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doc/factions/EHSC/README.md

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-# Eastern Hills Space Company
-
-Manufacturer of spacecraft and spacecraft parts.  A megacorporation with
-an arcology located where the city of Melbourne, Florida used to stand.
-Headquartered in beautiful Denver, Colorado, where it keeps all of its top
-secret projects such as flight software and its magically-enhanced Special
-Operations Strike Force.
-
-## Datapoints
-
- * HQ:		110 Colfax Ave. Denver, Colorado Free State
- * CEO:		Baylee MacKinley
- * Glb Prft:	13 Trillion Credits (Anual)
- * Industries:	Transport, Aviation, Aeronautics, Military Contracting
- * Bst Product:	EH 794 General Purpose Space Craft
- * Stck Tckr:	EHSC
- * Stck $$:	13000cr/share
- * Stck Prj:	+14.3%
- * Est.:	2025
-

doc/factions/Eastern Hills/README.md

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+# Eastern Hills International
+
+Originally established as Eastern Hills Space Company, EHI is a conglomorate that still focuses on space travel.  EHI is headquartered in the Eastern Hills Autonomous Zone of the Colorado Free State, where it keeps all of its top secret projects such as flight software and its magically-enhanced Special Operations Strike Force.
+
+Eastern Hills International was one of the first corporate entities to rise from the ashes of the Internet Implosion of the 2020's.
+
+EHI's private security forces are known as the most brutal among corporate entities, frequently employing terror tactics and demoralization campaigns against its enemies.
+
+## Specs
+
+ * HQ:              110 Colfax Ave. Denver, Colorado Free State
+ * CEO:             Baylee MacKinley
+ * Glb Prft:        13 Trillion Credits (Anually)
+ * Industries:      Transport, Aviation, Aeronautics, Military Contracting
+ * Bst Product:     EH 794 General Purpose Space Craft
+ * Stck Tckr:       EHI
+ * Stck $$:         13000cr/share
+ * Stck Prj:        +14.3%
+ * Established:     2025
+ * Est. Employees:  350 Million
+ * Divine Backer:   The Pale Goddess
+
+## Subsidaries
+
+EHI, as a conglomerate, owns many subsidary companies in various market sectors, often pioneering new sectors entirely.
+
+### Eastern Hills Space Corporation
+
+
+
+### International Digital Developments
+
+
+
+### Eastern Hills Health Industries
+

doc/magic/README.md

@@ -51,7 +51,9 @@ Bracers are the odd folk out of this bunch.  They don't have magic in terms of
 being able to use it.  When magic is concentrated into an area, but stabilized
 to avoid violent explosions, crystaline structures begin to form.  These
 crystaline structures can then be used and directed by those who posses magical
-artefacts.
+artefacts.  Bracers are able to purify and refine these crystals.  Bracers get
+this ability by having had contact with a deity, but have not been given any
+gifts, nor made any contracts.
 
  * Artificer
 
@@ -59,3 +61,58 @@ Artificers are a very special group of magic users.  They have been blessed by
 no deity.  Instead, they've studied how to craft artefacts, objects that can
 stabilize, direct, and attune magic.
 
+## Magic Spell Types
+
+There are several types of magical spells that users of magic can learn.  The
+differentiation is entirely based on how the spell effects reality and what
+methods it uses to make those effects.
+
+ * Wild Magic
+
+Wild magic is entirely spontaneous.  These aren't spells insofar as nobody
+any arcane scientists are aware of can cast make spontaneous wild magic happen.
+
+ * Energy Manipulation
+
+Mages who specialize in energy manipulation are able to control the vibration
+of particles in a localized area to great affect.  The most common type of
+Energy Manipulation is controlling the temperature of a given material.
+
+ * Physics Manipulation
+
+Mages who specialize in physics manipulation most frequently manipulate
+gravity, but can also change the rules in any given area.  Want to torture your
+prisoners?  Just stop oxidization and watch as their metabolism stops
+functioning and they run out of energy nearly instantaniously.
+
+ * Healing
+
+Healers do the healing thing.  What more could you want?
+
+ * Combat
+
+Combat magics is usually centered around the reinforcement of the user's body,
+but reinforcing other things has been known to work, too, in absurdist ways.
+Reinforcement basically double enforces an objects 'purpose' on reality.
+Combat magic specialists have been known to make broken medical machines work
+using magic alone.  Cars with no fuel can still make the vroom vroom.
+Combat magic is weird okay, and I've included it for the specific purpose of
+having a friend be able to implement yet another SHIROU.
+
+ * Alchemy
+
+Use magic to turn something into something else.  Its pretty simple on the
+surface.  Only very powerful magic users can make the change permanent.
+
+ * Cool
+
+Cantrips and prestidigitations.  Need I say more?  Yes?  Okay.  Its mostly
+useless but cool magic.  Like cleaning clothes or whatever.
+
+ * Tech
+
+Magic.  But also technology.  This class of magic affects electricity and most
+electromechanical and striaght up digital components will obey.  Given the
+linked nature between electricity and magnetism, this magic could also be
+purposed for affecting magentics.
+

doc/outline.md

@@ -5,12 +5,26 @@ A Promise:
       - Berdie needs her meds administered
       - Eilidh logs into the internet
       - Eilidh sets up a meeting at the bar
+      - Famillial banter between Eilidh and Berdie
     - Section 2: A Bar, Some Hackers, and a Breakthrough
       - Eilidh shows up early and dances with a cutiepie
       - Several gang members offer a job
       - Eilidhs crew finally shows up
+      - Marvin and Olivia share a breakthrough
+      - The Blue Lillies prepare for a job
     - Section 3: Another Job
+      - The Blue Lillies continue preparing for the EHSC run
+      - Somber Famillial Banter
+      - RUN: BEGIN!
+      - Breakin goes good
+      - medicine machine located
+      - ohshit.jpg its too big for them to carry
+      - Big "I told you so" vibes from Olivia
     - Section 4: When it all Goes Wrong
+      - Enter: Ai Tamaki and the "she turned into a cat" moment
+      - Gun Fight Gun Fight Gun Fight YEAH
+      - magic go brrrr
+      - RUN: SUCCESS?
     - Section 5: Spoils of War
   - Chapter 2: Magical Girls Don't Transform
     - Section 1: Unless They Do

doc/timeline.md

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+before: The Dark Times
+
+2022:   Internet Implosion
+        The Fall of World Governments
+
+2023:   The Chaos Wars Begin
+
+2025:   Establishment of Eastern Hills Space Company
+
+2026:   Establishment of Trinny Teeth Company
+        Establishment of French and Sons Industries
+        Establishment of Great Scott Electromechanicals Company
+
+2028:   Eastern Hills Space Company establishes the Thompson Moon Colony in secret
+        Eastern Hills Space Company launches the Eastern Hills F01, a trans-atmospheric fighter jet
+
+2029:   Founding of the Colorado Free State
+        The Chaos Wars expand to space
+
+2030:   Founding of the North Siberian Autonomous Zone
+        Founding of the East Australian Independent State
+        The Chaos Wars End
+
+2031:   Unchecked Corporate Pollution and Emissions have sped up global warming, affecting habbitable space
+        Several corporations boil the oceans to reduce water levels world wide, rendering the atmosphere impassible
+
+2032:   The First Corporate Wars Begin
+        Thompson Moon Colony, receiving no word from the ground, begins working on faster than light travel
+
+2033:   Atmosphere clears up, becoming passible
+        Thompson Moon Colony declares independence
+

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@@ -82,5 +82,43 @@ Charon was laughing to himself as Eilidh retraced her steps, walking back to her
 
 Once she was finally out of the headset, Eilidh decided that she'd get ready for the bar.  Pulling clean clothes from her closet, she made her way to the restroom.  Upon entering, her nose was assaulted by the detrius of the greywater system of the apartment.  Somebody must have washed eggs down the sink again.
 
-She flushed the toilet, hoping the tank would fill up with untainted greywater.  She was thankful that the first few gallons of shower water were always fresh.  She made a mental note to talk with the fr34kz about a better greywater filtration system for the building.  Maybe at least something to filter out organic smells so people's bathrooms didn't smell like sulfur every day.
+She flushed the toilet, hoping the tank would fill up with untainted greywater.  She was thankful that the first few gallons of shower water were always fresh before it was recycled.  She made a mental note to talk with the fr34kz about a better greywater filtration system for the building.  Maybe at least something to filter out organic detrius so people's bathrooms didn't smell like sulfur every day.
 
+Eventually, the smell did go away, much to Eilidh's joy.  She was able to shower and take her time in the slowly cooling recycled water without that awful smell ruining the experience.  After, she got dressed and made sure to do her makeup.
+
+When she was done, she didn't really appreciate what she saw in the mirror, but at least she was passably cute.  Her dyed black hair framed her aventurine eyes perfectly, even if she didn't know it.  Her freckles dotted around her face, only parted by the few scars left from her years of experience out on the streets, raiding corpo convoys or breaking into corpo facilities.  She hated those scars, but they were beautiful.
+
+Her makeup was lighter than most, just a dusting of eye shadow to bring her eyes out, and a touch of pink blush to add colour to her pale skin.  The least beautiful thing about her was her clothing.  A simple black muscle shirt, cut for men and entirely too tight around her chest, and a pair of black tactical pants, which is to say, regular cargo pants with many more pockets.
+
+She eventually finished off the look with some steel-toed combat boots.  She was dressed for another raid, not a night out at the bar, but nobody would really notice.
+
+Once Eilidh was done getting ready, she plopped down in the living room chair, which was next to where her mom was laying on the couch, watching the news.  It was one of the ones that the fr34kz setup after the takeover.  Community run, even, so the news wasn't even worthless, just the good stuff that affected our home, or world news.
+
+``They're saying Eastern Hills is getting uppity about the border,'' her mother spoke.  ``Lots of people calling for retaliation after the attack up north.  They want another war council to be appointed.''
+
+``Great,'' Eilidh muttered without a hint of sarcasm.  ``More work for me puts food on the table and keeps us stocked up on the meds we need.''
+
+``I understand that you work with the gang sweety,'' her mom said, a hint of danger in her tone.  ``But you do not work for them.''
+Eilidh stewed in that for a moment.  It was something that her mom had drilled in her.  But work was work and it was hard to remain a contractor on the side when there was only one major player in the game.
+
+``You got to dictate what jobs I went on when you were the handler, mom,'' Eilidh finally said.  ``But I'm running the show now, and that means I get to pick what jobs I think are the best.  I'll work for the freaks if I want to.  In fact, I want to work for them because they're the ones that have given us the opportunities we have.''
+
+``Yeah yeah,'' her mom said, laughing.  ``After that bank job I'm not sure any corpos would hire you anyway.  Hell, half the gangs probably want you dead, too.''
+
+``No joke,'' she responded, worrying the back of her neck.  That job had nearly killed her.  Cemented her and her team as the best hackers.  Also painted huge targets on their backs.
+
+``Just be careful, okay dear?''
+
+``I will, mom.  Anyway, I'm about to head to the bar.  Charon wants to come back here after.'' Eilidh got up and headed to the door.  ``Probably wants to shoot his shot with you again.''
+
+Mom broke out in laughter.  ``I am half that man's age!  I can't believe he works for you with how much experience he's got.''
+
+``Better than the time Marvin tried to get your clothes off,'' Eilidh laughed.
+
+``I will never understand why those two are enamoured with me.''
+
+``You did see yourself five years ago right?  Had you not been acting as my parent at the time, I probably would have been onto you too.''
+
+``Eilidh!'' her mother gawked.  ``Get out of here and don't come back until we've both forgotten that admission!''
+
+``Yes ma'am.''

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+Eilidh's trip to Quriosities was as normal as it could be.  The slight chill of the acid pouring from the sky pelting and sliding down her plastic poncho was as soothing as the weather got this far south.  She appreciated that the acid wasn't almost boiling.
+
+The walk itself wasn't that bad, though it was almost a half mile to the border of the fr34kz territory.  Quriosities was nestled about a minute away from the hastily erected wall that Eastern Hills contracted when the gang had taken control.  It hadn't taken long for the hostilities to start after the wall was built.  Quriosities went up not long after the hostilities had started, renovated from the bottom floor of a department store, as a sort of rest stop for fr34kz allied combatants to have a short rest before returning home.  It became a full bar after most of the aggression tapered off.
+
+Eilidh wondered if that would remain the case now that Eastern Hills was actively probing their defenses again.
+
+The pop-plink of gunfire and bullets ricocheting pulled Eilidh from her thoughts.  Just down the alley behind her, a man with a cheap plastic pistol stumbled into the street.  Several obvious holes leaked the nearly black-brown of acid-tainted blood as he landed hard.  He was face-down taking an acid bath.
+
+Another man emerged from the alley, prompting Eilidh to draw her own pistol, a much sturdier design that Olivia and Charon had re-engineered and improved from a stolen SecondRight technical drawing.  She relxed and slipped her gun back into its holster when she saw the man's uniform.  The neon-green logo of the ph@ntomfr34kz emblazoned right above the large `Peace Walker' label, indicating he was an officially sanctioned anti-terror officer.  Eilidh figured the slowly dissolving man in the street was an Eastern Hills spy and turned to continue her walk to the bar.
+
+``Hey,'' she heard from behind her.  ``Hands in the air.''
+
+Eilidh stopped and turned on her heel, shocked and nearly outraged.  The officer had his weapon leveled at her, but she could see he was shaking, before squinting at her and stepping closer.  She tilted her head, in recognition of the name on his vest: Frank D'Angelo.
+
+``Hey, didn't I run a job for you a few weeks back?'' Eilidh asked.
+
+Frank visibly relaxed, lowering his weapon.  ``Shit, its the Blue Lily herself.  What the hell are you doing out here?''
+
+``Headed over to Quriosities,'' she answered, then motioned for him to follow as she continued her walk.  ``When did they give you a badge?''
+
+``Last week,'' he answered, jogging to catch up to her.  ``Been hunting spies and terrorists since.  Thanks for the supplies by the way, my mom's probably gonna live because of you.''
+
+``You paid me,'' she said, waving off his thanks.  ``You made it my job, and I don't really take those lightly.  Got time for a drink before you get someone else melted in the street?''
+
+He walked with her for a moment in complete silence, clearly in thought, then pulled out a small hand-held radio.  ``This is Walker three five one, case nine A three three closed, am I clear for lunch before reassign?''
+
+The dispatcher on the other end of the radio responded a moment later.  ``Three five one, acknowledged please await confirmation from above.''  The radio left them in silence.
+
+Eilidh took the time afforded by silence to appreciate that the black vest Frank was wearing didn't look to be bullet proof.  She wondered how long it would be before Frank D'Angelo was no more.  His large frame was imposing, and made a good show of force, but it also made him an easier target.
+
+The radio blared back to life: ``Confirmed.  Take your hour in peace.''
+
+``Thank you,'' he spoke into the radio before turning to Eilidh, unaware of her morbid assessment.  ``Yeah, I got time for a drink.''
+
+Eilidh smiled, a genuine smile that reached her eyes.  ``Good, because I'm buying.''
+
+Before Frank could protest, they both froze in shock as a car pulled across the intersection ahead of them.  They shared a worried expression before drawing their weapons.  Cars weren't supposed to be in use during the acid rains, they posed too much of a splashing hazard to pedestrians and were an active explosive hazard.
+
+As they ran towards the intersection, an explosion rang out.  Not anything new for this area, but given there weren't that many cars on the street in the first place, they had to investigate.  If the car did explode they needed to be extremely cautious, so they were moving slower than they should have.
+
+Once they'd reached the intersection, Eilidh was relieved to see that it wasn't the car that had exploded.  Worry overtook her again when she saw that an apartment building's front entrace was on fire.  The protections against the acid rain were burning, melting, or damaged beyond repair.
+
+``Call in the emergency crew,'' Eilidh ordered, then started a full sprint to catch up to the car.  She figured she'd let the Peace Walker sort out keeping the building standing.  She wasn't wearing her armour, but she was more experienced in dodging bullets than Frank.
+
+Eilidh followed the car around the corner of the next intersection, pushing her body as fast as it would go.  The acid pooling on the ground splashed up under her poncho.  The beginnings of acid holes could be seen on her thick pants.
+
+Before long, she caught up to the car, now idling in front of another apartment building.  Two individuals were trying to quickly get out of the back seat, holding several small bricks.  She knew it was plastic explosive.
+
+Eilidh squeezed off a few rounds, making sure to aim through the back window into the driver's seat.  With any luck, the terrorists wouldn't have a getaway car anymore.  The two intending to bomb another apartment building were busy fishing guns from their waistbands.
+
+They were too slow.  By the time the pistols were visible, Eilidh had already put two rounds in each of them.  They fell to the ground, two more corpses melting on the pavement.
+
+

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@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ The corpos are at it again!  Eastern Hills has tried to push their border into t
 Eastern Hills Space Corp.\ (space.easternhills.com)\newline
 Written By: Michael Lannersby - Posted: 02/01/2157\newline
 We are pleased to announce that Eastern Hills Space Corp.\ acquired the entirety of Ceres in a deal last June.  It has been a goal of EHSC to bring the people of Ceres more modern \ldots \underline{Read More}\newline\newline
+\textbf{\underline{Has Eastern Hills Gone Mad?}}\newline
+Mindvirus Hacker Forums (mind.vir.us)\newline
+Author: ehisaftermenowlol - Posted: 01/01/1970\newline
+I just grabbed a memo from EHSC with the title ``SPECIAL COMPARTMENTALISED INFORMATION'', and it was talking about mages, combat magic and \ldots \underline{Read More}\newline\newline
 \textbf{\underline{Maloch Holdings' Servers Compromised, Rumors Say}}\newline
 Colorado Free State Indi News (news.cfsi.com)\newline
 Written By: Sandy Valloch - Published: 01/01/2157\newline

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 		\section{Eilidh's Plight}
 		\input{src/chapters/1/1.1.tex}
 		\newpage
+		\section{A Bar, Some Hackers, and a Breakthrough}
+		\input{src/chapters/1/1.2.tex}
+		\newpage
 		\section{RSS Feed}
 		\input{src/chapters/1/1.rss.tex}