"This is the place." Vulcan tells the driver before grabbing his belongings and exiting. The sun was setting, meaning he was slightly behind schedule. He quickly entered the building where Ghus and aeugh were waiting for him likely to ridicule him on his tardiness.

"Boy must think he still in Seattle." Ghus interjected.

"Yeah, yeah. Save the ball busting for another time, we gots people to address." Vulcan hurried.

They stepped inside the main room where the celebration was happening. This was not something you would normally see every day, so many high profiles all together. There was West, Evelina, and TrashPanda all gathered together in their reserved seating. Lucifer-Morningstar and Kruppe were speaking by the stairway. Gash and Tamo were having their glasses filled by the waitresses.

Everyone was having a grand time. Vulcan, realizing the crowd was ready to be addressed, made himself noticeable by tapping his glass.

"Good evening, thank you all for coming out. I will try to keep this brief so you all can go back to the merrymaking."

"I have been given Evelina's blessing to set up a crew of my own in Bella Vista, Philadelphia. This auth has come sooner than anticipated but the event that took place here recently left much rebuilding to do in Philly. So I stepped up and gratefully accepted the offer."

"Thank you, Evelina, for the amazing opportunity to help grow this city. Our lineage goes way back to the stone age. I hope to not disappoint and look forward to working alongside you."

Vulcan scans the crowd, seeking to present his hands so everyone can carry on with the celebration when he sees aeugh already enjoying himself with the carrots at the veggie table. Vulcan shakes his head then motions Ghus to pull him away so he can wrap this speech up.

"Okay, last but not least, I would like to introduce to you all to my crew Ignis Domini. My right hand man will be Ghus and left hand man, aeugh. These two gents are both incredible and exceedingly qualified in serving their roles within my crew. I trust them each with my life and know that together we can achieve greatness."

"Once again thank you for coming out, help yourselves to the finest food Philly has to offer."

Mercury was still trying to get acclimated to Philly. It is cleaner that Detroit let alone San Francisco which was a disaster. That place should be wiped from the map! While she was unpacking, a messenger arrived. There was a new leader in Bella Vista. There was some sort of celebration going on.

A good hour later Mercury decided to make an appearance. She hailed a cab and went to the location. There was a couple thugs at the door. They wanted to search her.

Everyone in there has a gun! Get the hell away from me, she yelled at them. What a crock! They didn't need to search her! Mercury  bullied her way past them and made her way to the area where there was a boisterous crowd. Drinks were flowing freely and there was food. Maybe this trip wasn't a total waste of time.

The man of the hour was speaking. As she ordered a Scotch she heard him say

Once again thank you for coming out, help yourselves to the finest food Philly has to offer.

It would seem Mercury was just in time. The new leader appeared very young.

Someone up towards the front of the room raised a congratulatory glass to the young man.

Here here! Congrats! Mercury replied with everyone else. She wished this man good luck and went off in search of food. She didn't know very many in the room other than her leader and their hands. She didn't rank to talk to them. Not yet anyway. Maybe one day they would act like she existed.

Having put in an appearance and ate, Mercury made her way out and went home. She had unpacking to do.  

TrashPanda was already on his third drink by the time Vulcan sauntered in looking as if he didn't have a care in the world, seemed he and Evelina should have listened to Ghus's warnings about his timekeeping, but heck at least their glasses kept getting refilled in the mean time.

Of course they both knew alongside with west as to why they were gathered here, it was the culmination of meetins that had taken place over the preceeding week. It had been an exc iting week already for Philly, and this latest announcement meant that at long last the final PHiladelphia district would have it's own custodian in the form of Vulcan.

Evelina had been extolling his young but eager virtues as they'd waited and TrashPanda was excited to start working alongside him to make the city a bustling thriving metropolis again.

As a member of Vulcan's raised a toast TrashPanda and the other all raised the glasses to toast in unison before heading to explore the remnants of the buffett. TrashPanda had noticed Mercury with a tasty looking platter and looking around to seek her out, alas he feared she had snuck off on some eager business as he couldn't see her anywhere. He grabbed some tasty looking morcels before heading over to catch up with Gash and Tamo before they both got to inebriated.

Philadelphia had always been in his family lines blood, for generations now they've attempted to cut their name into the city of brotherly love and with every iteration there was always nothing but failure after failure. So this time he would attempt something new, he would join as a quiet member of a family in the city and just be happy to be there. It wouldn't be all about him this time, instead he would allow the spotlight to be on others.

Congratulations, Vulcan. You've inherited a district in a city held close to my heart, and while Detroit was great, one cannot ignore the songs that this city sings. Which is why for all of you, I will be doing a magic trick.

Jumping up onto a table, he realized his humble approach was taking a bit of a hit right now, but a showman couldn't stop the show. A few grapes and other food items fell to the floor as Sisyphus begun singing and attempting to pull a rabbit from out of his baseball cap, but sadly the magic required eluded him.

He wouldn't stop, however. He would do this the entire feast if needed, and that tenacity is exactly what people wanted in a member of this society. But seriously, how do people do this magic shit?

TO IGNIS!

Teach was making his way along the streets, enjoying a morning stroll when he noticed a small crowd gathering before a man. Curious Teach made his way over, and through the crowd until he was close enough to hear what was happening. He listened to Vulcan announce the founding of a new organization within Philadelphia. It was certainly great news, and overall good for every member in the community to see such growth. Teach waited his turn to congratulate Vulcan. Once close enough Teach extended a handshake and smiled.

"Congratulations sir, I look forward to the success in you and yours in the rebuilding of such a wonderful city."

Teach gave a head nod and rejoined the crowd as others made their way in to congratulate him as well. 

Right was late to the party. Partly because he wasn't officially invited, though, so Right felt all Right about it. He was here for a reason, though.
His close friend, although any relationship between the two was officially non-existent, Evelina had asked him to come to write her speech. Right was Right in time to hear Vulcan, the man who Right before this event actually only knew as Blackish-ish's kidnapper, speak.

It would have been common for Evelina to stand up and speak now, but Right told her to wait for a bit, to let Mercury, TrashPanda, Sisyphus and The Teacher speak before her. That way she would get all of the attention, and Right knew that was was she was looking for. Charles_Barkley told her she did. So did West actually, that one time neither of them were asleep.

After The Teacher spoke, Right stepped towards Evelina, handing her a mussily folded piece of paper. About half the lines were readable without folding it open, which Evelina would hopefully soon do.

Dear Vulcan,                                   |

you say your auth may have come ea|

you have truly proven your worth in t|

a shame to let go of such a great pers|

will be thriving soon!                       |


Further there is one more thing I want|

wearing my underwear, because that r|

I forgive you for that, though!

Congratulations on your big step, I am|

Right poked Evelina, and told her: Go ahead!

Right handed Chuckster a ransom note made from pieces of newspapers

We    have    taken    @Blackish-ish.

If    you    want    him    back    then    you    have    to    proclaim    me    to    be    the     greatest ,    publicly .

????

Chuck asked Right if it was genuine and he said it was and advised against giving in to the kidnapper.

“Blackish-ish will find a way out if he really wants to.”

“What about Vulcan?  Do we still offer congratulations and all that?”

“I think so.  It’s not anyone else’s fault that they’re caught up in Evelina’s evil plan-hatching plans.”

Chuck took to the streets

“Congratulations Vulcan.  I’m sure you’ll do everyone there proud.”

After handing both Evelina and Charles_Barkley a note, Right's eyes moved from Evelina to Chuck, then back from Charles_Barkley to Evelina's Eleven Leader Evelina. She had not yet unfolded the paper apparently.. Looking back at Street Beef, Right whispered

You're Right.
Well... I am..
But you know you are Right..
Like me.. But then differently..

after a small pause, Right found the Right way to break the pattern
Anyway, you are Right..
As am I, I agree..

Still before Evelina spoke her long-expected words, Right cleared his throat and said

Congratulations Vulcan!

Continuing on moderated volume
As long as you don't steal Blackish-ish anymore, I wish you the very best of luck and prosperity.

Evelina smiled gratefully at Right.  She opened the note and placed it on the table before her. She had a chance only to read the first paragraph before Charles_Barkley and Right had finished speaking.  She just could not wait any longer.  She stood to get everyone’s attention before speaking. 

Discreetly glancing again at the note, she began, “My dear friend, you say that your auth has come earlier than you expected, but during our time together you have truly proven your worth.  Honestly, it’s a shame for me to have to let go of such a strong part of my own operation, but I believe that working alongside yourself and TrashPanda will see Philly thriving in no time.” 

She paused briefly checking out the second paragraph “Further, there is one more thing I wanted to say to you today Vulcan...” she trailed off, a blush spreading across her cheeks.  Evelina turned toward Right, who was smirking smugly, she shook her head slightly in an attempt to convey her disapproval.  Clearly, he was still fuming about @Blackish choosing to settle in Philly instead of Seattle.  “Uh… I um,"  awkwardly she stumbled and just decided to say the first thing that came to mind, "I appreciate your acceptance of my old family tradition of using FY to stand for good shot.  I know it will encourage our people to train vigorously.” 

She raised her glass toward Vulcan, “Salute.” 

West could always appreciate someone who showed up late. It was one of his own finest qualities, and it seemed there were quite a few people here who shared it with him. Not wanting to fluster Evelina any more than she already was he waited until all the speeches were done to go up and say congratulations to Vulcan .

Congratulations! It was always a pleasure working with you and Ghus back home in Seattle, and from everything Eve tells me I know you're going to lead a great family and play a huge role in the rebuilding of Philadelphia. I would just ask one thing as a personal favour, please never tell Ghus what the 'Y' in FY stands for. I know it's incredibly obvious and we all know it but just don't make it too easy for him please.

And good luck!

After shaking hands with Vulcan , West went back over to talk with Charles_Barkley and Right . 

You know I really am sorry about the whole Blackish-ish kidnapping. If I'd have known Evelina would kidnap him I never would have let her start up. Some people just get one whiff of power and it goes straight to their head, they start kidnapping people left and Right !

Anyway, I just thought it was big of you to come and write her speech for her after all that Right . And for you to let him Charles_Barkley .