The Deliverator is the one guy left in
Neal Stephenson's
future who you don't
fuck with. He drives a
big black car with an
LED array on the front that
generates wave patterns meant to
imitate fire, projecting the image of
death and
burning into the
drivers in front of him. This makes those particular drivers want to make the
road as little of a
hassle as possible for the Deliverator by
getting the hell out of the way. Your
car's tires have traction pads the
size of your
tongue, but the Deliverator's pads are the size of a fat lady's thighs. They grip the
road like the end of the world.
The Deliverator's
cargo sits behind him in a series of slots with
electronic interfaces meant to read information from each
box. Some people want to take the cargo from the Deliverator by
force. Because of this, he carries a
supersonic dart gun.
One time some
gangers decided they wanted a
pizza for free and
greeted the Deliverator with a baseball bat. They came at him, and his gun turned their
weapon into a flaming mass of
saw dust. That changed their minds. The gangers went for his delivery because they weren't scared by the gun; they didn't know what it would do. He started carrying swords after that.
Swords need no demonstrations.
Each
pizza box has a
chip inside which contains its
destination and the amount of time which has elapsed since it was ordered. The only thing that the
Deliverator fears in this world is trudging up to some
burbclave house, clad in black and with two swords strapped to his back, to find that the time has elapsed on his
current delivery and that
Uncle Enzo will have to fly out personally to apologize for the transgression. No one knows what happens to the Deliverator who makes a late
delivery, but everyone could
guess.
See:
Snow Crash,
Hiro Protagonist,
YT