A few days had past since Ragnar dispatched the old Godfather of Bella Vista and now it was time to put his plans into motion. He found a busy street corner near a butchers where mafioso tended to gather. Made guy's started to whisper to each other at the sight of the new Godfather in Philly but they soon grew silent when Ragnar cleared this throat.

"Today I unveil my plans for my beloved district, as you may have noticed I have run a small but tight nit family & this is for a reason. You may have noticed I also haven't setup a Boss below me either & that is because I will be doing something against the norm yet not unheard of, I will be allowing two people to set up below me with certain conditions that I will outline shortly. These two leaders will run their own families how they see fit without interference from myself unless of course they get out of hand. They will receive my protection as a Godfather but it will not come cheap & nor will it be absolute, they will still have to conduct themselves with honour and respect."

Ragnar pulls out a silver gravy boat filled with ale and empties it in one go

"Now where was I, oh yes, anyone may apply for one of the two position's I will be allowing so long as they have permission from their current leader so long as the meet the criteria about to be handed out."

Ragnar nods his head and a throng of Norse bodyguards start handing out fliers and one roughly slaps one on your chest and doesn't move his hand till you grasp it.

Conditions of applying for Bella Vista Auth

Auth Speech: You will have to give a street speech in the usual fashion if you are chosen.

Bodyguards: Your bodyguard status will not exceed Obscenely well protected nor will any of your members.

Auth: You will not be allowed to auth anyone else.

Crew Size: You will be limited to buying a 20 member HQ.

Payment: You will be required to pay me $3,000,000 per week every Friday until you reach 10 members, after that it will be $5,000,000 per week. Late payments result in a $250,000 interest payment per day it is late.

Application: You will mail me with the reasons you want auth, any notable bloodlines and previous experience before I decide if you can setup below me. Please put "Pay As You Go CL" in the subject.

City Rules: You will be expected to follow the rules of Bella Vista and will not create your own.

Ziva pours gravy over Ragnar before drinking a pint of her own.

Well, it's most certainly brave running a contest after the last two we've seen. Here's hoping yours goes better and doesn't end up spectacularly biting you on the ass.

Ragnar flicks as much of the gravy as he can back at Ziva

"Well my dear it's not really a contest, no one has to make the choice of fight to the death or work as a team. They get to be there own boss and run a small crew for a fee".

Quite an interesting idea, Godfather. You truly are the Tom Sawyer of our trade.

And you're absolutely right. You're an elite being of unrivaled prestige, why would you waste your time cultivating a new generation of world-changing leaders when you can just buy them from someone else? That's precisely the same reason my old man gave up the family farm. Production is overrated, especially when the end product is all we really care about. Organic food is for chumps and idiots with two extra dollars to spend on their tomatoes. 

I'm a big fan of enterprise, and instances like this make my pants bunch in strange and inappropriate ways. I can't wait to watch this play out, and I'd like to wish all participants great luck and best wishes in this endeavor. But that doesn't matter, because they don't have the slightest chance of standing up to the competition. Yes, friends, I am at this very moment officially announcing my intent to enter and win this competition.

Give me a run for my money.

I must say, this has a certain appeal to it.

As a man who has spent his life buying his way into things (mostly whore houses), I can appreciate the idea behind this. It certainly seems like it would gain you a heck of a lot of coin if it goes well, Ragnar.

I agree with most here, this certaintly brings back memories of days old. There where the kind of ways a family head would conduct business years and years ago...(without the BG caps etc...but we live in different times)

I hope this works out well for you.

Auth Speech: You will have to give a street speech in the usual fashion if you are chosen.

ok i can see that as reasonable as that is nothing more than what anyone else would have to do.

Bodyguards: Your bodyguard status will not exceed Obscenely well protected nor will any of your members.

Are you fucking kidding me? Im sorry but that just screams insecurity to me. 

Payment: You will be required to pay me $3,000,000 per week every Friday until you reach 10 members, after that it will be $5,000,000 per week. Late payments result in a $250,000 interest payment per day it is late.

a really well thought out money making scheme. good luck with that as i doubt you will find many people who want to pay you to be something that they wouldnt have to pay for if they earned it the traditional way. 

so the point i am making is this. Why the hell would i pay you for something i can just earn through hard work and dedication?

DominicG lights a cig. He inhales the smoke while exhaling he tries understand this. 

So you will have people authed but only if they pay you? Do you have a down payment to front before hand? I wish luck to you, I don't know how you'll get crews to join you that way!

DominicG...he isn't 'authing' people. He is offering people the opportunity to run their own enterprises under his control. Is that worth a payment? Hell yeah.

The bodyguard restrictions are clearly there to ensure that Ragnar can still maintain the power in the district. Were he to allow the person to set up with Insane protection, then the ability to remove the threat is then reduced. I'm not saying Ragnar doesn't have the power to remove such a well protected person, but it stands to reason that he would rather not have to worry about the person being outwith his reach.

As others have said, paying the Godfather a weekly Tax isn't new. It's common for Godfathers to request that level of sum from their crews as the income a Godfather receives is somewhat less than the amount they would have earned with a 40 man family beneath them sending up tribute.

Then let me ask you this Alex why have you not done it yet then?

Telkin took the words RIGHT out of my mouth....

what a load of shit. as if their aint already too many crap leaders about.

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