"As you were," said Everest. Her maids fell in around her. It was an eerie effect - they did not move like a central dronemind controlling multiple nodes, a precision that stopped being interesting once the novelty wore off. They moved like a superlatively well trained [i]team[/i]. There was a synchronicity of purpose and not simply action. Without a second glance, Mrs. Everest departed. Your inbox had messages from all of your various department heads requesting meetings. There was also an action item to select a secretary and a chief of staff - there were a list of excellent candidates ready for an interview already appended if you did not have someone in mind already. There was a physical paper report in a drawer that had a full report of Lhoste's full and redacted financial situation and asset list. And there was an external meeting request from the COO of SLAM! *Click*. SLAM! *Click*. Logo: A video of an employee expressing the company name. Brand aesthetic: Experimental, Disposable. All SLAM! *Click* employees are required by contract to express the company name in full with proper form whenever it comes up. Express is the right word because SLAM! *Click* is not the words 'Slam' and 'Click' - the 'SLAM!' is the speaker banging the table, clapping their hands, or otherwise making a slam sound, and the 'Click' is them making a clicking sound with their tongue. Dead-eyed corporate lawyers will engage in this silly little ritual in court. Their stomping area has long been the gig economy and startup culture, the financial network that bets on a billion moonshots and folds them into larger companies when they take off. They are fast, agile and always on the bleeding edge, but hand in hand with that is the squandering of phenomenal amounts of resources on bad bets. The only reason SLAM! *Click* organized into something remembering as a Mega at all instead of a decentralized network is to safeguard its market position from a reformed State. Taking corporeal form with a headquarters, postal address and permanent assets is a recent change for them - they're not used to it and they don't like it.