IC Contact post for Mask or Menace

[dun_moch]

"You have reached Count Dooku. I regret that I am unavailable to answer your hail. Kindly leave a message, and I shall respond at the earliest opportunity."

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text;

[catchacold]

Knock, knock.

text;

[dun_moch]

Hello, Snart. Are you ready to report?

[If they have knock-knock jokes in Dooku's Galaxy, he never much cared for them.]

text; I will finally stop being slow on this, I solemnly swear

[catchacold]

[Presumably no knock-knock jokes, given the abundance of automatic slide doors.]

I am. And I didn't even break into your place this time.

Do you want to do this in person?

:)

[dun_moch]

[Nah, you can knock on those doors. But most of them have beepers for visitors. So there are 'beep-beep' jokes.]

Certainly. Provided we meet someplace other than my living room. You will find that my security has been much improved since your last 'visit.'

Come to the 'Brew World Order' tea shop in Maurtia Falls. We can discuss our business there in private.

[catchacold]

[Which is clearly an entirely different joke genre!]

Don't say that. You have to realise that's pretty much just a challenge.

I'll come. Now or some other time?

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[dun_moch]

It is not a challenge.

[Don't even, Leonard.]

I will meet you there in an hour. Ensure that you are not followed.

[Snart will find the Count already seated and enjoying some tea at the shop, in a private booth toward the back of the business.]

[catchacold]

[Sure sounds like a challenge to him.

But for now he has an hour, so he makes his way to the appointed place and doesn't have to spend any time looking for the Count. The man undeniably has a presence.

Leonard slides in the booth across from him, crossing his legs at the ankles.]

Do they do iced tea too?

[dun_moch]

[Dooku resists the urge to wrinkle his nose. To ice a tea is to insult it, according to his aristocratic tastes.]

Indeed they do. In many different varieties. Please, order what you like. I will be paying, of course.

[What's an extra few dollars on top of the ten thousand for Snart's espionage?]

[catchacold]

[So, British sounding people from space are still British enough to have opinions about tea. Leonard takes note, but decides not to remark on it. He's getting a lot of money out of this, after all.]

Very generous.

[He even refrains from putting his feet up on the bench, true show of manners.]

I assume you're sure this place is discreet.

[dun_moch]

[Strong opinions. Especially the Space Counts.]

Perfectly. I have used it many times in the past without incident.

[Which is fortunate, since it would be a shame for Dooku to give up one of the only sources of decent tea in the area because of a security issue.]

[catchacold]

Good to know, because that would be a waste of hard work.

[And that's an elegant way to point out that getting the results he now has had been hard work. Leonard refrains from saying more yet, since he orders himself an iced tea first - all the more because the Count disapproves - then he leans back and waits for the waiter to be far enough away before he begins.]

There's two bases in each Porter City. Heropa has two navy, Maurtia Falls two army, Nonah a navy and an air force and De Chima an army and an air force. All with high level security systems, redundancies. Very well guarded.

[dun_moch]

[The Count steeples his fingers in front of him on the table as Leonard speaks, giving the mercenary- sorry, 'anti-villain'- his full attention.]

I imagined they would be heavily defended. How interesting that these troops are so rarely deployed to defend us in times of crisis...

[Dooku wouldn't have minded some military backup during the history invasion, for instance.]

Now then, are these bases which contain Porters themselves? Or do they hold another purpose?

[catchacold]

I have pictures of all of them. I managed to get a closer look at two.

[As he speaks, he takes out the pictures, sorting them by location and leaving two stacks for last.]

These are from De Chima, the army base, and these are from one of the navy bases in Heropa. I'm assuming most of the other bases would serve similar purposes, at least their layout and makeup doesn't hint at any staggering differences.

What do you think?

[dun_moch]

[The Count leafs through the photos with a furrowed brow for a moment, scanning and memorizing with a calculating eye. Then he tucks the pictures into his cape, like a magician making something disappear.]

I think you have done quite well. I know people who will be very interested in these photos... And who might have further work for the man who secured them.

[Leonard has done well enough to get paid in networking as well as in money, Dooku thinks.]

I will require electronic copies of the pictures as well, along with context regarding the date, time, and location you took them. In return, you can expect payment in full within the day.

[catchacold]

[Leonard arches an eyebrow at the move with the cape, thinking up a rabbit line and then deciding to drop it, given he's currently promised a lot more business.]

Then you just forward them to me.

[Contacts are definitely valuable in this world, where he's still not renowned the way he was back home.]

I'll send you the copies and facts. Don't share those with anyone outside your group. If anyone else is interested, they can pay accordingly.

[dun_moch]

It will be done. I suspect this could be the beginning of a continuing and mutually profitable relationship between us, Mister Snart. Assuming you are still available for further work, that is?

[Dooku isn't quite ready to offer him a retainer yet, but he might get there.]