[ OPEN ] trust in me

[kaientai]

Who ⬤ Sakamoto Ryouma + others!
What ⬤ Ryouma has more business meetings...
When ⬤ the end of June and throughout July
Where ⬤ his office + wherever else around the city!
Content Warnings ⬤ None at the moment! Will add if anything comes up.

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Comments

[kaientai]

I know five or so people I can reliably call upon to help, but I fully intend to bring everyone who has any bit of influence within the Alliance in on this. What we do to sort out the black market business is technically a separate venture from what we need to build down there, so we need to look into appointing someone reliable who can help oversee some of that, first of all.

[ ryouma takes a moment to sip his tea (thanks for topping him off, emily!) before he continues. she can probably see it on his face, the way he doesn't look directly at her while he talks because his eyes unfocus a little. setting things to order in his mind's eye is what it is. ]

Secondly, what I do know is that part of the problem is things disappearing off Celestial-owned ships. They're so wealthy they don't really care that it happens, but it impacts the other 99% of us who don't have coffers full of heavenly riches at our disposal. I couldn't convince them to do anything about the problem directly, but they might be motivated to assist us in ways I haven't thought of yet or at least not be an obstruction. Mostly, I want to find out who is behind the leaks so I can try and buy them out. Taking over the entire operation ourselves would be the last resort.

[medicative]

You could buy them outright, or you could persuade them into working for you if you can prove that you'd offer more security than their thievery gives them. High risk and high reward is all well and good, but consistency might be more worth it in the end, particularly if they have family to take care of.

[it does come with the risk that they might steal from Ryouma, but hopefully the deal meant it would work in their favor for them not to.]

But I don't know very much about how all this is supposed to work, so it could be a perfectly silly idea. You're welcome to correct me.

[kaientai]

Ahah, see, I didn't even think'a that! It might ease the process if there's somethin' in it t' sweeten the deal. I wanna find out where the common ground is and what they want, jus' like that. That's how I always do it 'cause arguin' and threatenin' people just puts people on the defensive.

[ he takes smaller sips from his cup and smiles. he almost expects people to skim off the top in any of these dealings, but he can live with that as long as everyone's satisfied in the end — and he can deliver on his promises. ]

It doesn't matter much if ya know how it's s'posed t' work anyway. I never did. It's more important if y' can feel people out and stay flexible.