1.5.04
More Jonas, The only PNI Field Agent: Underground Contact
While Jonas is the only PNI field agent, there is a home agent in each garage to manage the cars, the infrastructure, and the Underground contacts.
The Underground is a loosely-structured assortment of homeless people whose job it is, among whatever other things they feel like doing, to count things. Counting cops, counting cabs, counting men with yellow ties - whatever their contacts tell them to count. A good half the underground is insane, but their data is as useful as anyone else's - the contacts pay them for their tallies and whatever else they scribble on their pads. The data is collated and filtered, and then... eh?
Later in his career, the Underground becomes the fast-food chain of the Jonas hotel. His rescue girls find that a homeless person, after a bath and shave, is an easy choice for a quick meal, and if they go too far and kill, or even swallow the soul, well... no-one comes looking.
Riel finds out about the Underground while homeless himself, or faking it on a stakeout, and comes back to Jonas from another angle. Jonas is a little embarrassed at being found out, but it is his opportunity to invite Riel into his confidence.
The Underground is a loosely-structured assortment of homeless people whose job it is, among whatever other things they feel like doing, to count things. Counting cops, counting cabs, counting men with yellow ties - whatever their contacts tell them to count. A good half the underground is insane, but their data is as useful as anyone else's - the contacts pay them for their tallies and whatever else they scribble on their pads. The data is collated and filtered, and then... eh?
Later in his career, the Underground becomes the fast-food chain of the Jonas hotel. His rescue girls find that a homeless person, after a bath and shave, is an easy choice for a quick meal, and if they go too far and kill, or even swallow the soul, well... no-one comes looking.
Riel finds out about the Underground while homeless himself, or faking it on a stakeout, and comes back to Jonas from another angle. Jonas is a little embarrassed at being found out, but it is his opportunity to invite Riel into his confidence.
// posted by Wray Davis @ 9:59 PM 
