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This is a listing of every "entry" in a given game conversation as scraped from the game files. Entries often contain written dialogue, as well as conditional logic governing their appearance to the player. They also link to other entries, sometimes automatically and sometimes through player action. This page is best used to search for a specific word or phrase, as following the links in this format can be difficult. For an experience that better accommodates the branching structure of these conversations, see the corresponding interactive page.
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| 2 | Joyce Messier | "Good for you." She looks at the coastline, then at you. "Now back to the impending blood bath." |
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| 3 | You | "Don't you want to know where I found my badge?" (Put your badge away.) | Variable["XP.joyce_showed_your_badge"] == true and Variable["pier.joyce_looking_for_badge_for_lynch"] == true and CheckItem("badge") |
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| 4 | Joyce Messier | "I think I know where you found it, Officer Du Bois -- in that motor carriage protruding from the ice over there." |
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| 5 | You | "Does this mean I don't have to look into that drug stuff?" | Variable["pier.joyce_narco_investigate_open"] and Variable["TASK.probe_drivers_about_drugs_done"] == false |
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| 6 | You | "That's enough for now." (Conclude.) |
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| 7 | None |
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| 8 | Joyce Messier |
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| 9 | Joyce Messier | Variable["pier.joyce_mc_heard"] |
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| 10 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["pier.joyce_mc_heard"]) == false |
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| 11 | Joyce Messier | "You found it the motor carriage you drove into the sea." |
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| 12 | You | "Damn right." |
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| 13 | You | "No. It was a in a good, normal place." |
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| 14 | You | "I'm glad we reached an agreement without turning the RCM into your personal investigative unit." | Variable["pier.joyce_did_not_take_narco_case"] |
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| 15 | Joyce Messier | "Do not gloat, officer. These are grave matters." |
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| 16 | Suggestion | It only lasts for the briefest instance but you catch a look of disappointment in her eye. Anger even. |
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| 17 | None |
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| 18 | None |
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| 19 | You | "What was that about a... *blood bath*?" |
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| 20 | You | "How are the lynching and the strike connected?" |
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| 21 | Joyce Messier | "Yes. I'm afraid this strike may descend into a small scale civil war. With possible consequences for all of Revachol West." |
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| 22 | Empathy | Your response does not inspire great faith in the RCM. |
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| 23 | Joyce Messier | "It doesn't matter. What matters is -- you found it. And not a moment too soon." |
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| 24 | Joyce Messier | "That is exactly what it means. What I am about to tell you is more pressing, I assure you." |
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| 25 | Joyce Messier |
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| 26 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 27 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 28 | Kim Kitsuragi | "Since you're sharing, ma'am -- this is also the RCM's worst case scenario." |
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| 29 | Joyce Messier | "I have an indirect role to play, I'm sad to say. My employer experienced a *momentary lapse of faith* in me. In that moment they elected to deploy a private military contractor. As an *insurance* measure. They called it my 'security detail'." |
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| 30 | You | "A momentary lapse of faith?" |
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| 31 | You | "Do you need a security detail?" |
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| 32 | Joyce Messier | "They were dispatched after I relayed the Union's initial offer." |
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| 33 | Joyce Messier |
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| 34 | Joyce Messier | Variable["pier.joyce_every_worker_member_heard"] |
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| 35 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["pier.joyce_every_worker_member_heard"]) == false |
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| 36 | Joyce Messier |
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| 37 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 38 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 39 | Kim Kitsuragi | "*Every worker*..." |
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| 40 | Joyce Messier | "*...a member of the board*," she nods. "I tried to convince my employer it was simply a piece of rhetoric -- or a joke. They did not appreciate the humour." |
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| 41 | You | "*Every worker*..." |
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| 42 | Joyce Messier | "Absolutely not. These mercenaries are muscle, pure and simple. They are meant to intimidate the Union into surrendering." |
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| 43 | Joyce Messier | "'Every worker a member of the board'. I tried to convince my employer it was simply a piece of rhetoric and not a serious demand. But the... *stridency* of it seems to have spooked them." |
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| 44 | Joyce Messier |
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| 45 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 46 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 47 | Kim Kitsuragi | "Who are they, exactly?" |
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| 48 | You | "Who are they?" |
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| 49 | Joyce Messier | "Krenel -- an Oranjese military company. As far as I know three arrived in Martinaise. They report to me sporadically, but they do not answer to me. To be frank, our relationship is deteriorating." |
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| 50 | Joyce Messier | "No, no, no -- we *need* to discuss this *now*. There isn't time to waste. Blood bath, remember?" |
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| 51 | Joyce Messier | "They wear ceramic armour, have semi-automatic weapons and years of combat experience. They also have Trauma-and-Stressor Disorder and no idea how to conduct themselves in an urban civilian environment." |
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| 52 | Joyce Messier | "The story is, one of them, the colonel -- I don't know his real name -- sexually assaulted a local woman. While he was drunk and separated from his unit. This allowed some of the more militant Union members to subdue him." |
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| 53 | Joyce Messier |
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| 54 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 55 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 56 | Kim Kitsuragi | "So what happened?" |
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| 57 | Joyce Messier | "He was taken out behind the Whirling-in-Rags and lynched. Last Sunday night." |
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| 58 | You | "What then?" |
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| 59 | Joyce Messier | "Nothing. Mr. Claire refuses to let me into the harbour. I have not been able to discuss this matter with anyone there. The remaining two Krenel contractors carry out their orders -- for now." |
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| 60 | Joyce Messier | "It's a smokescreen. In secret, they are conducting an independent military tribunal into the lynching. Once this *investigation* is concluded, executions will follow." |
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| 61 | You | "For now?" |
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| 62 | Joyce Messier |
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| 63 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 64 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 65 | Kim Kitsuragi | "What is the nature of this so-called investigation?" |
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| 66 | Joyce Messier | "Whether to execute one, some, or all of the Union militants." |
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| 67 | You | "Too many investigations in Martinaise." | Variable["pier.joyce_concept_many_investigations"] |
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| 68 | You | "You've made a mess here." |
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| 69 | Joyce Messier | "My only hope is that yours provides a single, concrete suspect -- before they indiscriminately pick theirs. Simply put..." She grabs hold of the mainsail: |
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| 70 | Joyce Messier | "If you don't pin this on someone *good* -- and do it *fast* -- they will identify and execute everyone present at the lynching. This, in turn, will force the Union to respond." |
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| 71 | Joyce Messier |
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| 72 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 73 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 74 | Kim Kitsuragi | "The Débardeurs have over two thousand men. It will be a thousand to one." |
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| 75 | Authority | They would have to. To project strength and power. |
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| 76 | Joyce Messier | "Have you ever seen a hornet invade a beehive, lieutenant?" She leans back. "It's not pretty." |
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| 77 | You | "Maybe the investigations can team up? You know, share resources and intelligence." |
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| 78 | Joyce Messier | "It was the *Union* who strung him from that tree." A wave crashes against the side of her boat. "My hope is that you provide a single, concrete suspect before Krenel indiscriminately pick theirs. Simply put..." She grabs hold of the mainsail: |
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| 79 | Joyce Messier | "Surely you're joking. These people are killers. My only hope is that yours provides a single, concrete suspect -- before they indiscriminately pick theirs. Simply put..." She grabs hold of the mainsail: |
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| 80 | Conceptualization | Investigation upon investigation, here in Martinaise, racing toward some dark deadline. |
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| 81 | Joyce Messier |
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| 82 | Joyce Messier | Variable["tc.union_members_amount"] |
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| 83 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["tc.union_members_amount"]) == false |
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| 84 | Logic | The Union has over two thousand men. |
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| 85 | None |
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| 86 | You | "The numbers are against them -- a thousand to one." | Variable["pier.joyce_logic_war_ods"] |
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| 87 | You | "What can they do against the Union? There seem to be a lot of them." |
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| 88 | Joyce Messier | "These men work in tandem using semi-and fully automatic firearms. Their armour is virtually impenetrable to muzzle-loaded weapons -- even *yours*. Most Union workers don't have guns at all..." |
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| 89 | Encyclopedia | The Seraise Giant Hornet, the world's second largest insect, can kill forty honey bees a minute while a group of 30 can decimate an entire hive of 20,000 bees in less than four hours. |
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| 90 | Hand/Eye Coordination | The muzzle-loaders need to be reloaded after every one or two shots -- the automatics every one or two *minutes*. |
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| 91 | Joyce Messier | She is silent for a moment, then concludes: "As I said -- a blood bath." |
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| 92 | Half Light | Maybe a good bloodletting is just what Martinaise needs? |
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| 93 | None |
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| 94 | You | "Wash it nice and clean..." | Variable["pier.joyce_halflight_bloodletting"] |
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| 95 | You | Shudder. | Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_bloodletting"] |
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| 96 | You | "Isn't this a pretty... bleak scenario you're describing?" |
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| 97 | You | "I think the confrontation is inevitable." |
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| 98 | Joyce Messier |
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| 99 | Joyce Messier | Variable["pier.joyce_halflight_bloodletting"] |
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| 100 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["pier.joyce_halflight_bloodletting"]) == false |
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| 101 | Shivers | Houses drenched in red, blood gushing down Rue Saint-Cispare... the whole place mopped with a giant red rag! Fresh bullet holes for all the old buildings... |
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| 102 | Joyce Messier | "It will not be a pretty sight." |
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| 103 | Joyce Messier | "Clean, yes. Nothing will grow here for twenty years. Krenel will send in gunships and the Coalition Government will follow suit." |
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| 104 | You | "I can't see it happen. Too many things would have to go wrong first." |
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| 105 | None |
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| 106 | Joyce Messier | "Too many things have *already* gone wrong." She looks to you, eyes damp from the wind. |
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| 107 | Joyce Messier | "*Many* bleak scenarios have already come to pass to lead us here..." She looks at you, eyes damp from the wind. |
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| 108 | Joyce Messier | "It doesn't have to be like this." She looks at you, eyes damp from the wind. |
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| 109 | Joyce Messier | "All we can do is keep that which has not from following suit. One single, concrete suspect delivered into Civil Court -- and I *may* be able to defuse this situation." |
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| 110 | Joyce Messier |
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| 111 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 112 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 113 | Joyce Messier | "All we can do is keep the rest from going the same way. One single, concrete suspect delivered into Civil Court -- and I *may* be able to defuse this situation." |
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| 114 | Joyce Messier |
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| 115 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 116 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 117 | Joyce Messier |
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| 118 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 119 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 120 | Joyce Messier | "One single, concrete suspect delivered into Civil Court -- a good one -- and I *may* be able to defuse this situation." |
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| 121 | You | "See, Kim. This is that Great Bloodletting I've been telling you about." | (IsTHCPresent("apocalypse_cop") or Variable["reputation.apocalypse_cop"] >= 2) and IsKimHere() |
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| 122 | You | "See, this is the Great Bloodletting I've been telling everyone about." | (IsTHCPresent("apocalypse_cop") or Variable["reputation.apocalypse_cop"] >= 2) and IsKimHere() == false |
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| 123 | Joyce Messier | "I am sorry to confirm it." |
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| 124 | Kim Kitsuragi | "It appears you've found it, yes. And I'm not happy for you." |
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| 125 | Joyce Messier | "All we can do is keep the little that has not from following suit. One single, concrete suspect delivered into Civil Court -- and I *may* be able to defuse this situation." |
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| 126 | Joyce Messier | "All we can do is keep the rest from following suit. One single, concrete suspect delivered into Civil Court -- and I *may* be able to defuse this situation." |
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| 127 | Joyce Messier | "One single, concrete suspect delivered into Civil Court -- and I *may* be able to defuse this situation." |
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| 128 | None |
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| 129 | Joyce Messier |
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| 130 | Joyce Messier | Variable["pier.joyce_lynching_story_told"] |
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| 131 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["pier.joyce_lynching_story_told"]) == false |
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| 132 | Joyce Messier | "I am sorry to have been the bearer of bad news. If there is anything else I can help you with, please ask." |
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| 133 | Volition | She cannot let you leave without having her say. |
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| 134 | None |
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| 135 | You | "Where are the remaining two mercs now?" | Variable["pier.joyce_lynching_story_told"] |
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| 136 | You | "This *colonel*, the one who was hanged -- did you know him?" | Variable["pier.joyce_lynching_story_told"] |
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| 137 | You | "I have to say -- this is *not* disco." |
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| 138 | Joyce Messier | "It is very far from *disco*." A wave crashes against the side of her boat. "My only hope is that you provide a single, concrete suspect before the mercenaries indiscriminately pick theirs. Simply put..." She grabs hold of the mainsail: |
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| 139 | You | "What can you tell me about Krenel?" | Variable["pier.joyce_lynching_story_told"] |
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| 140 | You | "You said the deceased assaulted a woman?" | Variable["pier.joyce_lynching_story_told"] |
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| 141 | You | "How much time do we have?" | Variable["pier.joyce_lynching_story_told"] |
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| 142 | Joyce Messier | "If you still have access to the ICP's database, you could run a better background check than I ever could. It may take some time, though..." She thinks. |
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| 143 | Joyce Messier |
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| 144 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 145 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 146 | Kim Kitsuragi | "Do you know a lot about the inner workings of the RCM and the ICP, ma'am?" |
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| 147 | Joyce Messier | "Not much. Their public resume is relatively good -- as far as private military contractors go. I believe they were once called... Downwell." |
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| 148 | Joyce Messier | "They boast a long list of clients: Saint-Batiste, Welchman-Lorentz, Eendracht... A warning sign, however -- the operations concerned all take place in third- or fourth-world countries. Guarding facilities, escort missions, and such." |
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| 149 | Joyce Messier |
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| 150 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 151 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 152 | Kim Kitsuragi | "Meaning they're used to operating in war zones." |
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| 153 | You | "Sounds like maybe the colonel went a little *native* during the course of his duties." | IsTHCPresent("revacholian_nationhood") |
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| 154 | Joyce Messier | "I wouldn't go as far as to use that term detective." |
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| 155 | Joyce Messier | "Yes. All the good conflict corridors: Supramundi, Yeesut, the Semenese islands. Countries that don't have a good record reporting *atrocious* military conduct on their soil." |
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| 156 | None |
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| 157 | You | "Okay. Anything else you can tell me?" |
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| 158 | Joyce Messier | "Sadly -- no. Before this happened I had little interest in them. Now that I do -- I don't have the resources." She thinks. |
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| 159 | Rhetoric | It's the *expression* she objects to? |
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| 160 | You | "What? *Going native*?" |
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| 161 | Joyce Messier | "Yes." |
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| 162 | You | "It sounds like you object to the words 'going native' more than him raping and killing people here." | Variable["pier.joyce_rhetoric_hammer_on_jungle_fever"] |
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| 163 | Rhetoric | She's picked a strange hill to die on. Strike! |
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| 164 | Joyce Messier | She's silent. |
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| 165 | Joyce Messier |
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| 166 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 167 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 168 | Kim Kitsuragi | "What is the purpose of this, detective?" |
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| 169 | You | "This is where you draw the line -- *going native*? Not at hiring a paramilitary death squad?" |
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| 170 | Joyce Messier | "Paramilitary death squad is a bit rich." She remains calm: "But yes -- were it up to me I would have at least *vetted* them more thoroughly." |
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| 171 | None |
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| 172 | You | "Never mind. Forget it." |
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| 173 | Rhetoric | Should have cornered her. Maybe it would have yielded something... |
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| 174 | You | "I have no idea what you're talking about." |
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| 175 | You | "Probably." |
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| 176 | You | "I'm gonna say no." |
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| 177 | Joyce Messier | "In my line of work it pays to do your research. I was prepared to deal with the RCM. I did *not* think I would be dealing with a group like *Krenel*." |
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| 178 | Joyce Messier |
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| 179 | Joyce Messier | Variable["pier.joyce_amnesia_known"] |
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| 180 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["pier.joyce_amnesia_known"]) == false |
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| 181 | Joyce Messier | "Ah yes, your condition. The International Collaboration Police maintains a database for these sorts of things. Perhaps you should consult it. It was just a suggestion." |
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| 182 | Joyce Messier | "Perhaps the arrangement no longer stands... excuse me, it's not my place to pry. If it does you should take advantage of it. Just a suggestion." |
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| 183 | None |
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| 184 | Joyce Messier | "Or he *didn't*." She tilts her head. "This is information passed on to me from some teenagers loitering around the canal. I cannot testify by it. " |
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| 185 | You | "Who did the passing on then?" |
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| 186 | You | "What did these teenagers by the canal say?" |
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| 187 | Joyce Messier | "That the man was killed because he assaulted a local woman. I've asked around a bit -- this seems to be the accepted story around Martinaise." |
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| 188 | You | "It's the first time I've heard of this. Where did this assault take place? And when?" |
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| 189 | Joyce Messier | "Last Sunday night, at the Whirling-in-Rags -- the hostel by the gates. Supposedly the colonel was drunk, maybe on narcotics too." |
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| 190 | None |
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| 191 | Joyce Messier | "If you mean did I see him alive -- yes. But I did not *know* him." |
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| 192 | Empathy | You don't know how you know -- it's not written on her face, nor in her voice -- but she had sympathy for this man. |
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| 193 | You | "You liked him." | Variable["pier.joyce_empathy_liked_lely"] |
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| 194 | You | "His name was..." |
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| 195 | Joyce Messier | "*Liked* is a bit strong," she tosses her head. "He... he was the most charismatic among them. He handled all the talking. His departure left a major gap in the group's *communication skills*." |
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| 196 | Joyce Messier | "Lely. His service name, a nom de guerre most likely. He wouldn't divulge his full name. Only one of them did -- a bad sign if there ever was one." |
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| 197 | You | "Tell me about the others first." |
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| 198 | You | "This Lely -- anything else? Nationality? How old would you say he was?" |
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| 199 | Joyce Messier | "One is a man, *Korty* they call him. A nickname as well. The other a woman, Phillis de Paule. Korty is... *the gunner,* I believe. De Paule is a radio operator." |
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| 200 | Joyce Messier |
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| 201 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 202 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 203 | Kim Kitsuragi | The lieutenant cuts in: "What would you say was his eye colour -- the deceased's?" |
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| 204 | Joyce Messier | She closes her eyes, trying to picture the man's face... then shakes her head... |
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| 205 | Joyce Messier | "I can't remember." There's a pang of regret to her voice. |
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| 206 | Kim Kitsuragi | "That's alright, ma'am. Anything else -- nationality? What would you say was his age?" |
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| 207 | Joyce Messier | "He was forty. Or fifty. It's hard to say which, he had a combat injury on his lower jaw. It made it difficult to estimate his age, or gauge his facial expressions." |
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| 208 | Joyce Messier |
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| 209 | Joyce Messier | Variable["yard.hanged_dental_reconstruction_known"] |
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| 210 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["yard.hanged_dental_reconstruction_known"]) == false |
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| 211 | Kim Kitsuragi | "Indeed. This matches the dental reconstruction we saw on the body," he says to you, then turns back to Joyce. "What else? Nationality? Accent?" |
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| 212 | Kim Kitsuragi | "What else? Nationality? Accent?" |
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| 213 | Logic | The lieutenant was testing her -- asking a small detail first to see if she knew him better than she let on. She passed. |
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| 214 | Joyce Messier | "He was Occidental I think. Light brown hair, a mix accent. Oranjese, or Messinian maybe? His injury gave him an accent all his own..." |
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| 215 | Joyce Messier | "In a way it was humanizing. He had to learn to speak *through* it -- through the injury." She nods. "That's all I know, I guess. I only met him once." |
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| 216 | None |
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| 217 | Joyce Messier |
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| 218 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 219 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 220 | You | "What else? Nationality? Accent?" |
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| 221 | Joyce Messier |
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| 222 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 223 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 224 | Joyce Messier |
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| 225 | Joyce Messier | Variable["yard.hanged_result_determined_ethnicity"] |
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| 226 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["yard.hanged_result_determined_ethnicity"]) == false |
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| 227 | Kim Kitsuragi | "And that seems to corroborate the ethnicity we gave." The lieutenant is pedantically happy about it. |
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| 228 | Kim Kitsuragi | The lieutenant jots something down in his notebook, muttering to himself: "Had him down as Mondial... should change it to Occidental." |
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| 229 | Conceptualization | Like a crossword puzzle solver. Or a master at the guessing game Peng. |
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| 230 | None |
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| 231 | Joyce Messier | "They've gone to ground, as it were. I don't recommend seeking them out." She puts her foot on the guardwire, for balance. "For one -- they're almost certainly armed to the teeth." |
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| 232 | Joyce Messier | "They don't have the same respect for the Revachol Citizens Militia as I do. To put it bluntly they think you're vigilantes, *ghetto savages*. It will not be a fruitful meeting." |
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| 233 | Authority | Vigilantes? You're a professional officer of the only *legitimate* authority in Revachol. |
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| 234 | None |
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| 235 | You | "I still need to know where they are." |
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| 236 | You | "Okay, I'll steer clear for the moment." |
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| 237 | You | "I'll confront them directly." |
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| 238 | Half Light | You should show those meatheads exactly how *savage* you really are. |
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| 239 | You | "They just need someone to put the *Fear of Revachol* into their hearts." | IsTHCPresent("revacholian_nationhood") |
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| 240 | You | "Vigilantes? The RCM gets its authority from the Coalition. Where does theirs come from?" | Variable["tc.rcm_origins"] and Variable["pier.joyce_auth_respect_rcm"] |
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| 241 | Joyce Messier | "You're likely to run into them eventually. When that happens, I'll be in a better position to mediate if I don't appear *involved*." |
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| 242 | Joyce Messier | "That's wise," she nods. "Our goal is to *avert* catastrophe. Besides," she sighs, "You're likely to encounter them sooner or later." |
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| 243 | Joyce Messier | "That is a *bad* idea, one I won't be a party to." She shakes her head emphatically. |
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| 244 | Joyce Messier | "Somehow I doubt that lecturing them on the legitimate use of force will persuade them to stand down." |
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| 245 | None |
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| 246 | Joyce Messier | She reaches for the photo; takes it, then holds it in her hand... |
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| 247 | Perception (Sight) | She wears fingerless gloves, her fingernails are cut short and fractured. Like those of a working woman. |
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| 248 | Joyce Messier |
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| 249 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 250 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 251 | Kim Kitsuragi | "It was taken with a Trigat, not long ago. This is the man's upper body. There were no more markings on his hands or legs." |
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| 252 | You | Stay quiet. Observe the woman's expression. |
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| 253 | You | "What do you think?" |
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| 254 | Joyce Messier | Her mouth is relaxed, the accordion lines near her mouth vanish. The pearls of her eyes move slowly on the photo's surface. |
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| 255 | Empathy | She has no excess of emotions for this cadaver. Has she seen dead bodies before? It's likely. |
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| 256 | Joyce Messier | "Sorry," she breaks her concentration. "I was trying to see if I can read the web of interdependencies between these points -- the stars." She points to one on the photo paper. |
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| 257 | Joyce Messier | "I can't. But that's how you read this story. The points themselves don't have letters, numbers, anything. Their size, location on the body and distance from each other tells you what they represent." |
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| 258 | Joyce Messier | "Close," she nods. "Port cities. This is an Oranjese Map of the Waterways -- a sailor's tattoo worn by wayfarers of the Dolorian century, over 300 years ago. The sailors would mark their bodies to map their travels." |
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| 259 | You | "What travels did the dead man make? |
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| 260 | Joyce Messier | "Quite a few. Vredefort -- the Oranjese capital -- traditionally stands on the right shoulder." She points to it on the photo. "He started somewhere near here, I think." |
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| 261 | Joyce Messier | "Revachol," she says. "Those are the two constants: Vredefort on the shoulder and Revachol in the heart. They started the tradition of these maps right after the discovery of Insulinde, at the dawn of the Interisolary Age." |
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| 262 | Joyce Messier |
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| 263 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 264 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 265 | Kim Kitsuragi | "You said you can't read it." |
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| 266 | Joyce Messier | "Until the executions start? Truthfully -- I don't know. It depends on their progress identifying the members of the lynch mob. And their impatience." |
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| 267 | Joyce Messier |
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| 268 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 269 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 270 | Kim Kitsuragi | "They don't report their progress to you?" |
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| 271 | Joyce Messier | "Not on this matter. I'm afraid they consider this a personal initiative." There is a brief silence. Seagulls squawk over the bay... |
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| 272 | You | "What? You mean you don't know what's going on?" |
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| 273 | None |
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| 274 | You | "Places? Like stars in the sky?" | Variable["yard.hanged_tats_night_sky"] == true |
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| 275 | You | "Places? Like vias on a microcircuit?" | Variable["yard.hanged_tats_micro_electronic"] |
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| 276 | You | "Places? Like blooms in a pattern?" | Variable["yard.hanged_tats_national_pattern"] |
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| 277 | You | Say nothing. |
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| 278 | Joyce Messier | "Port cities. On the oceans. This is an Oranjese Map of the Waterways -- a sailor's tattoo worn by wayfarers of the Dolorian century -- as early as 300 years ago. The sailors would mark their bodies to map their travels." |
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| 279 | Esprit de Corps | Somewhere in an office lit by a single green desk lamp captain Ptolemaios Pryce -- 58, bald and bespectacled -- is writing in a ledger on his desk. Rows and rows of days and weeks, laconic remarks in a single column: *patrol*, *case*, *vacation*, *injured*... |
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| 280 | Encyclopedia | Vredefort? Vredefort has a military academy. The Semenese islands saw a recent conflict. In Revachol he was executed. |
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| 281 | Joyce Messier | "I can't. This man was no sailor -- and these are no ports. I can understand geographic fragments, but not their meaning." |
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| 282 | None |
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| 283 | You | "What is the use of this map?" |
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| 284 | You | "Who could tell me more?" | Variable["TASK.talk_merc_tattoo"] == false and Variable["TASK.talk_merc_tattoo_cancelled"] == false and Variable["TASK.talk_merc_tattoo_done"] == false |
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| 285 | You | "That's all for the tattoos. Thank you for your help." |
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| 286 | Joyce Messier | "The sailor's soul would use it to fly back home if they should die abroad. This is a sort of... contraption. To be reeled back in by. The *silver cord*, they would call it." |
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| 287 | You | "This one is going nowhere but the morgue." |
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| 288 | You | "I've spoken to him. For now the soul is fastened inside his corpse." | Variable["yard.hanged_spoke_to_the_corpse"] == true |
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| 289 | You | "This one has flown quite far by now." |
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| 290 | You | Nowhere. There is no soul. |
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| 291 | Joyce Messier | "The times have changed." |
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| 292 | Joyce Messier | She remains unfazed. "That is precisely what the sailors feared when they drew these maps. A fear of drowning -- within one's own corpse." |
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| 293 | Joyce Messier | "I would say he's near the Arcade Islands by now, ready to exit the Insulindian and enter the pale. If I've read his home address correctly." She smiles. |
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| 294 | Conceptualization | The Old Old World passing by and the New New World already here. |
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| 295 | You | "You said you can't read it -- seems like you can." |
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| 296 | None |
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| 297 | None |
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| 298 | Inland Empire | Where is he now? |
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| 299 | Joyce Messier |
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| 300 | Joyce Messier | Variable["pier.joyce_inland_soultravel"] |
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| 301 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["pier.joyce_inland_soultravel"]) == false |
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| 302 | Inland Empire | An empire without an emperor. |
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| 303 | Joyce Messier | ...for about half a minute -- in silence. |
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| 304 | Joyce Messier | "It's a matter of days, not weeks." |
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| 305 | None |
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| 306 | Joyce Messier | "Whatever I can help you with. We need to contain the situation." |
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| 307 | None |
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| 308 | Joyce Messier |
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| 309 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 310 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 311 | Joyce Messier | "Then he made his way to the Preto Grande, through what I think must be Staadskanaal -- an artificial channel through the Occident. From the Preto he sailed to the Insulindic ocean. First the Semenese islands, then this..." She points to his heart. |
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| 312 | Kim Kitsuragi | "What next?" |
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| 313 | You | "Then what?" |
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| 314 | You | "What is that?" |
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| 315 | Joyce Messier |
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| 316 | Joyce Messier | Variable["pier.joyce_esprit_service_history"] |
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| 317 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["pier.joyce_esprit_service_history"]) == false |
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| 318 | Esprit de Corps | *IN MARTINAISE, LOOKING INTO KRENEL*, he writes in one. Then the man puts down his pen and rubs his temples with both hands. Outside there is a siren, distant gunshots on the streets of the Jamrock Quarter. |
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| 319 | None |
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| 320 | You | "This man is no brother of mine, but this is his service history." | Variable["pier.joyce_esprit_service_history"] |
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| 321 | You | "Maybe it's a record of his military career?" | Variable["pier.joyce_cyclo_service_record"] |
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| 322 | You | Leave it be. |
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| 323 | Joyce Messier |
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| 324 | Joyce Messier | Variable["pier.joyce_esprit_service_history"] or Variable["pier.joyce_cyclo_service_record"] |
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| 325 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["pier.joyce_esprit_service_history"] or Variable["pier.joyce_cyclo_service_record"]) == false |
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| 326 | Joyce Messier | "Is that all?" She puts down the photo. |
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| 327 | Joyce Messier | "That makes sense to me. We have no more use for a Map of the Waterways. Just like we don't need sailors the way we used to. This is what the custom would morph into on the Occident -- mercenary tattoos." |
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| 328 | Conceptualization | For all the boys looking for adventure -- a blood spatter on the seas. |
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| 329 | None |
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| 330 | Joyce Messier | "His platoon members? The other contractors -- though I do *not* suggest you go and show them that picture. This man was their friend and comrade." |
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| 331 | None |
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| 332 | You | "I need the information." (Mark it down: ask mercs about tattoos.) |
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| 333 | You | "You're right. Not a good idea." (Leave it off the schedule.) |
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| 334 | None |
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| 335 | Empathy | It could go this or the other way. Maybe if you're tactful, it could be beneficial? |
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| 336 | Joyce Messier | "Do what you have to do, detective. I don't think deciphering that tattoo should come before public security. But if you should wade into the mob to find out -- I couldn't stop you." |
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| 337 | Joyce Messier | "I am relieved you think so. I don't think deciphering that tattoo should come before public security." |
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| 338 | Joyce Messier |
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| 339 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 340 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 341 | Kim Kitsuragi | "We will be careful, ma'am." |
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| 342 | Joyce Messier | She hands you back the photo. "Is there anything else I can help you with?" |
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| 343 | None |
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| 344 | You | "My bad, I thought you said *mud* bath..." |
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| 345 | You | "You're right..." |
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| 346 | Encyclopedia | The International Collaboration Police (ICP) is charged with coordinating law enforcement activities in complex, multi-national investigations. Their database is the single largest source of information in the world. |
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| 347 | You | "It's not the first I've heard of this. Where did this assault take place? And when?" |
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| 348 | Joyce Messier |
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| 349 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 350 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 351 | Kim Kitsuragi | The lieutenant consults his notebook, his eyebrows knitted in concentration... |
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| 352 | Kim Kitsuragi | "Odd... we haven't heard any reports about an *assault* in connection with the lynching. Where did it take place? And when?" |
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| 353 | Joyce Messier |
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| 354 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 355 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 356 | Kim Kitsuragi | "Did you miss the part about *ceramic armour* and *automatic weapons*, detective?" |
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| 357 | You | "That's less than reassuring." |
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| 358 | Joyce Messier | "I'm not trying to reassure you, officer. Quite the opposite, in fact." There is a brief silence. Seagulls squawk over the bay... |
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| 359 | Joyce Messier |
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| 360 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 361 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 362 | Joyce Messier |
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| 363 | None |
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| 364 | Joyce Messier |
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| 365 | Joyce Messier | Variable["yard.hanged_result_determined_ethnicity"] |
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| 366 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["yard.hanged_result_determined_ethnicity"]) == false |
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| 367 | Joyce Messier | "*Krenel* -- an Oranjese military company. As far as I know three arrived in Martinaise. They report to me sporadically, but they do not answer to me. To be frank, our relationship is deteriorating." |
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| 368 | None |
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| 369 | Joyce Messier | "Good. Then you've made progress. It's imperative that you move fast. The *tribunal* will not be patient." |
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| 370 | Joyce Messier |
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| 371 | Joyce Messier | Variable["tc.icp"] |
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| 372 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["tc.icp"]) == false |
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| 373 | None |
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| 374 | You | Where *are* these mercenaries? |
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| 375 | Joyce Messier |
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| 376 | Joyce Messier | Variable["pier.joyce_logic_rc_mercs"] |
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| 377 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["pier.joyce_logic_rc_mercs"]) == false |
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| 378 | None |
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| 379 | Logic | One is obviously the *Scab Leader* -- at the harbour gates. The one chanting the idiotic slogans. He's barely maintaining his disguise. |
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| 380 | Joyce Messier |
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| 381 | Joyce Messier | Variable["pier.joyce_surveillance_tip"] |
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| 382 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["pier.joyce_surveillance_tip"]) == false |
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| 383 | Logic | The other has a vantage point in a building South of the roundabout -- they were keeping tabs on you while you were canvassing the lorry drivers. |
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| 384 | Logic | No idea. Maybe she's right -- it's a better idea not to confront them? Also, there's something wrong with your brain. This was so easy, how could you fail it? |
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| 385 | Joyce Messier |
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| 386 | Joyce Messier | Variable["gates.scableader_greeting_done"] |
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| 387 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["gates.scableader_greeting_done"]) == false |
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| 388 | Logic | One must be at the harbour gates, causing trouble. Directing strikebreakers perhaps? You can hear the sounds of the ruckus coming from there all the time. |
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| 389 | Joyce Messier |
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| 390 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 391 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 392 | Logic | This is so embarrassing. You have no idea. There's something *wrong* with your brain. Luckily the lieutenant still has his. |
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| 393 | Kim Kitsuragi | "And the other must be in one of the four-story buildings overlooking the roundabout. He or she was reporting back to you while we were canvassing the lorry drivers." |
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| 394 | Joyce Messier | "That *would* afford a good vantage point." She nods, poised and unperturbed. "*Still* -- I hope you heed my advice. There's no need to kick the hornet's nest." |
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| 395 | Kim Kitsuragi | "Ma'am, with all due respect -- I've been around Martinaise and there's a giant hulk of a man in ill-fitting clothes at the harbour gates. Mr. 'Right to Work.' His heart *really* isn't in it." |
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| 396 | None |
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| 397 | None |
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| 398 | Kim Kitsuragi | "For all your talk of averting this catastrophe, the situation at the gates is a powder keg. Does this not bother you?" |
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| 399 | You | "One must be the goon in ill-fitting work clothes by the harbour gates. The scab leader." |
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| 400 | You | "One is probably in a building overlooking the roundabout." | Variable["pier.joyce_viscal_locationdepaule"] |
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| 401 | Joyce Messier |
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| 402 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 403 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 404 | You | "I had another question for you." |
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| 405 | Kim Kitsuragi | "Your concern may be appearances. Ours is keeping the peace." |
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| 406 | Joyce Messier | "That may be so." She is poised and unperturbed. "I still hope you heed my advice -- there's no need to kick the hornet's nest." |
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| 407 | Joyce Messier | "I hope I can answer it better." |
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| 408 | None |
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| 409 | Joyce Messier | "That *would* afford a good vantage point," she says. "In any case, it's practically inaccessible." |
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| 410 | Joyce Messier |
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| 411 | Joyce Messier | IsKimHere() |
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| 412 | Joyce Messier | (IsKimHere()) == false |
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| 413 | Joyce Messier | "Heavens no, I'm not an undercover agent. There's a shortwave at the ship's wheel," she nods toward the sloop's cabin. |
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| 414 | Kim Kitsuragi | "Where is your radio, for contacting them -- if I may ask? Do you have an ear piece?" |
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| 415 | Joyce Messier | "Of course it bothers me, lieutenant, but my hands are tied. How would my employer react if it appeared I were intervening on behalf of the *Union*?" |
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| 416 | None |
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| 417 | Joyce Messier |
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| 418 | Joyce Messier | Variable["pier.klaasje_asked_about_tattoos"] |
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| 419 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["pier.klaasje_asked_about_tattoos"]) == false |
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| 420 | Encyclopedia | Surely there are other people to ask about the tattoo. This is not necessary to complete the task, officer -- it's a dangerous side-task. Search elsewhere. |
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| 421 | Physical Instrument | Challenge accepted! I say we do it. |
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| 422 | You | "Could you contact the company? Tell them to call them off." |
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| 423 | Joyce Messier | "I have. And they *will*. However, these orders take time to reach what is basically a rogue unit out in the field, here. Until they do -- it's all on us." |
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| 424 | Drama | She's being truthful. She is pressing them as hard as she can. |
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| 425 | Joyce Messier | "The remaining contractors. Their *tribunal*. It's what they believe." |
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| 426 | Joyce Messier |
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| 427 | Joyce Messier | Variable["TASK.interrogate_klaasje"] or Variable["TASK.interrogate_klaasje_done"] |
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| 428 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["TASK.interrogate_klaasje"] or Variable["TASK.interrogate_klaasje_done"]) == false |
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| 429 | Kim Kitsuragi | "This does not come as news to us, but still..." He exchanges a glance with you. "To *your* knowledge, where did this assault take place? If you know." |
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| 430 | None |
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| 431 | Joyce Messier |
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| 432 | Joyce Messier | Variable["TASK.interrogate_klaasje"] or Variable["TASK.interrogate_klaasje_done"] |
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| 433 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["TASK.interrogate_klaasje"] or Variable["TASK.interrogate_klaasje_done"]) == false |
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| 434 | Joyce Messier |
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| 435 | Joyce Messier | Variable["TASK.interrogate_klaasje"] == true |
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| 436 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["TASK.interrogate_klaasje"] == true) == false |
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| 437 | Joyce Messier | "Either way, he's alleged to have sexually assaulted a woman. Sometime later a group of dockworkers got their hands on him..." |
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| 438 | You | "And who was this woman?" |
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| 439 | Joyce Messier | "That's a good question, officer. I don't have the slightest idea. As I said, it's a rumour -- about a rumour. In any case, it's what the colonel's remaining... colleagues... believe." |
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| 440 | Inland Empire | You'll meet her soon enough, you feel. |
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| 441 | You | "I know the woman you're talking about. We have it under control." | Variable["TASK.interrogate_klaasje"] == true |
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| 442 | Joyce Messier |
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| 443 | Joyce Messier | Variable["pier.klaasje_asked_about_tattoos"] |
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| 444 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["pier.klaasje_asked_about_tattoos"]) == false |
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| 445 | Joyce Messier | "I can't. This man was no sailor -- and these are no ports. I can understand geographic fragments, but not their meaning." |
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| 446 | Joyce Messier | "Then we're on the same page -- as grim as it may be." |
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| 447 | You | "Boy oh boy, is that not good..." |
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| 448 | Joyce Messier | "It's not good, no," a wave crashes against the side of her boat. "My only hope is that you provide a single, concrete suspect before the mercenaries indiscriminately pick theirs. Simply put..." She grabs hold of the mainsail: |
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| 449 | Joyce Messier | "Not a terribly good actor that one. Still..." |
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| 450 | Inland Empire | Five days. Not more. Maybe sooner. |
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| 451 | You | "Okay, I'll steer clear for the moment." |
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| 452 | None |
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| 453 | Joyce Messier |
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| 454 | Joyce Messier | Variable["tc.scab_leader_is_a_merc"] |
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| 455 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["tc.scab_leader_is_a_merc"]) == false |
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| 456 | None |
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| 457 | Logic | You wouldn't even know where to start. |
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| 458 | Joyce Messier |
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| 459 | Joyce Messier | Variable["whirling.klaasje_kim_changed_victims_ethnicity"] or Variable["XP.determine_victims_ethnicity"] |
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| 460 | Joyce Messier | (Variable["whirling.klaasje_kim_changed_victims_ethnicity"] or Variable["XP.determine_victims_ethnicity"]) == false |
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| 461 | Kim Kitsuragi | "Occidental... that fits the statement of another witness," the lieutenant says, pleased. |
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| 462 | Joyce Messier |
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| 463 | Joyce Messier | CheckItem("gun_villiers") |
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| 464 | Joyce Messier | (CheckItem("gun_villiers")) == false |
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| 465 | Hand/Eye Coordination | The muzzle-loaders need to be reloaded after every one, two -- or in your case three -- shots, the automatics every one or two *minutes*. |
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| 466 | Joyce Messier | She sips from her thermos. |
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| 467 | Joyce Messier | She sips from her thermos. She does not look away from you. |
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| 468 | Half Light | It'll be all of them. The decision is already made. |
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| 469 | Inland Empire | Down a deep, black well. |
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| 470 | Rhetoric | Feels like there's a good response here, but you're not coming up with one. Carry on. |
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| 471 | Pain Threshold | Must be hard to force your face to move in a new fashion. If you continue like this, you'll have an aneurysm. Then you'll have to, too. |
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| 472 | None |
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| 473 | Savoir Faire | Nothing is inaccessible. |
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| 474 | Rhetoric | The situation at the gates is a powder keg. She says she wants to avert catastrophe but that's where she draws the line? I call bullshit. |
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