Overcommitted
The difficulty with attempting to claw your way into a position of power is that you must deal with multiple things in a short span of time. While I had to do this even as overlord, I had forgotten how much more intense it was when I was a penniless unknown.
Take today. I am attempting to discover more information about Donnie's overall plan, learning more about Naomi, and dealing with the day-to-day business of being leader of an illegal underground gang.
Hiram informed me of a company that was heavily indebted to our organization. I went to discuss matters with the CEO. Our normal mode of operation is to take over the company and remove its assets out like sucking marrow from a bone, leaving the owner or owners with a very bankrupt company. This, however -- this is different.
The company is called MindWorks, and is an extremely small company founded and run by one Neerson Kimrey, inventor and extremely poor businessman. Some years ago he invented a method of recording the brain's gestalt and storing it for later reconstruction if necessary. This is a difficult process, one which he has since been trying to render into practice.
This I learned in a tearful speech Neerson gave me when I explained what would happen next. Normally I am not moved by the soft-headed twaddle of the incompetent, but this technology....
"You have convinced me," I told him.
"Oh thank the random factors of the universe," he sniffled. Even in this godless time people make deities out of science. "You're going to let MindWorks stay in business?"
"Better," I told him. I felt myself beginning to smile. "I'm going to run MindWorks."
Take today. I am attempting to discover more information about Donnie's overall plan, learning more about Naomi, and dealing with the day-to-day business of being leader of an illegal underground gang.
Hiram informed me of a company that was heavily indebted to our organization. I went to discuss matters with the CEO. Our normal mode of operation is to take over the company and remove its assets out like sucking marrow from a bone, leaving the owner or owners with a very bankrupt company. This, however -- this is different.
The company is called MindWorks, and is an extremely small company founded and run by one Neerson Kimrey, inventor and extremely poor businessman. Some years ago he invented a method of recording the brain's gestalt and storing it for later reconstruction if necessary. This is a difficult process, one which he has since been trying to render into practice.
This I learned in a tearful speech Neerson gave me when I explained what would happen next. Normally I am not moved by the soft-headed twaddle of the incompetent, but this technology....
"You have convinced me," I told him.
"Oh thank the random factors of the universe," he sniffled. Even in this godless time people make deities out of science. "You're going to let MindWorks stay in business?"
"Better," I told him. I felt myself beginning to smile. "I'm going to run MindWorks."