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Pink Evening Island
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Your heart is pounding. Your mind is spinning. Before you can talk yourself out of it, you swallow your fear give him your decision.
"I accept."
The smirk returns, his face full of satisfaction behind those dark glasses.
"Glad to know there are still patriots left on Mars," he says, standing. He takes the datapad and a briefcase as he turns to leave, but leaves you the revolver. You pick it up hesitantly.
"How...does this thing work? And what do I do to his re--"
"Special Agent Pilar will fill you in on the details," the unnamed PSB agent calls from over his shoulder, already in the hallway. On cue, a young Marsican man in a dark suit steps into the door way and beckons you to follow.
Pilar, a native of the Mexican Mars Colony (colloquially known as Marsico), debriefs you on your revolver as he guides you to the shuttle bay. He tells you the basics of holding, aiming, and firing the weapon you've been given, as well as how to disassemble it into fairly inconspicuous parts. It's what the ancients used to call a six-shooter, so named because it can fire just six times before having to reload. That won't be a problem for you, he says, because you're only being given six rounds, and in theory you only need to use one. They're loud, crude, barbaric, and extremely illegal throughout the system, but they're the necessary tool for this particular job.
"So, I know how to deal with this guy now, but what about his research? Don't I need to destroy it, or bring it in?"
"Don't worry about it," Pilar says, impressed that you'd think to ask. "We have other assets in place that can take care of the research without getting themselves caught. It's the scientist himself, a guy named Hans Cruise, that we need you to handle. He's a genius when it comes to this, one of a kind. If we destroyed his data, he could always start over. But if there's no brains behind it, the whole project will fail."
"Wait, project? So it's more than just this Hans guy?"
"Que claro, of course there'd be more! But the financier, the goons, the suppliers, we can handle all of them. We just need to make sure that the scientist doesn't get away. No technicalities preventing arrest or imprisonment, no jailbreaks, and most of all, no warning that we're about to act. The only sure-fire way to make sure this succeeds, is to take him by surprise. Then the rest of the plan falls into place."
"Why me though?" You ask, uncomfortable that apparently a huge sting operation hinges on you doing something you've never done before perfectly on your first try.
"Think about it," Pilar replies, as though it were obvious. "What are you good at? What makes you, you?"
[Allocate 2 points on Attributes, 3 points on Skills, and select 1 Ability. You may also take the opportunity to assign your character a name and sex.]
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