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Chapter 11 by MidbossMan MidbossMan

Who do you want to ride with?

Ride with Despedida in the back and learn about the Deliverers

You decided that the four hour drive would be a good time to talk to Despedida... not just for the sake of filling out those dossiers a bit, but also, because a four hour drive without anyone to talk to would be pretty unfortunate. The two of you got into the dark van together, while Au Revoir laughed about how the two of you were treating her like a chauffeur.

The seating arrangement, with each of you in one of the embedded seats, had you facing one another in pretty close proximity. It wasn't a bad view... The conversation proved to be a little lacking, though. Despedida immediately grabbed her laptop and began to hammer away on what you first thought was mission prep, but quickly revealed itself to be a video game, as she began cursing, loudly, in Spanish and trash-talking her opponents. Every now and then, her curses would be broken by the name of some video game character.{if Weakness for Video Games = 1} Dammit... You hadn't thought about the fact that this special spy van was equipped with stable wi-fi. You could have brought something to play too, or even played a game with her!{endif}

Still, you couldn't afford to be waylaid. You had to make the most of this time. You decided to ask Despedida what she knew about the Deliverers... You hadn't crossed paths with them yet during your time at CEDIT.

She ignored you.

Grumbling, you stepped over, lifted first her cap from her pretty black hair then moved aside her over-sized, noise-cancelling headphones. With a laugh, she tilted her head slightly, then grinned. "Whoops! I was kind of in the zone, there, New Ciao. What's up?" You restated the question and she responded, though her eyes returned to her game and her fingers to her laptop. "The Deliverers? Uuuuh, they're actually a group of religiously motivated terrorists. The modern world doesn't know them, since other groups love to claim their work in a more public way, but they've actually been around since the first nuclear bombs. They're weird because they aren't really, uh, 'terrorists' in the sense of wanting to spread terror... They just want to burn civilization to the ground. They think humanity took a wrong turn somewhere and that God wants them to reduce it back to zero so it can restart."

You asked how they got that idea...

"Eat shit!"

From eating shit?

"N-No, sorry, I was just owning bottom lane. Why, are you planning to talk it out with them?" A carefree smile spread across her face as she returned to her game. "My advice? Worry about yourself, New Ciao. The Deliverers aren't going to ask why you became a CEDIT agent. Just lane wipe... or stand back and let me and Au Revoir lane wipe... and don't worry about who's on the other side of the monitor."

What's next?

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