Vil and Azul (pt3)

Vil and Azul also overlap during Port Fest where Azul changes the business plan for their group’s food stall, inspired by Vil: “Our core advantage over the other groups is Vil’s overwhelming name recognition and the strength of his brand!”

They change their menu from “standard festival foods” to a salad cup (“as recommended by Vil”), explaining, “With a model of considerable repute and brand recognition endorsing it, customers would hardly balk at paying a somewhat higher price.”

Vil says that businesses usually need to sign a sponsorship contract to use his name to sell a product via a formal procedure overseen by his agent that he cannot unilaterally change, and Azul explains that he has no intention of running afoul of this policy: “You just happened to be standing by our salad cup stand. That’s all, a mere coincidence of your presence, entirely by chance.”

Vil responds, “You love doing business in these little gray areas, don’t you?,” and agrees to pretend he has not noticed for the day, as he is the group’s leader.

When Azul expresses interest in displaying a picture that the red carpet group took in the Fairest City at Mostro Lounge Vil responds, “Pitiful. First Dad, and now you’re trying to use ME to raise the profile of that little establishment of yours?”

Azul mentions possibly adding a Shaftlands drink to the lounge’s menu and Vil says that he may stop by to have one. Azul offers to give him a meal on the house if he would upload pictures (“perhaps of the menu”) to Magicam and Vil refuses.