A.Journal

Checks

990 checks

Easy

Which the Operant Bureau will definitely not approve as a professional expense.

Trivial

Do not forget, this headphone man shot you.

Trivial

Do not forget, this headphone man took a shot at you.

Medium

Patrolling cadres of Milites Sacrarii, clad in tallow-white surplices, never noticed you there. An early lesson in craft.

Challenging

Luck is the most important tool you have.

Challenging

A song that would have blown Sweet Nestor to pieces had he not changed his plans.

Medium

There are other terrible fates for your kind. You know of a few.

Trivial

Face it, operant -- sincerity and authenticity are not for you. Better to apply your talents for forgery and imitation.

Easy

No need to overthink this. This task doesn't require actual poetic talent, only the skilful mimicry that is your stock-and-trade.

Easy

The missing companion to the one-time key you recovered from the trousers.

Trivial

You've carried papers like this, folded up and hidden away in secret pockets and compartments.

Easy

FOR CASCADE ALL WILL BE FORGIVEN

Easy

If things don't go according to the plan.

Medium

This is a very good plan, operant. Very well thought out. There is only one minor concern...

Legendary

As the ideas of 'cultural manoeuvre' and 'letting teenagers inflict their music onto everyone' pass through your head, it suddenly seems obvious:

Easy

Better to be prepared. If you have only one choice -- you have zero choice.

Challenging

Beyond the auditorium doors, you hear whispers from the waiting crowd.

Easy

You never did clear up if she was a spy or not. Is this wise?

Easy

Too many questions.

Trivial

Medium

Hiding in plain sight; the perfect patron.

Challenging

What was never there can never leave.

Trivial

So the old fiend wasn't bluffing.

Trivial

The old fiend didn't deign to mention that.

Easy

Easy

A word that in context almost certainly means its opposite.

Easy

IDENTITY: Unknown. INTENT: Unknown. AFFILIATION: Unknown. THREAT LEVEL: Unknown.

Trivial

So the old man wasn't bluffing.

Trivial

The old fiend didn't deign to mention that.

Medium

You don't snitch -- not even on a snitch. She's taking a risk here.

Trivial

Extremely unprofessional.

Easy

You need to know. One of your assets being dead has a million implications.

Easy

As good excuse as any, and one handed to you on a plate.

Formidable

Medium

Unable to disappear into her own coat, she attempted to recede into the painted backdrop.

Easy

This is the correct level of emotional response for someone in your position.

Challenging

Not only is this woman not in your class -- she's not even in your field.

Easy

Another null entity?

Medium

The line between incredible operant and social cripple is a thin one.

Easy

He may be onto her, but she's onto him, too.

Challenging

PSEUDOPOD may be a drooling carapace, but there are two operants deep within it. Something has drawn him to this man.

Challenging

Operant PSEUDOPOD seems to have forgotten about the assignment.

Medium

Coat large enough to conceal weapons, Luzian accent, strategic position at the bottom of the steps... Lich goon.

Trivial

If you had the right recording of 'Superbloc, Baby', you'd be able to detonate this bomb...

Trivial

The visions were the bomb calling out to you, desperate to be found... and used. But you'll need to find the right song.

Trivial

You'll be able to use the bomb yourself if you find out exactly what that song is.

Easy

For all you know he could be working for them. Try to think before you give yourself away to everyone.

Easy

She's in spy school now, class in session. Pump the shit out this infant.

Easy

The assignment does not care for 'shrimping'.

Easy

A secret jail would need a secret door...