"We can ask the Undersiders if they have anyone working for them who could work for us instead, or we could hire someone with the few hundred thousand Tattletale said they could spare for funding for the next few months, though we probably shouldn't hire two people in that case."

"I think poaching someone from the Undersiders has conflict of interest issues. I know you like these people and I am going to give working with them a serious try but I cannot rely on them just having normal amounts and kinds of compunctions because they labeled themselves 'does not have normal amounts and kinds of compunctions' with bright red marker."

"Yeah, that's reasonable. Though we're probably still going to need to rely on them for medics and mercenaries."

"...mercenaries makes sense but why medics?"

"Cost - we don't have to use our limited budget to pay Undersider employees."

"You know, we could move to Canada, I bet they'd have us."

"What would that help with exactly?"

"Public health care? - does Canada have that in this universe?"

"Yeah - we can totally still send people to the hospital and get ambulances to come and things,  that's not an issue. The issue is that we probably want to have medics who will work with us without getting law enforcement involved if a villain shows up to help or something."

"Do random emergency medicine doctors here seriously make it their business to call the cops on villains who show up with a good reason to be present and and doing things that are not villainy?"

"The ones who are going to show up at dungeons will almost definitely be PRT medics. They wouldn't try to arrest a villain or anything at an Endbringer fight or similar, but if they were treating a villain who got hurt by a dungeon, I'd expect them to escalate the situation pretty often by default. At least until there's an established norm that dungeons are like endbringer fights truce-wise."

"Are you formally a villain? I don't see why I could not personally get patched up as necessary by PRT guys."

"I'm not, and you're not, but the Undersiders are going to show up pretty often."

"So they will need to rely on them for medics."

"Yeah... though uh, I also do actually think that if we set up a team of medics they provide us with we'll end up providing better medical care than the PRT medics will be able to."

"Why's that?"

"I think the Undersiders have more resources that can be shifted to this than the PRT. For instance, the Undersiders have been running half a dozen urgent care clinics around the city since Leviathan hit. There are others, but those are civilian, not PRT, and so won't get deployed to help with dungeons in person."

"Okay. That's short term, though, on a longer time horizon don't you expect dungeons to get resource allocation of their own?"

"They probably will, yeah."

"My world nearly collapsed under the weight of dungeons suddenly appearing, and we were only dealing with the one apocalyptic problem..." Anyway. She's going to ask Skitter to send a car. She's going to a meeting with Skitter and getting in a car she sends is not worse.

The car appears shortly, taking May to another part of the city, busier and farther along in reconstructions than most of the rest, where Skitter is waiting.

"Afternoon."

"Yes - let's walk while we talk."

May falls into step.

"Tattletale tells me you'll be good at handling dungeons."