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* TROLLKIN AI SECURITY ALERT. External. 20:59.
* Trigger event: Alert initiated by Communal in response to agent limbic system spike.
* Subject: Roll, Shockwave operative.
* Review required: Data log initiated. Trollkin AI line of communication is not clear. Protocol is not clear. Directive 100.15 Safeguard, algorithm parameters applied. Journal insertion initiated. Real time recording activated. 15-minute historical event analysis established. <Interpretive program on.>
* Source data sort Level 1: <Communal data link.> Agent cerebral nanite matrix, limbic sensor. Agent cellular device, speaker activated. Area public device speakers activated, total eight speakers accessed.
* Source data sort Level 2: <Communal data link.> Public automobile camera and sensor storage file analytics. Public security camera storage recording review. Private security camera same time analysis.
RUN.
September 12th. 21:00 hours. Sequential event log. Subject, Roll, is at a public park with a male, late teens. Roll has consumed alcohol. Operative blood alcohol content is .07. Real time analysis <time stamp error>...
Continuing historical event analysis.
Roll has entered Jakes Pool and Stuff, a gaming establishment. No unusual conversational content.
Roll is playing pool with a youth, early 20s. Scanning database, subject name Alex xxxx. No unusual conversational content.
Warning! Aggressive tone and language from Alex xxxx directed at Roll.
<*COMMUNAL. Communal interface established.>
Alex: “You don’t make-out the real-speak goober? I’ll do the cushy-bye. Real slow for sleepy. Only ten bucks, goober? Fifty is the nifty. And the twenty from the past go. I’m turnt Billy. Got the frown all down. Need what’s mine manny. Or, gonna go orange on you Billy.”
Roll: “Chill-off Alex. I got you. Filled the stash, forgot the cash. It’s good?”
Alex: “You sleepy, Billy boy. Billy ... boy. Not good in the hood. A grind Billy. A mis-step to bust my rep. My rep Billy. Need the cash in MY stash. Dig deep Billy goober. Deeper or the creeper.”
Roll: “Ten’s all I got but Tom’s on the green. A call away. Let’s go.”
Alex: “Ahhhhh. Not the ringer. One is enough. Don’t need Tommy in the show. Two is too ... too ... too much. The shrooms, they are getting on me bad Billy. Hybrid boys. Real horrorshow. $#!@ $#!@ <expletive deleted>. Not in the mood no more. No more. Done Billy. You done Billy. Billy example. Pay Alex on time, all the time. The bugs all dead, time to get ahead. I am jumping all-in on the biz goober. Steppin up the grind, no cushy-bye time. Billy example. You gonna be my whippy post Billy boy.
“James, get your @$# <expletive deleted> over, over, over with the old guy. Tell him, tell him, tell him stay put. Stay. Mind his biz. Orange is comin Billy. Comin for you, goober. Hey dip wick, get the, what’s it, the disk, the disk. The #&@$ <expletive deleted> disk. For the camera. It’s got the angle. Camera three, the disc for me.”
<The sound of wood breaking. Pool cue snapping.>
<Accessing camera 3, Jakes Pool and Stuff, cloud storage activated, Sametime feed running.>
<Subject Roll, matrix spike. Motor cortex triggered. Basal ganglia triggered. Procedural memory core, cerebellar processing spike. Hyperemia detected, all collateral vessels fast twitch muscle fibers. Detectable systemic interference, blood alcohol content .068.>
RESET. RUNNING.
Alex swung the heavy half of the broken pool cue in an overhead arch toward the top of Roll’s head. Roll had been backed into a corner and did not have time to move out of the way. He took note that Alex was swinging the cue with his right hand.
Roll stepped in close to Alex to avoid the faster moving outer portion of the pool cue. As Roll stepped in arms forward, he made an X with his wrists, back of his wrists up with right wrist on top, a cradle to catch the impact of Alex’s wrist or the base of the cue stick.
The meat of his lower arms faced up as he ducked slightly, bent his knees, and moved his arms up higher than his own head, hands unclenched. He aimed the top of his crossed arms at Alex’s own wrist hoping to catch it as it came down. His aim was true.
As Alex’s wrist hit the padded muscle of Roll’s lower arms, the force of the impact threw the cue out of Alex’s hand and it bounded harmlessly off of Roll’s lower back. At the time of impact Roll was already pivoting his feet so that his back would be facing Alex.
As he pivoted, he rolled his arms in order to grab Alex’s right wrist with both of his hands. Then in quick sequence Roll pulled and rotated Alex’s arm forward and up. Roll kept his own knees bent as he twisted his grip clockwise.
Alex’s elbow was locked and facing down as Roll pulled Alex’s arm down onto his left shoulder, increasing the force by straightened his legs out of his moderate squat position. Roll was mindful to finish the move delicately. If he applied much force at all, Alex’s arm would break at the elbow.
As it was, Alex had some very painful hyperextended ligaments. He would be fine with some ice, ibuprofen, and a few days of rest. Glass half-full.
There was a lot of adrenalin involved. A broken elbow joint or torn tendons and ligaments, that scenario was certainly possible. Glass half-empty.
Roll was about to finish the move with an elbow to Alex’s ribs, or lever Alex’s arm back into a control position, as he had been taught. But Alex let out a little whimper, even as he screamed, and Roll decided to just let go of the arm.
Alex screamed, dropped to his knees holding the damaged elbow and said, “#@c&” <expletive deleted>.
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