>>5832004You thought your face was red, from rehearsing your embarrassing speech in your mind... but the face of the annoying inquisitive journalist, Madison Mirage,
>>5827292has choked into a shade of bright purple.
What she wants do is run into the toilet... except, you are standing there, having just emerged from the corporate bathroom, and are blocking her path. Madison Mirage turns and tries to flee down a corridor. As she runs Madison trips on one of her high heels and falls flat on her face. After mewling a bit, she gets up as if nothing happened, and limps away.
Mrs Vandenberg maintains an utterly serious and oblivious composure, as if nothing noteworthy had just occurred:
-Excuse me, I do not know who you are. I have a very important meeting. Hmph!
As she glides away haughtily, as if borne upon a palanquin of the abasement of others, you catch a glimpse of another executive coming to meet her down the corridor... (QM: pic related)
This other woman, dressed in a lurid coat of plastic-shaded red, seems to be speaking to herself - or at least momentarily. The executive seems to be gesturing and looking at a copy of herself, almost identical in every way; then the copy disappears.
She greets Mrs Vandenberg, and says
- How wonderful it is to see you again, Josephine! You are looking so well! This way please. I believe we have a certain situation, developing near Lynx Sector...
>Try and eavesdrop on the conversation. But how? You cannot just stand outside the soundproofed conference room doors... Maybe try climbing outside and around the balcony?>If you eavesdrop on this meeting, you will actually miss your keynote conference speech. How will you find any sponsors then? This entire trip will have been wasted... QM: you can choose one of the three titles, for real this time! Alternatively, feel free to improvise a speech of your own
>Xenoarchaeology And The Passion Economy: The Future Of Interstellar Growth>Frontiers Of Order And Competition: Xenoarchaeology And The Pacing Threat>Catalytic Synthesis Of Polyribonucleic Acids On Supernatant Prebiotic Cryptocrystalline Silicate Incubations Within The Eoarchaean Earth(QM: if you choose any of these, you miss your keynote speech...)
>This entire conference is such a bore. People only come to these for the free food. Try and look around for free investment conference food.>Wander around the conference and sit down and listen to another speaker. What topic or theme do you choose? QM: the way this works is you may choose any ONE asset from the list of Might, Prosperity, Industry, Knowledge and even (surprisingly) the Deniable ones hehe. You then attend an event on that topic. The majority of topics obviously fall under the PROSPERITY and INDUSTRY categories, you think the best chance of fulfilling your faction goal is to choose and listen to one of the most boring topic sessions under these sections. But you never know whom you might meet...
>Something else? 