Call Center

Location

This is in the Downtown area. You can access it via the HQ Lobby: HQ Elevator with Call Center ID equipped.

Location Details	Indoors, Aboveground, Hard to Enter
Resting (normal)	Midgard Security has a strong presence here and they don't seem to appreciate anyone loitering, so you end up moving around more than resting.	Gain 10 HP +10% per FA
Resting (3 Midgard Security)	Midgard Security doesn't seem interested in letting you rest, particularly as they seem to assume you're leaving more work for them.	Gain 10 HP +10% per FA
Resting (REM Timer)	You secure yourself in a bathroom stall and turn on the REM timer. It's not glamorous, but at least nobody bothers you.	Gain 20 HP
Resting (REM Timer+HQ Alarm ≥ 50 )	You secure yourself in a bathroom stall and turn on the REM timer until the sounds of a patrol jolt you awake. Thankfully, they're at least polite enough to not just barge in.	Gain 10 HP
Resting, under special conditions — see note below.	As you search for the best place to rest, you feel the sensation of a distant train rumbling by. A murmur of half-forgotten fear suggests you missed your train, but you have more important things to do.	Unlocks train options in Call Center Ghostly Cavern

Legend
	Combat Encounters		Etheric only
	Noncombat Encounters		Non-Etheric only
	Choice Encounters		Requires Fishing pole
	Gang Warfare Encounters		Can lead to a Hacking Encounter

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Combat Encounters

	Opponent	Encounter Text	Lose	Win	Notes
	TATTERED SPECTER	The sounds of the call center dim and the lights fade. A muffled cry in the distance suddenly rises to a shriek as a tattered shape emerges from a nearby cubicle wall.	—	—
	SPECTRAL SECURITY	Strange mist swirls among the cubicles, flowing through walls as though they're not there and deadening the sound. In the thickest parts of the mist, you see a humanoid shape… a security guard, but one outside of time with an ancient baton. (Lose all Call Center Alarm)	—	—	With Spectral Curse
	DRONE HOUND	A hound drone comes around a wall of cubicles, opening fire as the workers dive for cover. The workers shout a dozen different things, but you only catch calmer utterances of "fuck, that's a bug."	—	—	With 1-49 Call Center Alarm
	TWISTED HOUND	A crystalline form leaps over a row of cubicles, landing at your feet with an animalistic growl. The workers shout a dozen different things, but you only catch calmer utterances of "those things can jump?" and "fuck, that's a bug."	—	—	With 1-49 Call Center Alarm
	INTERNAL SECURITY (BATON)	A security guard spots you across the floor. Although he says "I'm going to have to ask you to leave," the way he flicks his baton open suggests it isn't actually a request.	—	Gain 10 HQ Alarm	Without downtown ID badge
	2 DRONE HOUNDS	A pair of hound drones rush through the dingy cubicles, homing in on you with surprising vigor.	—	Gain 10 HQ Alarm.	50+ Call Center Alarm
	2 TWISTED HOUND	A howl like breaking glass echoes through abandoned cubicles as two crystalline forms rush into your view.	—	You feel a strange gaze from far away, lofty but filled with barely restrained curiosity. Gain 10 HQ Alarm.	50+ Call Center Alarm
	2 INTERNAL SECURITY (NEEDLER)	There's a faint pop as a tumbling needle tears through a cubicle wall, leaving a conspicuous hole right at chest level. It takes a moment to trace it back to the security guards firing on you. (Lose 20 Call Center Alarm if you have it)	deactivated ID	Gain 10 HQ Alarm	50+ HQ Alarm
	2 MIDGARD HEAVY GUARD (UNARMED)	A black orb on the ceiling turns to follow you as you move through the floor. As you consider how many cameras they have in this place, two guards in massive armor emerge from around the next corner.	deactivated ID	Gain 20 HQ Alarm	50+ HQ Alarm

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Noncombat Encounters

	Encounter	Result	Notes
	Calmed Alarm	First encounter of the day, if you have any alarm effect active	Removes all alarm effects

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Choice Encounters

HQ Elevator - encountered after every 5 energy spent on this floor

1. Hop in - go to various floors with various ID badges (see page for details)
2. Leave it be - walk away

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Broad Chested Headset Man - with <50 Call Center Alarm

1. Hear him out:
   • Without ID or with counterculture cyberware: Gain 10 Call Center Alarm
   • With janitorial ID+janitor outfit: Unlock Call Center Director's Office
   • With call center ID+call center disguise or downtown manager ID/downtown executive ID+office worker outfit: Gain 2 XP Will, lose 10 Call Center Alarm
   • With internal security ID and Midgard Security disguise: Nothing
2. Threaten him:
   • With no ID, call center ID, downtown visitor ID, mailroom ID or janitorial ID: Gain 20 Call Center Alarm
   • With downtown manager ID: Gain 30 Call Center Alarm and 10 HQ Alarm
   • With downtown executive ID: Lose 20 Call Center Alarm
   • With internal security ID or downtown security ID: Nothing
3. Jump him - Gain 10 Call Center Alarm, fight Call Center Boss
4. Walk away - Gain 10 Call Center Alarm, walk away

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Call Center Break Room

1. Stop to chat - Nothing?
2. Mention the AVP (After searching the Unoccupied Call Center Director's Office) - Nothing?
3. Talk Halloween (During Halloween 2023) - Information
4. Check the fridge - Gain 2-3 of: OmniCola, Lattes! iced latte, egg salad sandwich, Lattes! breakfast sandwich
5. Start a brawl - Gain 10 Call Center Alarm, fight 2 Call Center Workers; if you win gain 10 more Call Center Alarm
6. Leave it be - Walk Away

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Row After Row of Cubicles - with <50 Call Center Alarm

1. Pick pockets - Pickpocketing: battered cred chip, call center headset, call center ID, Lattes! breakfast sandwich, OmniCola, pep pill, protein bar, taser or fight Call Center Worker
2. Make a racket - Gain 20 Call Center Alarm, or with ? alarm: fight Internal Security (Baton)
3. Start a fight - Gain 20 Call Center Alarm, fight Call Center Worker
4. Grab a computer (With a computer equipped) - Hack Call Center Computer
5. Hide under a desk:
   • If sober: Gain 20-30 HP, gain frayed cable or thick cabling, and if you have 20+ Call Center Alarm, lose 20 Call Center Alarm
   • If Etheric: Go to Call Center Ghostly Cavern encounter
6. Wander the cubes - Walk Away

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Abandoned Call Station - with 25+ Call Center Alarm

1. Try to help - Gain 2 XP Will
2. Confuse them - Gain 2 XP Will, 10 Call Center Alarm
3. Get banking details - Gain 2-3 fresh cred chip or at higher Call Center Alarm: 20 HQ Alarm
4. Log in //(With a computer equipped) - Hack Call Center Computer
5. Dive under the desk:
   • If sober: Gain 20-40 HP, gain frayed cable or thick cabling, and if you have 20+ Call Center Alarm, lose 20 Call Center Alarm
   • If Etheric: Go to Call Center Ghostly Cavern encounter
6. Let it ring - Gain 10 Call Center Alarm, Walk Away

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Call Center Ghostly Cavern - While Etheric, accessed via Row After Row Of Cubicles or Abandoned Call Station under the desk encounters above

1. Go exploring - Unlock result in Executive Servers: Crystal Barrier.
2. Wait by the tracks - Gain 20 Spectral Curse, allows unlocking the train by Resting
3. Rest in the darkness - Gain 20-40 hit points, lose 20 Call Center Alarm
4. Plant a spouting seed (with a sprouting seed) - Lose a sprouting seed
5. Find a way out - Gain 2 XP Perception

Note: in order to unlock the train, you need to do the following:

• Wait by the tracks once
• Rest in the call center while at 0 HP and have Spectral Curse

The encounter above is then replaced with the choices below:

1. Head for the engine - Fight Spectral Conductor, or with train conductor hat:
   1. Push it higher - Go to Executive Floor
   2. Drag it down - Go to Maintenance Storage
   3. Attack him instead - Fight 2 Spectral Security and Spectral Conductor
   4. Leave it be - Walk away
2. Search the cars - Fight Spectral Security, or with 1 spectral outfit part:
   1. Swipe some food - Fight Tattered Specter which can drop ancient licorice, saltine packet, subway soup
   2. Wire some credits - nothing
   3. Pay with ancient gold coins (with ancient gold coins) - Gain subway soup, saltine packet, lose coins
   4. Pay with tarnished coins (with tarnished coins) - Gain subway soup, saltine packet, lose coins
   5. Pay with old coins (with old coins) - Gain 2-3 subway soup, 4-6 saltine packet, lose coins
   6. Buy the lot (20 old coins) (with 20 old coins) - Gain cowl of the dead, or with cowl equipped: gain shawl of the dead, lose 20 coins
   7. Offer an unearthly coin (with unearthly coin) - Fight Tattered Specter which can drop ancient licorice, saltine packet, subway soup
   8. Leave her be - Walk Away
3. Wait for departure - Fight 2 Tattered Specter, or after riding the train, go to Maintenance Storage or Executive Floor
4. Explore the cave - Unlock result in Executive Servers: Crystal Barrier.
5. Rest in the darkness - Gain 20-40 hit points, lose 20 Call Center Alarm
6. Plant a spouting seed (with a sprouting seed) - Lose a sprouting seed
7. Find a way out - Gain 2 XP Perception

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Call Center Director's Office - After hearing about the office via Broad Chested Headset Man dressed as a janitor+janitorial ID or hack the Call Center Computer's Sales Assistant. This encounter is replaced by the following two once through the door.

1. Break through - With a hammer weapon, opens door, and gain 30 Call Center Alarm, 10 HQ Alarm, 4 XP Strength.
2. Open the scanner - With an electrical kit, opens door, and gain 10 HQ Alarm, 4 XP Perception.
3. Swipe your badge (with a badge equipped) - with a downtown manager ID, go to Unoccupied Call Center Director's Office encounter.
4. Leave it be - Walk Away

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Unoccupied Call Center Director's Office - After getting the door open at Call Center Director's Office and have no HQ Alarm alarm or killed the guards in Guarded Call Center Director's Office

1. Search the office - Gain 2-3 of: blank paper, call center headset, call center ID, Lattes! biscotte, OmniCola
2. Hack the computer (With a computer equipped) - Hack Management Desktop
3. Call the Ghosts (After completing Ghostly Aid quest) - Gain downtown executive ID and 10 Call Center Alarm
4. Take a nap - Gain 20-40 HP, lose 20 Call Center Alarm
5. Leave it be - Walk Away

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Guarded Call Center Director's Office - After getting the door open at Call Center Director's Office and have HQ Alarm. If you kill the two guards in this encounter, you will get Unoccupied Call Center Director's Office encounter for the rest of the day instead.

1. Head in - Gain 20 Call Center Alarm, fight two Internal Security (Baton), unlock Unoccupied Call Center Director's Office for the day if you win.
2. Head out - Walk Away

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Executive Procession - After scheduling a meeting on the Personal Calendar in the Management Desktop system (must be unlocked again if AVP is killed).

1. Join the crowd - Gain 20 HQ Alarm.
2. Pick some pockets - Pickpocketing: gain some of call center ID, downtown executive ID, folding pistol, protein bar, tailored Eclipse, or Gain 20 HQ Alarm and fight 2 Internal Security (Baton))
3. Lay an ambush - Gain 20 duration of Call Center Alarm, fight 2 Internal Security, Assistant Vice President (male)
4. Go in swinging - Gain 20 duration of Call Center Alarm, fight 2 Internal Security, Assistant Vice President (male), Call Center Boss
5. Let him go - Walk Away

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Halloween 2023 setup encounters:

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Halloween Cubicle

1. Hang crepe paper - Lose 1 crepe paper, gain 4 XP Will
2. Stretch decorative webbing - Lose 1 decorative webbing, gain 4 XP Reflexes
3. Drape plastic chains - Lose 1 plastic chain, gain 4 XP Strength
4. Hang a paper bat - Lose 1 paper bat, gain 2 XP Will
5. Run thick cabling (After checking the cabling at Speakers in the Corner) - Lose 1 thick cabling, gain 4 XP Perception
6. Soak in the ambience - Gain 29 HP
7. Lend a hand - Gain 2 XP Reflexes
8. Jump the worker - Gain 10 Call Center Alarm, fight Call Center Worker
9. Leave it be - Walk Away

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Call Center Punch

1. Sample some - Gain 5 Etheric
2. Add liquified Eclipse - Lose 1 liquified Eclipse, gain 3 XP Will
3. Pour a slags antidote - Lose 1 slags antidote, gain 3 XP Will
4. Run thick cabling (After checking the cabling at Speakers in the Corner) - Lose 1 thick cabling, gain 4 XP Perception
5. Bang the drums - Gain 2 XP Strength
6. Leave it be - Walk Away

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Death in Absentia - After finding the Call Center Director's Office

1. Leave some gelt - Lose 1 chocolate gelt, gain 2 XP Will, add to ferry decorations
2. Offer some plastic coins - Lose 1 plastic coins, gain 4 XP Will, add to ferry decorations
3. Add an artificial bone - Lose 1 artificial bone, gain 4 XP Strength
4. Set out dry ice - Lose 1 dry ice, gain 8 XP Perception, add to train decorations
5. Leave a black rose - Lose black rose, gain 8 XP Will
6. Contemplate death - Check status of decorations, gain 2 XP Perception
7. Unearth the dead - Gain 2 XP Strength
8. Leave it be - Walk Away

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Speakers in the Corner - Later on October 29th

1. Fix with a capacitor array (After checking the speakers) - Lose 1 capacitor array, gain 4 XPPerception
2. Add a subwoofer - Lose 1 subwoofer, gain 12 XP Perception
3. Coat with gruesome paint - Lose 1 gruesome paint, gain 12 XP Will
4. Roll in an apple tub - Lose 1 apple tub, gain 12 XP Strength
5. Play some tunes - Gain 10 Call Center Alarm, 2 XP Perception
6. Check the speakers - Unlock various options to repair
7. Grab some cables - Gain 2-3 of: thick cabling, frayed cable and 2 XP Strength
8. Leave it be - Walk Away

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Graveyard Gate - On October 30th

1. Add a polysteel support - Lose 1 polysteel support, gain 4 XP Strength
2. Add a glowing support - Lose 1 glowing support, gain 8 XP Strength
3. Add a skull pile - Lose 1 skull pile, gain 8 XP Will
4. Include an animatronic motor - Lose 1 animatronic motor, 4 XP Perception
5. Peek through - Gain 2 XP Perception
6. Open the gate - Gain 2 XP Strength
7. Leave it closed - Walk Away

Halloween 2023 party encounters:

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Combat Encounters

	Opponent	Encounter Text	Lose	Win	Notes
	HOLLOW SPIDER	You see a faint movement out of the corner of your eye and find a spider, bigger than your head, swaying at the corner of one of the cubicles. It moves like it has no weight at all, lunging towards you.	—	—
	UNDEAD TYRANT	As you wander through the maze of cubicles, you hear a thump… followed shortly by another. As you try to find the source of the thumps, a tremendous screech echoes through the halls and a skeletal shape bursts from the shadows. You've gained 20 duration of Primeval Terror.	—	—	Have not killed the Undead Tyrant
	TATTERED SPECTER	With a horrible shriek, a tattered form swoops through the cubicle walls.	—	—	After opening the Glowing Gates
	SPECTRAL SECURITY	A spectral shape emerges from the fog, swinging the afterimage of a baton. "Gotta go to the next stop," it explains without opening its mouth. "No turning back, not ever."	—	—	After fighting anything Aboard The Ghost Train

Noncombat Encounters

	Encounter	Result	Notes
	Turn Down The Lights	Gain 20 duration of Halloween Spirit	Only once, starts other party encounters.
	Candy From The Boss	Gain 3? of candy corn, peanut butter candy, pumpkin lollipop?	Once only (note: Broad Chested Headset Man did not show up during the party)
	Passing Train		Once only, some time after opening the Glowing Gates
	In Vino Variance	Gain contraband wine, 6 XP Will	After getting approval from students at Break Room Dance Party
	Cubical Animatronic	You've gained 20 duration of Primeval Terror.	Have not killed the Undead Tyrant

Choice Encounters

Break Room Dance Party

1. Join the dance - Gain 2 XP in Reflexes and/or Will, and with a party necklace unlock In Vino Variance
2. Chat people up - Gain 20 Halloween Spirit, 2 XP Will
3. Pick some pockets - Pickpocketing: 3-4 of: bone wine, call center mask, candy corn, candy eyeball, licorice spider, peanut butter bat, peanut butter candy, pumpkin microbrew
4. Start swinging - Fight Call Center Worker (drops call center mask in addition to usual drops)
5. Leave them be - Walk Away

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Call Center Candy - Goes away after taking 6 bowls

1. Take a few - Gain 2-3 of peanut butter bat, peanut butter candy, licorice spider, 15 Halloween Spirit
2. Take the bowl - Gain sales candy bowl
3. Distribute some - Gain 8 XP in Will, allows other players to gain candy
4. Turn down candy - Walk Away, lose Halloween Spirit?

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Call Center Cubicle Punch

1. Drink some - Gain 25 Etheric, Sugar Rush, 12 XP Reflexes
2. Take it - Gain caller punch
3. Add dry ice - Gain 50 duration of Halloween Spirit or, if Etheric gain iron cauldron
4. Leave it - Walk Away

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Whispered Party Observations - As long as you have not walked away from this encounter

1. Listen in - Info, more with high Stealth Power
2. Join the conversation - Info, more with downtown executive ID
3. Jump them - Fight Assistant Vice President (male) and Janet Barsukov
4. Let them finish - Walk Away, permanently removes this encounter

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Glowing Gates - Only before opening the gates

1. Pull it open - Unlocks ghostly combats, unlocks Aboard The Ghost Train after some time, removes this encounter
2. Leave it closed - Walk Away

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Aboard The Ghost Train - After opening the Glowing Gates and encountering Passing Train

1. Head for the engine - First time, fight 2 Spectral Security. Second time, removes this encounter.
2. Search for students - Fight Spectral Security and Tattered Specter, save some students
3. Rescue workers - Fight 2 Tattered Specter, save some workers
4. Check under seats - Gain 20 Spectral Curse, 3? of candy corn, candy eyeball, licorice spider
5. Leave immediately - Gain 10 Spectral Curse, Walk Away

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