Pardon any mess, I'm trying to figure out how to get all of this down in one post and still be coherent with it! Per Jason's conversation with El here, he's looking to get a few resources from El to help along his other goal: overtaking the underground bits and pieces at a time, which was slotted to happen at a much later date, but given the direction some of the last event took, Jason's trying to speed it up to take the gangs' attentions off of Morningstar itself. And with Roni's comment here to the plot engagement, it looks like you guys have a plan on where to start with that!
With the last event, Loki got hold of a few of the ID scrambler masks for Jason; he also has an engineer, Abel, who will be offering his assistance to break them down and sort them out so whether or not El does provide a hand won't quite dictate if Jason does go forward with his plans, just the when, how, and how much prep time he needs to accomplish it! I'm including this just in case El intends to say no, because:
He's fully intending on taking down the gang heads he's aware of, killing them off, and establishing himself as head of the Warlocks and Kings, before moving his way around the underground and taking over the rest of it. Jason has experience in canon pulling apart drug rings and organizations, he's had a few months to note down who is who and who he would need to tear down to get to where he wants, he's willing to be ruthless and put them down (the ones with known histories committing acts Jason personally doesn't approve of, he wouldn't kill anyone who doesn't meet his standards of death-worthy) and has supplies (from Loki's personal hidden stash and things he's been building up himself) to help him along. In addition, Jason has a few friends (Kovacs, Laura, (possibly) Caroline) who he would ask for a more direct hand in taking them down--and he's working on picking up a few additional folks, too.
For efficiency, he'd keep most of his large hits down to a single night so that the underground wouldn't suspect he was coming for them until it was a bit too late. The kills would be one hit (he's got his shadows he can use, knives, etc) so they couldn't call for help, and would be (for as much as he can help it) while they were alone. Jason would be using an edited ID scrambler that would not match the ID of the scrambler tech Morningstar uses for this, too.
Given the amount of deaths, he'd used the instability among the gangs' ranks to work his way up and in to overtake their criminal rings, merge the two gangs together and create something new for himself. Of course--this would all take a lot of time, but those are his longterm goals with it. And Jason is looking less for watching over every corner of those two gangs, and more for keeping their noses out of shit he doesn't want them messing with (Morningstar in particular) and into things he is interested in getting more information on (the displaced's circumstance).
Additionally! He also asked Dawn/Cassius to contact him here so he could 'help' find the other AI Cassius was looking for. Jason does not have intentions of actually being helpful, his plan is to more figure out what the hell Cassius is doing and figure out how to take down Cassius himself, because he really doesn't appreciate all the bodies. He wants the information he mentioned early on, and would go as far as to find the AIs to get it.
I've had a few players reach out to me regarding this so I'm curious as to where that'd go, too!
no subject
Pardon any mess, I'm trying to figure out how to get all of this down in one post and still be coherent with it! Per Jason's conversation with El here, he's looking to get a few resources from El to help along his other goal: overtaking the underground bits and pieces at a time, which was slotted to happen at a much later date, but given the direction some of the last event took, Jason's trying to speed it up to take the gangs' attentions off of Morningstar itself. And with Roni's comment here to the plot engagement, it looks like you guys have a plan on where to start with that!
With the last event, Loki got hold of a few of the ID scrambler masks for Jason; he also has an engineer, Abel, who will be offering his assistance to break them down and sort them out so whether or not El does provide a hand won't quite dictate if Jason does go forward with his plans, just the when, how, and how much prep time he needs to accomplish it! I'm including this just in case El intends to say no, because:
He's fully intending on taking down the gang heads he's aware of, killing them off, and establishing himself as head of the Warlocks and Kings, before moving his way around the underground and taking over the rest of it. Jason has experience in canon pulling apart drug rings and organizations, he's had a few months to note down who is who and who he would need to tear down to get to where he wants, he's willing to be ruthless and put them down (the ones with known histories committing acts Jason personally doesn't approve of, he wouldn't kill anyone who doesn't meet his standards of death-worthy) and has supplies (from Loki's personal hidden stash and things he's been building up himself) to help him along. In addition, Jason has a few friends (Kovacs, Laura, (possibly) Caroline) who he would ask for a more direct hand in taking them down--and he's working on picking up a few additional folks, too.
For efficiency, he'd keep most of his large hits down to a single night so that the underground wouldn't suspect he was coming for them until it was a bit too late. The kills would be one hit (he's got his shadows he can use, knives, etc) so they couldn't call for help, and would be (for as much as he can help it) while they were alone. Jason would be using an edited ID scrambler that would not match the ID of the scrambler tech Morningstar uses for this, too.
Given the amount of deaths, he'd used the instability among the gangs' ranks to work his way up and in to overtake their criminal rings, merge the two gangs together and create something new for himself. Of course--this would all take a lot of time, but those are his longterm goals with it. And Jason is looking less for watching over every corner of those two gangs, and more for keeping their noses out of shit he doesn't want them messing with (Morningstar in particular) and into things he is interested in getting more information on (the displaced's circumstance).
Additionally! He also asked Dawn/Cassius to contact him here so he could 'help' find the other AI Cassius was looking for. Jason does not have intentions of actually being helpful, his plan is to more figure out what the hell Cassius is doing and figure out how to take down Cassius himself, because he really doesn't appreciate all the bodies. He wants the information he mentioned early on, and would go as far as to find the AIs to get it.
I've had a few players reach out to me regarding this so I'm curious as to where that'd go, too!