NPCs · first: UC E1
53V3N
53V3N is Pete's supplier, who recommended Dr. Lugash to him, and appears in the first episode only as texts UC E1·00:05:50. He texts "Price of the brick went up. LOL." UC E1·00:15:20.
53V3N is Pete's drug supplier and business partner, a thin, thick-eyebrowed, high-strung New York nerd with long sideburns who meets him at an old karaoke bar UC E1·00:05:50 UC E3·01:19:02. He pushes Bitcoin, takes $800 from Pete to invest, and later says it is now $812 UC E3·01:21:17 UC E11·00:42:15. He is a tech bro with a dopamine receptor and a Soylent drip, and says tattoos are an archaic, inefficient form of bio-hacking UC E11·00:43:24. He heard Bob Moses' name floated on a forum UC E11·00:45:21.
In Ally's epilogue Pete gets 53V3N to buy him out of the drug trade, and 53V3N pays in Ethereum UC E17·01:51:44.
By episode
UC E1: Start Spreading the News
UC E3: Pigeon Plus Ones
UC E11: Home for the Holidays
- 53V3N — Pete's dealer; tech-bro with "a dopamine receptor lodged in here" and a Soylent IV — 00:43:24; "tattoos are an archaic, inefficient form of bio-hacking"; golden AK-47 — 00:43:24, 00:47:01; heard Bob Moses's name "floated" on a forum — 00:45:21. Says "$800 is now $812, thank you, Bitcoin" — 00:42:15.
UC E17: Times Squaremageddon Pt. 2
- 53V3N: bought Pete out of the drug trade, paid in Ethereum (Ally's account) — 01:51:44