Laying the Groundwork (Episode 4.1)

Mission 1: Laying the Groundwork

[While in the International District, my operator had informed me that Agent Gray wished to get in touch with me. I established a datalink.]

Agent Gray: The pace of events is picking up, Mr. Kennedy. We are beginning to make real progress in our efforts to remove the Merovingian's presence from the Matrix. Your job today is to apply pressure. With enough of his assets under attack, he will lose... focus, and his pathetic empire will begin to crumble around him.

Proceed to the location indicated, and deal with any Exiles present.

Operator: Expect some resistance in here, {redpill_name}

[He sent me to a nearby apartment building currently being used to house a group of exile programs. I broke my way in and took care of the Lupines milling about the rooms on the first floor.]

Operator: That's the last hostile on site.

Operator: Goals for this area are complete. Find the nearest exit quickly!

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Agent Gray: Well done. I am now sending you to the location of one of the Merovingian's lieutenants, Fanale . Terminate him.

Operator: My readings show Fanale in here, with some security.

He sent me another set of coordinates, and I made my way to the building in subject. I let myself in, and I was greeted by a few Lupine Scrappers. I greeted them with my foot. I performed a search throughout the floor. Upon reaching the doorway to last room on the end of the building, my operator contacted me.

Operator: I'm reading his signal... plus some sort of fluctuation... get through that next door, now!

[I rushed in as fast as I could, and found... nothing.]

Operator: Dammit! He's gone... and I suppose you know what kind of signals I'm getting, too. The Effectuator.

Operator: Goals for this area are complete. Find the nearest exit quickly!

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That's a name I've heard many times before from inter-organizational intel, and I knew just what we were dealing with.

Agent Gray: The escape of Fanale certainly is disappointing. However, our goals proceed as scheduled. Continue your attacks against the Merovingian's holdings. At the location indicated, you will find a certain Ashbrook . She is one of the Merovingian's security captains. Her deletion would prove very... detrimental to the Merovingian's operations.

I made my way to the back of a small Asian restaurant and down to the basement. My readings told me there was a full house down there, but when I searched the building it looked as if they've already packed their bags.

Operator: Looks like plenty of bad guys in here.

Operator: "Gone! The entire place is empty! This is such... aw, just get out of there. "
Operator: Goals for this area are complete. Find the nearest exit quickly!

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Agent Gray: It would appear that the Effectuator's "talents" are becoming a bit too... inconvenient. Would you not agree, Mr. Kennedy?

(Message Edited by ThePigeonKing on 01-21-200606:00 AM)

• Episode 4.1: I think we can do business

Missions (View)

Name	Zionites	Machinists	Merovingians
Chapter 1
Episode 1.1: "Care for a Cookie?"	Redpill Rescue Recruit with Machines Mechanical Harmony	Interference Redpill Redux Scheduled for Deletion	Digital Device Securing the Signal Signature Manipulation
Episode 1.2: "Why Won't They Give Up His Remains?"	Sympathy From a Friend The Power of Propaganda Confiscation Unexpected Alliances Protection Racket Redpill Rescue Revisited Pack Grab (Episode 1.2) Hardlined Learning (Episode 1.2) Hardline Hunter (Episode 1.2) Interview With a Bluepill (Episode 1.2) Witness Rescue (Episode 1.2) Monkey Wrench Roundup (Episode 1.2) It's Hard To Find Good Help (Episode 1.2) Lost Fragments (Episode 1.2) Revenge (Episode 1.2)	Disturbing Trends Poster Hunt Hard Time No Allies Here Under Warranty Gathering Evidence ... ... ... Witness Protection ... ... ... ... ...	The Search for Morpheus Propaganda Turf of Vengeance Opportunity Knocks Renegade Roundup Electromagnetic A Special Case Necessary Action New Concerns Into the Hive The Black Box Researching the Black Arts The Damage Done ... Unbearable Burden Bombs and Betrayal
Episode 1.3: The Death of Morpheus (?)	Lord of Flies Miracle Man Untouchable (Hardline Hunter)? Exodus	Trace Route The Zero One A Matter of Faith The Bitter Pill Downtime Bugged Line	The Murder of Morpheus Network Connections (Episode 1.3) Data Encryption (Episode 1.3) Medical Records (Episode 1.3) Love and Loathing (Episode 1.3)
Chapter 2
Episode 2.1: A Swarm of Flies	Better Killing Through Chemistry (Episode 2.1) Chemical Fear (Episode 2.1) Chemical reaction It's the Small Poison for a parasite	The Device Silence Speaks Louder The Return Sum of its Parts Reprisal	Defender of the Fifth Unfaithful Existence ? The Misinformation Age (Episode 2.1)? The Art of Piracy Meat for the Maggots (Episode 2.1)?
Episode 2.2: Experimental Tests	In Exile Schemes and Schematics The Flit Gun (Episode 2.2) Industrial Sabotage Rotten Fruit	One Step Ahead Strange Bedfellows Reconnaissance Catching Up Down the Wire	With Friends Like These Honor Among Thieves Burning Both Ends The Lighter Side of Slaughter Perfect Enemy
Episode 2.3: Whoever "needs us"	Your info or Your RSI Party Crash Incommunicado Free Your Mind The Heights	Recruit This Rule of Thumb Damage Control Investigations Misdirections	Enter Desayd Dissension Military Action A Little Research Killing Blow
Chapter 3
Episode 3.1: Morpheus is avenged	Back Door Dire Connection Cause and Effect A Feast for Wolves Meltdown	Whats in the Box? Operation Myrmidon Decapitation Defuse the Situation Final Reckoning	To the Dogs Pack Management The Worm Turns Bon Voyage The Gatekeeper
Episode 3.2: Propoganda	Strange Rumours Opening Boxes Swallow Your Pride Run the Fox to Ground Urgent News	Always Watching... A Veiled Communique Rising Tensions Behind The Curtain Denial	Seek the Veil ... Temptation? ... ...
Episode 3.3: Guns, lots of guns	House Call Like Candy Trauma Strange Epiphany Simulating the Simulation	The Missing Case Pound the Pavement Death and Demons Revelations Miscommunication	The General Situation Stay Focused (?) ... ... ...
Chapter 4
Episode 4.1: I think we can do business	Demonstration of Force Scanning the Enemy Firepower Agent of Change Combat Run	Laying the Groundwork Laying the Trap Tightening the Circle Springing the Jaws Interrogation	Cover All Your Bases String Pulling Nothing Ever Goes As Planned The Gathering Storm A Chance for Redemption
Episode 4.2: From many, one. E Pluribus Neo	Between Waking and Sleeping Merchandise Shimada The Kid Groundwork	Scene of the Crime Appropriate Steps Continuing Aggression Machines and Mammon Distractions	Relocation Program A little R & D No Animals Were Harmed Tamper Proof Reclamation
Episode 4.3: "Racing to grab the General's items	The Van The Project Shakedown Disrupted Connection Hot Potato	Cross-Analysis Bells and Bullets The Most Likely Path Cracking the Egg Praeparet Bellum	For Every Lock... There Is A Key Highly Polished Weigh the Options Repercussions
Chapter 5
Episode 5.1: Saving Captain Niobe (Part 1)	Perplexity Desperate Measures Flood's Errand Deal with the Devil Buying Time	Mysteries Revealed Following the Trail Smoke Signals No Stone Unturned Emergency Response	Poor Winners Those Less Fortunate The Device Irresistible Into the Crosshairs
Episode 5.2: "Saving Captain Niobe Part 2	Network Trouble Know Your Enemy Repairman Double Betrayal Safe and Sound	Deviation Genev Corrupt Readings Weit Free Radicals	Spoofed Location Data Viral Insertion Point to Point The Vial
Episode 5.3: "Anome's Unlimit"	Warehouse C Death by Tastee Wheat Sweet Tastee Wheat Aqua Gulp Paging Ms. Utley	Return to Sender Obsession Blackout Over the Edge The Quarry	Side Effects May Include I Come in Peace Persuasion The Moth Precious Bodily Fluids
Chapter 6
Episode 6.1: "Four-armed Frenzy	The Corporate Ladder Corporate Restructuring Corporate Security Corporate Sabotage Corporate Takeover	Messages in the Void The Price of Betrayal Kill Code UI.024 Rogue Agent Destiny	Miracle Drug Mixer Legwork All the King's Men Catching Up
Episode 6.2: "A Clever Ruse	Storage Details Subtext For Every Man, Woman, and Child Baggage Cold Sheets	A Simple Request Counter-Demand Whispers of Ones and Zeroes Code Pulse Authority	Silver Tongue Invention Red and Yellow Killjoy Pound of Flesh
Episode 6.3	Boots on the Carpet Whirlybird Bogeyman Steely Embrace Red Eye	Remote Control Outside the System Unauthorized Access Access Denied Strata	Fallen Angel (Episode 6.3) They Can Only Be Given (Episode 6.3) Good Manners Beret Love Note
Chapter 7
Episode 7.1: "The Search"	Leave of his Senses Amnesia Trauma Lucidity Beacon	Projection (Episode 7.1) Secured Channels Detection Veils Transit	Logistics Lab Work Dockside Coven Charon
Episode 7.2: "Desperation"	Feeling the Way Hear Me Seeing Red Inner Child They Grow Up So Fast (?)	Get to the Choppers If You Are Unable to Speak An Intuitive Program Death in Many Forms Down the Wire	Favors Something Wicked Boil, Bubble Hell-Broth Pernicious Hour
Episode 7.3	To Fade Away Dead Systems Check Your Comms She Insists Et Sapientiae Tuae Non Est Numerus	A Key with No Lock Subways What Is Humanity Misinformation Aliqua Portio Creaturae Tuae	Furlough Timetable Inside Job Transfer Quia Superbis Resistis
Chapter 8
Episode 8.1: "War"	War Firewall Uplink Broadcast Depth ...	War Vulnerability Spiral Potential Extraction	War Sea of Serenity The Lesser Evil Eyes Battery
Episode 8.2: "Intrusion"	Danielle Prototype A Free Berth Distribution Kamikaze	Process of Elimination (Episode 8.2) War of Attrition Caplet Scramble Execute	The Fields (Episode 8.2) Hotline The Price The Pods Long Distance
Episode 8.3:	Contact Lost Old Ties Samples Evacuation Life and Death	Dream Compilation Of Two Minds The Hook The Hunt Terminate (Bonus mission): White Hallway Data Retrieval	Among the Missing Humble Beginnings The Disputed Death of Mary MacHenry Seance Unplugged
Chapter 9
Episode 9.1:	The Accelerated Man Incompatability Phreak Questions Ignorance	Intruder Override Best Interests Denial of Service Only Human	Apparition Induction Maneuvers High Life Misanthropy
Episode 9.2:	Snoop 1313 Trigger Muzzle Building 27	Slowdown (Episode 9.2) Puncture Overload Killer Confession	Muckraker Down to a Sunless Sea Parvati Heart's Desire Behold a Pale Horse
Episode 9.3:	Mistrust Senseless Namuci Redline Unsaid	Cooperation Fabrication Giving Up Gotama The Sheeted Dead Acceptable Levels	Duality Why She Swallowed the Fly? World of Hungry Shades A Man of One Dimension Less Obvious Signs of the Apocalypse
Chapter 10
Episode 10.1:	Unfulfilled Dead Man at the Wheel (Episode 10.1) Unibody Ping Don't Let the Door Hit You	Persistence Jurisdiction Licence Cut Both Ways End of the Abstract	The Cookie Jar Thataway No Fly Disconnect Foreign Protocol
Episode 10.2	Cache (Episode 10.2) Splice ... ... Blip (Episode 10.2)	Situation Normal • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5	Handshake The Rain Fell in Torrents Incoming Smoke Packet Rider
Episode 10.3:	Thou Madest Man • They Know We Know • The Personal Touch • Body Modification • The Perfidy of Space and Time	Cities and Storms Help Desk Alarm Served Out of Touch	Office Party • A Plethora of Passwords • Burnt Toast • The Chasm Between Two Contradictions • Theophany
Chapter 11
Episode 11.1:	Keep the Money Team Spirit Atypical Actually in LA The Spider	Curled Upper Lip Copper Wire Redundancy Waveform Regulator	Tasseomancy Alchemy Adamancy Zoochemy Necromancy
Episode 11.2	Out of the Ordinary The Simulation Mara Ring 149 101	A Mistake (Episode 11.2) ... ... ... ...	The Chateau (Episode 11.2) The Useful Man (Episode 11.2) Clipped (Episode 11.2) The Caretaker (Episode 11.2) The Apartment (Episode 11.2)
Episode 11.3:	Promises Resistance Gut Check	Dead Suits Measure and Countermeasure Severance	Mismanagement (Episode 11.3) The Mechanical Man Empty Vessel
Chapter 12
Episode 12.1:	Self Image Angel Impersonal	Representative Bootstrap Sneaky	Hothouse Deep Cover Courtship
Episode 12.2	1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5	1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5	1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5
Episode 12.3:	1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5	1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5	1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5