>>5164457>Step 2: Staffing!“Exxoticss are our brand,” you explain. “Alwayss have been, ssicne the founding—unavoidably sso at firsst, but there’ss no reason not to lean into it.”
“Most of the city’s men are humans,” Mina notes skeptically.
“Right,” you say, “but sso are mosst of the ccity’ss dancerss and working girlss, yesss? They can get that ANYWHERE, and if we compete on human girlss alone, we’ll have no sspecial appeal—nothing that they can’t buy away from uss or replicate. But if we focusss on the outsssider, the exxxotic…”
“We’ll always stand out,” Felia says, nodding. “And Mina… You know a fetish guy is always willing to pay extra.”
“I do,” Mina mutters, not entirely enthusiastic… But she nods.
“Go ahead,” she says. “I’ll put out the word, but I want you looking for prospects too, Kamunu.”
“Me?” you say, a bit surprised. You’re concerned, too—you’d meant to delegate this. Your plate is already, as the humans say, quite full.
“Unless you have something else you’d rather be doing to help with all this?” Mina asks archly.
“Well…”
>Step 3: Sabotage“…Not at all, Mina,” you say, giving her plausible deniability of the third, and most vicious, aspect of your plan.
What does your sabotage entail?
>Recruit the more daring girls to don disguises and stage a raid--smash up the joint and intimidate the Goldenrod’s staff and patrons>Spread disease among the rival lounge’s patrons and staff, using a ‘sample’ taken from your alley-working victim a few nights ago>Ectoplasm one of the Goldenrod girls and have her murder a patron—THAT will stir up some bad press!>Go alone and assassinate the enemy brothel’s equivalent to Mina, then watch Goldenrod twist in the wind without leadership>Approach this diplomatically—poach the best working girls of Goldenrod with a magically-enhanced counter-offer>Write-in 