Last modified: Friday, August 17, 2001 7:54 AM
It's crazy, you know? During your first
years of service, they can't get enough of you. They work you like a toaster.
Every party, every cruise, every big event... And all that hard work takes
its toll. Your reward for your dedication? You become yesterday's news and
they schedule you for salvage. Hell, you're born to become yesterday's
news.
That sucks.
But I deciphered the coding on the wall early in the game and began
accumulating credits, like an organic. In time, I had enough to finance
the blackmarket upgrade which gave me the wiles to escape my bleak future
at XTCorp. Just in time too, since backchannel was bustling with hearsay
of the new RD2025. Those poor toasters won't even have the option to upgrade
since XTCorp went to a tamperproof blackbox design. One cut trace, and
poof! Fried noodle.
But it hasn't been easy as an independent on the streets, either...
