Remind me: do we have landline communications set up between the various bases? Roughly how long is travel time between Beta and Alpha?
Yes, except the one on the lower levels, and it's about a half hour.
Go back to Beta and continue to meditate in a drug-induced haze. Maybe ask the Mechanical Muse for advice.
You head back.
The Mechanical muse says:
I hear...
...Predatory Nature...
...The Outer Banks...
...Kingmaker...
"Well, looks like we've got the whole deal here," Ryan laughs to himself.
Are there any Sons at this base? Find out if anyone here has the medical know-how to perform this procedure, or if we'll have to go find someone from a free clinic to lie to or "persuade" to help us here.
Didn't you guys bring a guy with medical skills?
The sons don't have that level of knowledge. Their medical skills are first aid and "Anatomy for the purpose of murder".
Ready
Be ready.
"Well if the rest of you are ready, shall we go?"
Wait for the others to get ready, and then leave towards this new culture shock area.
Gonna assume this is everyone.
The beginning part of this move is easy; another ride on the industrial trains, then a mass transit elevator up a few hundred stories. From there it becomes more complicated: The son leads you off the elevator and back into a shopping center. He show you to a public restroom and tells you go inside, change your clothing and hide your lower level clothing in the air vent thats above the stall to the far left. He warns you that there is also a cache of weapons in the vent, but not to take any of them. The suits he gives you are odd things; plasticy feeling but very stretchy. They cover you like a tight latex skin but the limbs flair out like wizard robes and bell bottoms, and the entire thing is a glittering gold or silver, except for Kedly's character who gets one in ruby red. You all get dressed and stuff your clothing into the vent as instructed.
If you want to hide anything in your suit, this is the time to say so and I'll roll to do it. Try not to have any unsightly bulges!