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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8439546" data-attributes="member: 16814">I think it's absolutely critical to note that lots of these details were created as backstory in direct response to player actions.  The relationship of the Dean and Evonia was created as a result of a successful check to get Evonia (who was the receptionist/clerk at the hotel/apts) to disgorge the identity of the two men via intimidation and veiled threats (which occurred after successfully bypassing security in the club to approach Evonia backstage away from others, a threatening position).  The further elucidation that there may be a more romantic relationship was established during a later check made to identify the travel patterns of the Dean.  No idea if there's anything to that (she was seen exiting his home after hours during surveillance), because the crew didn't follow up on that for the score, instead choosing to leverage other information (the fact that the Dean was travelling by cab with hired muscle after the bloodbath he'd escaped from in the apartment card game (that turned left hard)).  Functionally, all of this was being created from direct prompts from checks made.  Had those checks turned out differently, different things would have been created.</blockquote>