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Who: Humility, Kindness, Zeal, Charity, Forgiveness, Chastity, Temperance
Status: Closed
When: 10:01pm
Where: Junon
What: The Virtues have a meeting discussing M-PIV and other matters concerning the group.

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If Zeal was alert, it would be difficult for someone to tell at first glance. Her arms were placed folded on the table and her chin was resting on them. Her hair was a bit of a static-y mess, having been too lazy to do much more than run her fingers through them in the morning.

"As expected," she replied, without lifting her head off her arms. "Its hold isn't widespread, but it's firm where it's found its place. It's extended a bit to the 'tourists.' A few have come to Wutai specifically. I believe they feel the M-PIV here has more of an exotic quality to it."

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Forgiveness shifted in the chair that she had been given. It would have done wonders for her if she had felt the need to get comfortable. Her outfit was a little open in the back and made seating in such chairs a little difficult, not that she was not used to having her share of difficulties. She wasn't allowed to break the chair though.

She glanced to her side to make sure that Charity was paying attention to the conversation. It seemed like this meeting was off to a fine start, and it had been such a long time since she had been able to sit down with all the other virtues. She was setting up for a good time.

Leaning back in her chair, she crossed one leg over the other and looked at her fingernails. "Gold Saucer has a strong underground drug ring where M-PIV has taken root. It's startin' to enter bettin' circles and hit home on tourists. The lively population of experimental teenagers helps the spread from 15-45%... season dependin' of course."

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Charity returned Forgiveness’s sidewards glance with a large grin. She knew what the other virtue was checking for, and for once there was a small portion of my mind paying attention on the conversation. The drug seemed to be doing well at the Golden Saucer, and there was a small pout forming on her lips that she couldn’t beat the Zeal and Forgiveness’s results

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Chastity had somehow managed to drape herself over her chair, but at least her dress wasn't "slipping" anywhere.

"Oh, my turn?" she purred, peering up through her eyelashes. "Kalm remains fairly quiet. I'm afraid M-PIV hasn't quite found a solid niche as of yet. The good news, though, is that of the customers we do receive, they're very loyal."

And loyalty was key, obviously. In most cases at least, she thought, as she frowned at a chip in her red-polished nails.

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Pulling the heel of her foot further towards her body, Temperance relaxed easily on the chair as she swung her arm casually from its position laying comfortably over her knee. There was an easy air surrounding this particular virtue - one that gave the impression that nothing ever fazed her in the slightest, and as that easy smile remained on her expression, Temperance calmly added her pieces of information.

“Mideel is hardly a location for the drug to take route as we all know,” Temperance said even despite the fact that she was stating the obvious. “Operations at the spa are moving smoothly however, and the transportation of Mako will be packaged in the next shipment out to you Humility. I’m sure you can expect the shipment to leave the docks here by Friday at the latest.”

Raising her propped arm up from her knee, Temperance brushed aside the hair from her eyes as she casually added. “I’ve also been searching for the rock while we’ve been extracting Mako, but as of yet, we haven’t found any traces of it.”

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Kindness folded her hands in her lap, looking very much the organized but dainty young woman. She looked around the table at her fellow virtues, smiling back at Temperance before she pulled out her clipboard with many sheets of paper. She laid it out in front of her and smoothed the pieces down with her fingers

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The results weren’t surprising, and they’d been what she’d expected after this length of time. It was still the early stages of the drug and they needed to see how each stage reacted before moving things to the next step. There was little doubt within her mind that most tourists using the drug in Costa and Wutai were of either Edge or Junon origins. They were the two largest cities and where such a substance far easily took control, but that was just as she wanted it

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Listening to the others, Forgiveness thought that they were well underway of getting this plan solid. The progress felt good, but she wanted more then progress. Dealing with the people she did all the time was not acceptable for the long-term... she was bound to snap someone's neck at that rate. Bad for business.

She had not found the stone either, not that she needed to voice that. It was obviously not in her neck of the woods, and even if it was, she would have found it by now. The Gold Saucer was smaller than everywhere else... save maybe Mideel.

At the mention of Nibelheim, she smirked and nodded her head. A day-trip would be a wonderful adventure. "None at all, Humility. Permission to sniff around the old mansion? I know its clean, but I wouldn't want to leave any rats lurking in the shadows." She glanced purposefully towards Kindness. "A little poison should flush any out, no?"

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“You have permission to include the mansion in your search.” Humility ordered with a slight nod of her head. Now was clearly not the time to get ahead of themselves regardless of what had happened the day before. What’s done was done, and their revenge on that Jenova filth could take place when they were in a more stable position. Ignoring the glance over towards Kindness, the lead virtue firmly added. “However, I do not give permission to search or engage with Sephiroth at this point.”

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Zeal watched the exchange between the other virtues, interested but indifferent. She was a bit far removed from the other with her assigned location in Wutai...which was all fine and well with her. She liked being out there.

She had no problems with Humility's suggestion (did she ever?), and instead, slid her eyes over to Forgiveness for a reaction. Forgiveness had enough energy and passion to make up for Zeal's near-complete lack thereof.

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Forgiveness nodded her head in thanks. She doubted there would be anything in the mansion or Nibelheim, but she thought that any chance was better then not having one at all. What other reason would a filthy scab of a virus use a boat for?

She frowned at the strict instructions, her fists balling as she considered how to react to that. She knew better then to go against orders despite the inability to forgive that pile of waste. "...acknowledged," she said firmly through clenched teeth.

"I be wantin' revenge on that inbred pustule in the future though," she remarked before leaning back in her chair. "But I'll not be engagin' on this mission. You have my word, Humility."

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Twirling the hair in her pony tail around her finger, Charity watched the proceedings with an almost excited exterior. She loved it when Forgiveness got all riled up, and found herself looking forward to when they’d get to play with that freak experiment gone wrong. It was just a pity that they had to wait for so long.

“Oh!” Charity said as her arm shot up in question for the group. With a pointed look over towards Kindness, the energetic virtue asked, “We going to tackle him as a group or handle him by ourselves? The last time was hardly successful… despite being unprepared and all.” With another glance over to the petite virtue, Charity grinned lopsidedly as she apologised. “Sorry Kindness, but ya’know.”

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In truth, Chastity was somewhat disappointed that such a physically fine specimen as Sephiroth so clearly needed to be wiped out, but such was life.

"Well, I for one think we should most certainly go in a group," she said, leaning slightly into Charity's personal space with a little knowing smile at the other virtue's comment at Kindness. "It should help prevent a repeat of the...incident."

She preferred to go about business with her fellow virtues than alone, anyway.

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Ignoring the way Charity’s arm slipped down to loop elbows with Chastity’s, Temperance regarded what they’d said thoughtfully for the moment. It was true that only a small number of them were strong enough to fight on their own, but even if they did their power wouldn’t be able to match up with those who had such enhancements.

“I also vote that we should do this as a group. We much stronger together than we are alone and even those men who believe they’re top shit won’t be able to stand a chance against a horde of angry broads pounding their asses.” Temperance suggested with a chuckle. It was just unlucky that she had her hands full with the day spa to attempt such things.

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Kindness sniffed in a mockery of being upset when the conversation universally turned to her sudden and unexpected demise to Sephiroth. She put on a sad face for show, though she had no hard feelings about what had happened. It was quite possibly the best lead so far on that man's coming and goings.

She raised a dainty little hand to her shoulder and waved it a little. "I also put in my vote for a group siege. His ego will surely be damaged by getting taken down by a group of little girls." That would be her just revenge.

Glancing to Humility who had the final say, she offered kindly, "does GEL approve of such actions?"

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Glancing around the room as each virtue gave their opinions on the matter, Humility watched the proceedings without any further input. While the final decision rest with her, she much preferred to hear the others thoughts on a matter before giving final judgement. There, fortunately, hasn’t been a time yet that she had to overrule the others wants, and it was something she hoped would continue in the coming future