe?'' he asked ``If you win I?ll get you high on some sweet grade pain killers. You won?t remember any of this. If you lose I get your nuts''

\tOl didn?t even know what he was agreeing to. He just tapped on his leg in the centre square. Rolling his eyes Isaac cut a deep circle in Ol?s thigh flesh. He cut an X. And they went back and fourth.

\tMaybe he was too busy enjoying inflicting pain and wondering how he?d remove the mouse?s nut but he did end up in a tie. He dropped his spent scalpel in a dish of disinfectant and pulled out another.

\t``Fine. One nut, and I get you high but not enough to forget this. Don?t think I?m happy about this''

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