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Easy

Kurt wasn't looking at his eyes. He was looking at the stack of paper clutched in his fists.

Trivial

The six letters flash across your mind, capitalised, bolded, underlined:

Easy

PSEUDOPOD was hooked up to a stereo system when you found him. You never checked what he had 'on-deck'.

Easy

Second bullet this lifetime.

Easy

His words return -- 'A little photo should not count as a crime, it's not like it's a loaded gun or something.'

Easy

Five years in the Freezer? Wouldn't think so.

Formidable

Rasalhague, the snake charmer -- star of control and command. Associated with doctors, bodyguards and goalkeepers.

Medium

You won't forget this ever happened.

Easy

Orders... message? No... friends. Bald guy... Hahaha. Massive bald guy.

Easy

'... assets left to fend for themselves.'

Easy

The voice of the Opera's Head Traumatist barks in your mind: Push harder than you think you should. Force the clot.

Easy

The voice of the Opera's Head Traumatist barks in your mind: Push harder than you think you should. Force the clot.

Medium

You remember this. The first bullet. Landau. Friends counting on you then too.

Easy

You've never been here. Everything you're experiencing is for the first time.

Medium

The words of the Metal Stripper return to you: 'Where is it? Where's the disc...?'

Easy

Double: LOST IN-THEATRE. Status: Captured. Interrogated. Loyalties: Non-existent. Conclusion: Failure, brackets, Inevitable.

Medium

Just one of the neat tricks you've learned to keep yourself alive in-theatre. There are many others still to come.

Medium

Ignatz turns to you and grins his lopsided grin. "Wow, no time for your old friend after two years of nothing? Cold, Hershel. Hopefully I can live with this."

Easy

Ancient Luzian game of divination. Uses a unique deck of cards not seen elsewhere.

Easy

Blood trickles from Ignatz' lip to his eye.

Formidable

Melita's voice in your ear, distant, irritated.

Challenging

Orlavin-3 is a hybrid psychotropic, capable of inducing paralysis-grade calm while forcing vivid, inescapable hallucinations.

Easy

Commander Roque.

Medium

Khalti -- a Rustamian term of endearment for an older woman.

Easy

Tempo had many criminal-grade contacts in La Luz. Probably how he dodged the fallout after your network blew.

Medium

One of eight great trenches in the mapped world. Its edges run from the Telmaar Gulf to the Lioaran sea. Conservative estimates suggest a depth of twelve thousand metres.

Easy

The 'Decreto de Recaptura Cívica', a set of regulations from 81. Drinking age raised to 16, limits on public assembly, and stringent gun laws. All tied to 'stabilisation' packages arranged by EMTERR.

Trivial

As in, the Azzurri mob. The largest organised crime syndicate in Portofiro.

Trivial

Treaties, obligations to foreign banks and bureaucracies, third-party audits. All part of joining the Developed World.

Trivial

Your new friend. KALEIDOSCOPE.

Medium

Mimi Serafina is twenty seven years old.

Easy

You don't recognise the song.

Trivial

Ultra Violeta, the Luzian popstar. The one who seems to be everywhere, suddenly.

Trivial

That popstar from La Luz.

Medium

Fringe health theorist, frowned upon by most medical bodies in the People's Republics and the Developed World. Owns dozens of 'wellness centres' across Tsun's Arc, and millions of followers.

Trivial

The boy in the bazaar was quite proud of his wolf sword.

Legendary

'Grammage'... Esoteric... Stationary concept...

Trivial

An incomplete record.

Trivial

The one you claimed to have done yourself. The one you lied about.

Legendary

CASCADE: This technique is over two centuries old, developed by Mircean monks in order to withstand the inquisition. KINDRED: Woah... And you can teach it to me? CASCADE: Yep, done it myself many times.

Trivial

Nice to know you're not the only disaster dealer around here.

Trivial

The same package you saw in your visions.

Medium

By contrast, the international market for Proletfolk consists of five geriatric scenesters on a commune outside Capoblanco.

Easy

Squad, from 'square', a formation that can defend itself in four directions.

Easy

A houseboat doctor -- could it be Dr. Hugo? Perhaps he's changed his name.

Easy

The words of an old friend echo in your ear:

Medium

The former overseers of Essilk #3 stood at this very window, studying the movements of the dye workers, looking for any signs of disturbance.

Trivial

Hauzmann wanted a poetry magazine from this place, didn't he?

Challenging

You may remember him from such court cases as 'CAMPF VS. SANTOS ELECTRONICS LLC' and 'CAMPF VS. STATE MARRIAGE LICENSING BOARD.'

Formidable

'Blood Type: Hecatomb' is the book you want.