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Arc 5 Post 12: A Sharp Customer
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    2nd of September 2006 A.D.

    "So just to be clear about this," you give the Thomas a questioning once over. "You want to buy the warehouse they found Greene in, the one the CPD at least think he was murdered in?"

    "Yep," he flashes a smile, a smirk really with which he's probably quite used to getting hearts racing, not that you are affected... much. "None more reason for the owner to sell the place on the cheap for cash no questions." He proceeds to explain what the other reasons are.

    Quite apart from its recent bloody history the place isn't much to look at, it is a one story four thousand feet box built in the sixties boasting four thousand feet of floor-space and a fifteen foot ceiling clearance accessed through three drive through doors two of which open onto the street and the third onto the dusty graffiti covered parking lot. It is also insulated in asbestos and has sprinklers that are not up to code. He's pretty sure the building inspectors just haven't been around recently, not that you are in the least surprised.

    North Lawndale is one of the places Reverent Martin Luther King Jr used as an example of discriminatory and predatory housing practices. The city has been putting more money into trying to fix the place up but to your eyes the new park across the way looks like slapping a bandied on gangrene. It takes you a moment to realize just what you are feeling. Apathy and desolation are manifest in the very air, a desert of man's disdain for man. Just like back at Helen's place you know bone deep that you could do more than survive here, you could thrive and help others do so as well.

    "What's the price?" you ask as you duck under the door into what could be charitably be called a bare bones interior. About half the lighting fixtures are still in place.

    "Twenty Thousand Dollars cash, no strings...."

    His voice sounds distant as you make your way to the back of the werehouse, to the place you had seen through the cameras which are no longer here. The steel table hadn't gone anywhere.

    "Where did Detective Greene really die?" you ask of inward insight.

    Blood splattering on kitschy garden gnomes, dying the feathers of pink flamingos crimson

    Agony, Screams, Terror

    Why won't they come?

    Greene had been killed under a veil practically outside his backdoor, it could not have taken more than ten seconds, but they had been seconds in agony.

    Wait... "Clippy pull up the report on the Greene murder again for me." Ignoring Thomas for the moment you confirm that the detective's car had been found hear here, where he was meant to meet with Harry. So whoever had killed him must have shoved him in his own car and driven the body here.

    Granted you knew this thing was capable of glamor or shape-shifting to pretend it was Harry, but why kill him so close to home and then drag him all the way here instead of letting him drive himself? Sadism maybe. That sounds like a coop out in your own head. Regardless you do not think Detective Greene's widow the FBI agent is going to appreciate the visit.

    "She would not desire to know what slew her paramour?" Usum asks surprised.

    "Well yeah but..." But what, you suddenly ask yourself. She's not going to be Daedalus. Odds are she wants answers every bit as much as you do.

    Thomas clears his throat. "So the warehouse? And what are we going to call the company. I'm going to need it for he filings?"

    [] [Name] Write in

    [] [Warehouse] Buy

    [] [Warehouse] Don't buy

    [] [Greene] Go to his house to use the Crown the murder scene

    [] [Greene] Go to his house to use the Crown on the murder scene and talk to his wife

    [] [Greene] Don't visit the murder scene yet

    [] [Greene] Write in

    OOC: Votes are individual not by plan since they do not have much to do with one another.
     
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    • [X] [Name] Green Sun Industries

    [X] [Warehouse] Buy

    [X] [Greene] Go to his house to use the Crown on the murder scene
     
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    DragonParadox said:
    North Lawndale is one of the places Reverent Martin Luther King Jr used as an example of discriminatory and predatory housing practices. The city has been putting more money into trying to fix the place up but to your eyes the new park across the way looks like slapping a bandied on gangrene. It takes you a moment to realize just what you are feeling. Apathy and desolation are manifest in the very air, a desert of man's disdain for man. Just like back at Helen's place you know bone deep that you could do more than survive here, you could thrive and help others do so as well.
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    It occurs to me that Molly would make the world's best landlord. She buys up in places of desolation and fixes them up. Of course that would quickly make them not places of desolation so she would then sell them.
     
    Good thing we have the Tool Charm to do asbestos remediation. We can do it and and easy. If we needed to do it through a legitimate service, there is no telling how long the waiting list would be, and it would probably cost more than we're paying for the building.
     
    [x] [Greene] Go to his house to use the Crown on the murder scene and talk to his wife
    -[x]wet yourself beforehand. You suspect that you are going to want all your charm for this.
    [X] [Warehouse] Buy
    [X] [Name] Tool-Transcending Solutions
    Goldfish said:
    Good thing we have the Tool Charm to do asbestos remediation. We can do it and and easy. If we needed to do it through a legitimate service, there is no telling how long the waiting list would be, and it would probably cost more than we're paying for the building.
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    We can rebuild it, stronger, healthier, better! It's actually closer to our craft specialization then diamond making is.
     
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    [X] [Name] Green Sun Industries

    [X] [Warehouse] Buy

    [X] [Greene] Go to his house to use the Crown on the murder scene and talk to his wife
     
    [X] [Name] Tool-Transcending Solutions
    [X] [Warehouse] Buy
    [X] [Greene] Go to his house to use the Crown on the murder scene and talk to his wife
    -[X] Empathy excellency
    -[X] All Things Betray
    -[X] STUNT: The you who is walking up the stairs of detective Greene's house is not the you who goes to school or slays vampires. She is, in fact, closest to the you who goes to church - proper, respectable and respectful. Someone who a still-grieving trained to fight widow would at least start listening, when you tell her some very unbelievable things. Gone are the piercings, and bright colors - a neat, if inexpensive business suit takes it place. Bracing yourself, you expand your senses and prepare yourself for a hard talk, even as you push the doorbell's button.

    Something like this. The name is a bit on the nose, I admit. For the detective, I tried to make the stunt based on "this is a trained FBI agent. We need to at least get in the door without her calling cops on us".
     
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    Yog said:
    [X] [Name] Tool-Transcending Solutions
    [X] [Warehouse] Buy
    [X] [Greene] Go to his house to use the Crown on the murder scene and talk to his wife
    -[X] wet yourself beforehand. You suspect that you are going to want all your charm for this.
    -[X] Empathy excellency
    -[X] All Things Betray
    -[X] STUNT: The you who is walking up the stairs of detective Greene's house is not the you who goes to school or slays vampires. She is, in fact, closest to the you who goes to church - proper, respectable and respectful. Someone who a still-grieving trained to fight widow would at least start listening, when you tell her some very unbelievable things. Gone are the piercings, and bright colors - a neat, if inexpensive business suit takes it place. The only thing strange about your appearance is how positively wet with hair gel your hair is. Bracing yourself, you expand your senses and prepare yourself for a hard talk, even as you push the doorbell's button.

    Something like this. The name is a bit on the nose, I admit. For the detective, I tried to make the stunt based on "this is a trained FBI agent. We need to at least get in the door without her calling cops on us".
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    How about Transcendent Tools & Diamonds, like a play on words for the old "tool and die" phrase manufacturers still use (AFAIK)?
     
    Goldfish said:
    How about Transcendent Tools & Diamonds, like a play on words for the old "tool and die" phrase manufacturers still use (AFAIK)?
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    If we were to make a lot of companies i the future (like Tesla, SpaceX, etc), that would be good probably, but that's unlikely. We are likely to fold everything under the same umbrella, and for that a general name is better, I feel.
     
    [X] [Name] Green Sun Industries

    [X] [Warehouse] Buy

    [X] [Greene] Go to his house to use the Crown on the murder scene and talk to his wife
     
    DragonParadox said:
    It is Chicago in September, you could just wait for rain.
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    Hmm, it seems that when I looked it up earlier, I got wrong data. There actually was rain in Chicago 2006.

    In that case, yeah, sure.

    [X] [Name] Tool-Transcending Solutions
    [X] [Warehouse] Buy
    [X] [Greene] Go to his house to use the Crown on the murder scene and talk to his wife
    -[x] wet yourself beforehand. You suspect that you are going to want all your charm for this.
    -[X] Empathy excellency
    -[X] All Things Betray
    -[X] STUNT: The you who is walking up the stairs of detective Greene's house under the heavy autumn rain is not the you who goes to school or slays vampires. She is, in fact, closest to the you who goes to church - proper, respectable and respectful. Someone who a still-grieving trained to fight widow would at least start listening, when you tell her some very unbelievable things. Gone are the piercings, and bright colors - a neat, if inexpensive business suit takes their place. The lack of an umbrella only slightly mars your look. Bracing yourself, you expand your senses and prepare yourself for a hard talk, even as you push the doorbell's button.
     
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    [X] [Name] Tool-Transcending Solutions
    [X] [Warehouse] Buy
    [X] [Greene] Go to his house to use the Crown on the murder scene and talk to his wife
    -[x] wet yourself beforehand. You suspect that you are going to want all your charm for this.
    -[X] Empathy excellency
    -[X] All Things Betray
    -[X] STUNT: The you who is walking up the stairs of detective Greene's house under the heavy autumn rain is not the you who goes to school or slays vampires. She is, in fact, closest to the you who goes to church - proper, respectable and respectful. Someone who a still-grieving trained to fight widow would at least start listening, when you tell her some very unbelievable things. Gone are the piercings, and bright colors - a neat, if inexpensive business suit takes their place. The lack of an umbrella only slightly mars your look. Bracing yourself, you expand your senses and prepare yourself for a hard talk, even as you push the doorbell's button.
     
    It occurs to me that Molly doesn't really have any use for her piercings anymore. She is far more metal in her Sunday best then the radist rockstar ever. When it comes to image control her piercings don't do anything for her.

    I think that one of the canon Infernals actually wore a nuns habit (which makes no sense in creation where nuns aren't a thing, but whatever).
     
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