Pub

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## Tactical Analysis

* **Where everybody knows your name:** For the public,a Pub is where anybody can party with friends and have a good time. But for the Front, it doubles as an operations center and a hideout for every Front fighter.

* **Batten down the hatches:** When the Allies or the Syndicate attacks, the Pub is most likely to not stand a chance, causing all Front operatives stationed there to run for the hills.

## Background

**Compiled e-mails from Apollo Fowl's e-mail address, theSunsownHeir@mercurius.com, leaked by the Nemo**

**To: Ellen Faustino, CEO of Straylight Electronics, MyishiMatriarch@mercurius.com**

*"I just heard that some juvenile punks dragged some of your workers out of a factory and beat them up in front of all the other workers. Not to mention that one of your own branches in Armagh got vandalized with murals mostly depicting me as a fat pig with the caption "Dirtball from Derry" (a brief digression: I might have to adopt that as a formal title just to spite them). I might have to remind you to hire janitors and cleaners so we can clean up those drawings because honestly, my nose isn't that big."*

**To: The Legatus Legionis of the Legion Security, romesFinest@mercurius.com**

*"It appears that many of our associates in the pharmaceutical industry are too afraid to sell our own products, particularly in Derry and Belfast. When I interviewed them, they just tell me that 'they care much about their own knees to face those Irish rebels.' Further questioning reveals that most of them are always ambushed near pubs, with the rebels holding them at gunpoint and asking them to relinquish all of their products, just to stomp at them, possibly to send to our friends at the pharmaceutical industry. I'd like to deduct some lira from my own pockets just to hire some of your finest men, as I, along with some acquaintances in SPIDER just tracked most of their probable hideouts: various Pubs throughout Northern Ireland."*

**To: Ellen Faustino, CEO of Straylight Electronics, MyishiMatriarch@mercurius.com**

*"Bad news, Ellen. I do not know where the SPIDER Masterminds went wrong with their intelligence gathering, but it appears that the Legionnaires you've sent has apparently raided a pub full of innocents. All the individuals in the pub were shocked, and one of them (possibly a relative of one of those Legionnaires) have even asked why did they gatecrash his birthday party just to arrest some 'rebels' inside. I have to call them back to avoid suspicion and further aggravation, but it seems this has become a media circus around the world. Even the Argus News Network had a three-hour special about this! I just parroted what my media expert team told me: it's to check for potential criminals and rebels. I also told them that those rebels are absolutely good in hiding that they can even take refuge in places such as pubs, and no one will notice. So, I suggest we bring some espresso, sit in the couch and tune in to television to see what this media circus will come too."*

**To: Ellen Faustino, CEO of Straylight Electronics, MyishiMatriarch@mercurius.com**

*"Worse news, Ellen. My mailbox is now full of hateful letters, from common folk to Geneva; even de Gasperi told me not to use extreme methods such as what happened yesterday. But I swear, those Front members are doing all of these media manipulation to discredit all of us. I mean, those people keep blaming me for that 'Bloody Monday' incident! Yes, I might be a little 'extreme' on my methods, but I know that I have no connection to that whatsoever! Plus, those rioters are now throwing liquor bottles and Smilex bags at me every time I come home from work, not as a sign of acquaintanceship, but as a sign of contempt. I even told Butler to check the manor every day for any potential bombs.*

*Anyways, my suspicions were right about the Front's hideouts. They're just good at covering their hides there to make it harder for us to pinpoint their exact locations. Normally, they even act like normal pubs indistinguishable from the rest; I even believe that the bartenders are part of the Front at some way. All of our attempts to infiltrate them have failed; before Satyrs can even get close, they are already riddled by bullets that seem to come from pubs themselves. However, we might have to do more investigation at those pubs, we don't want another media incident in our hands."*