Robyn is apparently sitting slumped in her chair at the table, when in reality she is already in Berlin, Germany; her travel time was near instantaneous on the EVO global grid. She flashes a bit of leg at the guardian as she shows her authorization to access the local grid and he grins at her and lets her jump across. Once there she glides through the matrix streets, looking for the hosts that hide the grunge bars of the Berlin underground music scene. She requests and gets a mark on the first host and slips inside, heading for the basement and the really loud music. The lower club is crammed full of twenty-something German youth looking for any way to forget what life is like on the outside of the club. Music, drugs, and sex are pretty much available for anyone with a few nuyen and the desire to get lost. The club caters to the matrix crowd as well and Robyn's is not the only avatar in the place. She looks around and moves behind a virtual column as the meat Robyn manipulates her software and the Robyn that emerges back into the crowd is dressed pretty much the same as everyone else.
Robyn dances through the crowd, shifting partners with almost every song. Being a virtual person, her avatar can dance tirelessly as she seeks out the icons of the office, noting the lax matrix security in the process. It is child's play to slip past he drugged-up security guard and go up the short set of stairs to the office. She finds the files for past engagements to be completely unguarded and in almost no time she has edited the file to show that the cover band, Dead Men Walking, featuring Star Blazer, has played the club several times in the past several years. Robyn stops to add a file to send some stickers and fliers by overnight delivery to the London postal box she uses for drop messages. She slips back out of the office and her attention is caught by a virtual bulletin board on the wall, listing the locations of clubs just like this all over Europe. The Robyn avatar smiles as she commits the map to memory then leaves the host, headed for the next club on her list. In short order, Robyn places records of appearances of Dead Men Walking in the files of four low clubs and has four sets of accessories headed her way.
Robyn slips back to the EVO grid and rushes to Paris, stopping in three smaller cities along the way, where she repeats the process in a way that shows the path of the band as it moves from Germany to France and then to England. In her VR state she slips from location to location on the matrix, leaving a trail of band appearances for someone to follow if they are of a mind to. She does not notice Al preparing to leave, or anything else, for that matter. It is quite likely that those who have seen someone in the throes of VR would recognize her state.
