Guns 4 Hire

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Guns 4 Hire
Abbreviation: G4H Group Numbers: Variable Leadership: Under Negotiation Goals: To sell out to the highest bidder. Recruitment policy: Currently Open Contact: guns4hireadmin@gmail.com

Guns 4 Hire is Malton’s first mercenary outfit. The group is mainly formed of disillusioned survivors needing a reason to keep struggling to exist in the pestilent graveyard the city has become under quarantine, with a few genuine psychotics thrown in to keep things lively. Organization is loose and rank is relatively informal, acceptance of contacts is open to general debate during the initial consideration period, but once a contract has been formally approved by an acting Captain, all members are expected to do their best to fulfill the terms of the agreement regardless of personal opinion.

Guns 4 Hire will entertain jobs with any group or individual regardless of said employers policies or alignments. We are also not squeamish about little inconsequentials such as whether or not our employer happens to be undead. Guns 4 Hire is available for anything from individual assassinations to large scale actions of a more militant nature. We will spy out safe houses, track down irritants, steal candy from children, off your neighbors, and generally make a pain of ourselves for whatever or whomever is giving you grief, or just happens to catch your eye. We are also available to search out the missing, guard locations, rescue small animals, conduct pest control, or pretty much anything else you can come up with. If you have a preference over how a job is performed, we will be happy to try things your way first. Generally, however, it goes better if you just give us an end result, and let us handle the pesky little details. Jobs that do not include a discretion clause as part of the agreement may be posted publicly. Guns 4 Hire has a theoretical policy of not contracting with both sides of a dispute, so far it has not really been an issue, so this may change depending on circumstances when the matter comes up.

We are happy to provide references for our work as requested by people who are interested in entering negotiations for our services.

No job too strange, no target too soft!

The Following are Current Contracts and Negotiations

~Operatives should rely on internal communications~

Job: Popping the Weasels.
Job Status: ACTIVE
Background: A variety of pests have taken up residence in the suburb of Judgewood and are doing their best to drive out the local, and established, powers that be. Some of these nuisances are irritants of a long term variety who are holding grudges from very early in the quarantine, and some of them are much newer toad lickers who are out to make a name for themselves and cause general unrest. Well, as much unrest as can be caused in a city already experiencing a zombie apocalypse.
Employer: Ramsus of The Grove
Goal: To express to said irritants the good wishes and heartfelt desire for long life and happiness that our employer wishes to bestow upon them. Preferably with shotguns, though axes are also appropriate tools of sentinment in this case.
Method: We have been employed to poke around the North West region and sniff out various lowlifes and advise them on areas in which they should modify their behavior. The hit list will be distibuted to ALL agents, our primary search pattern will encompass Judgewood and adjacent suburbs, however, please be in mind these are global targets. We have a few different approaches to this job, please see internal communications for the division and discussion.
Time Frame: Ongoing. Several of our stationed North West operatives and more low profile agents have expressed interest in this assignment, so we will keep the time frame flexible and at the discretion of the NW captain.
Complications: The Grove list is extensive and runs the range from virtual newbies to very senior players. It encompasses several entire groups, and includes a few individuals who have a very high profile, and vocal presence, on the forums. For this reason only core operatives are required to take specific hits. Auxillary members may decline specific targets and all members may appeal to their regional captains in case of dispute. Please keep in mind that the appropriate regional captain is the one reponsible for the region in which the target is located, not the captain you get along with the best.
Details: A hit list has been provided to all active agents, be mindful of the details on this one. We are trying something more varied than the traditional smash in and beat down approach. REPORT IMMEDIATELY when a hit has been completed. See the memo on this job for discussion of the forums.
Rewards: Ramsus has asked The Grove to collect a variety of goodies with which we will be paid for this contract. More aggressive hunters will be able to pick out exactly what they want. Everyone else will have make do with whats left. The standard rewards for avoiding the PK lists apply to this job.

Job: Closing Shop
Job Status: RESOLVED - SEALED at request of employer.
Resolution Our employer states himself well pleased with our work in the area of Dulston, the mission was successful from that viewpoint. In the future, however, operatives please note that attack times are given in GMT. If you are unable to figure out what time that is for you locally, please contact your leader as soon as you receive orders, not 3 or so days later wondering where everyone is. Storming buildings should be a group project, not the fiasco we had last week.

Job: STORM Family Round-Up
Job Status: RESOLVED
Background: Infighting has broken out among the ranks of the STORM Family. There is some uncertainty over whether this was caused by actual disagreements over policy among Family leadership, or a blame game over who left the red sock in with the white laundry. Regardless, the Family has been divided into multiple camps over who will be the new Matriarch/Patriarch, and we have been retained by an interested party to ensure that the vote goes her way.
Employer: Alexis Storm
Goal: To ensure Ms. Storm is re-elected as her Family leader.
Method: We have been specifically employed to assassinate every dissenting member of STORM Family, and to keep assassinating them until they are persuaded to vote correctly.
Time Frame: Ongoing. Business is slow this week, so we have agreed to engage in this behavior with a variable amount of personnel until either our employer has enough votes to resume her position, or we get a more amusing offer.
Complications: STORM has been around almost since the quarantine began, and while they are not a particularly high profile group, many of their members are of an older persuasion and have accumulated quite a bit of oomph. They are likely to be displeased over our involvement in this matter, and highly prone to retaliation. G4H members are advised to point out to any irate targets pursuing them that we are just doing a job, and they should probably take their concerns up with Alexis herself, whom we are assured is easily accessible to any Family member via personal communications.
Details: A hit list has been provided to all active agents. Please refrain from assassinating anyone not specifically listed since we do not want to be targeting Family members who are already supporting our interest. Not all STORM Family members have retained the Family as their group affiliation, we have discussed this with our employer, and agreed to overlook it for the purpose of this job. All listed targets are to be taken down regardless of current affiliations. After all, it’s about Family.
Rewards: In addition to our usual fee, the standard bonus of 5 twinkies, 2 MREs, and a 12 pack of Coke will be divided among Guns 4 Hire operatives who can avoid being added to the Bounty Hunters list for PKing during the course of this job.
Resolution After quite a few weeks of gunning down STORM Family members and chastising them severely for their lack of proper respect for their hard-working elders, and not a small amount of running and hiding from said targets, this contract has come to a satisfactory conclusion. Ms. Storm sent me a message in the small hours of the morning stating that she was the unequivocal ruler of her small, but rather stubborn, empire, and she was very happy with our work. Alexis was considerably more gracious in her severence letter than she has been for the past few weeks of our employment, as many of you are aware. This may, or may not, be related to a certain conversation the North West captain held with her last Tuesday regarding civilized behavior towards ones employees, and the likely consequences of being deliberatly rude and abusive towards a guild of gun-happy mercenaries. Our former employer was almost, dare I say, apologetic, and blamed her recent breakdown in manners on the stress she has been under during this turbulent time. To help make up for her lapse in propriety, Ms. Storm has included a substantial bonus which will be distributed equally among all agents who have direct dealing with her during the period of this contract. We do not at this time anticipate any continuing hostilities from STORM Family members. After the requisite 3 day 'information dissemination' period we recognize on every contract's completion, please report any members of STORM continuing to create problems. They will be put on the 'special' list.

Job: Little Pet Shop of Horrors
Job Status: Pending
Background: We have entered into negotiations with the Ridleybank Animal Rescue regarding security for several pet adoption clinics they will be holding in the suburb. No agreements have been reached as of yet, and the contract is up for discussion. Please refer to inter-group communications for further details at this time.
UPDATE Negotiations are going well and we expect to list this as an official contract within the week.

Job: Pest Control
Job Status: Canceled
Background: We have been approached about the possibility of eliminating a particularly obnoxious PKer in the region of Northern Stanbury Village. Apparently the gentleman in question has a relentless obsession for a certain group operating in the area, which is all fine and well, but our potential employer is not a member of said group, merely sharing a safe house, and was PKed anyways. As of which event she has taken an extremely dim view this personage and would like him gunned down, repeatedly. There are a variety of reasons why this may be an interesting contract for us, not least of which is the lady’s’ fascinating outfit. But I digress. No agreements have been reached as of yet, and the contract is up for discussion. Please refer to inter-group communications for further details at this time.
Resolution Said irritant publically announced his intentions to bother people elsewhere and has not returned to the area. Operatives loitering in the area of Stanbury Village pending this should head North East or South East and pursue viable STORM targets, of which an updated spotter list has been distributed.