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Reira Akaba ([personal profile] soft_focus) wrote2015-06-12 12:02 pm
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<CCC-REDHORSE> This is Reira Akaba!
<CCC-REDHORSE>I'll try to answer you but sometimes I'm busy or sleeping, so I don't think about the message right away.
evilopportunityemployer: (Sleazy salesman)

<BlackHat>

[personal profile] evilopportunityemployer 2019-06-08 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Someone with an interest in helping it along. I don't care for the Fog god or her little puppets.

My name is Black Hat, and I have a proposition to make.
evilopportunityemployer: (Thinking)

<BlackHat>

[personal profile] evilopportunityemployer 2019-06-08 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
Nothing too drastic. A little heist.

[Flug had told him about Felfri, after their meeting with Egon. Scrolled back on his own laptop to show his employer the network after the crash, the posts Black Hat himself can't access.

Black Hat has put quite a few things together since then.]


A lich is quite reliant on his phylactery. It's a powerful bargaining chip. And you seem to know quite a bit about Aunamee's.
Edited 2019-06-08 03:13 (UTC)
evilopportunityemployer: (Hiss)

<BlackHat>

[personal profile] evilopportunityemployer 2019-06-08 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I believe I may have a solution.

[Black Hat drums his claws across an open book next to his laptop. Spengler's Monster Guides - specifically, the section on liches. He's been doing some reading.]

But I prefer speaking face to face, especially on such sensitive matters. You've been here longer than I have. Name a meeting place, and we can continue to discuss this in person, should you still be interested.
evilopportunityemployer: (Eyebrow Raise)

<BlackHat>

[personal profile] evilopportunityemployer 2019-06-12 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't want to be distracted by unnecessary pain. What manner of park would have that effect?

Your alternative?
evilopportunityemployer: (Sneer)

[personal profile] evilopportunityemployer 2019-06-12 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Where the Fog god's magic stops working? Black Hat is now very interested. There has to be more to it - and he will be prying in that regard.]

A useful trick to have. Tell me the location of this cafe and when you would like to meet up. I will be there.
evilopportunityemployer: (Back)

[personal profile] evilopportunityemployer 2019-06-13 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
You are very welcome.

[There's no sincerity at all in it, but that's not noticeable over text. Black Hat replies back with the earliest date possible - no time like the present to begin.]
evilopportunityemployer: (Thinking)

[personal profile] evilopportunityemployer 2019-06-24 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Fortunately, Black Hat isn't hard to pick out in a crowd. Tall, gray-skinned, and inhumanly-faced - even without the elegantly folded wings and the slender tail swishing gently, the hat alone gives him away.

Black Hat arrives a few minutes after the scheduled time - late, but in a socially acceptable manner, and not because he hasn't quite mastered the layout of Bavan yet. And it certainly helps that the cafe population is mostly human - any monster would stick out like a sore thumb.

He's actually caught a bit off-guard by how young the girl is, despite her height. It gives him the briefest of pauses; not out of any guilt for bringing a child into this scheme, mind, but from wondering if she is up to snuff. But shortly he's sweeping over to the kelpie. Children have a unique capacity for cruelty, he's found.]


Reira, I presume?

[The accented, harsh rasp clashes with his gentlemanly appearance.]
evilopportunityemployer: (Thinking)

<BlackHat>

[personal profile] evilopportunityemployer 2019-06-27 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
The one and only. [Black Hat gives his hat an ever so slight tip, not enough to reveal anything beneath it, and takes Reira’s hand in a grip that’s ever so slightly tight. This is a business meeting, as far as he’s concerned, and he’ll be treating it as such.

He takes a seat across from Reira, not bothering to order a drink. With the initial pleasantries dispensed with, he begins.]


I’d prefer to cut straight to the matter at hand. If you would…? [Black Hat gestures at the bustling cafe around them. These humans don’t need to be privy to their conversation, after all.]
evilopportunityemployer: (Shit-eating grin)

[personal profile] evilopportunityemployer 2019-06-27 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[The demonstration satisfies Black Hat. Adjusting his wings for a bit more comfort (and to slightly inconvenience the man behind him - any and all grumbles will be ignored), Black Hat proceeds with this little meeting.]

With the phylactery. [Black Hat leans forward and steeples his fingers in front of him.]

Obviously any lich who values their 'life' won't keep their phylactery on them. That's begging for trouble. Keep it stashed away, where no one can find it.

[And now he smiles. There's always an edge of danger to his smiles.]

But we don't need to find his hidey hole. We just need to find Aunamee - at the right time.

[He raises his eyebrow - he wants to see if Reira can follow.]
evilopportunityemployer: (Sleazy salesman)

[personal profile] evilopportunityemployer 2019-06-27 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[So she can follow. Black Hat doesn't always have the delight of dealing with a person who has half a brain cell to think with. It does also mean he'll be more cautious to not let anything slip that he doesn't want out there. His smile stretches wider.]

He can't eat without it. He needs it to feed - find out when he feeds next, follow him, and catch him by surprise.

[Black Hat drums his fingers on the table.]

This is where you come in. I haven't been here long enough to know the man. But you... you seem quite familiar with him. [On account of, you know, him murdering you.] What kind of man is Aunamee?

[People fall into patterns without even realizing it. Knowing the quirks of a man's personality can help pinpoint his behaviors.]
evilopportunityemployer: (Keep talking)

[personal profile] evilopportunityemployer 2019-06-27 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Reira's painting a picture of a man that, in another situation, Black Hat would be courting to sell to, one he'd throw his considerable support behind in any endeavors. It's almost a shame, really. As it stands he's only useful as a tool in a larger plot.

None of this crosses Black Hat's face as Reira speaks, though. No, she doesn't need to know about it at all.]


And with a mask like that he'd stick out like a sore thumb. [Not going to make it easy, are we, Aunamee? Black Hat likes a challenge.] We'll have to do some digging. No one's perfect [Except Black Hat] so he'll have left a tell of some sort. A too-perfect kidnapping, with no traces.

[He's musing out loud a bit. It might take time to find that, but they're not necessarily on a timeline at the moment.

And he certainly notes that little quip about lies. Especially how it's about direct lies.]