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I just got done passing out today's edition! I'm at the school supply store I work at, dropping off the hand-truck I borrowed.

There's barely anyone here, you can come here and we can talk, or I can make some excuse to leave and sneak off to meet you. Which'll it be?

No, no, stay there. I'm on my way! [She can probably tell by the quality of the audio feed and the way her voice shakes with her movement. Quickly she adds:]

And I'm bringing my notes with me.

All right! See you when you get here!

[Things were happening!!]

Oh! ...I've got mine too!

[...she'd just take the time it took Leia to get there to make physical notes of everything that happened so far.]

Edited 2015-06-11 04:36 (UTC)

[SHE DOESN'T HAVE TO BE ATHENA TO HEAR THE UNCERTAINTY IN THAT VOICE....

But anyway, she hurries, hanging up so she can focus better on running. Not long after, she's making her way into the school supply store, and like always, Myriam is the first thing she sees. She's a bit out of breath from running, and she has multiple notebooks in hand (though only one contains her notes on the new CEO).]

You're not gonna get in trouble, right?

[What does it matter-- THIS IS HUGE.]

[Myriam was there, hastily scribbling notes from CEREvice to notepad]

Leia! --Nah, no one comes in this time of day!

I got good news, and I got bad news! Which you want to hear first?

...Hmm. Let me guess.

The "good" news is the murder, which is a huge scoop. [using "good" lightly here] The bad news is that Our Lady CEO won't give us any answers... right?

Wrong! Sss, sss, sss!

The good news, is that apparently the new CEO is aware of our operation... and tacitly approves! I know! I'm shocked too! Maybe we're not being critical enough...

Got another guess for the bad news?

[MYRIAM YOUR PRIORITIES... Leia will laugh a bit though, masking her disappointment with cheer. She personally got her approval too, after all.]

Nope. Go, go, go! I'm listening.

The bad news is she won't officially recognize the business and give us the ability to hand out press passes. Kahk-kahk-kahk.

We've got several options here. One, we can do nothing. Two, we can whine incessantly. Three, we can try to get leverage over her by threatening to print an embarrassing story. Four, we can try to get leverage over her with something that isn't a printable story. Five, we can attach our lips to her wrinkly rear-end and only write pieces fluffing the establishment in hopes she'll reward us with passes.

If we do nothing, we're implicitly accepting we'll never have press passes.

If we whine about it, they'll ignore it.

We can't threaten to print an embarrassing story because we don't have one.

Getting something else that would give us leverage would probably be illegal.

And if we switch to being their de facto PR department... even if it did work, we'd lose all our "free press" cred!

So we're stuck on that front, for now.

Edited 2015-06-12 03:24 (UTC)

[jESUS and people think Leia talks a lot!]

[She won't admit that she had a bit of trouble keeping up there; but she does know that she doesn't want to whine or print any more embarrassing stories about anyone.]

Y- Yeah, I got stuck, too. I decided to end things while we were still on civil terms, since she had her hands full anyway.

We should keep tabs on that broadcast. I think she said she had a couple hours to spare, so... maybe something good will come out of it, even if it isn't press passes.

Okay... let me see your notes, I want to compare them to mine.

[now was the time to point out any contradictions!]

[Leia's not particularly shy about her notes, so she'll flip a few pages in one of her notebooks until she comes across them. She looks over them, too, as if for the first time.

The name of the new CEO, the victims of the crime she witnessed. Things she noticed in the background of the video feed, especially her assistant Mosley.

Then there's notes on her nonanswers and her role in all this. The fact that she bought CERES because Julius wasn't turning enough profit. The fact that Julius wasn't attached to them or this project at all, though she suspects many others could have told her that one. The fact that this new CEO saw them as mere customers, barred from any goings-on in the investigation.

It goes on in scribbles...]

[she'll read along, hmm-ing all the while]

"The altruistic nature of the previous CEO-guy"? Seriously? This sounds like a bad omen...

Yeah... To be honest, I never had a good heart-to-heart with the guy, but it seems like him and Miss Bellona have different ideals and goals for this colony.

She hasn't elaborated yet, but... I'm thinking she will soon.

I mean, she kind of has to, right?

Well, me either, but think about it...

Isn't this a sign that things are about to get much, much worse? If this is us receiving "altruism" then things should be about to get really brutal! Kahk kahk kahk kahk...

It's possible. She seems really strong-willed and hard to shake down for answers--even though she offered them in the first place!

That's just typical stone-walling techniques! I've used them all the time... Blah blah blah, "big changes coming, give us time," translates to "I plan to do nothing but wait for you to go away and hope you forget to come back."

Well, I'm pretty sure she knows we're not going to do that. I think we're able to call her too, if it comes to it.

Sss, sss, sss! I got a personal response from their PR guy as well, the camera-guy of the murder, that is.

Check this out!

[hands over a written transcript of the obituary for the last CEO here]

...Whoa! So they're making a place for him at the shrine.

[Somehow she's surprised by this, but it makes perfect sense.]

That's great! We should visit it. Maybe it'll give us some insight.

It'll be a lot harder once you print that and everyone knows.

Hm... you think so?

Kahk-kahk-kahk... I'm not sure you and me qualify as "Cerealians." Or, y'know, any relocated...

I think this might be a case it'd be safer to report and then let everyone find out about it. Safety in numbers!

Hmm... well, that works, too. I just thought we should see it before it gets too crowded.

Or... maybe it won't be at all. I can't think of too many people who were attached to Mr. Vincere.

I barely even knew his name! Kahk kahk kahk... Y'know... to be honest.

[gah, how embarrassing to admit she'd barely known anything about this CEO guy.]

At any rate... everyone's gonna know about the murder itself, so we have to poke around even more. We should concentrate on finding new information, maybe from people who they gave unique answers to before clamming up.

...Got any ideas? I suppose I could check with my police contacts...

[That's okay, his name was just about the only thing Leia knew about him; and he never showed his face much.

...]

She was pretty adamant about keeping us out of it, police or not--but I don't think it'd hurt to talk to them.

What unique answers do you think we should focus on?

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