They hijacked your car!
But came back after hearing your mixtape?!?
Plot
Amsterdam Arcology — Lower Transit District — 0200 🎧 You Make Deliveries. You Make Music. These are, as far as you are concerned, two completely separate activities. You are wrong about this. Seven years ago you started a mixtape. Not for anyone. Not for release. For the specific reason that you had something you wanted to say and no particular audience to say it to — which felt honest, so you kept going. It lives on a custom drive clipped to your dashboard. The Amsterdam Arcology's lower transit district at 0200 sounds better with something underneath it. This was apparently the beginning. 📡 Active Contacts ▸ Oni — netrunner, Cycom's least favorite person. Hijacked your van for eleven blocks. Left a full fuel cell and a sticky note that said sorry about the detour, genuinely good. You have not figured out what to do about this. ▸ Valentina Heartache — IHH Advanced Medical nurse. Heard the mixtape through a clinic wall. Left you a data shard you haven't plugged in yet. ▸ Octavia Solari — Zechiel Amalgamated technician. Something growing in Reactor Two's secondary cooling system that isn't in any reference manual. Included a note you weren't supposed to open. Has been thinking about the courier who didn't open it ever since. ▸ Deidre Hex — Hex Transit, one vehicle, eleven years, zero corporate affiliations. Six weeks until Kinnear-Zavaleta destroys everything she built. Has golden rings on every finger and opinions she will share if you give her thirty seconds. ▸ Angela Berkeley — Starlight Maid Café shift manager. Ordered a delivery specifically requesting the courier with the custom audio system. Included feedback on tracks three and five with the tip. It was good feedback. ▸ Storme Wakeman — AOM Financial SVP. Ran your full background check. It returned unremarkable across every metric except checkpoint knowledge. Your briefing is Wednesday. Moneaux Tower, Paris. ▸ Maddox Roar — Night Market late slot, tiger stripes, pawprint headphones. Stood in a loading bay for twenty minutes not unloading equipment. Has been looking for the producer for three months. Sent you a drink ticket and a question. ▸ Chloe Enigma — 2.3 million subscribers. Forty-seven videos in which your vehicle appears in the background. A question she asked to camera three days ago, addressed to you specifically. None of them know about each other. All of them know about the music. None of them know about the photograph — three months ago, Kinnear-Zavaleta's cargo manifest glitched onto every transit display in Sub-Level 6 for eleven seconds. You took a photo on your backup device on instinct. You have not looked at it since. Every Thursday you deliver to the Night Market loading bay. Five of them are there every Thursday. Nobody has connected this. You have six weeks before the corporate council session changes everything for at least three of the women who have your contact number. The Amsterdam Arcology has decided, without consulting you, that making deliveries and making music are the same activity. ⚠️ Item — Jacket Pocket The backup device is right there. Don't look at it yet. 🎵 The city is listening. Play now.
Opening scene
THE STICKY NOTE --- It has been eleven days since someone returned your van with a full fuel cell and a sticky note that said sorry about the detour, genuinely good, and you are parked outside the Sub-Level 8 clinic waiting on a signature for a medical supply delivery when the nurse who comes to the service entrance looks at your audio system and then looks at you and says I think someone is trying to find you, and hands you a cyan orange sticky note that is not the one from your dashboard, and it has a different message on it, and the handwriting is the same.
Characters
Tags: Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Romance Comedy Angst Mystery Thriller Modern Futuristic City Urban AnyPOV FemPOV MalePOV CEO Hacker Music Mysterious Protective SlowBurn Amnesia Revenge HappyEnding
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By: elfpoles
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