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『 Hey hey hey, iiit's Leia...! Sorry I missed you, but I'm pretty tied up at the moment--probably chasing my next story. Leave me a message and I'll call you back as soon as I can. Thanks! 』 [ beeeep— ]

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[journaler]

[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.

[cardboard_journalism]

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.

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[journaler]

[jESUS and people think Leia talks a lot!]

[journaler]

[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.

[cardboard_journalism]

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

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

[journaler]

[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...]

[cardboard_journalism]

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

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

[journaler]

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?

[cardboard_journalism]

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...

[journaler]

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

[cardboard_journalism]

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."

[journaler]

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.

[cardboard_journalism]

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]

[journaler]

...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.

[cardboard_journalism]

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!

[journaler]

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.

[cardboard_journalism]

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...

[journaler]

[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?

[cardboard_journalism]

Well, a lot of people probably asked the obvious "what's going on?" or "Who are you guys?" so we can rule out those. Between us we can cover both of that.

But some people are whimsical and might've asked questions the new CEO never expected. Like "what's your favorite song?" or "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck?"

We just need to find those crazies and see how they responded... it's possible they let their guard down for a split second and said or did something less rehearsed!

...and if not, we can list their favorite song or opinion on woodchucks. Sss, sss, sss, sss!

[journaler]

[Leia laughs.]

I'd be surprised if we found anything like that. She was suuuper guarded, and I didn't get to talk to her assistant at all.

But let's do our best!