Editing Accord (section)

===Reputation===
To the public at large Accord is a crime boss within the wealthier part of Boston. To people with an ear to cape business and politics, he is much more than that.<ref name=17.8e3/> He provides plans and outlines for numerous groups and organizations to make sure things run smoothly.<ref name="R2 e2">"What do you mean?" Smokey Bandit asked. "We can't pass through?"<br/>"You can't pass through," the gang leader said. "You've made powerful enemies."<br/>"Enemy, singular," Smoky Bandit muttered.<br/>"Enemies," the gang leader said, emphasizing the word. "It's one thing to say someone is connected. I'm connected. But you made the mistake of getting on the wrong side of a system. Deals and illegitimate business pass through that one man's hands, and they come out refined."<br/>"We should go, Smoke," Sweet Valentine said.<br/>"One second," Smoky Bandit said, irritated. "So, what, you're on his side?"<br/>"I opted for a slice of that pie, not everyone does, but I did. And that means that when someone visits the man and gets on his bad side, because they used the wrong fork or sat the wrong way, Accord reaches out. He tells me I can bring you in and he'll reward me, or I can sit this out, but if I offer you sanctuary or let you pass through, I don't get my pie."<br/>"And you opted to bring us in?" Smokey Bandit asked, warier, glancing over his shoulder. Smoke gathered around his hands.<br/>"No. I don't want to risk my men. But you're going to want to turn around and take the long way around Portland. Not that it matters."<br/>"Why doesn't it matter?" Sweet Valentine asked.<br/>"He told us that we'd we wouldn't have to keep an eye out for you for more than two days, three hours, forty minutes. He gave us a set time. Next Tuesday, at two thirty in the afternoon, this particular issue will be resolved. He even dropped some names of the people he hired." "Who?"<br/>"He told me not to say. He just told me to tell you that they're out there, and about the time limit. He'll probably wrap things up within a minute or two of the deadline, knowing him. Just you, mind you, not your friend."<br/>"Oh thank God," Sweet Valentine said.<br/>"He's not a precog," Smokey Bandit said. "He can't be sure." "He's not a precog, but he's an exceptional and consistent planner, Smokey," the gang leader said. "Make the most of your next..." The man checked his watch.<br/>"Shove it," Smokey said, before the man could finish the sentence. "I get it."<br/>He marched off, with Sweet Valentine hurrying to catch up with him. They left the parking garage, climbing into the van.<br/>Sweet Valentine slouched in her seat. "I just wish you'd 'gotten' that you shouldn't pee on the toilet seat in our headquarters. Maybe then your aim would have been better in the bathroom at Accord's place." - [https://redd.it/5mu4a5 Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>

This and his violent attitude were known to the PRT.<ref>She frowned.  “This is giving you amnesty for past misdeeds, in practice.”<br/><br/>“Yes.  But it ensures we’re all in fighting shape when the next Endbringer fight goes down.”<br/><br/>“Accord remains a problem.”<br/><br/>“We’ll keep him busy, put him in the background.  Tattletale has a sense of his motives.  We can keep him occupied while keeping him from having a direct hand in things.”<br/><br/>“Our passivity would hinge on his.”<br/><br/>“Deal,” I said. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/imago-21-5/ Excerpt] from [[Imago 21.5]]</ref> His high and nigh unachievable standards serve as several switches that can cause him to turn on his allies.<ref>“Yeah,” I said.  “I’m sick of being on the defensive.  I hate waiting for the other shoe to drop, because there’s always another shoe, and always a bigger threat.  Speaking of, what’s your interpretation on the company we had tonight, Tattletale?  How do you think they’re going to play this?”<br/><br/>“The Ambassadors are on the up and up, as far as I can guess their direction.  Accord’s unpredictable, which is kind of ironic.  I’d say they’re lower priority.”<br/><br/>“They’re going to stick to the deal?”<br/><br/>“Until Accord’s neurosis pushes him to break it,” Tattletale said. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/imago-21-1/ Excerpt] from [[Imago 21.1]]</ref>
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Drawing Accord's ire has been compared to getting a [[Kill order]].<ref name="R2e3"/>