The bribe is passed to Fever without further comment on its nature. "Earthling on Earthling psychological violence with just a dash of unethical social experimentation which should, among other things, honor the closest thing I have to a religion and get me a steady supply of power tinged with nostalgia, happiness, dread, sorrow, and fear."
"I'm looking to build a restaurant overnight, unobserved, with all the trimmings, and then abandon it for whomsoever will choose to claim it."
She accepts the bribe, though at a point she'll have discreetly tipped out the contents so she can put the tankard into her pack. That's the real prize, and she wants to have that in her apartment.
"What sort of place are you thinking of and where do you want it?"
Fever lacks the supernatural strength that would be required to outright build something like this, let alone in the time considered, but if Erin's come to her, surely there's something she can do, even if it's just fully enabling this to come into being or acting as if it's always been there and people just haven't noticed its existence to add to the confusion.
"I'm gonna take a stab in the dark here but I'm pretty sure this is a good stab to make. You know street vendors that sell snacks and on-the-go food and all that, or those dingy holes in the wall where you can roll in and be like "dinner and I'm moving with it" and they sling something at you before you go sprinting to your boat or caravan or whatever? That, but it's in a building you can also sit down in." Erin is betting, betting, that since people in Fever's world need to eat, they - like Earth - have invented fast food repeatedly and for thousands upon thousands of years. "The team we put together will need to buy a house near the trolley that goes to the mines, carefully demolish that house, and then build the new place where it was. And you, Fever, have three things that are absolutely required: working eyes, more than zero project management skills, and access to Town Hall to hide our identities on the paperwork."
Beat.
"Which is probably illegal but what are they gonna do, fucking arrest you? I'll kill a cop. I won't even ask what they did."
"Of the scattered memories I possess of my life before, one that came back to me was killing a vast number of local police."
She has no shame to admit this. Erin is the sort of person to understand and appreciate that if Fever has memories of destroying many, many cops, the cops probably earned it. Or they just got in her way, but same thing.
"Besides, by the time people start thinking to look into the paperwork, you'll already have abandoned it, so who's to say it wasn't done by so-and-so, as long as all the information's correct." There's probably some code or lack of it that she can cite to make this seem ambiguously more legal. "Consider me in."
"Glorious. I'll keep in touch, but once I talk to everyone we'll all know who's in, and we'll talk only as much as we need to in order to coordinate. We'll need to buy the supplies piecemeal and then suddenly work very fast."
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"I'm looking to build a restaurant overnight, unobserved, with all the trimmings, and then abandon it for whomsoever will choose to claim it."
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"What sort of place are you thinking of and where do you want it?"
Fever lacks the supernatural strength that would be required to outright build something like this, let alone in the time considered, but if Erin's come to her, surely there's something she can do, even if it's just fully enabling this to come into being or acting as if it's always been there and people just haven't noticed its existence to add to the confusion.
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Beat.
"Which is probably illegal but what are they gonna do, fucking arrest you? I'll kill a cop. I won't even ask what they did."
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She has no shame to admit this. Erin is the sort of person to understand and appreciate that if Fever has memories of destroying many, many cops, the cops probably earned it. Or they just got in her way, but same thing.
"Besides, by the time people start thinking to look into the paperwork, you'll already have abandoned it, so who's to say it wasn't done by so-and-so, as long as all the information's correct." There's probably some code or lack of it that she can cite to make this seem ambiguously more legal. "Consider me in."
Wrap?
wrap.
It'll be fun. And fun is a good enough reason to commit to it.