True alchemists know you just gotta lean into your inner chaos in order to conjure something new. This is why people stuck in chronic avoidance also suffer for prolonged periods. There is no reward for avoiding yourself.
they should keep doing these and have Adam Smasher kill the whole cast at the end of each of them, on like the third or fourth time Arasaka isn't even involved and they rear end Smasher at a stop sign and he makes them into a human accordion
silently crying in the back of my uber and the driver turned around and gave me this stick of gum before saying in broken english โu will be okay tomorrow, today u can be sadโ