Kim Kitsuragi
- conversations
- 402
- Locations
- 16
Where
16Tasks
136- Prove your authority to Titus Hardie
- Look for Ruby on the coast
- The pissing competition
- Find the bullet before you get fooled
- Ask the pétanque player about may bells
- Ask René about the photo
- Find the armoured gloves
- Do not talk to René and Gaston
- Get yourself organised
- Take on la responsibilité
- Become a man of plenty
- Talk to Garte, Lieutenant Love
- Where is the rest of the armour?
- Inspect the traps
- Return to the dead body with Kim
- What happened to the previous forewoman?
- Find the Insulindian Phasmid
- Find booze and drink it
Dialogue
402- A row of mugs sits on the shelf. Each one depicts a human figure: a dark-skinned woman…
- "I'm really not sure we should be in here."
- "Goddamned pinball."
- This is the barred door you tried to kick in before.
- "I haven't paid the cafeteria manager for damages yet."
- "I thought we decided to leave it to Processing." The lieutenant shakes his head. "Let's…
- "Yes. It took some convincing, but I got the mercenary's name and a few biographical…
- "I see the processing guys have been faster than usual. It's good we stopped by to check…
- Suddenly, your entire body is paralysed. Aggressive white noise fills your skull -- a…
- You feel something -- like a swarm of hornets buzzing under your scalp. A strange…
- The once-bright mural towers above you, saying "FELD ELECTRICAL R&D."
- The rusty ladder leads to the rooftop.
- "Is everything all right in there, officer? Could you let me in?"
- A moustachioed and mutton-chopped man, amateurishly depicted, gazes at you with sad eyes…
- Could this have been the killer's hideout, and this narrow window -- the point of origin…
- The thick journal bound in brown leather is full of candour and diagrams.
- "Okay, let's take a... step back." (Conclude.)
- Despair creeps into you, getting fat on your weakness. Whatever noble intentions you once…
Notes
461- "A good point. He could have been intoxicated. Or something we cannot yet imagine... I shouldn't have assumed so much just from the clothes."
- "No?" The lieutenant's expression is stern and impenetrable. He points at you: "You will get your shit together."
- "Absolutely."
- "Then the world will turn away from you, and leave you behind."
- "Daba-doop-doop-dead," he says without a hint of melody. Not one muscle in his face moves.
- "No sirree." He shakes his head.
- He nods in agreement with this advanced piece of conceptualization. Having mulled it over the lieutenant says: "That sounds about right, yes."
- "We should go talk to the locals, find something else to do while the wind changes. It's pretty bad right now."
- "He is." He points to the corpse.
- He would follow you into death itself... and you would do the same for him.
- "My colleague has an exploratory sense of humour. Don't hold it against him."
- It's good we discussed your history with her, he thinks. I can play along.
- We should have discussed your history before we came here, he thinks. So many unpleasant surprises with this guy...
- You catch the lieutenant's side-glance, but he doesn't say anything.
- "Go ahead," she remarks sharply, "call people rude things. We've heard worse here. Now are you interested or not?"
- The lieutenant sighs at your flagrant misogyny.
- "... and neither have you. Had you let me in on the script of this play before you performed it, I could have gone along. As it stands, the entire line of qu…
- "You." The lieutenant turns to you. "If you were intending to use an unorthodox questioning technique for this branch of the investigation -- which, by the w…