Hi Shikki! Thanks for the follow up! We're excited to see what you do with this Maeda plot.
1. The biggest thing that Damian will notice is that people will be betting on him winning. Maeda now knows how skilled he is, and plans to take advantage of this knowledge to pad her pockets. No one will be throwing the fights - that would be too obvious - but Damian would find that there's a vested interest in him succeeding.
That said, Damian will recognize some of the men in the ring from his shake down. They want another go at him to prove themselves, even if they're well aware that their employer is betting against them.
2. This would not be that difficult! There are numerous virtual reality programs like what we have today to make "homebrewed" video games, so to speak, that allow people to design their own virtual settings. Think of it like today's RPG maker or like when someone uses Square Space to make a website - but far more advanced! How good it looks will depend largely on how much time Damian puts into it, as well as the modifications he downloads to help advance his work. Either way, it would be more of a matter of the technology making it easier, rather than Damian's own savvy.
3. Maeda's biography on the Giles Bell website will talk about the Maedas' involvement with Giles Bell for the past few centuries. There will be some sugarcoating about how she proved herself to be as efficient and capable as her family members to work her way up to where she is, though this seems to be the tune for most of the board members. Assuming that they got here through nepotism - and the company's overhead essentially being more or less an oligarchy - wouldn't be a reach. She was raised for this life from birth. Additionally, her husband is on the board of directors for Pulsar.
Further research will lead to Damian finding public records that show that both Maeda and Giles Bell financially backed Governor Gill-Jade's rise to office.
Otherwise, Maeda doesn't get a whole lot of social media hits. Her son Hideki does - he's an active user of what doubles as Meadowlark's Twitter and Instagram. There are a lot of images of him partying, of him with the dog, and other things that indicate that he lives a rather decadent life without much responsibility. There's a point where his Instagram had to be restarted because he posted pictures that weren't meant to be online, so it only dates back to within the last two months.
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1. The biggest thing that Damian will notice is that people will be betting on him winning. Maeda now knows how skilled he is, and plans to take advantage of this knowledge to pad her pockets. No one will be throwing the fights - that would be too obvious - but Damian would find that there's a vested interest in him succeeding.
That said, Damian will recognize some of the men in the ring from his shake down. They want another go at him to prove themselves, even if they're well aware that their employer is betting against them.
2. This would not be that difficult! There are numerous virtual reality programs like what we have today to make "homebrewed" video games, so to speak, that allow people to design their own virtual settings. Think of it like today's RPG maker or like when someone uses Square Space to make a website - but far more advanced! How good it looks will depend largely on how much time Damian puts into it, as well as the modifications he downloads to help advance his work. Either way, it would be more of a matter of the technology making it easier, rather than Damian's own savvy.
3. Maeda's biography on the Giles Bell website will talk about the Maedas' involvement with Giles Bell for the past few centuries. There will be some sugarcoating about how she proved herself to be as efficient and capable as her family members to work her way up to where she is, though this seems to be the tune for most of the board members. Assuming that they got here through nepotism - and the company's overhead essentially being more or less an oligarchy - wouldn't be a reach. She was raised for this life from birth. Additionally, her husband is on the board of directors for Pulsar.
Further research will lead to Damian finding public records that show that both Maeda and Giles Bell financially backed Governor Gill-Jade's rise to office.
Otherwise, Maeda doesn't get a whole lot of social media hits. Her son Hideki does - he's an active user of what doubles as Meadowlark's Twitter and Instagram. There are a lot of images of him partying, of him with the dog, and other things that indicate that he lives a rather decadent life without much responsibility. There's a point where his Instagram had to be restarted because he posted pictures that weren't meant to be online, so it only dates back to within the last two months.