Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-5999656-20161216022828/@comment-5999656-20161222165448

(I will be in a day or so. Mind if I introduce a small conflict soon? The conversation is nice but I think actions will be more exciting.)

"Something like that? As long as it's within our capabilities and doesn't massively disrupt the status quo, we do it," she said, shrugging. When you're hired to do something for a lot of cash, it's not a great idea to turn around and start questioning everything. She turned to Diaboli and gave something between a smile and a pursing of the lips.

"Does it disappoint you that we're just the enforcers and not the puppetmasters? We have the power to crush our clients easily, but - "

Though, the Suzhens, Lotus, and now the Bluthardts. Some of the families were directly involved in the business rather than sitting back and letting the dirty work go on while they waited obliviously.

"Money has to come from somewhere," she responded evasively to Diaboli's jibe. "We're regulated by the same demand-and-supply model that the public economy is, so when demand collectively falls we have no choice but to step back. And there's the aforementioned status quo, the whole masquerade. We chose an intermediate role because it would discourage excessive ambitions from any one group in the network, so that we mediate each other. Because since when has world domination ever worked out for anyone?"

Zanipher saw that the sidewalk ahead curved into a grassy park lined by trees and with a playground in the distance. She spotted a few visitors, kids or elderly, spread out around the grass, but the area was relatively peaceful.

"How about you? If you've got the money to build a reinforced base in the wild, then you must have many benefactors to provide the funds and manpower for such a project, and many lieutenants to oversee the network. How's Medicus? He seems like quite the intimidating guy, from what I've picked up about him."