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£&†~~-.... nick wilde is a red fox and a conman. ....-~~†&£
#£%†~..... .- ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ -. .....~†%£#
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£&†~...... he's not above petty crime, but he ......~†&£
##£&%††~-. knows that if he puts in a bit of work, .-~††%&£##
&&&%††-... he will find much more lucrative ...-††%&&&
###£%††~-. rewards. .-~††%£###
##£&%††~-. .-~††%&£##
&&†~...... and thus he's currently working ......~†&&
£&†~~..... alongside hatsune miku for a company .....~~†&£
##£&%††~-. that makes synthetic meal replacements. .-~††%&£##
##£&%††~-. he's got a vague outline of a plan, to .-~††%&£##
##£&%††~-. scatter with some product, or even .-~††%&£##
£%%†~-.... better, some formula? these things are ....-~†%%£
&&††~--... worth a lot to a competitor. ...--~††&&
###£%††~-. .-~††%£###
##£&%††~-. he's been lucky; the place is .-~††%&£##
#&&††††~-. surprisingly unguarded. once he's got .-~††††&
&&%%%††~-. his paws on something worthwhile, it'll .-~††%%%&&
#££&%††~-. be easy to just waltz out. until then, .-~††%&££#
##£&%††~-. keep doing the work... .-~††%&£##
##£&%††~-. .-~††%&£##
##£&%††~-. come to think of it, the place is .-~††%&£##
££&&%††~-. almost eerily empty. there are few .-~††%&&££
£%†-...... coworkers. (in fact the company is ......-†%£
£££&%††~-. ai-run and only a few key roles are .-~††%&£££
&%††~..... filled by actual people. .....~††%&
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££&&%††~-. none of the employees know this.) .-~††%&&££
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££%†~..... nick and miku are both stationed in .....~†%££
#&%%†~-... early processing, housed in a state of ...-~†%%
££%%†~.... the art factory close to the docks. ....~†%%££
£&%†~---.. they create the early building blocks ..---~†%&£
&††††~-... that are later combined into the meals ...-~††††&
#£&&%††~-. that's sold to customers. .-~††%&&£#
&%%†~..... .....~†%%&
##£&%††~-. the bases are mostly sludges .-~††%&£##
££&&%††~-. or pastes, such as: .-~††%&&££
##£&%††~-. .-~††%&£##
#£&††-.... †~ plant matter ....-††&£#
&%†~-..... †~ blood colony .....-~†%&
##£&%††~-. (made with a type of bacteria) .-~††%&£##
##£&%††~-. †~ wild flesh .-~††%&£##
£%††~~.... (free roaming animals) ....~~††%£
&%††--.... †~ organs ....--††%&
##£&%††~-. (taken from a living human that .-~††%&£##
£&%†††-... is willing to sell) ...-†††%&£
##£&%††~-. †~ minerals .-~††%&£##
&&††~..... †~ blood colony two .....~††&&
##£&%††~-. †~ insects .-~††%&£##
##£&%††~-. (which are mainly used for their .-~††%&£##
&&†††~~~-. brain, which is used to extract .-~~~†††&&
###£&%††~- receptors that detect pheromones) -~††%&£###
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£&††~..... miku is in charge of the blood .....~††&£
##£&%††~-. colonies. there's large vats of the .-~††%&£##
##£&%††~-. original culture which is fed blood .-~††%&£##
££&%%††~-. meal, bone meal, what doesn't qualify .-~††%%&££
#&%††††~-. to go in the "wild flesh" paste, and .-~††††%
##£&%††~-. some processing chemicals. all these .-~††%&£##
&&%††~~--. ingredients have an effect on the blood .--~~††%&&
£%††-..... which in turn affects miku. .....-††%£
#&&%††-... ...-††%&
##£&%††~-. there is a large tank behind the .-~††%&£##
##£&%††~-. factory that contains a vast number of .-~††%&£##
##£&%††~-. auxilliary blood colonies. miku watches .-~††%&£##
£££&%††~-. over these as well. their purpose is .-~††%&£££
#&%†-..... unclear. .....-†%
&†††††-... ...-†††††&
&&†~-..... the factory is surrounded by the blood .....-~†&&
##£&%††~-. meal farms. there is a constant .-~††%&£##
###&%††~-. exchange of blood and blood meal. this .-~††%##
££%%%††~-. provides two of the major materials for .-~††%%%££
###£&††~-. both the colonies and miku. .-~††&£###
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££&††††~-. nick is uncomfortable around .-~††††&££
&%%††~.... the "wild flesh" vats. ....~††%%&
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