POV Main

Unlimited Devas, and managing Associated Devas, and free hosts roaming in Poland, all that surpassed my capability at some moment. Human have to eat, sleep, suffer and ask in life. You can’t do that properly, when different people bombard you with needs, wishes and info from different angles. It’s too much. I wasn’t hero from Everything everywhere all at once. I wasn’t even champion Michael from Systemic lands. I couldn’t melt everyone around me or go for fishing for days, weeks even.

After some consultation with others, we decided, to use second most important invention since invention of fork. We would create structure in our organization. Main, some say that only, cause of creation of internal structures in organizations is ability to transfer your responsibilities on others. I needed it.

At the beginning, I dreamed, that I would rule Unlimited Devas. I knew, I didn’t have character for that. Still, I dreamed. Then, I believed, that we would have good company, that could handle everything. I thought, that few words, some crooked ideology and good will was enough to push it further. That moment, I felt, that it was too little.

We needed structure. Structure have its threads, bones, pillars of decision making, departments. You call it whatever you like, as Feynman would say. The point is, if you have part of business that works semi independently, you need to check its budget, efficiency and balance. The ugly part is, that you first you need to create rules for that part of business, that you would reckon up in the future. You need to create fucking business plan first.

Well, you probably don’t. I needed to do it. I needed to do it in a way, that wouldn’t create impression, that I was bad one among my friends. It shot me down for few days.

Luckily Noel helped me and Dee with basic living matters. I told him about pseudo religious side of our organization, but he wasn’t eager to join. He seemed content, with life he had at that moment.

Oh, Sith helped me with awoken supporters at that time, as they were training hard.

POV Bear

Vivaldi wanted info, what was happening with Devas. I provided him with some, but he said, it was not enough. I couldn’t get more. I was marginalized even among Associated Devas. Hail complained, that because of his relation with me Asmo and Mercy were closer to Unlimited Devas, than him. He didn’t provide anything useful, because I was dead weight, as he said. Huntress was busy with different things and she didn’t have time for me. She asked me for some help, but I couldn’t help, cause my injuries didn’t heal properly. I didn’t want them to see my injuries, to ask, what has happened.

I started to messaging Beria. He gave me contact to Legibot. I wanted us to meet and create secret pact. They asked me for magic, I didn’t have any. I was sure, that Unlimited Devas put some kind of magic ban on me. They were so smooth and so full of hate for me. They all were responsible for my misery, some less, some more.

POV Paladin

I was shot two times at the sea. I caught one attacker, another ran away. My stone entity, I named Curse, had good meal.

I would die from injuries after that assassination attempt, if not for my reinforced body.

I was angry, that they could find me so fast. I asked my boss for another hiding place.

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POV Celine

I got second transport. This time we couldn’t spend more time. It seems, that many things was happening in War-Saw. I got option, to start cooperating with other girls. So, now I was sitting and reading what Devas system was about.

Sith showed me his magic and left me recording of their show in theater.

I wondered, what they wanted to achieve. Because it was so different from obvious way, to just stay focused on managing food problem. There was some vision there, even if they didn’t state it. It wasn’t my vision, but it was better, than place, where flow would drift me if I didn’t join them.

You know saying, better act according to your dreams, else someone would make you to act upon his dreams. It was true for me. I always acted upon others wishes. I learned that way, that I could choose wishes I would act upon.

POV Ghost

It was easy. Even after my Spectre grew to third level, I had no bigger problems. My ability let me erase last minute or two from peoples memory. It worked even better, when I used it after conversation. They forgot, what they supposed to do according to previous talk. It was as if I was able to erase conclusions. People forget fast about things, that were without conclusions.

I was afraid at the beginning, that I would have crisis, like I had with Coal, but that occurrence didn’t repeat itself.

One thing I had to watch out were cameras and microphones. I could steal many things from shops just by acting as I was at cash register and cashier let me go without paying. I knew, that security cameras in shops were not enough to show, that I was influencing people. I was cautious and I hid my face, where I could. Aftereffect of fear of coming of King of nineteen helped me with that.

Killing people wasn’t my thing. I did it, I had to. It just seem as a lie. I felt as mastermind living in shadows and such ordinary crimes felt beneath me.

POV Kirk

Vivaldi showed me his magic ability in exchange for my help. I was good student. He didn’t treat me very well, but it was almost heaven, when I thought about my life in Ahriman’s Order. He was injured and it didn’t heal properly.

We gained healing mixture and tied up Unlimited Devas to criminal case at the same time. He showed me, how to hunt after that. He was giga Chad like.

I asked him about his aims. I want to dominate all others, he simply said. It was great dream, I would help him to achieve it.

POV Legibot

I wanted to kill some hooligan, that cheered for football (soccer) team Legion. But they saw me as leftist or freak right away. I couldn’t catch them of guard. I thought, that I could spot one after matches. They drunk lot and were loud after matches, whatever score was, but they moved in groups in the city.

So, in the end I killed another leftist, I didn’t like.

I thought, that I should meet with Beria and Bear, as I had no real idea, how to live. They somehow were managing their lives better, than me.

Well, maybe not better, as I lived according to leftist society guidelines, but my management of John was inadequate.

Life is a failure, as Marx once said, but you have others to learn from their failures. It helps to see, that there are bigger failures out there.

POV Carol

I was trying to gather merchants for my hearth medicine, when I got meet some, that already bought it from the market. I heard gossips earlier, but that moment I got true info. Market already existed and some pharmaceutical company was selling product in professional way.

I knew right that moment, that it was Unlimited Devas doing from shadows. At first I wanted to build competition against them, but then I calmed myself down. I didn’t get to my money by being sentimental. In todays world monopoles were ruling over economy. Companies stronger than small countries. How was it possible? It was possible, because institution of shareholder let it be.

I wouldn’t create competition for them. It was barely profitable. I would go to them, state my plans and ask, if I could join them in exchange for shares of their company. That way, we would be still in control of prices of our product. That way of procedure had even own name in rich men society, it was friendly takeover.

Big tycoons, it was loud about IT, were buying up startups not because they were so brilliant, but rather because startups could create competition in its niche of market and then, by chance, to grow up to proper competition. It was easier to kill it in the bud. But that kind of strategy was used against traditional companies even more. Countries, that gain independence after first collapse of Russian empire at the end of twenty century, were as military compounds, where western, rich in money tycoons exercised those procedures. They often let bought companies to bankruptcy, as they had already counterparts in their countries. That way, they got control over market from supply side.

I was businessman. I learned from that lesson a lot.