>>35875195
>Let this family drama play out.

Why was this voted for again?

>>35875195
>Write-in.
Take the phone.
"Sounds rather like what happened to our little exhibitionist, doesn't it?"
"Maybe skipping those six years wasn't the best of choices."

>>35875195
>Let this family drama play out.

>>35875216

Because all the other stories involved lying, which we have no idea if Clara can do very well.

>>35875195
>Let this family drama play out.
too late to stop

>>35875216
no fucking clue, something between "hurr lying is bad" and "hurr she probably can't keep a lie up anyway"

>>35875222
>>35875195
This

>>35875230
>which we have no idea if Clara can do very well.
Aside from the whole segment where she acted very well in front of the police.
Oh wait, I forget players don't have memories here.

>>35875230
You mean right after she lied excellently to the police officers?

This looks like a fun quest. Is there anything important I should remember after reading the archives to keep up with this?

>>35875222
Seconding this

>>35875230
>>Because all the other stories involved lying, which we have no idea if Clara can do very well.
Aside from the fact the we did know. She lied expertly to the cops last thread.

>>35875251
Klondike guy is annoying

>>35875235
>no fucking clue, something between "hurr lying is bad" and "hurr she probably can't keep a lie up anyway"
Because the story was boring as hell and we wanted to spice it up a bit.

>>35875251
Go out and buy some Klondike bars.

>>35875273
Just report and hide his posts. He thrives on attention.

>>35875236
>>35875240

She "faked" being emotionally distressed very well, and the only false part of that somebody was right at her door.

The other element would involve weaving a believable story to Maxine and probably keeping it consistent, as opposed to the zero lying option.

It's a fair point, but obviously it wasn't just one guy saying
>Eh, truth's simpler

>>35875222
Lets just go with this.
Hand the phone back after we say that though.

>>35875222
this

probably related to the tempuros shenanigans.

>>35875195
"Uh, I didn't do anything. Your daughter is kind of a freak."

>>35875222
It's on speakerphone. All you need to do is say it.

And rather than "our little exhibitionist", I'd rather mention him by name: Zeke. It'd be a bit more convincing.

>>35875355
I couldn't remember the fuckers name, sorry.

>>35875284
>Because the story was boring as hell and we wanted to spice it up a bit.
"We're bored, lets start acting like retards until we're no longer bored"

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>>35875375
Welcome to quests.

>>35875375
"This story is boring, but I don't really care! Let's keep playing it safe! Maybe Mandy from IT has got some emails for us to read! Or we could talk to Clara while being careful not to talk about anything of value or interact meaningfully with her in any way!"

>>35875375
Many of the lies would only serve to aggravate the mother more, or would seem too much like we were forcing her to say them. There's also the fact that now Clara's literally told the truth: if she fails to get her mother off our backs, then she'll hopefully realize that it's her mother that's the problem.

And that can only work to our advantage.

>>35875413
In all fairness, there have been plenty of interesting choices that weren't really risky, that also didn't get chosen.

>>35875426
Our primary goal is to get the money. Having her tell the truth makes it a lot less likely to achieve that goal.
We should have just started sending the mom pictures that makes it look like her daughter was being raped or something to guilt trip her into paying up.

>>35875486
The "primary goal" has never been the money, dipshit. The goal was survival: escaping the corporation that literally tried to have us killed before we ever picked up a captve.

The money is just a potential means to that end.

>>35875486

Maxine doesn't seem the type for guilt, though. She's the aggressive response type, from what we've seen so far, so such things are just more likely to make her angry and vindictive. She's playing hardball already, if we keep pissing her off she'll get pretty serious about obliterating us. She's not afraid to have guys shoot it out with cops, as far as we know.

>>35875513
The "primary goal" of the kidnapping is the money.

>>35875546
>The "primary goal" of the kidnapping is the money.
Yes, but the reason we WANTED the money, as described in-character, is to start a new life outside the reach of the corporate CEO who tried to murder us.

In pulling shit like faked rape videos or pictures, you're just pissing off said CEO, making it both harder to get the money and pretty much impossible to get her to back the fuck off.

>>35875513
Exactly.

>>35875539
If Maxine backs off at the prospect of Clara being hurt we know we've got her by the balls, if not the waifufags can rejoice because they can now justify escaping with Clara from her evil mother.

>>35875546
The motive behind the money is to escape her fucking henchmen. We "rape" her, we get hunted down to the ends of the earth.

>>35875195
>Let this family drama play out.

You pick up the phone, interrupting Clara and Maxine's little family heart-to-heart. Turning it off speakerphone, you bring it up to your ear.

"It sounds a little familiar to me, Maxine," you say, and you can practically hear the woman hiss at your uninvited interruption. "Ezekiel Watts. Or should I call him Zeke? He got in trouble for something a bit similar, as I recall..."

There's a pause, hesitant. "You're grasping at straws."

"Am I? Or perhaps the connection's real. Clara told me what her first sexual thought was, did you know that?" Clara blushes where she stands. "She got picked up by her caretaker and it gave her this funny little tingle. Wonder if whatever you were doing to her to make her grow made that tingle much, much more important than it otherwise would've been?" Clara looks a little... confused by that, blinking as she tries to process your words. "Just a wild guess, but Zeke wouldn't happen to have had something similar happen to him?"

"I'm not saying anything about that."

"Then maybe I should just note that perhaps it wasn't such a good idea to raise your kid in an experimental facility with untested technology."

"You don't know anything, you little shit. When I get my hands on you-"

>Threaten to elope with Clara if she doesn't pay up now. It's a realistic threat, and you doubt that Maxine would be pleased if it happened.
>Have Clara try to reason with her. Maxine doesn't need to give you the money right away, she just needs to call off her mercs before anyone else gets hurt. Maybe Clara can manage that, at least.
>Suggest that you marry Clara. She's so lovesick, and it would elegantly solve all of everyone's problems; Clara will be happy, you won't have to worry about your mother-in-law trying to have you killed, and Maxine doesn't have to worry about Clara running off after you or doing anything stupid.
>Write-in.

>>35875195
Arguably, we're the ones who've developed Lima syndrome.

If there's anyone here who needs a headshrink it's us.

>>35875251
Nothing that you can't look up in the archives again for reference really. The wait times between updates usually give you enough time to check up on something.

>>35875615
She's already going to attempt to hunt us down to the end of the earth. Now we have no ability to get the money because no majority will vote to actually hurt Clara and we now can't do some scheme that involves Clara running off with the MC after we get the money because her mother knows she believes she's in love.

>>35875644
>Threaten to elope with Clara if she doesn't pay up now. It's a realistic threat, and you doubt that Maxine would be pleased if it happened.

>>35875652
Yeah, we're way too nice to her. We have been since the start.

>>35875644
>>Threaten to elope with Clara if she doesn't pay up now. It's a realistic threat, and you doubt that Maxine would be pleased if it happened.

>>35875644
>Suggest that you marry Clara. She's so lovesick, and it would elegantly solve all of everyone's problems; Clara will be happy, you won't have to worry about your mother-in-law trying to have you killed, and Maxine doesn't have to worry about Clara running off after you or doing anything stupid.
Turn speakerphone back on and call it a win-win.

>>35875644
>>Suggest that you marry Clara. She's so lovesick, and it would elegantly solve all of everyone's problems; Clara will be happy, you won't have to worry about your mother-in-law trying to have you killed, and Maxine doesn't have to worry about Clara running off after you or doing anything stupid.

>>35875644
>>Suggest that you marry Clara. She's so lovesick, and it would elegantly solve all of everyone's problems; Clara will be happy, you won't have to worry about your mother-in-law trying to have you killed, and Maxine doesn't have to worry about Clara running off after you or doing anything stupid.

fuck it down the hole we go

>>35875644
>Threaten to elope with Clara if she doesn't pay up now. It's a realistic threat, and you doubt that Maxine would be pleased if it happened.

>>35875644
>Suggest that you marry Clara. She's so lovesick, and it would elegantly solve all of everyone's problems; Clara will be happy, you won't have to worry about your mother-in-law trying to have you killed, and Maxine doesn't have to worry about Clara running off after you or doing anything stupid.

>>35875644
>Have Clara try to reason with her. Maxine doesn't need to give you the money right away, she just needs to call off her mercs before anyone else gets hurt. Maybe Clara can manage that, at least.

>>35875644
Already voted, but I'm just going to put this out here: think very hard about using marriage as a threat, and how people would respond to it.

Maxine will take it as a sure sign that we're just using Clara to cover our ass: and even if we are, that's not a thing we want.

Clara might take it the same way, and think we don't really give a shit about her. Which even if we don't, that's not how we want her to feel about it.

>>35875644
>Threaten to go to the press with what we have learned.

>>35875644
>Suggest that you marry Clara. She's so lovesick, and it would elegantly solve all of everyone's problems; Clara will be happy, you won't have to worry about your mother-in-law trying to have you killed, and Maxine doesn't have to worry about Clara running off after you or doing anything stupid.

>>35875732
Using marrige as a threat is only serving up our head on a silver platter. Maxine will kill us first chance she gets.

>>35875644
>Threaten to elope with Clara if she doesn't pay up now. It's a realistic threat, and you doubt that Maxine would be pleased if it happened.

Well one things for sure. We just made a fool of ourselves.

>>35875644
>>Suggest that you marry Clara. She's so lovesick, and it would elegantly solve all of everyone's problems; Clara will be happy, you won't have to worry about your mother-in-law trying to have you killed, and Maxine doesn't have to worry about Clara running off after you or doing anything stupid.

>>35875644
>Threaten to elope with Clara if she doesn't pay up now. It's a realistic threat, and you doubt that Maxine would be pleased if it happened.

does she want us out of her hair and away from her daughter or not?

>>35875668
>She's already going to attempt to hunt us down to the end of the earth.
She can escalate more. She hasn't escalated because we haven't done enough shit to do that. We send a finger, she will use all of the corporation's resources to crush us.

Are you seriously suggesting we play Moby Dick to her Ahab?

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>>35875739

Eloping is way more sensible than marriage. Do you really want to just hand yourself over to Maxine?

>>35875767
We're already the white whale, we know to much to be allowed to leave. We already know too many of her secrets for her to consider not chasing. All this does is create a situation in which our effective power is limited. And she can only escalate so much before she risks her daughter.

>>35875644
>Threaten to elope with Clara if she doesn't pay up now. It's a realistic threat, and you doubt that Maxine would be pleased if it happened.

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>>35875767
To play the devil's advocate, Moby Dick won in the end.

Of course, Moby Dick was a fuckhuge albino sperm whale and Ahab was just a crazy, crippled whaler. We're one guy, and Maxine has massive resources at her disposal, so....yeah.

>>35875808
Who says we have to be married with her there?

>>35875808
I don't expect her to approve of either.

At least phrasing it as "why don't I just marry her and make her happy and you can try not killing me for once" paints us more as the good guy rather than as a pure opportunist..

>>35875852
Nice picture for ants.

>>35875803
Well I'm sure Maxine will be glad we asked for her approval...god damn people.

>"I've got your daughter, and dirt on you. Why do you refuse to pay this ultimately trivial amount of money to insure your daughters safety, as well a guarantee to keep a lid on whatever ethically questionable shit you've been involved in? Is she really not worth price I've put up for her?

I know I'm too late, but we really should've tried guilt tripping her just then.

"I think I have a solution that should work for all involved parties," you interrupt, putting the phone down and setting it to speaker. Clara nervously plays with her hands as her eyes flick between it and you. "It's simple: I marry Clara." Clara blinks, her eyes going wide, a hopeful look appearing on her face before it's replaced with confusion. "Clara's happy: she's really, obviously, incredibly in love with me. I'm happy, because you obviously wouldn't murder your son-in-law. And you're happy, because you don't have to worry about Clara running off after me, or doing anything stupid like that."

There's a long, long silence. For a moment you worry the line's gone dead, but a glance at the phone shows the call's still going.

"M-Mom," Clara starts, "I, I would be really ha-happy if you said yes. I really, really love him, and-"

"You barely even know him, Clara," Maxine interrupts, annoyed. "He doesn't love you back. Did you notice that? He never said that he even *liked* you."

"It's - it's okay. I understand that he didn't feel what I did, when we first met. It just means I have to work for it." She looks up at you, giving you a sickly sweet look. "I'm sure if I try my hardest to make him happy, he'll learn to love me back."

"This is ridiculous," Maxine says, huffing. "You can't be serious."

"Oh, I'm quite serious, Mrs. Hunter... or should I say, Mom?"

"No. No you should not."

>Hang up. Let her sit on it for a little bit.
>Tell her to at least call off her goons and give it some thought. For Clara's peace of mind, if nothing else.
>What does she have against you, anyway? You've got skills, you're driven, you're handsome and experienced. What's the problem?
>Write-in.

>>35875997
>Tell her to at least call off her goons and give it some thought. For Clara's peace of mind, if nothing else.
>What does she have against you, anyway? You've got skills, you're driven, you're handsome and experienced. What's the problem?

>>35875997
>Write-in.
"Look ma'am, I just want to live at this point. So how about I give your daughter back, you give me the money, we write it off as a test of your security systems, and then I'll fuck off to a small town in Yukon."

>>35875997
>Tell her to at least call off her goons and give it some thought. For Clara's peace of mind, if nothing else.
Because honestly, we do seem to care. More than we probably should, and more than it makes sense to. And while it may not be love, it's a hell of a start.

>>35875997
>Tell her to at least call off her goons and give it some thought. For Clara's peace of mind, if nothing else.

>>35875997
>Tell her to at least call off her goons and give it some thought. For Clara's peace of mind, if nothing else.

>>35875997
>What does she have against you, anyway? You've got skills, you're driven, you're handsome and experienced. What's the problem?
And honestly, what was wrong with our time as a security consultant? We were perfectly willing to play ball with the new management, we weren't asking anything out of the ordinary for our line of work.
Honestly, all she did was burn perfectly usable assets for no discernable gain.

>>35875997
>Hang up. Let her sit on it for a little bit.
+
>Write in
"We'll leave the idea to stir with you for a bit, I'm getting hungry, and I think Clara's going to volunteer to make some food. Girls love knowing their beloved enjoys their food after all, right?"

>>35875997
>Tell her to at least call off her goons and give it some thought. For Clara's peace of mind, if nothing else.

>>35875997
>Tell her to at least call off her goons and give it some thought. For Clara's peace of mind, if nothing else.

>>35875997
>Tell her to at least call off her goons and give it some thought. For Clara's peace of mind, if nothing else.
i guess we should tell her how Clara reacted to that shooting she caused

>>35875997
>>Hang up. Let her sit on it for a little bit.

>>35876042
>>35875997
This

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>>35876042
>"We'll leave the idea to stir with you for a bit, I'm getting hungry, and I think Clara's going to volunteer to make some food. Girls love knowing their beloved enjoys their food after all, right?"
>inb4:

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>>35876161
Wait i'm sorry but is /tg/ being....Reasonable...WHAT MADNESS IS THIS?!?!

>>35876227
even broken clock is right twice a day

>>35876243
But /tg/ is more like a digital clock that randomly jumps around and resets itself at will.

"Call off your goons, for now-"

"Oh, you'd like that, wouldn't you?" Mrs. Hunter interrupts.

"Actually, it's more for Clara's sake," you reply. "Your boys had a run-in with the cops at our last safehouse," you explain. "She puked up her guts and cried like a baby. A bawling, vomiting baby. It wasn't pretty. Call of your goons, and think about the offer. For her sake."

"Please," Clara adds, "Mom, I- I- I don't want anybody to die over me," she sniffles, tears apparently renewing in her eyes.

"Pumpkin, that's what these people are paid for. They know there's the risk when they sign up. You're just a civilian, it's their job to protect you."

"I don't care!" Clara yells into the phone. "I don't want anybody to die! I just- I just want you to stop getting people killed! Is that too much too ask?"

"Clara, pumpkin," Mrs. Hunter says, voice soothing. "You don't understand what you're saying. This man is taking advantage of you. You're in a vulnerable condition. Please, pumpkin. I'm your mother, and I love you, and he doesn't. You know that."

"If- if you really love me," Clara says, wiping at her eyes, "then call off the mercs. Just for today. Okay, Mom?"

There's a long pause, then a sigh. "Fine. Fine. For now, pumpkin, because you asked."

"Thank you so much, Mom," Clara says.

>Hang up now. Have Clara fix the two of you some dinner. She said she's a good cook, right?
>Ask what Mrs. Hunter has against you, anyway.
>Write-in.

>>35876345
even such clock would be right every once in a while

>>35876416
>>Ask what Mrs. Hunter has against you, anyway.

>>35876416

>Ask what Mrs. Hunter has against you, anyway.

>>35876416
>Ask what Mrs. Hunter has against you, anyway.
Pretty sure we did good at our last job

>>35876416
>Ask what Mrs. Hunter has against you, anyway.
well, before we kidnapped her daughter anyway

>>35876416
>Hang up now. Help Clara fix the two of you some dinner. She said she's a good cook, right?

>>35876416
>Ask what Mrs. Hunter has against you, anyway.
Because this whole thing DID kind of start when she tried to have us murdered rather than laying us off like a normal boss would.

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Yeah, throwing my hat in with this lot.

>>35876416
>Hang up now. Have Clara fix the two of you some dinner. She said she's a good cook, right?

>>35875997
write-in:that is how shotgun weddings go isn't it, if thats unacceptable that brings us back to plan A.

>>35876416
>Write-in: Apologize for getting her mixed up in this.

>>35876416
>Ask what Mrs. Hunter has against you, anyway.

>>35876513
disregard this I wasn't caught up

I love how the girl in the op image is just going, "What IS this guy's deal!?"

i bet she's an antiquestfag

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>>35876636
I fucked up and used the wrong pic. Should be this one.

>>35876667
she's still got her hands tied up because she's into that shit, isn't she

>>35876725
We untied her. She'll probably be tied up again before we sleep, just to make sure, but she's been free for a while.

>>35876753
He's talking about the picture.

>>35876725
By now, probably.

"What do you have against me?"

"You kidnapped my daughter," Mrs. Hunter says, voice full of sarcasm.

"Before that. You tried to have me killed. Why?"

"I have a lot of people killed," Mrs. Hunter replies, and you can just imagine her checking her nails as she says it. "You'll need to be more specific."

"I'm the security consultant you tried to 'terminate' a couple weeks back," you say. "Ring any bells, yet?"

She pauses, as if trying to place you. "Oh. Oh. So that's who you are. It's all starting to come together, now."

"Why? Why try to have me killed?"

"Does the Stephen Black mean anything to you? I'll just tell you, since it probably doesn't. You killed him."

"If I killed him," you say, though you honestly don't remember the name, "I did it for the company."

"Oh, yes, I'm sure," Mrs. Hunter replies. "And the fact that there was a document sitting on Mr. Black's computer, alleging your involvement in any number of other criminal activities was just a coincidence? We're very lucky that one of his relatives found it and forwarded it our way. Otherwise you'd still be gumming up our works. Embezzlement, fraud, drug distribution, murder one, torture... the list goes on and on. That's the man you fell in love with, Clara. A ruthless, heartless, killer."

"H-he's been nothing but kind to me," Clara says, though there's a new tremor in her voice.

"Sure he has. He's got you wrapped around his little finger, doesn't he? Why bother with being rough when you're in love with him? If you'd resisted more, maybe he'd have brought out the electrodes."

>You didn't do half the things she's accusing you of, and what you did do, you did at the company's behest.
>Deny all of it, flat out.
>Hang up, now. You can convince Clara that her mother's just lying to try to protect her, you're sure of it.
>Write-in.

>>35876942
>>You didn't do half the things she's accusing you of, and what you did do, you did at the company's behest.

fucking riems

>>35876942
>You didn't do half the things she's accusing you of, and what you did do, you did at the company's behest.

>>35876942
>You didn't do half the things she's accusing you of, and what you did do, you did at the company's behest.

>>35876942
>You didn't do half the things she's accusing you of, and what you did do, you did at the company's behest.

>>35876942
>>You didn't do half the things she's accusing you of, and what you did do, you did at the company's behest.

>>35876942
>>Write-in.
Name of the realitive pls

>>35876942
>You didn't do half the things she's accusing you of, and what you did do, you did at the company's behest.

>>35876942
>You didn't do half the things she's accusing you of, and what you did do, you did at the company's behest.
unlike her, we have proofs of what she did

>>35876942
writein:hmm, that explains that. Knowing all this, you should reconsider just paying me.

>>35876942
>You didn't do half the things she's accusing you of, and what you did do, you did at the company's behest.

>>35877015
this

>>35876942
>You didn't do half the things she's accusing you of, and what you did do, you did at the company's behest.

>>35876942
>You didn't do half the things she's accusing you of, and what you did do, you did at the company's behest.
>Other
"And did you even bother to verify those claims? Or the claims of the other dozen or so consultants you had killed? For someone who's supposed to be so smart and powerful, you're pretty easy to con."

>>35876942
>Write-in.
A file, from the relative of the man killed, is shit that the killer has allegedly done?
Sounds fucking fishy to me

>>35876942
>You didn't do half the things she's accusing you of, and what you did do, you did at the company's behest.
And need we remind anyone, we were nothing but kind to Clara from the start.

Maxine's pretty clearly making shit up at this point, and the only things we're probably guilty of are the same things she's JUST ADMITTED TO DOING.

>>35876942
>a document sitting on Mr. Black's computer, alleging your involvement in any number of other criminal activities
>We're very lucky that one of his relatives found it and forwarded it our way.

This is either the most transparent bullshit ever, or she's the dumbest broad to manage reaching the top of the corporate ladder.

>>35876942
>Write-in
"So you terminated a dozen of the companies contractors based solely on information from a relative of a man the company recently killed?

Mrs. Hunter, I'd have to have to say this but you are incredibly poor at your job."

Am I getting this right. She wanted to "fire" us because she found out her very own wetwork guy did bad things to other people because someone who was a threat to said employee killed him to get rid of said threat which by proxy would implicate the company because of their connection.

>>35877177
that is exactly what happened

>>35877177
Or so she claims. Also, bear in mind that she fired a dozen other employee's at the same time as us. So either she's incredibly stupid or is just trying to make herself seem more moral in front of her daughter.

>>35877177
You could interpret it as us being "fired" for leaving evidence.

Probably going to just merge "I didn't do it," and "your evidence is flimsy."

>>35877235
Please do.

>>35877230
>trying to make herself seem more moral in front of her daughter.
She already fucked that up at the "I have a lot of people killed" part.

>>35877235
>"your evidence is flimsy."
More like "youre evidence is transparent bullshit you stupid stupid CEO

>>35877287
She seems to be doing that a lot. It almost makes me wonder if she's just a figurehead for someone else.

>>35876942
>Please forward the list with tick boxes marked, "I did it for fun", "I did it for profit", "I did it for the company", and "I absolutely did not do it."

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>>35876796
>girls getting kidnapped and tied up and eventually developing a fetish for bondage from it all

>>35877231
That's stupid, what would be cheaper: spending at least a million training another former soldier into the specialized tasks required of whatever corporate espionage they need done or covering it up?

>>35876942
>>You didn't do half the things she's accusing you of, and what you did do, you did at the company's behest.
Express feelings of insult. Inform her that you worked hard for the company, regardless of your personal feelings, and that such accusations are beneath her. Invite her to do some investigating on her own instead of going for a "quick kill" without any evidence.

>>35877433
They didn't spend millions training the MC. They recruited him after he'd been working for the military for several years.
He was already fully trained for wetworks.

>>35877510
I'm sure there are loads of former specops people just like him around waiting for a company to give them a new job and life where they put their skill sets to the best use.

>>35877575
They come in allotments of 10. The same company sells unicorns and sparkly vampires.

>>35877575
I'm sure the company is well aware of any intereseting prospects they can get their hands on. Enough so that they don't have to think twice about getting rid of a loose cannon.

"I didn't do half the things you're accusing me of," you say, and somehow that doesn't quite reassure Clara as much as you'd hoped. You snap up the phone. "I'm a professional. I do work for hire. I don't dip into the company pot and I don't fucking sell drugs."

"There was a lot of built up evidence," Maxine replies, voice cold. "Photos. Dates. Times. Places. It all adds up. And the fact that Mr. Black died with this on his phone? You can work with circumstantial evidence too, I'm sure, unless you've decided that my Clara's birthday is, in fact, in 2016? No?"

"You don't find it the least bit suspicious that this relative just happened upon the evidence?"

"The relative is a fucking housewife who couldn't even unlock her brother's phone and brought it to the company in the hopes that we could. If I have to choose between believing that a woman who hasn't been employed since the Green Administration and didn't graduate high school is some kind of brilliant hacker fabricating excellent evidence, and believing that a highly paid murderer would murder someone to keep his job? Guess which one I'm going to pick."

"I can't even effectively deny what you're accusing me of because you're not giving specifics."

"Fine. You want specifics? June 9, 2032, you kill six drug fiends. A company job, fine, in our records. The thing is, those same drug fiends were producing a designer drug with a very particular composition. And that drug reappears six months later, someone liquidating a big supply all at once."

"Maybe somebody had some leftovers."

>(1/2)

>>35877624
But he wasn't. He helped the company by getting rid of someone who had files on his dirty work, presumably done while in the employment of the company.

"Maybe. August 10, this year, you request a resupply of cash. The same is true on August 17, August 24, August 31... well, once a week, really. That's embezzlement. That wasn't in Mr. Black's records; you killed him before then, but when I did some spring cleaning on you I found it."

"I didn't request that money."

"I'm sure you didn't. There's lots more. People killed with weapons fitting your standard load out - highly resistant to ballistic fingerprinting, as one would expect from our private weapons - during times when you were 'off the reservation,' so to speak. Parts of the evidence are circumstantial, sure, but there's just so much here... and there's no record of you ever being given a job to kill Mr. Black - I checked with your handler personally - but the job has your fingerprints all over it, figuratively speaking. Should I go on? I think it might help Clara get a reality check."

>This is all bullshit! She's an idiot to believe such an obvious con job.
>Hang up, now. Try to save face with Clara while you can.
>Look, you understand why she would make this sort of mistake, but surely the two of you can come to some kind of accord, here. There's a third actor who's fucking you both over.
>Write-in.

>>35877666
>This is all bullshit! She's an idiot to believe such an obvious con job.

>>35877666
>Look, you understand why she would make this sort of mistake, but surely the two of you can come to some kind of accord, here. There's a third actor who's fucking you both over.
>Write-in

"This might be a shot in the dark, but does the name Raimes mean anything to you?"

>>35877666
>>Look, you understand why she would make this sort of mistake, but surely the two of you can come to some kind of accord, here. There's a third actor who's fucking you both over.

>>35877666
>Look, you understand why she would make this sort of mistake, but surely the two of you can come to some kind of accord, here. There's a third actor who's fucking you both over.
I think we need to have a "Chat" with our "Ally".....

>>35877666
>>Look, you understand why she would make this sort of mistake, but surely the two of you can come to some kind of accord, here. There's a third actor who's fucking you both over.
>>Write-in.
"So are you accusing everyone else you had killed of embezzling, too, or are you just singling me out because you failed to kill me the first time?"

>>35877694
Let's not give away our tech support for some half thought out suspicion.

>>35877653
And he didn't get rid of the files. That's where the MC failed.

>>35877666
>Hang up, now.

We can't effecrively refute what she's saying and letting her speak longer will only poison the well more effectively.

>>35877666
>Look, you understand why she would make this sort of mistake, but surely the two of you can come to some kind of accord, here. There's a third actor who's fucking you both over.

>>35877666
>>Look, you understand why she would make this sort of mistake, but surely the two of you can come to some kind of accord, here. There's a third actor who's fucking you both over.

time to talk to the our friend

>>35877666
This
>>35877699

>>35877666
>Hang up, now. Try to save face with Clara while you can.

>>35877694
As tempting as it is, we should hold off on mentioning Raimes until we have a better feel for what's going on. Yes, its likely that Raimes is setting us up, but if he isn't, revealing he's working with us could compromise us both.

However, we *really* need to get some better insight on this, because this is a pretty obvious setup.

>>35877713
Right, but everyone fucks up once in a while. That's what support services are for. You don't fire a pilot because he got shot down in a plane.

>>35877666
writein: and the others you killed were part of this as well? let me offer another suggestion, you just had every security operative at your company who wasn't compromised killed.

I think everyone is forgetting that other people were killed when she took over. That's definite proof that her actions aren't related to whatever bullshit she's concocting.

>>35877666
>This is stupid. I'd have to have accomplices, collude with the entire middle management, bean counters, the works, in order to hide everything. You honestly think you've done anything but gut the company?
>Since when did this become one of my TV dramas?

>>35877666
Sure go for this >>35877699

>>35877734

I'm assuming "Raimes" is an alias, but we should see if it means anything more to Hunter. Raimes was initially the one making the demands, so I presume they've been talking with Maxine before now in some capacity. We're only outing our accomplice if Raimes used a different name with her for some reason.

>>35877666
>Write-in.
"And this fits in with the other operatives you had killed. Let me guess, same story of off-the-record killings, embezzlement, and trying to cover their tracks. All of the evidence coming from relatives or friends of a deceased person who just so happened to have all of the information needed to confirm their crimes, all conveniently in easily accessed form, brought to you by a person who obviously couldn't have done it. Right?
"You really couldn't see that you're being played?"

I'm beginning to suspect our partner engineered this whole thing. Maybe we botched a job that crippled him. Maybe he knew who would have us try to kill him. Maybe he decided to kill two birds with one stone.

The evidence Max has presented is too good for her to just be mistaken if assume she isn't lying. Also, how did her goons find the safehouse? We destroyed the tracker he claimed to have deactivated, so either he lied about Max being able to track our cell phone, or he directed them to us.

Not a rock solid theory, but...

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>>35877817

Calling it. Mixing "let's be friends," and "what about all the other people you murdered, retard?"

>>35877666
Ahh, so we have a massive conspiracy of employees that are embezzling the corporation, that was never noticed before in the past five years.

Are you nuts? We'd have to have so many accountants in finance to help us, Enron would look pathetic!

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>>35877893
>Mixing "let's be friends," and "what about all the other people you murdered, retard?"

>>35877866
Even if he did, Mrs. Bitchtits is pissed enough at this point that she'd probably off us out of spite even if this turns out to be a setup, so let's not be hasty about turning on our only potential ally.

>>35877923
I miss the zimmer

>>35877866
>Also, how did her goons find the safehouse?
They were searching your neighborhood, "at" just means "nearby". Somebody remind this anon in more detail.

>>35877951
I just thought even being in the right neighborhood seemed too convient.

Guess not. Sorry.

>>35878010
They were searching lots of neighborhoods. Raimes called you when they got to yours.

>>35878018
Okay. Back to keeping my mouth shut.

>>35878053
Sorry.

>>35878053
I honestly think Raimes can go either way on this one.

"Look, obviously someone is playing you," you start, and Maxine just snorts derisively. "I'm not guilty of any of those things you're talking about. We're both being played by a third party."

"I'm sure. Damn, that third party, putting this all together, he's such a brilliant, calculating mastermind. Why, he probably even made my daughter fall in love with you, too!"

"There is no need to be sarcastic," you say, voice level.

"Your nefarious third party doesn't exist, and we both know it. You're guilty as sin."

"And the other people you had killed?"

"Which other people?" She says, and you can practically hear her roll her eyes. "Be specific. You don't run and take over multiple corporations without racking up a body count."

"The other fourteen employees of yours that you tried to 'terminate' along with me."

"What other fourteen employees? I'm not sure I understand where this new line of bullshit is supposed to take us."

>Excuse yourself, hang up, call Raimes.
>Okay, the real culprit behind all this is obviously my partner. Let's team up and get 'em.
>Oh, so she made up all her "evidence" in order to discredit you in front of her daughter, and is now denying having terminated anyone besides you, because that would be too suspicious.
>Write-in.

>>35878182
>>Oh, so she made up all her "evidence" in order to discredit you in front of her daughter, and is now denying having terminated anyone besides you, because that would be too suspicious.
>Slow clap

>>35878182
>>Oh, so she made up all her "evidence" in order to discredit you in front of her daughter, and is now denying having terminated anyone besides you, because that would be too suspicious.

>>35878182
>Excuse yourself, hang up, call Raimes.

>>35878182
>Excuse yourself, hang up, call Raimes.

>>35878182
>>>Oh, so she made up all her "evidence" in order to discredit you in front of her daughter, and is now denying having terminated anyone besides you, because that would be too suspicious.

>>35878182
Take a breath.

Alright, you aren't going to believe me, but I didn't even know who the hell you were or where your daughter was after you tried to have me killed until a guy called claiming you killed 14 others and he had a plan.

I'm going to hang up on you to try and figure this out, so, hold on until then.

>>35878182
>You've killed fourteen other employees in an attempt to clear house, according to my sources. I didn't know why you targeted them until today, when we finally discussed bullshit about me being a mastermind of embezzlement and drugdealing, and I'm sure most of the others also didn't do it.

>Why don't you admit it?

>>35878182
>>Excuse yourself, hang up, call Raimes.

>>35878182
Wait, did Raimes even say which of our co-workers, fellow operatives were killed?
Did he just give us a number?
Did we even try contacting any of the other operatives?

>>35878321
Seconding this

>>35878335
Probably not, we were too busy panicking. There was a reason why I tried pressing Raimes for info in earlier threads.

>>35878321
this

Aye. Call Raimes, ask for some info on the fourteen.

nuh uh you totally did
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>>35878409

raimes!!
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>>35878507

this will certainly be a productive update. We need to prove our innocence, she obviously won't trust us, and we just as obviously have gotten as much info out of her as we can unless you guys want to expose Raimes.

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>>35878570
It's funny because i've been listening to Blumenkranz -Dual Mix- for more then 12 hours straight

>>35878620
>listening to Blumenkranz -Dual Mix- for more then 12 hours straight
You've got a problem m8

"Oh, I see how it is," you say, voice cold. "You've fabricated all this evidence to discredit me in front of your daughter, and now you're denying having terminated anyone besides me. After all, it would be suspicious, wouldn't it? To have not one, but fifteen people in need of killing?"

"Oh, so that's how it is. Use it as an opening to accuse me of lying." There's a pause as she mentally reorients. "Clara, pumpkin, I love you, I want what's best for you, but I would not lie to you about this, I swear."

"You wouldn't lie to her about this, but you would lie to her about her real upbringing? You wouldn't lie to her about this, but you would lie to her about her age, about her status as a human experiment-"

"Clara, pumpkin, I want you to know you can always count on me to tell you the truth when it counts. If- *if* I lied to you about what he's talking about, it's only because it was more convenient, legally, if you didn't know. I promise, that's it. I love you and I want you to understand the decision you're making. This man is dangerous. Please, pumpkin," she begs.

Clara reaches out and taps the hang up button on your phone, ending the call. She looks up at you, eyes big, worried, her lip quivering.

>Tell her that you didn't do those things.
>Hug her, kiss her on the forehead, have her cook the two of you dinner to keep her mind on something else.
>Call Raimes, confront him.
>Write-in.

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>>35878645
Do i need to purify you?

>>35878620
>Blumenkranz -Dual Mix-
Don't think I've heard that version yet. Care to link it?

>>35878675
>Hug her, kiss her on the forehead, have her cook the two of you dinner to keep her mind on something else.
>Call Raimes, confront him.
Also
>Pumpkin

>>35878675
>>Tell her that you didn't do those things.

>>Call Raimes, confront him.

>>35878675
>Call Raimes, confront him.

>>35878675
>Tell her that you didn't do those things.
Then
>Call Raimes, confront him.

>>35878675
>Call Raimes, confront him.

Hopeful hearing us confront our source will do more to prove our innocence than some meaningless gesture.

>>35878675
>Tell her that you didn't do those things. Apologize for getting heated. It's kind of a sore subject at the moment, as she might expect.

>Call Raimes, confront him.

>>35878675
>Tell her that you didn't do those things.

>>35878698
>>Pumpkin
That's like the billionth time Maxine's referred to Clara that way.

>>35878675
>Call Raimes, confront him. Have her cook the two of you dinner to keep her mind on something else.

>>35878696
Here you go.Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhxxzUNZi-A

>>35878675
>Tell her that you didn't do those things.
>Care to cook something? I've got some stuff I need to discuss.
>Call Raimes, confront him.

ah fuck i used him instead of them. You don't actually know what sex Raimes is, to be clear.

>>35878675
>>Call Raimes, confront him.

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>>35878675
>>Hug her, kiss her on the forehead, have her cook the two of you dinner to keep her mind on something else.
>>Call Raimes, confront him

>>35878698
>>35878675

>Pumpkin

Don't you mean "Tomato"?

>>35878675
>Hug her, kiss her on the forehead, have her cook the two of you dinner to keep her mind on something else.

>>35878675
>Tell her that you didn't do those things.

>>35878675
>Hug her, kiss her on the forehead, have her cook the two of you dinner to keep her mind on something else.
>Call Raimes, confront him.

>>35878748
The problem I have with Blumenkranz is that I know enough German to hear how wrong it sounds. I liked the song a lot more before I realized what language she was singing in.

>>35878675
>>Hug her, kiss her on the forehead, have her cook the two of you dinner to keep her mind on something else.

>>35878675
>Hug her, kiss her on the forehead, have her cook the two of you dinner to keep her mind on something else.

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>>35878861
I feel bad for you.Sadly i'm also going to learn german though so uh.....Shit......

>>35878675
>Hug her, kiss her on the forehead, have her cook the two of you dinner to keep her mind on something else.
>Call Raimes, confront him.

>>35878861
Apparently this German is more accurate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs474lPgO54

Cuddles:
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>>35878950

Deny:
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>>35878812

Raimes!!!
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>>35878950

Make me a sandwich, bitch:
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>>35878950

11 for Raimes, 6 for deny, 9 for sammich, 7 for cuddles. 17 total votes.

>>35878944
Mandatory second/third language in school?

>>35878965
But she doesn't have as good a voice as the original singer, so you wind up tradeing quality of voice for enunciation. Such is the Blumenkranz conundrum.

>>35878675
>Tell Clara shit isn't adding up.
>Call Raimes, confront him.

SHADOWRUNS INTENSIFY

>>35879066
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7j0GeEmkrEA

>>35878986
Business actually

You just move towards Clara, wrapping her in a wordless hug, pressing her face into your chest. She squeaks a little in surprise for a moment, then her hands slowly come up your back, digging into you, hard. It doesn't take long like that for you to hear her cry again, little sobs reaching your ears. You pat her on the head gently before finally pulling her off of you.

"Clara, why don't you make the two of us dinner? I have a call to make, and it should help you take your mind off this."

"You're- you're not denying it," she says as she looks up at you.

"I didn't do the things she said," you say with a sigh. "I'm going to look into why she thought I did. Okay?"

She nods, then moves into the small kitchen, going through the (admittedly limited) supplies in the pantry and fridge, silently going about the task before her, her face blank save the slight glistening from her earlier crying.

You take the phone and call Raimes. They pick up on the second ring. "What is it?"

"Maxine is denying having assassinated anyone at the company besides me. Can you shed some light on why she would do that?"

"I can give you a list of the deceased, if that's what you're asking. Please hold while I get them up."

There's a few seconds of pause before a list of fourteen names appear in a text on your phone, along with job names, date of death, and apparent cause of death. "Liam Cobalt, business executive, September 17, car accident (hit and run). James Sunderland, secretary, September 20, heart failure during sleep." The list goes on in that vein. They're all grouped around your firing, about two weeks either direction.

"Does that suffice?"

>Thank him. You appreciate Raimes helping to put your mind at ease. Hang up and go see how Clara's doing, show her the evidence.
>This doesn't prove anything. These deaths could be because of anything. A company this big? People probably die all the time.
>Write-in.

>>35879269
>>Thank him. You appreciate Raimes helping to put your mind at ease. Hang up and go see how Clara's doing, show her the evidence.

>>35879269
>Thank him. You appreciate Raimes helping to put your mind at ease. Hang up and go see how Clara's doing, show her the evidence. (Lie)

>>35879269
>Thank him. You appreciate Raimes helping to put your mind at ease. Hang up and go see how Clara's doing, show her the evidence.

>>35879269
>This doesn't prove anything. These deaths could be because of anything. A company this big? People probably die all the time.

>>35879269
>Thank him. You appreciate Raimes helping to put your mind at ease. Hang up and go see how Clara's doing, show her the evidence.
>Have Raimes look up the stuff Maxine brought up.

>>35879269
>Where did you get this data from and why should I trust it? You've yet to put up that show of trust you owe me and Miss Mom is claiming that I did some shady shit and that the guys you've mentioned are alive. I have no reason to trust her, but if we're being set up the first guy I suspect would be you.
>Help me out there, Raimes.

>>35879368
This

>>35879387
Seconding

>>35879269
>Thank him. You appreciate Raimes helping to put your mind at ease. Hang up and go see how Clara's doing, show her the evidence.
>Have Raimes look up the stuff Maxine brought up.

>>35879387
Dis.

>>35879269
>This doesn't prove anything. These deaths could be because of anything. A company this big? People probably die all the time.
We need the actual orders for those hits. Not circumstantial stuff.

>>35879387
This.

>>35879269
Mostly
>>35879387
Except for
>Miss Mom is claiming that I did some shady shit and that the guys you've mentioned are alive.

As it's factually inaccurate.

Golly gee, Raimes, thanks for the hot tip! You're a genuine pal!
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>>35879439

Nice try, jerkwad! But actually, I think you're a liar and I'm going to toss your ice cream on the ground!
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>>35879487

Missed this one:
>>35879326

But it was alone anyway so it don't matter.

>>35879575
>Golly gee, Raimes, thanks for the hot tip! You're a genuine pal!
Keeping a friendly tone doesn't mean we trust him.

You know, Maxine might be lying to us about not knowing about the other killings because she wants to set up distrust between us and our conspirator, since she knows that there are two people on this kidnapping operation.

>>35879602
The titles for choices do not represent the options genuinely, thus, e.g., the "make me a sandwich, bitch" choice.

>>35879626
So QM, exactly what are the constraints stopping us from taking Clara and skipping town again?

>>35879621
Could be. Gotta admit, I'm stumped.

>>35879655
This thing called money.

>>35879655
Very little money, no income, no relevant work experience/education with your last company having put a hit on you, the fact that you're still on Chalcedon's shitlist... the list goes on and on.

>>35879655
A lack of funds, I think.

>>35879695
Also, nobody's voted for it.

>>35879713
Got it, voting
>Rob a bank
From now on

"Where did you get this information from, and why should I trust it?"

"I obtained it personally. It's good."

"Do you have the hit orders themselves?"

"I can send them to you, given a minute or two. Why do you ask?"

"I'm not sure I can trust you. Maxine's being stubborn and claiming that she didn't try to off anyone at the company besides myself. I'd just like a little reassurance."

"Of course," the staticky voice comes over the line. "Please hold." It takes about a minute, and then a series of pdfs are sent to your phone. You glance through them, and they look pretty much like some of the order/confirmations you received, with minor differences here and there. Nothing suspicious. Raimes speaks after a minute or two. "Are these to your satisfaction?"

"They look right," you say. "But you've still yet to put up that show of trust you owe me."

"Wasn't my assistance back in Victoria enough to show that I'm on your side? If I hadn't informed you, you could be dead."

"You want to kidnap Clara," you say, "it's in your best interests if you're just using me before throwing me away. You still aren't done with me."

"I understand. This is a difficult bridge to cross, you have to understand. I cannot simply reveal my identity to you. If you divulge it for any reason, I will die. I am sorry."

>Tell him to keep an ear to the ground for anything helpful. Hang up and go check on Clara.
>These documents could be faked, easily. They still don't prove anything.
>Demand Raimes tell you who they are.
>Write-in.

>>35879808
>>Tell him to keep an ear to the ground for anything helpful. Hang up and go check on Clara.

>>35879808
>Tell him to keep an ear to the ground for anything helpful. Hang up and go check on Clara.

I can't really begrudge them that, any sane person would want to keep their name out of this.

>>35879808
>Demand Raimes tell you who they are.
>We've probably been through torture and worse.Inform him that when we say we will keep a secret it will go to us to the grave

>>35879808
>write-in
Check the prices for two one-way tickets to Iqaluit, then see if there's any priests and honeymoon suites in Iqaluit.

>>35879808
>>Tell him to keep an ear to the ground for anything helpful. Hang up and go check on Clara.

>>35879808
>Demand Raimes tell you who they are.

>>35879808
>>Tell him to keep an ear to the ground for anything helpful. Hang up and go check on Clara.

>>35879808
>Tell him to keep an ear to the ground for anything helpful. Hang up and go check on Clara.
>These documents could be faked, easily. They still don't prove anything.

>>35879808
>Write-in.
"I'm going to show these orders to Clara, and then send them to Maxine to call her out on her lying. You're okay with that, right?"

>>35879808
as him if he knows about us being famed
regardless of what he answers, it can only help

>>35879808
>Tell him to keep an ear to the ground for anything helpful. Hang up and go check on Clara

We may have to go on a fact finding mission for more info on these deaths. I wouldn't put it past a third party to hire hitmen to take care of the others. Maybe we should take look into their corporate computers.

>>35879878
this

>>35879808
>Tell him to keep an ear to the ground for anything helpful. Hang up and go check on Clara.

But remember, Clara is not for lewds.

>>35879878
Thirded

>>35879878
Fourth'd

>>35879808
backing this>>35879856

ground ear
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perhaps MAXINE will find these interesting...
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>>35879942

WHO ARE YOU
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>>35879863

I'll fly away old glory
>>35879856
>>35880060

>>35879885

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>>35879856
Finally, SOMEONE backed up my write-in.

Seriously guys, if we can get ourselves really, really far away it might make our lives much, much simpler.

>>35880159
"If" being the operative word. Leaving the country won't be easy.

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>>35880233
True, but at this point, are any of our options "easy"?

"Fine," you say, sighing again. "Fine! Whatever." You pause, taking a moment to compose yourself. "Just... keep an eye out for anything helpful."

"Roger that. I wish you the best." The line goes dead, and you put down the phone.

Clara's cooking what looks to be grilled cheese, and she turns to give you this amazingly cute, embarrassed little smile. "There's not a lot to cook with, so I didn't really get to flex my culinary muscles," she explains. "I do have one little trick for making a good grilled cheese that comes in handy, though!"

"Oh? What?"

She takes on a conspiratorial whisper as she leans towards you. "You put a little bit of butter on the top. Just a smidge. Really brings out the taste."

"I can't wait to try it," you reply, smiling down at her, and she just nods in response. "You got a second?"

"Mmhmm. What do you want?"

"I've got some documents I'd like you to take a look at," you say, holding your phone out to her and thumbing through them. She looks at them, her brow furrowing with each successive document.

"Is- is that what a hit order looks like?" She asks, looking up at you without moving her head.

"Yeah. Yeah it is."

>But they could be faked.
>And you want to see how Maxine reacts to them.
>You hope this reassures her that you really didn't do any of those things Maxine accused you of.
>Write-in.

>>35880273
>And you want to see how Maxine reacts to them.

>>35880273
>>But they could be faked.
>>And you want to see how Maxine reacts to them.
Both of these. Give her the possibility that both you AND her mother are innocent (comparatively).

>>35880159
You ever play Max Payne 3? Particularly the last level?

I'm imagining leaving the country might require gunplay shennanigans of that caliber.

>>35880273
>But they could be faked.
>And you want to see how Maxine reacts to them.

>>35880273
>You hope this reassures her that you really didn't do any of those things Maxine accused you of.
>Write-in.
"As you can see, I wasn't lying when I mentioned that I wasn't the only one getting terminated."

>>35880323
+1 vote

>>35880273
>But they could be faked.
Assuming Maxine's on the level AT ALL, she probably has documents that look just as official.

>>35880334
I think it's been a decade since the last I played the story mode of any straight shooter......

>>35880273
>But they could be faked.>>And you want to see how Maxine reacts to them.

>>35880273
>The problem is these are just as easily faked as the evidence your mother has.

>>35880273

>But they could be faked.
>You hope this reassures her that you really didn't do any of those things Maxine accused you of.

"Someone's lying here Clara, and it's either my contact or your mother. I'm trying to figure this out so just bear with for a little longer, alright?"

>>35880466
>>35880323

+1 for the "Shit's fucked" option

maxine
>>35880300
>>35880323
>>35880339
>>35880430
>>35880519

faked
>>35880323
>>35880339
>>35880358
>>35880430
>>35880466
>>35880458
>>35880519

reassure
>>35880354
>>35880466
>>35880519

Guess I'll go with "it could be faked -> I'll see what your mom thinks" (if char count suffices).

"To be honest with you, Clara," you start, "these could be faked pretty easily. They're just documents, you know? Copy and paste from one to another, edit a few lines here and there, and you're done. Easy way to fake hit orders. Not like I can exactly check the central database to confirm, either."

"So it's not good evidence?" She glances back at the still-cooking grilled cheese, then grabs a spatula and flips them.

"It is, just not for anything in particular. It means either your mother is fucking with me, or my contact is. That's good - it means I'm very close to the end, here."

"And when this is all done, you'll marry me, right?"

"I'll think about it," you reply with a smirk. She just turns her attention back to the grilled cheese, zoning out with the cooking again.

"Hey, you okay?" You ask.

She turns back to you, a smile briefly flickering across her face before it disappears. "I'm fine. What's there to complain about? My brain's gone and decided that you're the perfect man, and it's never going to change that decision. So I'm going to be stuck loving you for the rest of my life no matter what either of us do, and that means-" she cuts herself off and sighs. "Can I just cook in peace?"

"You don't know that what you're feeling is for life," you say.

"I do," she whispers, voice tiny, obviously not intending for you to hear. Then she turns to look at you. "Please? Space?"

>Leave her to cook. Contact Maxine, see what she says when you show her these documents.
>Comfort her verbally. If the situation at all resolves itself so that it's at all possible, you'll at least try to stay in touch.
>Write-in.

>>35880791
>>Leave her to cook. Contact Maxine, see what she says when you show her these documents.
She wants a few minutes of space, and she can get it.

>>35880791
>Leave her to cook. Contact Maxine, see what she says when you show her these documents.

>>35880791
>Leave her to cook. Contact Maxine, see what she says when you show her these documents.

>>35880791
>Leave her to cook. Contact Maxine, see what she says when you show her these documents.

>>35880791
>>Leave her to cook. Contact Maxine, see what she says when you show her these documents.

>>35880791
>Leave her to cook. Contact Maxine, see what she says when you show her these documents.

>>35880791
>Leave her to cook. Contact Maxine, see what she says when you show her these documents.

"Alright," you say, softly, before backing out of the kitchen. You pick up your phone, calling Maxine. "Maxine," you say, voice cold, "I'd like to talk to you further. Liam Cobalt, James Sunderland..." you go down the list. "These names ring any bells for you?"

"No," is her cold reply. "Is this another attempt to convince Clara that you're not a murderous, embezzling, drug dealer?"

"I've got documents of hit orders you put out on them. Care to see them?"

"Yes, please send me these documents, and then I will tell you that you faked them up. Actually, let's just save ourselves both a step and not bother sending evidence of murder over the phone. There, aren't we both glad?"

"Fine. Would you at least check your database for one of the unique identifiers on one of the hit orders?"

"No, because there is no such database of hit orders. Such a thing would be wildly incriminating and there is no way that I would ever mention its existence over the phone even if it did exist."

"72A-B."

"All internal identification numbers we use on documentation here at Chalcedon follow certain patterns to avoid transcription errors due to saying the numbers in the wrong order or confusing one number for another. That one does not follow that pattern, suggesting you got it wrong, which is unsurprising given it's documentation of assassination which we don't do here at Chalcedon. Did you get it wrong?"

"No," you say.

>Hang up. Call Raimes.
>Tell Maxine you believe your accomplice is working against you and her.
>Write-in.

>>35881151
writein: back to our email, who ordered us to kill stevens, did we keep that or scrub it?

>>35881151
>Tell Maxine you believe your accomplice is working against you and her.
this is pretty risky as he could be monitoring us, but that only makes sense

>>35881151
>Write-in: Hang up, walk outside, smoke 'em if ya got 'em.

>>35881151
This >>35881200

>>35881151
>And for the record, which OP was it that I killed Mr Black and which day?

If she's fucking with us, she'll ping it on a day where we were non-combat.

>>35881200
You scrubbed it. Keeping murder orders on your email is really stupid and you don't have the computer skills to be sure it's secure.

>>35881151
>Write-in.
"You said that you don't do assassinations, and yet just a few minutes ago, you admitted to not only ordering many assassinations, but mine in particular. Care to explain?"

>>35881253
This.

>>35881151
>>Hang up. Call Raimes.

>>35881151
this one>>35881302

>>35881273
we're at an impasse then. Either its Maxine or its Raimes, and if its Maxine we're back to square one.

Shot in the dark:ask Maxine about Striker Seven.

>>35881201

>>35881326

>>35881302
>>35881350

>>35881253
>>35881320

>>35881200
>>35881230

>>35881217

hoo boy i love it when a vote comes together

>>35881383
>>35881302
>>35881253
Can we do all three of these?

Okay, you're looking for some kind of evidence to push things one way or the other. You're specifically trying to worm something out of Maxine, and/or find information related to the day/reason you supposedly killed Stephen Black. That about the size of it?

>>35881500
sounds like a good plan

>>35881500
Looks good to me

>>35881500
Yes

>CAPACHA: stay sposhoo
Y-you too...

>>35881500
Pretty much, yeah. Aiming particularly for things that poke holes in either our theory or hers.

>>35881500
from IC it looks like we have a 50/50 sort of choice, though OOC it does seem like Raimes is the guilty party.

Unless of course Raimes is Maxine.

>>35881605
Nah, Raimes is her husband

>>35881631
Hers? Or Clara's?

>>35881631
>>35881605
Clara is everybody.

>>35881719
MC's.