Total War: Syndicate

[Writtensanity]

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Jackal, an officer of the PRT stood at the edge of Cleracville. The rain had soaked through his costume and now the wind cut straight through his skin. Between the evacuation, the fight and the hours of hunting after it all it had been a long ****ing day.

The bright side? Bolting was on his way to the Birdcage. That villain had deserved it long ago but the people powerful enough to put him there had been busy. Now he was out of Salsdale and on his way to a proper sentence.

The downside? Salsdale was being left in a tailspin. There was no doubt that Bolting had kept other Parahuman gangs down, and Jackal and the rest of the PRT didn't have time to stick around and clean every small mess up. Hell, there were still some member's of Bolting's Gang in Cleracville, huddled up in some under-construction house, but Jackal didn't have time for that, felt like he didn't have time for anything these days.

It's been a month since all that happened.

The Dream Team, the Anti-Parahuman League and the remnant's of Bolting's Gang have all staked a claim some place in the city. Along with just over half a dozen other Parahuman Syndicates that have yet to properly announce themselves. Salsdale is a city ripe for a new supervillain group, and the game is on to see who steps up.




Static in the Air:


Lighting split the sky and Klay took a deep breath. Lighting used to be reassuring, lighting used to mean that the gang was unstoppable. Now it just meant she was wet.

Klay’s informant, a homeless man named James Carter, was late. He’d been feeding her info for the past two weeks in exchange for a hot meal and two bottles of mediocre whiskey and he hadn’t been late once.

Booming thunder echoed around the Cleracville, shaking the unfinished houses.

James Carter showed up at the end of the street, jogging and soaked. His beanie stuck to his head and his bead dripped water. It took an eternity for him to make it all the way down the street to Klay.

“Late,” the Parahuman commented as James got within whisper distance. The homeless man winced at the word, he’d probably seen Klay hurt people for less, but this time she just sighed, “what do you have?”

“Sorry,” James squeaked out, “bike broke.”

“I’ll get you another, talk.”

James shivered in the rain and then started spilling every bean he owned. “Weird guy is spreading again. Cicada or somethin’ has a branch here now. Ol’ Billie said she heard some people talking about a villain team with a podcast or somethin’. Can’t remember the main. A little drink might-“ James cut himself off as the ground under his feet shifted.

“Talk first,” Klay ordered as she relaxed her grip on the ground under James, “then you can have a drink. They’re in the car.”
James outlined the rest of the news he’d heard around the city, answering the occasional question from Klay as he did. The information was scattered and from a drunk, but it was information. Fifteen minutes later, James had his takeout with Whiskey, and Klay got back in the car they’d taken to the meeting.

“Home,” she said to the chauffeur. She had some letters to send. The vultures were circling and the insects were coming out of the woodwork, she needed to remind them that Bolting wasn’t dead yet.



We’re all in this together.


“Jenna Rowland calling?” Headline said to nobody from her little bedroom in suburbia, “ugh, I don’t-“ she stopped herself, the phone had rung three times and that meant she had two more to pick up. She wasn’t about to not pick up the phone, no matter how much she just wanted to be texted.

Accept

“Hey!”

“Ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod so-“ Jenna started, “I was talking to Brit who was talking to Anika who’d been texting Lex and Lex said that her Dad was going to be delivering like 20 cool cars to the SPC dealership this weekend and I was like thinking that it was the perfect time for us to go shopping for a new ride.”

“No way,” Headline answered, “I totes agree that’s such a good idea it’s gonna be So. Much. Fun.” She paused for half a second even though she knew what she was going to ask, “Omg did you talk to Tiff?”

“Girl did you think I would forget?” Jenna asked.

“Knew you wouldn’t.”

“So Tiff’s brother was the guy who had a friend telling him about these blood people. I don’t know it’s like a cult, but they offered him a ton of cash to run through a maze and ****.”

“Totes weird.”

“So I asked her to ask her brother to as his friend if there was more info on what was like, going on with that but Tiff hasn’t texted me back even though I know she’s totally read it and-“

“Is Tiff’s brother the cute one? Dom or something?”

“Yeah that’s him, he’s got,”

“Dreamy eyes,” the pair said in unison.

“Okay,” Headline continued, “I’m going to find him on Tinder.”

“Jelly, he’d totes swipe right but my parents don’t let me use Tinder.”

“OMG that’s so unfair,” Headline pointed out, “get me Tiff’s brother’s friend’s number and I’ll totes find you a second phone for swipin’”

“Really?” Jenna asked, “you’re like my bestie Headline.”

“Anything for one of the girls,” Headline answered, “I gotta run okay, kisses!”

“Bye bye!” Jenna said from the other side. Headline ended the call and opened up her contacts. There was someone in there who knew something about those new people in the city, and she was going to offer everyone that new Jeffery Star palate for the information.




Somewhere in Cashore

Jailbird took a deep breath and looked at the pins on the Map that Output had made. They’d known there were Parahumans in the city that weren’t part of Bolting’s gang, they’d just hoped that there wouldn’t be this many.

First thing was going to be finding the ones that were sympathetic, and then second thing was going to be sweeping the rest of the city.
Output didn’t have any time for words, so Jailbird didn’t offer any.

[Writtensanity]

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It's been a rainy weekend in Salsdale, and rumors are starting to float about new villains appearing in Bolting's Wake. The Local Police are on edge, and it seems like it's going to be a deciding season in how the city is split.


GLOBAL EVENT: UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT

The city is filled with unclaimed territory like never before. Businesses and families are breathing a rare sigh of relief. It's time to take their breath away.

Neutral Territories are Easier to take this turn, but give less as locals are drained of supplies.

Effects:

It costs: 5 STR, 6 ESP, 6 LOY/ FEAR or 8 SOC to Capture a territory this turn rather than the normal cost.

You only gain 2 resources at random for taking neutral territory this turn.

You are less likely to 'Encounter Resistance' when capturing a territory.



GLOBAL EVENT: THE A PRECINCT UNDER FIRE


The Police are on edge and trying to keep the city from slipping from their grasp again.

Effects:

Raised chance of 'Parahuman injured' complication on Heist, Capture / Conquest and Attack Actions.




Because we're all starting and as such have less to figure out, the Black Market and Heists will be posted MONDAY JUNE 15th with a deadline of WEDNESDAY JUNE 17th for submitting Midturn Actions.





TURN 1 OFFICIALLY BEGINS

[3SecondCultist]

Orchard
Fear 6

The elevator sped through the earth. It had been moving for a few minutes now. There were only two floors: the one on which the two men got on, and the one on which the two men disembarked. The space within the lift was filled with a comfortable, familiar silence. The two men had been working together for some time, and they had long since dispensed with most forms of small talk. Neither of them really needed to know that much more about the other. They were just here to do a job and get paid.

After some time, the elevator ground to a halt. After the scanner had verified that neither of them were carrying any decontaminants – the same safety feature they had to go through before they got on the lift – the doors opened with a pneumatic hiss.

The air beyond smelled faintly of bleach and other cleaning agents, remnants of the latest cleaning crew they'd hired after the most recent recruitment drive. The hallway was empty.

"So," the first man – the younger of the two, messy dark hair around his shoulders – said, "you think he'll be in this week?"

"Nah," replied the second, a taller blond. "The last time I saw him, he was still pretty into that lawyer chick in 18B, the one we cloned for him. My guess is, he's taking his time with her." Both of the men walked as they chatted, making sure to double check all of the locks as they passed through the facility. Most of the safeguards were old school - basic electric keycode locks, but they changed them every two days. Like everything else here, it was the product of a careful mind.

"Really? I'd have thought he'd be bored of her by now."

"Tell you what: I'll put down ten thousand that he won't be back before Sunday. She's exactly his type, you know." The comment earned an easy laugh from the first man, displaying a set of silvered teeth.

"You've got yourself a deal." As the first man spoke, the second man pulled out his notebook and started a new heading – 72A – and today's date. They had arrived at the first door.

"Please… just let me out…" The words were little more than a whisper, echoing over the speakers built into the cell's lining. Through the miniature camera on the wall, the two men watched the figure in the box as he stood up from where he lay on the floor to stand near the door. The surface of a few suspect puddles glinted in the light of the console, causing the second man to make a face.

"Looks like 72A's sleep patterns are off schedule again. Go for a full dose this time?"

"Yeah," the first man agreed as he cranked a dial on the control panel, and watched as the cell filled with gas. Before too long, the subject fell unconscious. That done, the two men entered the cell. All banter between them had ceased: there were vitals to check, brain waves to monitor, and diets to maintain. After the changes, of course.

The first man leaned down, the tips of his fingers suddenly bristling with long bulbous needles, while his partner closed his eyes and put his hands over the forehead of the sleeping man.

"I'll crank down the receptors from the emygdala first. He wanted another guardian, right? That's... 15% pain and fear receptors?"

"Exactly. Just enough so that the subject still knows that it's happening and can tap into their adrenal glands." Smirking, the first man inserted several needles right into the sleeping subject's carotid artery. "Speaking of which..."

The work wasn't ever easy. Taking apart a person and putting them back together took time and precision, but thankfully Mr. Bough and Mr. Drowsing had enough of both to spare. Cell by cell, floor by floor, they would get to all of it. The whole complex was overdue.

It was going to be a long week.

Hi Dissent,

I'm sorry for contacting you on this number, but the rest of my people are getting in touch with prospective neighbors and we wanted to be the first to tell you that we don't plan on getting in the way of any of your expansion efforts south-east of the river. By all means, push your people into Tech Park and even up into SPC if you want, and just about everything south. It's all yours. Just don't cross the river, and we should be fine.

I know that you have people that could f*ck us up, but the same is true of us. It does neither of us any good to get involved in a turf war when there's good clean fun to be had elsewhere. I think you have some animal lovers in your zone who may get irksome, not to mention the infection to the south-west that will likely grow into a serious threat. I'm not going to tell you how to run your business, but a war with us with those threats on your door seems unproductive, when we're perfectly willing to set clear boundaries and leave each other alone.

We here at Orchard wish you all the best in your raiding.

- Mr. Root
Hey Jenna,

First, I know it's super not chill for me to be texting u, but the cape life's all about the unorthodox. I'll start by saying that me and my people don't have any plans to call on u. Coming after u girls is basically asking to get nuked by everyone else in Salsdale, and we r not that dumb.

Why don't you talk to Headline and we can find a way to come to a (profesh!!) arrangement? We've got some ideas for splitting up turf and staying out of each others' way. Talk 2 Headline 4 me plz & thx! :smallsmile:

- D
Hi there,

I don't know you, and I suspect we'll never meet. This is a courtesy call, to say that I deeply enjoy the work you've been doing over in Bingham. You've got some great people working for you, and we'd like to maybe partner up in order to help each other. Unlike most of those who live in Salsdale, your minds seem to be open to most possibilities, and we hope that you won't refuse our offer simply because of a shortsighted judgment on our choice of vocation.

Your interest in parahumans and how their powers work is of genuine interest to my colleagues and I, and we were hoping to perhaps set up a meeting with you - a face to face, if you will - sometime in the near future. Mr. Root would be willing to attend in person, to discuss matters of mutual benefit between our two groups.

- Mr. Drowsing
Good evening, Reference Check,

I won't waste time with small talk: my colleagues have informed me that you're top on the list of people with your finger on the pulse in this city. With Bolting gone, there is quite a lot of territory for the taking, and I suspect that your higher-ups want to create a stable, prosperous base of operations. Surprisingly, we want the same thing as you and are prepared to come to a reasonable agreement about our respective uses of force.

If you're open to it, we can deal. We might be able to spare some people, or we can keep talking via text if you prefer. Let me know what works best for you.

- Mr. Root

[Let'sGetKraken]

Cicada

The setting sun streamed through the cracks around the boarded-up window. The warehouse had fallen into disrepair, which made it an excellent place for Cicada to set up their base of operations. To an outside observer, there would have been no signs of activity. On the inside, however, it had been converted into a state-of-the-art facility. Except, apparently, for the lack of air-conditioning.

Impostor scowled, rubbing her neck absentmindedly, feeling the stubble. She had never quite gotten used to the feeling of an adam’s apple. Still, people were always less likely to suspect her when she was wearing the body of a man. Given the situation in Salsdale, caution was most certainly warranted.

Cicada’s initial intelligence had been flawed. She hated to admit it, but it was true. They had expected a few parahuman factions to vie for control, of course but the presence of so many outsiders had complicated the situation immensely. Instead of setting up in the commercial sector, the presence of Orchard - damn them - had made that too much of a risk. Instead, they had set up in the Trainyards, trusting in the Anti-Parahuman League’s reputation to keep the area clear of other threats.

Still, if there was one thing that Cicada expected of its operatives, it was adaptability.

She reached down and pulled out her cell phone, which was a burner, of course. Reference Check was out making connections, “introducing” himself to community members and railway operatives and putting his power to use. It would give them a good understanding on anything that the various gangs were smuggling in by train. The two of them had worked together for close to four years, now. She grinned to herself. It was just as likely that they’d met a month ago, when they’d received the assignment. It didn’t matter. She trusted Cicada, and so she trusted him. He would do the same.

There was a click, indicating that he’d picked up. Her words were crisp and imperious. “Impala Six Two Nine.”

Reference Check’s voice filled her ear, rich and warm. “Gazelle Eight Four One. What news?”

She ran her hands through her short-cropped hair. “Let me fill you in….”

***

Excoriate stood on the roof of the Central Station. It was stupid, she knew. Anyone could spot her, and she wouldn’t be able to heal herself if she fell. But she needed to see the city, needed to understand what they were fighting to control.

It had seen better days, no doubt. Bolting’s control had been violent, from her understanding, and conflict had left its mark. Would that she could heal those so easily.

She had considered a career in the Protectorate. Her family had certainly expected it, once she’d triggered. They had been shocked when she shot it down. She had wanted control, and being beholden to the PRT was anything but. Sure, Cicada had demands, but she’d show them that she had what it takes. Once she was in charge, she’d put a stop to the needless squabbles between heroes and villains. Everything could be cleaner. Purer.

She looked down at her clenched fists, which were exuding silver flames. She’d change things. They’d see.

It would start with Salsdale.


Greetings.

I will be quick and to the point. You are men and women of action, and we respect that.

Simply put, we desire an amicable working relationship with the League. I think we can both agree that the League has much bigger problems than Cicada. We keep the peace in territories that we occupy, and we treat out non-human residents fairly. That is significantly more than can be said for the various gangs and organizations that have otherwise infested this city.

We are prepared to supplement your rather meagre network of informants with our own, and notify you if anything comes to our attention that could affect you. We would normally charge for this service, but as a gesture of good faith, we will be providing this service for free. You can purchase information on any major developments [Global Heist] for a reduced rate, as well.

In turn, we hope that you will maintain your focus on the greater threats to this city. We would also appreciate it if you could notify us of where you would be expanding. We would hate to claim a territory that you have also set your sights on. Perhaps we could even work together to neutralize some of the more unpredictable or dangerous factions, if it comes to that.

Let us know what you think.

Sincerely,

Cicada





Greetings.

No doubt you have seen our propositions for the other factions in this city. Normally, we would charge you a token expense in order to open up our various services, but as a gesture of good faith, we are offering to waive this price this turn. You will be able to purchase information on the major developments without this initial buy-in, and if there is anything in the Black Market that you would not otherwise be eligible for and want (and that we do not want), we can grease the wheels for you. We will extend this for the next [2 turns], in fact, so long as you allow us to take control of Rockton in the future. We imagine that you'll have your hands full with the Orchard regardless.

Let us know what you think of such an arrangement - I'm sure we can look forward to an amiable working relationship. We're always open to negotiation.

Sincerely,

Cicada



To be clear, Cicada is offering the following free of charge, until the end of Turn 3.


The Dream League may purchase information about the global heist at a reduced rate without the initial buy-in that is required of most other factions.
If there is anything in the black market that requires higher social connections than the Dream League has, and Cicada can't/doesn't want to purchase it, then they will buy it for you (so long as they have the stats available, and are compensated accordingly).
Should Cicada find any information that the Dream League would not already know that is relevant to them, then Cicada will tell them.


In return, Cicada wishes to take Rockton next turn uncontested.

Cicada is open to negotiation.





Greetings.

We are reaching out to you, as we expect to be neighbors in the future. We will be taking control of Olan Cross in the weeks to come, and we imagine that this will one day bring us in close proximity to you. We would like to establish a profitable and amicable working relationship with the Bloodborne. To this end, we are willing to offer you a variety of services, for a trifling commitment of resources on your part.

For the small payment of [1 TECH] or [1 ECON], we will supplement your meagre information-gathering capabilities with our own. We will notify you if anyone discusses anything relevant to you. You will also be able to purchase details on a major development that will soon be occurring at a reduced rate. Finally, if there is anything illicit that is available on the Black Market, that you would not otherwise be eligible for and want (and that we do not want), we can grease the wheels for you.

Let us know what you think of such an arrangement - I'm sure we can look forward to an amiable working relationship. It's a small price to pay for important information, and we're always open to negotiation.

Cicada



Cicada is offering the following deal for either [1 ECON] or [1 TECH]:
- Cicada will inform the Bloodborne if anyone sends a message that would be relevant to them.
- If any of the Bloodborne's neighbors have local heists and Cicada is privy to them, Cicada will reach out and offer to sell them that information. Cicada will not otherwise do so.
-The Bloodborne can purchase information on the global heist at a reduced rate.
-Cicada will provide the Bloodborne with information regarding Black Market Deals that they would not otherwise have the Social Connections for; should Cicada not want to purchase this, it will purchase it for the Bloodborne on their behalf (with a corresponding exchange of resources).

Cicada is open to negotiation.







Greetings.

We are reaching out to you, as we understand you to be a rational and enterprising man. We would like to establish a profitable and amicable working relationship with you; with the many hostile gangs in your vicinity, I imagine this would be welcome. To this end, we are willing to offer you a variety of services, for a trifling commitment of resources on your part.

For the small payment of [1 TECH] or [1 ECON], we will supplement your meagre information-gathering capabilities with our own. We will notify you if anyone discusses anything relevant to you. You will also be able to purchase details on a major development that will soon be occurring at a reduced rate. Finally, if there is anything illicit that is available on the Black Market, that you would not otherwise be eligible for and want (and that we do not want), we can grease the wheels for you.

Let us know what you think of such an arrangement - I'm sure we can look forward to an amiable working relationship. You're a shrewd businessman - it's a small price to pay for important information, and we're always open to negotiation.

Cicada



Cicada is offering the following deal for either [1 ECON] or [1 TECH]:
- Cicada will inform the Broker if anyone sends a message that would be relevant to them.
- If any of the Broker's neighbors have local heists and Cicada is privy to them, Cicada will reach out and offer to sell them that information. Cicada will not otherwise do so.
-The Broker can purchase information on the global heist at a reduced rate.
-Cicada will provide the Broker with information regarding Black Market Deals that they would not otherwise have the Social Connections for; should Cicada not want to purchase this, it will purchase it for the Broker on their behalf (with a corresponding exchange of resources).

Cicada is open to negotiation.







Greetings.

It was a pleasant surprise to hear from you. I'm afraid that your line of work is too messy for Cicada's taste for us to establish any sort of significant working relationship, but we are prepared to offer you a deal nonetheless, as a show of goodwill.

For the small payment of [1 TECH] or [1 ECON], we will supplement your meagre information-gathering capabilities with our own. We will notify you if anyone discusses anything relevant to you, and you will also be able to purchase details on a major development that will soon be occurring at a reduced rate.

Let us know what you think of such an arrangement.

Cicada



Cicada is offering the following deal for either [1 ECON] or [1 TECH]:
- Cicada will inform the Orchard if anyone sends a message that would be relevant to them.
-The Orchard can purchase information on the global heist at a reduced rate.

Cicada is open to negotiation.







Greetings.

We would like to establish a profitable and amicable working relationship with you; we understand that your networks may have been significantly shaken in the wake of your leader's capture. To this end, we are willing to offer you a variety of services, for a trifling commitment of resources on your part.

For the small payment of [1 TECH] or [1 ECON], we will supplement your meagre information-gathering capabilities with our own. We will notify you if anyone discusses anything relevant to you. You will also be able to purchase details on a major development that will soon be occurring at a reduced rate. Finally, if there is anything illicit that is available on the Black Market, that you would not otherwise be eligible for and want (and that we do not want), we can grease the wheels for you.

Let us know what you think of such an arrangement - I'm sure we can look forward to an amiable working relationship. It's a small price to pay for important information, and we're always open to negotiation.

Cicada



Cicada is offering the following deal for either [1 ECON] or [1 TECH]:
- Cicada will inform the RoB if anyone sends a message that would be relevant to them.
-The RoB can purchase information on the global heist at a reduced rate.
-Cicada will provide the RoB with information regarding Black Market Deals that they would not otherwise have the Social Connections for; should Cicada not want to purchase this, it will purchase it for the RoB on their behalf (with a corresponding exchange of resources).

Cicada is open to negotiation.







Greetings.

We would like to establish a profitable and amicable working relationship with you, in the wake of your recent ascendancy to power in the south. To this end, we are willing to offer you a variety of services, for a trifling commitment of resources on your part.

For the small payment of [1 TECH] or [1 ECON], we will supplement your meagre information-gathering capabilities with our own. We will notify you if anyone discusses anything relevant to you. You will also be able to purchase details on a major development that will soon be occurring at a reduced rate. Finally, if there is anything illicit that is available on the Black Market, that you would not otherwise be eligible for and want (and that we do not want), we can grease the wheels for you.

Let us know what you think of such an arrangement - I'm sure we can look forward to an amicable working relationship. It's a small price to pay for important information, and we're always open to negotiation.

Cicada



Cicada is offering the following deal for either [1 ECON] or [1 TECH]:

-Cicada will inform the Unshadowed if anyone sends a message that would be relevant to them.
-The Unshadowed can purchase information on the global heist at a reduced rate.
-Cicada will provide the Unshadowed with information regarding Black Market Deals that they would not otherwise have the Social Connections for; should Cicada not want to purchase this, it will purchase it for the Unshadowed on their behalf (with a corresponding exchange of resources).

Cicada is open to negotiation.







Greetings.

There is nothing we can offer you that you do not already possess. Stay out of our way, and we will do the same for you.

Cicada






Greetings.

We would like to establish a profitable and amicable working relationship with you, in the wake of your recent arrival. To this end, we are willing to offer you a variety of services, for a trifling commitment of resources on your part.

For the small payment of [1 TECH] or [1 ECON], we will supplement your meagre information-gathering capabilities with our own. We will notify you if anyone discusses anything relevant to you. You will also be able to purchase details on a major development that will soon be occurring at a reduced rate.

Let us know what you think of such an arrangement - I'm sure we can look forward to an amicable working relationship. It's a small price to pay for important information, and we're always open to negotiation.

Cicada



Cicada is offering the following deal for either [1 ECON] or [1 TECH]:

- Cicada will inform the Playground if anyone sends a message that would be relevant to them.
-The Playground can purchase information on the global heist at a reduced rate.
-Cicada will provide the Playground with information regarding Black Market Deals that they would not otherwise have the Social Connections for; should Cicada not want to purchase this, it will purchase it for the Playground on their behalf (with a corresponding exchange of resources).

Cicada is open to negotiation.







Greetings.

We admire the passion with which you pursue your cause. You have seen our offer to the others, no doubt, and we do not have much to offer you that you do not already possess. That said, we hope that we could establish a good working relationship; at the very least, we would like to stay out of each other's way.

Cicada

[St. Justicar]

F.E.Y.

Loyalty 5
Social Connections 4

The park had always been the default location for what outdoor performances and events a city like Salsdale managed to attract, though for obvious reasons recent years had not been good for the city’s cultural scene. This summer, at least, the old concert ground was getting some use.

In the tradition of these things, in terms of quality it was very loud. There were a dozen bands with three drummers between them, but enough creative profanity in their names to make up for it. Despite the rain, several hundred were spending their Saturday evening crowded around a thoroughly makeshift stage. After all, it wasn’t often that the star attraction was one of the city’s more prominent slumlords.

The crowd-universally wearing bandanas and masks, of course-went wild as Spotlight walked onto the stage, dressed in the bright circus’ ringmaster’s attire and maniacally joyful mask she generally wore in performances like this. Dragged behind her was a thoroughly terrified and bedraggled man, his suit torn and flesh bruised in a dozen different places.

Tapping the mic under her mask, the cape began her dramatic oration as the unfortunate was forced to his knees in the centre of the stage, three different spotlights and many more cameras all pointing directly at him.

“Good evening my fine fellows! And that’s to all our comrades in arms and sympathetic ears around the world, and all you lovely folks I have the privilege of seeing in person with me tonight!

This is something of a special production-it’s a housearming to properly introduce ourselves to all of our new neighbours! We’ve been here for a few weeks now, but we haven’t really made a splash, and we just can’t have that, can we?”

The crowd let out the appropriate cries of ‘NO’ as Spotlight walked beside the star attraction, gripping his hair and forcing him to look out into the crowd.

“So, introductions then! I’m sure all the locals here know the infamous Arthur Nolan, and for everyone else you really should read the articles we upload with the video. But I’ll give you a little taste-Arthur here is quite a wealthy man! He and his friends own most of the buildings around this lovely park-and would you believe he isn’t a very nice man when he’s got money on the line? Why, just last year one of ‘his’ buildings had a little fire and-can you believe it?-the alarms were broken! He’s being sued, of course, but I think all of us here know that Justice demands a bit of a shorter timeframe than that.”

Clapping her hands and stepping back as two stage-hands from outside the lights began pouring petrol on the panicking and struggling man, she called out “I think that’s enough of a preamble. Would everyone please give a warm welcome to the first and final performance of the infamous Mr. Nolan!”

And the crowd went wild. Which just about drowned out the screaming.
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Evening,

I’ll be fast. The heroes are apparently just really bad at this, and the only group worth mentioning on the South Bank is the plague on Blacker. You all seem like pretty decent sorts, compared to the rest of the city has to offer. Any chance we can work out some sort of quid pro quo? Or a live-and-let-live sort of thing, at least?

Best,
Feral





Evening,

Interesting how many of us nomads showed up around the same time, isn’t it? Nature abhors a vacuum, I suppose. I’m more than a bit curious just what sort of experiments you have in mind to try around here. But most of all I’d like to know if any of them crossing the river anytime soon.

Best,
Feral





Always lovely to receive fanmail. Especially from so respectable a source. We have no problems with your suggestion-your organization either remarkably good at silencing people or haven’t left much grief behind you here yet. Well, both, probably.

We would take it as a personal favour if you could avoid pointing those jackboots you’re ingratiating yourself with in our direction.

-Spotlight

[Hamste]

The Broker
Loyalty 6
Social Connections 5

Drinking some champagne, Jack sits on his balcony surveying the market. Buying up most of the real estate in the markets wasn't cheap but it was worth it. The market becoming more free was sure to be a good thing as long as the more aggressive people reigned in their impulses. Looking down at his tablet he couldn't help but smile seeing the returns on his investments. Getting up with a hardy stretch he moves past his guard, to give his daughter a call.

How is everything going, Daughter?

Good, the market is going to be selling soon and I know how excited you were for that. We also got a message from some faction called Cicada?

Very good, was worried the arrest would significantly delay it. Who are they?

Seems like some information gatherers? Pretty good at avoiding incriminating anyone, though some of their sources were arrested.

Sounds good to me. We needed some information gatherers. Can we buy them entirely out?

Probably not.

Ah well, let's try to make a deal.


Dear Cicada

We have received your offer and are quite interested. Would it be possible to wait until the market announces what exactly is for sale before deciding which to send?

Our main interest and the thing most relevant to us beyond plots against us, are any messages sent to the black market. We would like to know as much information on what is bought as possible and particularly any bids on auction items before the auction is complete.

We hope this is the start of a long relationship,
The BrokerTM

[Let'sGetKraken]

Cicada



We'll see what we can do. Our first priority is keeping them from attacking us. Keep your targets to the corrupt and I imagine they'll look elsewhere.




I am afraid that is a service we cannot offer. Dealings with the black market are private, and we do not wish to incur their wrath.

If you would still like access to correspondence concerning your faction, the previous offer stands at [1 ECON or TECH]. It is retroactive, but will only be available until mid-summer [end of Midturn].

Cicada


GM confirmed that buys from the black market are sent as PMs, and as such cannot be read via espionage. Sorry.

[Writtensanity]

The Dream Team

All Messages at Loyalty 4



The following comes in a series of texts over about 5 minutes. Each line is its own text.

Hey! Jenna told me bout u, this is Headline.

It’s my work phone lol

Jk its my sixth work phone.

First thing, Cicada is lame and if u want info, txt me my gurls errywhere <3

Second thang, we don’t wanna fight it’s icky and no fun :(

3 if we splittin I got like a bazillion besties in Milton and Rockdon. They great <3

U can have business stuff

Oh!

And

Keep ur gross stuff away from my girls, maybe their dads too.

Cept a few. You can take a few Dads. I have a list.

Lemme know bout land stuff!

By the way, I know you totes know this but if you **** with me I will personally make all your freaks claw your eyes out to the song ‘Eyes For You.”

It’s by the all ways

They were on Britain’s for talent.

Singer is dreamy <3 (or was, he’s probs totes old now)

K

Bai

♥️🌈🍤





[The following is send in one long text. The paragraph breaks are for OOC readability]

Appreciate the honesty about what you can see :) Bekka told me bout you stiffing FEY and poor Mikey :(

Totes honesty, your deal it Q-T and I’m not saying no to a SALE (u kno it) but probs not buying in.

My girls need things that info can’t buy, gonna make the Broker my sugar daddy <3

But 4 serious. U n Me have a pretty close setup, I’m not mad I just like, a strong independent woman who don’t need no stupid Japanese bugs.

Fuk U, Pay Me to leave my besties in Rockdon without my beach parties :(

But like Fuk U Pay Me with Love thoX we chill

Unless we not!

No we chilli.

👍🏻🖕💵💴💳 or 🗡🔪⚔️ Or 🤷🏼*♀️🦹🏼*♀️💃🏻





OOC: Because ‘speaks all languages” is nebulous and this is comedy. My GM ruling Media Manager can speak Emoji.

🤩👔💰🧔🏻

👋🏻🦹🏼*♀️

💍👑💰

💸👢👠👙

🦹🏼*♀️🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳

😘

👩🏼*💻🔥😩

😏👩🏼*💻💎


To Media Manager this Reads:

Hey business daddy

I’m headline

Make me your money queen

Buy me expensive clothes

I’ll talk to Orchard 4 u

Kisses.

Media manager is hot 2

I’d give her a diamond.






🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😏🔥🔥😏🔥😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈 🦈

Omg FEY! Wat R U Doin In Sals it’s so LAME

Luv ur Pod

Burn the rich if they don’t pay me and buy me things <3

Wanna go 2 the aquarium? 🐠🐡🦈🐋🐟🐬🐳🦀🦞🦐🦑🐙

Also!

Who U like? You r like famous so I wanna kno!

Tag me on gram!

Dis headline by the way 🦹🏼*♀️🎤🎼





The following comes in a flurry of texts to a single Mike that is a teen girl that was previously part of Headline’s Network. Each line is a different text.

Hey Mike!

U still in Kate?

Noice! Keep it hot 🔥😩

Are U on tinder 500 times? Swipe right!

Other people weren’t talkin to u

So I wanted 2 check in <3

FEY is here!

THEY HAVE A CAT

I think.

It’s a tiger tho 🐯

U seen Tiger King Yet?

Luv U!

Keep ur Social Distance! Stay away from young girls

But like not that way

I know u cool

😎😎😎😎

Don’t let people be mean 2 u

U a villain 2 buddy 🥺

[Writtensanity]

The Remnants of Bolting

All messages at LOY 7

The following message is posted on all local channels that can support it. Forums, job boards, subreddits, chat groups. It’s taken down eventually but not before EVERYONE has seen it.



Welcome to the Salsdale. OUR city. You’re all just tenants living here rent free while the Landlord’s away.

Booting won’t be happy if she comes back and the city has gone to ****. Get in our way and I’ll personally throw you off the Salsdale Pacific Center.

Stay out of our way or help us and you might have a place in the new Salsdale.

You’ve been warned.

Klay





Sounds like a good way to make money if you offer it to everyone.

That said, I’ve heard of your business and it’s reliability. I need a network and I’m not trusting any girl under 18 with my sensitive intel.

We will deliver some of our toys [1 TECH] to you on Wednesday. The old strip mall by trainyards. Red Sedan, tinted windows.





Playground. If you wanna worship and be ****ing nuts I won’t stop you.

Mike, you stayed outta the way before, recommend you stay the course.

South Vander, Cleracville and New Bringam, don’t send people there unless you want them dead.

-Klay

[n0ble]

Forequest
Loyalty 0


A small mongrel of a dog lopes into the trainyards, it coat well looked after. A note is painted on it in halting, unsure script.

It never occured to me that my silence might one day be worth something. What is it worth to you?



:l

[Murska]

Unshadowed
All messages at Loy 4.

A group of rough-looking people had gathered inside what had originally been a garage. There were still a few vehicles, but most of the space had been taken over by clothing and equipment racks, chairs and most significantly a wooden stage. Atop the stage, a man covered in what looked like a brass-coloured version of a medieval knight's armour paced.

"Look at this. You've all heard from Klay, right? 'Our city', they say. 'Welcome', as if we hadn't been here before they ever showed up? Without Bolting, Klay is nothing. We got a dozen new players popping up all over the city, interest from abroad even now that there's free turf. Well, that free turf is going to be gone fast, and I'll be damned if we don't get our share. Whatever status quo we end up in after this scramble, I intend to make it so the Unshadowed is on top, ya hear me?"

With a chorus of cheers and 'Yeah!'s, the crowd apparently considers the symbolic motivational speech over.

"All right then. Most of the real nasty business is going on northside. We're not cops, we don't need to poke our ***** into that nest of hornets and I pity whoever does. Right now, I want Dennis and Pickle to make sure the locals here know that we're not only their only option, but also the best option. We're like Bolting, but less crazy and violent. They'll pick the old style of a 'business tax' and no trouble over all the freaks showing up in town in a heartbeat. I'd bet most of the local parahumans feel the same way, at least if given the right incentive. So Sherry, Nink, you're on recruitment - cape and otherwise. We're going to need new blood. The rest of you have your old duties - keep our streets clean, keep an eye on the south and make sure the new guys have everything screwed on right. Got it? Good. Dennis, get over here, I've got a map I want your input on."

A tall, lanky guy hops on to the stage while the others split up into smaller groups, conversations beginning to fill up the room. There is an energy to the Unshadowed that there never was to the Brass Knuckles before. It's the boomtown air, the scent of opportunity and danger. Things are going to change, and these people are willing to gamble their lives on how the dice fall.


To Orchard

Greetings,

Welcome to Salsdale. I'm glad we're talking on the same wavelength. If you hadn't sent that message, I would have.

I think it's best for the both of us to stay out of each other's way. The river's as good a border as any. Just don't make too many waves on your side - nobody wants the PRT back so soon.

Good fortune,
Dissent

To Cicada

Hello there,

We've got fairly good connections of our own, and don't foresee much trouble yet. But your offer isn't a bad one - if it's open in the future, we may get back to you on it. And I'm sure you'll be talking to a lot of others that aren't as well-placed as ourselves, which also gives us the opportunity to gauge your effectiveness in solving their problems before we commit.

Thank you for the message, we'll be in touch,

Dissent

By the way, to all the others reading this message, we believe in fair competition. Feel free to give us a call if you believe you have something to offer.

(OOC: I'll likely have more need for your services in the future turns.)

To F.E.Y.

Heya,

Can't say we don't have our sympathies for your cause. However, nobody wants the PRT to pop over for another visit so soon, so please don't make too big a splash yet.

We can make a deal to respect each other's operations. Do you think you'll be heading more for SPC and the bridges or to South Core?

As for the... thing in Blacker South. I think it's in both our interests to keep an eye on that situation. It's been getting more active recently. If either of us ends up having to face them, I hope we can call on each other for support. Let's hope they don't try to expand.

Sincerely,
Dissent

To Forequest

Greetings,

Apologies for not meeting face to face, we've heard some rumours and would rather not shake hands until we know more.

Okay, to business. So far, you've been content to live and let live. As long as that continues, everything's fine. The Unshadowed is going to expand our operations to Highbrook and Outer Highbrook to make sure that the southside remains quiet, or at least more so than the north - we want the lawful types to keep their eyes locked on what's going up there. So we'll have a border there, and we'd like to make sure no trouble passes through, either way.

So that's why we're reaching to you. I'm hoping there's going to be no issues in our region. We're already talking to FEY up at the park on the same subject. Are we agreed?

Sincerely,
Dissent

[n0ble]

Forequest-Loyalty 0

[CENTER]Unshadowed

To Orchard

Greetings,

Welcome to Salsdale. I'm glad we're talking on the same wavelength. If you hadn't sent that message, I would have.

I think it's best for the both of us to stay out of each other's way. The river's as good a border as any. Just don't make too many waves on your side - nobody wants the PRT back so soon.

Good fortune,
Dissent

To Cicada

Hello there,

We've got fairly good connections of our own, and don't foresee much trouble yet. But your offer isn't a bad one - if it's open in the future, we may get back to you on it. And I'm sure you'll be talking to a lot of others that aren't as well-placed as ourselves, which also gives us the opportunity to gauge your effectiveness in solving their problems before we commit.

Thank you for the message, we'll be in touch,

Dissent

By the way, to all the others reading this message, we believe in fair competition. Feel free to give us a call if you believe you have something to offer.

(OOC: I'll likely have more need for your services in the future turns.)

To F.E.Y.

Heya,

Can't say we don't have our sympathies for your cause. However, nobody wants the PRT to pop over for another visit so soon, so please don't make too big a splash yet.

We can make a deal to respect each other's operations. Do you think you'll be heading more for SPC and the bridges or to South Core?

As for the... thing in Blacker South. I think it's in both our interests to keep an eye on that situation. It's been getting more active recently. If either of us ends up having to face them, I hope we can call on each other for support. Let's hope they don't try to expand.

Sincerely,
Dissent

To Forequest

Greetings,

Apologies for not meeting face to face, we've heard some rumours and would rather not shake hands until we know more.

Okay, to business. So far, you've been content to live and let live. As long as that continues, everything's fine. The Unshadowed is going to expand our operations to Highbrook and Outer Highbrook to make sure that the southside remains quiet, or at least more so than the north - we want the lawful types to keep their eyes locked on what's going up there. So we'll have a border there, and we'd like to make sure no trouble passes through, either way.

So that's why we're reaching to you. I'm hoping there's going to be no issues in our region. We're already talking to FEY up at the park on the same subject. Are we agreed?

Sincerely,
Dissent


Simple graffitis are found. Everywhere.

I am not an animal. I am not an object. I am a human being. Now you know that. And I suppose everyone else does too.

[NulliusinVerba]

The Playground
All messages sent at Fear 3

"The molecular warp core is offline. We should destroy the isotopic delta-wave gel while we can."

"Destroy it? Why destroy it?"

"Have you looked at Phoenix's most recent model? All that would be required for the whole thing to blow up in our faces would be - "

"No, no, no! The gel will be stable in its newest permutation. Before we get the core back online, all we'd need to do would be insert your new catalyzing agent, right? That lowers the risk parameters down to reasonable levels."

"I don't know if you're aware, but Crescere's idea of 'reasonable levels' is not the same as most people's. That's like saying 'oh, the bomb will only blow up half of a city block.'"

"You know as well as I do that the core isn't a weapon. Proto-matter fabrication is so much more than that. Once we get things working, think of what we can accomplish!"

"Let's not be naive. This whole city is arming up and getting ready for war. We've got invitations to trade from slavers, threats from gangs and activists, and now we've been politely asked to work on proto-matter fabrication for a cape who could create armies out of the stuff."

"Territorial agendas don't concern us. The science transcends all of that; and we'll show that to them. They'll understand it all, in the end."

Hello Mr. D,

First of all, let me say that I appreciate you reaching out. Your operation seems to be more organized and less chaotic than we had feared, and it seems like you're interested in being reasonable. We might be willing to meet in person, but not right now. Simply put, we don't trust your intentions yet. We don't know you, and putting one of our primary assets in a room with your people isn't an option at this time.

If you're interested in making a deal, we can offer a number of resources. Right now though, we've been approached by a number of people so it's really a matter of what you're interested in, and what you're willing to trade. If you want muscle or people for experimentation, we can arrange to have volunteers sent to you. If you need an influx of cash or technology, that can be arranged as well. Just name your price.

Best,
Backbiter
Hi there,

I'm so glad to hear from you, the entire time we've been talking I'm sure you are listening so you know that we're open to negotiations with everyone, regardless of their past deeds. The work we're doing in Salsdale is of vital importance, and transcends barriers of gang, class, race, or creed.

Your offer stands out as being very intriguing. We do indeed have the kinds of resources you want, but we plan on using them in short order. We do have a counter-offer for you, though. As I'm sure you know, the last remnants of Bolting are planning on pushing out aggressively and eventually wipe us out.

If you were to... intervene on our behalf, we would be happy to put a significant portion of facilities and funding at your disposal for the next week. Their aggression would need to be curbed, ideally hitting them right where it hurts. Also in the interest of complete transparency, I am making the same offer to your counterparts to the south. If both of you accept my offer, I will give you each half now and half next week.

Crescere

The way I understand it, stat attacks can be launched from anywhere. If you find a way to get rid of or seriously hurt Bolting, I will give you my entire crop of [8 TECH] and [5 ECO] to you.
Hello Feral,

Allow me to be the first to compliment your name. It's so economical! You and your people have our respect for pushing the boundaries of the possible and not allowing yourselves to be contained by the restrictions of others. We hope to deal with you more in the future.

Our experiments as you put them will be contained to our territories, and the Playground has no intention of crossing the river. It seems like a pretty natural border between us, and the last thing we want is to interfere in your business.

Crescere
Dear Klay,

We got your message, and honestly it's a bit troubling to us. As our territory backs right onto the river and with the Market controlled by the Broker's people, we would rather not be surrounded on all sides. To that end, your demand for New Bringham as well as South Vander would put us completely at your mercy.

Now, we understand your desire to expand. That's all well and good, but why not take North Vander instead of New Bringham? We aren't very strong, but if you let us borrow that territory, we can be a buffer against any aggression from across the water from F.E.Y. or Forequest. There's definitely enough to be afraid of over there.

If it's a matter of respect and tribute, we would be happy to pay for the privilege of expanding our laboratories. We're going to need more in the future anyhow. What would it take for the Playground to own New Bringham?

Best,
Backbiter
Hello Michael,

I'm reaching out to you because you are probably already reading all of our communications. I put a deal forward to Cicada about helping the Playground with a certain Bolting problem. Allow me to offer you the same deal. As I told them, we need Bolting's momentum halted. They don't have any major expertise at hitting you from afar, and so they wouldn't be able to do much in response to you or Cicada cutting their wheels out from under them.

Anyhow, if you want to send yourself to come and meet with us, I'm sure that we would be happy to meet you in person some day! We really would love to see close up how your power works.

Crescere

Same deal: if you devote your [ESP] to wrecking Bolting this turn, I will offer you [8 TECH] and [5 ECO] for your trouble. If both you and Cicada take me up on it, I'll figure out a way to make sure you both get paid within 2 turns.

[Let'sGetKraken]

Cicada


Cicada appreciated your generous offer. Unfortunately, the Remnants of Bolting have agreed to pay us for our services; as such, we’re contractually bound to notify them of this offer. Similarly, we would be required to notify them of our own imminent attack, were we to take up your offer, which would rather defeat the point. I’m sure you understand that it would be terrible business sense for us to go back on our word - what message would that send? Perhaps this indicates the value of such an investment on the Playground’s part. But I digress.

Still, as there is no animosity towards the Playground, I will advise that you and Forequest - incidentally, feel free take their their offer, Mike - take this communication to a more private channel. The less information we have to share with them, the better the chances of success, eh?

Let us know if you'd like the same treatment.



The price for your silence? You’re in a volatile situation in the south, Mike, as you’re rapidly making an enemy of the Unshadowed, who seem to have friendly relations with most of their other neighbors. I’m not sure you’d want to get embroiled in a covert war with Cicada - it seems like there’s nothing to gain for you. Especially not if we can otherwise have an amicable working relationship. Us well-connected types ought to stick together, no?

Oh, and despite what the Dream Team implied, we did not offer you anything because there is nothing we can realistically provide that you require; it was not out of disrespect.



A wise investment. I should notify you that the Playground - in fear of your expansion and what they see as inevitable aggression - has solicited both Cicada and Forequest to “slow you down”. As you had already committed to paying for our services, we were forced to decline. I hope this demonstrates the value of such a service.

Should anything else of note occur, rest assured that we will be in touch.


There seem to be a number of little pictures at the bottom of your message - is that intentional?

If you let us oversee Rockton, rest assured that we’ll treat all your besties quite well. What sort of price do you think is fair? [2 ECON] this week, perhaps?

We have no animosity towards you. We would very much prefer to have a good working relationship with our soon-to-be neighbors, after all.

(it’s clear that someone else sends the second message from the same phone)

Giiiiirl we chill 🤜🏻🤛🏻❄️. Hit us up with what you want so that we can both have killer beach parties in Rockton, you know 🤟🏻🐳🌊🏄🏼? But like we’d manage it for you so like TOTES less work on your end 👼🦥😴. Pay you a little something for the privilege 🤑😉

Thanks k bye! 🔥🌈☀️🙏🏻

[Writtensanity]

The Anti Parahuman League

All messages at Loyalty 7



You're not the first people we need to throw in a cage, but you're on the list.

Think about your pitch. You treat your residents fairly? You're kind to non-humans? We don't want a world of Parahuman kings, even if they think they're the good kind of King.

Our sights are set elsewhere at the moment, but that doesn't mean we will never clash Cicada, organizations like yours need to be brought to light and exposed for what they are. An excuse for Parahumans to play God.






You experiment on the people you consider lower to you, a heinous and horrid crime.

But.

Your experiments, could they control Parahumans to make proper warriors of the unwilling? The cowards who turn their eyes away from the Endbringers need a forcing hand.








Your worship of Parahuman strength is disgusting. Forcing your followers to worship your little powertrip is the sign of a small person.

You will be bound, and you will fight the end to come. We all will.






Your reckless disregard for the person's you consider lower than you is disgusting. You will be bound, you will fight the end to come. We all will.





Parahumans are a crime against nature, burn your notes and torch your labs for the good of humanity.

[3SecondCultist]

Orchard
Fear 6

Hello Backbiter,

Orchard is glad to hear that you're amenable to do business with us. We would like to make you an offer, a sort of loan. There is money from our past dealings that we're hoping to spend wisely, and we understand you might want to make the most of the presence of a Black Market in Salsdale. With the kind of funding Orchard can offer you, you should be able to at least compete with the wealthiest groups in the city.

In exchange, we are asking you to send over some of those volunteers you mentioned. We are always in need of more soldiers, purely for protection of course. If you are open to this trade, we will send along payment to you by day's end tomorrow.

- Mr. Drowsing

Basically, we're open to sending you 5 ECO in exchange for your STR and FEAR. I'm happy to make that an even trade of 5 for 5, in any combination that works for you.
Hey grl,

Thx 4 the messages 🤩🤟🏻🌈. We're n business now, u can keep Milton & Rockdon. We r leaving Bramsborough alone, but taking Yalman St. & Upper Docks, kay? No 👏 harm 👏 to 👏 ur 👏 ppl. Send list of dads if u want them gone or lend to us and we'll bring them back easier to control 😉

Cicada seems nice, but if u can offer better deal we will take it. Thx for replying! 🔥

- D ❤️
Hello Cicada,

Orchard understands that you might feel uncomfortable forming close ties with us. It's an occupational hazard in our trade. That said, your offer is an intriguing one. My peers and I don't much like the idea of anyone spying on Orchard, so I will arrange to have a few SIM cards and other resources dropped off in the Trainyards tomorrow. Would that suffice?

As an addendum, you mention a 'major development'. Do you have something in the works, or are you speaking hypothetically? Forgive my curiosity, but if there are going to be major upheavals then it would be common courtesy to elaborate.

- Mr. Root

You will get 1 TECH this Mid-Turn, provided that you keep me abreast of anyone who would speak about Orchard or spill our secrets.
Hello,

We're sorry that you feel that way about the service that we provide. I can personally assure you that all of our clients - many of whom have no powers whatsoever - walk away from our dealings satisfied with the quality of our goods. Although we're thinking about implementing a PR department, we haven't had enough complaints to warrant one.

As to your question, it certainly is possible to restrain and control parahumans. In the vast majority of cases, there are only a few physical difference between a cape and an unpowered person. Our methods are therefore just as valid against them as they would be anyone else. Should the APL and Orchard come to an arrangement, we might be able to arrange to send you some free samples. To begin with, we are open to discussions of non-interference.

- Mr. Root

[Hamste]

The Broker
Loyalty 6


👋🏻🦹🏼*♀️
👩🏼*💻
🦻👨
🤑👂👄💰👙
🐋💰👂🏬*🦹*♂️
😘

Roughly translated from emoji:
Hello Headliner, this is media manager.
I'm reading this for dad because he is old and doesn't get it.
You keep an ear out and tell us information and he will be your sugar daddy
Big stack of money if you find out information on the blackmarket sales
Good Bye


Similar offer as what Cicada gave us. We will send either 1 econ or 1 social connections each turn for them giving us any particularly relevant information. Additional pay out if they can figure out how to get the sale information from the blackmarket.





We are still somewhat interested in the lesser offer, though we will wait until we see what the store offers. What is for sale what you don't want to buy and what you can give us access to will affect heavily whether we want to make the deal or not.

[St. Justicar]

F.E.Y.

Loyalty 5
Social Connections 4



Disregard? I’m almost insulted. We treat our prey with all the care and consideration they so richly deserve. If the end is coming, we simply feel that those who have already sold it out and profited from its ruin and rot shouldn’t be allowed to live out their days in comfort while everything burns around them. Are Bolting’s accountants and lawyers really so much more virtuous than the woman herself?

We have bigger fish to fry than some bygone’s paper-pushers, obviously. But then, so do you.

I can promise you that powers are no defence in our eyes, and that should the End come calling we’ll do our part to forestall it.

Now look around and tell me, are we really the worst the city has to offer?

Best,





Failing anything better, dentente will suffice. I’m sure you’re no more eager to meet the Protectorate’s best and brightest than we are. Though who knows, maybe you’ll grow sympathetic as you get to know us better.

Not an issue for the moment, but I expect we’ll need to work something out soon, once things start getting cramped around here.

You’re being a bit more hopeful than I am, but otherwise I agree with you on what necessity might require.

Best,




The flattery is appreciated, though not required. Do keep in touch, I think we might have a surprising amount we might cooperate on.

And if no one takes you up on a certain offer you’ve been making, keep us in mind. We just might be able to help.

Best,

[n0ble]

Forequest:-Loyalty 7, Social Connections 3


A pigeon with a note spooled around it's leg makes its way to Cicada. It looses an ornery 'roo' before ruffling its feathers and alighting in the direction of Blacker South

You say you have nothing I want, but yesterday I walked to the grocery store. Alone with myself. Do you spy any friends amongst yourselves that could get along with me? I've been thinking about buying a widescreen.


Forequest needs friends. You have 8 social connections, surely theres at least 1 to part with in exchange for something of mine. Additionally I believe theres talk of collaboration, if you've an interest in playing matchmaker/participant.





A milquetoast-looking loser of a man, swathed in humble rags, walks almost into Bringam. In his spindly hands he carries a modest stack of paper in his hands. He walks exactly to the end of the bridge that connects Blacker North to Bringam and swings about in a drunken circle before hefting the entire stack of papers over the border between the two territories, into bringing. The superior minds of the Playground piece the strangely organized missive together in seconds, as its actually the same thing written in subtly different hands.

Woa. Bolting seems pretty hardcore. But call me Mike. All my friends call me Mike. But yeah. My power. Its not really good with people? I'm not really good with people. I think I made the Unshadowed mad. Do you think you could find a cure?


Thats a wicked-good deal, though I may will almost certainly be mired in a battle for my faction's life vs. the Unshadowed & whatever they bring my way come EoT so I cant outright commit to anything yet :smalltongue:. I currently have a VIP free if you want to seriously discuss options. Seeing as the purse for f*cking with Bolting is being offered to Cicada as well, only seems fair to include them if you want to preside over collaborating between the three of us (your call to rally vs. Bolting afterall).

[GameOfChampions]

Bloodborne
Social Connection 5
Loyalty 6

Miasma shouts at the pair wrestling in front of him "Lift his leg! Just shoving each other is how morons fight! Fight smart and fight tactically! If you want to be proper Bloodborne I need people who fight smart and hard! Not just hard, any moron can fight hard!"

He turns back to Autarch and Pointblank, he had come to visit Autarch who had been running this months training group and brought Pointblank along to have an impromptu strategy meeting.

He slaps a newspaper down in between the three of them. "We really need to get our PR guys on this. I'm tired of being called Bloodbath in the tabloids. It looks really bad. We already have trouble with image thanks to the blood mists. We need good name brands."

He shakes his hand after that though and tosses the newspaper to the side. "Thats minor though. Really what we need to talk about is expansion and neighbors. Should we lay low and focus on expanding. Run a job to help fund expansion. Hit another gang or an unassociated area? Thoughts?"

Autarch shrugs and then his eyes sharpens and he twists, throwing the spear that had been resting on his shoulders towards a pair that had been slacking off. It hammers into the floor, cutting through the wood with ease and shocking the pair. The tall svelte man glares at them until they pick up the pace and he re summons back his spear to rest on his shoulders again. "Well I think we shouldn't slack off on the jobs, that let's us keep our group sharp and brings in resources we need to keep up the training and payments we need. It shouldn't take too much of the resources we need for expansion anyway. I'll take charge of any jobs so we can move some of the manpower to expansion."

Pointblank shrugs, the thick scarred man not really paying attention. "Well im for expansion personally. We need more room and resources. I'm tired of using this second grade gear right now. If we get some more power we can get some proper tinker gear."

Miasma nods along to both, watching the 30 odd men and women duking it out in pairs. With him watching they were each striving their hardest. He made note of circle 11, the man and women in it were very impressive. He would mention it to Autarch, they would be solid additions to the gang proper.

"I'll let you both know. I'm going to go do some training."

He head to the warehouse they use for the final trial, the abandoned slaughterhouse. If he wanted to train with his powers it was hard to do just anywhere. He did tend to leave a mess.

He ran the maze a few times with the fog. Did search and destroy runs, locating randomly placed dummy in the fog and doing some boxing with each. Then he ended with a clean up and boxing after he had slicked off most of the blood.

He still wasn't too sure. He sits on the roof of the warehouse, looking over the territory they had painstakingly cut out for themselves. They had worked hard, under the boot of Bolting to get this. If they couldnt do better with the old bastard away then they didnt deserve the shot. Jobs, expansion, duking it out with rivals.

He grins a sharks smile as he smells the blood in the water of this city.

They could do it all.


Greetings,

While we are interested in the offer we do not believe we will be taking it at this time. We will most likely be reaching out in the future for this deal but as of now must decline.

Bloodborne


Hey neighber,

Since we share some borders and will inevitably be coming across each other I think it would be best if we were relatively open about our plans for expansion and possibly jobs. We do plan on expaning quite quickly over the next few weeks.

What say you.

Bloodborne

[St. Justicar]

F.E.Y.

Loyalty 5
Social Connections 4



Dearest Micheal-may I call you Michael? ‘Mr. Forequest’ seems terribly formal, and unless I’m mistaken you’ve yet to choose a mask to wear for the world- it seems like we may soon be neighbours! Now, some people have said some rather nasty things about you, but I consider myself an optimist, and I think we might be able to get along. Or, at least, figure out just how much of the city you need to really be all the yourself you can be.

Things are going to get chatoic soon, after all, and it wouldn’t do for there to be any misunderstandings in the confusion.

-Spotlight




Always a pleasure to hear from a fan! Especially one with such a following herself. We really must see about organizing some sort of collaboration.

And you know, some friends of mine are huge fans of the aquarium. Especially the live shows-they have so much potential.

[Murska]

Unshadowed

Loy 4

"They what? All over the city? Ugh..." The woman slouching in a chair rubs her forehead for a moment before continuing to speak at her phone. "Well what do you expect me to do about it? At least that shows us their attitude. Us and everyone else. And it's not like we've been talking about anything too horrible. Yes we did make a deal to not mess with the Orchard but if someone's gonna throw stones about that, they'd better do so after they go get their people killed fighting windmills first. No, that's a figure of speech, what are you on about? Just ignore it, okay? Keep me informed. I'll do some damcon. Yeah. Night."

She ends the call and sighs. "Of all the days..."

To Forequest

I'm guessing that's a no?

Remnants of Bolting

Klay. I understand your situation is tough right now. There were always people afraid of and angry at Bolting that're now crawling out the woodwork. But once everyone sees the alternative, all the chaos and all the factions worse than Bolting was, they'll come around. Maybe, anyway.

Meanwhile, well, I think we should at least keep in touch, share if we hear anything important or have plans that could involve each other. We're locals, and we have an interest in keeping this city in working order at the end of this. I didn't work directly for Bolting but we had an understanding. That's more than you can say for some of the newcomers in town. If Bolting breaks out and comes back, it's best we've got things under control over here. And if not, well, it's still better us than anybody else, right?

Brass

To Anti-Parahuman League

Hello,

It's a bit odd to contact you like this, we're not exactly on the same side ideologically. But, well, I've fought Endbringers and other things that need to be fought, and while in your eyes we're just another parahuman-run gang to be put down, I imagine there's worse things than us out there. Don't expect to be friends, but when the true monsters show up we'll both be there, and maybe that counts for something.

So why am I calling now? Well, you might've heard about Forequest. Proximity-based, area of effect, spreading, permanent, Master/Strange 9. Turns people into more of him. Apparently, based on the graffiti I'm sure you've read, he's more active and has more reach than anyone thought. And he's got something against us specifically. So, uh, that's a thing, has me losing sleep. I'm hoping to talk it out with him because if we fight the collateral's going to be horrible - who knows how many people he's taken over by now? But I'm worried. If he doesn't want to talk, and it doesn't look like it... who knows what's going to happen in this city.

Good day to you,
Brass

To F.E.Y

Well, we were hopeful since we tried talking to Forequest. Doesn't look like they want to talk, as I'm sure you noticed. I'm pretty worried they decided to be so hostile.

I hope you're still up for that mutual defense.

[Writtensanity]

The Dream Team!

All messages Loyalty 4 unless otherwise stated.

Headline: 🔥💯

Bella: U sure?

Headline; Yeah I can ask Fey if Daddy is on the list

Bella: 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Headline: Literally

Bella: What?

Headline; Nuthin 😘




[The following comes as one paragraph. It has been broken up OOC for readability. The Number is the same number that previously identified themselves as Headline.]

Look, I kno u want Rockdon, but I talked to 🌳🌳🌳 and they want the stuff South, so like where am I gonna go?

Pay me 10,000 [2 Econ] a week and you can have Rockdon. It’ll be like rent where I’m the hot landlord 🔥😩💯

No funny business tho, my girls read alll the emails + are the best!

See you in the streets! 🎤





[Each line is a separate text message]

K 1.

Found your mess. Ew

Use a tampon

Also

Also

Wait I said that twice

Also,

Ur next to my 🧔🏻🎁💵💳💎

So like

Leave the money alone okay?

Don’t hurt Jake with the Dreamy eyes <3

You takin’ Lilly? We splitting things up North, Bugs want Rockdon but I have friends there, thoughts?





?????

Who be the lucky guest?!

If I catch someone during a job will you 🦈🦈🐊?

[OOC: This Translate to: If we capture a parahuman will you help us kill them in an amazing way?]






:/ => :) K?





Hey 🌳🌳🌳

Our deal is better than 🐝

We just tell other people not to fight u

N they listen because we cute <3

We don’t want anyone to fight

Unless it’s over bois then 🗡🔪🔫

Or girls

Like miss 👩🏼*💻

U take stuff south.

🐝 want Rockdon, if they pay us we might take Brams

Even tho it Oldsville

Stay 🌊





🤑

🦹🏼*♀️🍵🍾🤷🏼*♀️

🙅*♀️

🦹🏼*♀️🟥👼🏻🙅🏻💎💵

😘

This is read by Media Managed as:

Deal.

I spill the tea anyways

No news

I told bloodborne not to mess with Business daddy

Kisses






Lol ur still here?! But Bolting gone.

Rebrand!

To the Dream Team 2: 2 Dream 2 Team

Franchise me!

4 serious tho!

Ppl talkin bout u :(

Talk to Mike he needs friends

Go stomp on some necks

But like not mine

Or anyone’s

Least not any cool capes

K pce





The message is found on the desk of three different agents with teen daughters, a friend from school told them to print it off for them

To Whom It May Concern!

I am Headline, leader of the Dream Team <3

You’re offering a lot of money to **** with Bolting.

I want in if you’re paying. Otherwise you might run into the issue of Cicada and the Dream Team both being in the wrong side of your attempts to slow down Bolting.

Just saying, they know you’re talking. What makes you think they’re just going to assume nothing is up with that?

Food for thought, if you’re picking a fight this early without a plan, might need to pay for friends.

I think the way this was sent should communicate my reach.

Reading your mail <3

Headline.





[Each line is a different text. Multiple parents who have younger daughters get them from their kids.

Hay

Headline passing along a chain letter!

Remember thos?

I don’t. Ur a boomer if you do.

Lol

I think u n Mike got off to a bad start

Don’t be mean to Mike :(

I already was told ur stuff

Mike just said it to people

He just wants u to be nice

Plus

Bigger problems in city

Big boiiiiis

Like the APL

Or Orchard (but they been chill to me so 🤷🏼*♀️

Legit totes leavin girls on guard tho

Wanna a deal? Muscle for letters?

I know you like to read <3

I send me some dudes (hot ones!) and I’ll do what Cicada offfered

But like more

Anytime some says ur name

I’ll be like Mike

All over the town Bby <3

Why you think? I’d need like a lot of hot dudes but I’d do it for like weeks

I’m bored and need to gossip

[OOC: Dream Team offering to send you messages that mention your name for a payment of 4 STR. This service would last INDEFINITELY]

[Murska]

Unshadowed to Dream Team

Hey there.

About Mike, well, think of it this way. We've got an event south side of the river, new class, whatever. Everybody who's anybody is showing up. We know a few people but obviously we need to figure out who's gonna be the queen of the show and who's gonna be dating whom. There's this one kid in the corner, we've heard some weird stories but don't want to be mean so we send them a message. Just the usual hey lets chat we could be friends maybe? And the reply is them ripping our entire chatlogs from our phone, not just with them but with everyone, and posting them publically to the entire crowd.

Doesn't look so friendly, right? Kind of a mean thing to do to somebody, I think.


As for the guys, well, as I'm sure you know we told Cicada when they offered the same thing, we're got things this week, but it's definitely a good idea for later. Uh, though, I'd need to know what you'd be having my friends do. Image questions, you know - they're still my friends afterwards, right?

Thanks for the social call,
Dissent

[n0ble]

Unshadowed


To Anti-Parahuman League

Hello,

It's a bit odd to contact you like this, we're not exactly on the same side ideologically. But, well, I've fought Endbringers and other things that need to be fought, and while in your eyes we're just another parahuman-run gang to be put down, I imagine there's worse things than us out there. Don't expect to be friends, but when the true monsters show up we'll both be there, and maybe that counts for something.

So why am I calling now? Well, you might've heard about Forequest. Proximity-based, area of effect, spreading, permanent, Master/Strange 9. Turns people into more of him. Apparently, based on the graffiti I'm sure you've read, he's more active and has more reach than anyone thought. And he's got something against us specifically. So, uh, that's a thing, has me losing sleep. I'm hoping to talk it out with him because if we fight the collateral's going to be horrible - who knows how many people he's taken over by now? But I'm worried. If he doesn't want to talk, and it doesn't look like it... who knows what's going to happen in this city.

Good day to you,
Brass



It falls from the sky. Hundreds of thousands of leaftlets dropped by pigeons, all seen heading back to Blacker South

Hi Salsdale, its Mike. Some of you might know me as Forequest or maybe even Michael.

I'm...not very good at this. I've never been much good at anything, I dont think. Theres a lot I dont know about how all of this works. But us people with powers...all we've got is each other right? The Unshadowed have tried to introduce me to people, but I dont think they were doing a very good job until they talked to the APL. And they call me a bad guy.

Now you know who I am just like I know who you are. And you know who they are too.

Want to be friends? I'm looking for friends.

Mike

PS: Sorry about the litter.


Nobody likes a tattletale, clearly :smallbiggrin: But real talk, if anyone is in need of a VIP for communicating with other factions covertly this turn, I have 4 Forequests that can totally stand as hostages diplomats for folks :smallsmile:



Loyalty 7


A letter arrives.


Hi Fey

Call me Mike, all my friends call me Mike! Your right I think, stuffs looking to get pretty hairy sh!t sorry. I probably shouldnt say hairy to you should I?

Several hours later...another letter. This time the calligraphy seems...less sure of itself.

Dream team said you had a tiger, thats pretty cool! I dont know a lot about animals but big cats need big places to play right? And its not like I'd win vs. a tiger anyways.


Do you have a particular set of borders we can abide to in mind?




:l=>:( (am I doing this right?)

[Let'sGetKraken]

Cicada

I suppose that’s acceptable, then. We admire your commitment to your ideals. Until then, know that we pose less of a threat to you and yours than the more violent or twisted parahuman gangs in this city - no matter what they may say. We will not interfere with your mission.

We plan on expanding into Olan Cross soon; we renounce any claim on Milton or Janax street. We would prefer to do this with no bloodshed or loss of life; to that end, it would be appreciated if you could look elsewhere for expansion.



More details to follow; we can’t say more at this time, unfortunately. Rest assured that you will be able to purchase our information at a discounted rate for having taken us up on our offer.

In terms of conversation relevant to you and yours: there is nothing immediately threatening, but there is some information that could very well be relevant to you, regarding the actions of your neighbors (Fey, the Dream Team, and the Unshadowed).

-The Broker and the Dream Team are in the process of setting up an exchange of information for cash; this looks like it will develop into a strong working relationship.
-Fey looks to be establishing amicable relationships with the Unshadowed; possibly working towards a defensive pact against Forequest.
-Fey is seeking good relations with the Dream Team. Whether that would impact you, or if they would turn their covert talents elsewhere, is impossible for us to gauge.
-The Dream Team looks to be trying to defuse the brewing conflict between the Unshadowed and Forequest.

I trust you’ll be delivering that [1 TECH], as promised.

As I said in my previous OOC, I will have the requirements for the global heist for sale at a reduced rate, since you purchased the service as a whole. Can't really be more direct while remaining IC, as I don't know what it is.




Just to be perfectly clear - despite what the Dream Team is implying, we have no desire to be involved in either side of the potential conflict between you and the Remnants of Bolting. They paid us for information, we provided it. As far as we are concerned, unless anything concrete comes up, we have satisfied our contractual obligations. Were any other faction to become involved - and to take your deal - we strongly advise that they do it privately.

Best of luck.



We appreciate the offer - we took your initial response as hostility. Do you desire a permanent trade? That might be beyond our means. Is there something you had in mind in the interim? I’m sure we could come to an agreement of some sort. And if not, well, it leaves the door open for collaboration in the future.

Unfortunately, we are bound to notify the Remnants of Bolting of anything that would impact them. Our involvement in such an affair would be unwise. But so long as we do not see anything in the less secure channels, we don’t have to provide the information, if you see what we mean. We have no ill will towards you or the Playground; the Remnants of Bolting were simply the first to take us up on our offer.




That seems fine. We’ll see what the Black Market has available, but pending anything world-changing there, we’re happy to accept. Perhaps in the future we can renegotiate; there might be other information or services we can provide in lieu of direct payment. We appreciate your consideration.

In fact, pending the Orchard’s response, we might even have something a little extra for you. We’ll see how things shake out.

Excoriate keeps telling me to add in these tiny pictures but I don't know how. I hope that's alright.

-Imposter

[Writtensanity]

Okay a couple things for Heists!

Game Heists:

The Scale for difficulty is Simple (Low Stat Requirement) - Proper (3 - 6 Stats normally) - Dangerous (7 - 11 or other requirements) or - Risky (7 -15 and other requirements) - Deadly (At least 15) - Suicide (Over 20)

1. Only the Faction with the highest Social Connections (Cicada) learns what this means for that particular heist.

2. You submit the actions for midturn to me like an EoT, so you let me know how much you are committing to the Heist.

3. If you need a refresher. Rules are here
(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qrSs1Ei3fbSjc1QrS0Ih7pxXRVV5MqAvsjjaHNssvWw/edit?usp=sharing)

Local Heists

Local Heists (outside of weird circumstances) have known difficulties.

1. The Formatting for the local heist messages is


Example


That means that if you share a border with the Dream team you only need ESP 5. If you don't you need ESP 9 to open.

2. Local Heists have known difficulties, so everyone involved will likely submit 'enough'. If more than one person commits to the same local heist, the Faction that committed more stats of the appropriate kind (Or augmented the appropriate amount with more stats) WINS the Heist. If it's close both Factions will take damage.



The announcement is sudden and a lot of people are confused about it. A new municipal Holiday? Especially just over a month after the event it's celebrating?

That's right, the first ever Salsdale Freedom Day is being celebrated on Thursday, there will be a parade with, you assume, all the Police Present. This would be the perfect time to get yourself properly on floats, and if you can be king of the hill and be the one villain team to show up, it would send a wonderful message.

This city isn't free, it's just under new management

The Game Heist this turn: Parade Panic

Parade Panic is - Dangerous

Parade Panic - Raises your social connections stat permanently

Parade Panic - Has a hidden reward


Local Heists




Millie's Dad is moving some hot new cars around. Easy way to get some ECON, but you'd need the Muscle to do it.

Requirement: 3 STRENGTH

REWARD: 1 Point of ECON (Permanent)






Rumors of the PRT holding a Parahuman on board a train abound. You might be able to pull off a highway robbery like the old west.

Requirement: 6 STRENGTH or ESPIONAGE

REWARD: PARAHUMAN RECRUITMENT CHANCE






A small time medical facility in the area has been stockpiling items that would be, beneficial to your test subjects.

Requirement: Strength 3

Reward: 1 Permanent Point of FEAR






A young man, possibly Parahuman. Search and Destroy or Subdue

Requirement: 5 STR

Reward; PARAHUMAN RECRUITMENT CHANCE






A man brought an amazing item to the Market today but wasn't interested in selling to you despite high bids. Perhaps some muscle will convince him?

Requirement: Strength 4

Reward: Unknown Technological Wonder





Damn that journalist! She keeps printing stories about you that aren't flattering at all. Bloodbath and Beyond? What kind of headline is that?! Time to teach her a lesson.

Requirement: Strength 4 and a Parahuman

REWARD: Raise Social Connections Stat by 2






There is a man in the area, friend of Arthur's. You break into his penthouse and get him to leave town, and you're going to have a swanky new building in which to store resources

Requirement: 4 ESP, 2 STR. PARAHUMAN REQUIRED

REWARD: Raise Stat Cap for FEY by 4





Evidence of the Divine! Yes. He must have it. That businessman with the sideways glances and careful avoidance. He could be the key.

Requirement: STR 4, ESP 1. PARAHUMAN REQUIRED

REWARD: Evidence that what you're trying is possible: 2 Permanent FEAR / LOYALTY





Is there anything more classic than a bank robbery? How about a bank robbery that leads into a high speed chase that would surely get on the news? That's the sort of thing that would help the public image.

Requirement: STR 5, PARAHUMAN REQUIRED

REWARD: 1 Permanent SOCIAL CONNECTIONS, 3 ECON to be used next mid or end of turn.





Look, there is a sale at bestbuy on those flatscreens, but you feel bad going in there during working hours. If you got the manager to give the keys to someone he knows you could be in and out with a new TV without needing to talk to anyone who might not like you

Requirement: 4 ESP

Reward; 1 Point of Permanent Social Connections (You will be caught up on TV and can talk to people online about it)






A show of power, taking down a building in old Clerac. Remind them who is in charge.

Requirement: 1 Parahuman and 5 Strength total

Reward: 2 Points of Loyalty

[Let'sGetKraken]

Cicada



Cicada has more information about the new event that's coming up. Quite the parade that's planned. Good chance to get your name out, no? If you'd prefer that your invested resources don't go to waste - or, worse, blow up in your face - we're happy to provide the information for a price.



Cicada is willing to sell the exact global heist requirements (which stats are required in what amounts, along with any other requirements) to any interested parties. Will sell to two factions by PM - if I accept your bid, a parahuman is required, as my loyalty is not high enough for it not to be otherwise exposed to all the ESP factions. You can do whatever you wish with that information. Ties broken and priority to those who purchased the service from Cicada already. You know who you are.

If interested, message back, along with what you'd be willing to pay for the information.

[Writtensanity]

Though it will likely only show up for the BLACK MARKET: A message marked with ??? is encrypted and cannot be opened without a short term plan or long term plans to break encryption.

"Remember people, Salsdale is once again a free market. We don't have the relationship wtih Bolting that we did. Customer service faces on." The man paced the isles of representatives answering calls and emails from around the country. Salsdale opening back up was a decent sized market, and things were always busy on opening day. "We're going live in 30 seconds, prep the lines."

"29"

"28..."



Good evening residents of Salsdale! I'm Jackson from Black Market Support.

If this is your first time purchasing from the Black Market, I have some information to share with you! If you have any questions about any of this feel free to reach out and an agent will assist you!

1. What is the Black Market? : We are a global network that provide enterprises like yours with solutions that are needed in your line of work. Unlike most things in your business, we accept cash.

2. What is an auction?: An auction is where multiple people try to buy the same item we only have one copy of. Don't worry! If you don't win we will return your money. If nobody pays enough for the auction we will return everyone's money.

3. Another Faction got an offer I didn't!: Sometimes we need to be discerning about clients for items. Most of the time this comes from the person selling the item making certain requests.

Please enjoy our services and let us know if there is anything else we can do to help you,

Jackson H,

Black Market Support





Good Afternoon, I'm Hailey from Black Market Support!

Due to your purchasing power, we have an exclusive offer for you!

If you would like, we can arrange for an extra copy of this weeks 'Buy' to be shipped to your location if you would like. Typically each business can only gain 1 copy of the item, but I have been instructed to offer a second for you should you wish to purchase.

Have a lovely day,

Hailey from Black Market Support





Good afternnon Cicada: Salsdale Branch! This is Hailey from Black Market Support

Due to our previous working relationship with your business we are offering a one time deal in order to help you get established.

If you would wish, you may pay a small fee [1 ECON] in order to send 1 message to another Faction in Salsdale using our encryption network. Please submit the message and recipient along with your encrypted purchase order for this season.

Have a lovely day! Hailey from Black Market Support




The Black Market: Turn 1


BUYS:

Anti-Parahuman Array:

The Black Market is offering an Temporary Anti-Parahuman Array for a low cost of 4 ECON! This one-time-use item will nullify any Parahumans not wearing the blocker in the area for 1 turn when used in a territory. Because of the complicated nature of the Array, you will likely need to own the territory to set it up.



Turned on at Turn End, the Anti Parahuman Array removes the STATS added by Parahumans in any Action that target your Faction. If the action is conquest, it greatly raises the chance of the Parahuman killed or Injured penalties as they enter a battle without their powers!

The Anti-Parahuman Array takes massive amounts of energy, and breaks upon Start of Turn.


The Little Black Book

The Black Market has a list of local contacts that can be added to your contact list for a low, one time payment of 3 ECON .



Raise SOCIAL by 1 for 3 ECON






There is a hidden message in the email, stuffed into the code

Good eye. Contact for details




The Auction

The Black Market has run into a Parahuman who is looking for work. This Parahuman is quite powerful. Due to their preferences you may bid with more than just money.

Priority will be given to offers of Weapons



TIER 2 PARAHUMAN :

Priority given to TECH and STR offers

You may bid with any combination of any stats.

This Parahuman would be available by TURN END and will join your Faction

[Writtensanity]

Mid turn submissions are due Tuesday evening at 12 est

[Let'sGetKraken]

Cicada



Greetings.

We appreciate the consideration. We won't speak more here - our encryption isn't nearly as powerful as yours - but your offer is certainly an enticing one. Unfortunately, we're quite strapped for cash at the moment. Would you be willing to accept [4 SOCIAL] in lieu of [3 ECON] for this week's "Little Black Book" buy? That could very well impact whether we're able to accept your exceedingly generous offer.

Of course, this is also dependent on your hidden offer. Would you mind elaborating more on that?

[Murska]

Unshadowed to Everyone (Loyalty 0)

A link to a video message is posted to a number of prominent message boards in the local underground and given directly to some contacts in the seedier bars to ensure a wide reach.

On it is a figure in a mostly utilitarian costume of dark fabric with painted metallic plates providing armouring to the most vital spots. On the breastplate there's an etching with gold sheen, depicting a sun either rising or setting behind what on first glance is a set of hills with arrows pointing outwards from them, but to those informed is a version of the old Brass Knuckles logo.

"Greetings. If you don't know me, I'm Dissent of the Unshadowed. I am here to provide some light upon a number of recent events.

We make our homes south of the river, as we always have. There's a risk that with the current power vacuum things will be more chaotic in Salsdale for a while, and naturally as good citizens we'd like to ensure that at least our region remains quiet. So we reached out to people nearby to ask everyone to keep their heads calm.

Now, given the leaflets they've dropped, I would guess that all of you are now aware of Forequest if you weren't before. He makes his home nearby, so he was one of the people we reached out to for a peaceful solution.

Their response was to spurn our communication and instead make what appeared a clear threat by making public our attempts at making peace - there's little other reason to do so than to make clear to us and everyone that they've infiltrated significant sections of the city and its organizations. But with the language employed in the response being uncertain, I made the decision to attempt a little test to see if it was just miscommunication after all rather than a signal of aggressive intent.

So, we sent another message to them asking to clarify their position. In addition, we sent a few more messages to organizations nearby, knowing they would be read and making clear in them that we only wished to avoid conflict and hoped to be able to reach out to Forequest peacefully, but that the act of espionage they had performed was worrying in nature and that if it was not simply a mistake then we considered it surprisingly, and dangerously, aggressive.

The end result of this test was telling. Not only did they repeat the snub of ignoring our direct effort at communication, not only did they read our messages again and once more make them public, but they specifically chose the most controversial recipient of messages, the APL, to publish - having not found anything to use in the content of the messages themselves to paint us with, and likely knowing that forgeries would be simple to catch by other less overt members of our community, they attempted to manipulate public perception by making it seem as though we were reaching out only to the APL rather than everyone in the general area, and so make such an attempt look less like an attempt at peaceful mediation and more a taking of sides.

Clearly, there is no innocent reason behind this. Were their intentions peaceful, there would be no reason not to respond to our attempts of making peace, to allay our clearly conveyed worries or at the very least to not repeat the offense that originally caused such tension. Were they simply getting our messages through some kind of chinese telephone, or were the publicization some sort of an ideological stand or a misguided attempt to defuse the situation, there would be no reason to not publish everything. The only reasons I can think of for why they would specifically attempt to manipulate the opinions of bystanders by maliciously altering the presentation of the messages involved while still protesting their own innocence are hostile.

So since it seems clear Forequest wishes for some sort of a dispute with us that they refuse to elucidate, and they are intent on dragging said dispute into the public sphere by involving not only figures in our circles but also innocent bystanders and agents of the law, causing distress and havoc in far-flung regions of the city that are not in the least related to the situation in question, we are left with no choice but to respond in kind. Perhaps one of you has a more direct line of communication to Blacker South and can offer to mediate. Regardless, we wish to make it known that if through no fault of ours we are left with an implacable enemy, one who could be anywhere, in anyone, and who seeks to sabotage our efforts at avoiding chaos and destruction, we will act in self-defense as we see fit."

The video cuts out.



Unshadowed to Cicada (Loyalty 4)

Well, we don't have any particularly pressing need to be part of the parade, but publicity isn't always terrible. I'm sure you'll get more interesting bids, but to open things on the right foot, we offer to assist a possible effort of your own with at least half the required assets to make the attempt a success provided we have such capability, and let you have first pick of the rewards of such an action.

Unshadowed to the Black Market Auction (Loyalty 4)

Would it be possible to meet this parahuman and have a chat before bidding, to see if our personalities and inclinations match enough to work together?

[Let'sGetKraken]

Cicada



We're very interested, provided that no one else makes us a very enticing offer for the information. Keep in mind that a betrayal would not be advisable on your part, given that it would blacklist you from all future dealings with us, and we would actively work against you wherever possible. You can trust Cicada to keep our word - we have a reputation to uphold.

We will confirm at [Noon EST Tuesday June 6]. If that is the case, we will message you more discreetly.

[NulliusinVerba]

The Playground
All messages sent at Fear 3

It's alright. We understand that you made a deal with Bolting first, and that it is not anything personal. It's simply a shame that you chose to make enemies and a bit of extra coin as opposed to taking on a real job. We do not wish you any ill will at all.

In fact, we have a secondary proposition for you. We are reaching out to inform you that we will be taking you up on your initial offer. A team of research assistants are already on their way to the Trainyards to get to work assessing your hardware. Furthermore, the Playground is planning on engaging Bolting directly to pay tribute in exchange for a guarantee of armistice while we take New Bringham. We are hoping that by paying you directly over that time, you will act as a referee between our factions to make sure that neither of us schemes against the other.

We will be sending you [1 ECO] this Mid-Turn. Additionally, we hope to secure your services as a sort of guarantor, which basically means that you're doing the exact same thing that you are currently doing. We would send you [1 TECH / ECO] every turn, as would Bolting, and you would be there to make sure that neither of us is planning to screw the other. We have to square the deal with them first before we make any future payments, though.
Thank you for the compliment. I hope you know that we mean it when we say we respect you and what you're doing.

The Playground is putting together a group gathering. We're including Orchard, Forequest, and the Dream Team. If you want to join, let us know, or I can make sure that you're kept updated as to what we talk about. The main item on the agenda will be the Black Market bid.
Well Mike, I think I can safely say that we have no idea who to trust out here. Bolting seems like they will be coming for us eventually, but we are trying to hold them off through a deal with Cicada. Here's hoping that reasonable minds prevail. In the meantime though, the Playground has heard from the Black Market that a big parahuman is being considered for auction and we would like to put a bid together.

Do you think we could meet in person to discuss this further? We would be willing to send over Backbiter to meet with a messenger of your own. We're also getting in touch with Orchard and the Dream Team, to see if they want to send anyone.
By now you will have heard from Cicada that we put in an offer to slow down your territorial expansion through sabotage. An unfortunate miscalculation on our part, but you can probably understand where we're coming from. There is a general desire among the scientific community here to not get destroyed by local gang members, and that includes your people.

In order to save face, we are prepared to offer you a significant sum of money in exchange and access to our contact network for your leaving New Bringham to us, and a one-time use of our scientific expertise to help your other expansion efforts northwards. Furthermore, you would be required to leave our people alone for at least three weeks. If you accept this deal, we will promise not to hire out any third parties to interfere with your affairs for the same amount of time. If it helps, we can contact someone neutral who can monitor both groups. Seeing as Cicada has already been in touch with you and proven themselves, we've gotten ahold of them and asked them to be our guarantor.

If you agree, we can put any nasty underhanded business behind us. What do you say?

We are now offering [5 SOC & 4 ECO] as tribute payment to leave the Playground alone for the next 3 turns (starting on Turn 2, all the way to Turn 5). That means no Conquests, no Stat Attacks, nothing. The Playground would similarly not engage any high ESP factions for stat attacks and wouldn't invest anything into Conquest.
Mr. Drowsing,

The circumstances with the Black Market seem to have changed. We've reached out to Forequest, and are now reaching out to you and the Dream Team. We'd like to meet, in person if possible, to discuss a bid we plan on making. For our comfort, we'd prefer it if you sent Mr. Root instead of either you or Mr. Bough. Generally speaking, we like our thinkers and researchers unaltered by anyone outside our walls.
Hi Dream Team,

I'm sorry, but my (super)computer doesn't have emojis. I'll see what I can do about patching them into the system architecture in the next version. Anyhow, I've reached out to some people about having a little pow-wow about this upcoming Black Market bid, and I'm hoping that you can send someone! Right now I've invited Forequest and Orchard to the table, and we'll see how they respond.

[Murska]

Unshadowed to Cicada (Loy 4)

Glad to hear it. Betrayal is never advisable - without a reputation and a measure of trust, there would be no organizations at all. Crashing a party and tweaking the noses of some City Hall folk isn't worth making real enemies out of possible friends.

[Hamste]

The Broker

Loyalty 6


👋🏻🦹🏼*♀️
😘🦹🏼*♀️🟥👼🏻 (😂❤️👼🏻)
🏬*🦹❓❓❓
😘

Translation: Hello Headliner, thanks for talking with Bloodborne.
Loved that you used a baby angel for them by the way.
Anyways what was the secret black market sale????
Goodbye




Hello,
We were hoping to take two territories though with our slower expansion we may be limited to one depending on how fast everyone else bursts out and cuts us off. Specifically, we were hoping to gain Janex Street. Then if you want to expand south we could take Lily Garden as Olan Cross is almost certainly going to be taken by Cicada or the APL. If you are interested in the north we could try to expand south to South Vander.
From Media Manager

[Let'sGetKraken]

Cicada



We understand. There is no need to pay us now, as we recognize that we have put you in a precarious position this week. Think of it as an olive branch, to ensure future cooperation and trust between us and all who are watching.

If you would like us to serve as a mediator - to make sure that you and the Remnants of Bolting aren't plotting in less secure channels - we're delighted to accept. You can pay us starting [Turn 2]. Note that we will not be offering the same deal to everyone next turn - in the future, if someone wants information on us, we will offer their competitors a chance to outbid them, exactly to avoid a situation like this from recurring. Yours will be the exception - I will immediately notify either of you if you make any moves towards breaking the agreement.

Let us know if this is amenable to you.

Cicada





Greetings.

The Playground has proposed that we serve as a neutral party to ensure that the two of you stick to whatever agreement you make. We are happy to accept. Klay, we urge you to avoid bloodshed if possible - this seems like a good deal for you to take, and we feel like you two have more to gain from cooperation here than conflict. You will need allies as you reclaim what is rightfully yours, after all.

Cicada

[St. Justicar]

F.E.Y.

Loyalty 5
Social Connection 4



At the moment I’m still hoping diplomacy might win out, but failing that, yes.

Best,





I can only promise to give them exactly what they deserve. But this lovely little city certainly does have a quite a number of capes who deserve something spectacular. And I would obviously love to have you on the show.

-Spotlight




Mike, then, a pleasure-though you’ll excuse the emails, I hope? The politesse is appreciated.

As for the borders-while, I’ll try to be frank. The plan is to move south into Blacker North very soon-something about the bridge, I believe? No interest at all in going any farther south than that, and no interest at all in grabbing for anything else you might reach in the next couple of weeks.

Call that an opening position though. Very open to be convinced otherwise, as long as you use carrots instead of sticks.

-Spotlight





Dearest Jackson,

A pleasure to make you acquaintance. Given out recent arrival, my friends and I are of course very interested in something like that little black book, but find ourselves a little hard up for liquid cash at the moment.

Would some sort of alternative payment be possible? In kind, if possible-either contacts of our own, or some neat little toys friends of ours in a few labs have passed along.

And just what are the mysterious details I should be asking you about, if I’m writing anyway?

[OOC: Offering 4 (any combination of Soc and Tech) for the little black book





That’s quite a guest-list. I can spare Spotlight, if discretion’s required. Doesn’t seem like anything but firsthand communication is likely to stay quiet.

Best,

[Writtensanity]

https://i.imgur.com/ulszozd.png



Hi! Kayla here from Black Market customer service!

For the 'Little Black Book' we are unable to accept payment in the form of contacts, as contacts are what we are providing. If you can offer an alternative payment, we would be happy to help arrange a purchase however we can!

As for the special offer for the discerning! We are offering nations with the ability to break into Email code as you did a one time offer of exchanging some of their espionage expertise for some raw firepower! Details below:



The Secrtet Black Market Buy is 5 ESP for 4 Temp STR










Hi this is Hailey from Black Market Customer Service

I have been given permission to ask three questions for you to the Parahuman, in order to be kind to our other patrons the answers will be published without our encryption network.

Have a lovely day and Happy Shopping,

Hailey from the Black Market






Jackson here from Black Market Support

I have spoken to my superiors and they would be willing to accept 4 TECH and the assured Capture of South Core as Payment for the Black Book

We do not need anything from South Core, we simply like to know how the city is split.

Have a lovely day and happy shopping!

Jackson from Black Market Support

[Murska]

Unshadowed to the Black Market (Loy 4)

All right, thank you for your consideration.

Our questions are:

1: Tell us as much or as little as you wish about your powers.

2: What sort of work do you see yourself as suited for?

3: How would you reassure any potential future employer regarding your loyalty in the case of a higher pay offer in the future?

[Writtensanity]

https://i.imgur.com/xCubbaS.png

All messages at Loyalty 7




We will arrange for the capture of a Cape during coming events. If we capture someone, we will bring them to you following conditions.

We will not be interfering with your business in the coming week. Should you prove useful in convincing capes to follow the only path they should be used for, we will consider not interfering at all.

- Output





You statement that FEY burning a defenceless man alive in the street ins't the worst thing to happen in the city says more about Salsdale than it does about you.

Should you expand towards our territory, we will be forced to capture capes that are part of your group.

- Jailbird






Mr. Forequest is a crime against the nature of all things, as are all capes.

Should Mr. Forequest prove useful in controlling the wills of unwilling capes, he may become our most staunch ally in the battle for humanity's soul.

Rest Assured, Capturing a copy of Mr. Forequest is on our list.

But then again, so are you Brass.

- Jailbird.





We plan on bringing Janax street under our control in the coming weeks.

Should we need your services, we may pay, regretfully.

- Jailbird

[St. Justicar]

F.E.Y.

Loyalty 5
Social Connection 4



Ah, that particular combination will be problematic. Still entirely possible, but tragically the payment will not be possible for some days, roughly when the southern core is liberated.

I can, instead, replace a certain amount of the requested technical information with what liquid funds we have available, and have them delivered tomorrow.

-Spotlight

[OOC: 4 tech EOT or 3 tech 1 Eco midturn, along with assured capture of the territory. Also, what, no special details? I feel cheated :P]





‘Defenceless’, is that the issue? Then I solemnly swear that we shall kill no-one without a knife in their hand. You’ll agree to give all the capes you so despise the same fighting chance, of course?

Really, I’m surprised you have such a visceral reaction to a simple immolation. It’s one of the kinder fates Behemoth can give to those fighting it, and you’re quite open about wanting to march us all to the front.

Best,

[Let'sGetKraken]

Cicada



Would you take [2 TECH] instead of [2 ECON] as payment this turn?

[Writtensanity]

https://i.imgur.com/KIpX5Sp.png



Your offered tribute is a start playground.

We would require active payment over the coming weeks to make sure you remain worth it for us to keep around. Additionally that would make sure there is a reason to keep you around after you've paid us.

One time payments for extended deals are rarely something that gets upheld in our line of work.

The deal we would accept is below:


5 SOC 4 ECO this turn, and 2 ECO each turn the deal would continue.




I understand the Playground's fear of us, and you may call yourself mediator if you wish but we will not bow to an outside force telling us how we do business.

We have offered the Playground a deal for New Bringam, should they accept they will no longer be needing you for medication.

We will continue to call on your services, but we are not interested in introducing ourselves at the Paradade, the city will learn about us soon enough,

- Klay




You have the most reasonable opinion of the factions appearing and trying to take space in this city. Additionally you're a local and would agree to work with Bolting is she came back I take it.

We see no need to fight you for the time being, our expansion will stay on this side of the city. If those between us aren't willing to accept our expansion, then I suppose we will take the fight to them.

- Klay

[Writtensanity]

https://i.imgur.com/ulszozd.png




Tech and Eco accepted. We shall return it on Monday if you are not successful in capturing the territory. Your item will be delivered over the weekend.






The Unshadowed asked questions about the Parahuman offering their services, we have offered the answers they gave below.

1: Tell us as much or as little as you wish about your powers:

I make hyper-durable poly-metals. The harder something hits them, the harder they resist the damage.

2: What sort of work do you see yourself as suited for?

Defensive projects and equipping non-cape combatants.

3: How would you reassure any potential future employer regarding your loyalty in the case of a higher pay offer in the future?

The person with the largest amount of guns offered will allow me to test my creations. I will not want to move my labs once they have been established. Employers would need to capture me and remove me from the lab first.

[Writtensanity]

https://i.imgur.com/bipRpWQ.png


All messages loyalty 4



There is no shield emoji 😫

I just want some bois for defence

I’m busy this week

Gotta werk

But I trust 🌳🌳🌳 far as I can throw em

Yeet

But I cannot yeet

I am smol 🐭

We chill 🧊

But like also they make slaves

So yikers

Lemme know <3

Wait!

Bout mikey

Dude ripping text messsges is my jam <3

The more **** I read

The better

📕🐛

Like ur messages

Read em all

I just keep my secrets <3

Mike is an okay dude

No fighting :(

Anywhere,

We all i this together

In**

Like the song. lol.

K buy






:( => :)

Ur close!

Wanna hang this week

At a distance!

Way u think bout parade?






💻❌

💎🤑😩

K?






U mean in person?

With Forequest? Couple feet needed,

He nice tho 💯

Can’t go!

I’m busy

Girls ain’t great in person

Just being honest

Love my girls

Have fun at the meeting! 🔥🔥

Lemme kno what happens

[OOC= Headline is the only cape at the Dream Team and is STR 3, she’s needed]






LOL

🤷🏼*♀️❌👼🏻

📂➡️💪🏻

👩🏼*💻💵🦹*♂️?

This roughly translates to:

Didn’t know what to use other than baby.

Black market is offering ESP for STR

You buyin the auction?



I know technically Headline has never messaged the black market to learn this, and she does in this post, but I wasn’t going to do a message to myself and then another message to myself before getting back to you.

I’ve been typing enough already








Tell me who 2 sing 2

I’ll make em dance 4 ya 💃🏻🕺💃🏻





Bye**



[

[GameOfChampions]

Bloodborne
Loy 6
Soc 5

Hello,

We were planning on taking two territories this week. We were planning on taking Lily and North Vander. If need be we would be able to send some men to be used at your disposal if you has the cash to pay for them.

Bloodborne

[St. Justicar]

F.E.Y.
Loyalty 5
Social Connection 4



Marvellous. A pleasure doing business with you.



At the moment a certain caged bird is making quite a show of herself, though right now I have no idea if her friends actually know the steps to back her up.

At the moment we’re stuck in the boring part of production I’m afraid. Research just doesn’t make for a good performance, but it still has to be done.

Though. It’s short notice, but some of your girls could certainly help. Naturally I’d make some introductions and forward some numbers for their time.

My fearless leader is making the same offer to the local mad scientists. No offence intended, it’s just on a bit of a deadline. I’d rather deal with you, obviously.

-Spotlight

[OOC: Offering Soc for Esp, essentially, any amount up to four]





Crescere,

I have something concrete, if cooperation’s on your mind. You’re better connected than us by a few degrees, but we run in different circles, and I could make some introductions. Call it a gesture of friendship.

In return, I could use whatever people you have that can actually blend into a crowd for a few days, and as many of your most intimidating types as you can spare.

[OOC: Offering Soc for your 1 esp, and however much fear or strength you’d care to trade]

[GameOfChampions]

Bloodborne
Loy 6
Soc 5

We do plan on taking Lily and if the money 💰 stays cooperative then we won't have any problems👾🍋🧃🌋 with them.

[Let'sGetKraken]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/441427280875487232/722306529327317022/Copy_of_Copy_of_Copy_of_Untitled.png



We see that you're tough negotiatiors. How about instead we offer you the opportunity to potentially recruit a parahuman that we've found in our territory? We'll provide you with the details, so long as you're willing to make the investment, and we won't contest it. It would certainly allow you to communicate more discretely - which, for factions like ours is quite the appealing idea, no?

Let us know what you think and we'll provide you with the details. We would expect this offer to buy us [2 Turns] worth of claim over Rockdon, at which point we can renegotiate.

Cicada is always open to negotiation, if you see otherwise.





We are interested, but we do have some reservations. Do you have a parahuman available for discussion? Is it worth your while to be involved, as we would require a significant commitment of stats (such an operation is very demanding) on top of using a parahuman for classified discussion - stats that you might intend to spend elsewhere?

We think that collaboration on such future events may be warranted, but we're hesitant at the moment. It may not be worth the investment of resources for either of us.

Let us know your thoughts.

Cicada

[Murska]

Unshadowed to Cicada (Loy 4)

Dissent is available. You should have a rough idea of our capabilities - we're pretty flexible about what to focus on right now, so if we could theoretically do it, we can probably negotiate. But if you don't think it reasonably possible or just not worth it at all, it's your call. We can definitely focus on other things as well.

[3SecondCultist]

Orchard
Fear 6

Hello Playgrounders,

Unfortunately, after a re-accounting of our books and available people, we won't be able to meet in person like we initially hoped. Our people will be tied up in expansion efforts for the present time, as we plan to take a number of local territories along our agreed border with the Dream Team.

However, we understand that you might find the offer of the Black Market enticing, so Orchard is going to sweeten our previous deal in your favor. In exchange for an ongoing deposit of manpower, we are going to hand over our entire income for this week, on top of our experts and contact numbers. We hope that these will give you a boost to your auction bid, while we use them for our expansion.

If you agree to this before the Market closes, then I will know that you are genuine.

- Mr. Drowsing

The trade I offer you for this midturn is as follows: I will give you a one time deposit of 5 ECO and 3 SOC, in exchange for your 3 STR and 3 FEAR for the next 2 turns starting this turn. I can pretty much guarantee that you're not going to get a better offer than that from anyone. I may also ask to requisition one of your STR parahumans at some point in the next few turns for a Conquest.
Thank you for the information so far. It proves valuable, if only for the purpose of context. The SIM cards are already on their way to you, and you will be receiving them shortly.

As far as this Black Market is concerned, there is nothing there of immediate value to us. While we might want to put a bid together in the future and ask for your help in the matter, I suspect that for now, staying on your good side is enough for Orchard. We may not be friends, but there is no reason that we should be enemies.
Dear Output,

Thank you for thinking of us. Orchard takes these kinds of requests very professionally, and we will do our best to make sure that the final product is to your satisfaction. We will await your commission in person.

Like you, we have no intention in interfering in your business. There are plenty of streets for the taking here without us resorting to butchering each other whole-sale, and even then I suspect that we might be far from adversaries.

- Mr. Drowsing

[Hamste]

The Broker
Loyalty 6



💸💸💸🗺️
🤞💵🦹*♂️🤑
😅🔨💸

Roughly Translated
Yes, going on a spending spree. Hoping to win the auction, though probably over spending.

[Writtensanity]

https://i.imgur.com/bipRpWQ.png


Loyalty 4 for all



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^
U





Gimme the deets and permish and we win <3 Making new friends is fun




SRRY

No can do

Gurlz on point this week

Got news from Cicada!

I'm going shopping :D

[Let'sGetKraken]

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The details are below - one of the trains passing through from San Francisco has a high-value PRT captive. Chances are it's someone who would be very grateful to be freed. Your people will be free to pass through the Trainyards in order to secure their release, so long as they stick to that sole purpose. Full details below.

Rumors of the PRT holding a Parahuman on board a train abound. You might be able to pull off a highway robbery like the old west.

Requirement: 6 STRENGTH or ESPIONAGE

REWARD: PARAHUMAN RECRUITMENT CHANCE

Pleasure doing business with you.





Hello Jackson,

We just want to take the time to thank you for the special consideration you've shown us. Unfortunately, we simply don't have the requisite financial capital to take you up on all these wonderful special offers. We will be purchasing one of your more universally-available buys instead.

Your generosity will not go unremembered - we will be sure to inform HQ.

Cicada

[NulliusinVerba]

The Playground
All messages sent at Fear 3

We're going to save us all some time and send this as a blast message, since the only people other than the intended recipient can read everything we send anyway. The democratization of information comes with the high price of everyone reading your mail, apparently.

Anyhow, given the time restraints and how some of you have refused our offer for understandable reasons, we are going to have to postpone our meeting. While we do hope to sit down with some of you at some point in the future to maybe arrange some Black Market bids, for now we're going to devote our energies to increasing our capabilities.

Now, onto the counter-offers we've been presented with! First is from F.E.Y., who have offered us [1 SOC] in exchange for [1 ESP]. We are prepared to ask for [1 SOC], which we think is a fair deal. We're open to keeping that as a recurring trade going forward, unless Forequest would like to offer us more for it.

Next, Orchard has reached out to us with a bargain. In exchange for [3 STR] and [3 FEAR] for the next 2 weeks as well as the potential involvement of a parahuman, we will be getting [5 ECO] and [3 SOC] from them. We accept this trade, with the caveat that they send an additional [3 SOC] next week. If and when the parahuman is needed, we may ask for more in exchange depending on the risk of the task.
Cicada, I'm sure that you already read my other correspondence, and I won't waste your time pretending otherwise. You will get your [1 ECO] as we promised you.

We are planning on dealing with you Bolting. Those of us at the Playground who believe in peaceful negotiation are prepared to offer up the required stats of [5 SOC] and [4 ECO] this week, with an additional upkeep cost of [2 ECO]. However, in return we ask that all of us here stick to the agreed upon bargain. Bolting will leave both Bringham and New Bringham alone, and let the Playground work in peace.

I hope that this arrangement is enough for both of you. I know that Bolting does not want someone looking over their shoulder, but in the interest of transparency, I plan to keep paying Cicada for their services as well.

[Hamste]

The Broker
Loyalty 6
Social Connections 7

Given our buying power and interest in the Market, would it be possible to change the auction requirement for the VIP Pass? The very limited number of auctions taking place will make it extremely difficult to fulfill it. Perhaps we could introduce some of our business contacts to the Market instead?
-The Broker

Offering Social Connections for the VIP Pass.

[GameOfChampions]

Bloodborne
Loy 6
Soc 8

So I couldn't help but notice the rise in followers after you followed my boy Autarch🔥🔥 and figured I'd let you know there is no need to sweat it 🧊.

If you want to we can arrange a meeting and discuss the power of social media. Of course we can include Autarch in the meeting. 🍆🍌🧖*♂️

[Writtensanity]

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The Cicada operative moved through the parade crowd, slipping unnoticed between families that were waiting for the floats to come by Centretown. She was part of a mesh network that Cicada had set up in order to set up the men of the Unshadowed.

The operative was there to make sure nothing fishy was going on. There was already a plan after all, Cicada had sent Imposter to take over the body of the Parade coordinator and shoved their old body in the trunk of a car. Imposter had then set it up that members of the Unshadowed’s gang were driving some of the key floats, so they could stop the parade at the strike point.

Finally, set up by the Unshadowed, Imposter would swap with one of the people ON a float in order to say whatever they had wanted to say, that part was classified afterall.

While the Operative was waiting a young man tapped her on the shoulder, she turned around. It was a volunteer holding a sheet of paper with a QR code, “Do you want to use the app to know when the parade is coming?” he asked.

“Sure,” the operative answered, she didn’t wanna just shove the poor boy away, last thing she needed was a scene. Right now the only thing needed was for her to keep an eye out. She scanned the code, and the app store came up. She dismissed the offer to download and turned her attention to the street.

There was someone in the alley across from her, and they weren’t on Cicada’s plans. The way they were standing, the way they shifted around. They were carrying something. Maybe a weapon.

The floats came around the corner, keeping a normal pace. The operative’s phone buzzed.

Clear?

Across the street, the man shifted and the operative caught sight of an AR15 on his left side.

Not clear yet, keep it slow. was what she typed.

Clear is what sent.

“What the f-

She tried three more times, sending increasingly desperate messages to her comrades in the floats, but it’s not working. Her phone isn’t working. The front float stops where it was supposed to. She watches the man across the street pull out his weapon. Imposter was about to be right out in the open.

---
Imposter shakes their head as they take over the dancer on top of the second float. Moving is always a trip and a half. Changing perspectives messes with you.
“GUN!” she hears from one her agents in the crowd. There are immediate screams. Imposter ducks and a short hail of gunfire spews from an alley to her left, barely missing the Parahuman.

Panic sets into the crowd. Imposter jumps into the body of one of the fleeing citizens, a clean getaway, but the chaos is just beginning.

---

The Unshadowed goon gets out of the front car, looking around to try to figure out what the hell is going on. Parade music is blaring throughout the area and he can barely hear. He sees a small burst of bullets crash into a brick wall and reaches into the car for his gun.

“He has a weapon!” come the shouts from the Police officers shoving their way through the crowd. The man is shot twice and cuffed. Groaning in pain. What the hell was going on?

Engines roared over the chaos as half a dozen armored cars tore around the corner the parade was supposed to go down. The charged towards the floats, accelerating the whole way. The police officers that had cuffed the Unshadowed goon yanked him to safety as the armored cars obliterated the float and the sedan below it.

The door of the car flung open, and Police officers opened fire on whoever was inside, but a wall of clay erupted from the ground and ate the bullets.

From the rooftops, dozens of Bolting’s old thugs took up position and fired a few warning shots. The Unshadowed Goons were trapped in their cars, and the members of Cicada were stuck in the crowd.

The wall of clay shifted into a full armor suit around the woman who stepped out of the armored car and climbed onto the wreckage of the float. She grabbed the microphone Imposter had been going for before **** had hit the fan.

“Hey Salsdale,” Klay called out into the fleeing crowd as police were kept down by fire from the rooftops, “I hope you didn’t think you were free.”

Klay raised her arms and summoned walls from beneath the asphalt. The blocked escape routes.

“Bolting isn’t gone, Salsdale ain’t free. It’s just under new management.”

Klay threw away the microphone with the last word and nodded to one of her many thugs in the area.

The orders were simple. Give every member of the other Factions that didn’t escape to the Police.


Remnants of Bolting committed 13 Stats including Klay and Meek to take over the Parade.

Cicada and The Unshadowed’s attempts failed to overwhelming firepower and Parahumans from The Remnants of Bolting!

Cicada takes 1 ESP damage

Imposter, Cicada’s Parahuman escapes uninjured!

The Unshadowed take 2 STR damage

Klay, The Remnant’s Of Bolting’s Parahuman escapes uninjured and victorious.


Meek, the Remnant’s Of Bolting’s Parahuman is trampled in the Chaos after hacking phones and is INURED








The Unshadowed have won the Auction and added Fortmason (TECH 2 PARAHUMAN) to their roster!

[St. Justicar]

F.E.Y.

Eugene Vanderstock was not a very pleasant man to work for. And, worse, had gotten so complacent in the saftey offered by Bolting’s ‘security fees’ he’d neglected to give his own detail a raise when she got taken in.

This was just one of the many things he was deeply regretting as he lay softly whimpering, a crumpled heap stairway landing. His pursuers had been three stories behind, but it was only a moment after he tripped and fell that the bare concrete next to him cracked as their leader leapt down next to him.

The cape looked like a menace, hair tangled and wild, face hidden by a bandana and welding goggles, looking more like he was dressed for a knife fight than in a costume. He was breathing hard, his eyes so bloodshot they almost seemed red.

With almost contemptuous ease he grabbed Eugene-who was not a small man-in one hand and dragged him to his feet. Just in time to slam his other into the man’s gut, hard enough he could surely hear a rib crack.

His voice sounded more like a growl than anything human as he leaned in close. ‘You should have taken the ****ing hint. This isn’t your town anymore. And it’s sure as hell not your ****ing building.”

As the half dozen toughs who’d followed him-only human, and less eager to jump thirty feet onto concrete-reached them and grabbed Eugene, the cape-Huntsman-stepped back and seemed to sag, visibly losing an inch or two of height and what seemed like most of his muscle mass. “So I’ll make it easy. Boss gave me a nice piece of paper you can sign, and then you can get up and walk the **** away. Or we can do this again with your favourite brat. Your choice.”

Trying to move his army, dimly realizing it shouldn’t be bending that way, and crying in pain, Eugene just nodded. Then “F-fine. Whatever you want. Please, just let me go-”

Moments later, a rather simple contract on a clipboard was in front of him, and a pen pressed into his hand. Hissing with pain as he scrawled something like his signature on it, he looked up. “Alright, happy?”

“Very. Now empty your pockets and get moving. You’ve got until sunup before I look for you again. And if you’re still in the Park it will not be ****ing pleasant, got it?”


And that was how F.E.Y. got their shockingly cheap penthouse HQ. All the current tenants got their rent waived for the month, so there weren’t really many complaints.

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Loyalty 5
Social Connections 5



The text message is from a disposable burner phone, but sent directly to Media Manager’s ‘work’ number

As a matter of courtesy, I think it would be best for everyone if everyone stayed on their own side of the river. Don’t you agree?

Best,





I do hope your new friend is appropriately appreciative of the trouble you’re going to for them. And I’m sure other opportunities will present themselves. Next week, perhaps.

-Spotlight





Making this a regular deal is fine by us. If you have someone to spare, then we should really arrange something in person next week, when things aren’t so rushed.

Best,

[Writtensanity]

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The target had been uncooperative. At first, but now he was in their custody. A parahuman who hadn't taken a cape name yet. Local.

He'd heard bad things about the APL and what could happen to Parahumans, but being local he knew a thing or two about hating capes who overstepped their bounds as well. It didn't take too much convincing for the new Cape to join their side, and his power would prove useful as well.

ESP 1 Parahuman Lullaby has joined the APL.

ALL MESSAGES SENT AT LOYALTY 7



All capes who are targeted by the APL have more of a chance against the APL than a man with a knife does against any of your capes.

Though I suppose at least some concession from you should be considered a small victory. Which with the Remnants running around is something we need.

Let me offer a deal to another who knows what kind of event we're preparing for. The Remnants of Bolting need to go, Mike Forquest needs to be out of the city, but I imagine the PRT will take care of that soon.

If you are interested in working with us to remove some priority targets, we would be willing to help with the top of your list.

Let us know.

Jailbird.




Talks with our recent acquisition went well, your services will not be needed.

We will stay in touch if we capture another Parahuman who is less agreeable.





We do not know if you extended your offer of espionage to Bolting as well as us, but, if you did and they accepted. Think about what is best for the city and your standing with us before letting them know of anything we say.

Bolting. Needs to go.

[Writtensanity]

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Jackson from Black Market Customer Support here!

Thanks for reaching out! If you're interested in our VIP pass, we might be able to forgo the auction requirement if you can prove you're truly a lucrative asset. I apologize for questioning your wealth and willingness to spend Mr. Broker, it is simply that clients like Bolting in the past have had quite large capital spending limits.

I have spoken to my superiors, and putting us in connection with some of your business contacts, as well as continuing to be a proper patron would allow us to reward a pass.



4 SOC at Turn End and a total spend of 10 ECO at the Black Market will reward the VIP pass. You may also win the auction next turn and continue the normal method.

[Writtensanity]

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ALL SENT AT LOYALTY 4

"And these!" Headline said with a small twirl, "are the new cars we stole! We only took the colorful ones but we could totes go back for black if that's your thing."

"Uh," Gravity Girl looked at the sports cars lined up in the underground garage. "I think purple will work." When she'd been freed from the PRT she'd seen the Cicada logos sprayed around the train station, so she'd figured she was entering a world of espionage and tricks. Something her power wouldn't have been that suited for. She'd been surprised when a team of teenage girls had broken her out, and seeing Headline's empire of villainy had made teenage swat teams seem normal.

There Gravity Girl was, in the middle of a cotton candy wonderland being asked which Lambo she wanted. Sure, the head Villain texted like a tween who'd just watched Twilight, but lavender lamberghini's were a perk, and Headline swore up and down that she'd get someone called 'The Broker' to buy Gravity Girl a proper new costume and some diamonds.

Gravity Girl could work with this. It was a different world that tragic backstories and all, but it was gonna be a blast.

"Let's go visit some of the girls," Headline said and snapped her fingers. Someone way too young for a driver's licence drove a car over and hopped out so Headline and Gravity Girl could get in. "plus Captain Abs from the Bloodborne. I don't think Cicada will mind us taking a joy ride by so we can go see him. You following him on twitter? He's Autarch."

STR 2 Parahuman - Gravity Girl joins The Dream Team from their heist in 'The Trainyards'



Meet GG!

Attached is a selfie of Headline sticking out her tongue and a girl who is using her hand to cover most of her face. She’s obviously pretty young, around Headline’s age.

Sorry 4 dat, costume shoppin’

U guys kno a source?

Also!

Rockdon urs

Just reminding

Told Orchard 2

🦹🏼*♀️🦹🏼*♀️ 2 of us now!





😩 u caught me

Creepin 👀👀

GG n I are busy tho

Least this week!

Sweet parties 💯💯

GG needs a costume

And ya’ll need social!

Wanna go Halvesies on a project?

Maybe with Broker?

Deeeeeeeet below



LONG TERM PROJECT: Social Media Dominance

Requirements:
20 SOC
10 TECH
8 ESP

Establishing and cornering the Social Media Market in Salsdale. Has the following effects:

Sweet costumes - Parahumans count as 1 SOC each for preventing PRT intervention

A BRAND - Base Parahuman capture chance to 0% for heists. PRT or Police Capture Chance lowered to 1 Turn

A Following - Once per turn each faction involved may take a brand deal, converting 2 of any Stat or 4 SOC to ECON at 1:1



Ps. I kno ur readin this Cicada, so get in on dis if you want I guess. But I think it’s gonna cost more with 4





OmG 💃🏻😫💦

Ur the best

👗👙👠👚

I pitched a plan to the 👼🏻🩸

Ur in it 2

See below



LONG TERM PROJECT: Social Media Dominance

Requirements:
20 SOC
10 TECH
8 ESP

Establishing and cornering the Social Media Market in Salsdale. Has the following effects:

Sweet costumes - Parahumans count as 1 SOC each for preventing PRT intervention

A BRAND - Base Parahuman capture chance to 0% for heists. PRT or Police Capture Chance lowered to 1 Turn

A Following - Once per turn each faction involved may take a brand deal, converting 2 of any Stat or 4 SOC to ECON at 1:1







OMg I want it

Ur new house is so nice

😫💦

GG is cool

U should go north and get rid of the APL

They sketch <3






Quik update

Cicada takin' Rockdon <3

I made a friend

Name's GG

<3 <3 gonna take her out for a spin on the weekend!

[Hamste]

The Broker

Loyalty 6
Social Connections 7

Pleasure to hear from you Jackson,
If I was to just to send the money I plan to spend at the market in exchange for store credit as proof of how much I make, along with the social connections would it be possible to have the pass ready for the next sale?


Offering to basically guarantee I will spend the remaining money with the difference being held by them for turn 3 if I don't buy enough for some reason. That way they are guaranteed to get the money they want earlier than when they would have otherwise and I can get the pass for the next sale and not have to wait another turn.





👍 Glad u liked it.
Got a deal with the 🏪🦹 for our 💳
gd to w8 ⏰??
C Below
Can invest 3 social, 1 technology and 1 espionage so less than half of the required amount for our third and then hopefully finish it after that.




Would have loved to by the strength but unfortunately a bit busy negotiating with the black market right now. If the deal is still open for next time, we would most likely be open.


Sounds good to us.


If you plan to do more cooperative auctions, please keep us in mind. We are always quite interested in them.

[Writtensanity]

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We would be honored to take an advanced purchase, and will try to arrange something available for purchase that is agreeable to your tastes.

[Writtensanity]

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This weekend would go down in Salsdale history.

Friday evening started pretty calm, the girls of the Dream Team moved into the Suburbs of Milton, using social contacts there and a small show of Gravity Girl and Headline to get everyone under the age of 18 there under their thumb. The Broker bought most of Janax Street. Cicada operatives swept through Olan Cross and lined the right pockets.

By Friday night the Remnants of Bolting were showing up in South Vander, throwing people against the walls and calling on every member of the old gag that had gone into hiding. The Unshadowed ran through Highbrook with Brass at the helm. The city was tense, and in a small panic.

Then Bloodmist appeared in North Vander Saturday afternoon and the fires started around the Salsdale Pacific Centre. Yalman street became a carnival of screams as citizens were terrorized into submission. The fighting continued with the last shreds of resistance finally dying down by the crack of Dawn Sunday.

For half a second, Salsdale took a breath and stock of their situation, lots of places under new management, and word was starting to get around town as to who you ‘lived under’ Things were starting to feel like the ‘new normal’. Salsdale had been under Bolting before, and at least none of these people had the power to destroy an entire building.

Sunday, evening. The first sounds of whisling jet engines came over town and the collective feeling in Salsdale was ‘what now?’
PRT Dropships tore through the clouds and several parahumans jumped off. People on the border of Blacker South said they heard the PRT members call out ‘Mike?’ and incinerate anyone who responded.

Minutes later an electric fence was put up and kill teams went out into the city looking for copies of Forequest. Signs up: He was an S Class Threat. He could not be left alone. All Forequests would be eliminated and the host would be sent to the Bird Cage.

Fires broke out, blood spilled across the ground as Blacker South become an absolute battleground, with PRT ship after PRT ship coming for dropoff.


After news spread of the weekend that Salsdale had, several of the dropships diverted to other locations. The Glen, Orchard Territory, the SPC, FEY Territory and Lily Garden, Bloodborne territory.

Whispers spread around the Police force about a possible arrival for the Remnant’s of Bolting, but the chief admits it’s not coming. They had bought immunity with the members of the other gang’s they’d handed over during the parade. They had a freebie and they were using it.

The PRT was here for Forequest, and it was going to be a long week for Salsdale.



The ‘New Parahumans’ section is a touch delayed by me making this so fast after midturn. It will be here once I have finalized recruitment with the Factions who found someone.



----
GLOBAL EVENT: A Human Plague


Michale Forequests are all around the city, even outside of the PRT killzone. Maybe you might be able to make a friend of the PRT by finding and eliminating some of the Forequests in the city.

During MIDTURN: Facitons may contribute to the ‘Elimination of Forequest’ event with STR, SOC or ESP.

IF FACTIONS COLLECTIVELY CONTRIBUTE 50 POINTS OR MORE:

All Contributing factions will get rewarded by the PRT

The Faction that contributes the most will get a special reward from the PRT

The PRT will leave Salsdale with mission complete.


IF FACTIONS FAIL TO CONTRIBUE 50 POINTS OR MORE:

All contributing factions will get rewarded by the PRT

The PRT INTERVENTION CHANCE for the next turn is TRIPLED

THE PRT will become an NPC in Salsdale



STAT EVENT: A SOLUTION



You can only contribute to this solution if you have Tech 4 of above.

A Mike arrives on your door. Mike doesn’t want to die. He doesn’t want the PRT to find him. He just wanted to be safe and have his cat. If you, the brilliant minds with the best access to the weird in the city, can figure out how to limit his power. He promises to work with your forever.

IF HIGH TECH FACTIONS CONTRIBUTE MORE THAN 20 TECH COLLECTIVELY

All Contributing Factions gain a 1 ESP Parahuman called Forequest

IF HIGH TECH FACTIONS CONTRBUTE LESS THAN 20 TECH:

The cure is out of reach and you’re out of time. No reward.

IF HIGH TECH FACTIONS CONTRUIBUTE MORE THAN 20 TECH and the event ‘A Human Plague’ fails.

The PRT is still around looking for Forequest, but there are more of them around. Gain a second 1 ESP Parahuman called Forequest. PRT intervention chance for Factions ‘hiding’ a Forequest doubled.




LOCAL EVENT: A Tight Squeeze




Up in the North Part of Salsdale it’s suddenly become very crowded. As Factions scramble to get their lines and borders in order there are some complications with the logistics of villainy, though some may be closer to opportunities.

- It’s hard to arrange your Faction into a proper attacking formation in such a chaotic environment: Assault counts as 10 less.

- The local businesses are booming with so much being bought and spent around the city. You can support them more: You may pay 3 ECON during Mid Turn to raise any stat by 1.

- There will be a North heist this turn during Mid Turn





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[Murska]

Unshadowed
Loyalty 4

Unshadowed to F.E.Y.

Hello,

I see you're doing well for yourself. As for us, well, Forequest shouldn't be an issue anymore. Hopefully we can get the PRT to declare mission accomplished and go home, soon.

We'll be taking Tech Park this week, as well as helping hunt down the last Forequests. We'll be thankful for any assistance in the latter.

Good luck in your crusade.

Dissent

Unshadowed to Orchard

Greetings,

We had a bit of an issue with Forequest acting threateningly, but that problem should be over with now. If you want to help ensure the PRT doesn't set up shop, catching the last Forequests would be great - I don't think you'd be spared their attention for long if they remained in Salsdale for long.

I trust our deal regarding Tech Park still stands. We're moving in with some extra force this week, making sure no-one has any bright ideas about who the territory belongs to.

Thank you,
Dissent

[St. Justicar]

F.E.Y.

Loyalty 5
Social Connection 5



Morning,

We very much want the jackboots to give a happy speech and leave as soon as possible, and will be doing our part.

Happy to give steer clear of the Tech Park, provided you can commit to leaving Blacker South to us once the PRT clears out.

On another note, our recent expansion has left us flush with cash but in need of a little technical expertise. You’re new cape would be very helpful, or just whatever toys you have lying around. Thoughts?

Best,





Good Morning,

It seems like we have an opportunity in common. Personally, I think it would be a shame to let it go to waste. Thoughts?

Nothing too specific, given how many people are reading your mail. Just a yes or no, maybe an idea of what you’ll commit.

Best,





Hello there, I do hope my favourite conspiracy of influence-peddling insects had a lovely weekend.

I’ll try very hard not to take up too much of your time today. The last few days have left with some very generous donations from local businesses, but in a rather dire need of anyone technical. Since you’re such entrepreneurial types, you’d seemed like a natural fit to reach out to. Do you think there’s any sort of deal to be made?

-Spotlight





Morning,

Your last message arrived a bit late, though I agree with your target. Though wouldn’t you say helping the PRT along with theirs is the higher priority?

Best,





Morning,

You don’t know me, so I’ll be brief.

It seems like we all have some concrete reasons for wanting the PRT gone as soon as possible. Unless either of you have an army you’re hiding, fighting doesn’t seem like a winning idea. Giving them what they want and getting them out of here does.

Thoughts?

[Murska]

Unshadowed to F.E.Y. (Loy 4)

Hmm. Blacker South. Well, I suggest that since both of us want the fuzz out, whichever of us contributes most towards that gets the territory.

As for the tinker, we can sell our toys and his time to you for building projects, nothing risky or it's extra cost. But we don't want to be helping Forequest with this, understand?

((OOC: Offer: Whichever of us spends more to help get the PRT out gets Blacker South. I don't intend to be spending huge amounts, since I'm sending a significantly overstrength force to take Tech Park, so it's more an incentive for you to at least put something on the job.

Also, 5 Econ for the Tech 2 parahuman and my 1 Tech point, assuming the parahuman isn't going to be attacking anyone or going on a heist (negotiable) and the points aren't spent to help Forequest.))

[Writtensanity]

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“And nowhere to run,” a member of the Remnants of Bolting said as the man backed into a corner. He’d fired two shots off at the Bolting gang as they came in, but he’d never used the gun before. Both shots went wide and did nothing but piss off the Remnants.

“Hey, look I got money,” the man said, pulling out his wallet and chucking it at the thug’s feet. The thug bent down and snatched the wallet before shoving it in his pocket.

“Payments due again at the end of the month.” The thug growled and grabbed the shotgun from the man, “and this is ours now.”


———

Klay surveyed the New Bringam wall. The Playground had paid handsomely to keep the Remnants out of New Bringam, and we’re going to continue to rent it from the Remnants. That being said, they hadn’t moved in yet, and that, well that was a reason to turn her wall of clay into a battering ram.

She’d just been on the phone with the Police chief as the PRT flew into town, making sure their deal stood. It would have been nice to hold onto her little “get out of jail free” card. Throw some punches, break some teeth and then cash in the favour they’d earned at the parade. But things weren’t that easy.

Bolting has been a bitch, but she’d made things easy. When Bolting was around the answer to every question was “send a threat.” It had worked for two years and then the PRT just up and decided enough was enough.

Klay sighed and pulled out her phone, there were things to coordinate, rules to set, and Meek was still nursing a bullet wound.


All Messages Sent at Loyalty 7



Subject: Alls well that ends well

Good Afternoon, this is Klay. Looks like we’re on opposite sides of the Riot line.

Look, I got no love for the PRT, but I think it’d be best for the both of us if we shoo’d them out of here sooner rather than later. It’s getting real crowded up North, and it’ll be good to have some easy land to capture before those other groups start looking below the river.

So, time for some charity. We’ll put in a bunch of resources to wiping our Forequest if you will. Not like either of us liked the guy.

Let us know,

Klay






Cicada. I take it you’re not offering the same deal this week. Gotta day turning the Playground from an adversary to bank account padding was mostly thanks to you.

We’d pay again for the privilege.

Klay.






You’re in North Vander now.

We got a deal with the Playground to avoid New Bringam.

Wanna make a deal to avoid me sendin’ four hundred men at your border? Always had a soft spot for that part of town.

We take cash.



The Remnants of Bolting are demanding 4 ECON to leave you alone in North Vander






The following is a Voice Mail, the Voice is Clearly not Klay

Rent’s due, even if you ain’t livin’ in the area, we ain’t and that’s what you’re paying for.

Klay says the other option would be ta let us through your territory to get up in FEY’s space. Take out two birds with one stone.

Klay also says that ya should help the PRT track down Forequest. Need em outta the city.

Have a good day.

[Writtensanity]

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“Ugh that’s totes so annoying,” Headline whines as the screams from Yalman street echoed up through Milton, “can someone call D and tell him to use more sedative?!”

Gravity Girl was texting a friend and wasn’t about to volunteer to reach out to Orchard for Headline. the Villainess had somehow figured out a working relationship between the cotton candy of the Dream Team and the flesh horror of Orchard, but Gravity Girl wasn’t going to try to figure out how.

“I got friends around Yelman street,” Hailey mentioned from the couch, she was doing a facial mask. Headline had a small group of girls over every night, helped the perception that they were all besties.

“I gave em a list,” Headline offered, “Mr. D knows the peeps to leave alone. It’s like, 100 fine. We Gucci.”

“Ugh, Cicada is so lame,” Jenn said from beside Hailey. She’d taken the cucumber slice off her left eye so she could text. “Millie said she ain’t even seen em around Rockdon.”

“They’re probably not taking it,” Gravity Girl pointed out.

“When I said I wouldn’t I assumed they would,” Headline said, “the point wasn’t to leave the girls there with nobody to look up to.”

There was a small explosion from Yalman again.

“Jesus Christ,” Headline cursed before slamming the window shut and turning up the “Lowfi Beats to be a Villain to” by Dissonance.


All messages sent at Loyalty 6



👋🏻
👍🏻🏪🏢
🙌🤝👩🏼*💻
💯
👨*💼👨*💼👨*💼👨*💼👨*💼?

To Media Manager this reads:
Hey!
Nice new place
Thanks for ur help
100%
Wat about Forequest?





Ugh

U didn’t take Rockdon 😩

I wanna help my gurls there

Boo

Not like a 👻

Do it :)

Or let me take

🌳🌳🌳 is 🔊🔊🔊

Ugh

Wat u think bout Forequest?

PRT are squares 👨🏻*🔬🧑🏻*🔬

K bye





🌳🌳🌳 is 🔊🔊🔊

Get em boy 🐶🐶





Hay

Cutie

U didn’t put anything into plan :(

I was gonna get u so many followers

Wat gives? 🤷🏼*♀️

K bye

[Murska]

Unshadowed to Remnants of Bolting (Loy 4)

Yeah, we'll be making sure our territory is clean. I'd really rather not have the PRT sitting next door, bad for business.

We can work together to clean up the rest of the neighbourhood after the cops pack up and go home.

Brass

[Let'sGetKraken]

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I'm afraid that we don't have enough to make it worth your while. Keep us in mind if you have any non-technological needs.




We’re working on Rockdon, don’t worry. We’ll have assumed responsibility for it shortly, but we had already come to an agreement; Olan Cross was more pressing at the time.


Glad that our deal seems to have worked out.


Incidentally, we are interested in this social media endeavor you mentioned last week, if there is still room.

Winking face smiley face cash cash cash cell phone radio heart






Apologies for the delayed response, but we agree. The Remnants of Bolting need to go - we have no intention of providing them with our services again. They are too violent and volatile.

Let us know if you require any of our services.






It seems that we find ourselves neighbors. We would very much like to develop a working relationship with you - to be blunt, you are rather well-connected, and we would rather have you as a client or ally than a rival.

Additionally, we are presented with a unique opportunity. The Remnants of Bolting have approached us and asked for us to provide them with information on their neighbors this week. As they damaged our operation at the parade last week, we have a less than favourable opinion of them. For a modest sum, we are willing to feed them misinformation on your dealings. Let us know if you are interested.





We are presented with a unique opportunity. The Remnants of Bolting have approached us and asked for us to provide them with information again. As they damaged our operation at the parade last week, we have a less than favourable opinion of them. For a modest sum, we are willing to feed them misinformation on your dealings.

[Hamste]

The Broker
Loyalty 8
Social Connections 7

Pleasure doing business with you. I'm glad we could come to a deal. Jack says while smiling towards the man.

I'm glad as well. It was quite a deal you offered. The man smiles widely as he finishes signing and picks up a large briefcase full of money as he walks back to his business to continue business as usual only under new management.

Deal done, Jack goes to one of his new clubs to celebrate finally buying up the last of the businesses.


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Translation:
Hello,
You are welcome
How is the project going so far?
Get rid of Forequest,
It's a trap. Open yourself and soon everyone will be Forequest.
See attached for idea


If you want to stop Forequest and depending on how much social connections we need for the project and what is being sold/heists we can give you the social connections we would have invested in finding Forequest in exchange for a split of the loot. Together our chances of getting that special reward is much higher than if we individually did.

[GameOfChampions]

Bloodborne
Loy 9
Soc 7


Hey neighbor

We would gladly like to develop a working relationship with you and honestly we respect a group with a solid media presence. Shows they think long term.

We would be really down for the deal but all our cash is spoken for this turn. We had to use a chunk of it on a recent addition to the brotherhood and the rest is needed for the ****storm coming down on us this week.

However we really want to stick it to the damn Remnants. Would you be open tot he idea of delayed gratification? Beyond the immediate gratification of screwing over some cocky bastards that is. We plan on taking over Donner Grove this week and we could forward you the cash we make taking that.

3 Eco from taking it next turn for the info mess around if your interested?

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Srry Dreamy
Got soooooo bsy last week
new bestie on the team, getting him shredded for ya ;)
he gettin there

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gang too busy for awesome soc media thing you pitched us
PRT ruining all the fun this week too.
u gettin in on that? maybe we can do it together.
maybe next week we can meet up and talk dets for bitching project?

Also the big man wanted to ask what u grls are doing about the PRT/Forequest thing?
U gonna get in on the PRT roundup?


I can see why you would have a soft spot. Place is pretty nice.

Well if you want to keep those 400 men then maybe you should sweeten the deal unless you wants their bodies returned to you full of holes and drowned in blood.

Don't **** with us. We bowed down to Bolting but we sure as hell aren't doing that to her damn remnants. If you want to pay nice then you can go mess around somewhere else, leave us out of it... before you regret it.


Hey,

We have an army but not one we want to send up against the PRT. I'm down for this and was already planning on getting involved. We can put the full force of our onine presence and some of our spotters into getting them out.

Miasma
Can put in 7 or 8 points of Soc and Esp for getting rid of Forequest Event.

[St. Justicar]

F.E.Y.

Loyalty 5
Social Connections 5



Oh, no-one does, which is really rather the problem. This city’s tragically behind the times-and I’m saying that!

But we’re willing to trade for the scraps you have, at a reasonable rate of course.

-Spotlight





That’s quite the premium. We might still take you up on it, but it does depend on what other opportunities present themselves.

Not opposed to the deal, but are we just trusting each other’s word? I’m not sure the heroes are going to provide spreadsheets.

Best,





Excellent. We’ll be committing about the same. Hopefully the rest of the city can pull their weight as well.

On an unrelated note, at the moment I have a few briefcases full of cash and an urgent need for technical experts. I know you’re not exactly the most well equipped, but I’d be happy to work out a deal for what you do have.

Best,

[Murska]

Unshadowed to F.E.Y. (Loy 4)

Well, my policy is to take people at their word until they prove they aren't worth the trust.

Honestly, we'll need most of our people at home anyway, so as long as you say you're putting in a real effort we'll chalk it up to you, okay?

[Writtensanity]

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Good evening Patrons.

We have a special item up for Auction this week. This is an item that may be available during other times as a 'buy' but due to the circumstances of Salsdale right now, we believe a special order can be arranged.


The Auction Item this week:

PRT PROTECTION


PRT Protection has 2 uses.

1. Once every 3 turns you may prevent the first instance of 'PRT Intervention'

2. It is one of the items needed to win the game via the 'Buyout Victory'




Please let us know your bids privately, all who do not win the item will get their offers returned.


Black Market Buys


You may buy 1 ECON and 1 LOYALTY / FEAR for 7 ECON.

You may buy a Communications Jammer for 6 ECON.


The Communications Jammer allows for 1 message to be sent each turn with Loyalty:???


You may buy an Electrical Defense Grid for 5 ECON



Once prepared, the Electrical Defence Grid raises your defence in the firsts conquest action against you by 10. It is destroyed after once use and may be repaired with Tech.




For our esteemed Patrons. You may purchase a Small Teleportation Device for 5 ECON



A small teleportation device allows for you to treat one heist of a faction that you do not share a border with as if you shared a border. (You may look at other Faction's Heists as long as you have the teleportation device available so you may make a decision.

[Writtensanity]

Into the Hornet’s Nest

Word spread quickly around Salsdale. One of the PRT vehicles that had landed in the containment zone wasn’t a dropship, or a gunship....

It was a prisoner carrier, and it was full.

Someone in that prisoner carrier needed an escort so badly, that they’d kept him with the escort when they’d been called to deal with Forequest.

Of course the PRT was distracted now, if someone could slip in there and release the fugitive, they’d likely be willing to join the people who showed up as a get-out-of-jail free card.



Into the Hornet’s Nest is Dangerous with primarily ESP requirements. Both ESP and STR are needed for completion.

There is no secondary condition for Into the Hornet’s Nest.

The winner of Into the Hornet’s Nest will recruit a powerful parahuman. (Parahuman recruitment is automatic. No rolls needed)

Parahumans cannot be injured or killed during Into the Hornet’s Nest. If they would be Injured or Killed they are instead captured by the PRT faction.




Local Heists

All Heists set to Loyalty ??? Until numbers are added



Yalmen Street:

Newly under your control, there is still one place you haven’t been able to crack. The storage facility on the corner of Yalmen and Bank. If you send muscle there, you could convince them to open up a few lockers for you.

Requirements: 6 STR

Reward: Stat Cap Increased by 4

The Glen

The PRT is here, but they’ve left some toys lying around that you might be able to steal. Of course you’ve got to be quiet about it.


Requirements: 5 ESP

Reward: Unidentified PRT technology





The Trainyards

The PRT have had some equipment shipped into town. For you, it’s just about gathering recon to figure out what train it’s on, where it’s going, and who would pay you to buy it.

Requirements: 5 ESP

Reward: 6 Temp Econ





Unfortunately, the Broker’s business practices have left the area stable.

NO HEISTS ROLLED





Kallanaire

A small tech startup has shown up in the area and a recruit let you know about an article that was written about them. Cyber security. Specifically specializing in encryption.

If you could “convince” them to part with their research it would be a powerful asset.

Requirements: 5 STR + 2 ESP

Reward: Communications Tapper (All messages but ??? messages can be read by you next turn.)





It’s amazing how much a little marketing can do. Just outside of town a vigilante who wants to get into the PRT has challenged the members of FEY to a recorded fight!

Requirements: Parahuman

Rewards:

Automatic: +1 SOC

If Fight Won: Raising SOC is 1 cheaper this turn end

If Fight Lost: Parahuman sent on mission is injured.





The Historic Properties

Someone might be moving back to town and trying to set up shop as a new villain. The locals from the Unshadowed know the type. Break his crew as he arrives to convince him that working with you is better than trying to be something new.

Requirements: 6 STR

Reward: Parahuman Recruitment Chance





The Playground’s meticulous control of the area has left things quiet this week.

NO HEISTS ROLLED






The eye of the PRT is specifically focused South at the moment, focused on capturing Forequests and elimination them, which leaves the North with a golden opportunity to break out some criminals who have been taken in by the cops in the past months before Bolting was dethroned.

Operation Breakout is Simple

Operation Breakout Rewards 2 Strength to the winner.

[Murska]

Unshadowed to the Broker (Loy 4)

There's plenty of good stuff at the Market, but our budget is limited enough we'll just be taking one or two choice picks. This leaves our budget with a little bit of spare cash - to the tune of (2 ECO). Would you be interested in providing us with hired muscle in exchange? (3 STR)

[Hamste]

The Broker
Loyalty 8
Social connections 7


Hello, we are sending a message to you in regards to the auction. Given your operation's chances of having the PRT annoy you and your relative wealth we were wondering if you would be interested in a joint bid for the PRT protection. We will own the technology but given the unlikely nature of the PRT bothering us, we use it to stop any PRT that try to stop you. You get the benefit of buying a hard to acquire item and we get the leverage on the PRT we want.




It sounds good to us, we didn't have any plans for it particularly and we can always use more money. We need the money right away so if you join us on a joint bid for the auction with your 2 economy that works. We will also need assurance of additional compensation if any of our guards die you will either replace them or give us the the resources to replace them.

Trades happen at the end of the midturn meaning I wouldn't be able to use the economy for buying from the black market. You can assist in auctions so just join my bid with a conditional that if we are outbid, we get the economy. Similarly if you need the strength for a heist we can "assist" otherwise the strength comes in after midturn.

[Murska]

Unshadowed to the Broker (4 Loy)

We can do that. Your men would be mostly for show, we'll keep them out of harm's way.

OOC: (Sure, I'll add to your bid. We can get the STR from you for the end-turn, I have enough of my own to substitute for the things I want done mid-turn.)

Unshadowed to the Black Market (4 Loy)

Hello,

We're thinking of purchasing the package of (1 ECO and 1 LOY), but with a small part of our finances busy with previous commitments we'd like to ask if you'd be amenable to a solution where we pay (6 ECO) now and the remainder at the end of the week, or alternatively substitute the remaining portion of the money with some useful contacts (1 SOC)?

Thank you kindly,
Dissent

[GameOfChampions]

Bloodborne
Loy 9
Soc 8

Greetings

We know you have powerful forces at your disposal and if you are interested we know of a possible heist you may be interested in. We will send you the details. We only ask for some cash if you are interested in it.

Permission to read the heist and then do it if you pay 2 Eco




We know that high tech is not a big thing with you lot but we know of something that could help you in the future to target the heists of any enemies you may have. Check it out and if you are interested then let us know. We only ask for some cash.

Permission to read the heist and then do it if you pay 2 Eco.



Hey guuuurl
You interested in a bitchin heist??
We too busy to do it but you lot could rock it!
Drop us a wad of cash and you got our go ahead.

Permission to read the heist and then do it if you pay 2 Eco.



Hey neighber

You have your fingers in many pies and we know that you like keeping abreast. We have knowledge of a heist that could help. If your interested in it then we will send the info. In return for doing it though we ask for some cash.

Che k out the heist and if you want to do it then send over 2 Eco.

[Let'sGetKraken]

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Hey guuuuurl

Recursion here. Big fan. Swiped Impostor's phone when she wasn't looking. She's a bit uptight but she's good people, you know?

Look, thinking about the PRT and everything - is it worthwhile getting them to go? Just saying. Having them there could keep the heat off people like the two of us. Might be worth just letting whatever happens happen, you know?

Food for thought. Love your stuff. We should definitely "collaborate" sometime, if you know what I mean. My stuff just keeps going and going :smallwink:





We appreciate your offer, but unfortunately it isn't suited to our strengths.

Something to consider - do you really want the PRT gone? It seems to us like conflict in the south benefits the north.

A token contribution to their efforts will buy you the same reward as investing everything in securing their departure, after all.





Greetings to our new almost-neighbors. We've seen your correspondence with the Unshadowed - well, their half of it, at least - and we have a proposition for you.

Let the PRT stay. They're no threat to you, with the Unshadowed, F.E.Y, and the Remnants of Bolting as a buffer. Conflict in the south means that those factions - to whom we have no ill will, of course - will have a higher-priority target to deal with while you can solidify your position. Seems to me like it benefits the north.

A token contribution to their efforts will buy you the same reward as investing everything in securing their departure.

Just something to consider.





Greetings.

As you are men of business, we will be direct. Let the PRT stay. Their presence will ensure that your rivals in the south - the Unshadowed, F.E.Y. - are kept occupied with a new threat. They'll triumph, of course, but it will slow them down - and more importantly to you, they cannot wage a war on two fronts. Gives you time to secure your position. A token investment earns you the same reward from them, after all.

Just something to consider.





In addition to our earlier offer, we'd like to point out that the PRT's existence in Salsdale could very well keep the Remnants of Bolting distracted. I highly encourage you to not invest in their departure. The Remnants of Bolting likely cannot wage a war on two fronts, after all.





We know that you have access to our communications, so we simply want to point out that our suggestions are in no way personal. In fact, we do enjoy your cause considerably - from a distance, naturally. We're sure that you and the Unshadowed and the Remnants of Bolting can take down the PRT with a modest amount of effort.

Keep us in mind for any future business.

Oh, and should the PRT remain, we're willing to offer you a token amount as our way of saying "no hard feelings".

All the best.

[3SecondCultist]

Orchard
Fear 11

You sound like reasonable people, but what you're suggesting is inviting an active threat to our entire business model to live on our front doorstep. Between you and me, the PRT has already hit the Glen and caused tremendous damage to certain aspects of our operation. We have no intention on keeping them around for a repeat performance.

For all that we may be determined to see either side of this issue, Orchard - and this goes for me personally, I want to be clear on that - has a lot of respect for the way that you do business. You've handled yourselves professionally and we can see ourselves working alongside you for a while. To that end, we are hoping to continue our arrangement. We plan on sending some similar resources to the Trainyards to be collected by your people.

- Mr. Root

While I'm definitely investing into the 'No PRT' group fund, I am hoping to continue the deal of 1 Tech for information about anyone discussing Orchard or plotting against me. I'll be sending that to you this Midturn; maybe you can use it to get yourself a nice shiny 1 ESP Forequest.
This is certainly a pleasant surprise. We have been admiring your business acumen and modus operandi from afar, and coming from me, I've gotta say that Orchard is impressed. You have some powerful capes on your roster, and we hope to arrange a meeting in closer proximity at some point in the future.

For now though, we unfortunately have to pass on your offer. While it's tempting to be able to read everyone's mail, Orchard is too stretched thin at the moment to pass up the resources to help you take full advantage of your opportunity. We wish you the best of luck though, and maybe we can discuss further business in the future!
It's a shame; the device currently up for grabs would be a nifty little trinket to have in our back pocket, should the need arise. However, the long delay between uses is not enough of a guarantee of safety to be a suitable return on our initial investment. You're a businessman like me, I'm sure you understand.

All the same, we're happy that you thought of us. Orchard has big plans for Salsdale, and I'm personally hoping that you will stick around to be a big part of them.
Hello again,

I hope this finds you well. I'm sending you this message to follow up on our conversations last week about our dealings. We suspect that we'll be facing opposition soon, so we would really appreciate the men and other resources that we agreed on. Furthermore, we may cash in our marker for some of your capes next week.

- Mr. D

Officially asking for that 3 Str and 3 Fear that we made a deal for to be traded this Midturn.
We're on the same page, I think. You can expect Orchard to be a big part of the push against the PRT in this city along with you (and I suspect the Unshadowed and the Bloodborne at least).

Yeah, I have absolutely no desire to keep the PRT around. I'll be investing 10 points of combined STR, ESP, and SOC in order to get rid of them. How much are you planning on putting into the pot? If each faction invests 10, we should be close to the goal.
Hello again,

You know, I was wondering about our proposed plan to meet up for a demonstration, and was wondering if there exists a more suitable target than annoying teenage brats who consider themselves overlords. If your people were to move in on their Milton territory, you would certainly get your opportunity. Meanwhile, you and I can organize trades to our mutual advantage, since you seem like reasonable people and we would like nothing less than to see you clean up the other parahumans in the northern districts.

Anyhow, let me know what you think! Also, I would consider it a professional courtesy if you were to avoid talking to anyone about this. We plan on employing Cicada to go through any messages that might contain any reference to Orchard, so if you tip off the girls of our intentions, we'll know it was you. We're definitely not going to share this with anyone else.

- Mr. D
Hey grl, how's it goin? 🤗

Just lettin u kno that we r gonna stay put rn! No need to call on ya. 😘⏱

May not be ❤️, but we can deal 4 💵💎🏠. Wanna hit APL and take their stuff 💸💸💸? Gross pigs 🐷🤮. Plz stay 🤫
Your assumption is correct. Orchard is greatly invested in seeing the PRT gone, so we'll be committing a large portion of our resources to getting rid of Forequest and removing any reason for them to be here permanently. Nobody who can genuinely call themselves a crook would ever invite that kind of supervision. By our knowledge, F.E.Y. and the Bloodborne will likely be joining the effort to see them gone, but it might not be enough. Still, never let it be said that we were too afraid of a thing to try it.

As far as Tech Park goes, it's all yours. You have no reason to believe this yet, but Orchard doesn't break its agreements (at least when it's practical and convenient not to do so). You and F.E.Y. can fight it out for the southern districts of the city; our ambitions lie elsewhere.

[Writtensanity]

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Paying us at the end of the week would be agreeable, but we would provide the service upon receipt of the full payment.

OOC: You would get stats at Eot





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RESERVED FOR EMOJI TYPING ON THE PHONE

OOC:

We're not helping Forequest
We're gonna let the PRT stay
We're totes popular
so no cops
hearts





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No heist tho,
We can read everything
eyes tired
sleep!
u want the PRT out right?






I like imposter :) she's funny

probls gonna help but not

dont' want the girls too close






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There are no letters of messages sent out, but the walls that spring up between Bloodborne and Bolting Territory turn into cruel spikes.



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We are prepared to provide services in exchange for your TECH. It will be put into the acquisition of Forquest. We would be taking the version that promised themselves to you as well.







We are prepared to offer services in exchange for your contribution to a project we're working on.

Any resource but TECH or STR for TECH 1:1.

Have a good evening.

[GameOfChampions]

Bloodborne
Loy 9
Soc 7

Ha!

Easy for you to say. Your territories lie only in the north but most of mine is not. The PRT would be on me in a month at most if not faster.

I want then gone not a swinging sword over my head and if you look at the longterm you would too.


All who live in Salsdale. Do we truly want the eye of the PRT on our town at this time? Messing in our business? Fighting us in the streets? Pressuring us day and night?

I sure as hell don't.

There is nothing to be gained by keeping them here on their hunt for Forequest. I say give them what they want so we can be free once more!


fuk ya we want those pigs outa here.
Give em the weirdos.

[Murska]

Unshadowed to Black Market (Loy 4)

How about (6 ECO and 2 SOC) immediately, so as to get access to the goods immediately as well?

[Writtensanity]

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This is agreeable

[Writtensanity]

A storm consumed Wednesday in Salsdale. Rain poured across the city and turned streets into a winding series of rivers.

Boots hit the ground at the back of the PRT line. Forequest had breached the barrier on the North side, and it gave a chance for the expertly trained men of the APL to breach the South end and make a push for the prison transport that had flown into the city.

The rain hid their footsteps as they danced around the PRT line, slipping a small team into the base proper of the PRT. Of course, the rain was simply helping the cloaking devices that Output had made for them. Anyone who wasn't looking for them wasn't going to be able to see them.

The prison carrier was ahead, locked. The lead agent motioned for the breach team to move forward, and three men slipped up to the carrier, affixing a charge to the door. One of them pounded on the door and yelled for the person inside to stay back. They didn't need blood on their hands if someone was going to be willing to work with them. Parahumans caused so much pain, but they could be useful…

Three. The breach team took cover.

Two. The leader pulled down his mask for the meeting.

One. There was a girly shriek in the background.

Boom.

A hail of gunfire from the 'empty' PRT vehicles followed the explosion. The APL leader dove down as the explosion echoed around the area, bullets splashed into the puddles around him, and he crawled along the ground until he could get a good look at their source.
Pink costume, pig tails, and a gun that didn't really need aimingm "Dream Team!" the leader called out to get their attention and inform his men.

"Love from Headline!" the girl giggled and turned the gun that was half her size towards the leader's cover.

"Are you kidding me?" the man growled. Headline was sending literal little girls into the PRT zone, knowing that nothing would happen if they were caught, but the APL wasn't going to play nice, some of his men were already dead.

The strike leader spun around the front of the car and raised his weapon, firing off a single bullet that slammed into the girl's chest. She dropped the gun first, then crumpled on top of the car, dropping like a rock.
"Grab the package and let's get out of here!" the strike leader called out into the darkness over the gunfire. They didn't have time to fight, and the last thing they needed was a story about them killing a group of girls in PRT territory.

The breach team ran from their cover to the carrier and peered inside. Smoke poured out of the carrier, and the far door had been blown clear off. After half a second of confusion, there was a slight cough to their right.

Suddenly the dancing gunfire around the area twisted and contorted into a melodic beat, which raised to an impossible volume and erupted out from the prison carrier. The men went flying as waves of sound crashed around.

"God, that feels good!" Dissonance shouted as she pulled herself out of the car. "You know you didn't all need to show up for me."

Sirens started to cover the area, and Dissonance waved a gloved hand over her head. The sound of the sirens weaved into her aura, pulses of sound blocked bullets, and broke barriers.

"You know," Dissonance continued, "fighting ain't my thing. Thanks for the breakout, but I'm not sticking around to get caught again," the girl shrugged and started off in a run.

"CATCH HER!" the Strike leader shouted, but gunfire from more of the Dream Team kept him locked down.

The two sides would be locked in combat for the next half hour, while Dissonance disappeared into the night.

THE APL and DREAM TEAM tie

Dissonance [ECON 2 PARAHUMAN] escapes and is at large in the city. She can be recruited by factions during turn end.

The Dream Team loses some of their girls to the PRT and takes 2 ESP damage.

The APL lose precious technical marvels as men are captured and take 2 TECH damage.


The Auction


The Black Market representatives thank the Unshadowed for their contribution to the cause, and quickly forward the Broker details about the PRT representatives in the area. They have debts. Debts that only someone like the Broker can really pay.

The Broker leans back in his chair, a three thousand dollar glass of champagne in his right hand. Those men weren’t going to attack him… they owed him too much money now….

The BROKER has bought PRT protection: Win condition 1/3 for the BUYOUT victory.



Uncontested, Cicada breaks the prisoners out with brutal efficiency. They join their roster. The may be out of place in the larger organization of Cicada, but Salsdale has proved to be a place where muscle talks.
CICADA + 2 STR



A Human Plague

Jackal didn’t want to be back in Salsdale already. It was easier to forget how ****ed the cities he left were when he didn’t come back, but Forequest had overstepped his bounds and now he had a thousand clones to put down, each one of them a person who’s mind was eaten.

Over the course of the week token help arrived from Factions around the city. Tips from Cicada, paid detectives from the Broker. The Bloodborne held a massive rally and turned on anyone who responded to the word ‘Mike’, they brought the PRT a small pile of bodies and cages.

Then Jackal woke up on Thursday, after an embarrassing breakout in their containment zone. To a hundred Forequests tranquilized and shoved into shipping containers. Orchard’s logo on the side.

Two hours later there was news that the Remnants had chased dozens of Forequests into the river and forced them to stay there until they drowned. Cruel but it worked and there was a kill order.

A message came from the Playground in the evening. A code to open an electric containment device in their territory. It was filled with Forequests when they got there.
Jackal ran the numbers, they were close, but there were still Forequest signatures around the city. Maybe, just maybe, they could get this done within the week so the PRT could get back to their Toronto intervention….

ORCHARD, PLAYGROUND and REMNANTS are tied for the highest contribution

The Event: A Human Plague Barely fails. The PRT will remain in Salsdale for Turn 3.


A voice comes over the short wave radios you use to watch police scanners

This is Jackal from the PRT.

The groups I’m speaking to, you’re clearly willing to work with us. You know this city better than I do. I’m asking you to tell us the best locations to strike down the problems in Salsdale. Don’t try to tell me that it’s each other.

Information on how to tell us to follow;

OOC: Each Faction may add a ‘PRT INTERVENTION’ to their Turn End this turn. This is a targeted intervention that will strike whoever and wherever you tell it. You may not target, Orchard, Playground or the Remnants of Bolting.

The Factions you target will not know you were the one who called the strike, but they will know it’s an abnormal strike.

This is not counted as an intervention for the purposes of lowering the chances of a second intervention.



Parahumans in Salsdale

Salsdale becomes a hotspot of Parahuman activity in the early week, with some factions showing new Parahumans as part of their ranks, and others having Parahumans run away from them , running into the city proper and open to be recruited.


Bloodborne:

The Bloodborne keep quiet about their Parahuman for a short time, but it’s impossible not to notice the spikes sticking out of buildings, or the bragging that Headline does on Social media about getting a chance to meet them once Autarch offers.

THE BLOODBORNE FOUND AND RECRUITED DREADNAUGHT STR 3 PARAHUMAN

Orchard

Orchard doesn’t need to show off their new parahuman, but shadows running through the area around Yelman street, all of them dripping like they are made of ink tells everyone that someone has joined the empire of fear.

ORCHARD FOUND AND RECRUITED CALIGRAPHY FEAR 1 PARAHUMAN AS PART OF THEIR PARAHUMAN TRIALS

FEY

There is a sudden burst of people addicted to a new substance on the streets around the SPC. It doesn’t seem to be harmful, unless you consider addiction a harm…

FEY FOUND AND RECRUITED SWEET TOOTH ECO 1 PARAHUMAN


FREELANCERS

Dissonance ECO 2 Parahuman –

Escaping from the PRT in the chaos of the failed heist. Dissonance is around Salsdale right now, making her tunes, but she doesn’t have a label. She is apprehensive about joining up with the new gang.

Seeing as she was broken out by them, she is more likely to join the APL or Dream Team

Dissonance weaves sound around her into weaponized blasts or shields as a shaker, but she mostly uses her power for a prominent music career these days.

Backlight SOC 1 Parahuman –

Backlight escaped from Orchard in the dead of night, running out into the streets of Salsdale and keeping low. He is eager to join any faction that isn’t Orchard.

Backlight is a breaker that gets surrounded by white light when he activates his power. As long as he has his power activated he has several powers, most of which translate into incredible acrobatic ability. His flashy style and sick montages make him more useful as a PR tool than his power makes him useful at fighting.


A parahuman has a want to join a faction, between eager to ‘**** off’

You can raise or lower your recruitment chance by talking to the parahuman

You can raise your recruitment chance by offering stats to the Parahuman

In situations where multiple people can recruit a parahuman, the higher your ‘recruitment chance’ the larger percentage you own on a d100 roll.

Parahuman recruitment chance cannot go over 95% even a paid eager parahuman can choose not a join a faction.





TURN END will be WEDNESDAY EVENING

[Hamste]

Loyalty 9
Social connections 7

Hello, we were wondering if you would be interested in signing on with us? We are working on a new social media campaign and felt you would be perfect for it. We have a wide reach, with many connections that would undoubtedly help your career along, as well as the money for those expensive lawyers you will need and to let you live a life of luxury.

Talking to both of the potential parahuman first before making any resource offers to gauge what they are thinking.



Would you wish to stay with us? In terms of security you would have a hard time finding a place better than us. Not only are we not too close to the Orchard but we have great guards and we are pretty safe versus the prt.



How are you holding up?

[Murska]

Unshadowed (Loy 4)

to Dissonance

Heya.

Heard what happened to you. You have the talent and skill to make a career for yourself, but the likes of the PRT, and I'd wager many of the gangs around, just see you as someone who can throw power around. A damn shame.

Well, if you have any interest, the Knuckles are called the Unshadowed nowadays. A bit of a change in brand, with Bolting gone and me joining to talk some sense into Brass. We've got fairly good finance and we're strong enough to be secure without being scary enough to be worth targeting over the crazier groups up north.

We can set you up and keep anyone from bothering you. We'll take a fair share of the profits and no more, and you don't need to get involved in cape fights if you don't want to. And as of recently, we've got Tinker support.

If you're interested, give me a call.

Dissent, who thinks our monikers would sync beautifully.

to Backlight

I'm sure you're hearing a bunch of these pitches, so I'll make it simple. I'm Brass, of the Unshadowed.

You probably know we're one of the bigger groups in Salsdale in terms of muscle. What you might not know is we're also one of the bigger groups in terms of social media presence and funding. That change is a bit more recent, with Dissent joining in.

So we can keep you safe, and set you up for success. We also have Tinker support, we can make you some gear to be more durable. Take it as a fair offer of employment - we're not gonna experiment on you or force you into any creepy ****, we're just the ordinary kind of 'villains'. We keep our part of town safe in the absence of any heroes, take a small cut to keep the operation running, call the banners against any big problems rolling into town and trying to wreck things and enjoy living the high life in the meanwhile. If you think that'd suit you, come over for a talk any time. If you don't like the look of my face, I guarantee on my rep you can always walk back out freely.

Brass

[Writtensanity]

https://imgur.com/xCubbaS



The Dream Team has gotten in our way for the last time. We suggest that you do not do the same by petitioning the query we released.

Communication Ended.





The Dream Team has gotten in our way for the last time, we suggest you choose the side of justice in this conflict over the side of frivolity.

Regards,

Jailbird





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There are four tweets from Headline over the course of the evening. It's followed by a 14 Gif reaction thread about the most recent episode of a popular TV show.

1.

Hey @APL ur a bunch of *****, u shot my girls :( they were just having fun! Y U hate parahumans? #boooooooooo


2.

The @PRT just said thanks for helpin' them. We put a lot of girls on the ground and the pay wasn't great but Salsdale is home! #gooddeeds #charity #headline #villainsoftwitter

3.

@dissonance is in Salsdale and can make music again thanks to my girls <3 Wat you think about a collab? I got @Gravitygirl here 2 #besties #birdsofprey #teengirlsquad! DM'd you n offer!

4.

Does anyone know Backlight's twitter handle? He def has one #help #asktwitter #branding



4 SOC for the collab if you join us.






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Klay is not seen after she reportedly helped the PRT with the Forequest issue. The walls on either side remain.





PARAHUMANS

Backlight:




Protection sounds real good right about now, but you're right that other people are offering. Anything else?





Protection sounds real good right around now.





It's @Backlightofficial working on the checkmark




Dissonance:




OOoooooo, that's tempting. You're offering up a lot of contracts and listeners there. Plus you helped get me out so I'm all ears.





Hey! Heard about some of the money you've been spending on the scene. Nice!

What kinda connections and deals you offering?






Descent was my second mix online. Wrong spelling, sounds the same though.

If you can offer PRT protection I'm interested, but I've gotten some pretty sweet offers already.

[Murska]

Unshadowed

To Dissonance (LOY 5)

Ah, I'm sure you'll get your pick of offers. Nice power, a great sense of style and a winning personality.

We've got cash and connections, but those are transient and you can get them from anyone. Of course we'll provide for our own as needed. But as for things that only we can offer, at least in this town - a combination of enough strength not to be targeted by anyone here and not having Masters or other eye-catching folk doing crazy things that bring attention by the likes of Triumvirate from out of town. And just for you, as a signing bonus, a project of your choice that we'll fund, with your pick of help from any of our parahumans. Aside from the two of us you know of, we've got a materials Tinker nowadays and a guy who's good at getting into all kinds of systems of bureaucracy and law.

Whatever you choose, let's be friends,
Dissent


To Backlight (LOY 4)

Well, we've got all sorts of resources. We can all say from what happened to Bolting that no amount of force is going to keep you safe from everything, which is why in addition to having muscle we don't stick our noses in the kind of nasty business that gets the bad kind of attention from out of town, and ruins careers for that matter. And we've got both connections and money, of course.

The question is mostly, what do you want for yourself? Once you're safe, that is. We can set you up with tinkertech to fight in if that's your thing, or we can find you a nice house in the good part of town. D'ya want to be famous, or disappear? We can work on either. But this ain't a company or government. If you join the Unshadowed, you won't be an employee with a salary who does what they're told. You'll be a partner in whatever we choose to do, and you get a say in it. And looking at the signs in the air and what's going on in this city, what we do is going to be big, so that's no small thing either.

Think on it. And then, give me a call.

Brass

[Hamste]

Broker
Loyalty 9
Social connections 7


Hard to find a better place than here. Electrical security field, PRT Protection and top notch guards with minimal aggressive tendencies so you likely won't ever be on the front lines. You simply won't find a more secure area than ours.



Well, it's still in the works with the Dream Team but we plan to do a mass spot light campaign on our various parahumans to establish a solid following. The good branding will be quite profitable as well as make it unlikely the PRT will attempt a rearrest even if they didn't owe us a lot of money. On top of getting your name out, we are willing to offer a very generous cut of the profits when compared to others.

Offering a full economy stat to them. Not temporary economy just a full stat.

[Writtensanity]

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DUE TO THE EVENT: PARAHUMAN PLAGUE the PRT Faction has joined the game and can be messaged as an NPC


Boots hit the street across Salsdale, as the PRT sweeps through the city attempting to remove the last of the Parahuman Plague. Factions are caught in the crossfire as all over the city the PRT attempts to establish footholds in established territories. It seems like every faction is battling against the PRT.

Or at least almost every Faction. The Broker is clearly enjoying an aged Scotch from his penthouse, as Dropships mysteriously avoid his territory.



Blood in the Water

It all starts with a building falling in the South of the city, on the border of Bloodborne and Remnant Territory. Then another, and then the explosions and gunfire start. It's a bloody battle, with spies from every faction trying to keep track of who is winning at any given moment. It seems like the Bloodborne are going to give out, with their Parahumans away from the frontlines as Klay personally leads the Remnants, but their near suicidal dedication to the cause of the Bloodborne allows them to hold out for hours against impossible odds.

With huge casualties on both sides, Klay calls off the attack and the Remnants return to their lands to lick their wounds and reload their guns. The Bloodborne look worse for wear, but the Remnants dedicated most of their plans for the week to this attack, only to have it fall short when it mattered most.

The Bloodborne keep their territory, and as Miasma arrives on the scene and surveys his precious captions, it's clear that that battle in the South of the city is just beginning.




A Day to Dream

The APL were calling out for help against the Dream Team, letting people around the city know that the children needed to be dealt with before they read everyone's messages.

Headline read those messages, and she wasn't happy about people planning against her.

The first thing that happened was the theme music, the second was the members of the APL turning on their own.

The third was the ANTI-PARAHUMAN array going off.

In the end, the Dream team was still able to capture Cashore, but Gravity Girl (STR 2) was injured and they additionally took significant losses.



GLOBAL EVENT: SILENCE

After a week of Chaos, it seems like most of Salsdale is getting accustomed to the constant fighting, but the PRT arrival has slowed things down. With no Parahuman Plague to deal with, large scale operations seem almost impossible to pull off.

There will be no Local Heists this turn

The Global Heist will only have a 50% chance of arriving



If there is no heist rolled for the turn, I will have items at the Black Market as a use for Tech for those who are wondering.







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The Mid Turn will be posted and begin Thursday

[Murska]

The Unshadowed to the PRT (LOY 5)

Greetings and welcome to Salsdale,

We would like to have a meeting. We're willing to send in one of our own for a chat if given guarantees of safe return. Nobody sane wants things to escalate after all the chaos recently, so I'm sure we could come to an agreement of some kind.

Sincerely,
Dissent

((OOC: Message sent and signed by Dissent since she was much less of an overt villain than Brass back in the Bolting times.))

The Unshadowed to F.E.Y. (LOY 5)

It seems we're fighting a separate battle against the same foe. Do you think we should combine efforts to make a push or to de-escalate and avoid notice? In either case, it'd serve both of us better to be on the same page.

[GameOfChampions]

Bloodborne
Loy 6
Soc 6

The message is sent through various means; social media, personal texts, emails, website updates, or a few Bloodborne yelling it in the streets. Whatever the method it boils down to this.

The Remnants are trying to push the hold they USED to have on all of us. They demanded money from us and when we refused they attacked us.

That shows how weak they are. Ripe for the picking and ending any history they may call on to rule us. Anyone interested with putting down the old and bringing in the new let us know. We are hunting some remnants of the past.

[Writtensanity]

Mid Turn

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Messages from the Black Market go out at their usual time, quiet newsletters to an email inbox about the options that are open this week. It seems a little less busy than last week but the auction item....



The Black Market is proud to present our Pride and Joy Technical Marvel

The Shard Amplifier

The Shard Amplifier is a device that, when surgically implanted in a Parahuman will raise their power to new heights. It's a product that hasn't been seen in Salsdale before, and likely won't be seen again.

- When you apply the Shard Amplifier to a Parahuman it counts as their action for the turn
- A Parahuman cannot be raised above tier 4 with the shard amplifier.
- The Shard Amplifier is consumed on use and cannot be removed from the Parahuman it's given to.





1. The Black Market is offering a discount on hired muscle this season. You may buy up to 3 STR for 4 ECON each.

2. The Black Market is offering information regarding the PRT that have set up in Salsdale for 2 ECON (Their stats)





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North of Salsdale, just down the coast from New York city, the sea swells and bubbles. A massive tidal wave rises to life without warning and slams into the coastline, shattering homes and streets alike. Once the wave has pulled back out to sea and the pouring rain had started, the citizens of Hampsted stared up at the silhouette of Leviathan...

An Endbringer has arrived close to Salsdale, the PRT has put out a call for assistance!

- Beyond Salsdale is SIMPLE
- Beyond Salsdale isn't PVP. Multiple factions will win together
- Beyond Salsdale can only have Parahumans and Tech contributed
- Parahumans of any stat can contribute to Beyond Salsdale
- Reward will be based on collective success and amount contributed


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[Murska]

Unshadowed

Public Address to Salsdale and all factions therein:

This is Brass of the Unshadowed. The call's gone out, the beast has been sighted and time is short, so I'll make this brief.

We call for an Endbringer truce in Salsdale. We're going in against Leviathan, we're asking that anyone else confident in their skills come as well, but nobody's going to look down on you for not facing that monster with a skillset that's badly suited for it. But if anyone uses this as an opportunity to attack others who are fighting to keep that bastard from wrecking the entire east coast and destroying New York again, even if the attack isn't directed on us specifically, we're going to come back very, very angry. Anyone who breaks the truce by attacking the holdings of someone who's away fighting, we'll unilaterally declare war on. And we call for every other faction to pledge the same.

There's some things that we put our differences aside for, and this is one of them.

Unshadowed out.

[Writtensanity]

The Dream Team


The last week had been a bit of a bloodbath in the North of Salsdale, but that had never been something that stopped Headline. When it came down to it, she was a villain first and a person who found blood icky second.

She, Dissonance and Gravity Girl stood on the southern edge of Cashore, there had been a lot of people swearing revenge when they kicked the APL out of here, but the UNshadowed weren't wrong, they were going to need to combine forces if they were going to stop the Endbringer.




Hay, groupchat

The Unshadowed are right, we need to stop the Endbringer if we want 2 keep partying

We're down if APL is <3






Hey!

Wanna help us finish APL if they say no?

$$$ in it for you

Love



The Remnants of Bolting

To the Bloodborne: Public

You've proven that you're more that just a roadblock, you're a legitimate player in this game. Can't say that makes me happy. The Unshadowed are calling for a truce, but they're also taking over half the city so I guess they'd like that wouldn't they.

Wanna call it quits before we wreck the border even more? You don't need to send someone if you don't want to, but I'll be going to stop the Endbringer if you agree.

- Klay



THE APL



Do you wish to be billed by the Dream Team? You know that Headline will not stop at our territory, and giving her time to work against us is just letting her grow her influence in the city.

Think on our words, we would elaborate but we know she's listening.





We do not and cannot trust the Dream Team. The APL will send representatives, but we shall not be engaging in a truce as long as they are alive. They have shown that they plan for our destruction and we will not give them the chance.


- Jailbird




THE PRT




We can meet you, you've shown yourself as one of the more responsible representatives in the city. I shall not be attending but we can continue this in private. Meet us at the encrypted location and time if you wish to speak

- Jackal





We are prepared to offer assistance to those who would need it in exchange for boarding the dropship that is going to intercept Leviathan. Let us know. I shall be in attendance at the Leviathan Raid

- Jackal




GAME

MID TURN SATURDAY EVENING

[Murska]

Unshadowed to APL (LOY 4)

Your whole thing is, parahumans need to be controlled and directed to fight the big threats. Leviathan is a bigger threat than Headline ever could dream of being.

If you're sending people to fight Leviathan, and Dream Team attacks you while they're gone, I'll have my people join up with yours and kick her out of the city. Yes, Headline, I know you're reading this. It's nothing personal, that's just how the truce works. And it's vice versa if you attack her while she's helping with Levi.

You can fight her afterwards.

[Hamste]

Jack Huntington gives his daughter a hug as he stands outside his private jet.

I will be back as soon as I can. Stay safe and remember, your life is worth 846 of theirs so don't take any risks.

Don't worry dad, it's fine. I'm just making sure the right people get the contracts and to help settle any language problems. Not like I am going to be on the front lines.

With a final wave he enters the jet with Backlight, leaving the city until this is all sorted out.


Loyalty 10
Social Connections 7

As you may have heard, an Endbringer is appearing and coming to the city. Given the damage these things tend to do, I was planning on using my ability to start bringing over pieces of delicate infrastructure from the city to a more secure location. If there is anything you want out of the city before the Endbringer comes we will give you first right to transfer resources. Just legally transfer the objects over to me as a 24 hour "loan" and I will teleport it to a secure warehouse of your choosing.



We are assisting with the protection of vital infrastructure. We would like to give you contracts that relief efforts can distribute among business owners which legally gives me what ever items they own for 24 hours. I then move all the expensive and delicate items to safe warehouses. The once this is all done, they just sign another contract and I can bring the items back to town with me. It should allow the city's economy to bounce back quickly as long as not too many buildings are destroyed or to reestablish it in another city if the city is completely destroyed.

[GameOfChampions]

Bloodborne
Loy 6
Soc 5

The Bloodborne are answering the call for battle. We will agree to the truces, delay any grudges we have until a later day and agree to punish those that would act against the interest of those who go to fight.

Remnants we will see you at the fight, ours can wait for another day.