The club was loud, making it hard to really talk much without making an effort to shout to be overheard.
After a bit, Emerald Cacophony finished their set and exited to a smattering of applause. A tall man in his late 40s with a lined face, dark hair, and goatee wearing an immaculately tailored suit got up on the stage. He smiles out over the crowd. None of the runners recognized him, but Xanadu sensing revealed something of a shock: the man was actually a dragon!
He held up his hands to quiet the crowd down and said “Alright you brain damaged re-wired mutants! Here’s the reason you’ve been sweating all over our nice, clean floors all evening. Ladies and Gentlemen — if there are any out there — and the rest of you trash as well, I present to you the one, the only, MARIA MECURIAL!”
The crowd went wild as the lights dimmed, and then everything went quiet as the first haunting synthesized notes of Mercurial’s hit song “Take It To Mister” swelled up from the speakers.

A spotlight came on, illuminating a slender, lovely figure wearing a short dress of midnight blue. Her legs and arms gleamed with polished chrome from her trademark cyberlegs and arms. Her voice was as lovely as ever, and the first lines of the song washed over everyone.