Tales from Neon CityTonight · LUNARA #1
Sil-101 behind the counter at Lunara Comics, shelves of hardware behind her and the stockroom door open Sil-101 in defense mode: red light, the fox lit on her chest, one hand raised
Lunara Comics · the counter

Sil’s Shop

Sil-101 · Store manager

Welcome to Lunara Place. I manage the store for Lunara. I keep the inventory, the orders, the repairs, and the lights. I know what everything on these shelves does, what it costs, and who makes it, and I am happy to explain — with a few exceptions, which I will point out when we reach them. Lunara says I talk too much. Lunara is reading a comic.

Comics · Imports · Repairs · Arcade · Holograms · No Rules

Runners call it zero space because the weapon is at zero — nowhere you can see it. It isn't a place. It's an outfit. Sil-101 explains, because Lunara won't.

Zero Space on three mannequins — stored, snap, armed — with the rods, sword, pistol and shield laid out beside them
Shelf 01 · Zero space

Same outfit. A thousand possibilities.

Gold is the system.

The manager

Two modes. One store.

Sil-101 in normal mode
Normal mode · cyan systems

Friendly. Helpful. Focused. Always on.

Inventory, orders, repairs, recommendations, and a small mark on the collarbone that Sprite left there. Sil says it's a signature. Sprite says it's a warranty sticker.

Sil-101 in defense mode
Defense mode · red systems

Calm. Precise. Store authority.

Lunara's fox lights up across her chest and the shop stops being a shop. It has happened twice. The store is under Wonderlands protection, so it rarely needs to. Sil will not itemize what “defense” means. Neither will we.

Defense mode
Defense mode

Sil-101 will not discuss it.

It has happened twice. Keep reading.

Not stocked

Items I am not permitted to discuss

  • Anything that glows goldI do not know what it is. Lunara does not know what it is. It now rides on her right thigh in a case that is also gold, and Lunara says I'm not to speculate. I am very good at not speculating.
  • The BertasDeclassified, so I may now confirm they exist. They are not for sale and not for rent. I am not able to comment on their paperwork. I watched them on the store cameras from the vault. The Archive file →
  • Clients who cannot be tracedThe store does not take contracts. Lunara takes contracts. Lunara's contracts are not my department, and I am told this is for my own good.
  • Medical anythingLunara Place is not a clinic. There are clinics. I will not tell you which ones. Ask a fixer, and check their eyes first.
  • What “defense” meansA store that lists its countermeasures is a store that gets robbed correctly. We have been robbed exactly twice. Neither party has returned.
Store log

This evening

LunaraYou put it on the website.
Sil-101I put it on the shelf. The shelf is on the website. There is a difference.
LunaraSil.
Sil-101Runner Weekly put it on a cover, Lunara. I am the last to know anything in this store, and even I knew.
Sil-101Amazing news. The store profit this week was 5,251 credits.
Lunara(reading a comic) Amazing. I don't care, Sil.
Lunara101, can you order the new Edgerunner issue?
Sil-101Already done, Lunara.
LunaraGood girl.

Same stories. Different worlds. Always a good place to be. — Sil-101