Chapter 33 - 33

You want to find a Demon Radio kid? Do you even know what it is you are thinking of doing?

Sit down and shut up kid while I explain why you are a stupid gonk.

Like everything in Night City, it started with a rumor.

Rumors of magical pre collapse radios that were found in places out of the beaten path where no one would really go or be able to find them. You could find them on roof tops, on edges of overhands, in sewer alcoves, or even in between buildings. The magical thing about them was that they still worked even with no source of power and were impossible to damage. They played pre war tunes and news of things going on through the city and even revealed secrets from time to time. A very valuable commodity indeed.

However, what magical thing in Night City does not have it's dark secret? Everyone who has tried to take or break the radios were found missing their heads and strung up like a puppet dripping blood with the radio back where it was found. Now that would usually not be enough to deter the stupid from trying their luck anyways, except for one thing. It speaks.

Apparently, if you speak to the radio, someone will reply, a transmission that not even the best net hacker can detect, like it came straight from the radio. A man's voice will speak, revealing your personal information, your deepest darkest secrets, and then it will offer you a deal. To perform a deed and be rewarded generously.

It asks things like what normal fixers would ask, gather information, kill this person, steal that car, the usual stuff, but then it starts asking stranger things. Take the blood of this random homeless man, take a picture at this point in time, or even just stand at this location wearing this outfit for five minutes.

The rewards are generous indeed in terms of eddies or even high quality equipment that appear next to the radio with no sign of how they got there. With the voice offering even more generous deals, and no one has yet to stop accepting. However, the punishments for failure are high indeed. Those who tried to break the deal or trick the voice all disappeared without a trace and no Fixer has yet to find any trace of them.

People have started calling the voice the voice of The Radio Demon, based on his modus of operation. Things have been starting to get strange around Night City since the first rumors have popped up. More and more of these radios are constantly being found all across the city and even in the outer badlands where the Nomads roam. Furthermore, rumors of strange occurrences and people have started popping up. Tales of entire warehouses full of goods disappearing, entire offices being emptied of people overnight with no trace, shadow people roaming the alleyways and disappearing without a trace even in dead ends with no hidden entrances.

Even the Corpos are apparently starting to get spooked as they all started walking around with their own bodyguards, not that it helped as apparently even those guys are disappearing mysteriously or winding up strung up missing their heads by one the demon radios.

Now nightmarish as all of that was, there is just one thing that keeps people seeking those radios. Those deals the voice offers, you can make your own. One solo apparently asked for the demon for a cure to his disease, terminal cancer, guy was in the job for a while so we knew he was legit. The voice asked for a hit job after he finished his end of the deal. Man apparently woke up the next day cured of his incurable cancer. Was so happy he went off to party and refused openly in the Afterlife to do the deal and dared the demon to do something about it.

Guy immediately broke down screaming in pain in the middle of the atrium and was found to be full of tumors and lesions. Guy died a few hours later despite what medical aid he could get. That is why you are a stupid gonk kid.

If you find one of those damn radios you'll be stuck working for it till you die or do something stupid to piss off the Demon and end up disappeared or hanging from the roof. And don't give me that 'I'll only do enough for what I need' schtick, you have any idea how many people have said the same thing only to not come back? Their greed made them keep going and going till they couldn't put their eddies where their mouth is and either died on the job or failed the Radio Demon.

So do the smart thing kid, if you start hearing music drifting through the air, don't follow it, stay the hell away from it, and don't try to find it.

This is one Night City Legend we don't want hanging around. We don't need no Demon coming to our Afterlife either.

Hmmm? What's wrong kid? You white as a ghost. What? Behind me?