Mission:The Graveyard Shift - Chapter Two: Dismemberment Fees

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Chapter Two: Dismemberment Fees

Briefing

Character. Good timing. I just finished updating the case with your notes and got a notification from the deep-web 'Lok forums. As I thought might happen, it closed shop and went dark but posted a goodbye message to its users. Clues as to what's going on are starting to pop up and sprinkle all over the other forums. It seems that 'Newt' and 'Malady' were not the ringleaders of these new factions within the Vahzilok. The Bureau has reason to believe there are people higher up the ladder but these first arrests should stifle the momentum of those groups. As for the third, we know-

Agent Watkins's phone rings. He answers it quickly and tersely, and says yes, he'll wait for the text. When the text notification pings, he opens a message on his phone and begins to watch a video and shares it with you. In it, a Vahzilok Cadaver is shown being ambushed by a pack of other cadavers, tearing it limb from limb as citizens, scream in horror and flee the area. It's left snarling in pain and begging for mercy as a head and a torso on the sidewalk, while the other cadavers lumber off with its parts into the sewers.

  • Brutal. Do you know where this happened?

Mission Acceptance

I do. Waste no time on this one. This video is fresh, very fresh. 27 minutes ago, 32,000 views. Nobody's going to profit on this kind of tragedy, I guarantee you that. If it's only been a half an hour, then I can give you a roughly triangulated area of where they could be in that amount of time. Start at these coordinates and look for someone who looks like they're calling the shots.

Unnecessary Solicitation

Time is against us. Find the shot-caller before they scatter!

Mission Objective(s)

A two-pronged assault greets you, a heavy mix of deep basslines hitting your ears and formaldehyde invading your nostrils.

  • Hunt down the cannibal corpses
    • Find the ringleader!

It seems that the Freakshow have made a play at trying to control a portion of the disorganized Vahzilok horde! Dubstitch was the puppeteer of these bomb-zombies, but there are still many out there!

Enemies

Vahzilok
Freakshow

Notable NPCs

Clue
Dubstitch

You arrested a Meat Doctor named Dubstitch at the end of your investigation into the rogue cadavers. As a former Vahzilok reaper who flipped from being a surgeon to a Freakshow Wrench, she was quite capable of being the brains behind the cadaver behavior you saw in the video, However, she was eager to drop another name to throw under the bus to save herself: 'Raverobber', who is higher up in the food chain.

Debriefing

I'm familiar with Dubstitch. But last I heard she was trying to ply her trade working with the Facemaker overseas. She's been a small-time player at best, for a long time. It's worrying that we don't know anything about this person pulling her strings. We have no data on 'Raverobber', but that's normal for the Freakshow. 'IDX' members of the Freakshow specialize in data erasure, so we're lucky to find data they've missed; for Freaks, they are surprisingly thorough. They pay attention to details.

I have a plan to find him, regardless. Come back to me when you're rested up.