- Three vampire are guaranteed, with as many as a dozen more out there once word gets out. As for humans there are probably hundreds in the tunnels. It's anyone's guess how many of them are minded to join the Jade Dogs
- It's Chicago, by November you should be done with it
- Not really, you would have to use undertown itself
1)Supernaturals can travel more freely than humans.
So I expect that we're likely to see most of the Whamps interested in the first month or two, while vanilla mortals are likely to have a long tail, especially as winter approaches. November is likely to see
2)Chicago estimates are roughly 10,400 people experiencing street and shelter homelessness on any given day in 2020 in Illnois.
www.chicagohomeless.org
Assuming half of that is in Chicago, and 20-40% of that find their way underground, we could be looking at a total population of 1000-2000 people.
Of that, only a subset is within travelling range of Last Station(Undertown is not a place to explore blindly).
And an even smaller sub-population of that is going to be trusting or desperate enough to risk a new player's suspicious offers of "no strings attached aid" within the first three to six months.
Several hundred is a high end estimate. Numbers might go up in winter.
Some are gonna be vets; its been five years since the War on Terror would have popped off, so you're seeing an upsurge of people with psych or physical injury, or just adrift.
3)Yeah, so more money needed by November. Even ghouls would probably prefer not to live outdoors in a Chicago winter. We either need to get the Dragons Nest capable of supporting that many people, or gain the trust to move a bunch of these people aboveground, and deal with meeting City of Chicago regulations for running a charity of that size.
4)Pity. Dont want to burn that focus.
5)Chicago Synthetics warehouse/HQ is supposed to be a clean front for our current income business.
We probably shouldnt establish any breadcrumbs between it and the Dragons Nest.
Gonna need a different property for that.
Could we just take the most vulnerable humans in for now? Molly would want to help everyone, but I doubt we can actually do the job right now.
1)No reasonable metric for most vulnerable human that doesnt encompass almost everyone underground.
I mean, they've no friends and family to squat with, for whatever reason they cant or wont use the homeless shelters in the city, and they are camping underground in summer/early fall. In Chicago, with winter coming.
2)At 300 bucks a month groceries, we can feed 500 humans for 150k a month.
And economies of scale kick in when you're buying in bulk.
We can feed them.
Actual medical issues we can kick in to the local medical system until they are fixed up.
3)A larger group of people is an obviously harder target for attackers, since there is safety in numbers.
And down here, it implies that they have a well-resourced patron who's funnelling significant resources to them, so starting shit is likely to draw...retribution.
The more so if the Jade Dogs show evidence of actually being kitted out.
If we add a couple Whamps to their number, the proposition of starting shit here begins to look prohibitive for any reasonably sane small group active in Undertown.
And the malks know we're here, so word is getting around the supernatural side of the Undertown community.
The actual issue is internal security, because you're going to have members of the human population who will look to try shit, out of learned behaviors, mental illness, just being assholes, or being paid or blackmailed to be agents.
Unlike the Creatures of Darkness, they dont have MiS pinging as a warning of what is and isnt permissible.
Mortals, as always, are the problem.
4)Also worth remembering that these people chose to be here.
There's homeless shelters and soup kitchens and food banks aboveground. There's bus terminals and rail stations and O'Hare. Something drove these people to take their chances with tunnels where there's predators and environmental hazards.
Whatever they are running from, inner demons or outer problems, represents an additional impediment to moving them out.
There's no guarantee that setting up aboveground charities will aid the people who we actually need to help.
You go to where your target population is, not the other way around.
