(open) catch-all

[zauneyete]

WHO: Silco & others!
WHERE: Focused on Stygia -- particularly Mirth and the Markets
WHEN: Throughout November!
WHAT: Catch-all for the month! There are some open prompts within!
WARNINGS: Drug references, probably also references to multiple criminal activities. I'll add anything particular if it comes up!

[ If none of the below prompts tickle your fancy, and you'd like one, feel free to hit me up on my plotting post or on plurk at hundreds, or of course, just wildcard it! ]

Comments

[zauneyete]

Well, we produced items necessary to survival. [ He said it with a casual shrug. ] Well, I ran the factories, my days of manual labor are long gone.

[ His fingers, after all, were clean. The scars on his face are the only sign of such a hard life, his fingers are without calluses, and any scars or nicks are long faded. Even still, there's something in the tone of "manual labor" that speaks truth. He had, after all, grown up in the mines deep within the fissures, but he was hardly sharing. ]

But I think finding the appropriate supplies to produce such things would be difficult. Items don't last long here -- not without Soul Forging -- and I'm not precisely keen on building a factory on the backs of the captured dead.

[ Well. Okay, he was, but... Without Shimmer's formula, did it matter? Certainly not enough that he wouldn't take the social points for having a line he wouldn't cross. ]

As you've seen, I've been collecting information. It's much more valuable than anything we can produce.

[pissoffbook]

[Kainé looks thoughtful. He's got a point; that Soulforged bullshit again.]

I guess you got a point. What kinda information you in the market for?

[She knew he was getting it from kids, but she might have some as well. Living on the outskirts of the city, where the more shady things happen, she sees and hears things as well. Or, maybe she might be willing to work with him. They seem to have some things in common and gaining more allies couldn't hurt.]

[zauneyete]

Mostly I'm looking for information about the power structure at the moment.

[ The Hierarchy, but he knows better than to put the target on his back by saying their name out loud. ]

I'm looking to see how people feel about the powers that be, what the movements are, and where the power they wield comes from. If I get information about the...deals that go on where the authorities don't notice, all the better.

[ Silco is certainly casting a vast net, but all the better to collect anything he could possibly want, with it. ]

[pissoffbook]

Ah, those bastards.

[Kainé is also smart enough not to say anything about the Hierarchy aloud. That doesn't mean she's fond of them in the least. Especially that Amon, asshole.]

Well, I can tell you I'd tell them to go fuck themselves. I would like to know how they get their powers to work without fucking up though.

[She shrugs.]

I camp outside the city. I don't really... vibe with people. But I see and hear things.

[zauneyete]

[ Silco's lips quirked into a sharp, barely-there smile. A quick thing, but it's there, almost feral in the way he recognized her hatred, and gave her a picture into his own. ]

Well, if any of those seem useful, or worth sharing, please, do let me know. I pay, too. I don't expect anyone to do something for free.

[ The outskirts are... a dangerous place to stay. Silco likes living near people, with the ever-present thrum of life humming outside his door, but it meant he wasn't always going to see and hear everything that happened. ]

You likely see them move about when they leave, don't you? You never know where they might be going...

[pissoffbook]

Sometimes. Sometimes I just hear about it. But we're not alone. They've got plenty of people who aren't fond of their shit.

[She pulls out that strange device she found behind the door marked with her name and shows it to him.]

Here. I can be reached on this thing.

[Flipping through a couple screens she pulls up her contact information.]

Keep me posted. I might even step in to do some dirty work. Give me yours and I'll share as well.

[zauneyete]

[ Ah, yes, the phones. Silco is much clumsier with his. He has nothing resembling technology, and an unwillingness to learn, but he's getting better. Thankfully his daughter picked it up and figured out more about it in five minutes than he did in a month, so Silco was... a little bit better with it.

Enough to know how to record the contact info, and to hold out his own.

There's literally no customization to the thing. He hasn't bothered yet. ]

If I find something for you to do, I'll let you know. It's always helpful when we have...options. I don't intend to take anything they do lying down, certainly. I don't think any of us should.

End after your next?

[pissoffbook]

[Hers doesn't have any customization either, she's just had time to mess with it.

She takes his contact information as well and hands the device back to him.]

Yeah fuck that. It's gonna take more than some idle threats before I'm gonna put up with their bullshit!

[Kainé puts away her own device and pushes off from the wall. She starts to walk off in the direction she came from but pauses to look over her shoulder at him.]

See ya around, Silco. Don't be a stranger.

👍

[zauneyete]

Of course.

[ He promised. It's mostly empty, but he certainly wasn't going to turn down an offer of assistance in all of this. Kainé would take solace in the fact that she was not alone in her distrust with the Hierarchy. She wasn't even the only one who'd agreed to help.

That he was starting to put together a base... was even better. He waved a hand, and slipped his device back into his pocket, before he puffed away at his cigar, waiting for the next passers by with new information. ]