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Encounter Conditions
Scheduled a meeting on the Personal Calendar in the Management Desktop system (unlocks this encounter for the day; needs to be scheduled again each day).
If you kill the AVP, this encounter disappears until you unlock it again by hacking (can be done multiple times in a day).
Initial Text
A crowd of guards and supervisors pushes their way down the aisle, surrounding a sharply-dressed man wearing an executive security badge. The whole procession doesn't move easily, jamming up any actual work happening near by.
Summary of Choices
- Join the crowd - Gain 20 HQ Alarm.
- Pick some pockets - Pickpocketing: gain some of battered cred chip, call center ID, downtown executive ID, folding pistol, protein bar, tailored Eclipse, or Gain 20 HQ Alarm and fight 2 Internal Security (Baton))
- Lay an ambush - Gain 20 duration of Call Center Alarm, fight 2 Internal Security, Assistant Vice President
- Go in swinging - Gain 20 duration of Call Center Alarm, fight 2 Internal Security, Assistant Vice President, Call Center Boss
- Let him go - Walk Away
Choice Text and Results
Join the crowd
The various people in the crowd are jostling for position, trying to impress the executive with their knowledge and skill. From what you pick up halfway through, he's mostly asking questions about their missing manager.
The workers are mostly implying the manager needs to be replaced, while the guards seem more comfortable saying it flat out.
You're not quite sure if anything being said reflects people's actual feelings or if they just smell blood in the water. The executive has a wry smile that suggests he agrees with exactly what you're thinking, but periodically glances down at his comm, texting with someone.
You've gained 20 duration of HQ Alarm.
Pick some pockets
You slip through the crowd, snagging what you can as you approach the executive.
See pickpocketing. On failure:
A couple guards take their chance to get some free points with an exec by whipping out their batons. On the other hand, he seems to be engrossed with something on his phone.
You've gained 20 duration of HQ Alarm.
(Fight 2 Internal Security (Baton))
On success:
You found: 1-4? of: battered cred chip, call center ID, downtown executive ID, folding pistol, protein bar, tailored Eclipse
Lay an ambush
Your explain that you want to tell him something about the manager in private. He follows along to the disappointment of his followers but, as soon as you spring the ambush, two of the guards come rushing down as though they'd been tailing close behind.
You've gained 20 duration of Call Center Alarm.
(Fight 2 Internal Security, Assistant Vice President; gain ?? HQ Alarm if you win, transform deactivated ID if you lose.)
Go in swinging
You just wade into the crowd. Most of them scatter, but two guards and even one of the supervisors stays with the exec.
Strangely, the executive moves fastest of all, unfolding a hidden gun like it's an extension of his own arm. His confidence is suffocating.
You've gained 20 duration of Call Center Alarm.
(Fight 2 Internal Security, Assistant Vice President, Call Center Boss; gain 20 HQ Alarm if you win, transform deactivated ID if you lose.)
Let him go
You let he and his whole crew head on their way. They seem to be touring the entire floor, so it'll be a while before they're gone.