"We have heard that professional assassins are offering their expertise to denizens of the Nexus. Since our preferred targets are, at the moment, under some annoying protection, the partnership of Croup and Vandemar would like to extend our services to anyone who would like a personal annoyance permanently annihilated
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"Regardless, if one wished to retain your services, what are the going rates?"
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"I see. Do you have a list of some of your works I might know? I've sailed in quite a few worlds."
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"I would appreciate a means to contact you, should I require your services in the future."
"That aside, I enjoy work that has a certain aggressive edge to it. Are there any duties you gentlemen could currently use assistance on?"
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"And if you're interested, I pose to you this conundrum: if the four people you are going to kill are currently protected by an antiviolence field, how would you bypass it, or find some way to remove them from it?"
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Crocodile lights a cigar, blows a small ring of smoke, and continues.
"Find a way to lure them out of it, if you wish to be quick about it. Some people are notoriously sensitive if a loved one is threatened. They can't stay together in the Nexus forever. Or you may find something that they cannot resist. Everyone has one thing they can't pass up."
"If you want the simplest approach? Wait. Being within the sub-dimensional ether of this place is like having cabin-fever after a while. There are few who can stand being here indefinitely. The key is to merely keep eyes on them until such time as they can take it no longer. Remember, a prime predator needs patience, to procure such panicked prey."
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"We are waiting, good sir. We are waiting."
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"She's slippy," Vandemar agrees.
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