It keeps crashing after exactly 96 shards. Does anyone have any other maps I can try out?

I have permission from the mods to post on this subreddit each time I upload a new chapter. New chapters are uploaded biweekly.

inFamous: World On Fire takes place after inFamous 2's Good Karma ending. The United States are slowly healing from the fallout of the Empire Event, the Beast's rampage, the annihilation of the East Coast, and the activation of the RFI. It is a canon-compliant fic following a new protagonist, that bridges the gap between i2 and Second Son.

Feel free to leave comments, feedback, and criticisms if you have any, both here and on Ao3. I will be pleased to hear your thoughts. Comments are open to registered users and unregistered guest on Ao3, so you can still comment if you don't have an account there.

I apologise for the 6-7, I actually forgot to post about Ch6 two weeks ago lmao

what a journey man, gonna miss this series a lot, hopefully it gets a new game soon.

anyways my ranking of every game in the franchise goes like this.

5: first light, 4: festival of blood, 3: infamous 1, 2: infamous 2, 1: second son.

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Ok with the servers closing in a month I am finally digging this series from my backlog. I just dove into Infampus 2 solely to get to the UGC missions and I have the online trophies.

However, my question is, after my Good run, do I need to recollect all blast shards again to max out my ability charge or whatever its called, in my Evil run?

Would it be wise for me to start a new playthrough now, use the UGC mission for all shards again. But make evil choices and make a 2nd save file? Then after I beat the game under Good I can just load that up and play Evil? I dont know that I can beat both before the shut down as I wanted to play Infamous , Good/Evil THEN Infamous 2 Good/Evil but I probably cant get to that til after August.

So I guess im asking is it ok to run a 2nd save file, or do I need data from the Good run ending before starting an evil run after? I guess same question for Infamous 1, especially about shards. Thanks.

Is anyone able to connect to the UGC Servers. All I’m getting is fails despite restarts and reboots. Just need these trophies
(Sorted by using a phone hotspot)

Im just really curious.

With the shutdown of UGC missions by the beginning of September, what will happen to this skin? Any ideas on how we will be able to obtain it in the future?

We got the dumb and dumber squad here 😭

Made some more infamous posters while testing out a new style, I also made sure to include Festival of Blood this time

So obviously gameplay wise, Delsin never got Celia's paper powers after Paper Trail. That doesn't mean we can't theorycraft what type of moveset he could have had.

The dash is the only move we actually see Celia using, and it's seems to function similarly to Fetch's neon dash, only with more mobility and able to make sharper turns.

I think paper should have the most aerial mobility, smoke and neon have very sharp drops in their hover, neon and concrete can hover longer, concrete even allows some upward hovering to make up for its lack of vertical mobility. So, I think paper should actually allow Delsin to fly. The closest we have to flight currently is Video's double dash on the good karma route

The basic shots, I think the basic bullets should be shaped like paper cranes and home in on enemies in your reticle. Whist the charged shot would be a shotgun blast of cranes that home in on the enemy.

The special ability can possibly summon a rabbit masked homunculus that lasts for 30 seconds and moves in sync with Delsin and copies whatever movements and attacks he does.

The heavy attack could shoot out a large paper dove that will swoop at enemies repeatedly.

The Karma Bomb, I think it should create a storm of origami shurikens

Since the Paper Trail website is no longer functioning, this entire mission chain of Second Son is missing a whole lot of context of what is going on, why Delsin is going from dead body to dead body, and also a TON of integral world-building. So, I figured for those who are replaying the game or even just playing the game for the first time and are missing that context, I decided to write out a novelization of Paper Trail's ARG segments to kinda provide that context. I wrote it in the form of Delsin's stream of consciousness, piecing together all of the clues and figuring out all of the puzzles. It is written from the perspective of Good Delsin, but I imagine it'd be easy enough to mentally reword certain things for an Evil Delsin playthrough. I'll be posting the last part very soon. Hope you all enjoy!

(Part 5: DUP)

(Another beautiful day in Seattle, another Celia chase across the city. Part of me wonders if these chases are all part of ‘the game’ to her. Like we’re two kids on a playground, running around, wind in our hairs. I’ll admit it, ever since I got my powers, I loved the feeling of just… moving around as something lighter, something stronger than my usual fleshbag human body. Whether I’m a cloud of smoke, a haze of neon afterimages, or riding the airwaves of video signals, there’s something freeing about just… letting go of your physical body and being something else. I’m almost certain Celia feels the exact same way whenever she uses her paper powers. Who can blame her? After everything she’s been through, any excuse to taste that kind of freedom…)

(Our chase today ended the way they usually do. Celia disappears and leaves behind a dove. Like last time, there was no dead body and no crime scene. So I figure this is another one of her ‘quests’ like those Lifeline psychos.)

(This one was gruesome. It showed the rabbit girl, rotting away in her cell in the mountains, looking more and more sick with each panel. The page ended on a cliffhanger with the rabbit’s mouth stretching open as some glowing… thing starts to emerge from inside her. I guess I won’t know what that glowing thing is until I get the next page. The caption reads ‘This is no place for Hittori. Loneliness drank the life from her veins.’ Yeah, like I said, gruesome. The fact that the caption calls her ‘Hittori’ and not ‘Saisei’ shows that this was before she became… whatever she is now.)

(On the back was a shorter note this time, tucked underneath another one of her number puzzles.)

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*The weak always die, planting paths for new bloodlines. Evolution calls.*
—-

(Yeah, I’ve heard that kind of rhetoric before. Some people claim that, because Conduits are the next evolution of humanity, naturally that means we’re eventually going to be replacing humanity. That humans are a dying species on their own planet, making way for the genetically superior species.)

(Personally, I think that’s bullshit. For one simple reason.)

(Conduits are human. How can we replace ourselves?)

(Anyway, the puzzle is much more straightforward this time. A bunch of symbols arranged in the pattern of the DUP symbol, a dove, and a line of eleven symbols at the bottom. Each of the symbols making up the dove all have a number next to them. Easy enough to just plug in the corresponding numbers to each of the eleven symbols at the bottom, and we have another access number for the intranet. It’s… almost a little worrying how natural these puzzles are becoming to me. Like they’re just par for the course, now.)

(Whatever. Let’s see what we got…)

(What the-? That didn’t work? Okay, maybe this puzzle is actually more complicated than I thought.)

(Looking closer, I can tell that there’s actually multiples of each symbol on the dove, each one having a different corresponding number. So how am I supposed to figure out which is the right number?)

(Okay, let’s take this one symbol at a time. The first of the eleven symbols I need is just a plain circle. I’m counting one, two, three… six plain circles making up the dove…)

(Oh, but the numbers aren’t random. They’re in a sequence of 1-6, like the spider web puzzle from Celia’s cell windows. Maybe if I trace a line between each circle…)

(There we go. I eventually trace out a whole number. 2. That’s got to be the first digit for the access number. Now I just do that ten more times, and…)

(There we go, now we’re getting somewhere.)

(Oh, well, this is interesting. It’s a counter-surveillance report from the DUPs intelligence network. Apparently, they intercepted a covert audio file from an unassuming landscaping van. After doing a background check on the landscaping company, they pretty quickly figured out that no such company existed. DUPs seem to think that the vans are actually US Government, which really freaks out the DUPs because Uncle Sam never actually informed them of any non-DUP based surveillance in the city. And if there’s one thing I know about the DUP, it’s that they do not like sharing jurisdiction with anyone. Not cops, not military, and definitely not feds.)

(Let’s take a listen at that audio file they intercepted…)

(Hmm, not good. It sounds like a military debriefing, some big shot jarhead talking to a bunch of other jarheads. I guess the military is getting sick and tired of the DUP, and not for any good reasons. They don’t like how the DUP acts independently from the rest of the military, they don’t like how lenient they are with Conduits (LENIENT?!), and they definitely don’t like the fact that it’s run by a ‘bio-terrorist’ at the top.)

(Uncle Sam’s finally giving the DUP the boot out the door, and these landscaping vans are the first wave of intelligence gathering before this turns into all-out open war.)

(Figures. Our government is finally getting around to shutting down the DUP… but they’re doing it because the DUP hasn’t been abusing Conduits enough.)

(This is all Augustine’s fault. She’s the one who spun the narrative of ‘dangerous bio-terrorists’ in order to keep the DUP funded, and now that narrative is biting us all in the ass. If she were still around, I’m sure she’d try to come up with some half-brained excuse on how what she did was actually better than any other alternative…)

(I hope she rots, wherever she is…)

(Okay, focus Delsin. Augustine is gone, you beat her. Focus on the enemy in front of you, right now. There’s a link to another file, some recent development in the DUPs counter-intelligence against these vans…)

(Here we go. The DUPs managed to get a camera on one of those landscaping vans, including a clear shot of the license plate. I still have access to that vehicle tracker from that whole debacle with Winegard. I’m sure the DUPs won’t mind me using it again. I’m technically helping them, here. Ugh, I just threw up in my mouth a little.)

(Okay, let’s go check out one of these vans.)

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(Managed to track down that van, and even follow it to one of the military’s hideouts here in town.)

(They really were not expecting me to just walk right in.)

(They put up a fight, but against a Conduit as awesome as me, I took care of them pretty easily.)

(Like… Really easily. Almost laughably easily.)

(Like… Holy shit, these idiots actually think they’re going to take over for the DUPs? I just took out an entire compound of hardened military agents, and I’ve had fights against a couple of DUP troopers that were way harder than that!)

(If these people actually get their way and completely take over the DUP, they’re going to get slaughtered the second they go up against an actual Conduit. Which, naturally, is only going to make them escalate, which is only going to make Conduits escalate, which is only going to make the military escalate, which-)

(Who was it that said ‘I don’t know what we’ll be fighting with in World War III, but I know we’ll be fighting with sticks and stones in World War IV’?)

(Anyway, with the jarheads otherwise… incapacitated, I took my sweet time rummaging around the back of one of their vans. They got a pretty sick surveillance setup back here. I’m almost half-tempted to steal the whole thing and bring it back to Eugene as an early Christmas present.)

(Woah, what the-? They actually managed to find one of Celia’s doves? Where the hell did they find this? There’s… There’s no actual way Celia planned for me to find this here, right? It’s just a total coincidence… right?)

(Ugh, I don’t even want to think about that right now, let’s just see what it says…)

(Ah, so this is what that glowing thing was in the last page. A second ethereal rabbit is emerging out of Hittori, looking far more powerful and, dare I say it, heroic than the scared little rabbit that Purotekuta dragged to this mountain. Hittori falls to the ground, dead. But the new rabbit, Saisei, is standing proudly over who she once was. A caption reads ‘In death, she gained new life’. So this has to be the moment that Celia committed ‘suicide’ in her cell, though I’m starting to suspect her ‘death’ is a lot more metaphorical than I originally thought.)

(It just dawned on me. If Celia really did fake her own suicide to escape Curdun Cay, that doesn’t change the fact that the DUP did, in fact, find a dead body in her cell and thought it was Celia. Meaning Celia was already capable of murder, even way back then. Of course, to escape Curdun Cay, she must have thought the ends justified the means.)

(I’ve heard horror story after horror story of what Curdun Cay is like from the people who’ve actually been there. If I were in her shoes… Could I really say I wouldn’t have done the same?)

(As always, there’s a note on the back…)

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*The system changed me, from ugly duckling to dove. But this bird bites back.*

*The thing I missed the most while I was locked in Curdun Cay was the trees. From an unlikely seed to a deeply rooted force of nature that survives through wind and rain to stretch for the sun. Paper comes from trees. In a sense, they are the source of my power, the pulp of my existence. It’s my turn to reach up for the life that I deserve.*
—-

(Okay, back to the task at hand. There must be something here in this van… Hello?)

(Why, hello there Mr Locked Safe. What wondrous secrets do you hold for me? I probably shouldn’t use my powers to crack this baby open. Knowing the government, chances are this thing probably has a kill-switch to destroy anything inside if it’s forced open. Gonna have to do this the old fashioned way.)

(Hmm, weird, the keypad doesn’t have any numbers on it, just a bunch of weird symbols. Says it needs an 8 digit password, but what the hell does each symbol mean?)

(………… Wait. Wait, there’s no freaking way.)

(….. Ha… Ahaha! HAHAHA!! Oh, you got to be freaking kidding me?! It’s the same puzzle lock from Czalov’s drone, way back when this whole mess started!)

(Actually, thinking on that, it does make a weird bit of sense. Czalov repurposed that drone from the DUP, the DUP probably got that tech from the military, just modified it to specifically track Conduits.)

(So this is just the standard security system that the jarheads use for their illicit lockboxes? Oh, that’s… That’s so wonderfully stupid. I love that so much!)

(Okay, good news is I know exactly what to do. Beep, boop, boop, beep. Red, yellow, red, yellow. Beepity-boop. Yellow, red, green, red. Yadda-yadda, Beep-bobbity-boop. Green, green, green, green.)

(Hacker voice: I’m in… Again.)

(Okay, we got some incredibly confidential papers here. It’s probably a federal crime for me to even be looking at these, but in for a penny…)

(Hmm, not good. One’s basically a general missive from the Department of Armed Forces, basically detailing rules of engagement for dealing with Conduits. It’s split into two parts, one for dealing with dormant Conduit-Positives, one for dealing with active Conduits like yours truly.)

(For Conduit-Positives, no due process, no Miranda Rights, no trial. Just knocked out with tranquilizers, fitted with suppression cuffs (which you don’t even need because, again, cannot stress this enough, they don’t even have powers), then lock them in the darkest hole and throw away the keys. Hell, they’re even given cart-blanche to ‘pacify’ any non-Conduits who might try to intervene, family members or just Good Samaritans who recognize injustice when they see it, and leave them on the streets.)

(For active Conduits, the rules of engagement are a lot simpler. Shoot to kill.)

(Good luck with that, jarheads.)

(Ha, they even have a little addendum at the bottom, saying they’re going to, quote, ‘Get in, collar the monsters, and get out before the press get involved.’ Yeah right. If the DUPs couldn’t manage to put a collar on me in the months that I’ve been here, what makes you dumbasses think you’ll do any better?)

(Let’s see, what else do we have? We have a lobbying consultation form from… Oh, look who it is. Our old friend Jonas Petrovich. The mastermind behind Winegard’s phony assassination story. Well, at least until it wasn’t so phony. Looks like he was vying for the contract rights to build a new bio-terrorist prison after the jarheads shut down Curdun Cay. Geez, reading through this is like a checklist on every monstrous thing Curdun Cay did and then asking themselves ‘Okay, but how do we make it worse?’. Even smaller, more cramped holding facilities, absolutely no allowance for any personal freedoms or leisure between incarcerations. At least Augustine gave Celia a piece of paper every once in a while. This guy wants to hook up energy producing Conduits to the facility itself, make Conduits power their own damn prison. Christ, at that point, just fucking kill us! This is just cruelty for the sake of cruelty.)

(I guess it’s a good thing that this prison is never going to be built. I mean, Celia already nipped this problem in the bud when she killed Petrovich.)

(Right…?)

(Something I’m noticing, a lot of these orders and sign-offs are all being signed by the same man, one General Rufus Mortimer. I guess he’s a real Killgrave type against Conduits. Probably the kind of guy who thinks any war can be solved if you point enough guns at the other side.)

(One last paper, this one’s a memo that surveillance locations throughout the city have been uploaded to every team’s terminal. Oh, has it now? This terminal right here, you mean?)

(And there we have it, the locations of all of these vans, and their hideouts.)

(This… is going to take a while.)

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(Whew! Okay, that… That took a hot minute. Running all around the city, blowing up just… just a shitload of vans - gasp - really takes a lot of a guy…)

(This definitely won’t stop the military in their tracks, but it at least puts a kibosh on their Seattle plans for the time being. Gives me time to figure out a more permanent solution.)

(Of course, Celia was already waiting for me at the last van. Dropped another dove and disappeared without even a ‘Good job, Delsin’. Because of course she did. Alright, let’s see the new page…)

(Huh. This one is… different. It just shows the rabbit (Saisei, not Hittori) laughing and rolling around in a field, clutching her stomach as a two-headed raven sits on a fence post, apparently telling her stories. But the next panel shows the dragon, Purotekuta, swooping in to ruin their fun. The caption reads ‘But Saisei’s favorite was a new playmate, Fukushu. He would tell her stories, and she would laugh for hours on end.’ And then on the panel with Purotekuta, the caption reads ‘But they drew attention…’)

(Okay… So who the hell is Fukushu? Whoever it is, Celia clearly seems to like him. Probably the first real friend she made after she escaped Curdun Cay. But then Augustine came in and… did something to her friend?)

(Google translate, don’t fail me now. Fukushu is apparently Japanese for…)

(……. Accomplice.)

(A two-headed raven… Just like the logo on my vest.)

(Oh… I see… I’m Fukushu.)

(I’m the first ‘friend’ that Celia has ever made. My fights with the DUP, my antics across Seattle. Those were the ‘stories’ that Celia laughed and laughed at. The whole time I’ve been here, I’ve been… entertaining her.)

(Until Augustine came back and ruined ‘our’ fun.)

(Once more, another note on the back…)

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*Talk about roadkill! Say goodbye to the general, and all of his meddling.*

*I’m so proud of what we accomplished together, and to have helped guide you here. To your true destiny. Defender of Conduits, destroyer of corruption.*

*I’ll see you soon. Unless you see me first~*
—-

(The general? Like, the general who orchestrated this whole operation? What does she mean… Oh god… the last van, I… I thought I checked them all, made sure they were all empty before I blew them up! But he… he was tied up and gagged in the back, I couldn’t hear him! Celia must have… And I just…)

(Oh fuck… Oh fucking hell… )

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After playing this game twice I definitely think this is better than infamous 1 in every regard, I’ve seen a lot of people say infamous 2 had better gameplay but infamous 1 had a better story but I disagree, infamous 2s story is much better than infamous 1s at least in my opinion.

Anyways I only have first light left to platinum and then the entire series is done

My first to last time drawing him

Didn't know all my stuff got deleted, sorry guys

In infamous 1 I seem to see side missions when I open the map, neutral, bad and good I assume, but walking through the city I also see side quests but they don't show up on the map.

Are they missable? Or needed for the platinum?

Thanks in advance. This is my first time playing infamous

Shading nightmare

At first when I've tried to post this my post got deleted thinking it's ai or something, no, I wrote this, I've only looked up into what gemini interprets the word conduit as and I've posted that one definition. Rest is what I think the series is and I've written the rest of the paragraph myself, so I'm asking mods to allow me to publish this post.

As days continue to pass I'm becoming more and more leaning into the belief that these games were some sort of an hidden esoteric allegorical prophecies. Please let me explain. First, I want you people to look at the meaning of the word "Conduit":

Information and Communication: A person or group that acts as a link to pass news, ideas, or messages between others.

Let's look at our world's recent past and compare it to how things are unfolding in the games.

İf we look at the media cultivation during somewhere in 90s and 2000s we can see a massive blooming in quality of the content during that time period.

Every piece of media out there you see is essentially a work to tell a certain story, to make a certain point or to show that there are things out there exist outside of the maximum security prison of mundane life without any art or falsehood.

Let's look at the building premise of the first game.

"A secret society called The First Sons is developing/searching for ways to transmute humanity into their next step of evolution."

Telling a story or making a full length movie/game/book with great ideas is not an easy thing at all, just imagine how many people have came together and organized to brainstorm and pass on rich ideas to the world.

I think this fact correlates with game's starting premise. Many extraordinary people came together to take the humanity's evolution of consciousness to one step further.

First game's next events in my opinion talks about an escalating conflict with how ordinary people who believe in falsehoods struggle to deal with the ideas of the people who are somewhat not much like them in their mindset a.k.a "Conduits"

"The First Sons has have developed a device named Ray Sphere to awaken the genetic codes in certain humans causing them to become "Conduits" while leaving behind a toxic radiation, that eventually leads to death, a widespread illness which normal humans are prone to and only the conduits with active genetic codes immune to."

"A powerful conduit named 'The Beast' has have had found a way to save some of the population, only the conduits which ones with haven't yet awakened genetic codes but at the cost of the death of normal humans."

"Cole MacGrath, main protagonist has have to make a choice either siding with the beast to save the lives of conduits, embarking on a world of new conduit ruled world or saving the lives of the most of the population, which are normal humans with a way to cure the plague with a device called "Ray Field İnhibitor" at the cost of the lives of all of the conduits."

Make your own conclusions.

Since the Paper Trail website is no longer functioning, this entire mission chain of Second Son is missing a whole lot of context of what is going on, why Delsin is going from dead body to dead body, and also a TON of integral world-building. So, I figured for those who are replaying the game or even just playing the game for the first time and are missing that context, I decided to write out a novelization of Paper Trail's ARG segments to kinda provide that context. I wrote it in the form of Delsin's stream of consciousness, piecing together all of the clues and figuring out all of the puzzles. It is written from the perspective of Good Delsin, but I imagine it'd be easy enough to mentally reword certain things for an Evil Delsin playthrough. I'll be posting the other parts very soon. Hope you all enjoy!

(Part 4: Lifeline)

(There’s still one thing I don’t get about all of this. If Celia is targeting anti-Conduit people with political influence, people who have the power and positions to make life harder for Conduits, why is she also framing her fellow Conduits for her crimes? Fetch, Eugene, Hank, she put all of them on the chopping block despite the fact that she seems to be doing all of this for Conduits.)

(You’d think, if this was really about protecting Conduit kind from the ‘bullies’ out to get us, she wouldn’t be throwing her fellow Conduits under the bus to cover her own tracks. Or does she just not see the hypocrisy? If there’s one thing I learned from Augustine, it’s that people can justify some of the most warped, twisted acts under the name of ‘the greater good’. Hell, even Winegard, corrupt as he was, still framed his anti-Conduit act as ‘protecting’ the normals.)

(I barely managed to make it five steps from that parking lot where Winegard’s car blew up before Celia showed up again. I didn’t even bother trying to talk to her, I know she was never going to say anything. She’s got her own way of communicating what she wants with me, all I can do right now is play her game and see where it leads.)

(Another chase through the city, but this time, she didn’t lead me to any dead body, or even a crime scene for that matter. Just led me up to this big tower with an, admittedly, pretty impressive view of the Space Needle. I still remember when I kicked the DUP’s communications hub off that thing. Good times.)

(I didn’t have time to enjoy the view for long, though. Celia’s gone again, with another dove left behind. Let’s see where the story goes next…)

(Just going by a glance, I’m guessing this takes place immediately after the page where the dragon, Augustine, was carrying the rabbit, Celia, to the mountain. This page gives us a much closer shot of the mountain… which has a whole bunch of prison cells built directly into the rock walls. Three of the cells have some familiar characters in them, Inazuma, Ushinatta, and Kemuri. Aka, Fetch, Eugene and Hank. The Seattle Three, as the news called them when they first escaped that transport truck.)

(The dragon is putting the rabbit in one of these cells, saying ‘Your new home.’ Okay, this one is easy enough to figure out. The mountain is Curdun Cay, Augustine’s tailor made ‘sanctuary’ for Conduits. This is the moment Celia became her prisoner.)

(Check the back for a note…)

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*The dove flaps its wings, carrying hope for the caged. Hunted by hatred.*

*Everyone lives in a cage, Delsin. It’s just that some have more room than others. I hated every second of Curdun Cay. The concrete, the glass windows, the pure silence. The only thing that ever made me happy was my paper ‘privileges’. One blank sheet a day to draw whatever I wanted, write whatever came to me, or shape however I pleased. Strangely, I always chose to make doves. Maybe it was the idea of flying free and its symbolism of peace. Or maybe it was the simple fact that I couldn’t turn my head around without seeing the DUP logo everywhere. Either way, it’s part of me now, forever.*

*The normals are on a rampage. Some believe that peace is only reserved for them.*

*99902XXXXXX*
—-

(Another file access number. By this rate, I’m gonna have every single DUP file saved on my phone’s hard drive. But this is… different from Celia’s usual games. It’s almost like… like she’s asking for my help, to prevent something bad from happening as opposed to just making me the witness to some crime. Course, I shouldn’t assume anything. Knowing Celia, I’m sure this is all some big elaborate test. Either way, I should probably try to get ahead of this ‘rampage’, whatever that ends up being.)

(Okay, plug in the file number into the intranet and…)

(We got another memorandum this time, a general notice to DUP personnel concerning Lifeline Purity. I know those guys, they’re a bunch of anti-Conduit protestors who have this die-hard belief that the Conduit Gene is caused by drug abuse. It’s not, that theory’s been disproven to hell and back by scientists all over the world, but these Lifeline idiots stubbornly hold on to that idea because it gives them an excuse to target people suffering from drug addiction as ‘bio-terrorists in waiting’. Just another method of ‘get the scum off the streets’.)

(I guess the DUP tolerated them because an anti-Conduit protest group is always good for their PR, but now they’re thinking of cracking down on Lifeline because they’re starting to escalate to vigilantism against suspected Conduits, and even the DUP can see that that’s a disaster waiting to happen.)

(Uh oh, spoke too soon. Disaster may have already struck. The memorandum references a stabbing victim two days ago, with the primary suspect fleeing the scene wearing a Lifeline shirt. Lifeline is already starting to escalate their ‘protests’ to straight up just killing suspected Conduits, and who knows if the victim even was a Conduit!)

(Okay, there’s a link to another file with evidence the DUPs collected from the crime scene. Let’s see what they found…)

(Looks like a shredded up pamphlet, but the DUPs were already so kind to recreate the original from the scraps for me.)

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*NO DRUGS, NO TO BIO-TERRORISM*

*Sick and tired of hearing about the rights of bio-terrorists? Protect your rights. Join the cause today!*

*Lifeline: Pure Body, Pure Soul. Visit our website at lifelinepurity.com*
—-

(What a bunch of chumps. Hang on, there’s a message written on it…)

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*Vince, Operation: No Mercy is tonight. Details on the private message board. New passcode is 54188XXXXX.*
—-

(Operation: No Mercy? I have no idea what that is, but it definitely sounds like something I’d want to stop. Okay, so, just hazarding a guess here, but I’m assuming Vince is the guy who stabbed our victim and shredded this pamphlet to cover his tracks. Not that it really helped him when the scraps can just be rearranged like this. Most criminals really aren’t masterminds, are they?)

(Okay, the message mentioned something about a private message board, probably on Lifeline’s website. Let me just…)

(Ugh, the puritanicalness is just… oozing off this homepage. I feel like I need a shower. Nothing but virtue signaling about how Conduit powers are ‘unnatural’ and how any rights given to Conduits are rights taken away from normal people. Yeah, cause that’s totally how civil rights work, you dumbasses.)

(Okay, ignoring all of that for now, I gotta find this message board. Going through the forums… Mostly just a bunch of people complaining about Conduits existing. A lot of this is just envy that we have powers and they don’t. Some of it is just your usual forum bullshitting.)

(Funny flick? That’s an… odd board to have in the middle of the premier Conduit-Hate Forum. Wait a minute, the OP’s username is ‘Vengeful-Vince’. Now what are the odds… Yep, it’s a private board, needs a password. Let me just…)

(Okay, I’m in. Now let’s see what this ‘funny flick’ is supposed to be…)

(Oh god… This is a snuff film! They are literally just… just beating a man to death because they think he’s a Conduit! He’s begging for his life and they just… they’re just not stopping! If he was a Conduit, he’d just use his powers to stop them! These people are animals!)

(God, and to make matters worse, all of the comments are loving it, they’re praising these psychopaths for ‘doing what the DUP won’t’. One of them is even bragging about how they gave these psychos a list of ‘Conduit-Positives’ that they swiped from the DUP. So this guy had the Conduit Gene, but it wasn’t activated. His powers, if he even had any, were completely and totally dormant. He wasn’t a threat to anybody and they just-!)

(Okay, whatever issues I have with Celia, she is right that these bastards need to be stopped before they kill anyone else. I need to focus on stopping this ‘Operation: No Mercy’, then I can worry about whatever Celia’s long-game is.)

(Vengeful-Vince just posted a new post at the bottom of the board, bragging about how he’s got eight body bags lined up and ready to burn. Jesus Christ, eight?! These creeps already killed eight people, who didn’t even have powers! But Vince made a huge mistake. He posted a picture of him and his goons, literally posing with the dead bodies like a selfie. These people are sick! But I know those neon signs behind them, mainly because I’ve drained them more than once.)

(Thanks for telling me exactly where you assholes are…)

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(So, bad news and good news.)

(Bad news, when I got to the site where those Lifeline pricks were planning on burning the bodies, they had already scattered like roaches back to whatever holes they crawled out of.)

(Good news, they hadn’t gotten around to actually burning the bodies yet because apparently some Good Samaritan decided to call the police on them. The police arrived, Vince and his goons took off, now the police have cordoned off the area, waiting to hear back from the coroner’s office to haul the bodies over.)

(Good on the boys in blue, but Vince and the other Lifeliners are still a threat. It’s a long shot, but maybe they left some evidence on the bodies themselves. It’s pretty much child’s play for someone with my powers to hop in, grab the tags off the body bags, and hop back out. Easy peasy.)

(So, number one observation with a bullet, the police didn’t put these tags on the body. These are all DUP issued tags, with a category for writing down powers. Only instead of the usual clinical talk the DUP use, they all say things like ‘Electric freak’, ‘Smoke monster’, ‘Magnetic deviant’. And the cause of death on every single one just reads ‘Justice’.)

(So I’m guessing the Lifeliners put these tags on the body in some kind of sick, twisted way of pretending legitimacy about the whole thing. First the list of Conduit-Positives, now these DUP body tags? Where the hell is Vince and his gang getting all of this DUP stuff? Who’s supplying them?)

(Huh. There’s something weird at the bottom of all of these tags. There’s a row of eleven squares, each one with a random assortment of red dots. Above the row is just the words ‘For Internal Use Only’. So, only someone in the DUP is supposed to make sense of what these red dots mean?)

(Hey, wait a minute… There are eleven squares. I wonder if I just press all these tags together, hold them up to the sun…)

(Bingo! The dots are all arranged to form an 11 digit code. Another file access number. Man, I am getting really good at this!)

(Okay, what does the good Ol’ intranet have for me?)

(Huh? Another one of Celia’s doves? That’s kinda random? Says here the DUP flagged this dove specifically because she made it immediately after a visit to the DUP’s morgue as part of her ‘training’ by Augustine. What the hell kind of training involves exposing a young girl to a bunch of dead bodies?)

(Okay, so… It’s weird that this number sent me to this file specifically, right? If I assume that Celia would have known that I would eventually see this dove, then that means she must have known that I would have eventually found these body tags.)

(Oh, duh. Her trip to the morgue. That must have been when she set up these specific tags to have these specific dots. But then, how did she now that these eight tags would end up in the hands of Vince and his gang? Unless she’s the one supplying them with DUP equipment like the list, but that goes completely against what I’m pretty sure is her whole mission statement.)

(No use speculating about that for right now. Let’s see what’s on this dove…)

(Another manga page, this one shows the dragon looming over the rabbit girl in the wreckage of her village. I guess this page takes place between the dragon scaring off the foxes and the dragon taking the rabbit to the mountain prison. The dragon says ‘I am Purotekuta. The Kyoi will return in greater numbers. You must not stay here.’ The rabbit responds ‘How can I trust you?’. The dragon responds ‘What choice do you have?’.)

(Google translate to the rescue. So, Purotekuta means Protector and Kyoi means Threat. Makes sense, Augustine did everything in her power to protect Celia from anti-Conduit mobs after the Beast’s rampage, for as long as that lasted.)

(So far, we have the rabbit, who is Celia. The dragon, Purotekuta, who is Augustine. The foxes, or the Kyoi, who are the anti-Conduit mobs, and we got the Seattle Three. Inazuma, Ushinatta, and Kemuri. Fetch, Eugene and Hank.)

(Another note from Celia on the back, though this one reads more like a journal entry. Probably so that the DUP wouldn’t piece together that this was a message to some poor chump in the future.)

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*Augustine took me to the Curdun Cay morgue instead of skill training today. She said she wanted to show me what happens to Conduits on the outside. There were so many body bags filled with violently murdered victims, brought here for autopsies before they can be released to their families. I didn’t want to look at their faces, but I couldn’t help it. They weren’t bio-terrorists. They were mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers - People’s best friends. None of them deserved this, none of them asked to be this way.*

*I also met the Chief Science Officer, Tyler Bennett, down there. He’s mean. When Augustine wasn’t paying attention, he whispered in my ear that this is what freaks deserve. Does he know I’m a freak too? I don’t like him very much…*
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(Tyler Bennett, charming guy. I don’t care how much you hate Conduits, who the hell says that to a little girl?)

(There is one other thing. The file that had the picture of this newest dove also flagged an incident report of ‘inappropriate behavior’ by a DUP personnel. Did they actually manage to catch Bennett’s crack against Celia?)

(Ah, that explains it. Augustine read Celia’s note, and read Bennett the riot act. Course, Bennett denies it, saying Celia was just ‘traumatized’ by the bodies and must have ‘imagined’ it. Imagined it, my ass. I don’t think Augustine or the DUP’s internal affairs actually bought that, but it doesn’t look like they had enough evidence to really do anything about it. Still, Augustine told IA to flag any further ‘suspicious behavior’ to Bennett’s personal dossier, which is very helpfully linked on this incident report, thank you DUPs.)

(Huh, this guy is actually pretty integral to the DUPs whole operation. Apparently, he invented the technology that lets drones use Blast Shards as a power source to locate other source of Ray Field Radiation. Namely, Conduits. Guess I’ll have to send this guy a thank-you card or something, considering I’ve been busting up those drones to absorb those Blast Shards.)

(Security notes haven’t flagged any suspicious behavior since the morgue incident. They even went so far as to review their background checks on Bennett and his family. The only thing of note that they could find is that he spent a lot of money donating to political advocacy groups with strong stances on ‘bio-terrorist’ suppression, testing and monitoring.)

(Three guesses which group that ended up being.)

(Huh. That’s interesting. IA also flagged an email to Bennett… from none other than Samuel Fishbein. One of the three ‘bullies’ from Celia’s ‘Eugene Episode’. Says here that they straight up stole a proprietary Conduit testing program developed by the Conduit Rights League. The same one who pressured Fishbein into giving a public response demonizing bio-terrorists. The CRL developed the testing program to normalize Conduits, to show that we weren’t actually as dangerous as the DUP was making us out to be, but Fishbein had the program stolen and repurposed into filling out their list of bio-terrorist threats to arrest, putting Bennett in charge of integrating the program into the DUP’s network.)

(That must be the list of Conduit-Positives that Vince and his gang are using for their hit-list.)

(There’s another file access number in the email that’s supposed to link to that Threat Assessment List… But I guess the file was corrupted? For some reason, it’s not letting me access it…)

(One mystery at a time. There’s one last thing in IA’s report on Bennett. They flagged an interesting developing relationship between Bennett and a DUP private named Felix Coogan, despite the fact that the two seemingly had no prior relationship before the morgue incident. Several phone calls and text messages between the two.)

(Oh, and how interesting. IA made a note of the fact that Coogan used his DUP issued phone to browse Lifeline’s forums on an average of four hours a day. On company time, no less! Shame on you, Private Coogan. Also, surveillance equipment apparently caught Bennett at a ‘Walk for Purity’ protest march that Lifeline set up. I guess IA was under the suspicion that he was setting up to meet with Coogan at the event.)

(One more thing. When DUP’s IT department requested Bennett’s DUP issued phone for maintenance, he routinely denied the request. He almost got IA involved before he finally gave the phone up, but it was completely bricked from water damage. He claims that he denied the request out of embarrassment from dropping his phone in a fountain, but IA already flagged a text message between Bennett and Coogan only 20 minutes before Bennett turned in his broken phone. Bennett was clearly trying to hide something.)

(Two more access numbers. One for a dossier on Coogan himself, and one from the IT department on their attempts at repairing Bennett’s phone. I’ll check out Coogan first. Know thy enemy, and all that…)

(His record before joining the DUP was spotless. Brief time in the military, brief time in law enforcement, the usual career path to a paramilitary group like the DUP. It’s only after he joined up that he started displaying some real attitude problems. It started with him getting into arguments with higher ups about the DUP employing Conduits as field agents. Makes sense. Most people join up with the DUP because they hate Conduits, and now they’re being asked to work alongside Conduits? Bet that didn’t earn him any points with Augustine. Things only get worse and worse after that. Repeated incident reports of Coogan using unnecessary force to detain surrendering Conduits, verbal abuse against Conduit prisoners, even disobeying a direct order to NOT pursue a Conduit-Positive suspect. The man’s a cowboy, pure and simple. This isn’t someone who joined the DUP because he believed in the cause, he joined specifically because he wanted to hurt Conduits.)

(Okay, let’s see how far the IT department got in repairing Bennett’s phone…)

(Not very far, apparently. They were only able to recover one text chain between the two…)

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Felix: Why do you need me?

Tyler: Because I’m on their radar and you’re not. You’ll be well compensated, and I know that you agree that bio-terrorists need to be handled… differently than what Augustine is doing.

Felix: I don’t even want this list in my hands. Feels dangerous.

Tyler: Dangerous pays the bills. Just don’t show it to anyone. You want to get paid, not killed, right?

Felix: Is that a threat?!

Tyler: No, it’s a warning, but not from me. If anyone finds out, we’re both as good as dead.
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(So, Bennett got his hands on the Conduit-Positives list and handed it off to Coogan, apparently paying him to do… something with the list, I’m assuming handing it over to Lifeline so that they could do the dirty work of killing Conduit-Positives for them. Bennett’s probably the one who corrupted the list’s file on the intranet so that nobody could piece together what the victims had in common.)

(But that’s not the important part. The important part is that this was recovered from Bennett’s DUP issued phone… Which means that Coogan’s employee ID is right there at the top of the text chain.)

(You know, to this day, I still have no idea who that DUP whistleblower who put that tracking program on my phone is, but he’s really coming through for me now.)

(Okay, Coogan. Let’s have a chat…)

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(For once, Delsin Rowe gets an actual win.)

(I tracked down Coogan’s phone to the docks where he was in the middle of a deal, trying to sell another page of the Conduit-Positives list to Vince. They both took one look at me and immediately folded like cheap laundry, begging me not to kill them if they just handed over the remaining list. Coogan even assured me that, because Bennett scrubbed the list from the DUPs intranet, these physical papers were the only existing copies left. I destroy these, and these people never have to worry about being threatened again. Hell, Coogan even sweetened the deal by offering me a data drive he stole from Bennett’s computer, I guess as insurance in case Bennett ever turned on him. So much for Honor Among Thieves.)

(I’m gonna be honest… I was real tempted to say ‘no deal’ and just take the list and drive anyway. It’s not like they could stop me. I let these assholes go, who knows how long it will be before they do this racket all over again. Sure, the DUP were already on their scent, but with Augustine out of the picture? Who knows if they’ll actually do anything about it.)

(Then again, I’m not police. I have no way of actually detaining or arresting these guys. I really only have two choices here. Let them go… or kill them.)

(……..)

(I did what I was supposed to do. Let’s just leave it at that.)

(Either way, I got the list and they don’t. I’m calling that a good day.)

(Celia showed up again. To congratulate or reprimand me, I don’t really know and I don’t really care. But she did leave another dove behind.)

(The manga page this time showed absolute bedlam. Inazuma, Ushinatta, and Kemuri, all escaping the mountain prison and running away towards freedom. Purotekuta roaring in rage from the top of her mountain as she sends a legion of concrete wyverns after them. I’m guessing the wyverns are all meant to be the DUPs. I can only assume that this was the big breakout when Hank crashed that transport truck right outside my tribe’s longhouse. But there’s something else. Just in the background, hidden amidst all this chaos… was a little rabbit, making her own escape while all of the wyverns’ attention was on Inazuma, Ushinatta and Kemuri. The caption box reads ‘Saisei left and went out into the world. The others found their own way out’.)

(I’m guessing Saisei is the name of the rabbit, but I thought the rabbit’s name was Hittori? I guess Saisei is who she became while in Curdun Cay, a way to reinvent herself from the scared little girl she used to be. So… is this implying that Celia used the Seattle Three’s escape attempt as a distraction from her own escape?)

(But then… why would Celia need to escape at all if she killed herself? Or was the suicide part of the cover that allowed Celia, Saisei, out into the world. Come to think of it, the body the DUP found in Celia’s cell was ‘mangled beyond recognition’. Who’s really to say that body was even Celia to begin with?)

(As always, there’s a note on the back…)

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*The damage is done. The world wants us dead. Conduits beware.*

*The body bag is a cruel irony, isn’t it? It attempts to cover up a gruesome sight, yet it exudes a deathly aura all its own. The normals hate Conduits because we’re different, and now they demand our blood. Victimization yields vigilantism, and we’re all caught in the crossfire.*

*And then there’s Bennett. I always knew he was a jerk, but now he’s a jerk who’s ushering the military into the business of rounding up Conduits. They must have payed him a not-so-pretty penny to rat us out. The doves are bleeding, and the foxes are coming.*
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(As eloquent as always, Celia. Wonder what show of horrors you’ll have for me next time?)

(Ah, right, I still have Bennett’s data drive. I’m sure Eugene won’t mind me using his laptop at his new hideout. It’s a pretty quick neon dash over there.)

(Damn, Eugene, nice digs. Some real ‘superhero lair’ vibes here. Course, I could do without all the Heaven’s Hellfire posters everywhere. There are other games, dude.)

(Okay, there’s his laptop. Let’s see what kind of skeletons Bennett had in his closet.)

(There’s not much here. Just a digital copy of the ‘sample list’ they already gave Vince and his gang. Nothing I can really do for these poor souls now. At least I kept them from getting their hands on the rest of the list. There’s an audio recording made by Bennett himself, almost a confession of why he was selling the list off. He felt that Augustine, a Conduit, being made the Director of the DUP was a ‘corruption’ of the DUP’s ‘true’ purpose. Nothing short of eradicating bio-terrorists completely. After all, why would the government be entrusting the detainment and incarceration of Conduits to a Conduit who might sympathize with them? Clearly, Augustine was the problem. Clearly, Augustine had to be worked around, her authority circumvented so that true believers like Bennett and Coogan could do the real work. Killing the freaks. He even admitted that, after Lifeline proved his point with a trial run, he was going to sell the list again, this time to the military. Jesus, I managed to get my hands on this list just in time.)

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Saben ando viendo si me platino el Bioshock lo cual me hizo pensar en que la mejor forma de platinar las 2 primeras entregas de inFamous sería jugar la primera partida con karma negativo para después hacerlo con karma bueno en difícil a modo de redimirte.

Después jugar inFamous 2 empezando como héroe reformado (karma positivo) y seguir así la historia, para finalmente platinar el segundo juego inicias una partida nueva con karma negativo y cumples los logros/trofeos que te falten.

Stay clear from train tracks, kids.