Kit pushed a little hard, maybe?
Someone else bid it up to three thousand, to which Felix hit the button immediately on, moving it to four thousand.
Then it flashed “Sold” after a ten-second delay.
Tapping his thumb against the table, he waited. He’d need to get her looked at immediately. She could be incredibly useful with a power like that.
Felix raised his eyebrows with a sudden thought.
He called up his point totals.
Received
Spent
Remaining
Daily Allotment
150
0
150
Miu Miki
1,000
200
800
Ioana Iliescu
1,100
220
880
Kit Carrington
2,250
2,250
0
Lilian Lux
2,600
2,600
0
Andrea Elex
1,400
1,400
0
Felicia Fay
1,550
310
1,240
Benito Hernandez
750
0
750
Carlos Hernandez
900
0
900
Enrique Hernandez
850
0
850
Ignacio Hernandez
1,100
0
1,100
Ruby Todd
1,300
0
1,300
Antony Adelpha
1,700
0
1,700
Eva Adelpha
1,600
0
1,600
+ Loyalty Bonus
685
0
685
DAILY TOTAL
18,935
6,980
11,955
He had far more than he’d expected, points wise, but that was whole reason he was buying people, wasn’t it?
Next, he focused on Eva’s Negative Status of Internal Hemorrhaging, and that he wanted to correct it.
Status Correction: Internal Hemorrhage -> Healed
Correct Status? (2,000 points)
“Kit, can you put a thought in the girl’s head?”
“I can. Why…?”
“She’s bleeding out internally. I’m going to fix it,” Felix explained. “Let me know when you’re done.”
“I… yes. It’s done. She’s very confused and scared and trying to talk with me now,” Kit said after a second.
“That’s fine. Nudge No-Name and see if he’s willing to bring her directly to us if you think it’d be worthwhile.
“Car might be a bit cramped, though. And…”
Felix tapped the button, confirming the status correction.
Sighing, he leaned back in his chair and looked to the tablet again. “There. I’m tired. Feel like getting some pizza on the way home?”
Lily looked like she was going to explode. She clenched her fists in front of him and took a deep breath.
“That’d be fine, Felix. Though I think we should probably discuss how much you really can do with your powers,” Kit interjected.
“Probably a good idea. I had no idea I could fix an active wound until this moment, though. Cost two thousand points to fix her internal bleeding. Seems expensive. I mean, we knew I could do limbs and whatnot, but an actual bleeding wound? New.”
Lily growled, shaking visibly. Slowly, she turned from him, facing the monitor. “Oh yeah, healing power the likes of which has never been seen before. Done in seconds. Doesn’t even have to be nearby. Or actually see them. Expensive,” she grumbled.
Chapter 12 - Building Upward -
Felix stared at his points screen and then poked at it with an angry grunt. Bending his will to it, he tried to force it to reorganize itself for him.
He didn’t want to see every damn name. It felt like an endless list. He wanted it organized by power type under who it would be rolled up to. He wanted it organized like a corporation.
He knew those. Corporations made sense. Org charts kept everyone in line. It was a civilian military system.
Trying his damnedest to get his way, he used the example of the Hernandez brothers rolling up to Ioana because their power sets were similar. They’d end reporting to her as if she were their supervisor.
With over a hundred additional people, it was going to take some time to get it all sorted out.
Right now, they had some time. Felix had spent his time buying up the undocumented masses cheaply. The rest of those participating in the auction were now fighting over the high-value known individuals.
Felix couldn’t deny his interest, but not at those prices. Instead, he got to work.
He had to check his terminal a few times to confirm his thoughts against his notes, but eventually he got it to a view he was happy with.
He left Eva out because he wasn’t sure where her powers would fit best.
Received
Spent
Remaining
Daily Allotment
150
0
150
Miu Miki
1,000
200
800
—Direct reports
12,875
0
12,875
Ioana Iliescu
1,100
220
880
—Direct reports
24,720
0
24,720
Kit Carrington
2,250
2,250
0
—Direct reports
20,600
0
20,600
Lilian Lux
2,600
2,600
0
—Direct reports
12,360
0
12,360
Andrea Elex
1,400
1,400
0
Felicia Fay
1,550
310
1,240
—Direct reports
13,905
0
13,905
Eva Adelpha
1,600
2,000
-400
+ Loyalty Bonus
1,610
0
1,610
DAILY TOTAL
97,720
8,980
88,740
“Weeeell. Ending total right now is just shy of one hundred thousand points. I’d say our money troubles are well and truly over. We’ll need to be careful, though, and not overdo it and make ourselves too rich. That’d just draw attention we don’t need.
“I say we go with the original plan. Use the pawn shop as a front to launder the points through into money,” Felix said, closing the window.
“But I do your laundry,” Andrea said sleepily from her corner.
“That you do. Hey, I wanted to ask you about that. I appreciate you doing that for me, I wasn’t expecting it, but it feels like everything is off by a week.”
“I don’t understand?” Andrea asked, rolling over, putting her back to him and curling back into a napping position.
“The clothes you dropped off yesterday were from two weeks ago. It’s… weird. It’s like there’s a delay.”
Andrea started to snore softly, leaving Felix’s question unanswered.
Felix harrumphed and looked to the screen. The amounts were getting ridiculous.
Pointless. I can turn Eva into a wrecking ball. Or the boy into a second Lily. Bidding on an end result is pointless for me. I can take the untrained and bring them up.
Trainer of newbs.
Felix smirked at his own thoughts and waited for the whole thing to end.
Looking at the young girl next to him, Felix kept himself from sighing. Technically, he’d told Kit she could do this. He had only himself to be upset at.
The rest of them were being shipped in busses tomorrow morning, since it was already late in the day by the time they’d gotten out of the auction.
No-Name had set it up for him and seemed rather pleased with himself. Felix didn’t care. He imagined the man would get a cut of Felix’s purchases, and that was fine with him.