>>5561531Looks like the fallout from your botched date with Marina spooked the authorities enough for them to place the local garrisons on high alert.
Can’t really blame them though; a bombing coupled with a gas attack in your capital city is ample reason to spike the terror threat level. And it’s page one of that playbook to lock down ports, airfields, and other pieces of major transit infrastructure to lessen the odds of cascading attacks.
All this hubbub, just because Marina and her fucking goons decided it’d be a swell idea to put innocents in the line of fire. Add to the list of reasons why you’re not keen on letting her skip town without a gentle reminder that you’re not a man to be trifled with.
That, and you need intel about the party that set this whole shitshow in motion. Nobody takes a shot at you and gets away with it.
Once you finish scouting out your options, you move to slip through the perimeter.
Shadow Cloak does a damned good job of keeping you obfuscated, and your own training allows you to take full advantage of the holes in their defenses.
After navigating around several roving patrols, you finally reach the customs office. At this time of night, the place is locked down tight, but you’ve cracked tougher locks in your sleep.
From there, you slip into the manager’s office, boot up his ancient computer, and start probing for weaknesses. You move quick, aware that you need to get this done before the next security rotation.
Once you’re through their surprisingly competent network defenses, you begin trawling the current registry of docked vessels for a culprit that matches your profile.
Luckily, cross-referencing the scheduled departure dates makes locating the container ship a breeze; your target is the <span class="mu-i">CS Iron Dragon</span>, a high-tonnage shipping vessel based out of the Seychelles. Looks like this is their penultimate stop, with their final destination listed as some port in Japan.
After scribbling down their berth number and alerting Jack via sigil ping, you quickly purge all records of your tampering and re-lock the door as you slip out of the customs office.
Now that you know where Marina is going to be within a few hours, you need to puzzle out the best method of engagement.
The ideas come quick, but one stands head and shoulders among the fray.
If you and your pals can sneak aboard the Iron Dragon without causing a ruckus, it should be easy enough to conceal yourselves and wait for the opportune moment to strike.
The ship is huge, and there must be plenty of hidey-holes to stash yourself in; once the ship disembarks and enters international waters, you’ll make a move.
It’d take a mountain of red tape for anyone to authorize an interdiction once you’re well away from shore. Even if the authorities are watching the vessel, there’s no way they’d be able to intervene in time.