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Max digs into her pockets before placing a business card on the table. She has those??? It has some basic information about where to contact Max and that she's a Krakatoa.
The rich man nods upon seeing the business card. "Ah. One of 'em. Your folks have some shitty movies to their name. Never liked them."
"Sure but let's not pretend that's important right now." Max cracks her shoulders. The booze she drank is making her a bit too cocky. "My personal networth is $15 million in non-liquid assets. I believe we can talk, corporate to corporate."
"Heh! Don't go saying shit like that around these parts. Most of the folks in this area won't see that in their life time."
"Then why are YOU here?"
The rich man stumbles to think of an excuse to shoo her away but given her status, he's stumped. "Feh. The rangers in all the GAMMA subdistricts are being ran ragged. A lot of the trainers here are unavailable, either going AWOL or getting too injured/sick to work. Real worrying especially with the HEAD MEETING soon."
"So, we can't get newbies trained quick enough to replace the Rangers we lose. Even the one here went missing. She was one of our best workers so that STINGS!"
"Any idea why they're going awol? Anything else your company is facing." "No clue why they go AWOL. Best theory is it's a stress thing from what's been going on lately."
"O-Corp and A-Corp have been ragging us about getting relics from the Wastes. WAY more than they normally do. Some bizarre rumor's been spreading aroun' A, D, J, L and O-Corp about our territory having some weird Macguffin and they want us to find it. Been straining our relationships real bad."
"Huh." Max can smell how shady that rumor is. She's worked with you long enough. "Do you even have proof that it exists?"
"We don't but someone's been spreadin' some massive disinformation campaign about it. My guess is someone from a rival company is sabotaging us. Been trying to hunt 'em down."
The rich man takes a large swig of whiskey. A stressful exhale escapes him. "All I know is this started when we rejected a deal with a U-Corp Administrator. She asked us to ship a massive surplus of artifacts for them to obsess over and we declined."
Max senses this is probably all she's getting so, after giving a polite farewell, she departs from the table.
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[UNSTABLE] IT'S FUCKING KATHERINE. KATHERINE BEATRIX, THAT BITCH WHO TRIED BACKSTABBING HER OWN COMPANY.
[UNSTABLE] IT HAS TO BE! SHE EVEN INDIRECTLY TARGETTED THE SET OF SUBDISTRICTS ANOTHER FOXTROT WOULD BE IN!
[PERSON OF INTEREST] Let's not jump to conclusions. Even if she would have a motive to do so.
First it's Otto's brother possibly coming back to life, now his ex might be involved? Oof.
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As for Kiara?
Unlike Max, she's not bothering to chat to anyone directly. She's shuffling around the busy tables scattered throughout the bar to eavesdrop on their conversations.
Most of the tables are just spitting out drunk baby babble or completely worthless smalltalk.
