Majet
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- 2/28/2018: Con Gone Wrong for Into the Void
- The night had been promising. I was at Fantasia, scouting for marks, when I noticed this kid - human, male, maybe twenty or so. Farouk Romilly. Young enough to still have access to his parents’ funds, old enough that he should know better than to spend large quantities of it, overconfident and self centered enough not to listen to that good sense.
I talked him up, hooked him in, and it was going remarkably well. He was giving me pointers on how I should spend his money. I had everything except the credstick when I noticed the Vesk approaching. I ducked out of there to see who it was they were interested in, and they kept heading towards the kid.
I circled in, too curious to leave, though in retrospect I probably should have. Not sure it would have made a difference, but I think I should have tried. He was told to go out the club’s back exit, toward the private rooms. I knew this because that’s what the one who came after me said, and we followed them.
That’s when I met Damona (henceforth, Demona, because she may be a demon). She’s a drow. I don’t like her. She flat out murdered the kid right in front of me for ‘betraying her’ and I had to talk fast to avoid the same fate just for associating with the kid for a couple hours. I talked up some of my conning skills, figuring that would sound useful to her, and I guess they did, but I guess I came across as pretty weak (somewhat intentional since I am hoping she’ll underestimate me and I can run far far away from her, but she is a very scary woman and I am not really into this kind of violent crime stuff and there was a dead body right there and I was maybe panicking a bit and not making the best life decisions I ever made) and she wanted to see me shoot.
She took me down to a shooting range (who knew the Fantasia had one of those?) where she told me to ‘destroy the contents on that crate’. Well, I had just seen this lady shoot a kid dead in his chair, so I wasn’t putting anything past her. I went to made sure there wasn’t some other unfortunate soul who got on her bad side in there.
There wasn’t. It was some kind of mechanical bug thing. It did it’s level best to kill me before I killed it, and it was a very near thing, but it did not succeed. Demona had me patched up with a bit of healing serum then told me to get hired by some company with most of its holdings out in the Vast. The Vast sounds like a great place to be right now.
Figure I’ll get myself hired and shipped out as far out of Demona’s reach as I can get.
And I’m keeping her sign on bonus. Heck, maybe this R&D company will give me one, too. If they do, and they seem like good guys, maybe I’ll even warn them they’ve got a crime boss sniffing around their business. If they seem worth the trouble of promoting (demoting?) myself from ‘ran away from Demona’ to ‘actively betrayed Demona’. In either case, I don’t plan to head back to Absolon any time soon, but in the later . . . well, let’s expand that area a few more sectors.
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