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Brucipher
  • 7/1/2025
Part 12 of the walkthrough of Deus Ex: Invisible War for the PC.
Transcript
00:00Chicago! Someone put you on my tail? You're a long way from home.
00:15I'm on Dr. Nassif's tail. The program we came out of. Apostle Corps. It's based here in Cairo.
00:20Ah, this is some coincidence. Either there's a contract on my head...
00:23Or maybe the Omar have an interest in the program that created us, too. What do they have you doing out here?
00:28I told you before. Protection. Protection from what?
00:32Anybody. A lot of people don't like Omar. Most people think they're freaks.
00:36Right now, supposedly, these Knights Templar fanatics are planning a raid. So I'm waiting for them.
00:40All by yourself?
00:41That's my assignment. But these cyborgs can fight when they have to.
00:45I just wish we had a better tip. Like when the raid's gonna happen. Then maybe I could get some sleep.
00:49Who tipped you off to begin with?
00:51Someone in the village. But the Templar command is in the Arcology. They have a recruiting kiosk there.
00:56We can't move people into New Cairo too easily.
00:59Maybe I'll do some sightseeing in New Cairo. I'll let you know if I come across anything.
01:03Yeah? If it was me, I'd sneak up on the place and eavesdrop.
01:06Omar's schematics show a vent near the Tarsus School on 107, West Wall.
01:10One of the shafts leads to the kiosk. You could listen from inside the shaft.
01:15Be careful, though. Arcology support systems are secured against pests, whether transgenic or human.
01:21One thing I am is dependable.
01:23No sign of trouble so far.
01:40You sure got a prime location for your business here.
01:43We appreciate your resourcefulness in seeking us out.
01:47I guess we'll see if it was worth my time and effort.
01:49You will appreciate our merchandise.
01:52You are a welcome customer, having helped us in the past.
01:56Perhaps you can offer your services once more.
02:00Go on. You've got my attention.
02:01A Templar-run facility in Flight Bay 24 on Arcology Level 110 has a number of classified programs.
02:10Most importantly, a body armor project for Templar paladins.
02:15Also, a counteragent to the pollution that causes Plague 11 has been invented,
02:20though its deployment has been inexplicably delayed.
02:24A counteragent sounds like something that would interest the villagers.
02:26How do I get into this facility?
02:28First, you'll need a pass to enter the Arcology proper.
02:32Take this one.
02:33Thanks.
02:34Then, talk to the woman in the air terminal information booth.
02:39She works for us.
02:40We will tell her that you are coming.
02:43Say to her simply that you have a friend in common.
02:47Once inside the terminal, locate the armor and upload the schematic.
02:52You will also find your cure.
02:55Okay.
02:56What are you selling?
02:57I have two black market biomod canisters which enable non-PSO cam functionality.
03:05Also, three concussion prox mines which you can plant on any flat surface to be detonated by movement within close range.
03:14As a preferred customer, you may purchase items at half price.
03:23No thanks.
03:24As you wish.
03:28A Templar would just as soon lynch a merc like you or me because of our bio mod.
03:32There's a problem I plan to fight.
03:34No more congestion.
03:43No more fatigue.
03:44Use Vita Tech Cure 11.
03:45Let's go.
04:15Take your nonsense somewhere else.
04:17You have been conditioned by this society.
04:20You suffer from Vassana, my seekers.
04:22Hindu yogis have also warned their students of this flaw.
04:25You are too attached to the superficial and the material.
04:28Let me help you discover your true selves.
04:31Turn away from this false sense of self-limitation to know your true self.
04:42Do not spread corruption and disorder.
04:44Acknowledge your responsibilities to your fellows and to the earth.
04:48Doing otherwise means you pollute the world with what Muslims have called façade, or earthly corruption, in following a path other than a search.
04:55Do not deny the call to order that you feel in your spirit that you will help to eliminate façade.
05:01Turn your attention away from creation to all that which is uncreated.
05:12Ignore the human-made hierarchies and material miseries.
05:15As you achieve this state of consciousness, you will achieve samadhi and be ecstatically transported outside the bounds and limits imposed upon your spirit by today's society's terrible disorder.
05:26Shed your worldly connections.
05:35Develop your falcon.
05:36It enables you to distinguish between true and false, between real and fiction, between order and chaos.
05:42Deep in your heart to know the path you seek, you must relearn to access it by turning your back on this materialistic society.
05:49You have been conditioned by this society.
05:59You suffer from Vassana, my seekers.
06:01Hindu yogis have also warned their students of this flaw.
06:04You are too attached to the superficial and the material.
06:07Let me help you discover your true selves.
06:10Turn away from this false sense of self-limitation to know your true self.
06:14Turn your attention away from creation to all that which is uncreated.
06:25Ignore the human-made hierarchies and material miseries.
06:28As you achieve this state of consciousness, you will achieve samadhi and be ecstatically transported outside the bounds and limits imposed upon your spirit by today's society's terrible disorder.
06:44The harvester will discuss, okay?
07:01Hmm, what do I see?
07:02An exceptional young man.
07:04Modified, correct?
07:05Lovingly grown in an enclave.
07:07And now you step into the dangerous world.
07:09Stay ready, Tariq.
07:10Am I about to get jumped or something?
07:12Such a prize, hmm.
07:14A shame to send you straight to the chop shop.
07:16Perhaps you heard that I'm hiring a mercenary.
07:19Yeah?
07:20I am interested in the security chief in the unmarked suite on level 108 in the arcology.
07:25His tissues are heavy with biotech.
07:27Beta biocules, the next rev of the PSO chem architecture, who knows?
07:31Maybe something beyond.
07:33I have a client who will pay handsomely to study one of his biomods.
07:36How do you expect me to steal a biomod?
07:38Kill him and bring you the body?
07:39Just kill him and my people in the morgue will remove the components I need.
07:43I like how you think.
07:44You will be well paid.
07:46Here, you will need this pass to enter the arcology.
07:48I have always wondered what they're doing there.
07:58It's so good to see you again, darling.
08:08Any news about that apartment?
08:11Apartment?
08:12Oh, that one.
08:14Already leased.
08:15Sorry.
08:16Are you really trying to find me a place to live in arcology?
08:18Don't you want to be able to see each other more often?
08:22It's a lot of money.
08:24We'll attract my husband's attention if I don't handle this properly.
08:27He's pretty clueless, but has started asking questions about certain expenses.
08:30I'm stuck out here.
08:35I haven't been able to work on any of my poetry.
08:38I was always meant to be an arcology citizen.
08:41No one here will ever appreciate my right.
08:42I will, sweetie.
08:43Hey, thanks for being here for me.
08:45I love this, and I love us.
08:47But you know that I've got to get back.
08:49I'll send word when I find an apartment.
08:54This constant haze is awful.
08:56If only I could get away from all this.
09:07I just know I could be a poet.
09:26For God's sake, leave me alone.
09:35Yes, I have closed the greenhouse.
09:36There was a murder there.
09:38The murder of my brother.
09:40The greenhouse will stay closed until I am certain that the Nassif family is safe.
09:43I'm sorry about your tragedy.
09:45Sorry?
09:46Who are you to be sorry?
09:48You killed the parents, and now you come to kill the uncle?
09:50Well, the Nassif family is fighting back.
09:52Layla escaped, and you won't find her.
09:54I know your niece.
09:55She was my instructor at Tarsus Academy in Seattle.
09:58I'm not here to kill anyone.
09:59No?
10:00Then what?
10:00Do you know who's after my family?
10:02Everyone, as far as I can tell.
10:04Funny.
10:05Ha ha.
10:05And meanwhile, my daughter Ava goes missing at the Tarsus Academy in arcology.
10:09All of us hunted like greasles.
10:11Tarsus Academy?
10:12Right.
10:13Where Layla went to school.
10:14She helped her cousin get on the same track.
10:16To a decent life.
10:17Now we are targets.
10:18Maybe I can help out.
10:19I'm on my way to the arcology.
10:21And you are a Tarsus man?
10:22Yes?
10:22Well, perhaps you can have a word with the headmaster.
10:25I will give you my parental code.
10:2774652.
10:28Tarsus is on level 107.
10:30Tell the fat bomb I want him to return my calls.
10:32Where is my girl?
10:33Why couldn't Layla find her last night?
10:35Oh, interesting discovery.
10:37So, Dr. Nassif has a cousin at the Tarsus Academy in New Cairo.
10:41A visitation pass will let you enter the school on level 107 of the arcology.
10:45Find the cousin Eva and see if she leads you to Apostle Corps.
10:48I bet we're being targeted by the WTO.
10:52They would love to see the greenhouse fail.
10:54Let's go.
11:24Take your nonsense somewhere else.
11:54Let's go.
12:24Well met, fellow Templars.
12:48What? Is someone there?
12:50Poison!
12:51Oh man, you're taking on the Templars?
13:07I've been hit with a toxin!
13:21Oh my God!
13:30Oh my God!
13:32I can't do that anymore.
13:35I'm gonna need a toxin!
13:44I'm gonna need a toxin.
13:46I'm gonna need a toxin!
13:50Let's go.
14:20Let's go.
14:50Let's go.
15:20Let's go.
15:50Let's go.
16:20This is a weapons-free zone.
16:25To enter, you must submit to a deactivation procedure.
16:27I'll transmit the encrypted safety lock bite codes to freeze all your weapons on or in your person.
16:32When you leave, sensors will reactivate everything you've got.
16:34Okay.
16:37Thanks. You're clear to enter now.
16:43WTO indifference to non-eye pollution is the reason for the plague that has decimated the village.
16:47If you and Billy can help the locals, maybe you can win their trust and get some information on Dr. Nassif.
16:52Maybe if they knew that I'm sick, they'd let me in.
17:11I wish it could be that way, baby.
17:17I guess I just wasn't smart enough.
17:21Nonsense.
17:21Why won't they at least let us let us in the city?
17:26The air is not so bad inside the mosque.
17:30You'll start to feel better.
17:32Just get some rest.
17:34Forget about Tarsus.
17:35It's a very selective program.
17:37You look fine to me.
17:41Anything I can do to help?
17:43Just stay out of the way.
17:44Too many patients.
17:45No time for chit-chat.
17:46As you wish.
17:47I'm looking for someone named Billy Adams.
17:49I heard she's in this mosque.
17:50The woman from Seattle, yes.
17:52Where are you from?
17:53New Cairo?
17:54Why come here?
17:55The air in the Medina is polluted.
17:56Is it that serious?
17:58Just take a look outside.
17:59It's nanite dust these people breathe.
18:01From Nanite Swell 11.
18:02Particles like little insects.
18:04Unaffected by the wind.
18:05Probably a leak from a pre-collapsed laboratory that's been forgotten for two decades.
18:11These poor people.
18:20Stop acting like a freak.
18:24What?
18:25I don't mean to interrupt.
18:27You startled me there.
18:28I guess I'm a little preoccupied.
18:30What's wrong?
18:31Well, it's my daughter, Mina.
18:33Look at her.
18:35Oh, it's okay, Mom.
18:37I'll get better.
18:38Ever since she didn't get into the Tarsus Academy, her infection has been getting worse.
18:43She should be up on level 107 right now, in her own dorm room, studying and breathing filtered air.
18:49She's always been such a good student.
18:51I wish there was something I could do.
18:53That's very kind.
18:55But unless you're on the admissions committee at the Academy, or unless you're someone who can hack in and put Mina Amir on the acceptance list, there's not really much to do except wait and pray.
19:06Really, Mom, I'll be fine.
19:09Some of us still worship the old gods, despite everything that's happened.
19:14She wants into Tarsus, huh?
19:15I'll see what I can do.
19:19I'm here to see a doctor and nobody else.
19:35Don't bother me about my beliefs.
19:37Maybe it is a judgment on us.
19:46Someone in the Arcology started that rumor so that we'd blame ourselves.
19:49Everything has a reason.
19:54They think Plague 11's just another punishment for us being lazy and poor.
19:59They cannot be so wicked as that.
20:01No one chooses to live in the Medina.
20:04Exactly.
20:05They do all the choosing.
20:07First, I'm not from the right family.
20:08Now, they shut me out because I'm sick.
20:11No one works their way up from Plague 11.
20:13Then why am I sick?
20:15I exercise.
20:16Eat right.
20:16I always wear my breather when I'm out in the Medina.
20:18But when did you start using it?
20:21Only after years of breathing this air, just like me.
20:24We didn't know any better.
20:25Then by the time they start getting hurt out, we were already sick.
20:28Sometimes I don't know how long I can keep fighting this.
20:33Hey, don't give up.
20:35Someone will come up with a cure.
20:36Maybe one of the Nosteeps, they have some real brains in that family.
20:48Thank heaven for the church.
20:56Cheetah.
20:58Stop acting like a freak.
21:01It's rough, but we can't give in.
21:04I've been sick for years now.
21:06Too many tries.
21:15Cheetah.
21:17Oh, my God.
21:47Oh, my God.
22:17I watched two centuries of progress vanish during two minutes on the evening news.
22:22Destruction, that's easy.
22:24But Her Holiness and Chairman Dumier think they can reunify the planet with a simple decree.
22:29The faithless are easy to manipulate politically.
22:32And remember, the faithless are the majority.
22:35We should not forget the Tocqueville's insight.
22:38If a man does not submit to faith, he will desire a firm, tyrannical shape for society.
22:44It's not too late to reform the Church.
22:48Perhaps.
22:49I will find out when I get to Trier.
22:51So, I already got a lead on this epidemic in Old Cairo.
22:58Courtesy of the Omar and the Medina, I've got some information about a possible cure.
23:01Personally, I'm not going to waste my time saving the planet until we find out where Dr. Nassif is hiding.
23:06High Augur Chen is a fine Seeker.
23:08She has a strong heart.
23:10But a strong heart often runs contrary to a Seeker's purpose.
23:14I don't believe we've met.
23:15Luminum Saman, from the German Shard.
23:18My pleasure.
23:19I was hoping one of Billy's former classmates would show up.
23:23Do you think Dr. Nassif is still in Cairo?
23:25We have good reason to believe that Apostle Corps' headquarters are in Cairo.
23:28This is where she would go looking for help.
23:36Sometimes High Augur Chen has her head in the clouds.
23:47You disagree with the way High Augur Chen is doing things?
23:51Amicably, to be sure.
23:52It's mostly a doctrinal dispute that stands between us.
23:55What about Her Holiness?
23:56Doesn't she decide what the Church stands for?
23:59Her Holiness and I amicably disagree also.
24:02My Shard in Germany has a profound respect for the founding doctrines of the Order.
24:07What we don't understand are these recent revisions and reversals
24:11that seem to excuse the resurgence through the WTO of blind commercial interests.
24:17You sound pretty upset.
24:19My Seekers and I are most loyal to the doctrines laid down by Her Holiness after the Collapse.
24:23What we propose, very openly, is a greater purity of interpretation of these founding principles.
24:33What brings the German Luminum to Cairo?
24:36Let's just say that if this investigation of Apostle Corps does indeed uncover technologies for the modification and co-modification of human bodies,
24:45I don't entirely trust the current leadership to destroy them.
24:49What are you going to do?
24:50Report the truth to my Seekers, to true Seekers everywhere.
24:55What more would be necessary?
25:01You want to hear more?
25:02Good.
25:03Let me explain how the Order should rebuild post-collapse society.
25:07Unlistening?
25:08Her Holiness was correct, in the beginning, to describe the problem as one of human growth.
25:14Human growth was impeded in the old society.
25:17Almost all men carry out the purposes of other men rather than their own, making them feel impotent in action.
25:25Bertrand Russell.
25:26So?
25:27So, Russell understood that people are creatures of impulse.
25:31The role of political philosophy should be to control the destructive impulses with constructive, creative ones.
25:38For example, allow each citizen to direct his own growth.
25:42I thought the Order was a spiritual movement.
25:44A spiritual movement about reconstituting the self, improving the self, finding balance with the world.
25:51Her Holiness knows that no balance is possible if the old world returns.
25:56Global capital, teratogenic science, universal wage slavery.
26:05Have you ever considered what is unique about post-collapse society?
26:10Hmm?
26:11Trans-territoriality.
26:13Most political entities coexist on a global scale.
26:17The WTO has its enclaves.
26:19We have our settlements and churches.
26:21You're not the first global church.
26:23The point is that governmental units need not be territorial.
26:28The proof is all around us.
26:29After the collapse, communication grids came back up before industry.
26:34So what has evolved are many global associations incapable of seizing very much territory.
26:39If the Order isn't territorial, why do you maintain an armed guard?
26:42Military power will never vanish.
26:44What we hope, and Her Holiness once agreed with me, is that a global police force would end territorial wars and be just that.
26:52Police, like the Seekers in the Medina.
26:55But whose police force?
26:56Not important, so long as it knows how to keep order.
27:02Seek the way, my friend.
27:03The Chaos and the One-Wire.
27:28The Chaos and the One-Wire.
27:28The Chaos and the One-Wire.
27:32You might as well do what the Order wants.
27:54We might turn up the lead.
27:55The Nassif's run the greenhouse.
28:02Something's not sitting right.
28:08You shouldn't have ordered those eggs.
28:11If you're ready to depart the Mars, go ahead.
28:14The scanners in the doorway will reactivate all your weapons.