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Feb. 6th, 2011 05:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nocarenamePower is power. That is one of the underpinnings of the work. Electricity can run any curse or charm you like and usually does. It’s easy to turn on and off, ready for surges and it’s clean. Not flavored like working with sacrifices or times of year or even the human mind. You need other things to pull it all together, money mostly. You can not pay the utilities in vouchers woven up from their own electricity - it just will not take. So well sell our effects for real cash and real favors and we use that to buy real electricity.
Some of the younger crew want to try stand co-generators, but that mean you need more paperwork and more records and that leaves a trail. They will not do that here and when the witch-finders come they will have to leave it all behind and start again. It is easier to just buy from the utility in the first place and not buy the stock. It keeps things impersonal. Flavorless.
The first job I’m sent out on as the new agent is literally a milk run. Two liters of skim and a half liter of cream for the office fridge. Some people, that’s the only protein they get in a day when it’s a bad job.
The hand me a ‘I’ve paid’ voucher good for up to fifty bucks for most people. Since they work by stretching perceptions it’s a little more for a person who throws their cash around, a little little less if they pinch pennies. If a Senator ever sold things I could probably pick up a Jag with it. Better to save it for a rainy day, so I pay cash - exact change - and haul it back on the train.
The offices aren’t quite downtown. The rents there are to high even when you have the ability to stretch things with the kinds of talents we accumulate and the storefronts draw attention that you just do not want when you try and keep a low profile for most of the population. Out clients know where to find us and that is more than enough most days.
We are in the phone book, of course, under event planners. ‘All Parties Possible.’ If they only knew. Some do, of course, that’s where the work comes from.
Some of the younger crew want to try stand co-generators, but that mean you need more paperwork and more records and that leaves a trail. They will not do that here and when the witch-finders come they will have to leave it all behind and start again. It is easier to just buy from the utility in the first place and not buy the stock. It keeps things impersonal. Flavorless.
The first job I’m sent out on as the new agent is literally a milk run. Two liters of skim and a half liter of cream for the office fridge. Some people, that’s the only protein they get in a day when it’s a bad job.
The hand me a ‘I’ve paid’ voucher good for up to fifty bucks for most people. Since they work by stretching perceptions it’s a little more for a person who throws their cash around, a little little less if they pinch pennies. If a Senator ever sold things I could probably pick up a Jag with it. Better to save it for a rainy day, so I pay cash - exact change - and haul it back on the train.
The offices aren’t quite downtown. The rents there are to high even when you have the ability to stretch things with the kinds of talents we accumulate and the storefronts draw attention that you just do not want when you try and keep a low profile for most of the population. Out clients know where to find us and that is more than enough most days.
We are in the phone book, of course, under event planners. ‘All Parties Possible.’ If they only knew. Some do, of course, that’s where the work comes from.
