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Medium

Medical-grade silicone, thermo-set, sealed with micro-serration. Zero adhesive bleed, glue creep, or warping. This is top-tier artisanal work.

Easy

Be fleet of foot, operant. Your enemies are on to you.

Easy

Lot of footfall for a two-person 'magazine office'.

Easy

Lot of footfall for a nondescript building tucked in the corner of a city.

Medium

There were reports of a ghost-site labour colony on Ile-de-Söze that the Opera took seriously.

Easy

Operant CYLINDER (Status: LOST) was convinced EMTERR were behind it -- though he could not ultimately prove it.

Easy

THE SEAL IS BROKEN. YOU HAVE STEPPED WITHIN THE PHANTOM KINGDOM.

Trivial

Enemies. Bloodscent. Flee.

Medium

Ominous name. Distance. Lost.

Trivial

EMTERR, a.k.a. L'Empire sans Territoire, a.k.a. 'The Bank'. Equal parts global development fund and spy service. Linchpin of the Developed World.

Medium

THE BLOODY HAND OF TRANSNATIONAL CAPITAL.

Easy

A sudden talisman. The last thing he gave up.

Medium

You have found someone who isn't really here.

Easy

Resigned to what was then coming, now come.

Medium

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

Easy

The past descends with talons.

Trivial

Your old asset, ESTOC. Still draped in the same cover you left her in. With one new styling...

Medium

THE SEAL IS BROKEN. YOU HAVE STEPPED WITHIN THE PHANTOM KINGDOM.

Medium

Enemies. Bloodscent. Flee.

Trivial

EMTERR, a.k.a. L'Empire sans Territoire, a.k.a. 'The Bank'. Equal parts global development fund and spy service. Linchpin of the Developed World.

Medium

But at what cost? To become the high arbiter of Human Capital, you no doubt have to trade in some of your own.

Medium

Unbearable dissonance reflected back on itself. Synced in and phased out.

Easy

Cold, old, megaton bitch. Never really proper gäng to begin with. Work experience gäng.

Easy

A telephone from five years ago startles in its cradle, waking you from the thin end of a dream.

Medium

Names over numbers. Old school community.

Trivial

Relatively deafening.

Easy

Wasting valuable time. But there may be something in here...

Easy

Happy to disappear into the life of another.

Medium

Clear skies tonight. Ideal conditions for sharing a cigarette on a sidewalk corner, companions permitting. Temperature 13 degrees and steady.

Easy

The instructions were very clear: 'Party Alley, West Side.' It's for you.

Medium

They should have been spread out to cover off potential threats.

Easy

Place it on the luggage rack on the lower floor. Point up. Cross fingers.

Trivial

Don't forget the trigger. The song.

Challenging

ALL THAT I HEAR LATELY, IS MY SUPERBLOC BABY.

Easy

Luggage rack on the floor below for the bomb. You need a good angle and a prayer.

Easy

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

Formidable

Some form of explosive device may have been useful.

Medium

Ignatz was right. The idiot was hiding gold in that hideous coat all along.

Challenging

Unbelievable. Enlisting this child was a serious miscalculation.

Medium

You've never seen the man before either, but the horripilation up your neck tells you exactly who he is.

Medium

Uh oh. An unknown quantity. You don't care for those.

Challenging

You do not want this to end in a close quarters gunfight. If you can help it.

Formidable

Every grand finale needs an epic cue.

Trivial

It wouldn't take much to break into it and set your own music. At best a distraction... at worst a war cry.

Challenging

A little quiver here and there -- nervous system at full charge -- but she's stable.

Formidable

Tempo never really got nervous either -- a sociopathic streak which often served him very well, but occasionally very poorly.

Challenging

Somewhere below the tram's thin floor lies her abandoned life, scattered like aircraft wreckage.

Formidable

No -- but don't let her see.

Medium

Tempo grins with her.

Challenging

'INDIVIDUALISM' IS BOURGEOIS FOR 'INSUBORDINATION'. TODAY THE UNIFORM... TOMORROW THE ORDERS.