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Sam takes the lift and arrives at the 11th floor. With a greeting with the guard there, you easily enter into the office of the floor. You know that it is nothing too special, mainly for accounting or telemarketing jobs.
However, you're not too sure where the guy went to, but you know where you may find the office room of the floor manager.

Your mind worked pretty well and fast. The message of the receipt is revealed to you during your couple minutes of travel:
Unknown-Five undisclosed receipt.
The following main orders:
1) Ritual of Enchanting the Five: 6'000 Hub Credits
2) Insurance to cover death: 2'000 Hub Credits
3) Special process of transaction: 500 Hub Credits

You feel that there may still be contextual meaning still missing that you can't understand, but the words are at least understood. You still are not sure why the company is named "The Unknown Five".

Anyways, with a knock on the glass door, the floor manager welcomes you into his office and asks what are you are here for.

The manager looks at you a little stunned. He takes the document from you and gives it read with a frown. "This is... um. This is concerning. So you are sure that no one else have seen this? That is good. However, this is also not exactly for your eyes either. So I hope you would ignore this little incident. And yes, we do sometimes encode documents for confidential information. What counts as information confidential enough to encode? That would be above your pay. Speaking of pay, here's a little reward for handling this situation. Oh, and such documents don't actually exist, if you know what I mean." He hands you 5 Hub Credits, and waves you away.

Sam nods to the manager. I see now that the clerk just dropped a page from a draft contract, in the client's native langue. An honest mistake. They say it's good for the body to get up from your desk from time to time. I will return to mine

Sam returns to her desk and starts to think. She starts by reading up on the companies history, who the five is, and what that is all about. Then she does a security audit, setting up a (Linux) server outside the company network, and probe the company's ports. Standard stuff, but she also does a (google) search for magic, the langue, and ritual sights.

Sam looks up on the company. It has its own website, detailing in a straight format about its services and other basic info. However, it shows nothing about its history, so she hunts for articles about it. Unfortunately, it is harder than she thought. She does find news of Nouen-Penti being involved in a number of different projects and commending them for their quality and effectiveness. No explicit mentions of magic being involved, other than describing it feeling as such. The oldest she knows that the company have been around for is about 200 years.

Sam looks at her surroundings, and spots that some fellow colleagues are around. One saw that she is looking nervous, and proceeds over to take a look.

The colleague nods her head as she listens to Sam's explanation. She then leaves you alone as you cover your tracks before making your leave.

The next day, Sam looks up on magic and language-related stuff on the local internet's search engine in private mode on her own given computer. It seems that finding anything relevant enough is pretty difficult. So far, she unearthed that practising anything considered as magic is technically forbidden, except for important and regulated purposes. There are news of several crackdowns of illegal magic use, which are mostly by amateurs, though a few professionally performed ones are known. She make note of some of such cases. She also learnt that the language the founders of Nouen-Penti use is called Italnando. The people that uses it, called Italnandians, came from a foreign Recursion country known for its magic and culture tied to matters of the dead and the afterlife, where ghosts are a real phenomena that exist with the living. Searching for the Unknown Five brings up nothing relevant, and Nouen-Penti only brings up the company.

So far, Sam have no luck. But she could try again to hack into the company's system again, if she wish to. But doing so may be riskier. She could also attempt another tangent to investigate, or perhaps leave the matter alone for now.

Sam did find the about page, but it details nothing much other than that it was set up by a group of foreigners that views that security and protection of both physical and informational assets to be its highest priority. There is a list of partners and clients like Abyssal Shipping, Tomb of Tomes, and Jakarai Manufacturing.

Sam speaks with others about the lack information, and they feel that it is normal for information to be fairly vague. Information is both treasure and weapon in The Dark City, and that a company being coy about its nature and accomplishments is expected for a company such as this. Her colleagues advice her not to pursue too much into this, as it would risk her job, and potentially her life. Regarding death threats, no one would want to give suggestions on what such things may be.

As she continues on the days, Sam would notice that people are acting slightly odd around her.