Provocation/Nightmares Transcript

==Opening Cutscene==
An image and flashes of a tree with lightning is seen as it slowly gets closer.
Dr. Salim: Can you hear me? Are you there?
F. Player: ...Yeah, I'm here. I'm back. [Sighs] I'm ready to continue.
Dr. Salim: Good. Now that you've begun conditioning, let's return to 2070, after Coalescence collapsed. You were trapped in Singapore.
F. Player: With Quarantine Zones unlocked all over the world, we couldn't raise WA Command. If we were gonna escape, we had to improvise. We turned to the 54 Immortals. They were dangerous and unpredictable, but they were no enemy of ours.
Dr. Salim: Hendricks trusted them?
F. Player: What choice did we have? If we wanted out of Singapore, we had to go through the Biodomes. We had to go through the Immortals.
==Level Briefing==
Encryption# 20-67-6F-69. Protocol: Echo
Reasonable Provocation has been established.
The 54i base of operations is the civilian Singapore, Bio-Dome facility
==Gameplay==
F. Player: Getting in was easy. Getting out would be another matter entirely. At the time, the Biodomes were the safest place to be. With the Outbreak of 2060, the Immortals seized the Marina and dug in. The Biodomes were impenetrable. Dead-proof. Hendricks had a contact: Danny Li. He was slimy as they come, but he could get us transport.
While the Player and Dr. Salim speak, Danny Li takes and looks at the tablet, and places it back on the table.
F. Player: Not only that, Taylor had beaten us out of the Biodomes, and Danny claimed to know where he was heading.
Dr. Salim: They had this information?
F. Player: Danny was convinced Goh Xiulan had info on her central server. They were doing us a solid, really. But that didn't come cheap. They wanted food, water, weapons, reinforcements from the Winslow Accord. We agreed on their terms, with no idea if we could honor it. The Immortals were a people of their word, and quite efficient in punishing those who did not act the same.
The Bartender walks to the table with the drinks and while he places Danny Li's drink on the table, he accidentally spills Hendricks's drink. This angered Danny Li, who stabs the Bartender on his left shoulder with his knife.
F. Player: Danny was in a bad mood; the Immortals weren't exactly happy in seeing us. They knew our part in what had happened in Coalescence. Danny went so far as to accuse of opening the containment zones ourselves. Hendricks persuaded him otherwise. But that didn't change how I felt. We were there; we had our chance to stop Diaz in the server room.
While Dr. Salim speaks, Danny Li takes his knife out of the Bartender and motions to a guard to escort the wounded Bartender out as he calms down and sits back down.
Dr. Salim: You cannot blame yourself for what is out of your control. There were powers in play far greater than your own. Powers with far more control. You were a pawn in his game. 
F. Player: You mean Deimos... well, as it turns out - we weren't his only pawns in the room.
Dr. Salim: How do you mean?
F. Player: You can get us a ride out? Sure, I'll give you that. But claiming to know where Taylor was? Know that saying: "Too good to be true"? Something was wrong. There was something malevolent, malicious. I called Danny out - I wasn't too happy with that. But then again, we assumed he was just scared. 
While the Player speaks, Danny Li looks at Hendricks, then leans forward on the table to her.
F. Player: The Outbreak now occurring worldwide was unprecedented, we were all scared. Up till now, we'd become complacent - we got comfortable. The Dead had stayed in their cage and we kept pretending nothing had happened. Taylor and Diaz changed that - pandemonium, riots, civil war, countries were already tearing themselves apart - in many cases, before the Dead even reach them. But Danny wasn't scared...
Goh Min and Goh Xiulan enter the bar with their guards.
F. Player: ...he was stalling... and it only took us another moment to find out why.
Dr. Salim: The Goh Siblings. Danny set you up?
F. Player: No, no, no, this was different. It was their eyes. Hollow, empty, void of life, like they could see right through me. They all had it. Just like Diaz. It was only later we found out all higher-ups in the Immortals were outfitted with DNI. Like us. [Scoffs] If only we'd known that part our own technology would play...
The Player and Hendricks get out of the way as their Robots appear and shoot up the bar, killing a number of people, including Goh Min. Goh Xiulan and the surviving guard run away.
F. Player: The thing about Deadkillers though: There's always a Plan B. We had a robot squad in place, ready if the situation took a turn. Goh Xiulan bolted before our robots got her, she was headed for the Server Room in Cloud Mountain. The only place we could put in the call for transport.
The Player, Hendricks, and the Robots walk to the exit shutter and open it, where the enemies are waiting for them.
F. Player: It became quickly apparent that uninvited guest had join the party in the Biodomes. The Dead were flooding into this safe haven. 
The Player arms her MR6, as she, Hendricks, and the Robots engage the Immortals & NRC, and Zombies.
F. Player: It was about to become hell on Earth. We had to move. We had to get to Cloud Mountain.
The team kills all hostiles and moves up, where a turret comes out the window and shoots at them. The turret and Zombies are dealt with.
F. Player: I don't know how the undead got in. A forgotten open gate, a child mistake, a poorly-nailed board over a window, it doesn't matter. It was spreading fast. We were already outnumbered twenty to one, the remaining humans scrambling away or locked in their homes. 
The team keeps moving as some civilians are killed by the Zombies. They push through, and more Zombies, as well as another turret, are seen ahead. As they reach to a stack of shipping containers, it blows up and it blocks the middle path.
F. Player: We heard that familiar screech. Parasites, mutated creatures born out of 61-15, were flying towards us.
The team reaches the entrance and clear the remaining Zombies and Parasites.
F. Player: With the shipping yard cleared, Cloud Mountain was just ahead - the Server Room on top. We had a long climb ahead of us.
The Robots open the doors, where a P.A.W.W.S. is waiting for them across, along with the Zombies. The P.A.W.W.S. is destroyed, and the Player & Hendricks fight their way up to the Server Room. Once the turrets, Zombies, and Parasites are eliminated, the Player hacks the Server Room entrance panel.
==Cutscene==
The Server Room entrance door opens, and the two head in. 
Dr. Salim: What happened in the Server Room?
While the Player speaks, Goh Xiulan is trying to decrypt all the drives from the console, but Hendricks knocks her out.
F. Player: By the time we got there, Goh Xiulan encrypted her hardware, locking us out of the central server. Hendricks stepped in, but we were a few seconds too late. Damage was done.
Dr. Salim: Why did she lock you out?
While the Player speaks, Hendricks tries to interact with console, but it's locked out. Hendricks picks up the unconscious Goh Xiulan and places her hand on the console, but the computer is then waiting for a secondary input.
F. Player: It didn't make any sense. Sure, we weren't on the best of terms, but... this wasn't her. Something else made her do it. Something was controlling her. [Scoffs] The encryption used a biometric hand-scan. Hendricks tried to unlock it. But the Goh Siblings were smart.
While the Player speaks, she takes out a cuff.
F. Player: They'd set up an access system requiring both of their hands for authorization. And her brother was shredded with bullets back in the bar.
While the Player speaks, she puts the cuff on Goh Xiulan's right wrist and the cuff lasers her wrist off while Hendricks shakes his head in disgust. The Player places the now severed right hand of Goh Xiulan on the console.
F. Player: We could hear the horde coming... and we only had one sibling. But she did have two hands.
Dr. Salim: You choose to cut off her hand. Why?
F. Player: I hoped the biometrics were interchangeable, allowing the siblings to use either reader.
Hendricks drags the unconscious and amputated Goh Xiulan inside the room for secondary input, and the computer grants them access.
F. Player: If we were calling transport and getting out alive, it had to work. Lucky for us, it did. Hendricks interfaced with the system. He was able to raise WA Command, we needed a ride out ASAP. They had a VTOL a few minutes out, rendezvous was set for the top of the dome. But Hendricks wanted to know what Goh Xiulan had on Taylor...
Hendricks interface with the console.
F. Player: ...anything, even the smallest detail could be helpful in picking up his trail... that would take some time.
==Gameplay Two==
F. Player: And time... was something we didn't have. Hendricks searched the archives - I dealt with the incoming horde.
The Player must defend Hendricks until the transfer is complete. The horde came through the second floor door, the Server Room windows, the hallway, and the second floor wall. After holding off the horde, Hendricks is done.
F. Player: Hendricks had pulled all the data he could, I hoped it was enough. Our pick was in position. It was time to get the hell outta here.
The Player and Hendricks head for their VTOL's ziplines and used their Z-Tracs. As they headed for the VTOL, an enemy Wraith approaches them, fire their rockets, and hits the VTOL, causing it to lose control.
F. Player: Our Bird wasn't alone in the sky. Our VTOL had caught the attention of an old, automated Wraith.
The two land on the roof of Cloud Mountain and detach their Z-Tracs as their VTOL goes down.
F. Player: We needed to find another way.
==Cutscene Tree==
An image and flashes of a tree with lightning is seen as it slowly gets closer.
Dr. Salim: This Wraith tailing you... it was like the malfunctioning robots you found in different Quarantine Zones? The kind targeting anything and everything as an enemy.
F. Player: Just like that, except on a much larger, more deadly scale. And this one was very interested in us. Command had an exit route, Extraction set beyond the swamps. If we crossed the Supertrees, there was shipping docks where we could commandeer an airboat. [Scoffs] As easier said than done.
==Gameplay Three==
While the Player speaks, she and Hendricks descend their way down to the Supertrees, where more Zombies and Parasites are waiting for them. Hendricks takes down one of the Zombies.
F. Player: Between the flesh-eaters and that Wraith eyeing us, the Supertrees would be no walk in the park. We had to haul ass and stay outta sight.
While the Player speaks, she and Hendricks move up as they see a damaged VTOL engaging the Zombies before being shot down by the Wraith and crashing into a Supertree, cutting the top part off and having it and the VTOL go down into the ground.
F. Player: But they weren't our only concern. Winslow Accord picked up chatter ahead - apparently, we weren't the only humans using the docks to escape.
The two push through the undead and avoid the Wraith's line of fire. The Wraith then tries to destroy the leaning tree to prevent the two from escaping.
F. Player: The Supertree was collapsing, the only safe route to the docks was up. Chatter confirmed the 54 Immortals were scrambling to get out of the Biodomes through the swamps.
The two zipline their way to the burning leaning tree, which has some explosions seen when ziplining. The two found an open elevator & use their Z-Tracs to go up, and an explosion occurs that caused the blast radius to chase them. The two reach the Sky Deck.
F. Player: From the sound of it, they wanted us dead as much as the flesh-eaters did.
The two jump from the burning learning tree into the water.
F. Player: Looked like we were jumping from one bad situation into another.
The two ascend from the water, where there are 54i Soldiers and Zombies waiting for them at the docks. Once the docks are cleared, the Player gets on the turret while Hendricks lies down prone on the airboat. The Wraith spots the two and fires rockets near the airboat.
F. Player: Hendricks commandeered an airboat and set the autopilot. 
The Wraith spots the two and fires rockets near the airboat.
F. Player: We had undead on our ass, and more 54i ahead.
The Wraith follows and fires at the airboat.
F. Player: And that Rogue Wraith wasn't done with us yet.
The Player and Hendricks protect the airboat from 54i Soldiers and Talons as the airboat heads through the swamps to the extraction point while evading the Wraith.
Dr. Salim: But you escaped?
F. Player: Our exfil was just ahead. We were getting out of Singapore.
Dr. Salim: What about Taylor? What did Hendricks learn from the server?
While the Player speaks, the airboat jumps over a ramp as the Wraith tries to hit it with rockets.
F. Player: Nothing. It had been wiped. The information loss.
The Wraith tries to chase them, but it hits a skybridge and gets crushed & destroyed. The two are in the clear.
F. Player: Taylor was in the wind. And the virus... 61-15 - wouldn't be stop this time. The Winslow Accord and CDP had been thrown into chaos. We'd lost Hong Kong, Berlin, and Cairo... and it was just getting started. What would come next, how the world would change - there was no way to be ready for that.
Hendricks walks away as the screen fades to black and the mission ends.
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