Mission:Black Channel Protocols - Finale: D.U.S.T. to D.U.S.T.

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Finale: D.U.S.T. to D.U.S.T.

Briefing

Everything we've learned about the Apparitions, the Awakened, and the Black Channel Protocols leads to one man: Colonel Vargas, head of D.U.S.T.'s special operations. If anyone knows how all of this started, it would be him. You need to break into D.U.S.T.'s spec-ops station, D-SEC, and find out what Colonel Vargas knows. The Asylum and Mother Mayhem decided that his knowledge of the threat was enough to shut down all communications between him, his men, and the whole of the outside world. And that means First Ward has a crisis on its hands.

Considering my experience at the Seer Network, I wouldn't call this next bit exactly lucky...but I had enough Apparitions swimming around in my head that I've narrowed down a location for D-SEC.

  • Good. Learn anything else?

Yeah, and it throws another weird spanner into the works. I felt a...magical element to the Apparitions in the Network. Which pretty much pokes all kinds of holes into my theory of them being the ghosts of dead psychics.

Yeah, so...

...so, listen, Character, I'm still pretty shaken up by what happened back there, so I'll just tag along in your head for this outing. This one is too important to risk me wigging out on you again.

Unnecessary Solicitation

We still need to know what Colonel Vargas knows, Character. Get back to D-SEC.

Mission Objective(s)

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Map: FW_DSEC

The reports about D-SEC were true. Via Katie's psychic senses, you can feel the Apparitions running rampant throughout the facility.

  • Investigate D-SEC
    • Find Colonel Vargas
    • Find Colonel Vargas' Files
    • Scan files on the D-SEC Comm Array
    • Reason with Officer Orb
    • Defeat Officer Orb
    • 2 data archives to download

You successfully recovered the Black Channel Incident data files from D-SEC, fending off an IDF attack along the way.

Enemies

The Awakened
The Possessed
Imperial Defense Force

Notable NPCs

  • Officer Orb (I.D.F. Minion)
  • Colonel Duray (I.D.F. Lieutenant)

You found the D-SEC pass key on the body of Colonel Vargas.

D-SEC Comm Array
Briefing

BLACK CHANNEL OVERRIDE: Transmissions Log [Incoming]

Colonel Duray, IDF, to Colonel Vargas, CO D-SEC HQ

Great work on shutting down the Seer Network, Vargas. You have my condolences for the losses you have suffered at ARCLIGHT, BETTERMOUSETRAP, et al.

Now that the experiment is safely contained, I can lift the Black Channel. Your orders are to recall all D.U.S.T. operatives with knowledge of these events back to D-SEC. I am sending a Recovery Team to debrief your personnel and retrieve all data regarding the Incident. See to it that both personnel and data are secure at D-SEC prior to our arrival.

  • (Keep scanning incoming transmissions)

IDF LOCKDOWN IN PROGRESS

RECOVERY TEAM EN ROUTE

  • (Leave Terminal)

You found the Data Archives pass key from Officer Orb's damaged thot-box.

IDF RECOVERY TEAM HAS ARRIVED

Debriefing

Whenever you’re ready to find the blind guy, I’ll telesend you his location.

Clue
Signal to Noise

D-SEC was completely compromised just like ARCLIGHT and BETTERMOUSETRAP were. Colonel Vargas was a lost cause, having died before you even got there. His encrypted files confirmed that the Black Channel fell when he reported to Mother Mayhem that the Seer Network had become flooded with Apparitions, through the machinations of the Awakened. They also confirmed that the entire incident started at the behest of Mother, who had ordered D.U.S.T.'s special operations branch to retrieve some of her 'special children' that had somehow escaped her care.

Even after you shut the Network down, though, it wasn't enough for Praetor Tilman. An IDF kill team was sent in to cover the entire incident up. One thing seems clear from Vargas' data files, though-- a notion that Dr. Jonas Fletcher had, as well-- to defeat the Apparitions, it's going to take a magician, not a psychic.