[video]

[swissarmyjesus]

Alright, so I figure I might as well spill the beans. Why else would I even have the beans in the first place, right? [He tries a cocky grin, but it doesn't look very cocky, and it doesn't stick for very long before it falls back to a slightly nervous expression.]

I'm pretty low down in the Keys, so I don't get to find out much, but this must be big enough that it got all the way down the chain. I've started hearing stuff about Vincent Albero planning to take us on himself. Like, the head honcho himself. I don't know what he's planning or how he's gonna do it, but I can try and find out.

For now, until I dig up any better dirt on this, this is your first warning.

Comments

[Video]

[charcoalfeather]

[Rakka's face shows clear anxiety. She'd had a run in with the lower down thugs. Having to deal with the boss was not something she wanted to do.]

The.... boss is going to attack us personally?

[Video]

[swissarmyjesus]

Sounds like it. At least, personally on his end. I don't know if he's going to try picking us off one by one or attacking all of us at once.

[ursoreckless]

Great.

[swissarmyjesus]

Hey, at least we get some time to prepare, right?

[wonk]

cant fuckin wait

whos ur boss

[swissarmyjesus]

My boss? What do you mean, my boss?

[Video]

[radiantchicken]

[The reptilian birdman is stroking his mustache thoughtfully.]

This may turn out to our advantage. Give the head of everything a sound defeat, and then surely his underlings would crumble.

[Video]

[swissarmyjesus]

[WOW, YOU SURE ARE...A THING. Chuck looks surprised, but manages to push through it to articulate a coherent response. He can do this. He was in a gang with a squid once.]

So, what, you thinking of just taking him down, head on?

[Text]

[dominateartimus]

Thanks for the heads up and be careful.

[video]

[swissarmyjesus]

Thanks. I'm trying to lay low, but I'll see if I can dig up any more info. I've never even seen this guy before or what he can do, other than send out a bunch of cronies to do his dirty work for him.

[scarlet_devil]

Let him come. Some of us have stregth beyond any human, augmented or not!

[Emi is not only defiant, but perhaps too overconfident...]

[swissarmyjesus]

Yeah, you and everyone in the Blood Keys--who he controls!

If strength's all you've got, then you'll have to do better than that.

[wirsinddiejager]

if you find out anything else let me know right away. you can share that much right.

[swissarmyjesus]

Trust me, if I find anything else out, I'll be sharing it with this whole network as soon as I can.

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[stopinthenameofawe]

You're fucking kidding me, right? [goddamn it the cops have been trying to nail this guy for years there's no way they're going to find him before he finds the Numbered.]

video;

[swissarmyjesus]

Nope. This is coming to you fresh off the mafia gossip press.

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[moreweaponsthanyou]

Yuuuuuuuup. Keeping a weapon on me at all times sounds better and better.

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[swissarmyjesus]

You got one?

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[purestambition]

I would like to think one in charge of such an organization is not so foolish as to think he could approach us without sound power backing up those intentions.

At the same time, igniting as much homicidal intent as he has against him where many of us would have just left well enough alone for much longer doesn't exactly speak to that perceived intelligence.

Noted, regardless.

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[swissarmyjesus]

[wow, uh.]

Did you miss the part where I said Vincent Albero? As in, the guy leading the Blood Keys and the entire mafia? You know, the gang full of cyborgs and the mafia full of people with animal superpowers?

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[abhero]

oh good i was just thinking i don't have enough shit to worry about

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[swissarmyjesus]

I'm starting to think this is just how things in Locke work--as soon as you start adjusting to all the weird junk going on, it tosses something worse at you.

In this case, it's tossing a mafia boss at us.

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[sylvanguard]

I've already tangled with his people once so I fail to see how this is a threat now.

[There is a small shrug, more so from the right shoulder than the left, as her side is still a little tender.]

I guess forewarned is forearmed. Why is it you're betraying your boss anyway? It's not gonna exactly win you any loyalty points.

[She is also skeptical about this, because she is confused as to why would someone who is part of the Blood Keys is willing to dish out this info.]

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[swissarmyjesus]

Yeah, his people. What about him, though? He could be way worse than all of the rest of them combined, for all we know.

And technically, he's not my boss--I'm a Key, not part of the mafia. We just have a...working partnership with them.

[And, y'know, he does report to the mafia directly on all things network-related.]

[text]

[umbrael]

Well isn't that interesting. Guy must really be cheesed off if he's getting his own hands dirty.

I take it that means he's made himself a human swiss-army-knife too?

[text]

[swissarmyjesus]

No idea--I've never seen the guy before, and no one said anything about it. But if the rest of the mafia's souped up, why wouldn't he be like the grand can of soup?

[chuck no

that's not how that idiom works]

[voice]

[ruleorserve]

Ah. I see. Still, a warning is better than not having one.

[voice]

[swissarmyjesus]

That's how I see it. Better to know your parade's gonna get pooped on in advance and plan for it than to end up with poop on your parade floats, after all.

[video]

[truthcharted]

Dammit. The mafia isn't happy with sending enforcers anymore, then? The boss wants to come and break us himself?

There's going to be a war. Between us and them, with the rest of the city - and the unarmed and unpowered among the numbered - caught in the middle. This is just great. Any ideas, or are you too low on the totem pole for that?

[video]

[swissarmyjesus]

I don't know anything yet, but I'm gonna go back and see what else I can dig up. The more we know, the more we'll be able to fight back when it comes to it.

[dorkytracksuit]

fuck fuck fuck. thiis iis not good.

[swissarmyjesus]

It's not, but hey! At least we have some info ahead of time, right?

At least we know to expect something.