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<blockquote data-quote="Leif" data-source="post: 5637585" data-attributes="member: 48762"><p><strong>Simulgrab, Cutting to the Chase, a/k/a Reset</strong></p><p></p><p>[ooc]For the sake of our collective sanity, I'm going to help things along a bit. The Corporate Fixers for Zeering Conglomerate have been sent to Edenelt to investigate some irregularities at Simulgrab Power Processors, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zeering. During your investigation, you've discovered that Jovan Selm, who is actually on the payroll of Zeering but is stationed here in the role of Director of Oversight for Simulgrab Power Processors, is diverting funds for some unknown purpose. Your initial investigation seemed to incriminate Alouicious Macintosh, but further intelligence on Macintosh revealed that he is quite incapable of pulling off a job like this. It's much more likely that he is merely a dupe of the real perpetrator, and probably has no knowledge of what's really going on here. You've also learned that Welest Turang, the recently deposed Lord High Marshal of Edenelt, is an employee of Simulgrab Power Processors. Welest Turang was overthrown and replaced by a so-called Council of Wardens composed of three, um, <em>individuals</em> named Douval Reif, Gagnor Simes, and Bourachang Hoffmann. They are variously wanted by several authorities across the Sector for anything/everything from Spitting on the Sidewalk to Extortion of Millions of Credits, Rape, Pillage, Murder, and Tax Evasion. They're bad guys, to say the least. You've made contact with Welest Turang, or so we can easily assume, and it's an easy matter to determine that he is still in good health and at liberty. So that will complete the part of your mission that you were not overtly told about. Ooops. Then there's also the matter of nailing that pesky embezzler. Jovan Selm is a bad apple, true, but he's not in it by himself. No, his contact at Zeering, who should have caught this situation a long, long time ago, is Temakak Briden. There is a fishy smell apparent near Briden, too, and it seems like he must have some guilty knowledge of this operation.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, Selm and Briden are easy enough to get nabbed, being just run-of-the-mill white collar crooks. No challenge there, even. But the <em>other</em> three, Douval Reif, Gagnor Simes, and Bourachang Hoffmann, now that might be a somewhat taller order. A bit of checking reveals that while almost everyone who is anyone at Simulgrab has heard of them, not one single person can recall actually setting eyes on any of the three in person or on vid. No one even knows what race/species they are. [/ooc] </p><p></p><p>[If this is sounding a bit familiar to some of you, yes, I'm going for a Jack Vance's <u>Demon Princes</u> kind of a feel here.]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leif, post: 5637585, member: 48762"] [b]Simulgrab, Cutting to the Chase, a/k/a Reset[/b] [ooc]For the sake of our collective sanity, I'm going to help things along a bit. The Corporate Fixers for Zeering Conglomerate have been sent to Edenelt to investigate some irregularities at Simulgrab Power Processors, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zeering. During your investigation, you've discovered that Jovan Selm, who is actually on the payroll of Zeering but is stationed here in the role of Director of Oversight for Simulgrab Power Processors, is diverting funds for some unknown purpose. Your initial investigation seemed to incriminate Alouicious Macintosh, but further intelligence on Macintosh revealed that he is quite incapable of pulling off a job like this. It's much more likely that he is merely a dupe of the real perpetrator, and probably has no knowledge of what's really going on here. You've also learned that Welest Turang, the recently deposed Lord High Marshal of Edenelt, is an employee of Simulgrab Power Processors. Welest Turang was overthrown and replaced by a so-called Council of Wardens composed of three, um, [i]individuals[/i] named Douval Reif, Gagnor Simes, and Bourachang Hoffmann. They are variously wanted by several authorities across the Sector for anything/everything from Spitting on the Sidewalk to Extortion of Millions of Credits, Rape, Pillage, Murder, and Tax Evasion. They're bad guys, to say the least. You've made contact with Welest Turang, or so we can easily assume, and it's an easy matter to determine that he is still in good health and at liberty. So that will complete the part of your mission that you were not overtly told about. Ooops. Then there's also the matter of nailing that pesky embezzler. Jovan Selm is a bad apple, true, but he's not in it by himself. No, his contact at Zeering, who should have caught this situation a long, long time ago, is Temakak Briden. There is a fishy smell apparent near Briden, too, and it seems like he must have some guilty knowledge of this operation. Anyway, Selm and Briden are easy enough to get nabbed, being just run-of-the-mill white collar crooks. No challenge there, even. But the [i]other[/i] three, Douval Reif, Gagnor Simes, and Bourachang Hoffmann, now that might be a somewhat taller order. A bit of checking reveals that while almost everyone who is anyone at Simulgrab has heard of them, not one single person can recall actually setting eyes on any of the three in person or on vid. No one even knows what race/species they are. [/ooc] [If this is sounding a bit familiar to some of you, yes, I'm going for a Jack Vance's [u]Demon Princes[/u] kind of a feel here.] [/QUOTE]
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