Ugh, it's software why don't they offer remote work options? She'll peek at real estate listings for Philadelphia but also send a short email asking about remote work options. It doesn't hurt to ask.

She gets an email back explaining that they don't advertise remote jobs by default, but they're happy for her to work remotely full-time if she gets the job. (They understand not wanting to live in Gotham, ha ha except it's not a joke.)

She'll have to attend training in person for the first month, and a couple of weeks out of every year. She can claim hotels as a work expense. If she gets to be a little more senior, she might sometimes be asked to fly out to attend a conference somewhere. 

Excellent, she likes her little house it would have hurt to leave it behind. She naturally applies for the job. She only has five years of experience but she's been been promoted three times in those years.

Her references, if contacted say that she's a bit reclusive but very good at solving problems quickly and that they'll regret losing her.

Wayne Tech will take a few days to get back to her.

Meanwhile, it's been a week since she killed Alex Venquist and nobody other than Wayne Enterprises has responded positively to her letter. Various government bodies whose members are on her list have issued statements to the effect that blackmailing government officials is a federal crime/the US government does not negotiate with terrorists/etc. 

Besides the initial acknowledgement that Lex Luthor received the letter, LexCorp has done nothing. 

A board member for Lexcorp dies of a stroke.

SCARECROW'S KILLER STRIKES AGAIN

She makes national headlines for the second time in as many weeks. 

LEXCORP TARGETED BY MYSTERY METAHUMAN

The Daily Planet runs an obituary for Justin Brant, the LexCorp board member. He was a Metropolis native, a keen golfer, and a dog lover. He's survived by his wife, three children (two from his first marriage), and their pet beagle. 

Lex Luthor releases a public statement saying that he's deeply saddened by the loss of a valued board member and calling for a nationwide manhunt for the metahuman serial killer. 

A nation wide manhunt... hopefully her precautions are up to that. She knew this would be dangerous when she started though. There's a reason she hasn't sent any additional messages. It's more real though, having it in newspaper headlines than just imagining it. She had difficulty falling asleep that night.

Over the next week, three things of interest happen.

1. STAR Labs finally releases a public statement saying that much of its research is tied up in NDAs but the directors can confirm that they work on reverse-engineering alien tech and are in talks with some of their business partners about patents. 

2. A few other corporations who got letters issue press releases to the effect that schizo-tech isn't an area they work on and it would take significant expenditure for them to pivot into it. A representative for Queen Industries (which hasn't been owned by the titular Queen family for several years) jokes that the Qphone is "100% homegrown human technology". 

3. Wayne Tech would like to offer Daisy an interview. Is she able to travel to one of their offices to meet in person? 

She'll do some more research, are all these press releases credible?

As for Wayne Tech she's happy to travel for an interview in Philadelphia if that works, if not she can go to Gotham.

There is, indeed, no evidence that Queen Industries makes use of reverse-engineered alien technology or super-tech in its electronics. Their futuristic aesthetic is purely for marketing purposes. Most of the others seem plausible, too, but the Sunderland Corporation, which has ties to the US military, is definitely at least involved in smuggling schizo-tech if she does some hacking. 

She can have an interview at Wayne Tech's Philadelphia office! There's some more back and forth to settle on a day and time, but they seem happy to accommodate her schedule and even offer to reimburse her for travel expenses.

She will take the risk of some light hacking. And she'll adjust her lists accordingly.

Of course they'll be reimbursing her travel expenses that's just standard practice or it should be anyway. She politely doesn't point that out though.

It looks like she'll have an interview next week.

Given that LexCorp is not even trying to pay lip service to her Lex Luthor is scheduled to die of a multiple aneurysm while sleeping.

There's no announcement of Lex Luthor's death the following day. 

Instead, Luthor abruptly disappears from the public eye. The official story is that he's on holiday in the Caribbean, but an anonymous source leaks to the press that he's seriously ill and has been flown to an exclusive private treatment centre. This prompts speculation about whether he was the mystery killer's latest target. 

That's unexpected. Actually, it's more than unexpected it's extremely problematic. Either they're pretending he didn't die or her magic book isn't as absolute as it claimed.

This... strongly undermines her agenda.

She writes down a few more deaths for Luthor spaced apart by an hour a piece.

Heart attack, organ failure, fell down the stairs and broke his neck, stabbed, shot, meteor strike. Hopefully one or all of those will work. The rules don't really clarify what happens if a particular death is impossible.

Over the next few days she'll keep writing down more as she thinks of them: car accident, drowned, burned alive, weapons test gone wrong.

There are no further updates on Lex Luthor's status over the next few days. No meteors large enough to make it through the atmosphere intact strike the Caribbean, or anywhere else for that matter. 

In the meantime, Daisy has a job interview for a software developer role at Wayne Tech. 

Daisy agonizes over whether to bring the Death Note with her or leave it. Ultimately for such a short trip she decides the risk of it being stolen is lower than the risk of it being noticed while she's carrying it.

She writes down a sequence of deaths for Luthor that'll keep up the pace just in case, a repeated pattern of organ failure, stroke, aneurysm and falling down stairs. Then she stashes the notebook in a pile of old papers and notebooks from college.

After that it's off to Philadelphia.

Her interviewer is a smiling South Asian woman who introduces herself as Maryam Shah. They have a coding problem for Daisy to try her hand at, and a couple of interesting lateral thinking puzzles. In between those, Ms Shah asks the standard interview questions like "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" and "What would you say is your greatest weakness?" and "If you could have any one superpower, what would you pick?" 

She does very well at the coding and lateral thinking puzzles. A bit better on the coding than the lateral thinking.

As for where she sees herself in five years:

"I see myself as having helped launch at least one product or helped finish one project that makes the world a measurably better place. That's why I want to work here because I think it gives me a chance at doing that."

As for her greatest weakness:

"I don't always understand other people, I try but I grew up pretty sheltered and despite my efforts I haven't ever fully grown beyond that. Maybe it's just something that will improve with time I'm still pretty young."

As for what superpower she'd have:

"I would love to have an analysis superpower something that lets me touch something and understand how it works and if I have the materials how to make another one like it."

When they're done, Ms Shah shakes Daisy's hand, thanks her for her time, and says they'll let her know one way or the other by the end of next week. 

A few days later, about when Daisy would be thinking of killing the next person on her list, news of Lex Luthor's death in a "scuba-diving accident" hits the headlines. 

She thanks Ms. Shah politely.

... so that's how they're playing it. At least she got him in the end. She'll hold off on targeting LexCorp for the moment maybe the next CEO will be more receptive. She kills a board member of that military contractor that probably lied in their press release.

LexCorp presumably appreciates their stay of execution. The Sunderland Corporation presumably does not. 

Luthor's sister Lena inherits LexCorp. She's young, strawberry-blonde, and shows up to her first press conference as CEO in a wheelchair. She smiles at the reporters and wipes away a few artful tears as she talks about continuing her brother's legacy. 

The media speculates about whether it means anything that the "Phantom Killer", as somebody named her at some point, appears to have deviated from the one-death-a-week schedule outlined in the Tomorrow Letter. Nobody last week, and now two deaths this week. Was Lex Luthor meant to die sooner? Or was one of the deaths a genuine accident?

Huh, people aren't speculating that Luthor's sudden vacation was him dying. That's probably just the power of having the money to influence the media. She's not sure though.

Well phantom killer is a pretty good name even if it does de-emphasize her goals.

Is Lena at all specific on what her brother's legacy is? What's publicly known about her?

She really wants to set the record straight but well... one maybe she really didn't kill him that first time and two operational security is paramount.

Oh, some people are definitely speculating that Lex Luthor died a week earlier and even the leaked story about his illness was a coverup. They're mostly dismissed as conspiracy theorists. 

Publicly known information about Lena Luthor is very sparse. She hasn't been in the public eye before now, and Lex didn't talk about his family much in interviews. About the only noteworthy information Daisy can find is that she's a geneticist who's published a few papers related to stem cell research. Nothing in the last few years, though. 

Alright, Lena isn't exactly promising there but she will give her a chance.

A few days later, there's live TV coverage of a supervillain attack on Columbus, Ohio. 

Atomic Skull, a skeletally-thin figure in a yellow and green costume, is wreaking havoc in the city centre, blasting people with beams of powerful radiation as they scream and collapse. A news anchor breathlessly reports that Superman, who usually deals with him, was last seen in India rescuing people from a flash flood. 

People have been known to die of radiation poisoning from Atomic Skull's attacks. Not Superman, of course, because he's Superman. Just ordinary people.