You contact Wintermute and try to set up a meeting with the client to discuss the terms of your employment, but this client doesn’t seem to operate the same way as other clients. Wintermute tells you that you will be paid 5000 bits for completing the job, which is good money plus an extra 2000 if it’s done clean. Winter mute also does not tell you where you are taking the information from, simply stating that he will contact you with further instructions. You try to get more information, but you are met with silence.
Feeling defeated you sit back and just, think for a while. Your thoughts turn to augmentations. For a long time, you wanted to get jacks to interface with cyberspace, from what you’ve read, hacking with yourself jacked into the system would make your job easier.
You realize that your landlord has her prosthetic leg, and things might be better if you try to get more on her good side.
You knock on your landlord’s door and she slowly opens it.
She sees you and says, “Don’t tell me, the furnace is busted again.”
“Actually Tyra , I just wanted to talk.”
“What? Why?”
“I’m thinking about getting auged for my job and I thought that you might be able to tell me some stuff before I decide to go ahead with it.”
“Um, sure. Come on in I guess.”
You both enter her house.
“What do you do for work again?”
“I’m a computer security expert.”
“So what are you thinking about getting done?”
“I want to get bio-interface jacks installed.”
“You know that there’s a lot of difference between prosthetics and cyber space jacks right?”