The North PacificBoard

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South Baba wrote:

*Somewhere off Northeastern Anea, as the South Baban ocean liner MS Sosudaso advances through its transceres crossing, Calum Simmons examines the rest of his current daily routine in a luxurious suite. It's almost time for his usual jog along the Promenade before dinner. On television, NAD Anea reports on Hernández Valente’s opening of a Trofeo II bottling plant in Nyock as a result of the entry of their new soft drink on the market. Simmonds knew the South Baban soft drink giant very well and knew their new product even more. The news coverage brought up fairly recent memories, mainly about the time when Hernández Valente Ltd stole his chance to be someone*

*As a company chemist, he developed a sweeter variant of their flagship product, Trofeo II, after experimenting with and evolving from previous formulas. After word-of-mouth about the new variant spread from his colleagues to his superiors, he prepared a demonstration for a group of company researchers. Even though the event went quite well and he thought it was likely that his formula would usher in a new brand, he was fired two weeks later. With his former colleagues now threatened by their employer and without any patents in his name, he decided to work for a local pharmacy in MacFarlane. When a former colleague told him about Hernández Valente’s plan to sell his formula as Trofeo Two-One, he went to the company and told them that he was going to go public about his lack of recognition. Their solution, a five million farthing settlement and a trip to Bulbasaur reichpact on the Sosudaso in exchange for his silence. He agreed, knowing that his limited resources were not comparable to those of a multinational corporation. Upon boarding the ship back in South Baba City, he knew that he would never be credited. Now, sitting in front of the television in a luxury suite, he knew he had sold out. When he went to the bathroom mirror, he saw a man without a soul and, even worse, without dignity*