Deb brings to the counter all the items Puffy requested. Deb: "This should be everything. I even found the MilTek-Atheros Mini PCI wifi module... Now look, I don't exactly picture a desert hermit mage to walk around with Mata Tokens, but - there are a lot of good hackers in this city... Kids who keep the torch you once carried aflame. They don't need ancient hardware, they need come from the -" Puffy interrupts her: "Girl! The Bag." Girl is going through the comic section of the store, reading ACTRON by stanley lieber. Girl: "Coming!" She empties her backpack on the counter. It's dozens of dozens floppy disks, cd roms and zip drives. Deb examines them. Things like OpenSSH 43.2, Game of Trees, etc.. Deb: "These are all..." Puffy: "Recent. Get it to anyone you can."

Girl: "But how do we get inside, master?" Puffy: "We have the golden ticket." Puffy is holding a MATACORP AI SCRAPING PERMIT. Puffy and Girl stop by a security checkpoint. Puffy talks to the clerk. Girl stands by, looking at a MATA_BOT_COP. Girl: "Did you know that the current sgx rayrifle firmware has an unpatched vulnerability that allows the attacker to remotely discharge it?" The clerk lets them through. Puffy: "Ready?" Girl: "Ready."

The outer walls of Metacity. Protect all the wonders of proprietary debauchery. The most secure place on what remains of Earth. Or so they would want you to think. Girl and Puffy walk past a refugee camp outside the walls. Puffy: "Refugees. Most never make it inside."