Preludes & Intrigues/tsw
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Preludes & Intrigues/tsw | |
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Region: | Hub |
Zone: | No Data |
Start Location: | Faction HQ |
Start Coords: | No Data |
Given by: | Automatic Assignment |
Type: | Story |
Requires: | The Venetian Agenda (Mission) |
Reward: | 199,480 Experience Experience |
Repeatable: | No |
Game Version: | TSW |
Added in: | Update 1.9 |
The call just came in. Tokyo is open. All the secret societies will be converging on that horror-haunted city. But you have to take a slight detour first.
Dialogue
Introduction
Dragon
- A group of monks are standing around the dragon watching him, Bong Cha is trying to look over their shoulders to see what he is doing
- Bong Cha: Why won't you let me see? I am the Voice.
- Bong Cha: Is this about the Connected? Takeru?
- Bong Cha turns around and talks to you
- Bong Cha: There are anomalies in the system.
- Bong Cha: Have you been contacted?
- Bong Cha: "What's in a name?"
- Bong Cha: Does this mean anything to you?
- Bong Cha: Never mind.
- Bong Cha: Tokyo has never made sense in any model.
- Bong Cha: It was unpredictable, it was chaotic
- Bong Cha: and the repercussions were felt around the world.
- Bong Cha: If I didn't know better,
- Bong Cha: I'd suspect the Dragon.
- Bong Cha: Our entire model relies on those initial variables.
- Bong Cha: We know the what the when and the where.
- Bong Cha: What we need now are the who and the why.
- The dragon hands something to Bong Cha
- Bong Cha: We had allies in Tokyo before the explosion.
- Bong Cha: A branch of the Yakuza with a racket in Pachinko machines.
- Bong Cha: You might be able to use their help.
- Bong Cha: Three is a lucky number for members of the Dragon.
- Bong Cha hands a Pachinko ball to you
- Bong Cha: There is a system forming in Venice.
- Bong Cha: Initial conditions suggest that if it plays out as expected,
- Bong Cha: everything in The Secret World will change.
- Bong Cha: You are quickly becoming our favourite variable.
- Bong Cha: Go to Venice, on your way to Tokyo.
- Bong Cha: Everything can change.
- Bong Cha: Everything will change.
Illuminati
- Kirsten Geary: Shred any current action plans, deep six your To-Do list, and burn your goal tree.
- Kirsten Geary: All eyes to the stage, and the show is Tokyo.
- Kirsten Geary: But I need you to make a little detour on the way.
- Kirsten Geary: see there is this spot I can't reach on my Shit List that's just itching for some red ink.
- Kirsten Geary: Venice.
- Kirsten Geary: We spit a lot of industrial grade acid snark at the Council of Venice.
- Kirsten Geary: We joke about how out of touch they are.
- Kirsten Geary: But that is only because it's true.
- Kirsten Geary: They're still playing the X-Files cover-up games to keep the muggles in the dark.
- Kirsten Geary: The Illuminati know better. This is the age of information.
- Kirsten Geary: Stealth is not about hiding; it's about inundating.
- Kirsten Geary: We leak the truth. Then we leak whole zettabytes of other junk.
- Kirsten Geary: Opposing data. Similar data. Nonsense data. Ad nauseam.
- Kirsten Geary: Mesmerism by cat memes. Hypnotised.
- Kirsten Geary: Apathy for the win.
- Kirsten Geary: (chuckles)
- Kirsten Geary: The human brain has only so much bandwidth.
- Kirsten Geary: Critical thought can actually O.D. on input.
- Kirsten Geary: Bury the ultimate secret of the universe in the shallow grave of the 5th page of a Google search...
- Kirsten Geary: and no one will ever find it.
- Kirsten Geary: Cover-ups are so passé.
- Kirsten Geary: We deal in paradigm construction.
- Kirsten Geary: When the most powerful of us shed this cramping mortal coil, we'll ascend as zeitgeists.
- Kirsten Geary: paying attention?
- Kirsten Geary: Because I'm giving you the teacher's edition of the playbook.
- Kirsten Geary: In the industry we like to call this "grooming" or "vetting."
- Kirsten Geary: End tangent.
- Kirsten Geary: Back to point.
- Kirsten Geary: Making the Council the brunt of all hilarity might have instilled the wrong attitude of underestimating them.
- Kirsten Geary: That's a bad habit to get into.
- Kirsten Geary: Word in the shadows is that someone has been stalling us from getting to Tokyo.
- Kirsten Geary: Nanoseconds cost us.
- Kirsten Geary: Something is rotten in Venice.
- Kirsten Geary: Get there.
- Kirsten Geary: Yesterday.Then get to Tokyo the day before that.
- Kirsten Geary: Do or get done.
- Kirsten Geary: This is starting to feel like we're getting done.
- Kirsten Geary: By the fucking Council.
- Kirsten Geary: We at the old firm of Eye, Heart, & Pyramid are never done.
- Kirsten Geary: Pass it on.
Templar
- Richard Sonnac: For some time now, I have groomed the new face of the Templars.
- Richard Sonnac: All that preparation has led to a single point.
- Richard Sonnac: Today is that day of days.
- Richard Sonnac: Today, may old eyes, judging eyes, will scrutinise me.
- Richard Sonnac: And still I stand confident in my choice.
- Richard Sonnac: You have made me proud.
- Richard Sonnac: And now I must ask more of you than any soul should be asked.
- Richard Sonnac: Today I ask you to step into the breach, into Tokyo.
- Richard Sonnac: Before the tragedy of the bomb, we liaised with a group there, the Jingu.
- Richard Sonnac: They are a secretive clan of samurai, with a sense of honour, order and tradition that is copacetic with our own.
- Richard Sonnac: Contact the Jingu, if you can, if there are any left.
- Richard Sonnac: I do so miss...
- Richard Sonnac: corresponding with Gozen.
- Richard Sonnac: I will not gloss over what is about to happen with false cheer or saccharine platitudes.
- Richard Sonnac: You are about to enter pandemonium.
- Richard Sonnac: You are about to enter Hell. You be Dante. And I'll be Virgil.
- Richard Sonnac: And I will see you on the other side.
- Richard Sonnac: But first...
- Richard Sonnac: But first, I need you to make a slight detour.
- Richard Sonnac: It has come to my attention that someone has been stalling us from entering Tokyo.
- Richard Sonnac: Something stinks of betrayal. Something rots in Venice.
- Richard Sonnac: The Council is not just ineffectual, now they are corrupt.
- Richard Sonnac: Well, I say enough, enough, and more than enough.
- Richard Sonnac: The Secret World needs to hear us roar!
- Richard Sonnac: Go to Venice. Illumine this skulduggery.
- Richard Sonnac: Remind everyone that the Templars do not suffer treachery without redress.
- Richard Sonnac: We are not so neglectful as to leave cancers longing for the kiss and the hiss of the heated blade.
Journal Entries
- Tier 1: Events are aligned, and you can hear Tokyo calling, but your superiors want a face chat first.
- Speak to your faction handler
- Tier2: There is a malefactor in The Council. Before entering Tokyo, you must visit Venice.
- Travel to Venice
- Go to Arturo's Office
Rewards
- 199,480 Experience total
- 99,740 XP upon completion of Tier 1
- 99,740 XP upon report
- 10,000 Pax Romana upon report
- 2 Sequin of Sunrise upon report
Report
Dragon
There will be eyes in the walls. There will be a sad effigy. You will have to decide between execution or tactical forgiveness. Enjoy your stay in Venice.
Illuminati
Are you there yet? Have you talked to Arturo yet? I want answers. Yesterday. All the angry cliches.
KG
Templar
Something is rotten in Venice. Proceed with caution. Find the malefactor. Then proceed with frightening zeal.
R. Sonnac
Walkthrough
There are 2 tiers to this mission.
Tier 1/2
- Speak to your faction handler
Tier 2/2
- Travel to Venice
- Go to the The Sunken Library
- Go to Arturo's Office
- Marked on your map, Arturo Castiglione's office
Other Information
- This mission is given automatically upon completion of The Venetian Agenda
- Upon completion of this mission, Venice Sinking is automatically given
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