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[Ohm Zui]

New User added to chatroom: exodusAlighted
undisputedIdiot (uI): I was obviously in a jam so I had to dump it and flee.
prepaidOnly (pO): Oh, new person.
forciblyDownsized (fD): Hey newbie
grimTransport (gT): Fresh meat
exodusAlighted (eA): Heyo
forumAdmin (fA): eA has been poking around some of the other chats and worked out my code. Chat rules: no illegal trades, no questioning where goods came from, all participants must make a trade within twenty four hours to prove their value to the chat
eA: Got it!
fA: Alright, play nice everyone. I'm looking at you gT
gT: Heh
fD: So uI, you were saying?
uI: Hi eA. So I dumped the cargo, made a run for it, and had to default on the delivery. I double checked the transponder, and the package is still there, so I'm selling the co-ords. Dilithium ore, 6T, salvage conditions.
miningDespot (mD): @uI 30 Coin
flashTorrent (fT): @uI 60 Coin
mD: Ah shit
fT:
uI: @fT deal, @tB
transactionBot: @uI and @fT have been connected securely.
eA: I've got mechanical designs for sale.
gT: Type?
eA: Defense, nonlethal, area.
fD: Ship compatible?
eA: They can be modified by my supplier to a specific area.
pO: Sounds decent. Trade or coin?
eA: I'm looking to source a decent amount of TiZ ores. Preferably black, but raw works too.
downloadedGeographical (dG): @eA 1 Map per schematic, Invernexe, rated too dangerous for high intensity mining.
pO: Wow, it's dG.
dG: Yeah, I've been busy.
eA: What size ore deposits?
dG: Three to four tonnes of varying quality per map, all within easy mining distance of the surface. A contractor could probably use a quik-extract from RRI, no prob.
eA: @dG deal, @tB
transactionBot: @eA and @dG have been connected securely.

 

[Ohm Zui]

Welcome back, exodusAlighted
flashTorrent (fT): :sticks_out_tongue:
miningDespot (mD): yeah, yeah, not my fault I got blacklisted
exodusAlighted (eA): heyo
grimTransport (gT): mD, you know what you need to do already. Bite the damn bullet and suck it up.
mD: are you volunteering gT? this is WT we're talking about, big ol' moneybags
prepaidOnly (pO): hey eA
pO: mD's whining again about his funds drying up
mD: pO, stfu
eA: What happened?
mD: mcmoneybags is what happened
fT: what they mean to say is that they did a dumb dumb and pissed off the big bad duck himself
mD: it wasn't my fault, dammit
gT: It really was.
mD: no it wasn't! I was doing some rearranging of assets using the property market in Nos'talgia and all of a sudden I ended up holding a portfolio with sixty percent shares of the deep treacle mines
fT: yeah, and what did you do when Scroogey hustled you and threatened monopoly laws?
mD: fuck off, I'm not an idiot for not bowing to blackmail
eA: Wait, so what happened then?
mD: bastard got me blacklisted from property trading on Nos'talgia until I stop holding monopoly. problem is, only way to transfer properties otherwise is in person
mD: and we use these sites for a reason, you know?
gT: not least of which is Scrooge would very much screw mD over as soon as he knew who they were
eA: So if you can't get rid of them...?
fT: they need to get rid of them
eA: How much?
mD: i need someone other than me to organise shutdowns for four or five weeks for three of the mines to get out of this. so as you might expect, no one's up to tangle with the duck that much
eA: I meant, how much you offering?
fT: :O
pO: Er, eA...
forumAdmin (fA): eA, rules
eA: What?
eA: OH. Nonono, I was thinking about talking to unions and or rulers to get around it.
eA: Nothing illegal.
gT: Nice save
mD: @eA 3000 coin
eA: @mD deal, @tB
transactionBot: @eA and @mD have been connected securely.

 

[Ohm Zui]

Welcome back, exodusAlighted
undisputedIdiot (uI): not like an independent business
flashTorrent (fT): true, but I still have to 'declare' every time I travel from world to world
uI: do what I do and be a spacefarer
uI: and never go down to the ports
miningDespot: unlike you, uI, most of us have stable lives
fT: press x to doubt
uI: x
grimTransport (gT): x
prepaidOnly (pO): x
downloadedGeographical (dG): x
forciblyDownsized (fD): x
forumAdmin (fA): x
mD: seriously?
exodusAlighted (eA): A worthy goal to strive for mD
eA: But I too:
eA: "x"
fT: XD
fT: eA bringing the polite burn
uI: snrk
mD: I see how it is...
fT: Oh, by the way @eA, since you seem to be more willing to hire contractors than the rest of us shmucks I have something that might interest you.
pO: fT breaking out the correct grammer
mD: the end times have come!
fT: stfu
eA: Ignore them.
fD: whispers we're plebs
fT: so I got paid back for something recently, and part of the packet was a report on an expedition in Kraw
fT: or rather, a detailed explanation for why the group in question had to abandon a good thousand Coins' worth of equipment in the jungle
fT: and attached, co-ordinates for the nest they left it all in
fT: I don't know anyone willing to do an extraction
fT: so I'm offering it to you for the low price of 700 Coin
eA: I do know what Kraw is like, fT, I've read the brochures. 300 Coin
fT: 600
eA: 450
uI: (oh look, it's haggling)
fT: 550
eA: 500
fT: @eA deal, @tB
transactionBot: @fT and @eA have been connected securely.

 

[Ohm Zui]

Welcome back, exodusAlighted
forciblyDownsized (fD): like, holy fuck, have some shadows.
fD: and then demons.
fD: and then monsters.
fD: and then giant warship.
fD: and then reports from the, like, five people who got out of Dap that they got brain beamed the news that Gov's arbiter-damned ARBITER is corrupted.
fD: and no-one's heard from the newbie
exodusAlighted (eA): boo
fD: and for all we know
fD: HOLY HEAVENS EA WHERE THE HELLS ARE YOU
eA: I'm okay
eA: mD's got it covered.
miningDespot (mD): ... eA, you said you might die
flashTorrent (fT): they said _what_
eA: That's not improtant
eA: I need to know what we know
eA: So I can go from there
eA: And do what I can while I can
undisputedIdiot: Where are you.
eA: 475 feet below lava level.
eA: So no, uI, you can't come rescue me.
eA: mD's on the case
eA: And there's nothing anyone else is able to do
eA: Unless someone's hiding something stupidly big like knowing an ice mage with a side in teleportation _and_ that resides in Nos
eA: No?
eA: Then let's talk shop.
grimTransport (gT): @eA 10 coin
prepaidOnly (pO): WTF gT, you're going to make them PAY?
gT: either eA lives and we start a healthy and cheap hustle dealing crisis info at well below market price
gT: or eA dies and I get some of their money to put to good use
gT: read my handle
eA: I agree with gT
fD: are you MENTAL
eA: I'm severely dehyrdated and dizzy but not relevent
eA: I've been in this group for less than two weeks
eA: And you are all _very_ good at what you do.
eA: And frankly, if I don't convincingly make a case for other people to use your services in this crisis
eA: The X-roads is losing an important asset.
eA: so @gT deal, @tB
transactionBot: @eA and @gT have been connected securely.

 

[Ohm Zui]

Welcome back, exodusAlighted
downloadedGeographical (dG): I've been flagging everything suspicious as soon as I find it
forciblyDownsized (fD): Are you sure that's wise? Won't they be looking for who's outing them?
dG: I'm not flagging it directly. I've got a big folder full of suspicious activity that I was hoping to pass on through someone here. Sending it to Kal would be a very bad idea, especially since they'd ask questions about how I know.
undisputedIdiot (uI): dG asked me but I need to keep my nose clean for docking permits and stuff.
grimTransport (gT): says the smuggler
uI: *narrows eyes*
exodusAlighted (eA): What's dG selling?
fD: eA! You're alive!
prepaidOnly: eA!
flashTorrent (fT): @uI, I told you they'd make it
eA: @mD pulled through, I owe them one.
uI: For once fT I'm glad you're a smug bastard who's never wrong
fT:
gT: @eA, dG has found evidence of a cult on curvy.
eA: Curvy?
dG: CRVIII, also known as 'The Hub'. Owned by Kal, massive space station. I've found evidence that there's a growing group of people there looking to join forces with Darkseid.
eA: Darkseid's agents?
dG: Unlikely, but they're probably not the type to not take the advantages they're given.
eA: @dG, 10 coin
dG: @eA, not for sale. I'm actually looking to hire.
gT: Information always has a price, that's how you know it's legit.
dG: It's legit!
gT: We know that, outsiders don't.
eA: I've got someone to act as intermediary between us and All. Intelligence. If you sell it to me on the cheap, I can get it passed on.
pO: anyone we know?
eA: A refugee from Govermorne, like me. Goes by the name Ohm Zui: they're a zoombini trap designer. They and I have an arrangement.
dG: Alright, give me half an hour to double check my data.
miningDespot (mD): Thank arbiter you made it, eA.
eA: Hi mD. I owe you one.
mD: Consider that a favour forward. I think anyone on the forum would do the same for me if they could.
eA: Fair enough.
uI: @eA I've got some telemetrics to sell on from the recovered escape pods, by the way.
eA: That sounds good
forumAdmin: @everyone, PU and Guild are barking, Markov's on lockdown. I'm trying to get more intel but there's a chance the server may need migrating.
pO: what?! fA, you're IN Markov!
eA: @fA, I'm sending help. Everyone who's willing, send me what you can gather.
uI: I'm two klicks out picking up a Gov escape pod, I'll start buying satellite feed
pO: On it @eA
gT: I'll let you know as soon as I have something worth selling on
fD: I've got a few older DarkNet contacts, I'll start fishing.
eA: Alright, let's get to work. @fA, hold on tight.