Wallenburg wrote:Trevanyika nods. "Good. I'll drink to your freedom then. And, if you ever wish to reconsider alcohol, there will be a drink waiting for you on the Wallenburgian tab."
"Hey! You aren't even an employee!" shouts Representative Ogenbond from several stools away.
"My tab," Trevanyika corrects herself. "So, what is a living embodiment of a corporation doing in the World Assembly?"
"Trying to stay alive, to be honest," said LaPointe. "Normally, if a corporation goes under, the body dies. Or rather, the body disintegrates into motes of light and vanishes. But this is a bizarre pocket dimension or somesuch- the connection between my body and the rest of me is greatly diminished. And, well. All four of us are having some problem or other that has a very high chance of corporate death. Roth Co. has been in a death spiral for years now and is in the position of having to close his remaining stores. HealthMart was just bought by a rival corporation with a tendency to do very unpleasant things to his victims..."
The girl in 90s fashion surges forward and interrupts, "And LaPointe here is in a lot of legal trouble!"
LaPointe gives the interloper a dark look. "WebVid. How kind of you to drop in unwanted and uninvited."