I was thinking about what to do with Zhao a bit more in detail and thought it might be neat to discuss with
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since they're all criminals haha.
I was thinking that for the first half of Zhao's initial month (group 2 arrival) he'll come in and see Aleks doing his empire building and join him as a potential lieutenant or something. Whatever he is, he's working for/with Aleks in the underworld.
And then eventually he heads over to the nature world and starts practicing his thieving skills -- and ships things back to the black market for Aleks's empire and a few items for Lockwood to sell.
After seeing the log, asking some questions of the mods and adjusting my plans a smidge. Lockwood doesn't know Zhao well enough to trust him and between the message when they arrived, and then seeing first had how absolute the distrust the underworld has for anything that smells of Federation, Lockwood is playing his cards even closer to
He's cycled through about five different plans at this point, gaining traction on presenting himself as a procurer for dealers and building his reputation on that ability.
So for right now, let's put a pin in anything with Lockwood. But maybe Gutterson can cross paths with Zhao while Zhao is five finger discounting items for Aleks, and act like he's going to take Zhao in and whoopsie ... prisoner escaped.
LOL. It's ok, Zhao was going to reach out to Lockwood on his own after he got some stuff. Essentially, I was going to do a quick network tag with Zhao being like "here's some stuff curtesy of the boss--spread the word he's good for this, too"
Yeah, now I'm torn because that does sound like a better approach, when it comes to Lockwood. Maybe how would this look. Zhao can reach out, Lockwood can come take a look but ultimate be "I work with dealers directly and take specific commissions ... but if you want to move this stuff, have your boss contact X, Y, Z"
Fantastic. I have an idea of what the network tag would look like but phone typing is funk so I'll give a better run down after work. (Or on break if it's long enough.)
But essentially. Yes. Zhao would also feel better if Lockwood dropped his and/or Aleks's name as it would provide Lockwood a modicum of protection from those he deals with. (He does not have to tell Lockwood that if it would make it worse in convincing him lol)
Where you going to do a TL with Zhao? I wasn't planning to TL Tim, but rather to tag him in to things. I can write the starter if you have a TL for Zhao?
And the more I thought about it, I do appreciate your plan with Zhao and when he gets over his initial distrust so will Lockwood. He may have decided to be a freelance contractor, but he does still want to help fellow orbers with their covers.
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: Would you like a starter for Tim or to just hit up Zhao's tl with a wildcard of your own? I'm good either way. But remind me which planet you'd like to do the thread on if I'm starting, arigatou.
If you can put up a starter I'd be grateful! Any of the planets work, my approach is Tim is through his recruitment but bottom of the totem pole so he's not allowed to be picky about where he's sent. So whatever works for Zhao!
Okay caught up reading about the search requests.... there's two of them coming to match up in dates. Ten years ago something definitely went down--that's when Zandr did his first theft and it's when the Ghost Matter came about.
peeks in here shyly and waves Just a stray thought. Would either of you (or both) want to take up the baton pass regarding Bracken and his group? I was just thinking it makes IC sense, since Zhao made the contact with Lockwood? But if you have other search requests plans, ignore me. c:
Whoops, I saw my other plurk first. But! Good news! The mercs are gonna pick it up, and I'm gonna hit you up with another thread when I get a moment. XD
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I also thought about throwing Zhao at it since he was contacting Lockwood already but the network post makes it simple for Felix and Yelena to hit it up, too. And we were looking for a replacement search request for them so hopefully that's good with you, too!
boyfriend :'D