Records Vault

Location

This is in the Oldtown area, accessed via The Vault.

Location
Location Details	Indoors, Underground, Hard to Enter
Resting (normal)	You do your best to hide yourself among the stacks, but the patrols are a constant feature.	Gain 10 HP +10% per FA
Resting (After Records Office Evacuation today)	You find a place among the stacks to crash out until the sounds of a patrol jolt you awake. Thank goodness their armor doesn't make them particularly stealthy.	Gain 10 HP +10% per FA
Resting (REM Timer)	Same as above, no REM Timer bonus.

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	Notes
		Wandering the tight confines of the records vault, you find yourself at a dead end. As you begin to backtrack, you find your way blocked by a heavily-armored figure. He wastes no time trying to verify your identity, instead immediately laying into you with his fists. Gain +1 Records Panic, win, lose or run away.
		You hear heavy footsteps through the stacks, growing increasingly close to you. Despite their plodding, they seem to have a better idea of where you're going than you do. Eventually you meet the footsteps' source and the hound drone that was probably responsible for tracking you down. Gain +1 Records Panic, win, lose or run away.	With 5+ Records Panic
		You hear heavy footsteps through the stacks, growing increasingly close to you. Despite their plodding, they seem to have a better idea of where you're going than you do. Eventually you meet the footsteps' source and the twisted thing that was probably responsible for tracking you down. Gain +1 Records Panic, win, lose or run away.	With 5+ Records Panic
		In the depths of the records vault, two guards manage to corner you down one of the small walkways. Gain +1 Records Panic, win, lose or run away.	With 8+ Records Panic
		A heavily armored figure ambushes you from between two stacks of records, leaping at you with surprising grace. Gain +1 Records Panic, win, lose or run away.	With 12+ Records Panic
		You hear an electronic whirr and, a moment later, the sound of hundreds of bullets tearing through documents. The first blind barrage went largely over your head, but opened your view to a heavily armored guard leveling a massive gun at you. Gain +1 Records Panic, win, lose or run away.	With 16+ Records Panic Drops 2-3 paper mache in addition to regular drops
		The vault is swarming with guards. It's a small blessing that you found three who are far enough from the others to not signal the main group. Unfortunately, the two on the flanks of the group are protecting the one in the middle while its gun spins up. Gain +1 Records Panic, win, lose or run away presumably - impossible to test.	With 20+ Records Panic
	4x	Guards swarm over you like flies on Southside garbage bins. Although they're heavily armored, they seem a little overly cautious about damaging the archives. Hopefully you can use that to your advantage. Gain +1 Records Panic, lose or run away (win unchecked).	With 10+ Records Panic and 1+ Chance of Combat Encounters

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Noncombat Encounters

	Encounter	Result	Notes
	Fae Illumination	Unlock Skull in the Niche/Floating Skull in the Niche encounters, 20 duration of Fae Blessing	Only with Fae Sight while on David's quest?

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Note: various encounters in this area can be unlocked in various ways. See the chart below for a summary:

Encounter	Soothing Stacks - explore quietly	Heart Rate Monitor Malfunction - join patrol in disguise	Other
Sleeping Vault Terminal	possible chance	possible chance	Ask Unfazed Records Lady on Dr. A's quest
Skull in the Niche/Floating Skull in the Niche	possible chance	possible chance	Fae Illumination on David's quest
Cold Storage	possible chance	possible chance	Ask Unfazed Records Lady if she is drunk, on Lo's quest
Hidden Break Room	possible chance	possible chance	Ask Unfazed Records Lady if she is drunk, on Hel's quest

Choice Encounters

Soothing Stacks

1. Look for trouble - fight 1-2 Midgard Heavy Guards (Unarmed)
2. Explore quietly - unlock other choice encounters or fight 1 Midgard Heavy Guard (Unarmed)
3. Do some reading - gain 3 XP in Perception
4. Take a rest - gain 25-35 HP

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Unfazed Records Lady - only if you haven't killed her

1. Ask about terminals - Unlocks Sleeping Vault Terminal
2. Ask about seed samples (With Lo as your contact)- Unlocks Cold Storage if drunk
3. Ask about toxin levels (With Hel as your contact) - Unlocks Hidden Break Room if drunk
4. Ask about early Eclipse (With David as your contact) - Unlocks Skull in the Niche/Floating Skull in the Niche if drunk
5. Ask about differentiation (While on the Cellular Questions quest) - Information
6. Just chat - Information
7. Offer an office flask (Only after just chatting, with office flask in inventory) - changes various results
8. Murder her - gain Midgard records ID, gain +2-4 Records Panic, permanently removes this encounter
9. Leave her be - Walk away

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Sleeping Vault Terminal - after successfully unlocking

1. Jack in (With a computer) - Hack Vault Records
2. Harvest its parts (With salvaging tools) - Gain 5? of frayed cable, microcapacitor, memory stick, capacitor array
3. Pull up files - Gain 2 XP in Perception
4. Surf the Net - Gain 3 XP in Will if disabled Line Out
5. Play a game - Gain 2-3 XP in Perception if you know Chess, disable Line Out if you win
6. Leave it be - Walk away

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Cold Storage - after successfully unlocking

1. Check it out (After applying a vault bypass) - Get a generation zero sample
2. Grab something/Grab something else - Get a random seed sample and 2 XP in Perception
3. Climb in one - Regain 20 HP or more in warm weather gear (see discussion)
4. Check for Special Projects (With Lo as your contact) - Unlocks 'Pry open the controls' and 'Apply powerful acid', removes this option
5. Pry open the controls - Information
6. Apply powerful acid (With powerful acid) - Unlocks 'Check the wires' and 'Use a signal analysis circuit', removes this option and 'Pry open the controls'
7. Check the wires - Information
8. Use a signal analysis circuit (With a signal analysis circuit) - Learn Vault Bypass recipe
9. Add the bypass (With a vault bypass) - Unlocks 'Check it out', removes this option, 'Check the wires' and 'Use a signal analysis circuit'
10. Leave them be - Walk Away

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Skull in the Niche - after successfully unlocking

1. Talk to it - Gain 23? HP, 2 XP in Will
2. Stare into it - Gain 3 XP in Perception
3. Pry it out - Gain 3 XP in Strength
4. Leave it be - Walk away

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Floating Skull in the Niche - after successfully unlocking

1. Talk to it
   1. Midgard - Information
   2. Special Projects - Unlocks 'Wotan'
   3. Wotan (after asking about Special Projects) - Information
   4. Dr. Amundsen (if you have Dr. A contact) - Information
   5. Sif (if you have Dr. A contact) - Information
   6. Lo (if you have Lo contact) - Information
   7. David (if you have David contact) - Information
   8. Baldur (if you have David contact) - Unlocks Mim in the Niche
   9. Noone - Information
   10. Nevermind - Walk away
2. Stare back - 3 XP in Will
3. Pry it out - 3 XP in Strength
4. Leave it be - Walk away

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Mim in the Niche - After asking the floating skull about Baldur

1. Who are you? - Information
2. What about Eclipse? - Completes David's Oldtown quest?
3. Who was Wotan? - Information
4. What is happening now? (Only after asking about Eclipse) - Information
5. Just stare back - 3 XP in Will
6. Pry it out - 3 XP in Strength
7. Leave it be - Walk away

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Hidden Break Room - after successfully unlocking
The guards leave the break room unoccupied at 20+ Records Panic

1. Charge in (At low alert) - Fight 1-2 Midgard Heavy Guard (Unarmed), Evil (1)
2. Stroll in (At low alert) - Fight 2 Midgard Heavy Guards (Unarmed) or gain cup of joe if in Heavy Midgard Security outfit
3. Grab some stuff (At high alert) - gain 2-3 of egg salad sandwich, Lattes! breakfast sandwich, 2-3 cups of Joe
4. Grab a nap (At high alert) - gain 25 HP
5. Check out the files - Information
6. Grab differentiation papers After talking to the Heart Rate Monitor Malfunction guards - fight 2 Midgard Heavy Guards (Unarmed) and gain cellular differentiation papers, or at high alert, just take the papers
7. Pull Slags documents (After checking out the files, on Hel's quest) - Fight 2 Midgard Heavy Guards (Unarmed), or at high alert gain Slags chemical study
8. Back away - Walk Away

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Heart Rate Monitor Malfunction - (in 3 Heavy Midgard Security outfit parts and Records Panic ≤ ~15)

1. Ask about the vault - Fight 2 Midgard Heavy Guard (Unarmed)
2. Ask what monitor - Raises alert
3. Ask about differentiation (After starting Cellular Questions quest) - unlock papers in the Hidden Break Room
4. Join his patrol - 2 XP in Perception, unlock various other areas in the vault
5. Jump him - Fight Midgard Heavy Guard (Unarmed)
6. Make excuses - Walk Away, raises alert

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Alert Value

Some actions will increase the hidden alert value in the vault. This is also the same panic level used in the records office (to do: consolidate these pages)

Increasing Alert

• Running away from combat (+1 alert)
• Losing combat (+1 alert)
• Winning combat (+1 alert) - tested against single guards
• Murdering Records Lady (+2ish alert)
• Soothing Stacks: Look for trouble (?)
• Soothing Stacks: Explore quietly and get caught (?)
• Vault Records hacking interruption (?)
• Heart Rate Monitor Malfunction - various (?)
• Hidden Break Room - charge in (+6 alert if you win, +2 alert if you run)

Alert levels

• At 5 alert: combat unarmed guard+hound/drone: "footsteps … responsible for tracking you down"
• At 8 alert: combat 2 unarmed guards: "two guards manage to corner you down one of the small walkways"
• At 12 alert: combat unarmed guard: "A heavily armored figure ambushes you from between two stacks of records"
• At 16 alert: combat gatling guard: "electronic whirr"
• At 20 alert: combat gatling guard+2 unarmed: "swarming with guards"

• At 20 alert: Hidden Break Room becomes unoccupied

The 4x guard encounter "Guards swarm over you like flies on Southside garbage bins" has an additional encounter condition - can be seen while the break room is still occupied but unknown what additional trigger is.