[Renaissance Living] Disc 1: Track 7: Sin and Restitution

[Sarodinian]

The Animus:


"Related subject detected."


The Animus locked onto another essence signature in Nexus and began another multicast.


The view shifts to a slightly run down mansion in the Firewander district of Nexus, currently housing a fairly large number of the Jade Dragons gang, as well as one Skuria, young "queen" of the gang, in your own private room no less.


That doesn't however, stop the sunlight from gradually creeping in through the window to where you're sleeping.


It's dawn. There's much to do today, tomorrow's Calibration, and good ol' Yozis are breathing down your neck to do things lately. Best get to it.


Welcome to Nexus.


What dost thou do?


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Track Song:


[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBGk01s5rSE[/media]

 

[LaFreeze]

Skuria wakes up and arches her back like a cat then leaps out of bed. The floor is warm beneath her feet, and she flashes the sun a sinister smile as if to say "just you wait". She is in a good mood until her mind clears from the fog of sleep and she remembers what lays ahead this day. Then her smile quickly vanishes.


"****" She swears to herself as she starts to pull clothing on.


She dresses in a litany curses pulling on on her boots and garments before finally applying the white and black face paint. The face of a 14 year old girl failed to to be taken seriously and so she had invented this one when she first cato Nexus it had not helped much at first but now two years later it was the truly the face of the self style gang lord.


With her game face on she gave the mirror her best "don't screw with me" glare and satisfied she looked the part of herself she stormed from the room. She hated the new demands of the Yozi, which meant she was going to have to find other ways to enjoy herself then plotting the downfall of Thorns. The first of those petty pleasures was getting her minions to scramble.


She down the hall to two rooms down where her lieutenant Mariko slept. It was early and for now Skuria was the only one up there were few early risers among he rabble Skuria kept. She kicked open the door and Mariko and her one night lovers were startled awake. Skuria took great pleasure in venting her frustrations on the unfortunate victim kicking and yelling at them them until they went fleeing from Mariko's room. When they were gone Skuria turned to Mariko who knew better than to protest.


"Get out! I need to talk to Mariko." Skuria said.


Mariko said flatly. "If you wanted to talk, all you had to do was knock. No need for all this unpleasantness so early in the morning."


"Mariko, listen to me carefully. I've got something I need the gangs to take care of discretely something big to big for me to take care of personally but to important to take and chances on. So I'm going to need some people we can trust and trust to handle things quietly. things are about to start changing around here." Skuria explained.

 

[Sarodinian]

The Animus:


"OK. Fine, what's the job?" Mariko says, still looking a little miffed that you kicked her lover out of the room. He was kind of cute, admittedly...


Even so, that little tidbit doesn't exactly help your frustration out much either. There's much to do, your bosses practically stated outright that they don't really give a fuck about your crusade against Thorns, your gang's full of lazy bums, and apparently your lieutenant's getting laid much more regularly than you to boot. At least Mariko's efficient about her job. Does what she needs to, gets results, excellent judge of character. The type of lieutenant a prospective gang lord can rely on.


The Yozis in particular want to ensure a few artists get their designs for some stupid coin thing rejected. They don't particularly care about how you do it, so long as the competition is eliminated. You've a note with a few names written on it by Emerald Shadow, another Infernal in the area, naming the main competitors to his artists and engravers.

 

[LaFreeze]

"I need you to find some weak links I can exploit Mariko." Skuria explained impatiently. "There is a new guild project and I want it sabotaged. They're minting new coins and we want to make sure they pick a certain one. Here is a list of...um....****...artists I think. ****! Anyway doesn't matter who they are. We just need to them to out of the race on this guild thing and so this other design goes through. Just find out which are going to be easy and let us buy them off and let me know which ones I'll need to get more personally creative with. I want it done fast but it needs to be handled quiet and subtle. You remember when we robbed one of the guild's vaults and steal their soul steel so they couldn't sell it to Thorns?"


"Hard to forget something like that. You've still got scars from where they dug all the shards out of you face." Mariko replies.


"Yea this will be worse if it goes wrong. So get some cloths on get to it." Skuria replies.