"I've decided to drop some of the dead weight in my life."

Lost in the fight to protect it (https://glowfic.com/posts/4862): Ghassan meets Masozi. Despite his bad vibes, Masozi strikes Ghassan as someone incredibly useful to know. They discuss meeting up, but don't.

In direct proportion to their triviality (https://glowfic.com/posts/4872): Ghassan meets Daria. She concludes that he's not that impressive, but he has a nice poison she can use for her poison darts.

Poisoned against (https://glowfic.com/posts/4929): Ghassan meets Jian and Lao. He is promised Lao's darkvision shades if he can offer lethal poisons.

Russian roulette, or Poisson distribution? (https://glowfic.com/posts/4947): Ghassan meets Dennis, and they agree to go on a supply run later.