sirenspull | [Voice]

Hello. Fellow newcomers? I'm in need of some practical advice-

[A breath. This is less the tone of a confident doctor, and more like a young man teetering on the brink of anxiety, but holding his voice together at a steady calm.]

What are the appropriate channels, besides calling it in to law enforcement, to best go about securing yourself from identity theft? I've...never had to recover from losing anything like this before, and I'm uncertain what steps I should take from here-

I seem to have somehow misplaced something very important: Photo IDs, keys, my debit, a portable storage drive, and a panicalarm device which- its GPS is apparently disabled. (So much for that being anything of use)

I've been retracing my steps for almost two hours now, and I just can't figure out quite how, or when- [Uncertainty clouds his tone for a moment, as he mutters mostly to himself](It's odd I could even get so far without realizing it was missing- my lanyard is something I feel rather... naked without.)

So If anyone's had any experience dealing with this before, in the contemporary system- I'm at an honest loss here, asking the network. Normally it's something entourage simply wouldn't allow to happen, but.... What would you do?

And how would you go about even beginning to locate something potentially stolen, in a city this large and under poor surveillance, which can't easily be replaced?

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If it happens as easy as that, it could happen to anyone! It was right around my neck one moment, and gone in the next!

Obviously a pickpocket found that easy.

No one would have dared, in Romdeau.

We haven't been in Romdeau for over a year!

I know...I know. It will be two, in May.

Funny. How some of the simplest things still come as a personal shock.

[He falls silent for a moment.] It's always a challenge, to be here.

It must be even more of a bother to you than it is to me, public security being so bad.

The conditions here are deplorable. The stoops someone will go to do anything to help their family... the system is corrupt, Doctor. And we've been trying to fix it for too long.

Then what do you propose we do?

We start fighting back in some way. Not literally, of course, but in some other way.

Such as?

I have heard that there are individuals here who are almost wish granters. Not real, of course, but any other help is still help.

Some things sound too good to be trusted.

And then there's always assassination. That is a fairly good standby.

Very unfunny.

And yet the hint of amusement in your voice gives it all away.

I said the same thing, when you suggested pulling the plug on the regent.

But you let the Proxy do that for you, didn't you.

You're not quite so bold as you would have us think, perhaps?

I prefer not to bloody my hands. [Pauses.] Ah, but neither do you.

No one, especially newcomers, should unsettle the system here. That would come down badly on the entire community.

Then I do hope you don't remember this conversation in the future.

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