Varia in Little Hades

[sharktrash]

V A R I A

Mafia / Crime Syndicate

ic contact

A relatively new local “business”, the Varia offers a multitude of services for those willing to part with enough cash.

• information extortion and trafficking,
• acquiring of various demon organs and body parts,
• finding people and beating them up or delivering your revenge (torture or making someone sleep with the fire fishes available),
• intermediating between you and smugglers,
• hiring “freelancer” criminals for you,
• offering “protection” for your club or business (this one they might contact you themselves about),
• getting that annoying hellcop off your trail,
• other less than legal affairs.

They’re also offering smuggling services themselves, focusing on ice cream, sweets and top shelf booze. Because a secret ice cream parlor in a frozen over Hell is what serious mafiosos do. They will, however, consider other requests as well, as long as you pay for it.

Now here's the fun part! By outsourcing Varia, you can get smuggled goods at discounted OOC/hellbuck prices. This is especially relevant to those who do not possess Reaping Gloves of their own. Of course, that means that your character must be willing to pay the Varia IC money/dracos for it, but the exact amounts can be handwaved. Request your goods here! *

* Note that once your discount has been granted, you still need to submit an official request to the Hellmods. We don't distribute the rewards themselves, only discounts! Once your inquiry here is confirmed, you can link it in your comment to the mod post, and pay the reduced price.

Most customers will be getting the regular price, however returning customers OR customers who possess the Reaping Gloves themselves may request extra discount. Keep in mind that the latter's availability may depend on our current funds.


S M U G G L I N G  P R I C I N G:

Random living world item (regular): 2 hellbucks (3 paid by us)
Random living world item (extra discount): 0 hellbucks (5 paid by us)
Select living world item (regular): 5 hellbucks (5 paid by us)
Select living world item (extra discount): 0 hellbucks (10 paid by us)
Living dead pet (regular only): 75 hellbucks (75 paid by us) - ONE available currently


Varia's current funds: 313+ hellbucks
Extra discount available: YES
Items available this month: 25


As the game progresses, items from home worlds may become available. Keep an eye on the offers!

 

R O S T E R		A L L I E S
Boss:  Xanxus ✘ sharktrash  Members:    Belphegor ✘ natalia_vdova  Lackeys:  Eda ✘ nuns4money  ✘ transporter Oboro ✘ crowkid  ✘ errand boy		✘ Fitzgerald ( spondulix ) - outsource for smuggling; "protection" for his club "Infrablack". ✘ ✘ Roman Torchwick ( stealing_ur_dust ) - fencing in his shop "Hells'Pawned" and freelance thief jobs.

J   O   B   S

"Lackey" is an entry level position available to people who aren't trustworthy or otherwise ~Varia Quality~ (which includes being awesome, knowing 7 languages and a lot of ways to kill). A handy job application can be found here.

Varia are rather eccentric employers, although they pay well and are generaly very accepting of any and all quirks despite being arrogant hobags with little patience for imperfection or disloyalty. Granted, most of the time lackeys won't be tasked with crucial jobs, but they'll still be expected to take responsibility for flubbing it.

While not actively hiring, they will definitely try to seek out promising agents and/or murderers and try to sway them into alliances. Also, we can never have too many ice cream dealers. Seriously.


A   L   L   I   A   N   C   E   S

So you don't want to work for the mob, but you'd like your own business or services to be on friendly terms with the Varia. Maybe even with mutual benefits!   If that's the case, feel free to fill out an alliance request instead. Be ready for parley on the terms.

Comments

A handy Application

[variaboss]

For those who wish to apply for positions in the Varia, please fill out this handy form. Because Hell always needs more forms and paperwork to do.

OOC
Player: Who are you?
contact info: Where can we reach you?
canon: where they from

IC
character: who's signing up
Position applied for: [ (Positions range from the following, though we'll also take suggestions.) ]
Muscle/Transportation/Assassination/Ice cream Parlor Employee
What skills do you have that make you prime for this position?
What would you name your war elephant?
What about your own private island?:
What is your favorite way of killing someone? Be descriptive as possible!:
How do you feel about cats?:
How do you feel about fish?:
How many languages do you speak?:

<i>OOC</i> <b>Player</b>: Who are you? <b>contact info</b>: Where can we reach you? <b>canon</b>: where they from <i>IC</i> <b>character</b>: who's signing up <b>Position applied for</b>: [ <small>(Positions range from the following, though we'll also take suggestions.)</small> ] Muscle/Transportation/Assassination/Ice cream Parlor Employee <b>What skills do you have that make you prime for this position?</b> <b>What would you name your war elephant?</b> <b>What about your own private island?</b>: <b>What is your favorite way of killing someone? Be descriptive as possible!</b>: <b>How do you feel about cats?</b>: <b>How do you feel about fish?</b>: <b>How many languages do you speak?</b>:

(frozen comment) Re: A handy Application

[stealing_ur_dust]

OOC
Player: Relica.
contact info:
canon: RWBY

IC
character: Roman Torchwick
Position applied for: Do you need a fence? A professional thief for hire? Had experience in smuggling too.
What skills do you have that make you prime for this position? Well, fencing is a no brainer , and pick pocketing child's play but a lifetime of leading heists and being virtually impossible to keep in prison also helps.
What would you name your war elephant? Well as much as he liked Perry, he wasn't very war-like...but he was a good pet. Faust
What about your own private island?: Laverna
What is your favorite way of killing someone? Be descriptive as possible!: Making me pick one hardly seems fair. As satisfying as luring someone to their death can be, I'd have to say that hands-on experience is the most rewarding when dealing with one that is a particular thorn in your side.(You might want to remove your coat in case it gets messy.) Feeling their bones break is great and all but the best part is feeling their pride break when they realize that no amount of the sanctimonious drivel that they have bought into will save them. That little glimmer of fear and then desperation when they realize that reality doesn't make the same distinctions between them and me as do the storybooks. You have to be close to see this and shooting them in the face doesn't quite give you the same experience, though I'm game for that too - I used to have the perfect tool for both.
How do you feel about cats?:Love 'em. They make great target practice.
How do you feel about fish?: Meh...if it's not rotting in this place, I'm not picky. As food, right?
How many languages do you speak?: Just the one.

(frozen comment)

[variaboss]

Congratulations Trash, you have just enough Quality to be an official Varia Lackey. Your position is THIEF. Your job is to steal really good shit from Little Eden, Little Hades, your mom, whoever, and bring it to us to sell for a (very very small) cut of the profit.

Some rules to abide by: don't hurt the boss's cat.

If you wish to raise to Varia proper, you'll need to learn seven more languages.

X

(frozen comment) Re: A handy Application

[model_face]

OOC
Player: Star
contact info: StarShiranui on plurk or PMs
canon: Dragon Ball Z

IC
character: Nappa
Position applied for: Muscle and/or assassination
What skills do you have that make you prime for this position? Part of a race that thrives on war, conflict, and violence. Former experience as a general of the armies of that planet. Nuked several planets and killed off races on planets for, oh, twenty years or so.
What would you name your war elephant? Cassava
What about your own private island?: Cera
What is your favorite way of killing someone? Be descriptive as possible!: The best ways are the down and dirty ones, beating the ever-loving shit out of someone in what seemed like a fair fight. Just your bare fists and making sure to break every single bone in their body to where they're teetering on the edge of unconsciousness but still awake to where they're aware of their surroundings. Before either compressing their skull into nothing or collapsing their windpipe until they die from asphyxiation.
How do you feel about cats?: The larger and more aggressive, the better.
How do you feel about fish?: See above.
How many languages do you speak?: Four, almost five. (OOC: I bullshitted that, but by logical assumption...)

(frozen comment)

[nuns4money]

OOC
Player: Pash
contact info: @ plurk, or PM this journal
canon: Black Lagoon

IC
character: Eda
Position applied for: Transportation, but I'm not picky, I'll take Ice cream Parlor Employee too.
What skills do you have that make you prime for this position? I was a bounty hunter and I sold weapons when I was alive.
What would you name your war elephant? Dumbo, I watched a lotta kids movies ok?
What about your own private island?: Khimuk
What is your favorite way of killing someone? Be descriptive as possible!: There's always shooting someone in the knees and having them bleed out while trying to run off. I also knew someone that liked to send people back to their boss without skin. That looked neat as hell.
How do you feel about cats?: I'm cool with them, but I wouldn't keep one.
How do you feel about fish?: If they ain't piranhas, I'm cool with them.
How many languages do you speak?: English, Spanish, Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese, Thai, and bit of Russian. I also know hints of Italian, but I could be better at it.

(frozen comment) I said I'd do this for lols, totally didn't put it in the wrong place

[natalia_vdova]

OOC
Player: Jamie
Contact Info: archearted @ AIM, natalia_vdova @ Plurk, PMs
Canon: MCU

IC
Character: Natasha Romanoff
Position applied for: Assassination
What skills do you have that make you prime for this position? Expert proficiency in many fighting styles, including Escrima, Kali, Wushu, Muay Thai, Vovinam, and Jiu Jitsu. Competent in the usage of nearly all weapon types. Extremely skilled with all varieties of small arms, expert marksman. Extremely skilled in the use of tonfas and electricity-based weaponry. Extremely skilled in information retrival and resistant extraction, as well as interrogation techniques. Extremely skilled in security systems, both mechanical and technological. Proficient in reverse interrogation techniques. Highly skilled hacker. Very skilled in stealth techniques, blending into a crowd, and other methods of going unseen. Skilled in a variety of proprietary espionage techniques. Extremely skilled in seduction techniques for the purposes of information retrival and for the elimination of targets. Knowledge of poisons. Other skills as needed for specific missions. Skilled with use of demolitions. Overall: I've been called one of the most dangerous assassins in the world.
What would you name your war elephant? Teryoshka
What about your own private island?: Tsaritsyn
What is your favorite way of killing someone? Be descriptive as possible!: Whatever the missions calls for. I like fast and clean and quick: a bullet from a sniper rifle they never see coming, or a Walther PPK/S if it requires close range. That said, I also know how to send a message.
How do you feel about cats?: I like cats.
How do you feel about fish?: They're tasty.
How many languages do you speak?: Native-fluent in French, Russian, Italian, English, Spanish, German, Arabic, Chinese (Cantonese & Mandarin), and Japanese. Fluent in Latin. Conversational in a number of languages, including Romanian, Portuguese, Greek and others.

(frozen comment)

[crowkid]

OOC
Player: Elise
contact info: fromgilbo
canon: Gintama

IC
character: Oboro
Position applied for: Anything you'll pay me for.
What skills do you have that make you prime for this position? Housekeeping, basic self-defense, basic cooking, some degree of stealth, tending to animals, good aim, quick learner.
What would you name your war elephant? I'd sell it.
What about your own private island?: I'd sell it.
What is your favorite way of killing someone? Be descriptive as possible!: Quickly and without being noticed. If I have to get caught, it will be after the job is done.
How do you feel about cats?: They're good, they need to be treated with respect.
How do you feel about fish?: Eat the small ones, leave the big ones alone.
How many languages do you speak?: One.

VARIA SMUGGLING SHOP

[sharktrash]

So, you decided to order something! Please comment under this toplevel with the prize you seek.

After we've confirmed that your character will get it, you may link this comment in your official Activity Rewards request to the mods and you'll get the discounted price!


<b>Character:</b> Name/Codename <b>Requested Item:</b> Random/ItemDetails <b>Extra Discount?</b> NO/YES <b>Other:</b> Anything else?

[darkly_dreaming]

Character: Erik (@ not_mephistopheles
Requested Item: Select Item (Opium)
Extra Discount? No
Other: Hopefully this is allowed if not feel free to just delete or whatever :)

Well if you insist...

[not_mephistopheles]

Character: Erik
Requested Item: a large box of morphine
Extra Discount? Up to your establishment.
Other: Could be delivered with the cake Xanxus promised?

[notimeforsorrow]

Character: Leia Organa
Requested Item: Select living world items - 2 bags of sugar, 1 kg each bag
Extra Discount? No.
Other: She'll share the cookies.

[reuknighted]

Character: Jason Todd Red Hood
Requested Item: His gun, which is actually two guns combined, because why not. So it probably counts as 2 living world items.
Extra Discount? No
Other: Jason will approach with his face covered the entire time (see above), introducing himself only as "Red Hood." He'll be pretty affable and interested in the organization, asking questions about how to join and wondering how they managed to get such a great rep in the city. There's an undercurrent of "who'd you have to maim to become so successful" to his questions, but he seems more intrigued than resentful about it.

[natalia_vdova]

Character: Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow
Requested Item: A large bag of white sugar, fresh blueberries and a jug of some goddamn maple syrup. (okay, no, the sugar doesn't have to be that large, but she's trying to aim for enough to work off for a while. Don't judge.)
Extra Discount? IDK, up to you all.
Other: IF YOU DO THIS, SHE WILL MAKE YOU PANCAKES.

[hachimaki]

Character: Takasugi Shinsuke
Requested Item: A tantou. It can come from any world so long as it's Japanese-esque make and good quality. Verbalizes gold accents are preferred.
Extra Discount? SURE
Other: He's specifically requesting Xanxus for this since Squalo a BITCH. By which I mean I want the CR opportunity with Xan.

Re: VARIA SMUGGLING SHOP

[natalia_vdova]

Character: Natasha / Black Widow
Requested Item: Asgardian or Heavenly booze of some variety
Extra Discount? NO
Other: Just needs one bottle of stuff to get supersoldiers drunk pls.

[natalia_vdova]

Character: Natasha / Black Widow
Requested Item: Specific living world items (7) One large package each: Pastila, Ptichie Moloko, Alenka Chocolate, Korovka, Zefir, Tula Pryanik with condensed milk, and pryaniki. (It's an assortment of Russian sweets)
Extra Discount? NO
Other:

[once_janus]

Character: Elizabeth
Requested Item: 2 select living world items as decribed in the IC request! That's a certain handheld short wave radio, and a certain bird pin from just before she died.
Extra Discount? If you're feeling generous!~
Other: Elizabeth may not be able to offer much MONEY... but she will offer a favor. One favor, no questions asked. Don't think that's worth much? Well, she'd point out her very unique skills, and how they could be useful to a place like Varia. She can turn invisible and see through walls, and she can essentially high-jack someone's mind for a few minutes-- so yeah, mind control. So. That could be a thing to spawn some more CR with them maybe...? Totally willing to be flexible here.

[natalia_vdova]

Character: Black Widow
Requested Item: Specific item; a pair of high voltage telescopic electric batons.
Extra Discount? NO
Other: Nada.

[natalia_vdova]

Character: Black Widow
Requested Item: A pre-War Martin guitar. Not a homeworld item, any one will do.
Extra Discount? NO
Other: Nat and Squalo should swordfight some time or something. >D

[scalpedsociety]

Character: Aramat Drawdes
Requested Item: Select living world items (9): Two extra large bags of sugar, 4 sticks of butter, a large bag of fresh apples, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
Extra Discount? NO
Other: Aramat feels like making apple pie and just having sweet pastries to make. If you send your cutest/prettiest/handsomest transporter, she will send back slices to all of Varia. ^_^

[riveres]

Character: Oscar, but he will be using the codename 'Waif' for privacy reasons and it's not Oscar without some self decapration.
Requested Item: Select living world item: Pure MDMA, preferably in capsules.
Extra Discount? YES, he owns reaping gloves.
Other: I'm so sorry.

[clowngirl]

Character: Harley Quinn.
Requested Item: A joy buzzer with roughly the same voltage as a stun gun. Gift-wrapped if possible.
Extra Discount? Nope.
Other: If approved, will throw up a log for Squalo to deliver.

ALLIANCE REQUEST

[sharktrash]

For those who don't want to work for someone, but would still like to maintain friendly business relations with the Varia, you can now choose to ally your business with theirs!


OOC
Player: Who are you?
contact info: Where can we reach you?
character: who are you signing up?
canon: where are they from?

IC
Name: Of the person initiating the alliance. Can be an alias.
Position: Owner of business? Freelancer? Something else?
Business: Title, if applicable.
Offered service: What do you do, and what are you willing to do for the Varia?
Wanted services: What do you want in return?
Recommendations: feel free to bullshit this. Basically someone who's a legit crime organization would have contacts known by the Varia, and cops trying to pose as a fight ring would barely have any legit ones.



<i>OOC</i> <b>Player</b>: Who are you? <b>contact info</b>: Where can we reach you? <b>character</b>: who are you signing up? <b>canon</b>: where are they from? <i>IC</i> <b>Name</b>: Of the person initiating the alliance. Can be an alias. <b>Position</b>: Owner of business? Freelancer? Something else? <b>Business</b>: Title, if applicable. <b>Offered service</b>: What do you do, and what are you willing to do for the Varia? <b>Wanted services</b>: What do you want in return? <b>Recommendations</b>: feel free to bullshit this. Basically someone who's a legit crime organization would have contacts known by the Varia, and cops trying to pose as a fight ring would barely have any legit ones.

Re: ALLIANCE REQUEST

[stealing_ur_dust]

OOC
Player: Relica
contact info: Relica
character: Roman Torchwick
canon: RWBY

IC
Name: Will he need that since he kind of worked for them?
Position: Shop Owner Fencing Operation/thief
Business: Hells'Pawned
Offered service: Well since he's running a fence operation, Varia would have another window/point of contact to wash their hands of any unwanted items or loot and Roman could resell it/make it disappear. He also could still do some jobs for them. Like he's really just going to haul up in a shop all the time. He's a thief and a sociopath. Entertain him. Need someone to go crack kneecaps or send the right subtly worded message to someone not paying Varia what they owe? He'll do it. I plan on trying to get him some reaping gloves in the future, so he can steal more shit too.

Wanted services: Varia could grab a cane gun he's been missing from the real world for him?
Recommendations: He could just fling his file that the Vale Police have at them with his whole rap sheet. When he was a reaper he could have grabbed that for the shits and giggles and because he could. Seriously, look at all the times he escaped. If anything, he's hard to hold on to.

JOB APPLICATIONS

[sharktrash]

For those who wish for a job in the Varia, please fill out this handy form! Because it ain't Hell without proper paperwork.


OOC
Player: name/handle
Contact: preferred plotting space
Character name & canon in case they lie on their resume

IC
Name:
Desired position:
Why do you want to work with Varia?
Experience and skills:
What is your favorite way of killing someone? Be descriptive.
What are your biggest motivations?
How many languages do you speak?

<i>OOC</i> <b>Player:</b> <b>Contact:</b> <b>Character name & canon</b> <i>IC</i> <b>Name:</b> <b>Desired position:</b> <b>Why do you want to work with Varia?</b> <b>Experience and skills:</b> <b>What is your favorite way of killing someone? Be descriptive.</b> <b>What are your biggest motivations?</b> <b>How many languages do you speak?</b>