EMTERR

"Mr. Reno will host talks between La Luz and EMTERR here on matters of 'world-historical import'. May have to rewrite the textbooks if you know what I mean."

"I've already seen the EMTERR negotiator in its natural habitat: the gutter."

"My new employers suspect some pre-game EMTERR mind fuckery. Work with me and I'll tell you all about it."

"The carabineros act as EMTERR's security detail for the upcoming talks and just like their masters, are notorious for their unreliability and corruption."

"An EMTERR negotiator. Low level."

"Let's drink to the leaky EMTERR animals.

"You're no fan of EMTERR, I take it."

EMTERR, a.k.a. L'Empire sans Territoire, a.k.a. 'The Bank'. Equal parts global development fund and spy service. Linchpin of the Developed World.

"Since the last round of EMTERR 'stabilisation', they've been trying to force us lifers out. We can't be fired, not easily, but they can take away the work that made us stay in the first place."

"I'm a structural engineer. I believe in stability. What EMTERR has brought isn't that. Their version of 'stabilisation' shifts the responsibility of managing entropy from the state to the individual."

"I may've run into an EMTERR negotiator already."

"How does Luzian pop culture threaten EMTERR's position?"

"I'm expecting contact from EMTERR, any faxes come through?"

"For one, we've become a frontline in EMTERR's Culture Blockade. The powers that be seem to have become more protective of their investment here."

"If that's what you're after, I believe EMTERR has a new loan scheme, 'the Financial Citizen' or some such."

"Almost." She clicks her tongue. "Had it worked out, it would have given us a strategic foothold in the region, and it might've kept Portofiro out of EMTERR's money talons..."

"He got me out of that EMTERR jail."

"Shame that negotiations broke down. It would have given us a strategic foothold in the region, and it might've kept Portofiro out of EMTERR's money talons..."

"EMTERR."

"I've already gotten mixed up in an EMTERR microfinance scheme."

"He helped me find the EMTERR jail."

"He works for EMTERR. Or used to. Now he works for me."

"I'm one of EMTERR's replacement negotiators. Let me up."

A Senior EMTERR negotiator is stuck in the gutter.

A Junior EMTERR negotiator is stuck on the Miracle Line.

"Yes! Aha. Wait for contact from EMTERR... They will deal... Or hear you out at least..."

"I need to trade a prisoner with EMTERR. I want you to get that deal going."

"No! Aha. Never. Ever. Never ever. Wait for contact from EMTERR... They will deal... Or hear you out at least..."

"I need to trade a prisoner with EMTERR. I want you to get that deal going."

Wait, that means she belongs to EMTERR. She is your enemy.

She was placed here by the sponsor -- The Civilisation Trust -- that means she belongs to EMTERR.

She was placed here by the sponsor -- The Civilisation Trust -- that means she belongs to EMTERR.

And that Ile-de-Söze is a human trafficking destination. An EMTERR labour colony.

What about EMTERR-grade?

"Whatever dad said it was at any given moment." He shrugged. "Started out commie, tacked to the right when he needed EMTERR cash. Then turned back around to play the nationalist card, 'fuck these foreign creditors', back and forth, et cetera."

"EMTERR, for one."

"Joke's on you, I just got tortured by EMTERR."

In truth, it was Portofiro that got 'fucked' when the local economy collapsed and EMTERR swept in with another round of 'stabilisation' packages that only tightened its clamp on the city's collective throat.

"I don't get it. How can it be? This is not what the scene is about... I owe money to EMTERR?"

"The jacket cost 500 sol. You did not have 500 sol. EMTERR has many sol. They gave Bruce 500 sol for you. Now you must give EMTERR 5000 sol."

"There must be somebody from EMTERR around here who could help me -- someone who could absolve me of my debt."

"The bad news is that you owe EMTERR money."

"EMTERR paid Bruce on your behalf so you would owe them more money than you ever would owe Bruce."

"The EMTERR representative said that you're no longer in debt." (Proceed.)

"So, you owe EMTERR money for the jacket Bruce made, because Bruce got paid by EMTERR, so..."

"Did you find an EMTERR person?"

"The EMTERR representative performed the rite of forgiveness."

"I met an EMTERR representative."

"Bad EMTERR. Many money you owe to them. 5000 sol. Big money. EMTERR bad business for Bruce. Bruce only get 500. Bad business for you too. Bad debt. Need to pay."

"Both the Luzians and EMTERR plot to keep people like you down."