Rooms are way easier to steal. Equipment and materials are about the same difficulty as in the other places.

Then she finishes the last of her coffee, and goes to look for a room.

Finding room-sized places is easy. Now that she has money, she could probably get it fairly. Or not; whichever's easier.

It's important to try new things. She'll pay money for it.

Once she has a bit of privacy, she gets out her two tinkers to go over the idea, and the danger sensor, just to check.

The two relevant tinkers say maybe and yes, respectively, and the danger sensor is mostly just flashing neon signs about how now is a good time to panic.

How far?

There's a knock on the door. That.

Shades out, brute-blaster-mover.

She opens the door.

It's a Johnny Depp lookalike smiling and extending his hand to shake. He's pretty recognizable.

"Hello! You must be the Keres."

She regards the outstretched hand.

She takes it. "Jack Slash."

"Correct.

You know, you've made a much bigger splash among the white hats than they've been showing."

"What makes you say that?"

"You fought Eidolon, and got Dragon's attention. Twice. Better, even: they sent Eidolon early. That means they're afraid of what you might become."

"Are you?"

"Afraid? I'm well aware you could become more powerful than me, but you did that long ago. Unlike the heroes, I don't always have to be the strongest one around."

"Hardly surprising, given the company you tend to keep."

"Very true. 

And if I'm not mistaken, I can offer you what you're after on that score."

"Is that so."

"Extremely. If you'd confirm a guess of mine, either Eidolon or Dragon got you to scale down and cross the country between assassinations instead of just taking the powers you want?"

"Something like that."

"I can offer you a way to stop holding back."

"Is this a recruitment pitch?"

"Got it in one."

"We understand your organization has a fairly high rate of turnover."

"It's a very dangerous lifestyle; not everyone can hack it. If only there were people who actively wanted fights to the death against as many other parahumans as possible, them I'd expect to do just fine."