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Impossible

Was it with the Weeping Eye all along?

Easy

She's covered her tracks well.

Easy

Perhaps a more subtle revenge can be arranged?

Trivial

Not to mention this makes Duchess highly suspect. You may have been consorting with an operant the whole time.

Easy

Don't trust it. Feels like bait.

Trivial

This makes Duchess highly suspect. You may have been consorting with the enemy this whole time.

Heroic

Crack the code.

Trivial

Enough preamble. You're here for one thing only.

Trivial

Trivial

Challenging

Why are you standing around for? Kill this ancient fool. That's what the script demands.

Challenging

Your conspicuous lack of gun is seriously compromising the scene here.

Medium

Or maybe somebody's just been left in the dark.

Easy

You're through -- now keep your seams together. Play the poet persona to the hilt.

Medium

Seems you need a good reason to be here. Fortunately, you are trained in reverse reasoning.

Medium

Your double. Together you assembled the crew from the ground up, but he never crossed professional boundaries the way you did.

Medium

And yet so many do -- the eternal and the doomed.

Easy

But he isn't just a cop. He's a carabinero -- one of the investigative branch's best.

Trivial

And per the standards of stagecraft, should never have occurred in the first instance.

Formidable

Right. The young watcher.

Formidable

Something you missed.

Medium

The Illuminated Empire awakens.

Easy

An outrageous call after what you pulled off. Time to abuse the refs.

Trivial

Come on... Don't tell them... Lie...

Medium

The ur-controllers. Vast, omniscient, orchestrating the entire human drama.

Medium

Oh god, it's another stairs-related task coming on.

Medium

He's in unfamiliar seas here. It's your lights he'll navigate by.

Easy

Yes, what this was all about -- the Grand Lich's time of arrival.

Challenging

One of the shadow-world's ancient deities preparing to slip back into the black sea beneath a starless night.

Easy

Poor, dead Dante's words confirmed. The Lich will come.

Easy

Confirming Dante's words -- a small consolation for your unexpected fumble.

Easy

Confirming what Dante told you. No doubt left, then. The Lich will come.

Formidable

Of course, the Operant Bureau's psychomancers share the same interest. They just call it 'Conditioning'.

Challenging

In your mind's eye riffles a deck of faces, regular people, people with modest apartments and pensions, every single one of them disposable.

Medium

The Bank's propaganda mob.

Challenging

Bottom-feeders of the secret world. Making a small-time trade of stale information.

Medium

A flawless timepiece of coordination and execution. Take notes.

Easy

Time. Place. Weapon. Squad. One-fourth of your plot in hand.

Medium

Information has a half-life. At all times, windows close. Seize what is there.

Easy

There are old reports of a botched naval blockade in 69. Eastern Republics -- a friendly fire incident. Tenuous, but failure has a cost.

Easy

You're not really about to spill your guts to a null entity, are you?

Easy

A brief reminder that you don't know anything about this man.

Easy

You know your role, operant. Play it.

Easy

Disturbingly topical.

Easy

A fevered mind, desperate to order the world around it.

Easy

Tempo was laying low from the Weeping Eye, not EMTERR. It would be very bad news if both the Operant Bureau's ancient enemies were mixed up in this.

Easy

Everything you know has directed you to the Bazaar thus far. Doesn't exactly scream The Bank.

Trivial

The Weeping Eye -- La Luz's secret police. The dark subconscious of the state.

Medium

The Luzian high caste known to be a box of scorpions. Internal elimination virtually assured.

Medium

A message to the world's intelligence agencies.