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Killer - Opens the manhole before the learner bounces though with boinging sounds.  Drops the lid and looks at the Explorer.  "So."

Explorer - "Hm.  Yeah.  Haven't been alone since.  Hey so you know that whole time when you had no memory in Hell ?"

Killer - "Mm-hm."

Explorer - "Well ... you're welcome."

Killer - "What !?"

Explorer - "Totally walked you through that.  What was I supposed to say !?  'In real life you're actually a psychopathic killer !?  Seriously.  What exactly would you say to me, even if I were to tell you that right now ?"

Killer - "I was your servant."

Explorer - "For three wishes and they were granted."

Killer - "Were not."

Explorer - "What !?"

Killer - "We were already married.  You still owe me one."

...

Explorer - "I suppose that may be perceptibly true.  So what, you want a pony now ?"

...

A horse cop gets punched off the armored black Clydesdale's back, wings plop the Killer in the saddle and they're off ... 

Killer - "Wheee !"

Explore - Watching the giggling ride into the sunset ... "I swear to God."

Death - On the Killer's comm, "Just remember, you're here to be a distraction."

Killer - Grinning on the horses back, the horse exchanges a look then turns back riding harder toward the police depot ahead, "Can do."

So ... be a distraction !
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The Learner drops in the hole, near a circle of soldiers around another duct taping a teddy bear to a tuba while the rest chant "go ! go ! go !" with money gripped in their hands.

Learner - "What the ... Hell are you people Doing !?"

They look up guilty as fuck as the rats scurry out of the tuba.

Guard - "Um.  Freeze !"

Explorer - "You literally said freeze."

The nearby outlet blows on the Explorer's entry the system and out another.  Throws the grenade hard at the back of one's head. 

Explorer - "You're weird."  Another outlet blows and gone before the grenade.

Navigating at these wire speeds is no joke, especially when trying to hit a specific target. 

Every turn on the wire trying to keep with the mini-map in the corner can launch the player into some shitty motel, bodega, and out the parking lot lamp.  But the center of the city's electrical grid has more nodes to work with.

Through the systems the player will move as fast as the player's system can physically calculate the next environment.  What I like to call, load speed.

If by the way one exceeds load speed, the outran the level and fell off the edge of the world, in any game.  This may come up later but for now the Learner doesn't fly, so that means falling forever, what some consider the Abyss.

So we don't exceed load speed, or any game's personal 'speed of light' just yet.  To the city's power core instead.
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A horse cop gets punched off the armored black Clydesdale's back, wings plop the Killer in the saddle and they're off ... Killer - "Wheee !"

Explorer - Watching the giggling ride into the sunset ... "I swear to God."

Death - On comm, "I felt that.  A pony !?"

Explorer - Smiles looking after, "A pony."

Death - "So that's you two done.  How do you feel about that ?"

Explorer - "Among these people who call themselves warriors, this one was special.  You chose well.  How do I feel ?"

Watches the Killer say "Charrrrrge" for some reason like a pirate before taking a head with a sword.

Explorer - "I think it's our time.  And I like these two.  One more job and ... "

Death - "The old is replaced by the new."

Watches the horse dancing on a police car, Killer shooting in the air while the people if treated well through the game come out to join in revolution, horse rearing high ...

Explorer - "These were good times by beloved, but grow weary here.  They've got this."

Death - "Unto the river then with us, beloved my Lady Styx."

Joining with the distraction, which depending on how kind the player's been to the people, seems to have grown into something else as the military arrives.

Thing is about a wish and a promise, the horse can never die.