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Give my best kaiju roar and lay waste to the surrounding structure.

Looks like the best time to meet them and inquire about using their hanger would be while their at an air show.

Also making the more of the not get eaten stuff sounds like a priority thing.

I think we should test Ginger Brogue's solution before committing to it, but I'm not sure how we'd do that. Deinosuchus is unpredictable and hard to read, so we might not be able to tell if he can sense our minions or not. On that note, our suspicion that he's playing us is making me real nervous.

Don't think we want to wait around for an air show, especially out here. Probably better to strike with what we have.

As I see it, our openings are as follows:

Brock Sr (Patriarch): Tied for most avid flyer. Anything involving flight might catch his eye. Like a fancy aircraft, or the means to fly without one.
Chase (Businessman): Interested in making money, possibly in sleazy or illicit ways. Approaching him as a potential business partner should work out.
Heston (Playboy): Hedonist. Probably shouldn't whore out Zero-E, but a wild night on the town should get us in his good graces, especially if we insinuate we could set him up with villainesses in the future.
Brock Jr (Animal Abuse Twin): Has at least a distant episode of cruel or indulgent behavior, so fair chance he's got darker impulses we could leverage. Might also have been a fluke or misunderstanding.
Nora (Flying Twin): Tied for most avid flyer. Anything involving flight might catch her eye. Like a fancy aircraft, or the means to fly without one.


With that in mind, I say we play to our strengths and seduce Heston with wild debauchery, but then worm our way into the remaining family's good graces. Talk with Chase about business opportunities, and Brock Sr and Nora about flight and the possibility of developing our own hellpowered aircraft.

The latter also has the advantage of interesting and possibly placating Zero-E.


Speaking of investments, we should probably give Pete an answer regarding the nightclub. We're probably going to be too busy to attend interviews, so he should just go ahead with it. I'm still in favor of making the staff aware of our demonic nature. Increases the risk of defection or word getting out, but reduces problems with waiters stumbling into rooms they're never allowed to leave.

Otherwise we don’t really need an advanced plan. We’re a super charismatic demon. Do a quick social media crawl to find the best target, give them a fun night or two on the town to befriend them, then ask to use it as a friend. Agonize them until they agree if that doesn’t work.

This. I say we have Brogue and Phreak investigate them independently as well, so we have a good pitch for showing up at their doorstep. But once we've got a compatible excuse for our interest in their family and airfield, we should be able to negotiate the rest over nice drinks.

We also have $1.5 million in the bank, so we can say with complete honesty that we're a businessman looking to expand, if that fits.


As for Cletus, ask about the area and make smalltalk about relevant hobbies. He'll either tell us to shut up or enjoy mentioning various fishing spots while giving us ideas for crazy schemes.

Punch through, they ain't got shit

We should ask Uncle about wyverns and aurora creatures sometime.


We already scanned Dorren, but knowing his current buff loadouts could be handy. I'd like to get a read on that robot, because robots are cool and Trence makes good decisions we don't know his capabilities or class.

Getting a read on the speardwarf or hat mage could be handy, but most likely they're more or less what they look like. I say it's kind of a tossup between getting a full read on one of them and a refresh on Dorren.

Hunting and fishing without a permit, cooking meth, consuming meth, robbing stores for meth ingredients, brutally murdering drug dealers who object to him giving away his spare meth, and eating hitchhikers. Once in a while, when gets particularly hungry, angry, or low on meth, he will assume his 7-story tall monster form and rain hell upon some hapless city until a coalition of Super Heroes forms to stop him.

This is an amazing rap sheet. He's just a meth-addicted crocodile in human(?) form.


Anyway, there's no way he's paying us a million and a half dollars just for takeout. He might nibble on them anyway, but that's clearly not his main goal.

Lets segway from the past conversation. We just talked about demon batteries, how about trying to see if we can use Ginger's magic to allow our three minions to use some of our heavier equipment.

We can start by having him modify a stone shell with his geomancy. Since we know he is capable of messing with them we can have him physically modify them so they can be used by humans. If he can manage that then none of our minions will get eaten, since our employer will assume they're inedible as we are.

Could potentially have him render everyone inedible or unappetizing via simple enchantments or illusions of some kind. Stoneskin, smells-like-plants, tofu armor, etc. He seems rather blunt and simple-minded, so if something doesn't look or smell like food he probably won't bother eating it, even if intellectually he knows he could. If we knew more about his tastes I might even suggest keeping bad-smelling herbs in their pocket or something.

In the short run we could also just have them not be here when he arrives, but that won't hold for the mission as a whole. Might be able to make sure there's something tastier than they are on hand at all times, but without knowing his preferences that could be tricky, and he probably wouldn't appreciate us asking.


ALSO he is almost certainly going to give our henchmen meth. There's probably not a lot we can do about that.


I feel like it'd be unprofessional to keep him waiting, so I'm in favor of calling him as soon as we have the document. We should wait on either phase 2 or being told it's not ready yet before making a decision with Pete, but in general I'm thinking the staff should be in on the demonic cult aspect.

Let Super Phreak acquire it. Treat him to a coffee or something afterwards.

Pete use signup bonus for business?

Talk with geomancer and ecoterrorist about potentially replicating and mass producing demon batteries so we three can potentially become billionaires and also save the planet.

Literally what we have Super Phreak on our team for so might as well use his expertise.

Use SP to get the document, but show some initiative and look for a way to crack the codes while he is doing it. Since this is an obvious next step (and if he doesn’t need it we can make a wish list for later).

An obvious way would be to make a list of people we can kidnap/mindread

+1 to all this, though more likely good ol' fashioned detective work will be the only way to really "crack" the codes.

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We'll figure it out later. Or not care.