A.Journal

Checks

Easy

Natural enemies.

Easy

A platonic loathing, based purely on musical taste. If placed in a jar together they would kill each other out of spite.

Medium

From this distance, Portofiro is just a cluster of dim lights in early daylight. Mist clings to it.

Medium

So not technically zero. Cool.

Legendary

The problem has been weighed carefully from the perspective of one who knows themselves disposable.

Formidable

A lighting strike that finds you when it had the whole earth to choose from.

Challenging

You'd remember a name that stupid.

Medium

The rapture. Biggest cortisol hit the body can deliver and take, a knife bisecting the brain in the wrong direction, then -- silence.

Formidable

No silence. Only the Eternal Tone, the tinnitus ringing that will play on until the end of life.

Challenging

For better or for worse, he's pegged us and Deaf Romero as spiritual gäng of some sort.

Challenging

You have merely been living 'Hearing Impaired Romero'. Time to crank the volume.

Legendary

The boat thing.

Formidable

The sickly-green horizon of the Noscorrentes Sea encircles the lonely radio vessel 360 degrees.

Legendary

Self-annihilation gäng. We must respect it.

Challenging

Tanka Hônen survived his assassination of East Kodian opposition leader Reido Saiji, whom he shot twice with a homemade firearm at a train station opening ceremony.

Challenging

Archive yields zero results, bar a few unsolved mysteries where the perpetrator was never uncovered.

Medium

A flicker of hope.

Legendary

Strange things tend to happen around world-shifting events such as these. Synchronicities. Reverberance. Repetitions.

Challenging

No judgement, just a fact -- you have never lived through the bloody 'loose ends' phase of a spy network collapse.

Legendary

Another little reminder. The subtlest of knife-twists.

Legendary

Zero Out Lich is the primary objective. Survival and extraction of lead Operant, secondary. Survival of local assets, tertiary.

Legendary

RADIAN's willingness to die mid-assignment has been repeatedly confirmed, and highlighted in theatre reports as 'likely ideational'.

Legendary

Self-annihilation gäng. We must respect it.

Challenging

He's never going to let you forget that you alone came out unscathed the last time.

Formidable

It's your inner steel he is seeing. Disregard any criticism.

Formidable

A hot fragrance of mango and mountain grass blooms through your air canals.

Formidable

This is a known fact about you?

Legendary

In certain cultures, a final sacrament offered to terminal patients and prisoners about to be executed.

Medium

Fully recognisable. No pretence of cover. Your credibility as lead plummets in real time.

Medium

'Fear', 'lack', and even 'discomfort' are concepts utterly foreign to this animal.

Trivial

Show prey you are predator.

Challenging

His standard of appearance suggests 'gambler on an eternal losing streak'.

Challenging

Evidence of this 'training' is yet to manifest.

Challenging

And what was it that killed the cat...?

Medium

He's really broken the intellectual 'bank' with that one.

Medium

EVERYTHING HAS TO DO WITH POST-HISTORICAL MATERIALISM. EVEN THE WHISKERED SHIRKER.

Legendary

To the extent that our lives matter even one iota, it is only under the gaze of this cat. The moment it closes its eyes, we may as well cease to be.

Formidable

The soft, airy fur seems to defy gravity.

Legendary

Medium

There's something you should be doing, but you're not.

Medium

It finds you wanting, but how?

Legendary

This cat is the apötheosis of cats, the teleological endpoint of a hundred millennia of cat-development. We cannot simply 'pet' it.

Medium

As though to suggest: There's a lot more where that came from.

Medium

Easy

The wall of glass behind him is quite something.

Medium

POST-HISTORICAL MATERIALISM NEEDS NO PHOTOS OF IT -- EVERYONE CAN SEE FOR THEMSELVES HOW GREAT IT IS.

Trivial

SUB-LEAD? UTTERLY UNACCEPTABLE.

Medium

Easy

How about a self-portrait, or a still shot of a beautiful landscape?

Challenging

Don't point it at yourself.