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Subj: Re: Wouldn't that make it slippery?
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 at 07:40:15 am EST (Viewed 1 times)
Reply Subj: Wouldn't that make it slippery?
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 11:38:25 pm EST (Viewed 592 times)



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    I tried the fixer-upper thing with that apartment on Zero Street. It wasn't a well-liked idea, but that may be because it was me. \:\)


Are you sure it wasn't because you didn't follow it up?


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    Chiaki isn't quite successful enough to start giving away money, but she does seem to have a winning formula for rehabilitating underutilized property.


Given time we'll certainly see some work on those places; but I prefer to see it happen in-story rather than "offstage". Why make it easy when you can tell a tale about it?


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      As we'll see, the main problems at the moment are that its assets are all tied up in legal red tape, unable to be found, or else physically deteriorated properties. It's not just the Foundation building but a whole portfolio of derilict homes and overgrown parks.



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    And that's exactly the kind of thing Chiaki specializes in. She can usually get rid of the legal red tape in a day or two. She knows how to form a developer shell company, take over management of the properties, and probably even get tax breaks for it to boot. She learned a lot about, ironically, legitimate business, from working for Akiko.



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    But like I said before, the kind of help Jay would request would be limited by his desire to do things without any help. He might want to avoid asking Chiaki because it would feel like he's falling back on old habits and not really learning anything.


I guess we'll need to wait and see how much poster-Jay wants to do on this.


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    It's going to be tough keeping the gangs out without help, though. Jay can't really be there and awake 24/7, and if he tries he'll burn out. Unless that's the point - he'll try at first, but then end up painted into a corner.


In the first isntance we could look to the kind of "protection" that Zero Street and St Jude's have in Hell's Bathroom - stay clear of a superhero will get you. Of course that's tougher to do in GMY. A longer term solution will take... longer.





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