Mission:The Graveyard Shift - Chapter Six: Viral Transmissions

Chapter Six: Viral Transmissions

This is interesting, Character - I thought we had far more targets to work through. But the remainder of the forums are slowly losing big players as you work through the ranks. The Planarians are completely shut down, which is amazing. Every serious poster evangelizing regeneration has gone quiet. We can cross them off the list with the Freakshow, who dropped the efforts when Raverobber went offline.

Hygeian activity has been of major interest, though - they're getting paranoid. An FTP link went out with an encryption key posted on a separate forum. It looks like some sort of major data dump is being prepared for widespread release. These guys are smart, and set up several layers of security to keep people like me out - but they don't know the backdoors and workarounds like I do. Once I worked out the protocols and apps they were using to obfuscate the location of the server, I was able to trace the hops to within the city... which lines up nicely with the Rivet employees' reports that they were talking about Independence Port.

I've sent a PPD unit to lock down the area, but the officers there are reporting odd smells and not entering. We need someone with a little more firepower. And since the target's name is Pathogen, I'm taking no chances and calling in a CDC task force. And you.

• You're sending me into that death trap, aren't you.

Mission Acceptance

I wish I wasn't. But there's two things happening here that can't be ignored: A massive data upload and a mad scientist obsessed with fighting viral infections. I have to remind you that this is a direct order for the good of all of us here in the city: I need you to go in there and suss out what's happening in that warehouse, and collar Pathogen before things get out of our control.

Watkins looks composed but slightly uneasy about having to invoke that kind of authority.

I've determined the server OS at the warehouse that's uploading the file. It'll take some time to finish the upload, so I've devised a man-in-the-middle virus that's going to hijack the stream. It's going to sniff out the packets, clone them and send them to SERAPH - while simultaneously corrupting the original upload so the 'fans' out there get bum data. This is the task, Character, get that data and arrest Pathogen!

I would very strongly suggest you not go it alone in there - you may want to consider bringing friends.

Unnecessary Solicitation

Agent Watkins is currently unavailable, having moved into a command mode for this operation.

Mission Objective(s)

• Investigate Pathogen's Warehouse
  • Unlock the Front Door
  • Look for anything suspicious
  • Arrest Pathogen

Debriefing

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