Pay Phone

Overview

Pay Phone
Pay Phone
Zone	Rikti War Zone
Coordinates	(3229.5, -0, -513)
Level Range	40-50
Enemy Groups	Template:Neo-Shivans

Pay Phone is a hero and villain contact in the Little Round Top neighborhood of Rikti War Zone at coordinates (3229.5, -0, -513) . The level range is 40-50.

Introductions

Information

Outdated Tech

Somehow, a pay phone in the Rikti War Zone has been ringing. A Vanguard operative discovered it, and when answered it only played a single message, a request for the listener to contact you personally to answer it.

Prior to Introduction

We're sorry, you call cannot be completed as dialed. If you require a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad in frustration. I hear there's a bounty on Doc Buzzsaw, maybe that's more your speed.

Initial Contact

The pay phone plays its message in a friendly female voice when you answer it.

Hello, if you have answered this phone and you are not Character, kindly locate Character and tell them that there's a caller on the line waiting to speak with them. Thank you and have a nice day.

The phone connects to a heavily distorted voice.

You have no reason to trust me, but there isn't another way to do this. I have information. That's what I've been about. But I have witnessed something far bigger than myself. Causing me to rethink some of my values. I downloaded what I saw. I didn't mis-speak. I want to show you. You can decide what to do with the knowledge.

Greeting

The phone is ringing. There doesn't seem to be many places where someone could hide and watch for a prank. You're not even sure how it's still connected or in service.

Too Busy

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No More Missions

The pay phone has stopped ringing. There isn't even a dial tone when you pick it up.

Story Arc

Second Chances at a First Impression (??-50)

Souvenir

A Visual Memory

You are left with little evidence to prove to anyone of the experience you went through after you picked up a pay phone receiver in the Rikti War Zone and ended up taking a ride through the recorded memory of Piecemeal. When you tell the story, you call it:

A Second Chance at a First Impression

Though to be honest, you're not sure why you call it that. It seems like that story title, as you tell the story over and over again to others, seems to surface from your memory of her memory, and given that the entire simulation was run by Bile, the custody chain of the phrase appears to be nebulous at best.

Regardless, it all started when you took a chance on a prank caller that said they wanted to meet you inside of an Architect story. When you loaded in, you discovered that Bile was there, encouraging you to watch what he called unaltered footage of Piecemeal's final hours. Unsure what to make of it, but dressed as Piecemeal, you engaged in playing her role as Bile tried to show you the awful truth of something that Piecemeal did.

In her arrogance, Piecemeal haphazardly tried to insert herself into the teleport network - the resulting experiment altered the light matrices of supergroup portals worldwide, and sent her careening straight out of existence. In truth, she landed somewhere that should have been impossible - the Rikti Homeworld, if only for a moment, before boomeranging back into our world and into Recluse's meeting room. Narrowly escaping his wrath, she found herself floating in Freedom Plaza of Galaxy City, beset by Shivans. She was then extracted by Dream Doctor, who said she had some larger role to play, before putting her back into Galaxy City safely to witness the horror.

Galaxy City was withering and dying, sapping her power and causing her to degrade as she explored. Normal civilians became catatonic husks of themselves, falling to dust if startled. The Shivans were running rampant, but the Arena was holding them out. Inside, you found Warriors with warding against the withering, and a potential location they were stealing them from. Mortimer Kal was there, casting aside his doubts about something before vanishing.

The only escape for Piecemeal was to hack the Arena power source, boost the fragile mediport signal, and beam herself out as binary code, leaving her body behind as a pile of dust and dooming the Arena to the Shivans.

The more you tell the story, the less believable it sounds. But you swear you saw it happen, and there's only two people who could verify any part of this story... Dream Doctor and Piecemeal herself.

Second Chance at a First Impression

Issue 27: Finale

Briefing

Sending you coordinates. The answers are inside of an Architect file. It's safest for both of us. You can see what she saw, what we saw. You and I can talk without violence.

• This better be not a trap.

Mission Acceptance

No Trap. Being Serious. For once. Too much at stake. Meet me in virtual reality.

Unnecessary Solicitation

You cannot interact with a payphone from outside its corded range.

Mission Objective(s)

The simulation boots up, showing you a familiar and yet completely foreign laboratory in the sewers...

• View... Personal Story?
  • Speak with... Bile?
  • Find Sim-Bile in the next room
  • Explore the lab
  • Test out the Portal Hack!
  • ???
  • Seek shelter in the Arena
  • Investigate the area

The simulation has concluded, and you are overwhelmed with information that you may or may not believe.