So there's a strep virus going around and Boo's been the one treating it. Table's taken a turn for the worse, though, and her mother Stoop asks Boo to take a look. She's got a fever and things are deteriorating. Boo injects her with some Chill which is a temperature normalization agent but she starts thrashing and spasming in reaction to it. She's okay! It just looks real bad. So that's when Stoop grabs a gun that's hanging off the wall and is all, "YOU'RE KILLING MY BABY." Boo, cool as a cucumber, just pushes the gun out of the way and hugs her. Stoop starts crying and Boo says Table will be all right, it'll just take her a few hours to come to. Stoop asks him to stay and he says he will.
Burroughs is on his roof, eating rat. Kroupe comes up on his roof. She's the eldest elder, and she's a hard woman. She remembers the end and has done a lot of things since then to stay alive. So she tells Burroughs she needs him to come look at something for her. He wants to know what it is before he'll leave his dinner so she says fine, fuck you, I knew this was a mistake. He's all like baby be cool, and there is apparently something strange and compelling about Burroughs because then he is fucking a sixty year old lady on the roof. This lets him see into her mind. He sees her prostituting herself to get into Glenview back when things first went to shit and he feels her pain for every person who came begging to be let into Glenview because its dangerous and sickmaking out there and he feels her loneliness that is so deep and sharp its cracked her and keeps the corpse of her long-dead man in a bed and whenever the pain gets too great she sleeps next to it. He goes with her. She takes him down to the pool that's being guarded by a few Violent Fuckers and she shows him a corpse, half in and half out of the water with a jagged gash for her throat. It's Jay, the caretaker of the water filtration system. Nobody knows who did it, but this is bad and Burroughs needs to find them so they can walk off the roof.
Dusk is over at Hightower which is a nearby holding. She has a client there named Helix whose kind of a technical person. She keeps all the old photos she can find plastered all over her room which also has a workbench in the back where she can work on fixing and building things. Her and Dusk have a spat. She wants Dusk to stay, give up her lucrative sex life. Dusk refuses and Helix flips out a bit. Dusk leaves. Things are getting too complicated. She gets back to Glenview and she gets called in to see some of the elders. Mainly Killerby. Killerby is a serious fucking asshole and is like where have you been, it's dangerous out there. She explains herself and he gets more pissed and bans her from leaving the building for two weeks basically to be a power-tripping asshole. She gives up and is like fine is that all? No, we need you to find someone who knows how to work machines. There's Bojangles, he lives in the building, but he only likes to work on guns. They've tried to get him to work on the filtration system before but he's refused. Dusk is persuasive. Can she persuade him? She says yes but only if Killerby gives her his watch. It's old and shiny and it still works. He agrees and hangs it on a nail. She can have it when Bojangles agrees to work the filtration system.
My two players were impressed at how far sex can get you in this game. I think the Brainer fucked his way out of as many situations as the Skinner did, maybe more. And unlike the Skinner he was not picky. Boo, however, got no tail.