Mission:Tip - A Broken Protest Sign

A Broken Protest Sign
Alignment Mission
Type	Alignment Tip
Place	Rogue Isles
Available to	Vigilantes
Level range	20–29
Choice	Villain

A Broken Protest Sign

Alignment Mission

The Cage Consortium's private security just finished breaking up a violent protest and you happen upon the aftermath. You find one of the discarded protest signs and as you read it, your blood starts to boil:

The Only Charity Cage Has Is For Himself!

You look around and see dozens of other signs with similar messages. All of them have a common theme, that the Cage Consortium is holding some sort of charity event to try and drum up some good public image. Kirk Cage is a scum bag, abusing his governorship of Sharkhead Isle in order to slave drive the workers for his mining operation. Well, if he's holding a charity drive, then you are going to make sure that the press hears all about it! Let's see Cage's private security stop you from demonstrating the will of the people!

VILLAIN: The world is going to see the real face of the Cage Consortium!

Briefing

You did a little question and answer with some people on the streets and learned that the Cage Consortium is planning their little 'charity event' in a nice cushy office building. You know that Kirk Cage would rather sell his own kid than lose money he didn't have to, so there's something awfully fishy about this whole charity, and it isn't just to improve his public image. You are almost certain that he's found a way to use the oppression of his workers as a means to drum up funding via fake charity events. He'll probably just improve working conditions for a few months and then blame the return of poor conditions on the Freakshow and a budget increase for his private security force.

Well no more, you're going to expose just how vile the Cage Consortium really is by tampering with their charity drive's telethon prompts and messages to the public. With any luck, Cage will turn their own horrid business practice into an international human rights violation, and you're guessing that Lord Recluse won't find that too amusing!

• If the world can't see that the Cage Consortium is evil, then I'll make them see it!

It's not going to be easy, what with Cage's private security force, but they're not used to dealing with people of your capability. Your first task will be to get access to the editing room computer, and that means taking out the head of security to steal his passcard.

Unnecessary Solicitation

You'll need to get in, find a security passcard, and then access their video editing equipment. Once you have access to the computer system you can edit the charity event tapes and information, plant some evidence, and erase any trace of you being in the building. It should be a piece of cake!

Mission Objective(s)

This office is fairly quiet. If the protestors knew about it you're sure security would have been tighter. In this case you're glad that the Cage Consortium can keep a secret or two.

• Sabotage Cage Consortium's world credibility
  • Defeat the Chief of Security
  • Access the Editing Computer
  • Defeat the Security Van Driver

You have acquired the keys to the security van. Now you can make your escape and deny the security team pursuit. You're sure you can find a few protestors who wouldn't mind trashing Consortium property and taking care of the evidence for you.

You didn't find any actual evidence that the Cage Consortium was going to steal the funds for their charity drive, but that doesn't matter. They're guilty of so many other crimes, nobody will bat an eye at one little made up crime. The lid is off and now the world is going to come down hard on the Cage Consortium. But not nearly as hard as Lord Recluse will.

You ditched the van, and the unconscious Consortium security team you threw into the back, next to a group of disgruntled looking Scrapyarders and told them to have a blast. The mushroom cloud as you walked away tells you that that's exactly what they did.

Enemies

• Cage Consortium

Notable NPCs

• Chief of Security
• Security Van Driver

Chief of Security dialogue

Before combat:

Chief of Security: Alright, I'm checking out the front door now. Keep your eyes on the monitors and not the TV, numb skulls.

Combat start:

Chief of Security: We've got company!

The Chief of Security's Passcard

This simple plastic card contains a tiny chip that should enable you to access the editing room's computer system without any problems.

Editing Computer interaction

Editing Computer

Interacting with Editing Computer

Welcome to the EditMax Pro Platinum Video and Audio Editing computer system. How would you like to proceed?

• Tamper with the items for the pledge drive

I'm sorry, you have not yet inserted your securpass passcard. Please see the chief of security currently on staff to proceed.

• Find the Chief of Security (Leave)

• Tamper with the items for the pledge drive (after defeating the Chief of Security)

"Request confirmed."

You splice together a few segments of unedited material, adjust teleprompter information to point out some juicy secrets that the Cage Consortium has been hiding from the international community, and even throw in some footage of a miner demonstration that was brutally put down by Consortium Guards a few weeks ago for good measure. As a final act you plant evidence of a plot to funnel the charity money into an off shore bank account and then report the funds stolen by the Sky Raiders.

• Access Security Footage and Computer Logs

"Security footage accessed."

You edit the security footage, making it appear that nothing unusual has happened this evening.

You edit the computer logs so that your time in the system was unrecorded, you also adjusted the creation date of the document overviewing the Sky Raider plot and then delete it, leaving it in the deleted files folder, but it is still recoverable.

• Send an e-mail to the media

You draft an e-mail containing a copy of the Sky Raider plot and send it with a 12 hour delay. The e-mail won't be sent until well after the charity event and pledge drive has begun.

Just as you are finishing up the computer locks you out indicating a security breach within the office has been detected.

• Search for alternative exits

You access the various security cameras around the building and notice that camera 4 is watching a back door near the building's loading docks. There is a security van that appears to have arrived in response to the silent alarm and the Consortium Security team is entering the building. You can easily avoid the security team and get to the loading dock and escape using their own security van. Unfortunately, you're going to need the keys, but fortunately the van's driver is waiting by the back entrance.

• Deactivate camera 4 and get those keys!

Security Van Driver dialogue

Before combat:

Security Van Driver: No, it's real quiet down here. I'll alert you if anything happens that we can't handle.

Combat start:

Security Van Driver: Who are you?

At 75% Life:

Security Van Driver: Good thing I've got these combat stims!

At 50% Life:

Security Van Driver: This is door guard, we've got a dang hero down here! Get your butts back here!

At 25% Life:

Security Van Driver: Oh man, these combat stims are kickin' in!

Ambush! An ambush will occur once the Security Van Driver reaches 50% health.

Ambush dialogue

Cage Consortium Guard: Dang it! They got around behind us somehow. Let's move!

Cage Consortium Guard: What the heck is he doing here!?

Debriefing

That didn't go smoothly, but it went well. If the Cage Consortium doesn't look too closely then their charity drive celebrities will reveal embarrassing secrets about the Cage Consortium's illegal practices. Even if they do catch it in time, your message to the press will cause a radical stir and the finger pointing will begin. Someone will crack and potentially go to the international community with evidence in order to save their own butt, and the whole thing will turn into a nightmare as the world stage hosts a humanitarian crisis in the Rogue Isles. Kirk Cage will be fighting that political battle for some time, and Lord Recluse is going to have to put the hurt on some bad people for you if he wants to make sure that the Rogue Isles still has a seat in the United Nations. Justice has been served.