[ChicletPrime]

9. Into Deep

• oooh boy, okay. what are we gonna find out NOW.
  
• uh. okay. of all the "next things" i might have been expecting, Zayne's voiceover while in my rather swanky bedroom was NOT on the bingo card. "perhaps they don't want anyone else to get their hands on it, as they try to obtain one for themselves."  i'm still unclear exactly what differentiates an "aether" core from a regular protocore, than than maybe sheer power level. "or there are aether cores already in their possession."  aw, you mean i'm not alone and unique and worth my weight in political favors?
  
• Shit, Zayne's talking to Xavier??
  
• no wait, these have to be flashbacks to previous conversations. phew. levels of conspiracy back down to manageable levels.
  
• thanks, flashback to Rafayel. i WOULD make great bait, wouldn't i? i smell good too.
  
• if i'm the dangling lure, are you the big fish with the jaws?
  
• go me, i'm calling Rafe because... why aren't i calling the guy who can flash out of anything like sunlight?
  
• i love phone calls. it even has the slightly distant tinny sound.
  
• "Meet me at The Nest. Show me how to fish."  booyah, baby! lets do this thang!
  
• swankly club time and i appear to be dressed in.. black leather? excellent.
  
• oh great. fuck boy shows up trying to trade me not-illegal-protocores right on the floor. do i look cheap or something? this is supposed to be a great disguise! (although i am still wearing my Hunter's watch, jeez)
  
• handsome handsome Rafe
  
• i am SOOO naive, i can't stand it
  
• exit Rafe? oh man. this is not going to go well.
  
•  yup. check out the next quest name
  

10. Trap.

• time for the abandoned warehouse and the rough guys with rubber hoses i guess.
  
• wow. hologram flyer offering 100,000,000 credit reward for bounty target Lumiere. "duration: long term". i guess it doesn't matter how long it takes, somebody will pay for him.
  
• other bounty targets are peanuts in comparison
  
• "mission level:" five red triangles. that's... that's hard, right?
  
• wah? the lights went out?
  
• oooh, creepy red eye in the machine. LOVE IT.
  
• crap, its looking at me. why are you looking at me? i am just your average run of the mill wannabe mafia boss don... thing.  (and Xavier is "just a normal Deepspace Hunter". this is a very flawed plan all right)
  
• this looks suspiciously like that eye was was staring at me from the sky the night before Caleb died, only smaller and with less menacing fog effects.
  
• SPOTLIGHT
  
• oh crap.
  
• I THINK I'VE BEEN SOLD OUT.
  
• oh great, now we're going all vampire hunt? guys, i'm just here to buy some non-illegal things and maybe take home a date.
  
• oh great, i got needled in the .. somewhere. where's my needle?! i got a needle somewhere too, damn it. i am way too slow.
  
• well, maybe not exactly abandoned warehouse
  
• RAFAYEL?!
  
• why are you holding a black glass?!
  
• handsome, oh SO handsome Rafe.
  
• what the whatting WHAT?
  

oh, maaaan. challenge fight. what is HAPPENING?!

(aaaand I am back to needing to level a bunch of cards before i can progress). what the whatting what holy shit, what did i just see exactly.