Thread: Business as usual (8-23-09 Attn Constantino)

Reply by Jess Phillips

The guard lets Tamas in after the mock inspection. Constantino is seated in a corner booth. The Boston Globe and The Lamar Democrat spread across the table in front of him. The financial sections are still inside each respective paper, instead the 'Lifestyle" sections are being browsed by Tino. Folding the section and sitting it to his side Tino rises and offers a hand to Tamas as he approaches. "Pleasure to see you again, sir. What can I do for you tonight?"

Reply by Matthew Johns

Tamas nods sitting down across from Constantino, reaching into his pocket and pulling out a baggie with a little white pill, tossing it on the papers. "Wish i could say this was social, but as always, Lamar is screwing up, and the Ravnos have to come to the rescue... Thankfully for you, the Giovanni have the chance to assist, make a little money, honor and prestige, and some definate kudos with the Harpy. What do you know about HH?"

Reply by Jess Phillips

Tino picks up the tablet. Running it over and over between his thumb and finger. "Sadly, I know very little. Even those that its killed have had no real useful information for me. If it doesn't kill, it can induce coma's with ease. I've seen it with my own eyes. I've watched how the death takes someone who has actually overdosed on it." Tino drops the pill back to the table. "I'd like to be able to get to the source, but I have reservations about doing it myself since I have so much on my plate at the moment. It kind of shocked me that Razor seemed disinterested in the offer from the two sitting down from me at the auction, I would have bet quite largely on the fact that they were behind it."

Reply by Matthew Johns

"Well im going to give you 2 bits of free bee's in good faith here." Tamas leans forward, getting very serious vey quicly. "First, its actually a Vampire drug, that somehow is getting in mortal hands. Vampires dont even have to take it through a mortal, you could pop that right now and be flying high just like a mortal....and the second, one of the local clubs, the Kity kat Klub is being used as one of the staging points by a major distributer, still got to much on your plate, or you want to hear more?"

Reply by Jess Phillips

Tino looked around and squeezed the bridge of his nose. "I had assumed that the drug was meant for us. Sometimes the coma can be reveresed with the blood." Tino picks up the classafied section of the Democrat and found an add for KKK asking for flexible 'dancers' to apply at the bar. "I'm not surprised KKK is being set up as a distribution center. Are you asking me to look into that area?"

Reply by Matthew Johns

"Not at all, I would never ask a business man to change how he does business. But i also found out an interesting fact that the business is expanding. The HH is origionating locally and spreading. Its spreading to the Kansas Side already with Anarchs over there buying it up like mad, getting hopped up and coming over causing problems. Further more, at the rate it is going, the distributer wont have a choice but to expand where he does business to other locations, and if it DOES work primaraly for vampires, what better point to start then say...Indigo, a place where we are known to fequent, that would be VERY bad business for you. Expecially if someone, say a disgruntled soon to be former prince accused you of endorcing the sale of this...plague on our community."

Reply by Jess Phillips

Tino chuckles. "I don't even think Cross is that stupid. He knows how its affected my family already, that card is played out. I must say I find it slightly amusing that you use the term "Plague on our community." Its interesting how deadly this could be one massive scales. It could perhaps claim lives at the rate certain true plagues have in the past...." Tino's voice trails off for a moment and an anguished look momentarily crosses his features. "Let me make a few calls and see what I can come up with pretaining to KKK."

Reply by Matthew Johns

"The person frequents on tuesdays around 11. I wish i had a name or even a description, but I had to do alot of leg work to just get this much. Apparently though he is quite he regular, so should be odvious, further more, im sure you have more then ample control of your people, but this indeed does have potential to get out of hand. I have dealt with drugs for a long time. You dont make drugs that comatose or kill your clientel. You thin it or weeken it if its too strong, make it addictive. before long the DEA is gonna hit the area, start asking questions like "why is a drug continuing to prosper if it has such a high rate of hindering its takers." There gonna keep asking questions until it leads them to some stupid Anarch and we are looking at a huge masquerade breach. We are on the verge of something so big that the neonates dont seem to grasp."

Reply by Jess Phillips

Tino nods as if agreed. "The DEA has already been here for at least three months. My contacts are too scared to ask what they know, but I've relayed a little information to them. Drop points, effects...minor stuff. I'm guessing that we have more information than they do, or a breach would have already occured." Tino pulls out a PDA and types in a few things. "I'll have my people start inquiring about the man at the Klub."