[b][i]Andrew and Leonid[/i][/b]

Before going to the Ambassador, Leonid had gone to find the quarry worker who had been evicted from his cottage and gave him a full 500 caps - Not NCR scrip, caps - from 2000 that his mother had given him as compensation for his loss. And that was what he first mentioned to the Ambassador when he said, "I gave the former occupant of this house half a thousand caps for his loss, in order to keep tales of... malfeasance from spreading. But that's not what I wanted to talk about."

He then jumped to the topic, "Colonel Denver Abernathy is a war criminal. I and my... boyfriend have been collecting information on him for the duration of our joint service in the NCR military and in the east of the Mojave, where oversight is even slighter than it is here he has been killing civilians, exacting disproportionate punishments for defiance, among which is the arbitrary arrest of anyone who speaks up and their illegal enslavement in the NCRCF, which has been turned into a de facto labor camp."

Leonid then took out, from his pocket, his private diary, which contained reports, dates, and numbers, as well as what personal details he could wrangle from Andrew's mother, her Follower contacts, and what he could charm out from visiting members of the other Companies. A weakness of his testimony is that he was merely relaying information given by others and had not seen the grand majority of the atrocities he spoke about himself. Nevertheless, the overwhelming amount of reports and stories - True stories - he provided should be enough to make Ambassador Ben take notice.

The young man continued,  "It has gotten to the point where even the Followers are disenchanted with the NCR, and some of them are refusing to treat NCR soldiers, and still others are forming [i]terrorist cells[/i] due to Denver - Colonel Abernathy's - alienating actions. If this continues, we are likely to get a legacy of discontent in the Mojave that will last for generations, and poison cooperation between us even after statehood, if it does come for this place. It may even come to the point where any slip in NCR control will lead to... discontent, prompting the NCR to spend more cash trying to keep the Mojave under control even after hypothetical statehood that it would make from it."

He looked at the Ambassador, not telling him about Andrew's plan despite the temptation to do so, and said, "I and Col. Abernathy have different ideas of what would be best for the NCR in the Mojave. Even if I could be brought around to the idea that his oppression was needed to keep the region together, his punishment would [i]seal[/i] whatever positive benefits that oppression had for us. So please, Ambassador, help us."

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