Board Meeting [Closed]

[¤Amy Grace¤]

He had sent the summons to all available parties and was standing in a room with white walls and no visible door. There was only a single table in the middle of the room and seven empty spots around the table aside from his own seat. The lights dimmed and he walked to his chair sitting and crossed his legs putting his hands on his knee.

"Good evening everyone, you'll notice there are only six of you here tonight," he said, his voice cool, calm and collected, "Gionne will no longer be joining us at this table. Bare this warning in mind, you are not as well hidden as you think you are and should anyone else overstep, the table will continue to grow smaller. Keep that in mind gentlemen."

He went silent finally and took out a remote from his breast pocket of his jacket and pressed the display button, the holographic display in the middle of the table displayed a vial of Black Liquid, the topic of the Board Meeting.

[«Wraith»]

Krown
They all sat there. Some a little more unnerved than others, though another person was missing from this whole meeting at least in person, a holographic display of him sitting in the chair though would have to suffice. No way in hell was he returning to America especially not since he and his organization were so well set up in eastern Europe. He'd been embezzling money and viruses from Hija's Umbrella for a while now and once Hija was taken down it was the final step needed to own Umbrella's fiscal resources and B.O.W. data for himself. Needless to say he was set where he was. This new man definitely peaked his interest though. For the most part he remained quiet as he smoked his cigar and sipped his whiskey.

James Marcus
He sat there stone faced with his arms crossed and his gaze staring down the man. Another Himura like figure who tried to threaten and bully their way to their attention. While Marcella's death came at a surprise it was more or less a fortuitous one. As they sat here his collectors were already seizing the information on TriCell's B.O.W.s as well as samples. They'd been a small thorn in his side for years that he couldn't exactly act against without bringing suspicion to the others.

And like usual the other two, Downing and Arias were simply sitting there, bewildered and intimidated by the actions and words of this man who had the gull to summon them here. Then again he expected nothing less from those who were lesser in both mentality and physicality. They were simply human after all.

He was the first to speak, "Well, you have us here. This;" He waved his hand at the holographic display. "Is obviously very important to you, so while some of us still entertain your, gathering."

[¤Amy Grace¤]

"Marcus," Wesker said slowly turning his head to the man, "if you think you are above this, you may leave. You will never return to this table however. I assure you, I do not wave my stick to intimidate any of you, I have eliminated Devil and their Umbrella assets and TriCell. Both of them threats to your Conglomerate, one was starving you all the other was working under the table leaking information that would bury you all eventually... How else would I know where you are currently sitting."

As he finished that statement someone put their hand on James Marcus's shoulder.

"Now, if you are all done waving your ego's I will begin," Wesker said crossing his hands back over his knee, "what you see before you is a creation of Hexacore BioGenetics. I'll skip its scientific name, Doctor Horn calls it the Lemures Virus. It is undetectable in hosts for up to three weeks, the host will then rapidly get a fever, the sickness that comes after takes on several forms depending on the person, vomiting, blurred vision, lack of balance. Your usual symptoms. It can be used to destabilize a region to then take control over it rapidly with little resistance."

There was a kicker, always was, "those who die from the sickness will reanimate. These hosts aren't contagious once they are dead. It can keep an outbreak limited to a region without a world wide pandemic or extinction event."

He clicked the button on the remote, "it also affects B.O.W.s, and those who have used REGEN 29 will cause a mutation that is HIGHLY contagious when coming into contact with the mutated strand. Yet, still survivable without a cure. I offer you this, as a means to get you back on your feet after all that you've lost in the last four years."

[«Wraith»]

Krown sat forward in his seat, stroking his beard and listening intently as this man spoke about the virus. This would make a killing on the market. As Marcus removed the hand from his shoulder, Krown was the first to speak up. His accent laced every word of his broken English, "This another Zombie virus? What is different beyond B.O.W.s being susceptible to infection and controllable contagion?" He started, he was definitely interested but he was business man first and foremost which meant he couldn't simply start negotiations with, 'gimme, gimme, gimme' "This thing, infection rate and severity numbers pre-zombies, transmission methods, what is information we can really use here?"

[¤Amy Grace¤]

"You'll get to see a demo run soon," Wesker said, "A third of Raccoon city was infected three weeks ago and should start showing symptoms soon enough. Once they show symptoms they will spread the virus through coughing and sneezing like most other virus's."

He shifted in his seat and pressed another button on the remote, there was now a bunch of specimen displayed in holding cells, "As a 'plague' the virus is extremely contagious. Once reanimation occurs its infection rate also drops, unless as I specified, an altered with REGEN-29 becomes infected. This makes the outbreaks that can be caused by it to be manageable to clean up without exterminating and destroying large parts of cities."

Wesker finally brought attention to the mutations that was displayed, "these are common mutations from the virus based on genetics and health problems. They do not require you to put money into projects like hunters and Tyrants when they come free with the population. The large one demonstrated the ability to tear limbs off and overpower 103s. The smaller aggressive one has similar speed to a licker and poses far larger threats than the hunter program because of its stealthy nature."

He glossed over the others by simply saying, "I've set you information on the known types we've seen so far. You'll note the bloated ones can spread the infection with the acidic gas in its body and you'll note the reanimated BOWs are far more hostile than regular undead and highly contagious."

[«Wraith»]

"And you are simply.... offering? Like gift?" Krown asked as he was confused as to how and why though he'd been telling his field agents in Raccoon City to keep an eye out for the effects of this thing. The fact that it could affect B.O.W.s meant he could use it to potentially get rid of that upstart little gang leader who was running Raccoon City without sharing.

"Yes, this does sound too good to be true." Marcus said speaking up once more, "What's the goal here, you, someone who we don't even know the name of, show up with your company which is completely unknown until recently when you were contacted to eliminate that Himura child. Next you eliminate a member of the table, and threaten us, and now you're offering a gift. So what exactly is it you have in mind here? Because you're sending mixed signals."

[¤Amy Grace¤]

"You can call me Wesker," he said, "I understand your concerns but you will simply have to do research to uncover what Hexacore is and where it came from. It didn't just appear over night, but that is neither here nor there. Your conglomerate got weak and sloppy, I have handled your problem and as a show of respect and to put us on equal terms I am offering you all samples of the Lemures Virus to do with it what you will."

"My other purpose calling you here is to reintroduce you to who will be filling Gionne's empty seat."

[«Wraith»]

Marcus sat back and crossed his arms once more he was about to say something before Krown spoke up. "Yue kno, with what yue just said, sounds more like bribe to get onto table with whoever it is you want to take Marcella's place. In fact, I'd say sounds like you want head of table." He said in his simple sort of stating the obvious way. "I personally, don't care, as long as money is to be made, besides it would be good to have a Wesker at head of table again."

[¤Amy Grace¤]

Wesker smirked, "to be honest with you, I personally do not care what happens with your little gathering. However, I see potential in allies and shared assets and I have one thing none of you currently have in your pockets. The President of the Eastern Shelf, Gentek's assets, and an extensive library of Viral agents you may be interested in looking through. Those, will come at a price however, but that is a conversation for another day."

While still smirking he looked to Marcus, "are we going to have a problem here, or can I introduce the seventh man to the table to fill the void of power?"

[«Wraith»]

Marcus said nothing, instead he waited and bid his time. Just like everything else he'd bide his time. The Organization he had outlived most of these people and there was a simple reason as to why and how. He outlasted the egotistical ones fairly easily and this one would be no different. "This will get you no where Wekser, so, if you're done leaving us in suspense, who is this nominee you've chosen to join the table?"

[Queen-of-Horror]

The seventh spot lit and there was an empty chair for a moment then a man in a white suit came into view and sat down, his red eye bled through the display as if he was looking into their souls, he tilted his head back just like he always did looking down at them as if they were all pawns. He slowly moved his left leg over his right and reached to his left picking up a glass of wine before raising it.

"Still as miserable as always," he said to Marcus, a smirk crossed his twisted evil scarred face and the red eye seemed to somehow just get brighter yet the area around it deepened with darkness, "Furui hisan'na meinu..."

[¤Amy Grace¤]

The suspense was the best part Mr. Marcus, when Hija appeared he could honestly feel the atmosphere in the room shift even if he was sitting there alone. The reputation of Mr. Himura was terrifying enough, the fact that he was sitting among them now was a problem for anyone not on his side. Wesker imagined the lesser part of the Conglomerate was relieved when Himura was taken down, knowing they were safe but here he sat.

"I don't think I need to introduce Mr. Himura, he was a former member after all," Wesker said.

[«Wraith»]

The others sat there in stunned silence, they thought the horror that was Hija Himura was over but they were wrong. Marcus sat there quietly a dreadful gaze showing on his face as the man who seized control of a company that was by all rights meant to be his sat down. Krown was the first to speak up, but he started laughing at first, this was just the best for him. "Wait a minut, thought you were locked up at Daimond dog base? Dey let you have phone calls now?"

[Queen-of-Horror]

Himura leaned to his left resting his elbow against the inside of his chair, "the news will have a segment tomorrow about an explosion off the shore of Zanzibar land. I doubt 'Biggubosu' will take kindly to the death of his Jager unit and the strut system he confined me to, but he shouldn't keep a blind eye to who stands at his side."

He crossed his arms, "now then... Let's talk about who contracted the death of my grand daughter and where her assets went to... Might I remind you, Umbrella assets."

Himura knew damn well what he was doing by constantly antagonizing James Marcus, it was something he had always done, he knew Marcus hated him but he also knew that everyone in the Conglomerate in some shape or form feared him or what he would do to bring attention to them. Their fears were always in the right place and Himura knew that damn well. That being said, he has always gone out of his way to make sure his actions never reflected back on the table, he considered it a mutual respect as they never truly attempted to take his life.

[¤Amy Grace¤]

Wesker, while he was the reason partially for Himura being here, was also aware of how to control the situation. Himura brought up an event that none of them had knowledge of yet but an attack on the legendary Outer Haven wouldn't take long for that to circulate, he imagined because of how far out to sea the strut was is the reason no one leaked the information yet.

Then he brought up his daughters death, something he had a hand in, "I'm sure we can come to an agreement and return assets to you. However, you cannot expect us to hand over everything just because you ask for it."

Wesker smiled, "you sit at this table currently because I allow you to. Should you decide to take actions against the Conglomerate, I will put resources into your assassination."