12 March, 2022
Moving in with a Gangster
We'll Be Safe Here
Because of the suspicious activity at the Quetza Hotel, you and Elias move to a different safehouse. But someone else has their concerns.
Guest @Desmond ASMR
{ Today is approximately three weeks since staying in the hotel suite }
{ Scene 1: in a car headed to a new safe house }
- Elias offers to reimburse Listener when everything is done, either from Warden or himself, as long as Listener doesn’t do anything to betray Elias.
- Wraiths have been around for more than a decade.
- Even though Elias doesn’t want to be a leader, he’d rather be clever leader and keep others from dying.
- Elias nicknamed their driver “Avox” after The Hunger Games, because his tongue was cut out by a rival gang and is now mute.
- The Hunger Games is a guilty pleasure for Elias, and he suggests a movie marathon since Listener has never watched it before.
{ Scene 2: Wraith safe house }
- Elias and Listener upon arriving at the safe house are greeted by James. Elias was never told about the off-the-grid, high tech safe house because it was on a need-to-know basis, and he didn’t need to know.
- There’s a double locking system on the door: a retinal scanner and a 6-digit key code.
- After entering, another 6-digit code is required to either disable the alarm or trip the panic alarm and must be inputed within 30 seconds.
- Elias and Listener will be staying until it’s deemed safe. It’s fully stocked, and deliveries will be checked before reaching them.
- James reports to Elias about their latest intel, and is concerned that Listener is present for the information. Elias tells James the least he can do is tell Listener what’s going on since they were dragged into the situation – wrong place, wrong time.
- They found the person trying to access Elias’ suite at Quetza Hotel. He almost got away because he knew where all of the cameras are.
- He’s a staff member that’s been working at the hotel for about three years and knows everyone including Elias.
- Coworkers described him as a nice, charming, hard working member of the hotel staff.
- He’s been part of the Wraiths for the same amount of time, he was placed at the hotel due to his previous hospitality experience.
- After being interrogated, he said he was after the briefcase. James thinks otherwise, and plans on interrogating him again.
- No new information has been discovered from the contents of the briefcase. They’re running all of the faces through all of the resources they have.
- Elias wants to be part of the investigation but Warden is not convinced that Elias wasn’t the target from the beginning so he wants him to stay in the safe house.
- Before Callum’s death, it was planned that the Wraiths and the Vex would merge. Now that Callum is dead, the merger will probably not go through.
- James agrees that Elias and Elias’ mother don’t belong in the gang world, and tried to reason with Warden to keep him out of it.
- Elias was in his second year at Berkley when he was recruited, and would have graduated by now and found a job in the field.
- James tells Listener a cute/embarrassing story from Elias’ childhood.
- Elias broke his leg when he was 7 years old helping a baby bird that fell out of a nest.
- James offers to talk to Warden about Elias succeeding him.
- James tells Elias to help Avox with the boxes so he can talk to Listener alone
- James ran a background check on Listener and found they have bad credit and money problems.
- Listener started working at Brewhouse since March. They left a better paying job and started the same week the Callum was assassinated.
- James threatens Listener, and warns them not to tell Elias about this conversation.
- Elias returns, and James gets up to leave. Elias walks James to the door, and they talk about the upcoming meeting with the Execs, where they want Elias and Listener to attend as well.
- Elias returns and sees that Listener is visibly shaken. Listener takes the perfect path and tells Elias about their conversation with James. Elias tries to give a reasonable explanation for James’ behavior, and tries to reassure Listener that their life isn’t in danger from him.
- Listener is still having nightmares, and Elias suggests that time and yoga will help them cope.
- To lighten the mood, Elias suggests playing Golden Eye on N64 and will teach them how to play. Elias confesses that he likes to play video games with Listener.
Transcript of conversation between Elias and James:
Elias: Ha ha. Don’t you have to be somewhere?
James: I do. I need to prepare for the upcoming meeting. They want both of you to be there, which is stupid.
Elias: The Execs?
James: Yeah, they’re too busy worried about their money and political power to understand how dangerous it is for you to meet them there. It goes against the idea of a safe house.
Elias: What does Dad think about it?
James: You know how he is. Always making sure they’re happy. I’ll talk to him about that too, but no promises. :sigh: Sometimes I can’t even keep up with what’s happening anymore.
Elias: *unintelligible* Hope it gets quiet again soon.
James: When things get quiet, that’s when you need to watch your back.
Elias: Yeah. Talk to you later.
James: Remember the first code after I leave.
Elias: Yeah.
[Door opens then closes, keypad is pressed]