raisetheearth | Factor Industries Charity Event: October 18th, 2016

Even for Benjamin Factor, arranging this charity event had been something of a challenge. Just as he held great influence in Gateway City, Thunder Corp's influence in Locke was great as well. But with time and money, all things were indeed possible in this case, and the Memorial Dance Hall was playing host to the night's events. It was a glamorous affair: politicians, captains of business, dignitaries, and celebrities had been invited. For whatever controversy that existed, the world legitimately wanted to heal the wounds left by the invasion, and that meant there were a lot of people who wanted to use events like this to either advance that cause, or to make themselves look good.

But they weren't the only sorts of individuals who had recieved an invitation.

Benjamin Factor had also made it so the Numbered would be invited to his little party. Arrivals through the teleporter would be greeted by drivers at the community center, and the same courtesy was extended to anyone who might live in Locke. The only stipulation? Was that anyone who came make an effort to make themselves presentable. If that was a problem, or anyone arrived without knowing, they had clothes on hand for people to change into.

Indeed, it seemed that the Numbered would be well provided for tonight. That being said, their presence would get people to talk, given the presence of news crews making live coverage. Nevertheless... "getting people to talk" seemed to be exactly what Benjamin Factor wanted to happen.

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Well, certainly. Really, one couldn't miss Jasmine if they tried. Saretha smirks as the other young woman approaches, taking a small sip from her drink.

"It is, at that. Though given what Factor has provided in the past, I would be disappointed if it turned out to be the opposite..."

She gives a slight chuckle and shrugs.

"Hopefully this will end with significantly less amounts of being told off by certain people, hm?"

"... He certainly knows how to put on a show," she said, nodding. "Were you ever at the big summit in Gateway?"

She snickers. "Yeah, hopefully. I'm also hoping there's no crazy attacks or anything."

"I was preoccupied at the time, but I've heard tell," she admits, and then gives a light shrug. "I wouldn't worry too terribly much about that, however. There's enough of us here, and many of us felled a large number of a very powerful army."

Also the first, and in some cases last, time many of them had killed someone, but that's beside the point.

"Anyone would be crazy to attempt something, and if they do... we can handle it."

"Oh, I'm not worried at all about that," she said. "I'm pretty sure this many of us could take whatever comes at us."

She shook her head. "I'm more worried about how they'd try and spin things..."

"Oh, it would be a public relations nightmare," she murmurs a bit, and shakes her head. "Not even Factor's good graces, or any ground I've gained--" Which is still difficult as hell. "--would get us very far."

She frowns.

"That said, I wouldn't think you the type to spend a party worrying over that."

"... Yeah, well," Jasmine said. "Like I kinda said during that whole informant thing. I've been trying to approach things a little more intelligently lately, I guess. Turns out Dark Precure was actually pretty sharp... and I've got the potential for that too."

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Saretha's frown turns into a smirk. She looks oddly amused by something, and she shakes her head. "That's somewhat of a naive outlook, Tsukuyomi. Don't attribute your ability to do that solely to your past life."

... Jasmine actually smiled slightly at that. "Maybe you're right," she said. "But I never really considered myself that way before. So it's new to me. I'm just... trying to figure out what lessons I can take from her, and what I can do on my own."

"Believe me, I can understand that considerably."

She gives a slight shrug, looking out from Jasmine, away at the crowd for a moment or two. "The earliest things I remembered of Satsuki, I took a message from. It was only later on that I realized it was the wrong message. Learning from our past selves is good, it is necessary. But it is something we must be careful of. We must consider ourselves in the here and now foremost."

"... Heh. Looks like the two of us have always had more in common than we realized."

Jasmine smirked. "But you're right. And the two of us in the here and now... we have a god damned job to do, don't we? And tonight, that job is rubbing Thunder Corp's big fate nose in things."

Saretha gives a sharp laugh and nods, peering through the crowd, taking note of a particular figure attempting to get in people's business. She shakes her head and looks back to Jasmine.

"It is at that, but... do take care, even there, Jasmine."

"Oh come on," Jasmine replied. "The all new Jasmine Tsukuyomi is all calm and cautious."

She chuckled for a bit, before nodding. "But yeah, seriously. Trust me... I'll watch out for myself, Saretha."

Factor Industries Charity Event: October 18th, 2016

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