Mission:Shrewd Lessons - Part One: Hearts and Minds
Part One: Hearts and Minds
Briefing
You and I, Character, we could make a real swell team. I could be your partner. No, wait, I have a better idea. I could be your manager.
See, I've got connections all over the city. I hear about everything going on in this city, and that means you will hear it too. Information is, after all, my specialty.
Take this, for example. A man named Paul Valus, he murdered a PPD officer, Douglas Cartwright. Cartwright was a real heroic type, just won a medal of honor from Emperor Cole himself. But I digress. Paul Valus walks right up to Cartwright in the middle of a crowded restaurant, right in front of his wife and kids and everyone and shoots him in the temple, killing him. The PPD didn't catch him and they've been searching for him ever since. If you were to bring in Paul Valus, you'd be a hero.
- Take down Paul Valus
That's the spirit! See, you and I are going to be a great team. You win the hearts and minds of the people, and I'll manage your fans and get the information you need.
Oh, there I go prattling on and on again before it's prudent to do so.
So Valus disappears, everyone says down into the tunnels. But I know better. I have the right connections and they keep me well informed.
It turns out that Valus didn't go underground at all, he holed up with some Syndicate Go-gangers. You know the type, right? Color coded motorcycle leathers, sunglasses, automatic weapons. I know where they're hiding him, but the PPD are going to find him sooner than later. If you take him out first, you will win the people's minds. If you place a rose on Cole's statue in memory of Officer Cartwright, you will also win their hearts.
Take down Paul Valus
Unnecessary Solicitation
Valus is hiding out at this address. I know, it's a pharmaceutical company, but you have to trust me, the Syndicate are there. They're always where you never suspect.
Mission Objective(s)
The facility is clean and operational. How do a bunch of Syndicate Go-gangers and a known murderer hide out here without getting noticed? Someone's on somebody else's payroll.
- Find Paul Valus
- Take down Paul Valus
You brought swift justice to Paul Valus. Now all that remains is honoring the memory of Officer Cartwright and his surviving family by placing the rose at the foot of Emperor Cole's statue.
Enemies
Notable NPCs
- Ando (Syndicate Striker) (Lieutenant)
- Guillermo (Syndicate Striker) (Lieutenant)
- Paul Valus (Syndicate Minion)
- Colorful motorcycle leathers can't hide Paul Valus from justice.
You here to take me in? I won't go alive...
- I'm counting on that...
Then why hesitate? Just finish me off or I'll do it myself, heh.
- Why'd you do it? Why'd you kill Cartwright?
- He wasn't no hero. Cartwright deserved to die more than I do for killing him.
- He took everything from me, my wife, my son...
- Nice sob story, save your tears for the nether world.
- Fight Paul Valus
- Why? What'd they do? (A)
- Nothing! They were innocent! PPD, Powers Division, you're all the same...
- Cartwright was drunk on his power, we ran into him one night, just a minute after curfew... That's all it took. He blew out my knees with his power gauntlets and then had my family taken away as traitors. He left me there on the street to get picked up by a hospital unit...
- What happened to your family?
- Executed for treason... My wife and son were executed because that scumbag wanted to flaunt his power! I vowed revenge, and I got it.
- I don't care what happens to me now, just that Cartwright's family knows why their father got taken from them: because my family got taken from me.
- Alright, I've heard enough... (B)
- Fight Paul Valus
- I'll see if there's any truth to it. If there is, I'll make sure everyone knows.
- ...
- Leave
- Sounds like he got what he deserved.
- He did. I spared his family because they were innocent... I want them to know why I did what I did. I want to be recognized as a good man before I die.
- I'll see if there's any truth to it. If there is, I'll make sure everyone knows.
- ...
- Leave
- You're not a good man. You're a cop killer, and your sentence is death!
- Fight Paul Valus
- Got any last words?
- Last words. Yeah, I do, actually...
- Cartwright was no hero, he was worse than me. Killing him in front of his family like that may have been cold, but I didn't take his family from him like he did from me...
- What'd they do?
- This selection loops to another branch of this conversation which is already documented. (A)
- Alright, I've heard enough...
- This selection loops to another branch of this conversation which is already documented. (B)
- Go ahead, finish yourself off then, save me the trouble.
- ...
- Leave
You exit the Syndicate hideout just as PPD officers arrive and swarm past you into the building. In a few minutes they'll find Paul Valus along with your handiwork and word will spread. Now is the time to make your way to the statue of Emperor Cole. There you can honor Officer Cartwright and his family with a rose placed at the foot of mankind's savior.
Visit Emperor Cole's Statue
Unnecessary Solicitation
Remember, place the rose at the foot of Cole's statue, solemnly. Like you care.
Mission Objective(s)
- Visit Emperor Cole's Statue
You placed the rose at the foot of Cole's Statue. Return to the Deputy Assistant of Information.
Debriefing
Magnificent. Truly splendid. That was the best press I've ever gotten for one of you Powers Division guys / girls.
TPN managed to get it on camera, and they just had an interview with Cartwright's family. His wife, she was in tears. I was very heartwarming. She blessed you for your compassion and sent her love to you as well. Precious, really.
We are going places, my friend. You and me... rising to the top... heh heh... hmmm... Just as soon as I can find our next piece of work. Just, wait there one minute. I need to make a call.
Oh, my phone. Of course. It would be quite silly of me not to be in constant contact with you, Character. After all, I am certain to have a veritable flood of valuable information coming my way anytime soon. Quite valuable.