Trauma (Episode 3.3)

Trauma is the third mission for the Zionite player in Episode 3.3.

Tyndall started me off by having this to say

Tyndall: "Hail, Warrior. You will recall that we recently discovered tampering in our database records relating to the mysterious street magician, Cryptos. Our database admins have been combing through the sabotaged records for any clue to the identity of the attackers, and, at long last, they have found one: a fragmentary log stamp of a network address from within the Matrix. It was practically spoofed, but we've run thousands of traces, and only one address corresponds to an actual terminal within the simulation. I'm sending you to that location now. You must find the hackers who sabotaged our database and, if possible, retrieve the original versions of the tampered records. This will not be an easy task, but I have complete faith in your abilities."

[So I went to the location to access the computer system. When I got inside my Operator told me this: ]

Operator: "I'm picking up a lot of redpills in there, and at least one active computer system. It's got some security on it... I don't think I can crack it from here. You'll have to see if you can access it physically."

[I searched around the warehouse I was in until I came to a room with Zion operatives in it and a computer. My Operator then said this:]

Operator: "Zion operatives! Could they be associated with the sabotage? From what Tyndall described, it did sound likely to be an inside job. You've got to get access to the computer in that room. If you can't hack it, maybe you can get access from one of the other redpills in that building."

Well I didn't want to hack it, so I decided to do the long way around, so I could get as much mission interaction in as possible. Before I left to go search for a way to get into the computer, I talked to the two Zion operatives in the room and they both said: "You've got no business here."

[Downstairs there was a lot of Zion operatives- looked like a rave, just without the beer. I talked to them and one of them named Brent said:]

Brent: "Fuji is so gullible once you get enough drinks in him. Don't tell, but later we're going to get him to strip naked and streak through Mara Central."

Bulgey: You need access? Sounds like a personal problem.

Binary: I know where the computer is but i don't think I should give you access. It's secure for a reason.

Rat: Man, I just got here myself. I don't know where anything is. Uh... You don't know the way to the bathroom, do you?

Enceladus: This party is totally dead. I think i'm gonna check out Polyvinyl.

[Okay... so I went and talked to the drunken Fuji dude, and he said: ]

Fuji: "You need to access the comp? No prob, dude. I got mad skills with that stuff. Lead on!"

Operator: Sounds like that guy is is willing to help you access their computer.

Fuji: Where we goin'? Is this the comp-u-tor?

Operator: Well what do you know, he actually did it. You should be bale to access that system now.

Fuji followed me to the room and accessed the computer system for me. Then the two operatives in the room were like, "~what the hell' lol and started to attack me. I killed them and then went to the computer. This is what it said:

(x2) Zion Scattershot: "You've got no business here."

Computer:
Welcome, user.
>netinfo
Terminal 527ab.tweek7
Network ID 927.pqndg.000.akp
Transfer 94,000/450,000
>search ""cryp 8af ""r
Searching...
No files found with encryption 8af.
>_

My Operator came on and said:

Operator: "That looks like the system, all right. But it's clean of any Zion data files. **bleep**. Okay, dump their network access data and bring it out of there."

Computer:
> dump nethist* |flp
Copying network history data...
Data transfer complete.
> _

[I got the files from the computer and the Fuji realized what I was doing and started to attack me. ]

Fuji: Whoa! Hey! Bogus, dude!

[I killed Fuji and then left to go upload the files. When I did, Tyndall came on and said this: ]

Tyndall: "The network history files you retrieved from the terminal indicate that it was simply a router for the sabotage on our database. The hackers themselves were at another location. By matching the timestamp found in our database records to the captured history file, we've located the remote system that accessed the terminal at the time of the sabotage. I'm directing you there now, Warrior, but please proceed carefully. If Zion operatives were involved by the guards you just encountered, then you are up against a group of desperate traitors to our cause. They may have information concerning this mission; in fact, we can't rule out the possibility that they are tracking you right now." So I went to the next location to track the database sabotage. When I got inside my Operator said this:

Operator: "Great, Tyndall is the last person my nerves need going all paranoid on me. That's the building we're after. Let's see... I'm reading several computer systems in there... No redpill signals." I found the computer and accessed it and it said this:

Computer:
Welcome, Nunki.
>netinfo
Terminal 983.aaa.8ad
Network ID *****_******_****_***
Transfer ----/----
>search ""cryp 8af ""r
Searching...
No files found with encryption 8af.
>_

My Operator then said:

Operator: "That looks like our baby. But no Zion data on it, either. **bleep**. Check around there, maybe they left a hard copy." And sure enough, there was a disk lying on a table. When I got it my Operator said this:

Operator: “That disk you found has a list of numbers. It was encrypted, but pretty badly, and I've been able to pull down a copy of it. What was that login name on that system? Nunki? Hmm... Maybe Tyndall can run a check on it. Let's go ring her up."

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

---

So I went outside and Tyndall said this:

Tyndall: "Warrior, we've completed checks on both the data file you retrieved, and the name you found on that computer. The data in the file did not match any information in our databases; it may be related to some program of which we are unaware. However, it may have importance of some sort to the redpills with whom you are dealing, and perhaps you can use it as a bargaining chip. We tracked the name you found, "~Nunki,' to an ex-Zion redpill. I'm sending you to his last known location. Remember to use the utmost caution in dealing with this individual or his associates, as they appear to be traitors to our cause. You are authorized to use whatever force is necessary against them in order to retrieve our mission database file."

I went to the next location, which was another warehouse full of redpills.

Operator: Lots of redpills in there; what is this, another warehouse rave?

I talked to one named Abanderada who said:

Abanderada: "Nunki? He ain't here, honey. But he isn't the only one who might know a thing or two about Zion database records. It all depends on who you talk to, and what you're offering. Now, that file you have... Why don't you go talk to my boy Kat over there? Tell him I said you're okay."

Operator: "You might be on to something there. Let's see what kat has to say."

I did and this is what Kat had to say:

Kat: "Hmm... Mm... Ooh. I'm tempted to ask where you got this, but I'm a professional. Go talk to Zu over there, and tell her you're interested in ruby slippers."

So I went over and talked to Zu and this is what she said:

Zu: "Really? In that case, we suggest you take your inquiry to an individual known as Caupolican. He can provide you with what you're after; whether or not he will want to is another question, and you've only bought yourself one answer. Here's a pblip file with his location."

Operator: Nice. Let's get her data.

Zu: We thought you wanted this data. Were we mistaken?

Operator: Okay. Hit a hardline and upload that to me, pronto.

[I got the file and went and uploaded it. ]

Zu: We don't know you . You didn't get that data from us. In fact, you've never met us, and you've never been here.

Abanderada: Oops! Mum's the word.

Dwornik: "I don't know... Maybe we could make a deal. You got anything besides that dirty old file?" (commonly said)

Fish: "What the hell, man? I heard there'd be food here." (commonly said)

Ehrdni: "Zion data? Woo. Hot stuff. I might be able to find something that would interest you...fore the right price." (commonly said)

Kat: That's nice. (commonly said)

Christophe: I've got three cases of blues to unload... Interested? These are the real deal, my friend.

Operator: Goals for this mission phase are complete!

---

Tyndall then said:

Tyndall: "Warrior, the missing data record you are looking for dates from several weeks after the Truce began, which puts it around the time when, according to intelligence you gathered previously, Cryptos had just gone through a period of intense personal trauma. It could be a clue as to what happened to change him from his pervious fervent anti-Machine stance to his current philosophy of embracing life in the Matrix. It could help us discover the origin of his current motives, and establish whether or not he is operating in conjunction with the Cypherite movement. This is why it is so vital that we recover this record. Do whatever it takes to get it back from Caupolican."

[So I went to the next location and had to work my way through a lot of operatives to get to Caupolican.

Operator: I'm scanning a secured computer system, and more redpills in there. I have a feeling that they're going to be a little resistant. Good luck.

Caupolican: Zion? impossibele; we left no traces! Damn you!

When I did, I killed him and found a card key on him.]

Operator: Search Caupolican. He might be carrying the file.

Operator: A card key... Check around there for a computer system that will take that key.

Operator: My scan tells me that you just got access to that terminal. Search it for our missing data.

[I looked around for a computer system that could take the key and I found one. I searched the computer and it brought up this:]

Computer:
Viewing data file transcript:

a) He had a couple of run-ins with Agents, too.
b) And he wasn't hurt?
a) He never said he was. But it's funny. Crypto disappeared for an hour or so- went right off the screens. When he jacked out, he wouldn't talk about where he'd been, in the Matrix.
b) Did he seem... traumatized?
a) Quiet. Thoughtful. Spacey, kind of.
b) So then he started with the "~we should all go back' stuff.
a) No. He wandered around Zion for a couple of days. Kind of weird. Then he disappeared.
b) Nobody knows where he's jacking in. It isn't on any of our hovercraft.
a) Weird.
b) Very weird.
>_

Then my Operator said this:

Operator: "We should all go back stuff? They must have been talking about Cryptos! So he went AWOL in the Matrix. And came back all weirded out. Huh. I'm scanning more of our data on a CD in that computer. Grab it and upload it to me at a hardline."

So I got the CD, went to a hardline, and uploaded it. This finally ended the mission with Tyndall telling me this very long statement that I'm not looking forward to typing right now lol:

Tyndall: "Once again you've done the impossible, operative. The file you recovered shows that several weeks after the Truce, Cryptos jacked into the Matrix without permission, and came out an hour later in an introspective, disoriented state. Shortly afterwards, he disappeared from Zion entirely, and hasn't been seen since, except in his role as a performer of impossible stunts inside the Matrix. Something happened to him in that crucial hour inside the Matrix- but what? What could have changed him so drastically? Clearly, we have much more to learn about this enigmatic, and perhaps dangerous, individual; indeed, the number of traitorous Zion operatives you just encountered worries me greatly. Is Cryptos at the heart of their betrayals? I shall have you findings presented to the Council immediately. Thank you once again for your efforts, Warrior."

• Episode 3.3: Guns, lots of guns

NPC talking

(near Caup)

• Zion Despoiler: Hah! Still working for Zion?
• Zion Skript Kiddie: Hah! Still working for Zion?

(*Agent (armed with Speed system FM-1500 Magnum))

References

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