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{{Infobox episode
|color_theme=cw
|episode_number = 11
|title = A Thing You Know About Nightclubs
|release_date = {{Date|October 30, 2015}}
|length = {{Duration|01:36:50}}
|cast = [[Austin Walker]]<br>[[Keith J Carberry|Keith J. Carberry]]<br>[[Jack de Quidt]]<br>[[Ali Acampora]]<br>[[Art Tebbel]]
|game = [[The Sprawl]]
|score = [[The Long Way Around: Friends At The Table Soundtrack, Season Two|The Long Way Around]]
|previous_episode = [[COUNTER/Weight 10: Drawing Clocks]]
|next_episode = [[COUNTER/Weight 12: A Home After a Wake]]
|episode_page = https://friendsatthetable.net/counterweight-11-a-thing-you-know-about-nightclubs
|transcript = https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_zHGRtTLKXahrdEIlcCEFGddIEkrWp0LcGIRvV5yFDw}}

== Episode description ==
<blockquote>
This week, we enter into The Sprawl in earnest. [[Cassander Timaeus Berenice|Big Cass]] finds himself pulled between familial duty and personal safety, [[AuDy]] calls in a favor from a fellow sentient machine, [[Mako Trig|Mako]] goes digging for information, and [[Aria Joie|Aria]] finds, to her surprise, that she has a new hit record. 

This week on COUNTER/Weight: "A Thing You Know About Nightclubs"

Get ready to feel the beat!

</blockquote>
== Contents==
===Opening===
{{Quote|At the interior of the bar and nightclub Sine Wave, [[Jamil Quartz-Noble]] finds herself kneeling among a few dozen bodies. Some separate flesh from blood, while others vibrate holographically, a humming static where once there was a thing like life. 

She sighs and shakes her head before lifting a finger to her ear and speaking to someone she knows can’t make this better. "It’s too late. It’s live. All we can do now is damage control."

And with a swipe of her hand, the holographic bodies evaporate - no trace left for when PrivSec arrives to conduct their investigation. And in the DJ booth, a pop song plays on repeat, aggressively joyous, and designed with a singular, final precision.}}

===Plot===
The session begins with love letters. AuDy asks the captured Sister Rust about her beliefs and ends up returning her to the Iron Choir. Mako retrieves some intel on [[Snowtrak Synergies|Snowtrak]] from his [[Liberty and Discovery Automaticorps]] raid. After Cass's space mission, their family asks them to guard their cousin Laris on a visit to Counterweight, but they refuse. Aria learns that when she first joined JoyPark, she signed over her rights to her image and audio.

[[Paisley Moon]] asks the Chime to the opening of the Krilham C-E-D dome's BluSky dome and beach. He passes them a job from his client, [[Apostolosian Empire|Apostolos]], to recover data from the [[September Institute]] before it is sold. The data is currently being protected by an OriCon security firm, and several other factions are interested in acquiring it. 

Mako does some light hacking and learns the data is called the [[Gnosis Virus]]; it has already caused the deaths of 12 people in a Centralia nightclub a few weeks ago. AuDy contacts shadow broker "[[BAABS|Benny]]", who points them to Dome 32 and [[Horizon Tactical Solutions]], who direct the movement of Gnosis from a distance. Aria talks to her own contact, Wes, and learns about the new Aria Joie song, "SkyBright Love". Wes warns her about the security at the Horizon facility, while Cass surveys the facility alongside AuDy's Junebug photography drone, and spots their best way in.

Cass assigns themself and Mako to the Horizon facility, and AuDy and Aria to going after Gnosis. Just as everyone is moving into place, Aria gets a call from [[Jamil Quartz-Noble|Jamil]].

== Cast ==
* [[Austin Walker]]
* [[Ali Acampora]] ([[Aria Joie]])
* [[Keith J Carberry|Keith J. Carberry]] ([[Mako Trig]])
* [[Jack de Quidt]] ([[AuDy]])
* [[Art Tebbel]] ([[Cassander Timaeus Berenice]])

=== Other Characters ===
* [[Jamil Quartz-Noble]]
* [[Laris]]
* [[Paisley Moon]]
* Joras
* [[BAABS]]
* Wes

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