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Medium

You can hear her silence: 'Don't Trust You With The Big Stuff Yet Fuck Off'.

Challenging

Real now -- once and for all.

Medium

Delusional but dedicated.

Challenging

He is exactly like you.

Easy

You're going to spend the final hour talking to a walking lobotomy?

Medium

No thoughts, no fear, no desire. Only pure, drooling immediacy.

Medium

He's just too stunned with gratitude to respond.

Challenging

Pure heartbreak. Look at his face. Look what you've done.

Legendary

You know the answer.

Formidable

So lost that the idea of a connection, no matter with whom, far outweighs the loss itself.

Challenging

A strange look passes across his face, followed by laughter.

Legendary

You could suggest anything, he doesn't care as long as he's invited.

Formidable

By 'here' he means 'the world'.

Challenging

You really should have more faith in yourself.

Easy

Now it's just a matter of working up the guts to knock on her door.

Easy

Eszti keeps a special mental calendar marked 'Critical Phone Call from Hershel?'. The calendar has been counting for five years.

Medium

Grazed a nerve. The 'interrogatrix' doesn't care to be 'lame'.

Medium

Easy

It doesn't matter. Her name is the conjuring magic. The name alone is enough to hold on to.

Easy

Strange question...

Easy

You can do it, CASCADE!, he says with his eyes.

Medium

All the same you feel there's a two-way mirror, and on the other side, a row of blank faces sitting in judgement.

Easy

Thoughts of Tempo flash through your mind.

Easy

The word 'LEAD' burns itself into the centre of your visual field.

Easy

This is not a real order. It's a sympathy order. He obviously made an impression on the old woman.

Easy

This is not a real order. It's a sympathy order. He obviously made an impression on this Carmuna.

Medium

This detail strikes you as very sad.

Medium

There's a procedure your controllers taught you for situations like this, but all you can focus on is his face.

Challenging

Somehow, he looks more forgotten than when you first found him.

Medium

Not wanting to stain it with his soiled fingers.

Legendary

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

Medium

He took it because it meant something to him.

Challenging

This woman, whoever she is, clearly means the world to him. Probably part of the reason you've found him how you've found him.

Easy

You're getting some great people management tips here.

Medium

Human capital deep in the red.

Formidable

A tightly-bound profiteering brotherhood beyond the comprehension of lower classes.

Challenging

Agony breaks the surface. This man is an alcoholic, recently shoved off the wagon.

Challenging

Half of him half believes it.

Medium

One feels too little -- the other feels far too much.

Medium

Medium

You could prey on his obvious weakness: alcohol.

Medium

Definitely that twitchy young man hooked to the payphone. The name fits.

Easy

Reno might thank you for fixing his prized train.

Formidable

Besieged by failures in work and love, each of his attempts to resolve one immediately defeated by an agony from the other.

Medium

You know the feeling.

Medium

On speaking her name, his face softens, looking almost youthful.

Medium

A tremendous sadness courses through him.

Challenging

Touching. The kind of bond only two pigs can share.

Easy

Carmuna would be proud.

Medium

He radiates pure worry. She might as well be his own child.