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[UNSTABLE] THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN. DECISIONS ARE NARROWING FURTHER AND FURTHER. WE HAVE TO TAKE EVERYTHING WE CAN GET.
[UNSTABLE] "Sir." Your voice cracks a bit. You can feel a twitch in your eyes. "We have a lot to talk about. Between the eight of us."
There's an immediate shift in the room's atmosphere. Your allies have worked with you long enough to recognize when your psyche is starting to get a bit off-kilter. They surround you in case they have to stop you doing something.
"CERTAINLY. WHAT would you like? I believe we can both reach a mutually satisfying agreement."
"I believe you have a way to help out several of my allies AND our trips throughout the districts we need to head to. Max, you're up first."
Max expected this and snaps back into her cocksure persona the moment her name is called.
"Well! As you can clearly tell, I'm a Krakatoa." She points at her own off-blue hair, which you recall being a weird genetic thing with them. "And the two of us can agree that my family has a lot of useful assets your company could use."
"INDEED. I have heard some interesting news about your father and your father's father. REAL interesting news." Mr. Daquan plants his one good elbow onto his desk. "SHAME what happened at that mining facility."
"Good thing Nicole and I fixed that, haha." Max shivers upon remembering the state she found Valentina in. Good thing you did save her. "So. I can refer you and several of your employees as useful assets to the rest of my family alongside some of my own assets."
"IN exchange?"
"You help us out with any future red tape Nicole or her associates has to deal with." Max fidgets with her gloves while trying to keep up her smug smile. "I believe that would be the best for everyone involved." She promptly shoves Casey forward who damn near smashes into the desk. "If I had to pick one of us to be a liason, it would be her."
"Hi yes hello hi!!!" Casey waves her hand with the eagerness of an excitable puppy.
"HM. SHE could work. Approved. I will contact your father soon and I will put in a good word for your...Drone?" Mr. Daquan can't quite tell what Casey is. Neither can anyone else here.
"Close enough! Hi! Yes!" Casey is buzzing from the deepest part of her throat. Guess she's happen.
>-2 KRAKATOA FAVOR! YOU NOW HAVE 7 CONNECTIONS!
>CASEY's CORPORATE DOUBLESPEAK now reduces all SPEECH CHECK DCs by 4.
>CASEY'S CORPORATE DOUBLESPEAK also adds +1 FAVOR to the first time you'd obtain corporate favor in a mission. She'll be able to trigger it once you arrive in your second district.
"Speaking about me! Yes! We may be heading to L-Corp soon! The land of the righteous!" She pauses for a moment. "And a land where they have no tolerance for ANY misbehavior!"
Mr. Daquan sucks in a deep breath of air through a small slit on the side of his throat. "OOF. YEAH. THAT'S certainly a place you have to go to. I do not even you heading there."
"Verily! Which is why I plead for your assistance and good word!"
