So whoever shows up at the bar Stephen will offer a drink and invite into the office to spin some tale about being on the lookout for influencers to collaborate with to boost his mentalist side business. He'll explain that alongside other avenues he's been contemplating stepping into the club scene for promo videos and cooltalk content and Hideki's got a sizeable enough group of friends that observing him on a night out seemed a decent way to get eyes on a few people at the same time - he'll admit that since running his own bar he's become a little more conscious of people's behaviour under the influence and wanted to get a sense of whether or not Hideki and his pals were people he could do business with without it reflecting badly on him later. Difficult to claim you care about your staff and the public if you're going to try to turn a profit elsewhere by collaborating with somebody without any respect for other people on a night out! He'll have a fairly extensive list of notes he's taken about potential collaborators that expand beyond just Hideki including new starters, middle and heavy weight cooltalkers, which he'll be happy to share.
He'll take the length of the conversation to do some snooping in this staff member's mind for anything worth overhearing too. Primarily intending to listen in on any thoughts about incoming or outgoing messages, freshly written files and considerations of who they'll be sent to, looking for any sense of staff structure or hierarchy and any names of who he's being reported on to, and whether this staff member themselves is anyone of significance to Maeda. Fortunately he always layers up at work to avoid any glowing.
If you guys have any suggestions on where to chase the info he got from the guard (would said guard have known the identities of any of her loyal guards?) and any info Stephen might get from this most recent interaction, that would be great! We're looking for ways to wrap this up sooner rather than later (this is on me for taking a month off haha) so if it's going to take a while to wind down the subtler roads I'll hand over to Jason's ready-lit fuse.
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So whoever shows up at the bar Stephen will offer a drink and invite into the office to spin some tale about being on the lookout for influencers to collaborate with to boost his mentalist side business. He'll explain that alongside other avenues he's been contemplating stepping into the club scene for promo videos and cooltalk content and Hideki's got a sizeable enough group of friends that observing him on a night out seemed a decent way to get eyes on a few people at the same time - he'll admit that since running his own bar he's become a little more conscious of people's behaviour under the influence and wanted to get a sense of whether or not Hideki and his pals were people he could do business with without it reflecting badly on him later. Difficult to claim you care about your staff and the public if you're going to try to turn a profit elsewhere by collaborating with somebody without any respect for other people on a night out! He'll have a fairly extensive list of notes he's taken about potential collaborators that expand beyond just Hideki including new starters, middle and heavy weight cooltalkers, which he'll be happy to share.
He'll take the length of the conversation to do some snooping in this staff member's mind for anything worth overhearing too. Primarily intending to listen in on any thoughts about incoming or outgoing messages, freshly written files and considerations of who they'll be sent to, looking for any sense of staff structure or hierarchy and any names of who he's being reported on to, and whether this staff member themselves is anyone of significance to Maeda. Fortunately he always layers up at work to avoid any glowing.
If you guys have any suggestions on where to chase the info he got from the guard (would said guard have known the identities of any of her loyal guards?) and any info Stephen might get from this most recent interaction, that would be great! We're looking for ways to wrap this up sooner rather than later (this is on me for taking a month off haha) so if it's going to take a while to wind down the subtler roads I'll hand over to Jason's ready-lit fuse.