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Your double's. They appear to have been here for some time.

Why would EMTERR care about a couple of impressionable old men?

The ones on your face.

For all neurological intents and purposes, he is deep in REM sleep, in the throes of an permanent nightmare.

He must close shop at some point. That'll be your chance to sneak in and do the job properly.

Two numbers -- quick to hand and scrawled in rage -- for people called frequently from in the depths of distress.

You have just enough time, before it hits, to realise this is what going into cardiac arrest feels like.

Doesn't look like anyone's been selling kibble here for years...

He seems like a reasonable enough man. You can probably talk sense with him -- at least moreso than you can with Dr. Gonza.

The labelling and sorting is as meticulous as it is uniformly disdainful.

Behold, the crown jewel of the technofascist Mass Culture programme.

The band logo is an illegible scrawl allegedly composed of letters in a human script.

Alpha males of his species are visually distinguishable by their large cheeks. He thinks you fuck.

Where else would it get this stuff?

Legwear? A mask?

You're talking to a monkey. You're going to have to ask specific questions if you want helpful answers.

What could possibly happen?

Alpha males of his species are visually distinguishable by their large cheeks. He thinks you fuck.

The GM was right, there really is a monkey in here -- and it's stood on a pile of stolen junk. It must be the dock thief.

Don't think yet. Just solve.

It also doesn't make sense... Karolina was the one who was uncovered in the EMTERR-backed dream study...

Oh look. A fresh rung on the 'abject mental illness' ladder. Down we go.

Suddenly you realize the eight displacements you have found are all of them: an eight letter keyword that encodes the cipher in cycles: E S C H A T O N.

Strip away the romanticism. Codebreaking is about rigour. Nothing else.

Take 'H' as an example. In a text with 291 characters, that's about 7%, which is more than double the number you would expect to get if it were entirely random -- 1/26th, or roughly 3%.

Three in 145 character-pairs is 2%, which corresponds to the frequency for the most common bigrams in the regular alphabet -- TH, HE, and IN.

The median of the chains is thirteen.

A piece of paper and a notebook is all you need to go insane.

An old lesson, hard-learned: in the developed world, money is always the way forward.

Money has been sunk into this. And time. A certain kind of obsession.

You're lucky no one knows about it as, technically, it counts as sexual misconduct at the workplace.

Obviously a stage name. She could still be in here somewhere, unknown to you.

The luggage rack on the lower floor is your safest bet to stow it. The floors are very thin.

Think it through. The prisoner will still be in his jail. Which must make him a body double of some kind...

Likely an acronym, not a person.

This 'MIHO' entity is waiting for you at the dark end of the silo.

No doubt, it was Hauzmann who organised your release from the jail.

That stranger with his heart in a box must have organised your release from the jail.

He bristles a touch at being lumped in with a school of notorious glue addicts.

You have a strong suspicion you know who.

For his work, he means.

You gain nothing by making this poor man repeat the words he's most regretted saying in his life.

They showed him evidence. Irrefutable, damning, and absolutely covered with Karolina's fingerprints.

A great fall, for someone of his professional stature.

His patients are overwhelmingly canine in nature these days.

Distemper is not a human disease.

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