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Chapter 8 - chapter 8 Neptune bounty part 1

Once the pain vanishes, he lets her go, "Thank you mister" she says, and disappears in a black flash, into his dimension, due to Nyarlathotep, teleporting her there.

Turning to face the big daddy, he finds only a pile of dust, "weird, but it works for me" Sotor says, and walks over to each of the splicers, and uses absorption to absorb their memories, learning some things.

"Hm, so there's a used to be a head worshiper of Khorne, hiding away somewhere around here, due to getting usurped, so if I kill her, I will get information on the one, who's now in charge" Sotor says, smirking, and looks around the room he's in.

Finding a tonic which he places in his inventory, 200 bucks, 4 drum magazines, a acco-vox, and an EVE Hypo, which he places all in his inventory, except for Acco-Vox, which he plays.

"We're putting all the bathyspheres in lockdown until further notice" a man's voice says

"Ryan had us install some kinda genetic device into the things so only Ryan and his inner circle will be able to use 'em without dispensation" the man says.

"But the boys tell me the keys are pretty unreliable. Sisters, cousins-anybody in the ballpark, genetically, will be able to come and go as they see fit" the man finishes.

"Then how am I using them, actually I really don't care" Sotor says, placing the vox in his inventory, with the others, and moves on.

Walking through a door, with a sign that says, Fontaine Fisheries above it.

Going around a corner, he spots a gathers garden, with an acco-vox leaning against it, next to multiple bodies with no heads, with the walls around him, covered in blood, and bodies with no heads.

"That's, um, not good, because if there's this many bodies without heads, then there's most definitely a bunch of daemons of Khorne nearby" Sotor says, pulling his revolver out of its holster, and gets ready to fight.

But once he gets close to the gathers garden, nothing happens, "Okay, I was sure something was going to happen" Sotor says, holstering his revolver and picking up the Acco-Vox, and playing it.

"Not only are those little girls veritable Adam factories, their nearly indestructible" Steinman says.

"They regenerate any wounded flesh with stem versions of the dead cells" Steinman says.

"But their relationship with the implanted slugs is symbiotic… if you harvest the slug, the host will die" Steinman says.

"So you see, it's not like killing" Tenenbaum said,"It's more like removing a terminal patient from life support" Tenenbaum said.

"Yeah, but it's still wrong, Steinman" Sotor says, putting the Acco-Vox in his inventory.

Walking around the wall of the gathers garden, he finds a gene bank, with a pack of cigarettes, a first aid kit, a bottle of Old Tom's whiskey, and a revolver with some rounds, which he places all in his inventory.

Continuing on, he walks down a set of stairs, passes a sign that says Fountaine Fisheries, and a circus of value machine, and down another two sets of stairs, and into some water.

Walking through the water, he makes it to a barred gate, with some stuff on the other side, and a body hooked up to a battery, that can only be opened with a code.

"Well to bad for the people here, I'm really strong" Sotor says, grabbing the bars of the gate, and using his strength to bend, a way through.

Walking through the hole he made, he places the first aid kit, the Bible, the cross, and the drum mag, he finds in his inventory.

While picking up the Acco-Vox, and playing it.

"Mr. Ryan asked me personally to make this clear to you" a man says.

"You give us Fontaine, and this whole filthy ring of his, and you'll be knocking back pints up at the Fighting McDonaghs" the man says.

"But if you prefer to play the mule… we'll treat you like a mule… Give him a taste, Patrick…" the man says, making a scream and the sound of electricity happen.

"Oh, what's that? Change of heart, Timmy? Timmy? Ready to talk now" The man says.

"Go on, Sullivan… go on and do your dirty! …Whatever Ryan thinks he can do to me, Fontaine can do double" Timmy says.

"Oh poor Timmy" Sotor says, setting his body on fire, burning it to ash, "I hope you found peace kid" Sotor says, walking away.

But as he walks, he hears the loud scream of a Big Daddy, and smells the stench of blood, and gore, of a daemon.

Quickly running towards the scream of the Big Daddy, and the stench of the daemon.

Running up the first two stairs, he sees a little sister run past him, but he quickly grabs her, while placing his hand over her mouth.

"Quite, I'm not going to harm you, I'm gonna save you" Sotor says, quickly taking the worm out of her, and sends her to his sister,

Adam production:12

Adam 400

Little sisters saved:4/34

Ignoring the pain, he continues up the rest of the stairs, and he finds the Big Daddy, hanging on the end of a sword, of a daemon of Khorne.

Quickly summoning his sword, he runs at it only for it to disappear in red smoke.

"Okay, I'm not even going to say anything about that" Sotor says, desummoning his sword, and goes back the way he came, down the stairs, and through the door, into Fontaine Fisheries.

Once through, he hears the lady's voice from earlier again, but ignores it, to pick up two First aid kits on the floor, which he places in his inventory.

Walking more forward, he finds a pack of cigarettes, some pistol rounds, a first aid kit, a bottle of Old Tom's whiskey, and a box of shotgun shells, which he places all in his inventory.

Walking over to the door of Fontaine Fisheries, and knocks on the door, only for nobody to answer.

But for the gate of the conveyor belt to open, drop out what looks like a grenade launcher, with a note attached to it.

"Find a research camera, and the worshipers of Khorne, might, let you in" Sotor reads, and picks up the grenade launcher.

As soon as he does, it starts to warp and change, becoming a .75 caliber semiautomatic, assault weapon, made out of eldritch steel, with a red grip.

The bolter of dreams: a bolter from the Warhammer multiverse, made out of eldritch steel, in the style of a handgun.

Normal humans shouldn't be able to wield this, due to the fact that it's so heavy, normally, but being as strong as you are, this is nothing to you.

Firing .75 solid rounds, with 4 different variant magazines, grenade, heat-seeking, proximity mine, and elemental.

With each being in a special holster, that goes around your chest, from right shoulder, to left waist, with the gun becoming a tattoo on your back.

Once he reads that, the holster appears around his chest, "Cool I got a grenade launcher now, now where do I get a research camera" Sotor says, only for a paper to appear that says, Wharfmasters office.

"Oh okay, thank you" Sotor says, and walks back the way he came.

After walking back up to where the gathers garden is, he finds a gate has opened up, beside a sign that says Upper Wharf, and Wharfmasters.

"Guess, I'm going this way" Sotor says, walking forward, while picking up two EVE Hypo, and a first aid kit, that's on the floor, and puts them in his inventory.

He goes to walk up some stairs, but spots an open grate, so he decides to crawl through.

Making it to the end, he finds an acco-vox, with a new type of drum mag for his Tommy gun, next to a body, who has 8 bucks on them, and a first aid kit nearby.

Picking up the first aid kit, the 8 bucks, and the drum mag, he places all of them in his inventory, and picks up, and plays the Acco-Vox.

"Something must be done about Fontaine" Ryan says.

"While I was buying buildings and fish futures, he was cornering the market on genotypes and nucleotide sequences" Ryan says.

"Rapture is transforming before my eyes" Ryan says

"The Great Chain is pulling away from me" Ryan says.

"Perhaps it's time to give it a tug" Ryan says.

"Well, it was going to happen eventually, everything ends Andrew Ryan, everything ends" Sotor says, crawling back the way he came, and exiting the grate.

Going up the stairs, he was heading to before, he goes around a corner, and up more stairs, and through a door.

He stops walking, when he sees two proximity mines on the floor.

"Hm, well, good thing I have a gun" Sotor says, walking backwards some, and firing two rounds from his revolver, exploding them.

Holstering his revolver, he walks through the door ahead, he finds a big Daddy's corpse, and then hears a little sister scream.

Quickly running towards the scream, he finds two splicers, about to attack a little sister, so he quickly draws his revolver, firing two shots into the splicers' heads.

Spinning the revolver in his hand, he holsters it and walks over to the little sister, who has passed out.

Picking her up, he uses the cure on her, while ignoring the pain, once it's out, and sends her to his sister.

Adam production:15

Adam 500

Little sisters saved:5/34

Looking around the area, he finds multiple acco-vox, a first aid kit, 6 pistol rounds, and a EVE Hypo, which he puts in his inventory while, playing the Acco-Voxs.

"I saw one of the smugglers having a game of catching on the docks today" Tenenbaum says.

"And this surprised me, because his hands were crippled during the war" Tenenbaum says.

"He was unloading the barge the other day when he was bitten from this Sea Slug" Tenenbaum says.

"He woke up the next morning and he found he could move his fingers for the first time in years" Tenenbaum says.

"I asked him if he still had that Sea Slug" Tenenbaum says.

"As luck would have it, he did…" Tenenbaum says.

"Hmm, fascinating" Sotor says.

"Darling Masha -- We don't know what has happened to you… Ryan's men have taken you away and said you are needed to save Rapture" a woman says

"Who needs a child to save a city? But I see these little girls crawling out of these vents, and I only wonder if you might one day crawl out of this vent and find this note" the woman says.

"We look for you, but if you find this, come to us at the Fighting McDonagh's in room #7" the woman says.

"The code to our room is 7533. We miss you, our darling child" the woman says.

"Well at least I know the code" Sotor says.

"Now the eggs are in the scramble" a man says.

"We picked up Timmy H, right after midnight" the man says.

"Either Ryan'll be taking down Fontaine, or Fontaine'll be taking down Ryan" the man says.

"We'll be "interviewing" poor Timmy 'neath Fontaine Fisheries… if you're up for entertainment, the code's 5380" the man says.

"Well, I already been down there" Sotor says, placing all the Acco-Voxs in his inventory, and moving on, only to have to, quickly use electro bolt, to melt a turret.

Going towards a gate, he breaks the padlock off it, making the gate open.

Walking through it, he grabs a splicer, that tried to sneak up on him, and breaks their neck.

Moving forward, he finds an Acco-Vox, next to a circus of value, which he plays.

"This Fontaine fellow is somebody to watch. Once, he was just a menace, to be convicted and hung" Ryan says.

"But he always manages to be where the evidence isn't" Ryan says.

"He's the most dangerous type of hoodlum… the kind with vision" Ryan says.

"You probably think everyone a hoodlum, Ryan" Sotor says, placing the Acco-Vox in his inventory.

Walking over to the Circus of Value machine, he finally decides to use it, but first, he shoots an auto-hack dart at it, hacking it immediately.

"Okay let's see here, oh look, three frag grenades for 30 bucks, I'll take one of those, a EVE Hypo for 12 bucks, I'll take seven of those, a first aid kit for nine bucks, I'll take two of those" Sotor says, paying the machine, 132 bucks.

Placing everything else, except the frag grenades in his inventory, to hook them onto his waist.

Moving up a few stairs, while melting two Camaras, with electro bolt, he makes it to the Wharfmasters' office, and breaks the padlock blocking his way.

Walking inside, he gets fired at by multiple turrets, so he quickly goes around the room, melting four turrets, and a camera, with his electro bolt.

Once he does that, he searches the room and finds 4 Arcadia Merlots, 50 bucks, two first aid kits, three bandages, and a proximity mine.

Which he places all in his inventory, moving towards a grate, he sneaks through, and melts a camera.

Walking towards a desk, he finds two Tommy guns, a grenade launcher, an open safe, with 25 bucks inside, and 2 heat-seeking RPGs, while on the desk, he finds an Acco-Vox.

Placing everything in his inventory except the Acco-Vox, he plays it.

"Hanging now, is it? That's what we've come to? Now look, I don't make the laws here, I just enforce them" a man says

"But I didn't come to Rapture to string men up for running contraband" the man says.

"If Ryan and his crew have their law, then they can have my badge" the man says.

"Well, what did you expect" Sotor says, and goes back the way he came, and breaks a padlock on a gate, allowing him to go through.

Crawling through a hole in the wall, he walks forward, and into an interrogation room, with a man behind some glass.

On a desk at the end of the room, he finds two First aid kits, and what he came here to find, the research camera.

Placing the first aid kits in his inventory, he picks up the camera.

As soon as it's in his hand, it shifts and changes, becoming three small, black, helicopters, with two cameras in their front, two in their back, one on the bottom, and one on top.

As soon as it's done changing, they take off and disappear.

Black Hawk 1 through 3 research cameras: three small, mobile, flying helicopters, with cameras in all directions, that can see in all spectrums.

Allowing them to research anything, down to their very being, and send that data, directly to you.

which could allow you to do more damage, or gain power and abilities depending on how much the camera researches, each time you fight.

Each helicopter is equipped with a state-of-the-art intangibility, and cloaking device, allowing it to go through walls, and become invisible.

It also has infinite battery life, meaning it can fly for hours upon hours.

"That will be helpful" Sotor says, going back the way he came.

Only for an explosion to happen, and for a splicer that's on fire to start shooting at him.

Only for the bullets to bounce off his body, and for him to shoot an electro bolt at the Splicer, killing him instantly by evaporating the water in their body.

Moving forward, he spots a splicer trying to destroy a camera, through a broken window

So he unholsters his revolver, and fires a bullet into their head, killing them instantly.

Jumping through the broken window, he searches around where he is at, and finds a Shotgun, EVE Hypo, and an Acco-Vox, which he plays, while placing everything else in his inventory.

"This little Sea Slug has come along and glued together all the crazy ideas I've had since the war… it doesn't just heal damaged cells, it… resurrects them… I can bend the double helix… black can be reborn white, tall, short, weak, strong… But the slugs alone are not enough… I'll need money… and one other thing…" Tenenbaum says.

"Hm, good to know" Sotor says, and walks through a door that says, The Fighting McDonagh's Tavern.

Walking forward, he finds a first aid kit on the floor, and nearby he finds an Acco-Vox, placing the first aid kit in his inventory, he plays the Acco-Vox.

" If things weren't bad enough, it seems that even our water system's sprung a leak" McDonagh says.

"Yep, that's right. The irrigation system in Arcadia is taking on seawater" McDonagh says.

"I told Mr. Ryan when we were building this place; either you build her like a bathtub, or she's gonna turn into a sewer" McDonagh says.

"No, McDonagh," he said, "we're not gonna build no bathtub… we're gonna build Eden" McDonagh says.

"Eden really, this place is nowhere close to the beauty of Eden" Sotor says, moving forward.

Going forward and through a door, he finds himself in an ocean-view glass tunnel.

"I love these types of tunnels" Sotor says, moving forward, but as he does so, he has to get behind a pillar, to dodge a bullet.

Pulling out his revolver, he tilts his head out, to see how many there are, and sees five of them.

Only to have to quickly, summon his sword in dagger form, to block a pipe.

"We're going to skin you alive" The Splicer yells, only to get shot in the head, by his revolver.

Pushing the body away, he fires two shots at two splicers, hitting them in the head, and then throws, his dagger at another splicer, while shooting the last splicer in the head.

Reloading his revolver with his energy, he holsters it, and searches the splicers' bodies, finding 100 bucks, two revolvers, and a pepbar, which he leaves, while placing everything else in his inventory, and desummoning his dagger.

Spotting an Acco-Vox nearby, he picks it up and plays it.

"As the respectable labs have all turned me away, I have turned to Fontaine's smugglers in Port Neptune for supplies" Tenenbaum says.

"Fontaine's men are pigs. They spit, they stink. But they deliver and they don't ask questions" Tenenbaum says.

"They're all terrified of Fontaine… he reminds me a bit of the Germans -- so efficient" Tenenbaum says.

"It wouldn't surprise me if he were soon running things down here" Tenenbaum says.

"Well, he didn't" Sotor says, placing the Acco-Vox in his inventory, and goes down some stairs, and into a jet-postal substation.

But as soon as he does, he immediately gets attacked from above, by a spider splicer, only for him to just, grab them by its neck, and break its neck.

Dropping the body to the floor, he hears voices in another room, so he sneaks into the room, and spots two splicers, with their backs turned.

Walking over to them, he summons his sword, and does a 180, cutting their heads off.

Searching the bodies, he finds eight bucks on one, while on ther the other he just finds, a buck.

Looking around the rooms, he finds a revolver, 23 bucks in a cash register, three pepbars, a drum mag, a first aid kit.

a thermos with some coffee in it, 2 bucks, armor-piercing rounds, for his revolver, three bandages, 6 regular pistol rounds, a proximity mine, a bottle of Arcadia Merlot, 12 shotgun rounds, and an acco-vox.

Placing everything else, but the armor-piercing rounds, and the acco-vox in his inventory, he pulls our his revolver, and holds it next to the armor-piercing rounds, which gets absorbed into the revolver.

New armour for the shadow of death, armour-piercing rounds, penetrate that armour with ease.

After doing that, he holsters his revolver, and plays the Acco-Vox.

"The death penalty in Rapture! Council's in an uproar. Riots in the streets they say! But this is the time for leadership" Ryan says.

"Action must be taken against the smugglers. Any contact with the surface exposes Rapture to the very Parasites we fled from" Ryan says.

"A few stretched necks are a small price to pay for our ideals" Ryan says.

"The death penalty, really you thought that was a good idea, in a city underwater, idiot" Sotor says, placing the Acco-Vox in his inventory, and exiting the jet-postal substation.

Heading over, and through the doors of the Fighting McDonaghs Tavern, he watches as a spider splicer jumps into the ceiling.

Seeing an open vent, he goes over to it, and finds, an Acco-Vox, which he plays, while crawling through it.

"I met Ryan the day me and the lads were installing the bathroom plumbing up in his posh Park Avenue digs" McDonagh says.

"Oi!" says he, "What's with all the brass fittings? General contractor had me down for the tin." "Well," McDonagh says.

"I supposed it's the contractor then who'll be bailing out your loo once a fortnight, is it? If it's price you're worried about, I'll be picking up the brass, so not to worry, squire." McDonagh says.

"And why would you be doing that?" says he. "Well, Mr. Ryan, profit or not, no man bails water out of privies built by Bill McDonagh" McDonagh says.

"The next day I finds out, I'm Ryan's new general contractor" McDonagh says.

"Good for him, I guess" Sotor says, putting the Acco-Vox in his inventory, and making it to the very end.

Only to see a grate blocking his way, so he heads back, and goes through the front door instead.

Walking inside, he starts to sneak, when he hears voices, so he pulls out his revolver, and switches to armor-piercing rounds.

Going up against a wall, he peeks around the corner, and spots 10 armoured daemons, over a corpse of another daemon, with high-ranked looking armour, that looks the same ad the one that killed the big daddy

'I'm gonna guess that, was the one who used to be the leader of the cultists, shit' Sotor thinks, while holstering his revolver.

'Well, since they're daemons, let's use the new gun' Sotor thinks, and reaches behind his back, which makes his bolter, appear in his hand.

'Let's get to work' Sotor thinks, spinning the bolter in his hand.

Walking out from around the corner, he aims and fires the bolter, making a small explosion happen at the end of the gun, launching the grenade out of it.

Traveling through the air, it hits the body, that they were surrounding, blowing up two of them do to them being to close, while sending the others flying.

Quickly aiming at another one, he fires another grenade, but it is quickly blocks it by using its weapon to send it into a window, and exploding.

But he ignores it, to fire another grenade at the far back one, while firing another one at the front one, which kills them both.

Running forward, he gets close to one of them, and fires the last grenade directly in its face, making an explosion to happen around him, killing the daemon, but for nothing to happen to him

Which makes the other daemons look in shock, quickly changing the magazine for an elemental grenades magazine, he fires all six at the last daemons, catching them on fire.

Quickly reloading for a regular grenades magazine, and fires at the six burning daemons, killing them.

Spinning the bolter, he turns it back into a tattoo, and cracks his neck, "well that's done, now it's time to look around" Sotor says, looking around the area, including upstairs, and the basement.

Looking around, he finds three Chechnya vodkas, seven old Harbinger beers, 13 Arcadia Merlots, four old Toms whiskeys.

Two packs of cigarettes, four first aid kit, three proximity mines, three EVE Hypo, 12 shotgun shells, two drum mags, two shotguns, three bucks, five frag grenades, two bandages.

Two open safe with a EVE Hypo, 4 proximity mines, and a automatic hack dart, and five Acco-Voxs.

Placing everything, but the Acco-Voxs in his inventory, he starts to play them.

"I'm closing in on the whole ring. I'd pat myself on the back, but let's face it… these aren't exactly bloodthirsty desperadoes we're talking about" a man says.

"Rapture's full of poets, artists… tennis players, not hired guerrillas. But this leader of theirs, this Fontaine… he seems to know his way around a grift" the man says.

"He keeps his nose clean, but not so clean that the right people don't know he's not to be trifled with" the man says.

"And how did that work out for you" Sotor says.

"Diane, my dear, I'm sorry but I'll be late again tonight… Rosenberg is demanding to speak about this Fontaine business" Ryan says.

"I'm trying to build a proper financial market and this idiot keeps going on about ADAM this and genetic modification that" Ryan says.

"I'll go spend an hour pretending to pay attention to the poor fellow and be home as soon as I can" Ryan says.

"What did you expect woman" Sotor says.

"Rapture's changing, but Ryan can't see the wolves in the woods. This Fontaine fellow… he's a crook and a proper tea leaf, but he's got the ADAM, and that makes him the guv'nor" McDonagh says.

"He's sinking the profits back into bigger and better Plasmids, building them Fontaine Poorhouses… more like Fontaine recruiting centers… 'Fore we know it, Bloke's gonna have an army of Splicers, and we're gonna have ourselves a whole heap of miseries" McDonagh says.

"Well, what did you expect happen" Sotor says.

"Mr. Ryan… I believe in Rapture. But that doesn't mean we always win. Fontaine Futuristics is the biggest thing going in Rapture" McDonagh says.

"So let me be plain: when we arrest that toe-rag Fontaine for his thieving and smuggling, we must make it clear that we won't touch his business interests" McDonagh says.

"We sit on the Council because these poor sods trust us… not because God gave us a chair" McDonagh says.

"Oh really, dad didn't give you a chair" Sotor says sarcastically.

"We saw our Masha today. We barely recognize her. "That's her," Sam said. "You're crazy," I told him. "That thing? that, that is our Masha?" A woman says.

"But he was right. She was drawing blood out of a corpse by Fontaine Fisheries, and then when she was done, she walked off hand in hand with one of those awful golems. Masha!" The woman says.

"Poor poor souls" Sotor says, placing all the Acco-Voxs, in his inventory, while picking up a tonic he found, in one of the rooms, and uses absorption on it.

Shorten alarms tonic level max: if absorbed this tonic, will allow you, to hide yourself, from alarms, from the things you hack, for a minute.

"That could be helpful" Sotor says, breaking the tonic in his hand, while using absorption, making the liquid disappear into his body.

"Well, let's go back to that door, that I got the grenade launcher from" Sotor says, walking out of the room.

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