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Part the First: A Thete Visits a Mod Parlor | Source Victoria | Financial Complications of Bud's Lifestyle

• The story takes place on the Pacific Coast, near Asia, at the end of the twenty-first century.

• Bud, a criminal with artificial muscles, visits a mod parlor to upgrade his skull gun to a state-of-the-art spray gun using nanotechnology.

• Bud has no family name and no family tree, but he and his girlfriend have two children, Harv and Nell.

• Source Victoria filters dirty sea water and polluted air, then returns clean water and air.

• Bud asks a banker about a line of credit, and learns that the credit card will be mounted on a bone near the surface of his skin.

• People who default on payments are forced to assemble jewelry in a prison-like setting.

• Low-quality food and other products are available for free from matter compilers in public areas, but other...

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