The Johnson seems typically unmoved by Rhiannon's argument, her posture unchanging as she drones "If you are going to acknowledge my necessity and challenge your wages from the viewpoint of risk, you must have also considered the personal risk that I am taking hiring an untested team. I have nothing but your reputations to go on. The fact that you have reputations at all indicates that you are good at surviving, but I have no way of knowing whether or any of you are capable of performing at the level of subtlety I require for your services to be useful. I have given you an easy assignment, a chance to reap profit from it, and enough of a cash payment to guarantee that at a minimum your material costs will be met."<br/><br/>"Now," she continues, "I have to assume that all of you are opportunistic, or you would not still be in business. I am sending you into a warehouse filled with valuable black-market merchandise and containing the financial records and who knows what else of a fairly large gang. They have numbers, because that's their greatest resource- they cannot afford to systematically train or outfit their personnel, or to hire a security firm on a long-term basis. So from my point of view, this assignment is actually significantly less dangerous than the type of work your reputation suggests you indulge in on a regular basis. If that is the case, then I would be a fool to pay you premium wages for a very straightforward assignment."<br/><br/>Almost pleased with herself, she folds both arms over her chest again, her expression impassive. "As such, I can only assume that you are either attempting to see how far I am willing to concede to your terms, which I can assure you is not far at all, or you are failing to properly appreciate the potential profit that may be reaped from your own ingenuity. If it is the former, I understand your actions, and if it is the latter you aren't what we were looking for anyway."<br/><br/>"To answer your question," she murmurs, turning back to Hourglass, "Our data on quantity is more limited, but based on the transations we have intercepted in the past we think you can expect to find 30-50 cases of chips, more if they are low-quality and potentially a lot less if they are of an extremely high quality."