@Athos the wines are very good and so do the steak, the city almost looks peaceful from the top floor and Valentina, Horse and Tony all appear to be enjoying themselves. It is only after you are all done, including desert that Valentina gets to business.
She say:
"The Finnegans have seen better days, our money was stolen and our lines were infiltrated, these are bad news for the family but these are good news for us, should we continue now we can become the dominant force in the family, but we lost so much already. Athos I know you did not blow up that warehouse, I know I did not blow it up and honestly the simplest explanation seems to be the most probable who ever did that wanted me and Andu dead, wanted us to go to war with another syndicate and the goal was to weaken us and keep us busy. The hit on the family leaders just confirms what I suspected, there is a traitor inside our ranks. Nobody is going to cooperate with us, the family is no more. Trust can be established but only when things calm down, I have prepared quite a bit of funds on credsticks, offline and unhackable. The original goal was to buy us a piece of land in the Barrens. The matrix is no longer safe for us, our goal remains as before and we will need a loyal decker, our top priority will be to find one. Perhaps Yulia's girlfriend can help there.
We want to gain control over Turistville and the areas next to it, no military coup nor an undead invasion are going to change that. UCAS are a strong nation and they can solve their own problems. If they cannot solve these problems than we can also be successful with a new order. With all this Chaos and the our relative wealth we can make this an opportunity to growth.
Athos - if someone wants to kill you they'll have to try, you are strong and difficult to kill. Hiding is not for you! I do want to eventually know who is our enemy but we need a land of our own, not Finnegan land our land a place where we can collect our taxes and establish a functioning power base. It cannot be Bellevue or any other part of the city where the other Finnegan's are going to be competing with us and interfering with our business. We are going into the Barrens and what ever gangs are active in there they will have to be dealt with.
I gave you a shopping list, how are you progressing on that list? "