Nick "Nicodemus" Dalton (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
nick_garou) wrote2013-01-31 11:51 pm
nick_garou) wrote2013-01-31 11:51 pm
These are not the employees you were looking for.
Met up with Val briefly last night for coffee and to discuss hiring for the PI firm. The quick version? May Lin would be the ideal office manager, even if she works only part-time. Ky's out: we both agreed he's immature, reckless, and a liability. He needs to grow up--especially after that outburst at Mouse at Edgewood that we both witnessed. Sewall might be okay, but he's not ideal either. Which is good, because I texted Charley about seeing if he might bring Sewall in as an employee under him at Terminus for some job or another. (I really like the irony of the new Silver Fang elder being employed by Silver Fang kin--who is secretly one of those despised warpers. Maybe Charley finds it amusing, too.)
Val recommended contacting Riley again to pull in a second investigator for driving up revenue, claiming she might not have responded initially because the flyer mentioned office management and kin, not a potential new investigator. Good point, and Riley seems--well--sane and competent. It's a rare combination these days. And I think all three of us get along. Plus, I like "keeping it in the family" as Riley's a Walker so ought to get priority by default. Haven't heard back from her yet, but I really hope she says "Yes" soon so I can start letting the other folks know that I made our hiring choice.
Val then talked about how she was concerned about Naomi. She unearthed nothing through her contacts, but she'd paid someone to slip her a specific apartment flyer while they were out looking at places for her to live: Val'd had the Glass Walker symbol put on the lower corner, and Naomi pretty much jumped on that apartment. (I suggested she might have jumped at it because something like the price or location caught her eye, but Val didn't seem to think so--but couldn't effectively argue that the glyph had triggered Naomi's reaction either.) They both then went to look it over and Val said it was almost as if she was casing the place. (But who doesn't give a new place a serious eyeballing before signing a lease?)
In short, Val's super-suspicious. I've got reservations. Besides, Naomi seems okay and what kind of spy goes around practically advertising that they're worked covert Spec Ops missions for years in the Army?
I was going to sit on it, but the whole thing with the vampires and the tenement being compromised? I e-mailed Mouse--still not feeling like socializing yet--to let her know about the whole situation, advise her to act with discretion so as to not trigger a fallout or act rashly, and suggested that while Val's got a great network of contacts, she's still an "outsider", and perhaps an "insider" Glass Walker tribal elder would have much better luck obtaining information about someone who might have had prior contact with the Glass Walkers and/or Terminus.
Turned down hanging out with Val to watch Star Wars and drinking. Throwing myself back into the research with the wasp venom. I can feel some 'Dox building up--like magic constipation--from all the close scanning and theoretical predictive result (Time) magic I've been doing in the Sanctum over the past four days now. (More on that later: crazy shit.) I'm tired, but it's a good tired.
Texted Charley to let him know I wouldn't likely be able to use my talisman to get into the spirit world before the moon went below the halfway mark, so he could swing by the sanctum to pick it up if he was interested in popping out to my cabin and crossing over on his own for a bit. Hope he takes advantage of the offer. He probably needs the experience/release. He keeps putting in all those hours at Terminus. He's living to work, not working to live. If I were him--and I figure he has a lot of cash already--I'd invest it wisely, quit the job, throttle back on the lifestyle, live off the dividends, and spend all that time exploring magic and simply experiencing new things. If I can get this PI firm going with a detective or two more--especially ones who know the trick for locating people--I can quit Terminus and loosely direct my PI firm from afar. Retired by 33? Yes, please.
Val recommended contacting Riley again to pull in a second investigator for driving up revenue, claiming she might not have responded initially because the flyer mentioned office management and kin, not a potential new investigator. Good point, and Riley seems--well--sane and competent. It's a rare combination these days. And I think all three of us get along. Plus, I like "keeping it in the family" as Riley's a Walker so ought to get priority by default. Haven't heard back from her yet, but I really hope she says "Yes" soon so I can start letting the other folks know that I made our hiring choice.
Val then talked about how she was concerned about Naomi. She unearthed nothing through her contacts, but she'd paid someone to slip her a specific apartment flyer while they were out looking at places for her to live: Val'd had the Glass Walker symbol put on the lower corner, and Naomi pretty much jumped on that apartment. (I suggested she might have jumped at it because something like the price or location caught her eye, but Val didn't seem to think so--but couldn't effectively argue that the glyph had triggered Naomi's reaction either.) They both then went to look it over and Val said it was almost as if she was casing the place. (But who doesn't give a new place a serious eyeballing before signing a lease?)
In short, Val's super-suspicious. I've got reservations. Besides, Naomi seems okay and what kind of spy goes around practically advertising that they're worked covert Spec Ops missions for years in the Army?
I was going to sit on it, but the whole thing with the vampires and the tenement being compromised? I e-mailed Mouse--still not feeling like socializing yet--to let her know about the whole situation, advise her to act with discretion so as to not trigger a fallout or act rashly, and suggested that while Val's got a great network of contacts, she's still an "outsider", and perhaps an "insider" Glass Walker tribal elder would have much better luck obtaining information about someone who might have had prior contact with the Glass Walkers and/or Terminus.
Turned down hanging out with Val to watch Star Wars and drinking. Throwing myself back into the research with the wasp venom. I can feel some 'Dox building up--like magic constipation--from all the close scanning and theoretical predictive result (Time) magic I've been doing in the Sanctum over the past four days now. (More on that later: crazy shit.) I'm tired, but it's a good tired.
Texted Charley to let him know I wouldn't likely be able to use my talisman to get into the spirit world before the moon went below the halfway mark, so he could swing by the sanctum to pick it up if he was interested in popping out to my cabin and crossing over on his own for a bit. Hope he takes advantage of the offer. He probably needs the experience/release. He keeps putting in all those hours at Terminus. He's living to work, not working to live. If I were him--and I figure he has a lot of cash already--I'd invest it wisely, quit the job, throttle back on the lifestyle, live off the dividends, and spend all that time exploring magic and simply experiencing new things. If I can get this PI firm going with a detective or two more--especially ones who know the trick for locating people--I can quit Terminus and loosely direct my PI firm from afar. Retired by 33? Yes, please.