()||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏1>0,10</黑屏1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>772</BIN><BGM>GF_EV9_Intermission</BGM>:Office of the Minister of the Interior.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<震屏3><SE1>AVG_Door_Hit</SE1>:Bang! +The heavy door is shoved open. +Inside, a man in a suit rises to his feet.
()<Speaker>Chief Secretary</Speaker>||:This is the Minister of the Interior's office, may I ask who—
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Team_Running</SE1>:Before he can finish, a squad of armed soldiers stream in.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:The secretary recognizes them immediately—the current Ministry for State Security, Romy Riefenstahl... and someone who should not be here at all—Commander Felix of the Hugo Eberlein Guard Regiment.
()<Speaker>Chief Secretary</Speaker>||:...The Minister is in a joint session with the Council of Ministers and the National Defense Council. +Even the Stasi—
NPC-Romy(3)<Speaker>Romy</Speaker><GradientShow>2</GradientShow>||<SE1>AVG_21Winter_FT_Heel</SE1><CGDelay>0.7</CGDelay>:
NPC-Romy(3)<Speaker>Romy</Speaker>||<SE1>Stop_AVG_loop</SE1>:The GDR is now in a state of war. For the moment, internal security falls under the Ministry for State Security. +As chief secretary, prepare a meeting room and summon all the ministers. +Commander Felix and I will assign the upcoming work together.
()<Speaker>Chief Secretary</Speaker>||:...Impossible... You... +Riefenstahl, this is treason! +<size=50>You're a traitor to the German Democratic Republic!</size>
NPC-Romy(3)<Speaker>Romy</Speaker>||:I'm afraid the traitor is your Minister. +Since you are unfit to carry out your duties...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Romy taps the shoulder of a stunned deputy secretary.
NPC-Romy(0)<Speaker>Romy</Speaker>||:From now on, you will take his place. +Now get all the ministers to gather.
()<Speaker>Deputy Secretary A</Speaker>||:...Yes, ma'am.
()<Speaker>Deputy Secretary B</Speaker>||:May I ask... what has happened to our Minister?
NPC-Romy(3)<Speaker>Romy</Speaker>||:He sold out the GDR by passing critical military intelligence to Carter. +He will be imprisoned on charges of treason, disclosure of state secrets, violation of official secrecy, and dereliction of duty.
()<Speaker>Deputy Secretary B</Speaker>||:...I understand.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_21Winter_Click_Keyboard</SE1>:The deputy secretaries quickly arrange for their assistants to start contacting all the ministries.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>412</BIN>:Hoffmann's Office.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:Beep-beep-beep. The communicator buzzes. +Hoffmann stirs his coffee and answers the call.
NPC-Hoffmann(2)<Speaker>Finn Hoffmann</Speaker>||:Agent K, turbulent times indeed. In just a few days, we've spoken more than in all of last year.
NPC-Jason(2)<Speaker>K</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Hoffmann(2)||:<color=#00CCFF>...</color> +<color=#00CCFF>"But chaos is a ladder."</color>
NPC-Jason(2);NPC-Hoffmann(1)<Speaker>Finn Hoffmann</Speaker>||:How well you know me, Agent K.
NPC-Jason(2)<Speaker>K</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Hoffmann(1)||:<color=#00CCFF>If that's the only message you have, I'm hanging up.</color>
NPC-Hoffmann(1)<Speaker>Finn Hoffmann</Speaker>||:Of course not. We've all been working around the clock; we could use a lighter topic to help ease our nerves, you know.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Hoffmann sets down his cup, straightens his tie worn through an all-nighter, and sits upright.
NPC-Hoffmann(0)<Speaker>Finn Hoffmann</Speaker>||:There's news from the Minister.
NPC-Jason(2)<Speaker>K</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Hoffmann(0)||:<color=#00CCFF>...Good news?</color>
NPC-Jason(2);NPC-Hoffmann(0)<Speaker>Finn Hoffmann</Speaker>||:Yes. We've secured command of the Spezialeinsatzkommando, the Civil Defense, and the Volkspolizei Alert Unit. +The commander of the Rapid Forces Division has also pledged cooperation for our next moves.
NPC-Jason(2)<Speaker>K</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Hoffmann(0)||:<color=#00CCFF>Things are going smoothly it almost feels unnatural.</color>
NPC-Jason(2);NPC-Hoffmann(0)<Speaker>Finn Hoffmann</Speaker>||:What about Chairwoman Ulrich's position?
NPC-Jason(2)<Speaker>K</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Hoffmann(0)||:<color=#00CCFF>She has declared within the party that she stands firmly with Chairman Groß.</color>
NPC-Jason(2);NPC-Hoffmann(1)<Speaker>Finn Hoffmann</Speaker>||:Excellent. How far are you from Frankfurt?
NPC-Jason(2)<Speaker>K</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Hoffmann(1)||:<color=#00CCFF>The line may be tapped. I can't give coordinates, but we need more time.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>On the way to Frankfurt, multiple attempts on Chairwoman Ulrich's life have been made—we've dealt with six so far.</color>
NPC-Jason(2);NPC-Hoffmann(0)<Speaker>Finn Hoffmann</Speaker>||:Did you interrogate the culprits?
NPC-Jason(2)<Speaker>K</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Hoffmann(0)||:<color=#00CCFF>I never got the chance. They all committed suicide when they failed.</color>
NPC-Jason(2);NPC-Hoffmann(0)<Speaker>Finn Hoffmann</Speaker>||:... +And Chairwoman Ulrich's condition?
NPC-Jason(2)<Speaker>K</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Hoffmann(0)||:<color=#00CCFF>She's unharmed and calm enough—this is not her first assassination attempt.</color>
NPC-Jason(2);NPC-Hoffmann(0)<Speaker>Finn Hoffmann</Speaker>||:Regardless, you must reach Frankfurt before this war ends.
NPC-Jason(2)<Speaker>K</Speaker><通讯框>||<CGDelay>0.3</CGDelay>:<color=#00CCFF>We will do everything we can.</color>
()||<黑屏1><SE1>AVG_tele_disconnect</SE1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM><黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN>:
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>697</BIN>:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay><SE1>AVG_20Winter_Door_Open</SE1>:Clatter.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_Door_Close</SE1><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay><BGM>BGM_ev2412_tranquility</BGM>:A secretary enters the meeting room. After putting down two cups of coffee and some pastries, he withdraws promptly. +The lavishly decorated room, currently occupied only by two men, feels eerily hollow. +One of them breaks the silence.
NPC-Rudolf(1)<Speaker>Oberstein</Speaker>||:I didn't expect you to choose this room. +The last time we spoke here, it was to congratulate you for becoming General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party.
NPC-Rudolf(1);NPC-Gross(0)<Speaker>Groß</Speaker>||:I chose it not for provocation. +But for reconciliation. +The party needs both of us. +The GDR needs both of us.
NPC-Rudolf(1)<Speaker>Oberstein</Speaker>;NPC-Gross(0)||:Enough with the false face, Groß. +Your ambition will destroy the GDR.
NPC-Rudolf(1);NPC-Gross(2)<Speaker>Groß</Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:And yours will destroy humanity itself.
NPC-Rudolf(1)<Speaker>Oberstein</Speaker>;NPC-Gross(2)||:The Relics exist whether you use them or not. +Earth does not stop rotating just because man closes his eyes. +Technology... is the true lifeblood of the age.
NPC-Rudolf(1);NPC-Gross(2)<Speaker>Groß</Speaker>||:Herr Oberstein, you can't keep living in the past. +Look at the world today.
NPC-Rudolf(0)<Speaker>Oberstein</Speaker>;NPC-Gross(2)||:The world today? It is nothing but the continuation of World War III. +I and my comrades defended Germany then.
NPC-Rudolf(0);NPC-Gross(2)<Speaker>Groß</Speaker>||:Yes. No one can deny history, Herr Oberstein.
NPC-Rudolf(0);NPC-Gross(2)<Speaker>Groß</Speaker>||:But now your eyes see only the past, not the future.
NPC-Rudolf(0)<Speaker>Oberstein</Speaker>;NPC-Gross(2)||:You will never reach the future.
NPC-Rudolf(0);NPC-Gross(0)<Speaker>Groß</Speaker>||:I'll say that right back at you. +Relics are just tools—tools for obtaining power, not for causing humanity's annihilation.
NPC-Rudolf(1)<Speaker>Oberstein</Speaker>;NPC-Gross(0)||:I wholeheartedly agree. But who is our enemy? +They aren't in distant Antarctica. Our enemy is right here.
NPC-Gross(2)<Speaker>Groß</Speaker>||:No, our enemy lies within your heart—it is that withered ambition that will consume us all.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>Rope</SE1>:Oberstein's anger flares.
NPC-Rudolf(0)<Speaker>Oberstein</Speaker>||:Groß! Have you forgotten who helped you rise to power?
NPC-Gross(1)<Speaker>Groß</Speaker>||:I am grateful. +Grateful that you chose me as your puppet.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Groß looks at Oberstein coolly.
NPC-Gross(2)<Speaker>Groß</Speaker>||:But, you forget, Herr Oberstein—as a puppet, I have the right to enter the stage. +While you... have lost that right long ago.
NPC-Rudolf(0)<Speaker>Oberstein</Speaker>||:I don't need that. All I need is the power to replace the puppet at will.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_Door_Close</SE1><震屏3>:Bam. The heavy alloy door slams shut as Oberstein storms out. +The talk ends not in peace. +But in open enmity.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN>:
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>768</BIN><SE1>AVG_BaseDoor_Open</SE1><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay><黑点2>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Back at his own office, Groß nods to his chief secretary.
NPC-Gross(0)<Speaker>Groß</Speaker>||:Contact Lord Griffin Lyons.
()<Speaker>Chief Secretary</Speaker>||:Yes, Herr.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_BaseDoor_Close</SE1>:The comms line connects. The chief secretary bows and leaves the office.
NPC-Griffin(0)<Speaker>Earl</Speaker><通讯框>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:<color=#00CCFF>Your Excellency, I trust you have made your decision.</color>
NPC-Griffin(0);NPC-Gross(0)<Speaker>Groß</Speaker>||:We need a future. +Humanity needs a future.
NPC-Griffin(0)<Speaker>Earl</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Gross(0)||:<color=#00CCFF>Only by passing on the flame will there be a future.</color>
NPC-Griffin(0);NPC-Gross(2)<Speaker>Groß</Speaker>||:... +There was a time when Oberstein was my most respected leader, my comrade.
NPC-Griffin(1)<Speaker>Earl</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>But he lives in the past.</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Groß eases into his chair, his eyes falling on a photo on the desk of himself with Oberstein.
NPC-Gross(2)<Speaker>Groß</Speaker>||:As a brilliant technocrat, he rose above suffocating aristocratic politics through sheer ability. +In WWIII, he turned the tide—until tragedy bound him forever... +To this day, he is still consumed by the loss of his wife and daughter.
NPC-Griffin(1)<Speaker>Earl</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Gross(2)||:<color=#00CCFF>He is only human. He has grown old.</color>
NPC-Griffin(1);NPC-Gross(2)<Speaker>Groß</Speaker>||:Because of that... he betrayed his family. +His own name. +He could neither stay in his position nor let go.
NPC-Griffin(1)<Speaker>Earl</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Gross(2)||:<color=#00CCFF>Beyond his past glories, all he has left is a broken body and a son that he clings to.</color>
NPC-Griffin(1);NPC-Gross(2)<Speaker>Groß</Speaker>||:Fate repeats itself endlessly.
NPC-Griffin(1)<Speaker>Earl</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Gross(2)||:<color=#00CCFF>...So your answer?</color>
NPC-Griffin(1);NPC-Gross(2)<Speaker>Groß</Speaker>||:Just as we preserve hope for humanity... +We should preserve a spark for the Oberstein family, too.
NPC-Griffin(0)<Speaker>Earl</Speaker><通讯框>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay><SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:<color=#00CCFF>...Your support is the driving force behind the URNC's establishment.</color>
()||<黑屏1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN>:
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>470</BIN>:Socialist Unity Party Headquarters.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:In the White Zone, the bombing is barely felt. +The highest defenses stand here... along with the most "valuable" lives. +Some people are born worth more than others. +Not because of the good they do, but because of the despair they bring.
()<Speaker>Friedrich</Speaker>||:Are you going to keep waiting? +Your identity must not be exposed...
NPC-Nemhran(0)<Speaker>Nemhran</Speaker><Position>80,90</Position>||:Tell him he is about to lose.
()<Speaker>Friedrich</Speaker>||:...I cannot deliver that message.
NPC-Nemhran(0)<Speaker>Nemhran</Speaker><Position>80,90</Position>||:I know. It doesn't matter.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_door_elecport</SE1>:Nemhran leaves the office. She must return to her own domain. There... she has chosen the most fitting end for herself.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN>:
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>816</BIN><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay><黑屏2>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1><BGM>BGM_ev2408_DanceWithDeath</BGM>:Nemhran enters a empty laboratory. Her fingertips brush across every familiar surface. +All these mundane things that she has long since grown tired of suddenly fill her with nostalgia. +Once she reaches her own office, she exhales.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:She opens an encrypted comms channel.
NPC-Nemhran(0)<Speaker>Nemhran</Speaker><Position>80,90</Position>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:...Congratulations.
NPC-William(2)<Speaker>William</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>I see.</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:The cold male voice falls silent after this perfunctory acknowledgment. +After some hesitation, Nemhran decides to get straight to the point.
NPC-Nemhran(0)<Speaker>Nemhran</Speaker><Position>80,90</Position>||:...I have a request.
NPC-William(2)<Speaker>William</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Hm?</color>
NPC-Nemhran(0)<Speaker>Nemhran</Speaker><Position>80,90</Position>||:...I want to die a true death.
NPC-William(2)<Speaker>William</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>...I have no more need of you. Do as you wish.</color>
NPC-Nemhran(0)<Speaker>Nemhran</Speaker><Position>80,90</Position>||:Thank you. I hope both you and Miss Lunasia find this resolution satisfactory. +I will make my death quiet and unobtrusive.
NPC-William(2)<Speaker>William</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>...</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_disconnect</SE1>:William hangs up. Nemhran sighs and begins her final tasks.
NPC-Nemhran(0)<Speaker>Nemhran</Speaker><Position>80,90</Position>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:Hebe.
NPC-Hebe(5)<Speaker>Hebe</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>I'm here.</color>
NPC-Nemhran(0)<Speaker>Nemhran</Speaker><Position>80,90</Position>||:What's the situation in Frankfurt?
NPC-Hebe(5)<Speaker>Hebe</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>The Iaso's Boxes have been deployed as planned.</color>
NPC-Nemhran(0)<Speaker>Nemhran</Speaker><Position>80,90</Position>||:Activate them all.
NPC-Hebe(9)<Speaker>Hebe</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>So soon? But the bombing has only just—</color>
NPC-Nemhran(0)<Speaker>Nemhran</Speaker><Position>80,90</Position>||:Do it now.
NPC-Hebe(5)<Speaker>Hebe</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>...Understood.</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_disconnect</SE1>:Nemhran severs the comms link with Hebe, then immediately opens another.
NPC-Nemhran(0)<Speaker>Nemhran</Speaker><Position>80,90</Position>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:Bramedb.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:No answer.
NPC-Nemhran(0)<Speaker>Nemhran</Speaker><Position>80,90</Position>||:Is the matter still unresolved on her end?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_keyboardtype_sci</SE1>:Nemhran leaves a message for Bramedb, telling her to handle the last shipment from Avernus.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_NightVision_Start</SE1>:Then she activates the Bee Sting System one last time.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN>:
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>72</BIN><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_keyboardtype_sci</SE1>:In her most familiar place, she works efficiently to authorize Styx's entry into the White Zone. +She exits the current interface, accesses Laplace's archives, and grants Morridow access clearance to the files.
NPC-Nemhran(0)<Speaker>Nemhran</Speaker><Position>80,90</Position>||:Well, there's that.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:It feels strange. +There is nothing left on her to-do list. This idle state is utterly alien to her.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_2023Slow_Keyboard_Enter</SE1>:With a faint smirk, she pulls up the files on Oberstein, Carter, and other figures, and feeds them into the Bee Sting System one by one. +She then changes the access authorization of these files.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_2023Slow_Keyboard_Error</SE1>:Beep. +An error alert. +She calmly calls up the backend terminal.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.1</CGDelay><SE1>AVG_2023Slow_Keyboard_Error</SE1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.1</CGDelay><SE1>AVG_2023Slow_Keyboard_Error</SE1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_2023Slow_Keyboard_Error</SE1>:Beep. Beep. Beep. +More errors come flooding in.
()||<黑屏1><SE1>AVG_whitenoise</SE1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>332</BIN><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
NPC-Nemhran(0)<Speaker>Nemhran</Speaker><Position>80,90</Position>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:She watches as the system collapses, but instead of panic, Nemhran feels relief.
NPC-Nemhran(0)<Speaker>Nemhran</Speaker><Position>80,90</Position>||:At last, the end has come...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_ElecSpace</SE1><震屏3>:The Bee Sting System wails with intrusion warnings as information on the hacker is compiled and displayed for Nemhran.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:But she dismisses them all without even a look. +Her eyes remain fixed on the horizon in this digital space as she waits patiently.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:As though she has waited her whole life for this very moment.
()||<黑点1>: