Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-13488655-20160426221910/@comment-5999656-20160427224058

Zanipher "Daybreak" Hei'An sat before a panel of employees as they finished packing up their presentation. Following the fall of Beacon Academy, Vale's law enforcement had been put on high alert and hundreds of young Huntsmen and Huntresses in-training were roaming the city instead of attending class. The heightened tension back home meant that it was harder for the street associates of The Nine Dragons of Vale to go about business as usual, and it was pushing even the higher-ups to start considering setting up more establishments outside of their main kingdom.

So here was the young CEO of one of the world's top intelligence-gathering agencies, leaving Vale to explore business prospects in Vacuo. Zanipher had arrived with a small selected team by private airship early in the morning, and had proceeded to conduct an evaluation of the premises and analyze the data from the last year. Like all branches of the DS, it was situated in a high-rise building in the heart of downtown. The morning's run-through showed that yes, the building was secure, the private meeting rooms were completely eavesdropper-proof, they had complete discretion when using the web, etc etc. But apparently there was a problem: of the three main branches of the Syndicate, this one was only pulling in about sixty percent of the same revenue as the ones in Mistral and Atlas, particularly important because it was also the only one not run by an immediate member of the current heads of the Hei'An family. Some follow-up analysis of the sources of their profit revealed a telling truth: the Daybreak Syndicate: Vacuo was not receiving intelligence requests from traditionally "shady" customers.

Now how could that be? Zanipher wondered. Brief inquiry had brought a potentially troubling challenge forward: the existence of an already well-established crime group in the area known as The Cardamom Family. Most puzzling of all was this group's apparent lack of concern for keeping their identities and workings private; it seemed like every citizen in Vacuo knew who they were. Anyway, if the DS:V was going to start bringing in more revenue, she was either going to have to work out a meeting with these Cardamoms or evaluate their threat level to continued expansion of Dragon assets. And who better to approach for this information than experienced vigilante James Everest, the Seventh Dragon?

Zanipher pulled out her Scroll and dialed his private number. Apparently the Sixth and Eighth Dragons were also in town for personal expansion projects, so she would try to see if they could all have a meeting together to discuss the best mode of action.