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>Contact P-Company and tell them you can help.
Alright, first things first, you gotta address this huge fucking elephant in the room. You pick up the phone and ring up P-Company themselves. You hope to whatever deities exist that "I CAN HELP YOU" is a valid enough excuse to not pay up.
Turns out? It was. A gruff, incredibly exhausted man picks up the phone. "Tell us how or I'm going to send fucking J-Corp to raze your facility to the ground. I don't have time for joke calls."
"Look. Here's the deal. I have an anomaly, can't say what you know who's listening, who has a way of dealing with that massive threat looming outside. Using it, we should be able to slow it down or even stop it."
"Uh huh, sure, kid."
[BOUND BY DUTY] His obligation is to earn as much money with as little loss as possible. Focus on that.
[DYING LIGHT] A human life, despite what the catalogs say, are infinite in value.
"It's either that or you burn away thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of ETF for something you might not even capture. Maybe up to the millions if we factor in lost productivity, building damage, equipment damage-"
This gets his attention. "Kid, look, I'm in no mood for strong arming. My higher ups will kill me if I keep talking, spit your offer."
"How about this. You get us a buncha credit and A + C or, hell, maybe even let us keep it if it's weakened enough. We give you the means to prevent horrid financial loss. How does that sound?" There's nothing but silence on the other line. <span class="mu-r">Then you hear a growl.</span>
"Alright, enough playing around. We'll take your offer and here are our conditions. You keep that thing fucked up long enough for us to deal with, no issue. Your voodoo bullshit is half assed, we're bringing it to you. You know, in case distance is a factor or you have some other trick."
[HOPELESS WRECK] WAIT HOLD ON WE DIDN'T AGREE TO THAT
"Secondly, don't think you can pull this stunt again. I'm only accepting because my bosses are breathing down MY neck, alright?" You hear a melodic ring over the line. "Thirdly, don't contact us until we contact you again. Which is when that fucking mass of bronze and bells is locked up or dead. Understood?"
[DYING LIGHT] Those with authority don't like losing control. Play along for now, this isn't for him. Not really.
[HOPELESS WRECK] WAIT I DON'T WANT THAT FUCKING THING COMING TO US! BACK OFF, NOW!
[BOUND BY DUTY] We made the call, it's too late. Best we can do is to use Fortune's power efficiently.
"I...accept." You say with a little less bravo.
>P-COMPANY DEAL SET: Assist directly or indirectly in the suppression of the X5 Anomaly. Reward: Massive A and C payment and/or a massive discount on all P-Company catalogs.
>No backing out.
"We're done here." The hard smash of plastic against plastic is the last thing you hear over the line before it goes dead. You hang it up afterwards. Well, you've gotten yourself into something.
(Dinner took longer than expected. Chicken was 8/10.)
