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He quickly tired of this kind of entertainment, having found true gold back home instead of this false pyrite on the road. He dropped a ten and was on his way. Maybe he should have gone back to the psychic on his lunch break but distractions called — Forman George called her the best dancer in town. The proportions were all wrong, though, movements: jerky and like she was a puppet on strings instead of a real person, um, avatar. No mine to find here.

“See you back at the salt mine George,” he said upon parting, leaving the old man with his trinkets and baubles, poor thing. Wife died about 5 years back. He’s managing the best he can, Eddie supposed.

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“Yes I recall. The direct resonance with the Utah town in the Marion-Francis circle. The one that put SS on the map. But the overlap was rejected by the good people of that state, steeped in religion not mysticism and alchemy. They knew and understood the gold seekers that were greedy prospectors, ready with a trick and a tail. So they bent away from Meat City, to the detriment of both. The upper ones tried to mirror the energy back into the town but no good, or incomplete at best. Now you can revisit this. Where is the coordination of Broadwater in Kamas?”

After checking: “It’s off the grid (!).”

“Exactly. It has its own energy independent from the grid that absorbed the rest. Streets don’t go all the way around the sim. Keep that in mind when exploring further. More aligned overall with the continent rather than the city, a larger power.”

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“No sushi today! Bad!” the proprietor of the stall barked on the same block as the new strip mall.

Geez I was just passing by, she thought, oblivious to the omen.

Suddenly time stood still.

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