Mission:The Only Good Day Was Yesterday - Part Three: Visitation Rites

Part Three: Visitation Rites

Briefing

So we know that a different spec-ops team from D.U.S.T. took some Awakened to the medical facility codenamed BETTERMOUSETRAP. According to the files you brought back, they were hoping to use its equipment to figure out how the Awakened could take over their Seers so easily... and whether there's any kind of procedure to remove or prevent it. We need to know if D.U.S.T. has any medical records on file regarding the Awakened and, if so, we need to retrieve them.

Trust me, once those psychic monstrosities are done with D.U.S.T. they're going to move out into the rest of First Ward. The Compound simply can't handle them.

• I'll find whatever medical records are there.

I hate to ask this of you, Character, but I need you to bring back any medical supplies you can find, as well. And one more thing: that ghostband transceiver we used at ARCLIGHT? Well, turns out that all its time in proximity to those Apparitions in there fried it. Gully has no idea why, but you're going to be without my help on this one.

Unnecessary solicitation:

Character, get your head in the game. I need you to retrieve any medical records D.U.S.T. may have on the Awakened.

Mission Objective(s)

Map: P_TECH_BIO_30_LAYOUT_02_02

It looks like D.U.S.T. abandoned this medical facility. The unnerving sensation of the Awakened moving freely about may explain why.

• Search BETTERMOUSETRAP
  • 2 medical supply caches to be retrieved
  • Access the Medical Records Terminal
  • Download Awakened medical records
  • Destroy the Surgeon and his Apparitions

You retrieved the medical supplies the Compound needs and, perhaps more importantly, all pertinent medical records regarding the Awakened, but they're fragmentary and mostly inconclusive. You have the feeling that you're going to have to call in an expert psychic to get much further.

Enemies

Apparitions
The Awakened
The Possessed

Notable NPCs

• The Surgeon (The Possessed Peculiar Leader)

The Awakened Dialogue

Before Combat:

Psychotic: I can sense an intruder.

Psychotic: And a powerful one, this time. That's...good.

You collect a sample of universal anti-toxins derived from some sea-creature native to the Sunken City.

Ambush! After retrieving the first sample, you are ambushed by one wave of The Awakened.

The Awakened Dialogue

Before Combat:

Burnout: The intruder is searching for something.

Burnout: It's searching for why we exist. Just like Fletcher did

This supply cache contains an array of epidermal hyper-sealants and a few useful field medi-packs.

Ambush! After retrieving the second sample, you are ambushed by one wave of The Awakened.

The Awakened Dialogue

Before Combat:

Burnout: It has seen Awakened before.

Burnout: Correction: it has destroyed Awakened before.

Medical Records Terminal

Briefing

You find a series of local medical transcripts regarding the Awakened Seers

• (Scan the report on their first appearance)

Dr. Jonas Fletcher, Field Surgeon in Residence to D.U.S.T. special operations in First Ward, BETTERMOUSETRAP

Just before the Black Channel fell, Colonel Vargas, the CO of D-SEC, ordered one of our squadrons from BETTERMOUSETRAP to capture as many of the the Seer-subjects designated 'Awakened' as we could. What started as a seemingly innocuous request from Mother has turned into a four-alarm fire. But that's not really the point of these reports. Forgive me. The stress is getting to all of us.

We did not suspect any associations between the Awakened and the Apparitions at the time ARCLIGHT was sent to the Sunken City, and still do not have any verifiable evidence to support such a claim.

What we do know is that the presence of the Awakened caused nearly all of the Seers attached to the D.U.S.T. cells here in First Ward to turn on us, as well. The current theory is that the Awakened carry some kind of 'psychic contagion' which normally healthy Seers can catch, and readily so. Again, what any of this has to do with the Apparitions is still under investigation.

• (Scan diagnosis reports on Awakened mutations)

Dr. Jonas Fletcher, Field Surgeon in Residence to D.U.S.T. special operations in First Ward, BETTERMOUSETRAP

The mutations that manifest in the Awakened seem to be psychomorphic in nature, indicative of exposure to enormous amounts of Nth-Gen psychic stress. Though we do not have an exact pattern yet, these mutations come in degrees of physical severity, from barely noticeable to almost supraterrestrial-level physiology. Whatever the pattern, the severity of physical mutations in Awakened do not seem to correspond to their levels of psychic power. The reasons for this are currently unknown.

We may never make the connection between the Awakened and the Apparitions. Once our initial reports were sent to Colonel Vargas at D-SEC, who then relayed such findings to the Asylum, it resulted in an immediate call for Black Channel Protocols across all D.U.S.T. special operations in First Ward.

• (Scan purpose of the Black Channel Protocols)

Dr. Jonas Fletcher, Field Surgeon in Residence to D.U.S.T. special operations in First Ward, BETTERMOUSETRAP

Mother has deemed that this secret medical facility be condemned and quietly disappeared. How nice. The Black Channel will lock us all down, so I fear this may be my last report. In that case, I would like to formally put, on the record, that I believe that a magician should've been sent here instead of a doctor. The Awakened I can work on-- correction, could have worked on had the Asylum given us adequate protection-- but just what am I supposed to do about the Apparitions? What advice can I give that doesn't end up straying into the occult, a subject I never studied? How am I supposed to perform an autopsy on a ghost?

• (Download all pertinent medical reports)

You have copies of all pertinent and available medical transcripts regarding the Awakened Seers.

• Leave

The Surgeon Dialogue

Combat Start:

The Surgeon: VISITING HOURS ARE OVER!

The Surgeon: THOSE WERE CLASSIFIED FILES!

Upon Defeat:

The Surgeon: We're losing him!

The Surgeon: If you could hand me the tyndallers, please.

The Surgeon: This was only supposed to be a residency!

The Surgeon: I'll find another host! You just watch me!

	The Residency
	The possessed monstrosity that referred to itself as the 'Surgeon' was carrying a D.U.S.T. security clearance card. It identified the host body as one Dr. Jonas Fletcher, a graduate of the Neutropolis Academy of Applied Extragenics.

Debriefing

What the..? The medical records only really show that D.U.S.T. is playing theory time, too. The words 'inconclusive' and 'possible' are used about every third sentence. Hrmm.

There has to be some truth to it, though...between the dispatches you found at ARCLIGHT and these medical records is a connection that the Asylum doesn't want getting out at all.

Character, there is a reason that my...people call themselves the Forlorn. Even in the armpit of Cole's regime, where there's a monster around every corner, we're often looked on as the worst of 'em all. And we can't forget what we did back when we were...when we were rabid...so sometimes, at your worst, you start to believe the rest of the Warders. Look, I'm embarrassing myself. Your actions here in the gumbo have given the Forlorn some hope. I just wanted you to know that.