>>6338870Armed with the knowledge that most hunters won't readily divulge their abilities, you wonder if Hassan has learned anything about this crowd that might be useful. You ask him as much.
"Well, not really..." He begins, crossing his arms behind his head. "But some look like familiar faces, you know? I've seen them somewhere before. Probably at some networking event. I'm really bad at going to those."
"I know the tall broad over there is Taranta. She scares me a bit. I think she's a bruiser, but..." He leans in to whisper the next part to you: "I've heard some rumors about the N-word..."
Necromancy?! There's no way a hunter would be using the forbidden arts in the open. Just the suspicion of necromancy's enough for Worldpol to come down on you. You'll get ten years in Tower Prison, if that. You're afraid to even repeat it. Despite Hassan's basic discretion, you wonder if it's wise to spread unsubstantiated rumors such as those. You need to be careful of the things people say about you, too...