Hong Kong - VersaLife

Primary Objectives:

• Get the ROM-encoding for the Dragon's Tooth sword from the basement laboratories at VersaLife.

Look around. Chat with the locals. Your goal is to climb to the top floor and access the secured elevator. You'll need a code to open it. How many ways are there? Hmmm...lets see:

• Hack any computer terminal
• Enter the security station on the first floor. Its to your right as you climb your first set of steps. Security will take this personally but some items inside make up for it along with a datacube containing a login for any terminals in the work areas.
• Go to the top floor and find the disgruntled employee. Kill Hundly for him and he'll tell you the code.
• Talk with Hundly and bribe him for the code.

As for security, you may have guessed they will be upset when you come back here so you may want to handle them now. For stealth players its possible to sneak past using the cloak aug, more on this later. Punch in the code and take the elevator down. Inside the MJ12 Research Facility, chat with the supervisor then head east to the hand. Turn left at the wall and follow the passage to the elevator. Take it up, walk past the MiB to the office. Grab the nano key and hack security if you can.

Return to the hand room heading south past the hand and up the other stairs. Four rooms branch off in this area. To your left is a security guard room, to your right is a kitchen, meeting room, and restroom. Your could commit an all out assault then go back and open the cases to read the datacubes. The datacubes contain the passwords needed to complete the mission. If it does come to a fire fight, use a gas grenade where the rooms intersect, its likely to stop the guards before they hurt you. Any attempt to lockpick the cases will send the scientists screaming and is no different than shooting someone. However, if you have hacking skills no combat is required here. Enter the restroom and head to the last stall. On your left is a vent. Open it an crawl in.

After climbing a bit you'll reach a very long passage. Crawl west to the end but mind the greasel. At the west end turn right and keep crawling until you can stand up. Find the ladders and take them to the bottom. Enter the small shaft heading south and crawl out. On your right is a computer terminal. Hacking it allows you access to the bioelectric cell, augmentation upgrade, and augmentation canisters inside the chamber. A nearby medbot can be used to install the augmentations. Leave the area heading east then drift a bit south to the Experimental Subject Cells. Look around.

Leave and head northwest past the crispy corpse. At the corner turn right and enter the area with the animal carcass. Up for grabs is a hazmat suit and a lockpick. Spin around and run west up the stairs. Look right to find Maggie Chow if you didn't kill her earlier. Approach the window to hear the conversation, then exit out the doors in the middle of the west wall. As you follow the passage the halfway point is marked by guard barracks. No real need to take them on unless you're thirsty for blood. Lockpicking the lockers up the stairs on your left is considered an act of violence so you're better off killing everyone before looting the place. Continue on to the datavault.

Before you do anything in the datavault, subdue the guard topside carrying the GEP gun, then come back down and handle the shotgun guard as well as the lady with the blue sword. Handle them in the datavault room quietly and the guards down the hall shouldn't notice. In the middle is a lift. Take it up, then send it back down. Hack the computer, or use the loginID of MChow with the master password (This is different from what you used in her apartment). Download the ROM-encoding.

Primary Objective:

• Go to the temple in Wan Chai to cement the alliance between the Triads.

When you drop down the lift shaft alarms will sound. Run forward and turn left to climb the ramp. Go to the top and exit east. Push the button to open the hatch above the stairs. Climb the stairs back to the hand room. Run to the elevator and leave.

Upon reaching VersaLife any guards still around will have an instant dislike for you. If you didn't do anything about the guards the cloak aug is a nice way to get past them. There is also a vent in the back of each computer work room though dropping down from the top floor is painful. Better to go down a floor to minimize the damage. Get to the elevator on the bottom floor and take it down. Get off the elevator and run southeast. The temple is just south of the Luminous Path compound. Talk with the Triad leaders.

Primary Objective:

• Report to Tracer Tong inside the Luminous Path compound to deliver the good news of the truce.

Secondary Objective:

• Meet the dragon heads at the Lucky Money for drinks.

Meeting the dragon heads for drinks is very optional, no points are to be gained by doing it, however its fun and gives a feeling of completeness for having gotten this far. Enter the compound and find Tong. Talk with him.

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