SIV Endgame: An Opco Boone Adventure: Difference between revisions

no edit summary
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 125: Line 125:
The unit spritzed. Swart ''whoooed''. She shucked her [[CSA]] and reloaded.
The unit spritzed. Swart ''whoooed''. She shucked her [[CSA]] and reloaded.


Biffer yeehaared. He banged in a clip of   
Biffer yeehaared. He banged in a clip of [[Credit-linked note|self-referencing CLNs]].  


Tucker blammed out out some shells from the Liquidator. It disoriented the advancing machines and threw a curtain of indeterminacy around the theatre. The [[SIV]]s kept coming.
Tucker blammed out out some shells from the Liquidator. He had a mind to disorient the advancing machine and throw an indeterminacy curtain around the theatre. But the [[SIV]]s kept coming.


Frenchie flip-cocked his piece and hollered, “feeding time at ze zoo, ''mon cher''.”  
Frenchie flip-cocked his piece and hollered, “Oh-ho-ho, c’est la feeding time at ze zoo, ''mon cher''.”  


Bundie sniffed the air. “Something’s — not — ''right''. They’re — it’s just — ”
“''Wait''.” Bundie sniffed the air. “Something’s — not — ''right''. They’re — it’s just — ”


But the boys weren’t listening. They smelled a firefight. They fanned out and pressed, intent on filling their boots.  
But the boys didn’t wait. They weren’t listening. They smelled a firefight. They fanned out and pressed. In a co-ordinated sequence, they drew their ISDAs and banged in margin clips.  


Tucker and Frenchie went left. Biffer went right. Swart kicked off her vol damper and went charging in on foot with a sawn-off repo.  
Tucker and Frenchie went left. Biffer went right. Swart kicked off her vol damper and went charging in on foot with a sawn-off repo.  
Line 318: Line 318:
Bundie jammed a second-to-default EM sovereign basket into the magazine of the only piece he had to hand — a rusty old semi-automatic EMTA — and lit up the theatre. It flamed into life.  
Bundie jammed a second-to-default EM sovereign basket into the magazine of the only piece he had to hand — a rusty old semi-automatic EMTA — and lit up the theatre. It flamed into life.  


It was dirty, noisy and hot — he shucked out burnt up [[Risk-weighted assets|RWA]]<nowiki/>s and kept reloading — and at last it holed the [[Structured investment vehicle|SIV]]. It stumbled. Its rollers uncoiled and it stoved into the sand on one knee. It was crippled but still shooting — eventually it crapped out but not before it had annihilated three quarters of Bundie’s unit.  
It was dirty, noisy and hot — he shucked out burnt up [[Risk-weighted assets|RWA]]<nowiki/>s and kept reloading — and at last it holed the [[Structured investment vehicle|SIV]]. It stumbled. Its rollers uncoiled and it stoved into the sand on one knee. It was crippled but still shooting — eventually it crapped out but not before it had annihilated three quarters of Bundie’s unit.


Tucker was already goneski. Chipper was dead. Biffer was in a bad way. Blood gouted from his mouth. He wouldn’t last long.  
Tucker was already goneski. Chipper was dead. Biffer was in a bad way. Blood gouted from his mouth. He wouldn’t last long.