Shooter: Majestic Revelations design document version 6.4

Shooter: Majestic Revelations design document version 6.4 is a pre-release design document for Shooter: Majestic Revelations, the precursor concept to Deus Ex. Dated 02/17/98 1:38PM, the document describes concepts and game designs that existed during the early stages of the development of Deus Ex. 
Many of the concepts described in the document are similar to those in an earlier design document, design document version 5.3e dated November 1997. One notable difference is that the organization that eventually became UNATCO was now known as ATC instead of TCL (Terrorist Limitation Coalition) in the earlier design document. 
==Missions and locations==
No. 	Mission Name 	Travel Map 	Locations
Act 1	Act 1 	Act 1 	Act 1
0 	ATC 	ATC Headquarters 	HQ Building, Underground Training Facility, Equipment and R&D, Dr. Reye's Office, Mr. Manderley's Office, Weapons Training, Obstacle Course
1 	The Drug Bust 	New York - the waterfront area of Manhattan island's downtown urban ghetto 	The Docks, Ford Shick's lab, Mixer Shea's seedy Bar, The Smugglers' Warehouse, A Crack House, The 'Ton Hotel
2 	The Drug Lord 	New York, as before with the addition of a heavily defended, walled compound you only saw from afar in Mission 1	Rat's Compound, "New York locations as described in Mission 1"
3 	Why Does ATC Want You to Investigate? 	New York, as before but with the addition of off-shore locations 	Black copter landing site, Lebedev's Yacht, New York locations, as described in Mission 1
4 	Escape from ATC 	TLC Headquarters 	"As before"
5a 	Get to Hong Kong 	New York, Hong Kong 	Plastic surgeon's office, LaGuardia International Airport, "New York locations as described in Mission 1"
5b 	Find Tracer Tong 	Hong Kong 	Preferred Bar, The 'copter R&D base, Tracer Tong's Lab
6 	Get the Firmware 	Hong Kong 	Majestic 12 Technical Development Lab / Versa-Life
7a 	Save Paul 	Hong Kong 	Majestic 12 Asylum
7b 	Destroy the Ambrosia Synthesis Lab & Storage Facility	Hong Kong 	Oil Refinery Platform, Ambrosia Development Lab
Act 2	Act 2 	Act 2 	Act 2
8 	Find the Cure for Ambrosia Addiction 	Hong Kong 	Tracer Tong's lab
9 	Restore Your Brother's Mind 	Hong Kong, ATC Headquarters 	Tracer Tong's lab, ATC HQ, Jaime Reyes' apartment
10 	Find Dowd and Delay the Fall of Texas 	Central Texas 	Austin (including ruined downtown, the capitol building, Tilson & Ghoul's hidey-hole, the ammo dump, the food stores, and the general's camp), Houston, The Concentration Camp, The Texas Independent Militia HQ
11a 	Nigel Naismith 	London 	North Greenwich Station, Underground, Monkton Farleigh
11b 	Beth Sung 	Washington, D.C. 	Washington Monument, Sung's building
11c 	Mort McTavish 	Underwater Los Angeles 	Keisha's claim zone, The Retreat, The Ruins
11d 	Jacques Marnier in Area 51 	Area 51, Groom Lake 	The Little A'Le'Inn, The Base
12 	To the Vault 	Denver 	Denver International Airport, The Vault
13 	Camp David 	Camp David 	Only Camp David
14 	Mount Weather 	Mount Weather 	Mt. Weather exterior, Mt. Weather Interior
15 	Get to Bob Page 	Central Texas 	Bob Page's Estate, Adam Computer Complex
Act 3	Act 3 	Act 3 	Act 3
16 	Locate Carrier Agents 	New York (now including portions of Long Island), Houston, Texas 	New York Federal Prison (Long Island), ATC Branch Office (New York), Secret ATC Base (New York), NASA Mission Control (Houston, Texas), Downtown Houston (Texas), Downtown New York
17 	Destroy Adam's Network 	Russian Military Complex 	Russian Space Agency, Military Base Perimeter (including one nearby farm, one small town), Military Base, Missile Complex (two silos, one launch control center), Satellite Uplink Station
18 	Yamantau Mountain 	Yamantau Mountainm Russia 	Small Russian Town outside Yamatau, Yamatau Mountain (Russia), Technology Center (Yamantau Mountain)
19 	NORAD (Cheyenne Mountain) 	Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, USA 	Cheyenne Mountain (Colorado), Computer Core
20 	Orbital Solutions Inc. Reconnaissance 	Orbital Solutions Complex, South Florida 	Orbital Solutions Corporation Perimeter, Orbital Solutions R&D Building 23, Computer Complex (Building 28)
21a 	Cape Canaveral 	Cape Canaveral, Florida 	Cape Canaveral, Mission Control
21b 	Cape Canaveral 	Cape Canaveral, Florida 	Cape Canaveral, On-board the Shuttle Endeavor, Exterior Helios Space Station (Earth Orbit)
22 	Get to Helios Station! 	Orbital Solutions Inc. Complex, Florida 	Orbital Solutions Inc. R&D Complex, Orbital Solutions Inc. Launch Facilities (Florida), Orbital Solutions Inc. Launch Pad 4A, Exterior Helios Space Station (Earth Orbit)
23 	Aboard Helios Station - Stop Adam! 	Helios Space Station, Earth Orbit 	Engineering Ring, Living Quarters Ring, Science Rings, Station Exterior, Cargo Area, Medical Labs/Hospital, Central Computer Core
==Locations==
===Hong Kong===
====The Preferred Bar====
====Tracer Tong's Lab====
=====The Computer Room=====
=====The Tech Research Room=====
=====The Operating Room=====
=====The Spiders=====
====Majestic 12 Technical Development Center====
====Majestic 12 Asylum====
====Old Oil Refinery / Majestic 12 Drug Lab====
===ATC Headquarters===
====Headquarters - Main Building====
====Equipment Storage and R&D====
====Dr. Reyes' Office====
====Mr. Manderley's Office====
====Training Level - Weapons Training====
====Training Level - Obstacle course====
===New York===
====Waterfront / Harbor Area====
====Dock Area====
====Ford Schick's Lab====
====The Mixer====
====Smuggler's Warehouse====
====Crack House====
====The Ton Hotel====
===Bob Page's Estate===
====Bob Page's House and Grounds====
====The Adam Computer Lab====
==Characters==
===Allies===
Name 	Description
Katie Andrews 	The range instructor at ATC HQ, Katie is a crack shot. You don't want to run up against her in a fair fight involving any kind of firearms.Despite her youthful appearance, she's a battle-tested veteran who's as good (and tough) a teacher as she is a field agent. Some newbies think her appearance is a license to give her a hard time. They quickly learn that she's nearly as skilled in hand-to-hand techniques as she is with firearms. Range-users who give her a really hard time sometimes run up against her in the obstacle course. They don't generally give her a hard time after that.Appearance:Deceptively small, agile as can be, almost illegally cute (though you'd never want to tell her that). She most often dresses in camo-chic clothes designed to provide concealment for a variety of small arms without binding. The other agents give her a hard time about the fact that she dresses more like a field agent than the field agents do... but only once.
Nick Baldo 	An ATC computer geek and hacker extraordinary. There are countless game situations that require the player to manipulate, search and/or reconstruct computer code and data. Nick's the game who does this for you.Appearance:Nerdy, computer geek. Looks like a teenager but is actually in mid-20s. Rail-thin, long fingers just right for keyboarding, hawk-nosed, shock of long, scraggly black hair. T-shirt with computer company logo, ripped black jeans, glasses. Wouldn't look out of place in a techno club of today except for one thing - he's into body modification. Not just tattoos or piercings (though those are fine) but neural jacks, minor body augmentations, RAM chip slots in skull... Nothing TOO obvious - he's subtle - but scars and small jacks would be out of line.
Sam Carter 	Carter's the Equipment Officer for ATC, kind of the Q equivalent. He lost his leg in a mission years ago but hasn't bothered to get an up-to-date prosthesis. He's a tough, no nonsense, old-fashioned kind of guy. Takes everything literally, so joking goes clear over his head most of the time. He spends a fair amount of time talking about the good old days and how things were when he was in the field.... When he's not talking about the old days, he's generally talking about lockpicking or some physical hack or other. He's always got a ready supply of lockpicks handy and he's never found a lock he couldn't beat.Appearance:Well, he's only got one leg - the other is a prosthetic limb. The prosthetic should look totally space age but NOT human. Technology has advanced far enough that he could have a near perfect replacement for the lost leg but he sticks with his old standby, despite its whirring and clicking and buzzing and need for lubrication and stuff.His hair is stark white (what little of it is left) and he's almost never seen without his white laboratory smock. Think "Q" from the Bond Films.
Paul Denton 	J.C. Denton's brother. There's certainly a family resemblance but they have different personalities - Paul's more out-going and less serious. J.C. worries a lot that his brother, sharp as he is, will get himself in trouble someday because he isn't paranoid enough...Appearance:Think the Player Character, as described above, but older and with more than a dash of James Bond.Paul always looks sharp in a 50 years from now dressy kind of way. (Just extrapolate from modern business attire). On missions, he favors form-fitting camo outfits, tailored to the needs of the mission. Hair's always cut short, so it won't get in the way. Paul's far more concerned about his appearance and dress than J.C..
Dr. David Feng 	Tracer Tong's business partner, Feng handles the medical and cosmetic aspects of the black market augmentation business. A practical joker - just what you want in a surgeon!Appearance:Graying Oriental man. Likes to wear operating scrubs covered with (fake) blood, just to get his customers in the mood for a little slice and dice.
Dr. Joanne Frances 	She helps you build the descrambler you need in order to determine the whereabouts of three agents. Becomes an ally and helps you at certain times during this act. You hunt her down at NASA's Houston complex, behind enemy lines. You get her to help you by agreeing to get her out from behind enemy lines.Appearance:Sigourney Weaver from Aliens but not so muscular - dirty, sweaty, a little thin (she's behind enemy lines, after all) but resourceful and attractive. Dresses mostly in mud and sweat these days. Pants too big and ripped. Shirt blousy and also torn.
Joe Greene 	Greene's a journalist working for a disreputable rag along the lines of the National Enquirer. He started out a total skeptic about the whole conspiracy business but, over the years, has come to believe there's more going on in the world than most people suspect. In fact, he probably knows more about what's really going on than anyone else the player can find.He'd love to break out of the tabloid field but who's going to hire a guy with nothing on his resume but hack writing? The player can win him over by feeding him information he can use in his weekly column. And Joe reciprocates by sharing what he knows with the player and allowing him to use the column as a way to send messages to allies and enemies alike.On the down side, Joe can end up very dead if the player isn't careful about how he manages the relationship...Appearance:Disheveled, rumpled guy who looks like -- and is -- a guy with one suit to his name, one tie, one pair of nice shoes. His clothes are hopelessly out of fashion. Not that he cares -- if he had his druthers, he'd never wear a damn tie or a damn suit or a pair of fight shoes. His boss insists on a certain level of decorum in the office, however...
Chinwa Kit-Wei 	J.C.'s best friend of many years. Chinwa, Paul and J.C. went to college together and, together, decried the state of the world. Though they took different paths to get there, all vowed to fight to make the world a better place. Chinwa returned to his home in Hong Kong where he rose through the rank of the Police Tactical Unit.Appearance:With an Asian mother and African father, Chinwa looks something like Tiger Woods - part black, part Asian. However, for Tiger Woods to pass as Chinwa, he'd have to do a lot of weightlifting and probably a bunch of steroids - he's a big guy, built like a truck.In dress, he's a little flashy - favoring the increasingly popular Afro-Asian style which is both attractive and reflective of his heritage. (Think traditional Communist Chinese dress with African print coloring.) Since he doesn't have any augmentations, he's unscarred.
Anna Navarre 	An ATC augmented agent, one of the first you meet. Dresses plainly, doesn't wear makeup. Quiet and reserved. The perfect undercover agent. No one would suspect her of being anything but a librarian or a schoolteacher (to dredge up offensively sexist cliches...)Appearance:Plain, blends into the scenery. Dark hair, medium dark complexion. Vaguely Hispanic.
Dr. Jaime Reyes 	Reyes, like J.C., is a recent addition to the ATC roster. They both came over from the agency's training facility and Reyes considers J.C. a friend (though he outranks him considerably).Reyes is 30ish, of Mexican descent, and has some real problems with the current Russo-Mexican-American war situation in Texas. He has relatives down there, fighting on both sides of the conflict. He, himself, doesn't understand what's going through the head of the folks south of the old border.Reyes is emotionally ill-suited to the life of an anti-terrorist agent. He takes deaths very seriously and has a hard time following orders that make no sense (though all he does is agonize over them - he always follows them...)Appearance:Heavyset but not fat. Reyes is the white-smocked, futuristic-stethoscope-toting doctor figure. Short black hair slicked back, black-framed glasses, dark complexion, thick but nimble fingers.
Ford Schick 	This guy, better known as The Chemist, is a low-life, small-time drug synthesizer operating out of one of New York's sleazoid districts. He also happens to be the best in his craft. He just lacks ambition. J.C. can appeal to his better nature and get him back on the straight and narrow, giving him something bigger than himself to work for.The product of an upper-class, WASP, suburban, live in the gated communities in the lap of luxury childhood, Ford turned his back on his parents and their lifestyle and turned his talents to the drug trade at an early age. He's made a fair amount of mony but the whole situation nearly killed him - he's dead inside, a real low affect kind of guy, until J.C. gets hold of him and sets him straight.Appearance:A bearded, bedraggled Anthony Michael Hall on a bad day. He's unaugmented and not into body mods, but he has a few telltale scars - evidence that a couple of his clients caught him scamming (or thought they did). He's got a puckered half-moon scar below his right eye, where someone threatened to gouge it out and he's only got four fingers on one hand as a result of a stray bullet fired at Ford's ex-partner, now deceased.
Squirt 	You meet this little guy in the very first mission and, if you let him live, he'll reveal some important information and, later, offer to join you. He's smart but not well-educated and knows no life other than the life of the streets. Hard to say how old he is - could be as young as 14 or as old as 20 but he's got the survival instincts of a guy ten years his senior. He's also small and lithe enough to be a terrific tunnel rat - for exploring (and escaping in) tight spaces, there's no one better.Appearance:About 5' 3" and skinny as a rail, he's a kid with just a hint of a moustache (which he cultivates to make himself look older - he doesn't succeed). Should have some kind of crazy hair - weird cut, weirder colors. Lots of fake body mods and tattoos. He wears pretty non-descript clothes but covers up as much as he can with found items designed to look like armor - bits of tires as should and knee-pads, chain belt, etc.
Diane Tisdale 	Tisdale is the player's virtual link to HQ and, later, to his home base. Though you meet her in person at HQ< most of your interaction with Tisdale is via your datalink.The idea is to pair agents in the field with computer guys, like Tisdale, in the home office, pair action-oriented guys with info-gatherers to achieve the highest level of mission efficiency. These gatherers describe themselves as your "Eyes and Ears" but everyone calls them EE's.Tisdale can do database search and other kinds of research, can download information to her field partner during a mission and can "speak" directly into J.C.'s head - silent communication with the home office is available at all times.Unfortunately, Tisdale gets killed at one point in the game and Adam appropriates her voice and image, taking advantage of your affection for her, in order to manipulate you through your datalink.Appearance:In the flesh, Tisdale is really attractive and a little flirtatious (in a Bond.Moneypenny sort of way). She's young, sexy, slight English accent. Guaranteed to send shivers up and down our predominantly male audience's spines. (I'm partial to long, straight, dark hair and a natural, healthy look - as opposed to either the anorexic supermodel or pneumatic TV/movie star looks, but beyond that, I leave it to the artists to fill in the blanks with regard to her appearance...)Question: Any problem with having Tisdale be just as flirtatious with a female incarnation of J.C. Denton? I think it's fine. Any objections?Note: The player occasionally runs into Tisdale in person, but most of the time Denton interacts with his buddy virtually - she's usually presented to the player as a translucent holo image, head and shoulders only, floating in space, obscuring the 3D scene as little as possible.
James "Tracer" Tong	Tracer, J.C.'s first ally after he leaves ATC, is a doctor but he's more mad-scientist/technology freak. An ace technologist and biohacker, he's renowned in the black market augmentation field as a black marketeer can be and still be effective.Born in Hong Kong before it reverted to the Chinese in '97, Tracer survives and thrives in the repressive environment of his native country. Though the government places serious restrictions on body modifications, enforcement efforts are lax, so people come from far and wide to get themselves upgraded. He has more contacts in different fields of endeavor than anyone on Earth (or, at least, in Hong Kong) and greater expertise with human augmentation than anyone else alive.Though he's loyal to those who earn his loyalty, he's a greedy guy who makes sure he gets paid for his effort. Nothing Buddhist and anti-possession about him - he wants to get his hands on every new gadget that comes down the pike. Because of this, his base of operations has the appearance of a garbage heap or a flea market. (This situation that isn't helped by the fact that he often has to move his base of operations to stay ahead of some over-zealous politician out to make a name for himself by shutting down the body mod trade...).Unwilling to ask his clients to do anything he wouldn't do himself, Tracer is a walking pin-cushion. He bristles with augmentations - everything in the catalog, even though he doesn't use the mods particularly. (In other words, even though he has vision like an eagle, is as fast as a jaguar and strong as an elephant, he doesn't tend to make use of those capabilities in his daily life.)Appearance:Tracer is in his late 50s and so thin he makes Nick Baldo look like a tub.The most important thing to remember is that he doesn't care a whit about his appearance or hygiene or anything like that (except when he's in the operating room and such things become important). His skin is pale and leathery. His teeth are yellow and oddly skewed. His nails are long (though not so long that they interfere with manipulating the machines he's created to perform delicate augmentation surgery)He certainly doesn't bother about plastic surgery to pretty himself up after he puts himself under the automated knife of one of his augmentation devices. (He's just going to rip out his old mods as new ones become available anyway...)Basically, Tracer looks and dresses like the archetypal Confucius character but with scars that really would scare small children if he ever appeared in public.
Jock 	A pilot who ferries you into and out of mission locations, usually in a commandeered black helicopter acquired during an early mission.Jock was once a test-pilot for the US Air Force, based out of Groom Lake's Area 51 complex. He always suspected weird stuff was going on there, far below the surface, in places he wasn't cleared to go, but he never saw a hint of alien activity or any other stuff conspiracy buffs believe.You meet Jock in the Preferred Bar in Hong Kong and he offers to take you to Tracer Tong if you pay him. If you get him some hardware - a 'copter, to start, and later even faster more impressive flying machines - and he'll take you anywhere you want to go. All he asks is, if you and he ever split, he gets to keep the hardware.The guy is never as happy as when he's in the thick of battle. The black 'copter gig he was part of just seemed silly to him and more than a little unsavory. When you find him, he's morese and sullen but as you draw him into your circle of allies, he starts to liven and lighten up, becoming once again the copter jock he used to be. He much prefers fighting for the good guys. After a while, he sticks with you out of loyalty, rather than greed.Appearance:In his younger days, Jock looked like Tom Cruise in Top Gun. Now somewhat older, he still favors the flight-suit-and-shades look of the fighter jock, but he's a bit heavier (though not flabby) and his sandy hair is thinning some. Square-shouldered, square-jawed, six-footer.
===Enemies===
Name 	Description
Jojo Fine 	A smalltime drug dealer in the sleazy New York dock district. This guy's total scum. He preys on the weak and helpless and only confronts J.C. when he's certain he has a numerical advantage. Under any pressure at all, he cracks, revealing himself to be a real wimp. Man, does he overcompensate most of the time, though. Give him a gun or a knife and someone smaller than himself and he's a terror.Appearance:Flashy dresser, very chic in a low rent kind of way. LOTS of body mods but they're all cosmetic, designed to scare people who don't know any better. Lots of chains, fake weapons, tattoos, piercings, weird hair (color and style). Jojo hardly looks human anymore.
Georges Genet 	A friend who becomes one of Adam's controlled carrier agents.Before becoming an ATC augmented agents, Genet was in the employ of the DGSE, the French foreign intelligence organization. Attracted by the opportunity to work with representatives of many nations in a worldwide effort to eradicate the growing threat of terrorism, he sought and was given permission to join the international organization as one of its first agents.His size and girth make him less effective as a field agent than he might otherwise be - he doesn't blend in well with a crowd - but for certain types of missions (those requiring immense strength, stamina and sheer will), there's no one better. If he weren't strong as an ox even without his augmentations, he'd find himself the butt of a lot of offensive jokes about his size. As is, no one gives him a hard time.To his frustration, the game finds him assigned to guard the Adam computer. Genet ends up carrying a portion of the Adam code and must be stopped by the player before he can download it.Appearance:A squat, powerful bear of a man, Genet is unnaturally short and really wide. He's about as close as the game gets to a comic book figure in appearance. Think Gerard Depardieu with about a foot lopped off of him or (for the pulp fans in the audience), picture the Monk character from Doc Savage.
Gunther Hermann 	An ATC augmented agent, one of the first you meet. Becomes a carrier agent under Adam's control.Appearance:The very picture of an Aryan gentleman.
Alex Jacobson 	An ATC augmented agent who starts out an ally but becomes a carrier agent under Adam's control. Smart as a whip. Creative thinker. A guy who puts what everyone takes to be two and two together and comes up with five much of the time - and who happens to be right more often than not...Appearance:Average height and build, Sandy blond hair with some hints of red. Thick glasses. Really good-looking guy.
Keisha 	The leader of a piratical scavenger gang living in sunken Los Angeles, Keisha is gruff and uncooperative. Nothing but trouble. She kicks butt, takes your stuff and doesn't EVER bother to ask questions.Kicking her butt is a real pleasure...Appearance:Keisha's a stunningly gorgeous, amazonian woman, large-boned, six feet tall, with muscles like no woman outside of a comic book and peumatic breats to match. She has long black hair tied in a ponytail and a face stuck in a perpetual frown. Think Lara Croft on steroids.
George Kittman 	A diehard ATC guy. Refuses to believe you when you explain he's being manipulated.Appearance:Think G. Gordon Liddy. A real upright Marine type with square shoulders, brushcut, and nasty looking shades.
Juan Ivanovich Lebedev 	A Majestic 12 deep cover operative and known druglord. Lebedev is a notorious Vodka drinker and heartless terrorist. When sobor, he's a master tactician and a genuine leader of men. When drunk, he's a slob. His aides spend a great deal of time keeping him under wraps when he's been drinking.Loves to brandish his fancy six-shooter when dealing with defenseless folks who need to be impressed by how tough he is. As soon as things start to look bad, the six-shooter goes away and the futuristic elephant gun comes out.Some people think he's augmented but no one knows for sure. (He isn't, being pathologically afraid of needles, but he wants everyone to think he is.) Sports a bunch of fake tattoos (again, no needles, so no real tattoos). If this information gets out, he can be humiliated easily to great effect.He's also crazy - there's no reason for him to be in the front lines of the Ambrosia operation other than personal pleasure. The craziness may also explain why he doesn't mind being used by Majestic 12 to frame his homeland for a crisis it really has nothing to do with...Appearance:A modern day Pancho Villa with the flushed face of a drinker and the off-center eyes of a guy who isn't quite all there. He carries an old-fashioned, pearl-handled six-shooter on his right hip and a state-of-the-art gun of about the same size but with enough firepower to shoot through schools.
Dr. Manderley 	Manderley is the player character's boss at ATC. He has an almost professorial air about him -- commanding respect through his intellect rather than through an imposing physique. Some of ATC's field agents express their contempt for Manderley -- never to his face but always behind his back -- because he came from Intel rather than Field Ops.Appearance:An owlish man, once thin but filling out, now that he's past the age of distinguished gray and is heading toward mandatory retirement. Tends toward old-fashioned tweed jackets, bow ties and pants with a razor crease that's really quite impressive. Manderley's one bow to vanity is his refusal to wear glasses he sorely needs. Spends a lot of time squinting unnecessarily. Burst in on him at the wrong time and you'll catch him snatching reading glasses from his reddening face. In appearance, think Professor Waverley from the old Man from UNCLE TV show and you've got it.
Bob Page 	One of the 19 members of Majestic 12's voting leadership. Creator of the Adam computer. An immensely wealthy, power-hungry, 40-ish control freak, technogeek who lives in the Pacific Northwest. He is SuperNerd - everything a nerd with too much money fifty-odd years in the future with access to secret high technology would be. He has a datalink, has had his tiny frame augmented, and has handsome (altered) features, but still manages to have unkempt hair and doesn't know how to dress, making him a geek at first glance. He is intelligent and manipulative, and he will be the guy who shuts Adam down the first time.Lives in a heavily fortified estate riddled with secret passages, state-of-the-art defense systems, etc on a hill outside of Austin, Texas.Appearance:A good geek gone bad. Wavy, unkempt red hair in a hideous pageboy cut. Coke-bottle glasses. Kind of goofy looking despite the expensive, albeit casual, clothes he wears, the manicures, and so forth.(Okay, so Page is the Bill Gates/Richard Garriott love child, so sue me - just change him up enough that neither one of them is tempted to sue...)
General Francisco Castro 	The leader of the RMA troops laying siege to Austin, Texas, Castro is a shrewd leader and no one's fool. Though he has no formal military training, he rose through the ranks of the most dangerous and deadly drug families and has a solid, if solely intuitive, grasp of military strategy. Unlike most of his peers in the drug trade, he was a voracious reader of history, biography and radical political literature.Castro claims to be the illegitimate grandson of the late Fidel Castro, but it's all lies. Castro is NOT his real name - he adopted it, along with the grandson role, as a young man, looking for a way to set himself apart. Though he stole the name, his adopted grandfather would likely be proud to have the man in the family. He's a solid revolutionary and a charismatic leader second to none. Even the staunchest American patriot might find himself swayed by Castro's anti-American rhetoric, given enough time. The man will likely run the Russo-Mexican State of Tejas, if the bad guys win...Appearance:Castro dresses in precisely the manner of his namesake. Green fatigues, combat boots, revolutionary-style baseball cap. He has the bushy beard, too. He's trim, fit, just beginning to gray at the temples and in the beard.
"Rat" 	New York's highest ranking drug dealer at the street level and a genuinely menacing figure He's little more than a middle man between the real powers that be and the small-time hustlers who work for him (guys like Jojo Fine). However, he commands an army of mid- and low-level goons and that makes him dangerous. He can overwhelm his foes - including J.C. Denton - with an army of expendable thugs.And then there are the rats... He's always surrounded by them - they follow him as if he were the Pied Piper (when, in fact, he simply dispenses food and drugs that tickle the pleasure centers of the rodents' brains - often the same drugs he dispenses to human customers.) He likes rats better than people and they return the affection. Mess with the Rat and you could find yourself fending off a swarming army of rats.Appearance:He looks like the animal that gave him his name. His hair is so thick and covers so much of his body, it looks like fur. The parts of his body not covered by hair are covered with fur coats and fuzzy pants. Some who've seen him naked insist he even has a bit of a tail... His face is long and thin and his teeth, whether naturally or by design, are sharp and pointed. His nose twitches when he gets angry but the effect is anything but comical.
Insects & Animals 	By midgame, Adam should have an army of roaches, spiders, mice, rats, dogs, mountain lions - you name it- to use as his spies and soldiers. The player should never know when that animal over there is just an animal and when it's one of Adam's controlled creatures, eyes through which Adam can spy on you. Worse, you never know when it's just a scout and when it's the first of a million roaches about to drop from the ceiling on your head.Appearance:Obviously, these should look a lot like the original animal with just a HINT of a control device sticking out of some part or another. A really observant player should be able to tell but it wouldn't bother me if telling required a magnifying glass and/or sticking your head all but in the mouth of a slavering Doberman pinscher.
Thugs, Goons and Cannon Fodder	In addition to NPC's with "speaking parts," we'll need good guys, bad guys, and neutrals whose primary role is to fill out our world and/or to hinder the player's progress through maps and missions. This hindrance can be active (combat-oriented) or passive (innocents pushing baby carriages who just get in the way and so forth).In a drug-interdiction mission, these background NPC's might include users and hookers and guys to load and unload cargo, as well as guys with weapons to defend the ill-gotten goods. In ATC HQ missions, we'll need non-augmented agents and the like. In investigatory missions involving legitimate businesses, we'll need secretaries and security guards. In military missions we'll need soldiers.We want to ensure an escalating level of difficulty during the game. Thugs in mission one should be relatively easy to dispatch. Their boss, Jojo, should be somewhat tougher. Later, in the Yamantau complex, the thugs should be tougher even than Jojo and there should be some kind of "boss" equivalent guarding the computer you need to get to.Appearance:Some missions will share "Generic Enemies." Other missions will require unique ones. Details to come...
===Neutrals===
Name 	Description
Toby Atanwe 	Marshall of the Los Angeles claim authority. Atanwe was born in the New Hong Kong district of Lagos, Nigeria but moved to the Los Angeles area to make a fortune as a salvager. He did pretty well for himself, staking a pretty good underwater claim in what used to be Brentwood, but quickly established himself as a better arbitrator than salvager. He enjoyed dealing with people more than he enjoyed diving and interacting with fish.Even-handed and not afraid of a fight, he dispenses justice among the legitimate, licensed Los Angeles salvage companies and individuals. Claim jumpers know him to be a harsh but fair Marshall.Appearance:A big man with dark black skin. Blacker robes. Underneath, black clothes and a wicked automatic weapon (which he almost never has to draw).
Dr. Jennifer Blanchard 	Blanchard is the doctor aboard the experimental space station you reach and board in Act 3. She's waited all her life to make a trek into space and she' not happy about the way it's going, what with a marauding AI taking control. She'll do whatever it takes to restore the mission to its original state.She's quite senior, as space medicine specialists go, and was one of the first people shipped to the station when construction really got underway.Among other things, she can implant what appears to be an alien augmentation artifact in your head (which allows Adam to download himself into your brain - safely).Appearance:Blanchard is attractive in a clean and wholesome sort of way, with short-cut brown hair and fine features. Under ordinary circumstances, she, like everyone on the station, wears a pristine one-piece, zippered jumpsuit, giving no indication of rank but revealing immediately the job function of the person wearing it. Medical personnel wear aqua (the official scrubs color of hospitals everywhere, even in space...). If the situation gets dicey she dons a futuristic (from 1997 perspective) spacesuit that reveals nothing about her looks, rank or appearance.
Dr. Harry Chiang, Physicist 	An experimental physicist on board the space station Helios, Chiang is a Majestic 12 guy and has been for some time. He's not a bad man, just a misguided one who believes mankind needs strong leadership and a world government if it is to survive. He knows some of what's going on but not all. He has an intensely practical side that has two effects on the story: First, he's into more than just theory and has a solid working knowledge of high explosives; second, he may believe in the idea of centralized rule but he'll be damned if he wants a !@#%# machine running things. He'll come to your aid in a heartbeat.Appearance:A small, dark-haired, dark-eyed man from what used to be Taiwan, Chiang wears the white jumpsuit of the Helios researcher and has little experience wearing spacesuits, should it come to that.
General Michael "Sharky" D'onofrio	D'Onofrio's in charge of America's armed forces. A paranoid and untrusting man, especially given the situation and the setting. After you win Sharky's confidence he tries to issue commands to you, as if you were one of his soldiers.Appearance:A stocky bearded man in full military regalia. Lotsa lettuce.
Stanton Dowd 	At one time one of the five-member ruling council of the Illuminati, Dowd was an old man when he was ousted by Majestic 12 in their unexpected coup. He is now an ancient man but still has fire in his eyes and in his belly. Since Majestic 12 successfully kicked the Illuminati from power he has endeavored to fight them in all their incarnations. He is in battle-torn Austin acting as the commanding officer of the defending US/Texan forces. He doesn't take any crap - his words are crisp, his sentences terse, and he makes you feel like he belongs in charge. He's a natural born leader, demanding respect. He has an intense hatred for Majestic 12 and, once you earn his trust, will volunteer enough information about the Illuminati stuff to keep you going (the enemy of your enemy is your friend...) and will tell you anything he can about Majestic 12.Note: Stanton Dowd is not his real name - no one know what that is. He's also had a fair amount of cosmetic surgery so he could continue to lead and active, public life without being hunted down and killed by Majestic 12.Appearance:Physically, Dowd is something like Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars. He looks old, but has a commanding presence and sharp eyes, and wears his adopted uniform stiffly.
Alexei Lyubovich Gagarin 	A member of the Russian Defense Ministry, Gagarin is based in a Russian missile complex. He gives you part of the information you need to reprogram the Russian missile Adam plans on launching.Appearance:Mid-20s, uniformed military guy.
Andrew Glick 	Glick is a loopy conspiracy nut. He sees conspiracies, government coverups and aleisn everywhere. He's a crabby, disheveled ex-military man whose musculature has atrophied badly. In addition to looking somewhat grotesque, Glick has a serious hygiene problem. He talks like Adam - not the computer in the game, but the cook from Northern Exposure. Think a cross between the Northern Exposure guy and Randy Quaid in Independence Day. Basically, this is not a guy you'd take too seriously under most circumstances.Appearance:A plump guy heading toward fat. Has several interesting moles. If you remove his ever-present, moth-eaten military cap you'll find a scrap of tin-foil designed to prevent mind-control transmissions from penetrating his skull!
Sean Grey 	Sean is the ATC obstacle course instructor. He's mostly a source of information and, later in the game, a friend who turns into a foe. He talks you through the obstacle course (i.e., he's the voice you hear during the tutorial).Appearance:Take a generic guy and give him a beard and moustache. This is a guy so non-descript he'd be a piece of cake to imitate, if one had sufficient disguise skills.
Margaret Williams-Hamner 	The second woman Vice-President of the United States, Williams-Hamner is as hard as nails and about as sentimental. A graduate of VMI, she rose quickly through the ranks of the US Navy and even more quickly through the political ranks - she moved straight from Virginia governor to Vice-President.Williams Hamner is an astute politician, a phenomenal fund-raiser and a no-nonsense, totally ethical woman whose popularity ensures that she will be the nation's next president IF the nation survives.If you fail to save the President's life in Mt. Weather, she steps up and takes charge in a major way - she was born to lead.Appearance:Think Jessica Lange in conservative business attire.
Michael Hamner 	The VP's husband is a lawyer who supported his wife's political aspirations but not to the extent of giving up his law practice.Though not an active member of Majestic 12's leadership, he has represented their interests at times and knows of the group's existence and some of its goals. He's a dupe who discovers too late that he's been used.Appearance:Think Al Gore.
Zachary J. Hunt 	Hunt is the Secretary of Defense of the United States of America. But first and foremost, he's a Texan. His political opponents have gone so far as to accuse him of caring more about his home state than he does about his country. There's more than a little truth to that.Though he normally wears an earnest smile to go along with his normally friendly demeanor, he's (understandably) soured by the situation in Texas. He's in no mood to be trifled with. And when he's in such a mood, the ex-Texas Ranger, ex-Marine is a valuable guy to have at your side in a fight, despite his advancing age.The most important thing, from a story standpoint, about Hunt is that, like the President's half-dozen most trusted advisors, he has a minor, but critical, augmentation unlike anyone else's. This one is a highly secure data-storage module that contains the final "key" that unlocks the nuclear launch mechanism. The reader for this module is found in Mt. Weather, and nowhere else. (Though there's rumored to be a backup reader somewhere, no one in the story has any idea where it is...) For Majestic 12 to pull of its plan, they need to get Hunt or, at least, his module to Mt. Weather along with the rest of the government leaders. The fact that he was able to slip out of Washington and get to Texas threw Majestic 12 a major curve...Hunt is an intelligent man who usually listens to reason. However, your far-fetched story about secret societies and schemes to assassinate the entire government in one fell swoop doesn't fly until you allow him to see through your datalink (the way you did with Dr. Reyes). Show him what's up and he's completely helpful. He's a good, compassionate person and a competent Secretary of Defense (albeit a bit given to impulse, particularly where the neck he's sticking out is his own). All in all, the key of guy you want back in power.Appearance:Hunt has a huge head capped with salt-and-pepper hair, more gray than black these days. His hands also seem out-sized and when you shake hands with him, his grip enfolds your whole hand. Hunt is never without his Lyndon Johnson style cowboy hat, whether in military garb or conservative business suit.
Henry Jeffries 	Orbital Solutions scientist, helps you build the device you need to get into the outer airlock once you get to the Helios space station. Based in the Orbital Solutions R&D center near Cape Canaveral. This guy's been in the space industry forever and doesn't hesitate to dispense wordly wisdom about everything from life to love to rockets. The younger guys are sick of it but he's almost always right.Appearance:Older guy, white hair, white mustache, white lab coat. Pocket protector.
Mark Keyes 	Keyes is an agent assigned to the communications center of a small regional ATC office. He helps J.C. establish the location of three augmented carrier-agents Adam is using to move himself around. He knows how the homing beacons in these agents operate.This guy's a career agent, going nowhere and knows it. Paranoid. Sees the chance to get in on a big operation as his ticket out of his current rut. He's wrong.Appearance:Mid-30's, totally non-descript. The kind of guy you'd pass on the street and never notice. Perfect serial killer.
Al Killian 	Evan Santo's assistant. He's dead when you find him but, even in death, he may provide some clues.Appearance:No telling what this guy looked like in life - he's a bloated, gaseous corpse when you discover him.
Tom Landing 	Landing's an Orbital Solutions launch specialist who he helps you program the cargo vessel you use to reach the Helios space stationSarcastic, witty, sharp as a tack. Closet rock n roller rebellious guy.Appearance:Insists on wearing band t-shirts under his regulation lab coat.
Robert Leung 	Leung is responsible for bringing money-grubbing salvagers - pirates, really - into the idyllic place known as The Retreat. This situation has made him a very nervous man.When he speaks to you, he spends most of his time anguishing over his mistakes and pouring out admissions of guilt that hardly match his "crimes." He begs pathetically for your help in getting rid of the scavengers he brought into The Retreat to help defray the costs of keeping the place going (but who now threaten its very existence). He's afraid he's doomed the place in a misguided attempt to save it.If you see him around any of the other citizens of The Retreat, he gets all shifty-eyed and tries to escape conversation ("Busy, busy... got to get back to work..."). He doesn't want you spilling the beans about his involvement in The Retreat's problems. When cornered in public, he fidgets and stammers. If you help him, he gets all apologetic and urges you to keep the whole sordid story between the two of you...Appearance:Leung is a well-dressed, middle-aged man of unknown Oriental descent. His face is etched with lines of worry and the bags under his eyes are evidence of his restless nights.
Jacques Marnier 	Once an Illuminati leader, now a dead body.Appearance:He should look kind of emaciated and blue and stiff. The around around his skull implant scar should be kind of puckered. Not to get too morbid, I'm seeing Rock Hudson as he looked when he appeared on the Doris Day show before he announced he had AIDS - a guy who was once a strapping, vital guy but lost it toward the end.
Mort McTavish 	Another ex-Illuminati guy, McTavish has given up and now lives in the undersea area of sunken Los Angeles known as The Retreat.McTavish appears calm and relaxes, but that's really just the outward manifestation of the fact that he's a beaten man just waiting to die. He wants nothing more than to be left alone and speaks of the state of the world above water with bitterness punctuated by soft laughter.He'll tell you anything you want to know just so you'll go away and leave him alone.Appearance:McTavish is a tell, pudgy man with disheveled blonde hair sticking up in all directions.
Philip Riley Mead 	The President of the United States isn't by nature a dour man but when you meet him in Mt. Weather, Mead is not happy about the state of the nation. He's also not happy about being held prisoner by people he thought were his friends and political allies. He's especially unhappy that his wife and children are threatened too.From Majestic 12's perspective, Mead is important as both a symbol of the nation's stability (meaning they're rather co-opt him than kill him) and as the keeper of a portion of the nuclear "key." Mead, like his advisors, has an augmentation unlike anyone else's, a highly secure data-storage module that contains a portion of the code-key that unlocks the nuclear launch mechanism.Mead is an intelligent man, a good, compassionate person, but not an inspirational leader. (Many of his colleagues in Mt. Weather wonder if the situation might not have come to a head if a more charismatic, forceful man had been in office.) Though not perfect, Mead is the kind of guy you want in power - though he may never lead the nation to glory, neither is he likely to lead it too far astray in a vain attempt to secure his place in history.Appearance:Mead is, well, presidential. Tall, in reasonably good shape, great posture. Smiles a lot. Has hair that's just graying at the temples. Wears the garb of the professional politician, circa 2052. Has a penchant for loud ties and socks.
Philip Mead II 	The First Son is seven years old and a real handful. A total surprise, given his parents' age, he's been pretty spoiled. Rambunctious, curious, intelligent but not always sensible, he has a tendency to wander off and get himself in trouble. He loves computers and can't wait to get a body mod, something his parents assure him he will never get...Appearance:Shorts and t-shirt kind of kid (think Gap Kids), Phil Jr. is a kid with a cowlick that never stays in place and always has dirt under his fingernails.
Rachel Mead 	The First Lady is a strong woman who, like so many women before her, gave up a career (as a university professor of history) to support her husband in his political aspirations.Her background can provide lots of clues into the genesis and history of secret societies like the Illuminati and its arms and off-shoots.Appearance:Mary McDonnell in Independence Day.
Sarah Mead 	The First Daughter is seventeen and almost as much of a handful as her brother. As much as one can, given her station in life, she sneaks off with boys, smokes a little dope, flirts with the Secret Service guys. A real pain.Appearance:Mila Jovovich on a good day...
Jerry Monroe 	You meet Jerry in The Retreat. He's almost always in the presence of Mort McTavish, a man he worships for his seeming serenity and patience.Jerry spends his days lifting weights. He's a gentle giant but he's also fiercely, almost childishly devoted to the peace and sanctity of The Retreat and the person he feels more represents those qualities - Mort McTavish. When McTavish and/or the sanctity of the place he loves is threatened, he gets angry; and, when angry, you have to wonder if even a bullet from an elephant gun would stop him...He almost always has a set of weights in hand which, if necessary he can use as a weapon (not that he really needs one...)Jerry is silent to the point that many in The Retreat, despite its small size, believe him to be mute. (He isn't - he's just deaf in one ear and nearly so in the other. Besides, he doesn't have much to say.)Appearance:Jerry is a huge man, better than seven feet tall and well-muscled. There's no telling how old he is - could be 20, could be mid-40's. Cross Andre the Giant with Lou Ferrigno and you've got it.
Nigel Naismith 	Known as "Nige," Naismith is hiding out in the London undercity. He was once a ruling member of the Illuminati, but now he's a bit nutes. His face twitches uncontrollably. Despite his quirks, he's a very successful purveyor of black market weapons and gadgets and, as such, can be quite useful. He also has a lot of useful information about Majestic 12 and life in the underground. Buy his wares and/or offer him sufficient exotic food items and he'll spill his guys on most any topic. Most of what he says will even be true.Appearance:Naismith has a long face with a bulbous nose and defeat in his eyes. His face and balding pate are smeared with dirt, and he wears a tattered, dity, once-expensive conservative 3-piece suit. Oddly for someone living among scroungers in an underground community of mole people, he looks surprisingly plump.
Dr. Nikolai Nickolaievich Vranski 	A Russian space scientist with a strong patriotic streak, Vranski is appalled at the state of his country. It infuriates him to see the Russo-Mexican ruffians - goddamned drug dealers - operating in the open, with no opposition from the elected government. And Vranski in a rage is something to see.Vranski is kind of rumpled and given to drinking too much vodka but he can be a holy terror. His tirades are loud and long. If he had his druthers, he'd probably support a return to the old Soviet Socialist way of doing things but anyone who opposes the RMA and has the support of the government is treated like a long lost friend. Having a couple of drinks with him - while it may not do anything for your performance - will win him over completely.Appearance:Think Boris Yeltsin in a lab coat.
Phibes 	Phibes is one of the loonies you meet in the Majestic 12 psychiatric facility when you go to rescue Paul. Though he's now out and about, he's still a loony when you encounter him in the undercity of London (assuming you set him free in your first encounter...)He has a habit of raising his arms and waving them wildly, for no reason at all. He tends to run everywhere he goes, and is convinced that he's "Phibes, manservant to the Majestic Alliance." There are times when he seems totally clued in on what Majestic 12 is up to and other times when he's just totally wrong.He can point out "The Grand Vizier" (actually Nigel), if you persist in conversation with him.Appearance:He's very long-limbed and skinny. Looks like an india rubber man at the circus sideshow. No body hair at all, bulging eyes too big for an emaciated face dominated by a BIG nose. Filthy clothes, filthy face.
Jim Phifer 	A guard at the front gate of Austin's Capital building, Jim is silent and won't make eye contact until you show him the locket you got from Anna Pruett. Upon seeing the locket, he gets all mushy and asks questions and offers to let you in if you agree to take her a message.Appearance:Jim is a strong-jawed kid (maybe 18...). He's tall and thin, with sinewy muscles and leathery skin despite his youth - a real Texas rancher type. As a volunteer he doesn't wear a uniform except, possibly, the cowboy hat, big belt buckle and pointy boots of the urban cowboy.
Anna Pruett 	Anna is a homeless Austinite displaced by the war. She's the one who gives you the locket to give to Jim Phifer, which will get you in the capitol gate. She carries on about wanting to see Jim. She's on the other side of the front, and can't get to the capitol.A little food makes her more than a little grateful - she has a mother to feed... Anna's one of those people who seem to good to be true but both good and true. You just want to protect her.Appearance:Anna is pretty, though dirty, a little too thin and dressed in rags. She has big puppy dog eyes. Think supermodel waif, maybe Kate Moss...
Gilbert Renton 	A waterfront saint, Renton makes a meager living running a flop house hotel in New York's Battery Park district. But his true vocation is saving the world, or at least the piece of it in which he lives. He truly believes he can make a difference in the loves of forgotten, downtrodden people in a deserted ubran ghetto. He's completely misguided but unshakable in his faith.The guy may be self-deluding but he knows just about everything legal that goes on in this area. Until J.C. gets into a shooting situation, Renton will be happy to spill his guys about anyone and everyone in the neighborhood.Appearance:Picture the most evangelical, crazy-ass preacher in the world and take the religion out of him. He's a conservative dresser favoring plain black suits but his garb stands in marked contrast to everything else about him - he's a wild-eyed, enthusiastic, fellow who almost froths at the mouth when he gets going on a subject he's passionate about (which is nearly all the time). Fred Thompson could have played him (before he left Hollywood for Washington...)
Sandra Renton 	Sandra is Gilbert Renton's daughter. She doesn't want to live in New York, but she has no choice - without her, her father wouldn't survive ten minutes. He'd give away all his money, forget to eat, wouldn't ever sleep ("Not so long as one soul remains in need of my assistance!").She's too young to be living this kind of life and no longer as innocent as she deserves to be. She's seen too much. She may even have a nasty drug habit, something her save-the-world father is too busy to notice.Appearance:Fiona Apple on a bad day. Emaciated, depressed, living from minute to minute, expecting nothing from life other than to be her father's companion and helper. Shapeless, non-descript dresses conceal a waiflike body. The heroin-chic look but all for the wrong reasons.
Sal 	Sal is the bodyguard of Robert Leung, business manager of The Retreat. He's a crazy survivalist and a grumpy guy who doesn't like strangers - they always make his work that much harder... If you save his life, he tells you not to think he owes you a favor - he's ready to die.Appearance:Sal is short, stocky and well-muscled. He dresses the part of the survivalist to the hilt - military gear, beret, combat boots... He bristles with weapons almost to the point where it's humorous. (He's the only non-salvage guy who does wear weapons, in fact.) Imagine Bob Hoskins if he worked out for a solid year.
Evan Santo 	The Retreat's handyman, Santo is a trained engineer who feigns being just a guy with a tool belt and exposed butt crack. Burly and gruff, under ordinary circumstances, he's pretty weak when you find him. (He's been through an underwater submarine crash and has been incarcerated by Keisha for some time.)Appearance:Big and gruff with large hands that prove surprisingly soft and dexterous. He's never without his tool belt. Like many in The Retreat, he rarely wears more clothes than he has to - it's not like there's any sun or cold to protect oneself again.
Jordie "Mixer" Shea 	A big, bruising bartender who's lived and worked in New York's Battery Park area since he was a kid, like his father before him and his father before him. He mixes a mean drink, knows when to slip a trouble-making drunk a mickey and keeps a BIG metal bat behind the bar for emergencies. Oh, and there's the little matter of some brawling augmentations and a primitive skull gun for when the action gets truly serious.He knows plenty about who's doing what to whom and is the best source of information about illegal goings on in this area. He'll talk, as long as you bribe him and then keep buying (and drinking) his watered down liquor. Stop drinking, he stops talking - very dangerous down here. Of course, if you can best him in a brawl he'll talk, too...Appearance:Big, scarred, brute of a man. His augmentations are low, low grade. Scarring is terrible and his brawling arms are poorly disguised prostheses - not the elegant, internal upgrades J.C. and the ATC augmented agents have.
Lisa Shepard 	Shepard, an environmental specialist aboard the Helios, is a brusque, no-nonsense woman who's appalled when she discovered the station was to have been used by Majestic 12 in military/rule the world ventures. She's even more appalled when she learns the station is under the control of a computer! Mostly, however, she's concerned about the family she left down on Earth. What will they do if she never returns?...Appearance:Shepard's a woman just entering middle age but not quite looking like it yet. Call it a very well-preserved late-30's. She wears the white jumpsuit of a station researcher.
Walton "Bud" Simons 	The Texas capitol's chief of security. This guy's in his mid-40's, a grizzled army veteran. He ought to be a leader but never wanted the responsibility. He seems friendly enough - and is - but you don't want to get on his bad side. When he gets angry, his eyes take on a shark-like quality that signals imminent violence. When he gets that look in his eyes, someone pays. Usually, someone dies. He's never without his gun though you get the feeling he'd almost rather kill an enemy with his bare hands. Bud is suspicious of almost everyone, not a bad quality in a security chief.Appearance:Simons is tall, thin, with prominent, angular features and dark brown hair that's long in the back but short on top and sides. He eschews uniforms in favor of jeans and casual shirts, favoring dark colors.
The Smuggler 	Ask this guy his name and he'll just say "You don't need to know." Best to leave it at that. This guy isn't a bad sort - he's just trying to make a living providing goods and services to people who can't get stuff through normal channels anymore. He doesn't break the law...much. Okay, so he breaks the law all the time, but it's in a good cause.Appearance:Who knows? This guy seems like a vampire. He stays to the shadows. You never get a good look at him. Turn your back on him and he's gone when you turn back to face him. Weird, mysterious, eerie. Is he real? Is he human?
Dr. Joseph Stoneham 	Stoneham is a senior guy at Orbital Solutions. He's always known about Majestic 12 but has lived in denial as they've taken more and more daily control of Orbital Solutions' business. Still, working for whackos who want to rule the world seemed a small price to pay for the privilege of working in a lab with seemingly unlimited funding, unlimited resources and no deadlines. Still, the knowledge that a nearly omnipotent machine may soon be in charge spurs him to help you.He's kind of a cave-dweller who reacts badly to bright lights. He sees no point in using a one syllable word when a three syllable one is available.Appearance:Prematurely white-haired and given to lab coats and pocket-protects, Stoneham is stoop-shouldered and thin. He's obviously spent too much time alone, in the dark, peering through his half-glasses at the computer screens or at the view screen of electron microscopes.
Beth Sung 	Beth is already dead when the player finds her. She was an Illuminati boss, and after the fall, watched with Majestic 12's movements in Washington, DC with intense paranoia, convinced that they were looking for her all the while. Turns out she was rightAppearance:Beth is (was) a tiny Chinese woman whose face looks hunted even in death.
Dr. Farley Tananbaum 	Tananbaum is one of Tracer Tong's competitors. He's good - good enough that Tong sends you to him when you need a quick augmentation - but not nearly as good as Tong is himself. He's got a terrific front operation, practicing legitimate medicine, but in the back, he plays with space age toys that could get him locked up for decades.Appearance:Marcus Welb, the black marketeer. Kindly, father-figure, graying, smiling, etc.
Jeff Tilson and Ghoul 	These guys are listed together because they're seldom apart.They're a couple of wacky survivalist holed up underneath the battlezone around the Capitol of Texas, waiting out the crisis. Tilson's the guy who goes outside and "restocks" supplies with one-man raids on Russo-Mexicans. He is an ex-military guy clinging, barely, to sanity.Ghoul is a nerd who gets off on tech and whose real name is never spoken. He's good at siphoning electricity and such for the "bunker" he shares with his buddy, Tilson. Ghoul is really into the survival thing, too, but is too fat and lazy to help with Tilson's raid. He's less communicative; he just wants you out of the bunker, unless you've got a ho-ho.Appearance:Tilson is wild-eyed, with long, stringy red hair. He's waging a losing war against baldness. He has a wiry build and looks completely non-threatening until he starts wildly gesturing and waving his rusty guns around.Ghoul is pale-skinned, flabby, greasy-haired and bespectacled - kind of like the molemen from Marvel comics...
Jonathan Turner 	A NASA employee at Cape Canaveral, Turner is the ultimate by-the-book bureaucrat. What a pain in the neck! Won't take a bathroom break unless someone fills in form (in triplicate) authorizing him to do so. Even his voice is annoying - whiny, nasal, high-pitched. Not a bad man, but frustrating as hell.Appearance:Think Wally Cox as Mr. Peepers.
Pesky Press Guys 	Reporters may be pesky but they're also pretty darn useful and no conspiracy story would be complete without them.For one thing, publicity is the enemy conspiracy.For another, press guys have information about all sorts of stuff the player might find useful.Finally, the press guys could talk about weird attempts to control the news. ("I wrote a story about government corruption but it came out in praise of the president! Somebody high up doesn't want to rock the boat!"Oress guys under the control of conspirators can play a similar role but with an entirely different spin: They can introduce (rather than uncover) disinformation campaigns. For example, you should know first-hand that Majestic 12 guys were involved in a drug deal gone bad but the TV reports all come out blaming RMA with no mention of ATC or Majestic 12.
==Skills==
This section, along with some augmentations, are dated 1/23/98 v1.1.
===Bio-technical Science (Augmentations & Implants)===
Tool Dependent 	Specialized tools at lower levels, advanced surgical tools (see Tracer Tong's hideout) at high levels.
Description 	Allows player to repair and maintain augmentations and implants. (works just like the healing skill, but on non-organic body parts)
 	
Level One (skilled) 	
Level Two (advanced)	Player can replace his augmentations with better ones he recovers during play.
Level Three (master)	Can design and install his own implants. (Tracer Tong is a master)
===Computer===
Tool Dependent 	requires software/debugging kit
Description 	Measures savvy with computers, from personal computers to powerful evil scientist computers.
 	agent can turn on computers, tell when they are not working, and access general menus. An untrained agent would click on a computer and get only the most basic menus.
Level One (skilled) 	agent can access more menus and get additional information from computers. A skilled agent would click on a computer and get basic menus, plus additional options such as security overrides.
Level Two (advanced)	agent can crash the system, causing anything associated with the computer to cease working. An agent with computer at this level would click on the computer and get basic menus, additional options, security overrides, and a "crash" option.
Level Three (master)	agent can write programs to get the computer to do things other users could not do. An agent operating at this level would click on a computer and get basic menus, additional options, security overrides, a "crash" option, and a "rewrite" option in which he gets to choose what he wants the computer to do: shut off lights, unlock or lock doors, trigger or shut off fire alarm, etc.
===Demoliton===
Tool Dependent 	Explosives required. Timer
Description 	This skill covers the agent's competency in using all explosives, including dynamite, plastic explosives, and nitroglycerin.
 	agent can light dynamite.
Level One (skilled) 	agent can use plastic explosives, but cannot shape charges; he could blow open a safe, but not protect its contents.
Level Two (advanced)	agent can shape charges; he knows just how much to use to blow up a safe without destroying its contents.
Level Three (master)	agent can build improvised timers by using any timekeeper with explosives.
===Healing===
Tool Dependent 	Requires first aid kit, bandages, or other healing devices
Description 	Healing restores hit points to an agent. The agent can heal himself or others using this skill.
 	Agent will get 20% of the maximum number of hit points a tool can heal.
Level One (skilled) 	Agent will get 50% of the maximum hit points a tool can heal.
Level Two (advanced)	Agent will get 75% of the maximum hit points a tool can heal.
Level Three (master)	Agent will get 100% of the maximum hit points a tool can heal.
===Interrogation===
Automatic 	Functions when the character is in a conversation.
Description 	Allows the player to learn information during a conversation that one without this skill would not see.
 	Normal conversation.
Level One (skilled) 	Minor hints and clues can be discovered.
Level Two (advanced)	Moderate hints and clues can be discovered.
Level Three (master)	Major hints and clues can be discovered.
===Language (Russian, Chinese, etc, PC starts as Master in English)===
Automatic 	Affects conversations
Description 	Each of these languages has one skill assigned to it.
 	agent cannot speak, read, or understand the language.
Level One (skilled) 	agent can speak, read, and understand basic elements of the language; he can ask for directions, but detailed information will be lost on him.
Level Two (advanced)	agent can speak, read, and understand the language, but speaks it with an accent.
Level Three (master)	agent is fluent in the language and speaks it without an accent.
===Lock picking===
Tool Dependent 	Requires lockpick, paper clip, listening devices.
Description 	Player can defeat locks without having the proper key or combination.
 	Without the key, forget it.
Level One (skilled) 	Low security locks (doorknob, filing cabinet, bus station locker) can be defeated with the proper tools.
Level Two (advanced)	Medium security locks (wall safe, evidence room) can be defeated with the proper tools.
Level Three (master)	High security locks (bank vault, airlock, missile lunching controls) can be defeated with the proper tools.
===Sharp shooting: Pistol===
Tool Dependent 	Requires pistol or handgun.
Description 	measure's agent's accuracy with pistol
 	if aiming at a person, damage is spread out equally among all body parts.
Level One (skilled) 	agent's hit location is randomly determined, but weighted away from head; full damage applied to hit location.
Level Two (advanced)	agent hits the body part he is aiming at.
Level Three (master)	agent can hit critical points at any target or location; does double damage. Also, agent can hit objects out of a target's hand
===Sharp shooting: Rifle===
Tool Dependent 	Requires rifle or assault weapon.
Description 	measures agent's accuracy with rifle.
 	if aiming at a person, damage is spread out equally among all parts.
Level One (skilled) 	agent's hit location is randomly determined, but weighted away from head; full damage applied to hit location.
Level Two (advanced)	agent hits the body part he is aiming at.
Level Three (master)	agent can hit critical points at any target or location; does double damage. Also, agent can hit objects out of a target's hand.
===Stealth===
Automatic 	Used whenever a player is moving.
Description 	An agent trained in stealth can move more silently and less conspicuously than other.
 	agent gets no stealth bonus.
Level One (skilled) 	Agent can pass within twenty feet of an average NPC without being detected.
Level Two (advanced)	Agent can pass within ten feet of an average NPC without being detected.
Level Three (master)	Agent is all but undetectable unless in line-of-sight of NPC. When runnning, agent makes noise equivalent to a skilled agent walking.
===Other===
The following skills have no other info other than their names:
* Thief
* Medical Examiner
* Electronic
* Weapons defense
* Security
* Reconnoiter
* Counter intelligence
* Communication
* Disguise
* Awareness
* Command
* Deception
* Tech
* Pilot
==Augmentations==
===Aqualung Implant===
Description	Your lungs are lined with a synthetic material that will extract oxygen from water.
Hot Spot 	Lung
Type 	Automatic
Level Zero 	You can't breathe underwater.
Feedback 	You take damage after 10 seconds underwater.
Level One 	You can breathe underwater for up to 2 minutes. After that time you will start to take damage. There is no recharge time with this system. (Times are best guess. Balance in testing)
Feedback 	You breathe underwater for some time before taking damage. We may want to place a timer bar on screen.
Level Two 	You can breathe underwater for up to 5 minutes. After that time you will start to take damage. There is no recharge time with this system. (Times are best guess. Balance in testing)
Feedback 	You breathe underwater for some time before taking damage. We may want to place a timer bar on screen.
Level Three	You can breathe underwater for up to 8 minutes. After that time you will start to take damage. There is no recharge time with this system. (Times are best guess. Balance in testing)
Feedback 	You breathe underwater for some time before taking damage. We may want to place a timer bar on screen.
===Aggressive Defense System===
Description	A smart laser in an agent's chest that will identify when a weapon was fired, determine the projectile's trajectory, and attempt to destroy the projectile before it hits the agent. Has a fifty percent chance of working and can only dismantle one attack per game second. Only works with high-velocity attacks such as bullets and missiles.
Hot Spot 	Chest
Type 	Automatic
Level Zero 	You have no aggressive defense system
Feedback 	projectiles hurt player normally.
Level One 	your ADS has a fifty percent change of stopping one projectile per game second.
Feedback 	HUD flashes "ADS activated" and you see a small laser blast. Instant-hit projectiles which are stopped show a generic laser and explosion before you. Missiles show laser hitting missile.
===Atmospheric Reservoir===
Description	Small air canisters are implanted within the lower 25% of the patient's lungs. These canisters are able to hold varying amount of aia and are recharged by normal breathing. This allows you to breathe in low oxygen or soft vacuum conditions.
Hot Spot 	Lung
Type 	Automatic
Level Zero 	You have no implants. No air and you will take damage immediately.
Feedback 	You take damage from suffocation immediately.
Level One 	You are able to breathe off internal reserves for 1 minute. There is a 3-minute recharge time to refresh the internal tanks. (Times are guesses and will need to be balance in testing)
Feedback 	You take no effect from low oxygen levels for the 1 minute. You take damage normally after that. (We may want to place a timer on screen)
Level Two 	You are able to breathe off internal reserves for 3 minute. There is a 2-minute recharge time to refresh the internal tanks. (Times are guesses and will need to be balance in testing)
Feedback 	You take no effect from low oxygen levels for the 3 minutes. You take damage normally after that. (We may want to place a timer on screen)
Level Three	You are able to breathe off internal reserves for 5 minute. There is a 1-minute recharge time to refresh the internal tanks. (Times are guesses and will need to be balance in testing)
Feedback 	You take no effect from low oxygen levels for the 5 minute. You take damage normally after that. (We may want to place a timer on screen)
===Chemical Analysis Implant===
Description	Sensors are implanted in the patient's nose and mouth, allowing you to analyze most substances within a few seconds. Data can be stored in the Data Vault and retrieved by control later.
Hot Spot 	Mouth
Type 	Automatic
Level Zero 	You can only get basic information. It's liquid or a solid, it's a chemical or not.
Feedback 	Just basic information available from looking at the object.
Level One 	You are able to analyze materials by tasting or sniffing various compounds.
Feedback 	Chemical analysis is returned in HUD. If compound isn't possible to analyze a not that it matches no material type in the database is returned.
Level Two 	Compound Database in increased. This allows you to analyze more materials successfully.
Feedback 	You can analyze most compounds now. Any compound that can't be analyzed should result in a message in the HUD that telling you that it is impossible to analyze.
===Cybernetic Movement Augmentation===
Description	This augmentation strengthens mostly leg muscles to allow the character to travel at faster than normal speeds. It does not affect other abilities; in much the same way that a springer may not necessarily be a great long jumper, the specific muscles targeted generate an appreciable bonus only in movement speed.
Hot Spot 	Leg
Type 	Automatic
Level Zero 	You are as slow as any normal person.
Feedback 	None
Level One 	Your movement rates are increased by 25%
Feedback 	You move faster.
Level Two 	Your movement rates are increased by 50%
Feedback 	You move faster still.
===Data Vault Recorder===
Description	This is the standard issue Data Vault. It is a recording device implanted into the skull and wired to the areas of the brain that receive sensory information. It allows you to store notes, maps, and relevant information within you. It is also possible to download data directly to this system through the Mind Vault Datalink ™
Hot Spot 	Brain (reserved hot spot)
Type 	Automatic
Level Zero 	N/A You start with this implant
Feedback 	N/A You start with this implant
Level One 	Allows you to store mission-relevant information in an internal storage medium. This allows you to store reference notes, maps, and other mission relevant data. ATC or Tong can download and retrieve information from this system through the Data Vault.
Feedback 	Note screen is available, as are maps.
===Jump Augmentation System===
Description	Synthetic muscle is grafted onto your own muscle layer, normally in the legs. This has the effect of increasing the distance you can jump.
Hot Spot 	Leg
Type 	Automatic
Level Zero 	You can jump only the normal distance
Feedback 	No special feedback other then normal jumping
Level One 	You are able to jump 25% further then normal.
Feedback 	jump distance is increased
Level Two 	You are able to jump 50% further then normal.
Feedback 	jump distance is increased even more
===Light Magnification Implants===
Description	An implant consisting of delicate light enhancement electronics.(Generally brighten the screen)
Hot Spot 	Eye
Type 	Toggle
Level Zero 	You are blind in the dark.
Feedback 	You treat dark areas as normal.
Level One 	As long as the area is affected by some light, the light level is increased by 50 percent. (Brighten the screen gamma?)
Feedback 	You can see in areas that are otherwise nearly totally dark.
===Magnified Hearing===
Description	Your inner and middle ear have been replaced with advanced electronics that allow you to hear things at a magnified level.
Hot Spot 	Ear
Type 	Toggle
Level Zero 	You have normal hearing. No charge.
Feedback 	You hear things as normal.
Level One 	Your hearing range is increased by 25%. This will allow you to overhear loud conversations taking place nearby. (Just play the sound files as long as you are in range.)
Feedback 	You can hear things from further away
Level Two 	Your hearing range is increased by 50%.
Feedback 	You can hear things from further away.
===Microfibral Muscle Enhancement===
Description	Small strands of chemically reactive fibers are implanted within your muscles. These fibers react to the chemical change in the muscles and contract to 1/3 of their resting length. In effect this increases your physical strength.
Hot Spot 	Arm
Type 	Automaticc
Level Zero 	You are only of normal strength.
Feedback 	None
Level One 	You can slide large or heavy objects. Throwing range is increased by 25%
Feedback 	If object can't be moved, you should be informed in the HUD that an object is either too heavy to move at this level of augmentation or that it is impossible to move.
Level Two 	You can lift large or heavy objects. Throwing Range is increased by 50%.
Feedback 	If object can't be moved, you should be notified that object is impossible to move in the HUD.
===Mind Vault Datalink===
Description	This is the standard issue Datalink used by ATC.
Hot Spot 	Brain (reserved hot spot)
Type 	Automatic
Level Zero 	Allows you to be contacted by ATC Control during missions. ATC can track the location and general physical condition of you through the datalink. ATC can also download information directly into the Data Vault Implant.
Feedback 	Communications are always started from the ATC side. You cannot initiate communication.
Level One 	Tong adapts the implant to remove the tracking and status functions from the implant. This Allows you to move about without alerting ATC or MJ-12 to his location through it.
Feedback 	Communication is always started by someone other than you. You cannot initiate conversations.
===Retractable Claws===
Description	Small retractable claws are implanted in the hands, allowing for greater damage in hand-to-hand combat.
Hot Spot 	Arm
Type 	Toggle
Level Zero 	No claws. No effect.
Feedback 	No effect.
Level One 	Hand to Hand damage is increased by 25%
Feedback 	You do more damage in hand to hand.
===Sound Dampener===
Description	Your inner and middle ear have been replaced with advanced electronics that dampen dangerously loud noises, such as those made by sonic grenades.
Hot Spot 	Ear
Type 	Automatic
Level Zero 	Your ear's natural defenses are all you have.
Feedback 	You hear loud noises normally.
Level One 	You take 50% of the normal damage from sound-related weaponry or loud noises.
Feedback 	When dangerously loud noises are heard, the sound is filtered out and a small message is flashed in the HUD to inform you the sound dampers have been activated
Level Two 	You take 25% of the normal damage from sound or sound-related weaponry.
Feedback 	When dangerously loud noises are heard, the sound is filtered out and a small message is flashed in the HUD to inform you the sound dampers have been activated
Level Three	The sound dampening system is now able to filter out all dangerously loud noises.
Feedback 	When dangerously loud noises are heard, the sound is filtered out and a small message is flashed in the HUD to inform you the sound dampers have been activated
===Spider Grip Augmentation===
Description	Small hair-like structures are implanted on the patient's palms. These hairs are similar to the hairs spiders use to walk on vertical and horizontal surfaces. However the surface area to body mass ratio is significantly worse in humans, resulting in only a slight increase in the ability to climb vertical services.
Hot Spot 	Arm
Type 	Automatic
Level Zero 	Use a rope.
Feedback 	None
Level One 	You are able to climb vertical surfaces. In effect this augmentation allows you to assume that he has a rope or other tool for the climbing skill.
Feedback 	You can climb even without a rope.
===Subdermal Plates===
Description	High-tech plastic plates under the skin which protect against serious injury. Agent can pass through metal detectors, and dermal plates are only added where clothes can cover them, as bulges can sometimes give them away. Protects everything but attacks aimed at the head.
Hot Spot 	Skin
Type 	Automatic
Level Zero 	Your skin is normal. No effect.
Feedback 	None
Level One 	Your armored skin provides you with a level of protection equivalent to a kevlar vest, but all over your body.
Feedback 	Damage effects are reduced.
===Temperature-Resistant skin, Heat or Cold===
Description	A special skin treatment that protects you from extreme temperatures. There are two types of temperature-resistant skin, one for hot temperatures and one for cold; each provideds no protection from the other extreme. A Heat-resistant skin treatment would protect from fire, but not from freezing temperatures, and vice-versa.
Hot Spot 	Skin
Type 	Automatic
Level Zero 	no additional protection.
Feedback 	You take damage from hot or cold temperatures normally.
Level One 	You take 50 % less damage from the protected temperature extreme.
Feedback 	HUD display alerts player that temperature-resistant skin is reducing damage.
===Thermal Vision Cones===
Description	You have had many hundreds of synthetic vision cones added to your retina. These cones allow you to see heat and cold information, once activated (infra-red vision). Heat signatures are visible at three different levels: extremely hot (flames), warm (people and animals), and cold (terrain and objects).
Hot Spot 	Eye
Type 	Toggle
Level Zero 	You can't see heat signatures.
Feedback 	You see normally.
Level One 	You can see Infrared and heat data.
Feedback 	You see the world in heat levels. People and objects appear as red outlines, flames appear bright white, and walls and terrain are cold blue.
===Tissue Growth Stim===
Description	This is a collection of biorepair agents suspended within your bloodstream.
Hot Spot 	Chest
Type 	Automatic
Level Zero 	You heal damage only with a medkit.
Feedback 	None
Level One 	You heal damage at the rate of 1% every 1 minute. (Amount and time is arbitrary.)
Feedback 	You heal damage.
Level Two 	You heal damage at the rate of 1% every 30 seconds. (Amount and time is arbitrary.)
Feedback 	You heal damage.
Level Three	You heal damage at the rate of 1% every 15 seconds. (Amount and time is arbitrary.)
Feedback 	You heal damage.
===Toxin Filter===
Description	Allows you to survive exposure to environmental and chemical toxins for extended periods of time by separating toxins from the air.
Hot Spot 	Lung
Type 	Automatic
Level Zero 	Your ability to withstand toxins is normal. Without an antidote you are going to die.
Feedback 	Print warning in HUD, to warn you of toxins in environment. Perhaps clut the screen to some appropriate color.
Level One 	You can without environmental toxins for 30 seconds before adverse effects start. System takes 5 minutes to reset and clean the filters. You will get no benefit from the augmentation until the reset and cleaning is finished. (Times are best guess. Balance in testing).
Feedback 	You don't suffer any adverse effects within the time limit. We might want to consider placing a timer on screen. (both for benefits and recharge)
Level Two 	You can without environmental toxins for 2 minutes before adverse effects start. System takes 2 minutes to reset and recharge the filters. You will get no benefit from the augmentation until recharge is complete. (Times are best guess. Balance in testing).
Feedback 	You don't suffer any adverse effects within the time limit. We might want to consider placing a timer on screen. (both for benefits and recharge)
Level Three	You can without environmental toxins for 5 minutes before adverse effects start. System takes 30 seconds to reset and recharge the filters. You will get no benefit from the augmentation until recharge is complete. (Times are best guess. Balance in testing).
Feedback 	You don't suffer any adverse effects within the time limit. We might want to consider placing a timer on screen. (both for benefits and recharge)
===Voice Stress Analyzer===
Description	Allows you to tell when an NPC is being deceptive or deceitful.
Hot Spot 	Ear
Type 	Automatic
Level Zero 	Use you intuition. It's all you have.
Feedback 	none
Level One 	You is able to analyze most people with this system. Some people are very good at lying. This system may not be able to analyze those people.
Feedback 	You sees a readout in the HUD saying either lying or hiding something. If person cannot be read by system (Because they are plot critical to be lying) then you receives a message that system is unable to read target.
The following augmentations are dated 1/23/98 v1.1.
===Agility===
Description	An agent trained in agility conditioning.
Level Zero 	Agent can jump normally.
Level One 	Running leap 1.5 times the normal distance.
Level Two 	Standing jump 1.5 times the normal distance, running leap double distance.
Level Three	Standing jump double distance, running leap double distance, reduce falling damage.
===Poison Resistance===
Description	measures an agent's trained / chemically augmented resistance to poisons.
Level Zero 	agent has normal poison resistance and will take full damage.
Level One 	agent suffers no damage from weaker poisons
Level Two 	
Level Three	Agent can resist poisons in the air.
===Strength===
Description	Allows character to move heavy objects
Level Zero 	Can only move standard world objects.
Level One 	Can slide heavy objects.
Level Two 	Can slide lift and throw heavy objects, slide very heavy objects.
Level Three	Can slide, lift and throw very heavy objects.
===Swimming===
Description	measure's agent's swimming power, endurance, and ability to stay underwater
Level Zero 	Agent swims at ¼ normal movement; cannot swim against current; immediately starts taking damage if swimming underwater
Level One 	Agent swims at ½ normal movement; can stay under water 1 minute before taking damage
Level Two 	Agent swims at ¾ normal movement; can stay under water 3 minute before taking damage
Level Three	Agent swims at full normal movement; can stay under water 5 minute before taking damage
===Speed===
Description	
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===Climb===
Description	
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==Items==
===Guns===
Name 	Description
Stun Gun 	A futuristic phaser-looking device. The stun gun operates by delivering a powerful electrical charge to a target within five feet of its muzzle.
.45 Handgun 	The .45 caliber handgun is the standard issue for all agents.
ACR-12 	The Advance Combat Rifle Mk XII, or ACR-12, is a fully automatic rifle in a small package. The weapon is fed by twin 40 round magazines filled with 9mm caseless ammunition. This is the weapon of choice for agents who know a heavy firefight is imminent.
Sniper Rifle	This rifle fires 7.62 mm ammunition and has long-range accuracy.
GEP Gun 	The GEP (Guided Explosive Projectile) gun is a high-tech gun which fires guided missiles. The loaded missile establishes a lock on a target and pursues it until it blows up (similar to the gun Gene Simmons had in Runaway).The GEP gun's slow rate of fire (there's only room for one projectile, so it must be reloaded every time it is fired) and volume make it a weapon to be used only in specialized circumstances; forget about the element of surprise
Pen Gun 	Disguised as a pen, the pen gun contains one .22 caliber shot, accurate only at close range. It will pass through metal detectors.
===Ammunition===
Name 	Description
Battery 	Powers the stun gun. Allows five stuns before it's exhausted.
.22 clip 	clip of six .22 caliber bullets.
.45 clip 	clip of ten .45 caliber bullets.
ACR-12 clip 	clip of 40 9 mm bullets.
7.62 mm clip	clip of 30 7.62 mm bullets.
GEP 	Guided Explosive Projectile; used in the GEP gun.
===Other Weapons===
Name 	Description
Hand Grenade 	Pull the pin and throw
Flashlight Grenade 	Disguised as a flashlight, it is not as lethal as a hand grenade, but can be carried into places grenades can't go.
Net Gun 	This non-lethal, crossbow-like device fire a rapidly expanding net that quickly wraps itself around a target, immobilizing it. The more the target struggles, the more quickly and completely he or she is rendered helpless. It is possible to cut through the web-like netting, but is isn't easy...
Smoke Grenade 	Non-lethal, but useful for clouding enemy vision and diffusing lasers.
Tear Gas Canister 	Enemies in a tear gas cloud will seek to escape it as their first priority; once out, they can function normally. PC will take temporary damage that heals rapidly after he exits the cloud.
Combat Knife 	A Rambo knife. Not terribly discreet, but a good weapon.
Baseball Bat / Club	A nice piece of ash. Bats and clubs behave the same.
Lead Pipe 	
===Standard Equipment===
Name 	Description
Silencer 	Attaches to handguns; good for those times where you need to get rid of someone quietly.
Scope 	Attaches to a sniper rifle; magnifies target, thus increasing long-range accuracy.
Laser Sight 	Attaches to most guns; apart from looking cool, it aids in aiming.
Scuba Gear 	Bulky and un-hideable, scuba gear allows for (in game terms) endless underwater breathing capabilities. Scuba gear cannot be worn with armor, headgear, or footwear.
Earplugs 	Block out sound.
Plastic Explosives 	A clay-like substance which can be shaped by a skilled agent; used with a detonator, can blow some pretty big holes in some pretty thick doors.
Detonator 	Detonates plastic explosive.
Night-Vision Goggles	Bulky eyewear which magnifies existing light.
Electromagnet 	Attracts metal objects, even through bars...and it works wonders on magnetic data storage!
Field First-Aid Kit 	A stripped-down version of a full kit, this compact case contains everything an agent needs to get him back in action after suffering damage, mild poisoning, etc.
Parabolic Microphone	Smaller in size than its modern counterpart, the parabolic mike allows the user to hear things up to one hundred years away with perfect clarity. Environmental noise reduction isolates the target.
Tool kit 	A full-sized tool kit which will allow an agent to do field repairs on everything from a broken bug detector to an autogyro.
Traveling tool kit 	The traveling tool kit is a smaller version of the tool kit; an agent can use it at a -25% penalty to do the same repairs the full-size kit does.
Lighter 	A Zippo-esque lighter which will stay lit until you use it again, at which point it goes out. It will shed limited light, start things on fire, and will explode if thrown into a fire.
Battering Ram 	Usable only by the strongest of characters, a battering ram can be used to hammer down a door or other obstruction.
Datacard 	Usale on a door to gain entry. Specific cards grant access to specific doors. A datacard replaces the modern magnetic proximity card. It is credit-card sized.
Fire Extinguisher 	When used, it sprays out a white foam which extinguishes fires. It can also provide a smokescreen if used cleverly.
===Spy Equipment===
Name 	Description
Audio Bug 	A circular mike and transmitter about 1 cm in diameter, the audio bug is hard to detect with out a bug scanner. It allows an agent to eavesdrop on a conversation remotely.
Bug Scanner 	A metal box about the size of a cigarette case. Finds bugs; beeps if one is detected, gets louder as the agent gets closer.
Digital Watch Camera 	A cleverly concealed camera which does not require film; an augmented character can download it into his in-skull computer and send it off from there instantly.
Spy Camera 	A tiny camera with a 12-exposure roll of film. Has a timer, so it can be left behind to do its work.
Decoder 	Six inches by six inches nd two inches thick, a decoder has a scanner on one side which will read encoded text and a display window which will print it out in English on the other side. The catch is that it must be in a code which the agency has already decoded or it prints rubbish (or sometimes false information!)
Microtranslator 	The microtranslator is a tiny device containing a microcomputer which will translate any language into English. Effectiveness varies with quality of device but the best translator isn't as good as a human who knows the language - the language learning augmentation is far more effective.
Video Surveillance Detector 	Approximately 4 inches by 3 inches by 2 inches in size, this lightweight metal box detects video surveillance devices up to fiftenn feet away.
Disguise Kit 	Contains makeup, eyeglasses, fake mustaches & beards, platforms for shoe heels, eye patches; pretty much everything an agent needs to pull off a convincing disguise.
Counterlock Kit 	Everything an agent needs to pick a lock, crack a safe, etc.
Plastique Gum/ Detonator Watch	A set consisting of disguised plastique and a detonator. This form of plastique is less than a full charge, so its uses are more limited.
Tracer 	A tiny electronic component which is commonly disguised in a coin or pen, the agent cna plant the tracer on the target and monitor his movements on his laptop. Microship versions of these tracers are becoming more widely available, capable of insertion under the skin of the forehead or back of hand. The microchip devices are extremely sensitive to electromagnetic fields and, therefore, less reliable than the older, larger versions.
Voice Synthesizer 	A series of tiny electronic components on a choker, the synthesizer is put around a person's neck, then records his speech range. The agent then puts it on himself and the synthesizer stimulates his vocal cords to emulate the recorded voice. The agent can re-record the voice he wishes to emulate in the field.
Spy-Bans 	Made to look like fashionable sunglesses, Spy-Bans can be treated to be infrared goggles, or to show metallic substances beneath a person's skin (thus ferreting out rogue augmented agents in diguise), or other cool options.
FastCan 	This is a drug capable of causing "fast-acting cancer." It can be delivered orally, intravenously, or through contact and typically kills in a matter of days. It leaves no trace of itself and even autopsies can't reveal anything out of the ordinary. The victim seems to have died of cancer. Note: Several other accelerated illnesses can be transmitted in this manner.
Surveillance Camera 	Usually used to foil the PC, surveillance cameras are used liberally in many of the places the player will be exploring. Old-style surveillance cameras are still abundant, but a smaller, nanotech-built surveillance camera can be used to discreetly monitor secure areas; they are small enough to blend in with their surroundings and nearly undetectable by all but the most aware intruders.Surveillance cameras often have an exposed junction box nearby which, if you know how to do it, you can open up and disable the camera.
===Armor===
* Damage Absorbed is the amount of damage the item can absorb in any given attack.
* Damage Capacity is the amount of damage the item can take before it is useless.
Name 	Description 	Absorb	Capacity
Armored Jacket 	A suit lined with armored plates. Inconspicuous and comfortable, and the ladies love it. 	5 	20
Ceramic-Plated Vest 	A vest which is heavier and bulkier than Kevlar, but affords extra protection. 	15 	75
Kevlar Vest 	Protects against projectile weapon attacks. 	15 	75
Umbrella Shield 	An inconspicuous way of carrying around an extra layer of protection. 	6 	24
Armored Blacksuit 	A black body suit for night missions with mild armor coating, this protects the entire body. 	5 	25
Armored Cap 	A stylish, rigid cap which protects the head from taking damage. 	3 	18
Absorption Shield Generator (ASG)	Worn on the belt, the ASG is the most powerful form of personal protection available. It generates a field which is capable of absorbing the velocity of a fast-moving object, such as a bullet, thrown knife, or even a kick, and stopping the object's movement. Objects such as a hand (as in a handshake) or a document will pass through the ASG's field.The ASG operates on a short-lived plutionum battery that makes up most of its weight. It can stop any number of bullets or a lesser number of large projectiles, but the battery only lasts for approximately fifteen seconds. On top of that, it is noisy, generating a loud hum, and the field is visible as a blue tinted field around the agent; the agent will see the world in a blue tint and anyone looking at him will see a blue around around him.	 	
==Objects==
===General Objects===
Name 	Description
Book 	Should have a variety of them. Though antiquated by the prevalence of higher-tech information media, books are still around. Click on it and get a 2d screen of its text.
V-Book 	An electronic tablet with a glare-resistant screen and enough memory to store War and Peace. The high-tech answer to the good old paper book, the V-book is cheap to build and lasts longer.
Computer 	
Plastic Replica of the Titanic	Yes, that's right. A plastic model of the Titanic. Drop it in the fountain in the lobby and it sinks.
Oil Can 	Dispenses oil. Can be used to quiet squeaky hinges or machinery
Cart 	Pushable. A cart like Chris's Tech cart; objects can be placed on the top shelf, but not inside it.
Coveralls 	Usable to disguise oneself as a maintenance man.
===Furniture===
* Stool
* Desk
* Chair
* Table
* Bookshelf
==References==
Category:Deus Ex cut content