Hi-Quality Builders

Hi-Quality Builders is a Pentex subsidiary.

Overview

Prior to the acquisition of Safe Haven, the majority of Pentex's building contracts went to Hi-Quality Builders, a shell company directly controlled by Pentex itself. Unlike the dark professionalism of SHC, HQB used inferior materials and employed a workforce of miscreants unlikely to get jobs anywhere else (and therefore willing to work for exceptionally low wages). Chris Tapiador, the manager of HQB, had a reputation as a habitual risk and, of not for his ruthlessness behind the scenes, would have likely been chum for the fomori vats. After Safe Haven's entrance into the Pentex community, Trapiador arranged for no less than three contracts on Anderson's life. However, Anderson had long been a player in the bitter and bloody wars that went on between vampires. He survived the attempts, and solved the dispute with a novel approach; a new business model.

HQB has now branched out into the home construction arena. Using Anderson's contracts and Tapiador's vast slush fund, HWB bought large tracts of suburban land. Using innocuous names like "Plantation Creek," HQB builds what, on the surface, appear to be good low-cost housing. However, the HQB-built homes never seem to match the splendor of the model homes. (This comes as no surprise, as SHC crews build the models, and the HQB crews build the actual homes.)

Not only are these homes built on shaky foundations with cheap materials, but a small but significant fraction of the houses comes with a special "welcoming present": a Bane.

In a bit of cross marketing, these subdivisions often com with many other familiar names in the surrounding area. Fast-food restaurants are O'Tolley's. Herricks owns the corner markers, and fills them with Young and Smith products. The local gas station is, naturally, under the Endron label. Many higher ups watch these "planned communities" with great interest. While the sheer magnitude of Wyrm-taint is sure to attract unwanted attention, the scale on which these corrupting communities affect the immediate and surrounding locales makes them very interesting to management. Although they make easy targets, the large numbers of innocent bystanders makes them difficult to stop by frenzied assaults. Enviromental-impact lawsuits take time and money, of which Pentex has plenty.

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