After BTRO's death in the FP films, KC-DC asks JTRO to come back to the 248. The champion is grieving. His friend needs people in the hall, but he begins by asking JTRO to come along.
KC-DC is the crew's hype man. He makes a room hear its champion. Bringing that champion through the doorway is quieter work, and the invitation leaves JTRO a choice.
The room needs more than a champion
The hall also needs supplies. On fictional Earf, booze keeps people alive and water is toxic. Frazier Park is a green mountain oasis surrounded by the Wastes. A crew that cannot get its bottles has more at stake than the next party.
KC-DC will bargain for those supplies. JTRO refuses to sell a loss. A paid defeat could keep the hall running, but it would give a challenger authority the contest had not earned. The two men want the crew to survive; they disagree over what they can ask it to accept.
JTRO takes the dangerous delivery himself. KC-DC still needs what he brings back. Getting his friend into the room has not settled how to keep the room open.
A face the audience recognizes
The recurring role also appears as KCDC. His black hair rises above a cream shearling band. Earflaps hang beside his face, goggles rest at his neck, and a long rust-red coat leaves his blue-gloved hands visible.
Sprawl audiences encounter that costume inside a film. The people whose likenesses supply a portrayal have their own histories. Earf's grief, contests and life-sustaining bottles belong to the fiction.
KC-DC has bottles to find. JTRO has a match he will not sell. The next favor still has to pass between friends.
