>Long-term, automated Encryption protocols. This spellbook of macros will help you shroud yourself in various ways, ensuring that you can hide your identity, cover your face, and become resistant to scans. It also reminds you that you need to ask him about the metadata issue later. Something like this could prevent future problems.

You've been faced with a recurring issue recently. Identification is the biggest threat to your daily life. You can do without a gun, do without a hook, but you lose everything if you're flagged and placed in a database. Your home, your ability to walk in public, access to city functions, so on and so forth,. It's a miracle you've managed to cover your tracks so far, but you WILL slip eventually. You need to mitigate that risk.

You point to the archive of files, after asking Doc several questions about it. He hands it over with the manual, and you store it away for later. You won't leave this partition without reading it end to end, that's for sure.

"Thanks, Doc. This should help a lot."

"Yeah! Would be a real shame if-"

This time, you're fast enough to kick him again and stop him from rubbing it in Doc's face. The man has lost years of work, for crying out loud.

"Oi!"

"I hope it does you some good."

He swipes the others back into his inventory, and reclines further in his seat.

"So. We've got a lot to talk about. Why don't we start with what you've been getting up to in the past few weeks?"

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