Hi Julia! Thanks again for clearing up everything with question number one - and never worry about length!
Moving past the first one:
2. Would Cain be putting himself out there for modeling or applying for these positions, or would he ask people to come to him? As far as we know, he's both a fighter in the fighting rings and doing construction work, which might make it reluctant for these companies to use him as their face.
3. This direction would be far easier for Cain! However, Simone would be reluctant to hook up with someone over social media while showing support for the brewing rebellion on Mars, so he would need to find a direction to meet her. Thankfully, Alex - a friend of Cain's, we believe! - has that in thanks to her time working as a singer in a number of Petrov clubs. We recommend moving Cain in that direction.
4. As Hideki walks them inside, he would remark that they usually have a lot more staff, but his mother "threw a tantrum" and fired everyone recently. That means she hasn't hired new staff, and he's forced to do take out every night. He misses having a personal chef! He wouldn't have any clues as why the staff is gone if they ask, just that his mother has been more stressed and irritable than normal.
Their apartment would actually take up three floors. The main entertainment would be on the main floor: there is a wall set up for watching movies, as well as very, very nice couches that … may somehow be made out of leather. The dog will be here, too, trotting around and looking cute. There is a nicely stocked bar on this floor, and this is where Hideki would plop down and put on music very loud by syncing up his neural implant with the apartment's speakers. This music will be able to be heard on every level.
The second level is where the Maedas keep their pretentious art and other cultural artefacts. The temperature in this area is carefully regulated. This is where Aoi keeps her shrine that she had sliced out of a wall, but there is nothing about it that makes it seem as if it's especially treasured, as well as a number of other paintings that she bought throughout the years. She has other art - and some of it was purchased and installed recently, bought off the art walks that were set up following the Halloween festival. None of this art is from the Displaced, however, so it doesn't seem as if she has a particular proclivity toward them. She also has a library on this floor dedicated to a lot of books, but they're held behind a glass door and someone needs to have the neural implant access to open them.
The third floor is where the bedrooms are. There are four of them, with the master bedroom having a locked door. They won't be able to get in unless they break the lock, which would be difficult to do without sending a security signal to Hideki's parents. There is a way to do this by shutting down the power on the apartment building, but it would, again, cause some issues because the senior Maedas would be informed.
ETA we left out that's critical: What won't be obvious is that there are security cameras all over. Usually apartments don't have these to the extent that the Maeda family does, but they monitor movement in all parts of the apartment. The second floor with the gallery is especially monitored, as it has the family's prized possessions. These cameras won't be visible to the naked eye, as Maeda doesn't want people to know she's watching them when she's not in the room.
We know that this isn't a lot of information, but they would be able to have a map of the apartment. Let us know if they'll be going through more extreme means to get into the locked bedroom, or if they'll be happy to report on this to Jason!
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Moving past the first one:
2. Would Cain be putting himself out there for modeling or applying for these positions, or would he ask people to come to him? As far as we know, he's both a fighter in the fighting rings and doing construction work, which might make it reluctant for these companies to use him as their face.
3. This direction would be far easier for Cain! However, Simone would be reluctant to hook up with someone over social media while showing support for the brewing rebellion on Mars, so he would need to find a direction to meet her. Thankfully, Alex - a friend of Cain's, we believe! - has that in thanks to her time working as a singer in a number of Petrov clubs. We recommend moving Cain in that direction.
4. As Hideki walks them inside, he would remark that they usually have a lot more staff, but his mother "threw a tantrum" and fired everyone recently. That means she hasn't hired new staff, and he's forced to do take out every night. He misses having a personal chef! He wouldn't have any clues as why the staff is gone if they ask, just that his mother has been more stressed and irritable than normal.
Their apartment would actually take up three floors. The main entertainment would be on the main floor: there is a wall set up for watching movies, as well as very, very nice couches that … may somehow be made out of leather. The dog will be here, too, trotting around and looking cute. There is a nicely stocked bar on this floor, and this is where Hideki would plop down and put on music very loud by syncing up his neural implant with the apartment's speakers. This music will be able to be heard on every level.
The second level is where the Maedas keep their pretentious art and other cultural artefacts. The temperature in this area is carefully regulated. This is where Aoi keeps her shrine that she had sliced out of a wall, but there is nothing about it that makes it seem as if it's especially treasured, as well as a number of other paintings that she bought throughout the years. She has other art - and some of it was purchased and installed recently, bought off the art walks that were set up following the Halloween festival. None of this art is from the Displaced, however, so it doesn't seem as if she has a particular proclivity toward them. She also has a library on this floor dedicated to a lot of books, but they're held behind a glass door and someone needs to have the neural implant access to open them.
The third floor is where the bedrooms are. There are four of them, with the master bedroom having a locked door. They won't be able to get in unless they break the lock, which would be difficult to do without sending a security signal to Hideki's parents. There is a way to do this by shutting down the power on the apartment building, but it would, again, cause some issues because the senior Maedas would be informed.
ETA we left out that's critical: What won't be obvious is that there are security cameras all over. Usually apartments don't have these to the extent that the Maeda family does, but they monitor movement in all parts of the apartment. The second floor with the gallery is especially monitored, as it has the family's prized possessions. These cameras won't be visible to the naked eye, as Maeda doesn't want people to know she's watching them when she's not in the room.
We know that this isn't a lot of information, but they would be able to have a map of the apartment. Let us know if they'll be going through more extreme means to get into the locked bedroom, or if they'll be happy to report on this to Jason!