<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=135386.msg6042184#msg6042184">Quote from: Callie Del Noire on 24-03-2012, 23:45:05</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I see Akiko as an 'assistant' for a VP of Market Survey and Assements (ie.. a nobody position for the 'company expeditor') who was part project, pet, and honey trap for him. He just pushed things too far one day and one of his rivals (or a team he tried to dispose of) decided his office looked better scattered over the street outside his window. With his.. departure, she was 'downsized' (ie..let go without benefits, access to her funds, home, ect) as her bosses new replacement brought in a whole new staff.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>So... she hasn't done any "work" as a runner then?<br/><br/>and it's up to our glorious GM to decide. But it's fun to toss around the possibilities.<br/><br/>I left the exact reasons for Billy's dismissal vague even to myself, but he either refused to do something that went against his personal principles, or actively disobeyed an order and did something he wasn't suppose to because of his principles and someone didn't like it strongly enough to issue a kill order. It's much less messy if you don't have to offer letters of reference for past employees, give benefits or a termination package. lol<br/><br/>As Street Sams are (in theory) suppose to have a personal code of some kind, it fit the story well enough. Admittedly, his ethics are somewhat vague, but there are things he won't do. In the immortal words of Bully Hayes (Nate and Hayes), "I never killed a man who didn't have it coming, I never raped and I never pillaged!"<br/><br/>blinkin