Mission:The Graveyard Shift - Chapter Two: Dismemberment Fees

Chapter Two: Dismemberment Fees

Briefing

Character. Good timing. I just finished updating the case with your notes and got a notification from the deep-web 'Lok forums. As I thought might happen, it closed shop and went dark but posted a goodbye message to its users. Clues as to what's going on are starting to pop up and sprinkle all over the other forums. It seems that 'Newt' and 'Malady' were not the ringleaders of these new factions within the Vahzilok. The Bureau has reason to believe there are people higher up the ladder but these first arrests should stifle the momentum of those groups. As for the third, we know-

Agent Watkins's phone rings. He answers it quickly and tersely, and says yes, he'll wait for the text. When the text notification pings, he opens a message on his phone and begins to watch a video and shares it with you. In it, a Vahzilok Cadaver is shown being ambushed by a pack of other cadavers, tearing it limb from limb as citizens, scream in horror and flee the area. It's left snarling in pain and begging for mercy as a head and a torso on the sidewalk, while the other cadavers lumber off with its parts into the sewers.

• Brutal. Do you know where this happened?

Mission Acceptance

I do. Waste no time on this one. This video is fresh, very fresh. 27 minutes ago, 32,000 views. Nobody's going to profit on this kind of tragedy, I guarantee you that. If it's only been a half an hour, then I can give you a roughly triangulated area of where they could be in that amount of time. Start at these coordinates and look for someone who looks like they're calling the shots.

Unnecessary Solicitation

Time is against us. Find the shot-caller before they scatter!

Mission Objective(s)

A two-pronged assault greets you, a heavy mix of deep basslines hitting your ears and formaldehyde invading your nostrils.

• Hunt down the cannibal corpses
  • Find the ringleader!

It seems that the Freakshow have made a play at trying to control a portion of the disorganized Vahzilok horde! Dubstitch was the puppeteer of these bomb-zombies, but there are still many out there!

Enemies

Vahzilok

Freakshow

Notable NPCs

• Dubstitch (Freakshow Boss)

Freakshow Dialogue

Before combat:

Juicer Chief 1: Gwe heh heh! That last stunt really pushed up the views! We're going to be huge soon!

Juicer Chief 2: Hehe, and if someone has a problem with it they can stop by and get SMASHED!

Combat start:

Juicer Chief 1: Whoa, I didn't expect a hero until at least a million views or 100K in subscribers!

Juicer Chief 2: It seems our first downvote has shown up for a beating!

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Before combat:

Stunner Chief: Do we have to rip them apart?

Juicer Chief: Have you ever tried to persuade a cadaver, dude?

Combat start:

Stunner Chief: I told you would should have been more discreet!

Juicer Chief: Discreet? Did you forget who you signed up with?!

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Before combat:

Champion Smasher: How much did we make from the sale of those notes?

Champion Swiper: We? 'We' made nothing. Dubstitch and the boss got the payday, and we get the toys!

Combat start:

Champion Smasher: Someone's here! Probably mad they didn't get cut in on the tech!

Champion Swiper: Bruh, that's a hero. Time to smash!

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Before combat:

Juicer Chief 1: Protect Dubs, she's cracking the code on those notes!

Juicer Chief 2: I want to but she's making it hard when she sends these Bombies out into the field with no testing!

Combat start:

Juicer Chief 1: I think she probably shouldn't have tested against live heroes so soon, yeah.

Juicer Chief 2: Sometimes I think we are merely the victims of our own hubris, yo.

Dubstitch Dialogue

Before combat:

Oof. I think that last video might have been a little too epic.

Raverobber should have laid low after the first sale, not the third.

I'm not going to figure out how to get Character off our trail in time before the Bombies are debugged.

Combat start:

Yup, I was right, here comes the walking DMCA takedown!

Well, well, well... if it isn't the consequences of my own actions!

75% Health

I was only in Phase One testing for the Bombies! You were my testing metric!

50% Health

I'm gonna remix your brains!

Summoning Ambush

Get 'em, meatbags! Drop the beatings!

25% Health

To the bitter end...

Gotta give the fans their crescendo!

On Defeat

Shut down...

And we just got 2000 subscribers...

Ambush Dialogue

'Zoombie' Bomb Cadaver: ...it's the remix...

'Zoombie' Bomb Cadaver: ...Boomtown to Miami...

Dubstitch

You arrested a Meat Doctor named Dubstitch at the end of your investigation into the rogue cadavers. As a former Vahzilok reaper who flipped from being a surgeon to a Freakshow Wrench, she was quite capable of being the brains behind the cadaver behavior you saw in the video, However, she was eager to drop another name to throw under the bus to save herself: 'Raverobber', who is higher up in the food chain.

Debriefing

I'm familiar with Dubstitch. But last I heard she was trying to ply her trade working with the Facemaker overseas. She's been a small-time player at best, for a long time. It's worrying that we don't know anything about this person pulling her strings. We have no data on 'Raverobber', but that's normal for the Freakshow. 'IDX' members of the Freakshow specialize in data erasure, so we're lucky to find data they've missed; for Freaks, they are surprisingly thorough. They pay attention to details.

I have a plan to find him, regardless. Come back to me when you're rested up.