Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-13488655-20160426221910/@comment-5999656-20160718231932

"Thank freaking bejeezus," Zanipher said into the Scroll. "I tried calling James like five times and he wasn't picking up. So I'm glad you, at least, keep your Scroll around." Now that she was actually getting somewhere, Zan leaned back comfortably and crossed her legs.

"You're right, we haven't spoken in a while, especially after that fiasco with Beacon sent the Hunters down and roaming the cities instead. Right now I'm in Vacuo to try and gauge the economic atmosphere for the Dragons' MNCs, and it's looking a little poor at the moment. Mistral, Vacuo, and Atlas have all upped their police presence after Beacon was toppled, and it's cutting deeply into my company's revenues. Plus, frankly I don't know this region's politics well enough to feel comfortable expanding much at the moment."

She took a breath and absentmindedly looked out the window. Dusk had long since passed, leaving the bright lights of the city to drown out the stars. It wasn't her first time in the "empty kingdom", but it was her first time here for business.

"I was wondering how much you knew about the Cardamom family. They've got a very big reputation 'round here, and I'm thinking since four of the nine Dragons have coincidentally chosen to come here at around the same time, it might be a good idea to look into a partnership or agreement of some sort. If we can expand our knowledge about the underworld here and maybe set up our services without starting a war, it would be a great boon to the network as a whole."

Zanipher's team had done a little asking around with the locals, nothing too deep. Accounts suggested that the Cardamoms were reasonable enough, so if they approached them respectfully and straightforwardly and were open to compromise, she couldn't see a reason why they would be refused. And if they were, well, the Dragons were already here anyway. She wasn't interested in subjugating street gangs, only in boosting profit to her syndicate.