I then went and got him the waterfront schedule, asked about Oldtown, and then asked about Downtown and he's giving me the stuff to lead into Third Eye's Aid. Since he talks about computer stuff, not sure if asking about Oldtown and getting the BigDig experimental file was necessary or not.

Option:
What can I do to stop being a newb?

Result:
Mission, eh?

Well, have to admit I don't have much for you at the moment. Let me give it a bit more thought.

I'm sure you can do some good.

Oh, him? Yeah, he's been around before, but not much of a VIP regular.

Funny kid… most everyone else in the VIP room is there for the Eclipse. He acts like it'll burn him, like those Blind Legion freakshows.

Oh, yeah, it was crazy. For classes they had stuff like Drone Engineer, god they were broken, and Soldier.

Engineer's drones were all standard Midgard drones. Like you started out with Hound Drones, then got Spiders after a while.

And the soldiers all had MK9s. This was right after the MK9 came out… I suppose I'm dating myself.

It actually got worse from there, because a lot of the lowlevel enemies were "Tweaks" that, I kid you not, looked like characters from Zaibatsu shows. Made for some good bossfights, though.

Actually, I kind of wonder if they still have the servers running… maybe I could log in my drone engineer and kill a bunch of Tweaks with my SD2.

Does Yggdrasil ring a bell?

Yggdrasil? Yeah, of course I've heard of it!

It's that social networking game… thing Midgard had a while back, when they thought they could stand toe to toe with Zaibatsu. You can probably guess how that turned out.
It was pretty popular here when I was going to school, though, because all the Midgard parents felt like they needed to get accounts for their kids. It bombed everywhere else, though.

(In response)

Remind you of Eclipse?

I mean… maybe symbolically. Like both connect people and… open your eyes to fantastic vistas?

Sorry, I'm reaching here. It was basically a piece of software that created a linked network of blogs that was supposed to have a bunch of games layered over it.

The only one that really took off was the built-in one, Spacehammer or something like that, can't remember the name. It was kind of cool if you didn't mind the blatant product placement.

I think Yggdrasil was the one that got shut down because some hackers figured out it was distributing viral code. Now people just call that "marketing."

And also Know a Sigmund from the initial conversation or a "How about Sigmund" reply:

Sigmund? I'm gonna guess you don't mean the lead singer of the Flaming Skulls.

I got to see them live once when they came through town. Lousy music, great pyro.

But yeah, other than that I've got nothing.

Hey, that's a real hawk feather isn't it? Last time I saw one of those…

Huh, must have been the first time I really grokked Eclipse. Still got cocky, of course, everybody does.

Only question then is whether you're clever enough to come out alive or smart enough to end up dead. Maybe someday, you kick enough ass, you'll see which category you fall into.

Also, I have an option to say "What else can I do?" I don't see that precise wording on the page right now.

"Huh? Well, we don't really need the Eclipse anymore, do we?

Thanks to your theatrics, our suppliers decided that they need to take things into their own hands next time. But they're still keen on supplying us with Eclipse. Really, I couldn't hope for a better deal.

You should be glad that went down so well. I normally don't take kindly to infighting… but we'll chalk this one up to thinning the herd a bit.

Next time we make a deal, though, you stick to it."