[Sodium_noir] A Walk in the Park

[Eric Magnuson]

Cash, Miss Unfeusceit
Gangrel, Melcom Board member
Gotham Park
> 
> >With a rueful grin he looked into the enveloping
> >darkness of the night, "I guess that this is my
> night
> >to make 'deals with the devil.'"
> 
> "Please" she said with a sarcastic grin. "Lets not
> spoil a wonderful
> partnership with talk of amateurs. Besides, all the
> mortal mythology about
> such arrangements might put you in mind of an unfair
> arrangement. I have a
> reputation to uphold Cash, and nothing sours a
> reputation like shafting your
> partners or welching on a deal!"

"Sorry, ma'am," Cash quickly started, "it's just an
expression, nothing personal meant by it."
> 
> She takes a small notepad from, well Cash doesn't
> see where, and checks
> through it quickly.
> 
> "There is a company called Slippery when Wet. They
> run a sports facility on
> the Isle of crabs, windsurfing, scuba diving, motor
> boats around the bay and
> a pair of half rotten ferry's that take people to
> and from the island. Not
> much of a company as far as the real Primogen's
> concerns go, but still with
> a healthy profit each month. There are a lot of idle
> rich in Gotham, and the
> Ferry service is about to get a sudden influx of
> business. Or the offer of
> the same. However the owners of Slippery when wet,
> two brothers called Simon
> and Philip Shale, are not the short of lads who will
> see the benefit of such
> an investment. The hippy philosophy. You'll need to
> help them see the
> benefits of expanding the ferry aspect of their
> domain and how to plough the
> profits back into the company."
> 
> A sly smile spreads across her face as she leaned
> closer to cash, whispering
> the last of her pitch even though there is nobody
> present to hear them.
> 
> "All of this is going to happen quite quickly I
> assure you, and if you are
> the one controlling these small fry when they
> suddenly strike it big, then
> you'll be on the first rung of the ladder. The
> Prince will protect your
> right to these retainers and their empire so long as
> they do nothing to
> threaten his concerns and from there ... well from
> there its up to you to
> capitalise on the whole affair."
> 
It was an interesting offer, an outdoor company - sort
of - something he could understand.  Gaining control
of it, well, there were two basic ways to do it. 
First, the old fashioned way, gain control of their
debts, and force them to take him on as a partner. 
Second, make one, or both, of the brothers Ghouls. 
The second may come later in any case, but there may
be better ways to get started.

"So, I guess that there may be a sizable debt that I
could assume, or should I go right to the jugular and
do something supernatural to them?" Cash asked with a
slight smile on his face.

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