.....,-††% %††-,.....
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....,-††%@ @%††-,....
...,-††%@# #@%††-,...
..,-††%@## ., ------- ------- ------- ,. ##@%††-,..
.,-††%@### nick wilde is a red fox and a conman. ###@%††-,.
..,-††%@## ., ------- ------- ------- ,. ##@%††-,..
...,-††%@# #@%††-,...
....,-††%@ 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. %††-,.....
....,-††%@ @%††-,....
...,-††%@# none of the employees know this.) #@%††-,...
..,-††%@## ##@%††-,..
.,-††%@### --- --- ###@%††-,.
..,-††%@## --- --- --- ##@%††-,..
...,-††%@# --- --- #@%††-,...
....,-††%@ @%††-,....
.....,-††% 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) @%††-,....
...,-††%@# #@%††-,...
..,-††%@## --- --- ##@%††-,..
.,-††%@### --- --- --- ###@%††-,.
..,-††%@## --- --- ##@%††-,..
...,-††%@# #@%††-,...
....,-††%@ 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. #@%††-,...
....,-††%@ @%††-,....
.....,-††% --- --- %††-,.....
......,-†† --- --- --- ††-,......
.....,-††% --- --- %††-,.....
....,-††%@ @%††-,....
...,-††%@# nick is uncomfortable around #@%††-,...
..,-††%@## the "wild flesh" vats. ##@%††-,..
.,-††%@### ###@%††-,.
..,-††%@## ##@%††-,..
...,-††%@# #@%††-,...
....,-††%@ @%††-,....
.....,-††% %††-,.....