Editing Rivers in the Barrens:BTL Warehouse Run (section)

==Background Info==
'''Better-Than-Life chips''' have long been a vice targeted towards the wage-slave lower class and the pariah SINless. After all, they're the ultimate form of escapism from the dreadful conditions most people live in. That said, the neo-anarchists in the Ashbarrow understand that BTL use is a systematic issue, not a personal moral failure, and the community generally only intervenes when someone's habit is harming themself or others. Often this works, sometimes it doesn't. Four months ago, people started dying.

Horizon's various networks, clickbait, and other corporate news will often blast wage-slaves with scare stories about people dying from BTLs. "This is your brain on BTLs," B.A.R.E., you know the type. When in truth, BTL deaths are usually from something secondary - forgetting to care for oneself because you're not thirsty or hurting in the BTL, running in front of a car while high, that sort of thing. Overdoses of a type can happen with extremely persistent use, but they're typically much more gradual than overdosing on actual drugs, often taking the form of early-onset dementia. What began to happen in Ashbarrow was different. BTL users screaming in agony, convulsing, dying of cranial hemorrhage... The deaths were acute, awful, and occurred even in first time users. The conclusion of the Black Cross, Black Crescent, and local militias is that '''these chips are adulterated''', and the contents as described by survivors point toward malice rather than incompetence on behalf of the creators and distributors.

A conclusion supported when the Troll Killers, a human supremacist gang that revels in murdering "trogs" (a slur for orcs and trolls), were sighted distributing the tainted chips to BTL pushers in Ashbarrow. Further legwork traced the Troll Killers' operation back to '''a supposedly abandoned warehouse on the corner of Calistoga and Emmons''', facing the Puyallup River. More than a stockhouse, stakeouts and matrix traffic suggests some of the chips are actively being burnt on-site. Entrances to the warehouse are guarded at all hours by 3-5 belligerent and well armed gangers. Shipments come in via powerboat, while exports go directly or indirectly to unaffiliated small-time dealers - especially those that sell to blocks with high metahuman populations. Since the deadly effects have become known, the Troll Killers are beginning to change tactics, surreptitiously spiking shipments of normal BTLs with their poisoned chips and selling to dealers while hiding their colors.