Post by Tom on Jun 7, 2023 2:29:10 GMT -5
Leverage Incorporated is a business organization that specializes in security systems, bodyguarding, and acquisition of both material objects and information. They also employ a talented pool of researches and inventors to assist with furthering technology and techniques within those spectrums.
On the surface... All of this is true. This is the legal operations of the company, which is based in Argent of Point Ciel, with branch offices all across the continent, and merchants offering the wares scattered throughout the cities.
In Bleeding Heart, however, and in most similar "Slum" areas of other cities and towns across the continent... is the true business of Leverage Incorporated. Theft, espionage, robbery, under the table loans, frame jobs, all of these things are performed by employees of Leverage who work for the darker side of the company that no one can prove exists. While the main office of the criminal aspect is in Bleeding Heart, safe houses are scattered throughout all of the districts, and the less upstanding citizens who base their work in nighttime hours and illegal dealings prefer to travel discreetly through the Catacombs of Point Ciel.
The employees of Leverage number in the several hundred, across both sides. There is a cordial relationship between all workers of Leverage, be they working in the sun or under the moon.
Leverage as a group has certain lines that are not to be crossed; employees who cross these lines are immediately let go and marred in a permanent fashion, or outright killed, depending on the line crossed. Other groups who cross these lines will earn the ire of Leverage, and find it's resources and many employees working to sabotage and cripple the group in question as retaliation. The lines are as follows:
Additionally, Leverage has a strict policy of "No killing" while on the job illegally (Bodyguards are allowed to kill in defense of their clients). This policy is waived, however, for targets the company is specifically going after for crossing lines they will not tolerate.
On the surface... All of this is true. This is the legal operations of the company, which is based in Argent of Point Ciel, with branch offices all across the continent, and merchants offering the wares scattered throughout the cities.
In Bleeding Heart, however, and in most similar "Slum" areas of other cities and towns across the continent... is the true business of Leverage Incorporated. Theft, espionage, robbery, under the table loans, frame jobs, all of these things are performed by employees of Leverage who work for the darker side of the company that no one can prove exists. While the main office of the criminal aspect is in Bleeding Heart, safe houses are scattered throughout all of the districts, and the less upstanding citizens who base their work in nighttime hours and illegal dealings prefer to travel discreetly through the Catacombs of Point Ciel.
The employees of Leverage number in the several hundred, across both sides. There is a cordial relationship between all workers of Leverage, be they working in the sun or under the moon.
Leverage as a group has certain lines that are not to be crossed; employees who cross these lines are immediately let go and marred in a permanent fashion, or outright killed, depending on the line crossed. Other groups who cross these lines will earn the ire of Leverage, and find it's resources and many employees working to sabotage and cripple the group in question as retaliation. The lines are as follows:
- No drugs, either use or peddling. This includes the knowledge of chemical composition or manufacturing process of drugs. Alcohol is allowed, however, and on the legal side shipments of medicines are arranged.
- No trafficking of flesh. Slavery is wrong and any who tries will find themselves on the receiving end of a very pissed off continental organization.
- No kidnapping. Similar line of thought as no flesh trafficking. Plus kidnapping never goes well, 9 times out of 10 the kidnappers fuck up and someone ends up dying, be it the hostage, the kidnappers in question, collateral damage, etc. It's just banned.
- No targeting of the innocent. By that, Leverage will not target children. The group will also not medical workers, caretakers, teachers, charity workers, etc, unless supplied verifiable information that said individual or group is corrupt in some fashion.
- Don't take from those who have nothing. Basic economics people.
Additionally, Leverage has a strict policy of "No killing" while on the job illegally (Bodyguards are allowed to kill in defense of their clients). This policy is waived, however, for targets the company is specifically going after for crossing lines they will not tolerate.
