>>6050627“Hey Virgil, where are you?” Ask William as he calls up Virgil.
“Hey Will what is wrong with your voice it is deeper?”
“I added a few things after working a bit too long so where are you I am on the street looking for you.”
“Well about time you finally arrived, also get out of the street you look like an idiot.” States Virgil as William turns around to see him approaching from an alleyway.
“Yeah, I got lost from Betty’s poor directions.” Adds William as he moves away from the street and into the alleyway.
“How did you get lost? Didn’t you use your phone’s GPS?”
“Huh, no.” Groans out William at missing that obvious solution.
“Well poor sense of direction aside, who is this Betty? A secret fourth faction leader you got involved with again?”
“She is not a leader, I think. I met her in wait no you told me about her!”
“Ain’t you caught me yeah I know she is a lunch lady but other than that I don’t know much about her.”
“As it should be.” Adds a new voice making both men flinch as they turn to see Betty coming out of a building’s main door wearing a backpack.
“How di-” Virgil says only to be cut off.
“Well huh that is quite the feat to have disguises made and magic to alter your face. Anyway I have physical disguises for everyone since I didn’t think you would have tier 2 Alter Self.” Adds Betty as she inspects William.
“Yeah we have our own tricks to survive out here.” States Virgil as he side-eyes Betty.
“Anyway what is the plan Betty?” Asks William as he notices both parties being unusually tense.
“Well I spent the week making sure to get a tally on their headcount so there are about seventy-eight members of this small gang controlling around like fifteen blocks.”
“Are you sure this counts as a “small” gang?” Adds Virgil with his arms crossed.
“Yes, a small gang. So I have three plans depending on you guys. First ambush the racket teams that move in groups of five to shake down weekly payments. They send out about thirty-five out each week so we can ambush one team a night.”
“Slowly picking them apart nightly and making them fear the nights?” Asks William.
“Yeah and in case you guys can’t handle more than five people at a time. Second plan if you guys are strong enough for it is to hit their HQ directly where forty to sixty hang around at night or during the day where they drop to around twenty to forty as they have other jobs to do.”
“And the third?”
“Stalk the big boss and leadership first to force the rest of the gang to scatter without a leader to rally behind. They will be back but this is the fast solution. So the plan is up to you too as I keep back and make sure to keep an eye out for surprise cops or mages.”
“Any location or are we running in blind?” Points out Virgil.
part 2
