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[of_deduction]

I’ve made a fascinating discovery about your Red Dust.

[ For a moment that seems to the end of it but added as, what seems to be an after thought- ]

Oh, and it looks like I've managed to figure out how to stabilise it before you. Tough break that.

If you're feeling the need to try and extract the information from me, I invite you to try.

You know where I'll be.
SH

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[of_deduction]

No. I used them often during a trip to china.
SH

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[wrathfulkhan]

Oh, I am sure you did.

Absolutely positive.

Another guǐlǎo sightseeing in the Mystical Orient, huh?

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[of_deduction]

Infiltrating a criminal network, actually.
SH

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[wrathfulkhan]

[Gene stares at the screen for a good minute. He did not. Oh, honestly.]

Oh, please. Any organization with any sense would have either laughed you out of the room or stabbed you repeatedly. Or maybe both. [Trust him. He has Experience.] White men don't join triads. That's basically screaming "Look at me! I'm a cop!"

[Unless...oh, oh no.]

Please tell me you did not use makeup to make yourself look Chinese.

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[of_deduction]

It was part of a much larger network, took me two years to dismantle it.
SH

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[wrathfulkhan]

Non sequitur. Answer my question.

Additionally, god damn, you must have been dealing with amateurs, and you have to be beyond an amateur yourself if it took you two years to dismantle a criminal network if it included a triad that'd take in a white guy.

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[of_deduction]

For God's sake. It was a Network. One that lent out resources and support to other organisations throughout the globe. Like the Triads and The Black Lotus in China, the Yukuza in Japan, the Serbians, the sex trade in cambodia--A web that started in London.

Nothing as quite so obvious as what your imagination has come up with.
SH

Here's a better question you can ask-Why the hell would I give away my plans now?
SH

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[wrathfulkhan]

[Oh, Sherlock. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Gene's "imagination" isn't imagination, and he's lived a lot wilder as someone both raised in and heading a criminal empire than he's going to tell this grandstanding moron.]

All very admirable, but you're dodging the question so much you may as well be playing professional league dodgeball. [Is that a thing? Probably.]

You can tell me your "plans" because I'm the Deputy Chief of the KPD and you are/were a consultant. And you're not quite as clever as you think.

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[of_deduction]

I've talked to Valdis. If she thinks you should know then get the information from her.
SH

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[wrathfulkhan]

Very well, then.

[Yeah, he's just going to assume you did the makeup thing, Sherlock. Three replies with no denial means asking again is useless. You can almost see the little "--" from the Sims pop up above his head.]

You do know that this can backfire spectacularly, right? Like using a firework to light a cigarette.

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[of_deduction]

[ He didn't though. ]

Yes. And as plans go this one is morally bankrupt, but I said I wanted to eradicate the Red Mist.

So if you must know, this is just phase one with the ultimate goal of taking their strongest weapon out of play.
SH

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[wrathfulkhan]

[Lack of denial is tacit admission of guilt. :V]

You speak as if half the Foreigners keep to what you'd think of as traditional morals. [Gene's filed for Chapter 11 moral bankruptcy at least three times. His moral credit rating is in the toilet.]

Depending on how badly this backfires, if it does, a lot of kedan will die. [Gene has a lot of experience with plans blowing up in his face and innocent people dying. He doesn't want that to happen again.]

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[of_deduction]

Yes, so if you don't mind, I'd like to take precautions to keep that from happening.
SH

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[wrathfulkhan]

Such as...?

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[of_deduction]

I said I'd continue to report my findings to Valdis. I've kept my word-she's aware of the gist of my plans so ask her.

The fewer people that know the full thing the less of a chance it has of leaking.
SH

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[wrathfulkhan]

Hm. Loose lips sink ships.

I hope you know what you're doing.

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[of_deduction]

I know exactly what I'm doing.
SH

[ And all the possible repercussions should things go badly. ]

I'd suggest putting a guard on the water supply.

I doubt they'd try the same trick twice but let's not give them the option.
SH

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[wrathfulkhan]

[Gene really, really doesn't think you do.]

As if we haven't already. It's shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted, but at least it's something. And we're guarding other vulnerable points, too.