Transcripts
Each post will contain 3 stories from Maximum Mike (voiced by Mike Pondsmith)
Is there some hidden truth into them? Some subtle metaphors? It’s your call.
Is Biotechnica releasing experimental monsters in the Badlands?
- So, listen up, people.
- I’ve got a story to tell you.
- I heard something recently from a nomad friend of mine.
- She was telling me about some strange stuff happenin’ out in the Badlands to the East.
- She’s said she ran across another nomad patrol.
- 5 people, all mauled to death by a wild animal.
- But thing is, folks, there haven’t been mountain lions out there in almost a century, wolves in even longer.
- So, what could it be?
- Well, I’m reminded of a story.
- Story told me by an old merc I used to know.
- He once took a job to head and fly over to Romania, lookin’ for some corpo’s missing brother.
- Search took him to an old village, and they decided to camp for the night before searching the woods in the morning.
- That night, they could hear barking; howls in the distance. Even though they knew it had to be wild dogs, the team could barely get any sleep that night.
- Then, just before dawn, they were attacked by animals.
- But they weren’t dogs.
- They were werewolves.
- No, no listeners, I haven’t lost it.
- I mean it, they were werewolves.
- But not the ones of legend and not the ones in old Hollywood flatscreen flicks.
- These bad doggies came out of a lab.
- See, turns out that EBM had decided to back some rather unsavory sorts in an attempted coup of the governement and offered these gene-freaks as part of the deal.
- ‘Course it didn’t work, the coup was crushed a few months later, and EBM isn’t around anymore either.
- The question remains: where’d EBM get their knock-off wolfmen?
- They never had much of a gene-hacking division, so they must have come from some other corp.
- The obvious answer, of course, is Biotechnica, who just happen to own most of the lands south of Night City, all the way down to the border.
- So, what do you think listeners?
- Is Biotechnica releasing experimental monsters in the Badlands?
- Maybe those protein farms down there are a cover.
- Something broke out of a lab, with a taste for human blood.
- It’s always good advice to watch your back, but this time you might wanna pack a few Silver bullets next time you leave town.
- Just sayin’.
Who’s watching behind your eyes?
- So, people, listen up.
- This is serious.
- I want you to think about this.
- You know the name Raven.
- You know Moore, Dynalar, and of course, Kiroshi.
- They’re the finest eye makers in the world.
- Probably you’ve got at least one of them in your skull right now, don’t you?
- But do you ever wonder who’s watching behind those eyes?
- I think it’s time you do.
- Because those eyes aren’t yours, you know.
- Somebody makes them, somebody programs them.
- Those moments you think are private?
- How can you be so sure no one’s watching?
- The next time you’re out doing a deal, think about it.
- Maybe when you pull the trigger on that job, the corp who manufactured your eyes has evidence.
- You think you aren’t a target for blackmail?
- You better think hard about that last one, choomba, and be honest with yourself.
- Where do you think they get the datasets for the newest braindances?
- Heh, probably your private life.
- But hey, don’t limit your imagination, because the corporations sure don’t.
- What if there’s stuff they don’t want you to see?
- Little chameleon filter there, some perception coding here, and suddently they can decide what you even get to see.
- Who knows what they might wanna hide from you.
- Spies, secret labs, facilities, and of course, that kick-murder squad they sent to your door because you knew too much.
- So, you think seeing is believing?
- Not with these synthetic eyes.
The Bozos
- Yo, people!
- I’ve got a story to tell you.
- Maybe a little bit of history.
- Anybody remember the Bozos?
- They vanished from the city a couple decades back, so maybe you younger listeners won’t remember, but clowns once terrorized this place, yeah?
- Clowns.
- Really mean clowns.
- Back in the day, Night City had hundreds of what were called posergangs.
- That’s a gang where all the members get surgery to look alike or they get it on some theme, like characters from an old TV show…
- …or dead presidents.
- The bozos were biosculpted to look like circus clowns.
- And they liked to play pranks on people.
- But then they turned, and the pranks got real nasty.
- So, why did I bring up the Bozos, people?
- Well, that’s because I’ve got someone for all of you, faithful listeners, to keep an eye out for.
- I’ve got a trusted source on the street that tells me we’ve got a visitor to our fair city from Brazil.
- And this guy is something else.
- He’s got a permanent hairdo like a circus clown and I hear he’s even got a big red nose.
- Supposedly, he’s some kind of merc or arms dealer, but rumor is he’s also a genetic experiment.
- But hey, big nose, weird hair?
- Could this guy have something to do with the Bozos?
- Or maybe this guy just left his circus somewhere else?
- Time’s gonna tell, listeners, but in the meantime, I’m counting on you to watch out for flying pies that explode.