From the front page of the Cross-Realms Financial Review, tacked up to the various bulletin boards throughout the City...
DeMUER-TRAK'KAL MERGER IN RHYDIN
Jester Entertainment and DeMuer Exports announced the creation of a shared subsidiary at a Stars End press conference earlier today. Havoc Engineering Advanced Technologies, or HEAT, will serve as the umbrella for DE's Greyshott Applied Magicks & Engineering and JE's Arcane Research and Development branch.
At a time when RhyDin's political landscape is rocked by "anti-magic" rioting, the move has sparked some controversy. Several activist groups lodged formal complaints with Watch units in New Haven and the Marketplace.
"(It is) an obvious taunt," said Rhea Tibbens, deputy chairwoman of the Eleventh Council of Concerned Parents. "DeMuer has said it will ignore the law when Proposition 37 passes, and they should know arcane arts are not business as usual."
The merger also has its share of supporters in the magic and financial communities. Sixty locals showed up at the conference in Halloween wizarding costumes to support the bold measure, and several prominent academics were among them.
"I'm very proud," said Dr. Horace El Durai, professor emeritus of interglobal economics at the Gateway Institute of Social Science. "More businesses need to stand up against free market oppression. Capitalism is egalitarian by nature... we must give no quarter to tyrants."
Stock values in local arcane technology companies jumped an average of fifteen percent in the New Haven & Stars End Joint-Stock Exchange, ending ten days of a troubled market.
"Of course the merger was good for the market," said Dib Jaster Aurene, deputy executive officer of DE. "Corporate innovation cannot let itself be subject to the whims of a mob."
In spite of DE's bold words, their holdings have not faced violence from Proposition 37 supporters since a riot was averted at a West End warehouse on Sunday.
Dominating much of the page is a blown-up picture of Skid Trak'kal and Alain DeMuer, surrounded by men and women of various races, and shaking hands in front of a high-rise office building in Stars End.
((Cross-posted here and here.))
DeMUER-TRAK'KAL MERGER IN RHYDIN
Jester Entertainment and DeMuer Exports announced the creation of a shared subsidiary at a Stars End press conference earlier today. Havoc Engineering Advanced Technologies, or HEAT, will serve as the umbrella for DE's Greyshott Applied Magicks & Engineering and JE's Arcane Research and Development branch.
At a time when RhyDin's political landscape is rocked by "anti-magic" rioting, the move has sparked some controversy. Several activist groups lodged formal complaints with Watch units in New Haven and the Marketplace.
"(It is) an obvious taunt," said Rhea Tibbens, deputy chairwoman of the Eleventh Council of Concerned Parents. "DeMuer has said it will ignore the law when Proposition 37 passes, and they should know arcane arts are not business as usual."
The merger also has its share of supporters in the magic and financial communities. Sixty locals showed up at the conference in Halloween wizarding costumes to support the bold measure, and several prominent academics were among them.
"I'm very proud," said Dr. Horace El Durai, professor emeritus of interglobal economics at the Gateway Institute of Social Science. "More businesses need to stand up against free market oppression. Capitalism is egalitarian by nature... we must give no quarter to tyrants."
Stock values in local arcane technology companies jumped an average of fifteen percent in the New Haven & Stars End Joint-Stock Exchange, ending ten days of a troubled market.
"Of course the merger was good for the market," said Dib Jaster Aurene, deputy executive officer of DE. "Corporate innovation cannot let itself be subject to the whims of a mob."
In spite of DE's bold words, their holdings have not faced violence from Proposition 37 supporters since a riot was averted at a West End warehouse on Sunday.
Dominating much of the page is a blown-up picture of Skid Trak'kal and Alain DeMuer, surrounded by men and women of various races, and shaking hands in front of a high-rise office building in Stars End.
((Cross-posted here and here.))