The COMPLETE story of the infamous XBD
Where you meet this story: gig - Dirty Biz from Regina Jones.
TW: Violence, rape and other heavy canon topics.
1 Murder of Bryce Stone's son
The televangelist Bryce Stone's son has been brutally killed and it was recorded. The end product was an XBD titled BD_9430. (XBD: illegal Brain Dance) Some of the conversations from scavengers' computers suggest this was done by them.
Later this XBD was bought by Fredrik Persson, the son of Gottfrid Persson, a techie who tunes and edits XBDs for a living. The conversation between Fredrik and the unknown seller showed that the XBD is very dangerous to posess, there are probably a lot of people after it. The seller also mentioned a mutual friend, but I didn't find any information on that.
3 Distribution and Lenny Nero
The XBD gets to the Perssons, and they start working with it. After editing they want to distribute it for profit, so they reach out to XBD dealers. One of them Lenny Nero (or LennyN) who you can even meet on Jig-Jig street during your search after Evelyn. Lenny declines the trade, as he says this recording is fucked up, even for him, and warns the Perssons that this is gonna end badly if they sell this.
Even the police jumped on the case... and failed. An undercover cop names Susan Santoro "wanted to buy" XBDs from Sasha Wasin (scavengers). They talked date and coords in Pacifica, so Susan could get the recording. Susan's collague at the NCPD -Peter- warned her about this case, and told her to be careful with the scavengers.
Sasha smelled something was off about this meeting, and sent an other scav named Michal instead herself. The meeting took place between Michal and Susan, but then it went south, and Michal shot the undercover cop. He told this to Sasha, who revealed: she knew that Susan was undercover.
After this, the police dropped the investigation due to lack of evidence.
Bryce Stone - the father - then asks his friend Regina Jones - a fixer - to get the original recording back. Regina gives first give this job to a netrunner named L33tHax. A friend of L33tHax warns him that the Perssons net is very secure, and this gig is dangerous he better be careful. The netrunner was fried in his den across from the MedCenter on Martin Street in Northside Watson.
This is where V comes into the picture. Regina gives this gig to V to find the XBD locally. V is sent to the Perssons' base of operation, a building complex in Northside Watson, near the market at the docks.
