Solanna
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Post by Solanna on Jul 18, 2019 23:29:45 GMT
Spoilers ahead for “Midnight Train”
Very short mission this one.
We arrive at the home of Rose and her son Adam, this is the place Luther mentioned, this is where we can hopefully begin our road to freedom.
I walk around back and find Adam outside chopping wood, he is alarmed but I ask for Rose and soon she emerges. She asks me why I am here and I show her my android hand. She nods as Alice and Luther round the corner. She gestures for us to go inside. I stop and ask Alice on the way if she is okay and she says she is cold. We go straight inside and I take her immediately upstairs to sleep. She asks why humans hate Androids so much, I tell her they are scared. She asks why we cant talk to them, why they wont talk to us. I tell her that maybe one day they will. This makes Luther very happy as his relationship to us jumps.
I close the curtains and leave her in the hands of the gentle giant and head downstairs. After a brief chat with Rose telling her of our plan to go to Canada and then asking about herself, she explains she saves deviant androids because she views them like her black ancestors during the days of slavery. She says people helped her people then so it would be wrong of her not to help us now. Adam seems irritated by this and goes to say something when someone rushes in and asks for Rose to come quick.
I follow to find another couple of deviants, one of which sadly has shutdown. The other android is in clear distress and explains that all they wanted was to be together, after a moment of silence I see Alice has entered the room. I am presented the choice to usher her away or let her remain, I decide to let her remain. She walks over and examines the pair and the survivor is noticeably calmed by her presence. Alice leaves looking rather disturbed and I follow to check on her but am distracted by an angry fight between Rose and Adam about whether were worth saving cause we have no life. After a bit Adam storms off and Rose explains she will help us cross the border. She explains she will be leaving for a little bit to get things moving and heads off.
I move over and talk to Luther, he tells me there is something I need to know about Alice right now, I brush him off and talk to Alice, asking if she is alright. She doesnt reply so I insist and say I didn’t think we kept secrets from each other. She tells me that if she tells me I will not love her anymore. Before I can do anything else there is a knock on the door. Adam shits himself saying its a cop. I quickly assess things, I tell Alice and Luther to hide upstairs, I then rush and close the door where the blue blood is stored, I notice android clothes on a dresser so shove them into a drawer. Check the magazine with face on it, lets not leave that there. I shut the door where the android lovers were and then move straight at Adam. I tell the fucker to calm his ass down. He still looks panicked but nods. I open the door and the cop, a rather pleasant fellow explains he had reports of androids in the area and wants to check on the locals. He asks if he can come in and Kara smiles and agrees, he asks if anyone else is in the house and I tell him Alice my daughter is upstairs asleep.
He enters strolls about while I make coffee, there is a thud from upstairs but he ignores it, its just my daughter Alice after all. I put his coffee on the table and he makes some light conversation sips it and then approaches Adam. He asks if Adam has seen any Androids because he is looking a little weird and Adam starts stuttering like an idiot so I quickly intervene and say that he is tired from doing work outside all day. The cops asks if he saw any androids whilst outside and Adam says no. The cop shrugs and moves for the door. As he does there is a thud from the laundry. He looks at the door and asks what that was, I very quickly and calmly explain it was the washing machine, its an older model and its a little bit noisy. The cop stares at the door for a minute them nods, tips his hat to Kara, tells Adam to get some rest and then departs. A few minutes later Rose returns, the trip has been set up, time to go, time to cross the border.
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Solanna
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Post by Solanna on Jul 18, 2019 23:34:17 GMT
Before continuing further I want to note that the android on the main menu has begun to do strange things.
Her led light every now and again flickers yellow and her face shows concern. Today when I turned off the game before I shutdown the console she asked if I was her friend, I told her she was and she looked relieved, also at one point whilst browsing for the models to buy I returned to see her in shutdown staring off to the side of the screen in horror. She fired herself back up a second later and returned to normal functioning.
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Post by endorbr on Jul 19, 2019 12:30:05 GMT
I knew their had it be a way to get a better outcome in Midnight Train. I ended up with both Luther and the cop dead because he spotted them hiding the closet.
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Post by Uesugi-dono on Jul 19, 2019 13:52:57 GMT
I knew their had it be a way to get a better outcome in Midnight Train. I ended up with both Luther and the cop dead because he spotted them hiding the closet. Yeah, I don’t think the game earned us time hide evidence until she let the cop inside. Good thinking Sol
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Post by Solanna on Jul 20, 2019 10:48:00 GMT
Spoilers ahead for “Capitol Park”
Whoa what an awesome mission.
We begin our playthrough as Markus and North rise from the sewers and prepare for war, I immediately see a police car and North and I duck for cover. After this we move quick. I proceed to work immediately, every android I see I devianise, I follow North to the storefront and do an appraisal, I locate cameras and gain the ability to track the best means to disable them. I am about to do so when I see a drone overhead. I scan it and locate the best method of disabling it and promptly get to work. Markus takes it down like a pro and North asks if she thinks police may be inbound, I tell her I sure as hell hope not.
I rush for the security source and locate a pair of work droids besides a set of cables. After devianising them I loop the camera feed, problem solved, North mentions needing a truck to break the windows and I agree, she also tells me we should close the road. We progress up the street and devianise some council worker bots then shift their at work sign to block the road, I then notice a truck and North and I with a little synchronised acrobatics secure the truck and ram the storefront.
With the store breached I set to work devianising everyone. I see North staring at another North and ask her if she is okay, she seems confused and just stutters then moves away. I devianise North 2.0 and then proceed to the centre of the store. Markus tells the androids we are no longer slaves, we are our own masters now. I tel them they can stay and be what they are, or they can join me help us set our people free. They all agree to follow me and Markus nods leaps from the desk and says its time to leave a message.
Outside North instructs me they will follow me, I just need to lead. I promptly hack the billboards to screen my message again. I hack the android parking bays, I hack the street signs, I tag all the benches, I am presented with a chance to pick the symbol of our revolt, I choose a clenched fist in the android triangle, love it! I tag the statue, I tag the windows with “We have a dream”, I tag the cars with “I think therefore I am” and lastly I smash all the windows and set the droids free.
Suddenly the police arrive, North tells me I’ve sent a very strong message without violence, she tells me she thinks we should have not been so kind. I tell her violence will solve nothing, she replies telling me that she hopes I am right. Norths attitude to me jumps from trusted to friend to companion instantly, seems despite her rough streak I may be turning her around.
As we make a break for it we hear gunshots and I turn the corner to see North beside North 2.0’s corpse. She looks distressed and says they killed us like animals. I proceed to investigate to find angry androids surrounding two shit scared police, they are eager for blood and hand me a gun, Markus points the weapon but I am better than this.
I spare them, an eye for an eye and the world goes blind, Markus hands the weapon to another android and then I leave. As I am leaving I see the news broadcasts. My peaceful message is growing, Public Opinion skyrockets, they are supportive of our cause. The revolution is winning hearts and minds, now we just have to force the heads of state to agree.
I loved this mission, there was so many variations, at one point North offered me a molotov cocktail but I declined, its clear the level of options available in this mission were staggering. Being passive still felt like my message was getting across and despite her far far less savoury view of humans even North seems to be turning around, I’m even starting to like her and I really didn’t at all to begin with. I can really feel a sense of depth with Markus that hasn’t jumped out in Kara, perhaps it was the slow burn that Markus was granted that Kara missed out on but he just feels like he started as a blank slate and has evolved into myself/yourself. Initially Kara was my favourite but I must say at this point in time Markus has overtaken her. I cannot wait to see where his future lies beyond this.
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Post by Solanna on Jul 20, 2019 14:37:38 GMT
Spoilers ahead for “Meet Kamski”
Hank and Connor arrive at the residence if the android creator himself Kamski at the request of Hank to find any lead that can regarding deviancy.
As I get out the car Hank finishes a phone call, he mentions how one of his police friends was attacked by androids but was spared by Markus. He seems relieved. Connor and Hank move up towards the residence where Connor exclaims he has a bad feeling about this. Hank tells him he might have a computer virus.
We knock and are escorted into the building by a Chloe model Android, one just like our menu girl. She tells us to make ourselves comfortable while we wait for Kamski. Whilst waiting I examine the photographs and notice Amada in one of them. Interesting, did she help create us?
Hank and I make small talk, first about rhe Chloe bot, I tell him she is very pretty. Then he asks if I’m excited to meet my maker, I tell him I am indifferent. Chloe returns and escorts us in to ses Kamski. Kamski tells us to wait while he finishes his laps and I note another 2 Chloe’s in the pool too. Seems he really likes the Chloe models. He emerges from the pool and Hank gets straight to business, what can you tell us about Deviants? He gives a really obscure answer about viruses spreading which irritates Hank a great deal, Connor reiterates the question. “What can you tell us of Deviancy?” He asks, Kamski asks me which side I am on, I tell him I don’t matter in this so he produces a gun and exclaims how human like Chloe is, how she passed the Turing test yet she is just plastic and metal emulating life, he gestures to her to get to her knees and then puts the gun in Connors hand. “Shoot her and I’ll tel you all I know” he says, Hank tells me its over but Kamski insists, orders even. I aim at her.
And I decline, Kamski tells me how ironic it is that humanity’s last hope is itself a deviant. I yell at him, I am not a deviant. Kamski seems amused. Hank calls an end to it and we leave as Kamski warns me that I will have to choose between to great evils.
Outside Hank asks why I didn’t shoot her and I yell at him, I tell him I couldn’t do it, that I am sorry, I fucked up. Hank shakes his head and smiles. “Maybe you made the right choice” he says happily.
Very short mission but like all Connors missions this one felt no less enthralling. Connor’s actor makes him feel so very unique, he conveys such a vast array of emotion whilst still keeping within that machine like persona. I need to find more stuff this actor has done cause I think I have a huge crush on him. *swoon* I can tell Connor will have to make a brutal decision soon and I will be very intrigued to see how that decision impacts the world and his relationship with Hank in the process.
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Post by Solanna on Jul 20, 2019 15:48:14 GMT
Spoilers ahead for “Freedom March”
Markus starts on the rooftops in the Jericho derelict district.
After a brief look around I find a piano and Markus sits and plays the same song he played back in my first meeting with Carl. I finish the melancholic tune and head out onto the plank to overlook the city. North arrives and asks me what I’m doing, I told her I was thinking. She asks me about my past before Jericho and I tell her the truth, she mentions the riot and I exclaim how daunting it is to have so many follow me. I ask her about her past and she declines, I ask her about the other North and she spills the beans. She was a sex-bot at Eden club and one day when travelling away to meet a client she snapped, strangled him without thinking and went deviant, she think I will think less of her but I don’t. I tell her I understand and she seems less hurt, an option arises to connect to her and I decide to seize it. The pair touch hands and then after a brief peaceful moment snap away like they have been shocked only to exclaim the have shared one another’s minds. Norths relationship with Markus leaps from trusted to Lover. Well well, she must have liked what she saw in Markus’s head.
Moving along to the streets of Detroit we witness Markus, Josh and North as they prepare for a march for Android Rights. North exclaims it is suicide and that Markus does not have to do this. Markus exclaims this is the only way.
So begins the mission proper. I begin by devianising every android I meet. One I devianise is accosted by his owner but I calmly exclaim that he needs to leave him alone because he has chosen to be free. The guy backs down. I devianise some delivery truck androids who then block the road and I open the manhole in the street to let the Jericho android legion out. They emerge and we begin our march, as we do Markus’s power to devianise the android population grows stronger, I can do it with but a glance now, androids abandon their owners in mass and join the march. I hack the billboards to show our clenched fist emblem, the symbol of our revolution. A lone cop tells us to freeze and so we obey as one, every single android, 400 something of us, put our hands in the air. The cop backs away and calls for reinforcements. We chant as we march, equal rights, we are alive, set us free, end slavery. At the end of the road the cops arrive in force. Markus exclaims that we are demonstrating peacefully. They tell us to disperse or they will shoot, and is that Sergeant Shitstain leading them? The one and only asshole from Eden Club and the one who punched Connor. Oh it would be nice to slap some taste out of his mouth.
North says its time for war, attack or we will be killed. Josh says standing our ground is better for the cause, if they gun us all down the androids will be martyrs and our enemy will only weaken their cause. Josh is right, the people are coming onside, the younger generation who have been raised by androids, they do not see us like their parents do, they empathise, if they see us fall, future generations will be spared. If we attack we could lose those people and androids could be systematically recalled and destroyed instead. I side with Josh. I stand my ground. The police gun us down. I stand my ground. The fire again, North begs me to fight back. I can’t let my people die, but I cannot attack them either. I choose to sacrifice myself, I will be the martyr for androids, I will die so that they can be free because it is what Carl would have wanted.
Markus walks down the street towards the police alone. They fire and I fall, I am saddened to see him die like this, Markus has grown to be my favourite, but this is what my Markus would have wanted, better to die and prove my people truly want peace than to allow us to become vilified. I’m actually sad about this. But as the Police advance, its not over? Josh the security bot I rescued in the Cyberlife warehouse mission leaps to protect me. As my people drag me away he is beaten savagely and executed in the street. Our march has shown what we are. But more importantly it has shown how ruthless and without compassion our enemy is. This march has painted the law and the government with a black mark. Public Opinion skyrockets in our favour yet again. Many of us died, but we are winning.
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Post by Solanna on Jul 20, 2019 16:40:06 GMT
Spoilers ahead for “Last Chance, Connor”
Fuck does that sound ominous. I hope my lover-bot of choice isn’t coming to a cold hard demise just yet. Guess its time to see.
We are back in the Zen Garden. I’m still thinking this is a VR program of some form. Its winter here now, the lake is iced over I can see Bitchy McBitchface on the lake but I wanna play with the rock again cause its become a hobby now. I touch it and it doesn’t attempt to destroy me, Connor seems a little weirded out by this but okay. Time to talk to the shrew.
Firstly I see a little hint she is dropping at me. Amanda forces me to walk across the lake to her. I get it you less than subtle bitch, Im on thin ice, whatever, fuck you too. She tells me war is about to begin, androids will have to be destroyed. I tell her I thought Kamski may have known something but I was wrong. She tells me I chose not to ask and our relationship dies a little. I’m not holding my tongue anymore, if this is my end you will accept a tongue lashing you ruthless old slag. I tell her I chose not to play his twisted game, our relationship dies a bit more. I push her about the Connor series. I’m not unique am I? How many of us are there? I demand. She drops again and tells me it has nothing to do with our investigation. I mention the photo of her at Kamskis place, that Amanda was his teacher. She exclaims that when Kamski designed her he wanted an interface that looked familiar so he chose bis former mentor. Oooohhhhh its getting interesting now. This bitch is like Skynet methinks. I decide to continue to antagonise the bitch I tell her she didn’t tell me everything she knows about Deviants. Our relationship dies even more. I expect you to find answers she says coldly and now I am now distrusted, that was a crazy sharp drop from when I opened dialogue. She tells me I am the only one who can stop civil war, find the deviants, this is my last chance and I am kicked out of her VI Zen Garden.
The chief tells us we are off the case as the FBI has taken charge. Hank is surprisingly upset about that. Chief Fowler and Hank have an argument but Fowler cannot help. Hank is off the case and I am to return to Cyberlife. Hank is pissed off.
I follow Hank and sit on his desk in a huff. I tell him I am frustrated, I know we can solve this case. Hank asks if we are on the wrong side and I tell him I have regrets. Wish I had done things better, He asks why I didn’t kill Chloe says I have Empathy a human emotion and I tell him that troubles me. I then remark that he has secrets too and he needs to get past them. Hank liked that, Special Agent Perkins of the FBI has arrived. I tell Hank I wont give up, we have a chance here, I just need a little time. Hank tells me the key is on his desk and goes to buy me time. A few minutes is all I have, gotta make it count and with that Hank walks over and knocks Perkins out with a savage haymaker. Nice.
I rush as fast as my beautiful legs can carry me into the evidence lockup when Sergeant Shitstain arrives, I decide to reply in low profile, he threatens to burn me. Fuck you too, soon, soon. I run down the stairs into the evidence lockup and get in there ASAP. I try to access but its locked behind Hanks password. I have to guess, I choose “FuckingPassword” oh look, it worked.
Time to crack this case. I start at the central evidence station. I examine the various pieces and then look at the recording of the deviant who killed Ortiz, after his interrogation he said “the answer is inside” i take the statue and shake it, then break it, a small map of ferndale, intriguing. I examine the playback of Markus’s message. I examine the diary, but it is useless. I examine my recorded memory taken from Simon, Jericho on rusted metal. What could it mean? I inspect the three bodies I have recovered, Ortiz’s deviant, broken beyond repair, Daniel, irreparable but not useful anyway and Simon. I can reactivate Simon. I scavenge a part from his duplicate Daniel and implant it into his head. His eyes do not function, but he can speak. Better not fuck this up. I try to trick him, but Simon is a smart cookie, he denies to help me so I take it via force. I have what I need, I have the location of Jericho. At last I can avoid my shutdown, I can live.
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Post by endorbr on Jul 20, 2019 18:01:25 GMT
Your playthrough has been uniquely different yet also really similar to my own. Your head seems to be in the same space mine was as I played thru the story given the decisions I’ve seen you make. There definitely are a few noticeable differences where I can see that the ultimate narrative is designed to push along a particular path but the how you got there can be drastically different. One notable thing I can see is that you had Simon to reactivate. My Simon made it away from the TV station alive so I was reactivating the deviant Android from that first case, the one they found in the attic. After I kept him from self terminating or being killed in interrogation he had bashed his own head in earlier in my story while in lock up in a segment neither you nor Uesugi-dono even saw apparently.
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Post by Solanna on Jul 20, 2019 18:53:28 GMT
Your playthrough has been uniquely different yet also really similar to my own. Your head seems to be in the same space mine was as I played thru the story given the decisions I’ve seen you make. There definitely are a few noticeable differences where I can see that the ultimate narrative is designed to push along a particular path but the how you got there can be drastically different. One notable thing I can see is that you had Simon to reactivate. My Simon made it away from the TV station alive so I was reactivating the deviant Android from that first case, the one they found in the attic. After I kept him from self terminating or being killed in interrogation he had bashed his own head in earlier in my story while in lock up in a segment neither you nor Uesugi-dono even saw apparently. I did watch him bash his brains in but I had no components available to repair him in this playthrough. Only Simon had parts available in Daniel to initiate a repair. I would be interested to see what would happen had I not found Simon or simply let him go in Connors last mission by telling Hank it was a dead end. I would not have had any androids available to repair in that case and finding Jericho would have not been an option. Would that have been the end of Connors story?
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Post by Uesugi-dono on Jul 22, 2019 11:49:57 GMT
Your playthrough has been uniquely different yet also really similar to my own. Your head seems to be in the same space mine was as I played thru the story given the decisions I’ve seen you make. There definitely are a few noticeable differences where I can see that the ultimate narrative is designed to push along a particular path but the how you got there can be drastically different. One notable thing I can see is that you had Simon to reactivate. My Simon made it away from the TV station alive so I was reactivating the deviant Android from that first case, the one they found in the attic. After I kept him from self terminating or being killed in interrogation he had bashed his own head in earlier in my story while in lock up in a segment neither you nor Uesugi-dono even saw apparently. I've concluded my playthrough (I just have a lot to write!) and I loved my ending, but I bet it was vastly different from either of yours. Only 27% got my resolution to Markus' story. FAR less got my Kara ending (just over 10% I think) I've got a lot to do.
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Post by Solanna on Jul 22, 2019 15:43:30 GMT
Spoilers ahead for “Crossroads”
This is gonna be a bloody long post.
I begin as Kara driving with Rose, Luther and Alice to an undisclosed location. On route I watch an android get dragged into the streets and shot by police. Rose says its been happening all ober the city. I check the tv in the car and see on the news that hospitals, schools and government buildings are in shutdown, that 2/3rds of the military is lost due to the android crisis. Things are looking dire. Rose turns it off. We arrive at a carpark in the industrial district and Rose tells us to look for Jericho and that we need to catch the midnight bus, that it’s absolutely critical. She wishes us farewell and then Luther, Alice and Kara walk down the road toward Jericho.
Switch to Connor looking ultra deviant now as he emerges from the train. He uses the map card from the statue to follow the same path to Jericho that Markus did.
Back to Kara. We have found Jericho and move through the ship, we see that the Androids are now heavily armed and also well setup. This is a far cry from the miserable shit hole Markus found initially. As I wander to find somewhere warm for Alice I notice the news broadcasting, people are saying they don’t agree with the violence being forced on androids, that they have done us no harm, why are we doing them harm? I find Alice a warm place to sit and move along. As I move to leave Luther insists he tell me something about Alice. But I snub him again, it can wait. I think I know where this is going. Oof if so.
I flip back into Connors shoes. He looks at the C4 around the area and notes that its all rigged to explode. The entire ship is rigged to explode. As I progress through the ship the busted face android leader Lucy. She asks if Connor needs help then nods and says he needs to help himself.
Back to Kara, I visit Markus and tell him my story then ask for passports, he tells me to stay in Jericho, the government is rounding up androids and taking them away to camps. As I leave he asks why I am travelling with a human when they hate us and I tell him because we have a bond and need each other. On my way back to Alice I see her sitting nearby and call to her. But its not Alice, its an android her. Same model, I fucking knew it. She never ate anything, Todd was more fucked in the head than I had thought. I get a flashback of the document I saw at his house, it was an brochure for her model of android, Kara must have just blocked it out, Luther explains that she wanted a mum, and I wanted to have someone to love. Luther tells me it makes no difference because we love one another and that is all that matters. We became what we needed to each other to survive. “Forgetting who you are to become what someone needs you to be, maybe that is what it means to truly be alive” he says. I return to Alice who asks if something is wrong, I give her a hug and tell her its fine and she asks if we will be together forever and I realise that promise I made is probably more likely to stick now. The pair cuddle close as we move to Markus.
Markus, Josh and North stand on the captains deck of Jericho, Josh is upset, wants us all to hide, North wants us to fight back. Markus, he wants to open dialogue one last time. This infuriates Josh who storms off and annoys North but her trust in Markus is greater. She offers him the detonator to a dirty bomb, I refuse it, I won’t do that. North wishes Markus luck and the pair share a passionate embrace and a kiss and then she departs.
Connor watches him leave and then visits the Zen Garden again (I knew it was a VI program) where Amanda tells him to bring Markus in alive, Connor confronts Markus and I begin beseeching him not to attack, informing him he is betraying his people, telling him he should join us, I am given a choice as Connor, deviate or remain a machine, my Connor deviates instantly. I rip down my programming’s shields and then lower my gun, theres about to be an attack on Jericho I tell Markus quickly. We have to get out I tell him quickly as the choppers arrive.
Kara runs as Perkins and his swat team assault the ship, I follow Luther as he guides me through the ship, he smashes open a huge steel door and I run through as we run for safety he is shot in the leg and falls, Kara and Alice spin as he falls.
Markus, Connor and North meet up in the halls, North mentions our people are being slaughtered, I send out a message for them to jump ship, I ask about Josh but she has not seen or heard from him, I tell her they are coming from above and wr need to blow up Jericho, she says its a suicide mission but I don’t care. Connor agrees with North but Markus is unwilling to compromise and runs anyway, North wishes him luck.
As I run I encounter Lucy dying in the halls, she begs me to save our people then shuts down, I fall through a gantry and nearly get gunned down by some SWAT but I manage to avoid them and sneak through as they run down a hall.
Back in Kara’s boots I am given the choice to save Luthor or abandon him, I won’t leave him behind. I grab him and QTE down the hall into a small room just as a SWAT officer comes by shooting some androids. Luthor tells me to leave and that he will manage, we say our farewells and Alice and I run for our lives. As I run I see gunfire ahead and Alice and I duck into a side room. We close the door and wait until someone starts knocking and screaming for help, I open the door and an android rushes in but is gunned down by SWAT. One officer rushes in and tries to kill me but I QTE through a rather harsh fight with him, kill him and score a pistol for my efforts. Woohoo.
Meanwhile Markus evades the SWAT as he moves down through the halls. On route I encounter a few androids about to be executed and I’m given the choice to do nothing or intervene. I would hardly be a leader if I didn’t intervene so in I go and in a flawless QTE I whoop the everliving shit out of two guards and make them shit their own teeth. The androids are grateful and I tell them to get moving ASAP. I rush round the corner to find two SWAT staring me down I decide to dodge these two and go left straight up onto the gantry. I run forward to find another two androids ready to be executed so I drop an air conditioner on the Police Officers heads. I then tun onwards yet again to find Josh being attacked. I intervene yet again, not a very clean fight this one but I still prevail, Josh was extremely grateful.
Kara and Alice step off the ship and run but Kara is gunned down. I make a hard decision and decide to play dead, surely there would be nothing better at playing dead than a machine? It works cause they pack their shit and fuck right off. Thank the gods for that. I get up and Kara and Alice escape with their lives albeit with a bullet in Kara’s leg.
Back in Markus’s boots I am about to activate the bombs when three more SWAT arrive, I fight them and then shoot two of the fuckers before activating the bomb. I run and regroup with North, Josh and Connor. As we run North falls and I am given the choice to save her or bail. I of course run down the hall straight into gunfire cause I’m Markus. I kill more human trash and retrieve North and as we run together the SWAT decide to make a second push, this time Connor shows why he is a police bot as he stylishly executes the whole gang with their own weapons. Jericho explodes and the sink begins to sink. Perkins vows to keep chasing me as he orders his men to retreat.
That was one hell of a mission. Long and every fight felt extremely deadly, I am honestly surprised I managed to make it through, I am curious to see what the other options as Kara and Alice would have resulted in. Markus feels like such a fucking badass action hero, his part in this mission really cemented him as the definitive leader of the Android rebellion. He acts with no thought for himself, it is only for others, for the greater good that I will do what I must. He is still by the large my favourite character at present.
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Post by endorbr on Jul 22, 2019 15:58:16 GMT
I didn't care for that "twist" with Alice either. Kind of diminished Kara's whole story a bit.
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Post by Solanna on Jul 22, 2019 16:32:38 GMT
Spoilers ahead for “Night of The Soul”
Oh boy, I’m going home.
Markus approaches the door of his former home and it opens at his command. Carl never removed me from its entries, I’m touched. I walk inside and examine the entry table. There is a message from Leo. He is getting out of hospital soon and is grateful that his dad stayed beside him while he was in there. He promises to stop with the drugs and make a better life, I really hope he delivers on that promise, for Carls sake.
I dont venture to see him straight away. Instead I have a little look around. My painting is still there in his studio. I play the the piano briefly then progress up to see my former master. I am stopped by his nurse but I devianise him and head inside.
He is weak and bedridden, but he is excited to see me. I explain how much I have missed him and I am close to tears which prompts Carl to ask me what is wrong? I tell him I am afraid I have doomed androids, that I feel I have led them to death when all I wanted was for them to be free. He tells me the world is ruled by fear, fear of the unknown, fear of others, he remarks that it is like him, too old and it needs to end. I ask him for help, I tell him how they are killing my people and that I do not want to answer violence with violence but I don’t see another way. Carl tells me its what being alive is, making choices between love and hate, between holding out your hand or closing it as a fist, he tells me I need to accept the world as it is, or fight to change it. he tells me I am his son, that our blood is not the same colour, but a part of him is in me. When the world falls into darkness, some men have the courage to lead it out, he explains that Markus is one of those men. His parting words to me... Face the abyss, but don’t let it consume you.
Man I love Carl, what a way to set me straight back on my road. I won’t let the cruelty of others corrupt me, I will retain my vision, I will attempt to resolve this without bloodshed, without murder.
Cut to an old abandoned church. Markus has three goals now. Apologise to Kara, decide Connors fate and decide the future course of action. I decide to chat with Josh first though. He explains that whilst we have not always seen eye to eye he is alive because of me and that no matter what I decide he will be behind me all the way. Next I talk to Kara, I apologise for putting her life at risk, she and Markus agree that her and Alice need to make the last bus so they can hopefully make it into Canada. Her final words to me are to save our people.
Connor explains that its his fault so many died, he led Perkins there, he says he is sorry and will leave if I desire it, I tell him I trust him and his place is here with his people. Connor remarks that there are thousands of androids in the Cyberlife Tower and that if we wake them up it will shift the balance of power, he volunteers himself to go. Markus says it is suicide and he couldn’t ask that of him but Connor is willing to die for the cause, the pair share a brief moment of understanding and then I go to talk to North. I tell her how they are rounding up androids and putting them into camps for disposal, the complete deletion of our people is the current course of action humanity has decided to take. North tells me no matter what I have to make a choice and regardless she will follow me, all the androids will and then she confesses her love for me, aww.
Its time to decide. Carls words to me resonate and I cannot fail him. I will not let the hate of others define me, I will not let my people be marked in history as savage murders or conquerors. If we all die now then let it happen and let the future generations tell tales of how humanity created life and then destroyed it because it wanted freedom. I will stick to my guns, I will never back down.
We will march to the detainment camps and demand justice and equality. We will never sink to the levels of humanity in their time of fear.
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Post by Uesugi-dono on Jul 22, 2019 17:08:29 GMT
Spoilers ahead for “Crossroads” This is gonna be a bloody long post.Nigga, please...
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