Mission #12 - Grand Theft Paperboy
Another "peaceful" mission - objective is to persuade a stuck up editor to print Basho's magnificent manifesto!
The editor typically won't cooperate if you use violence, so no matter what you have to control yourself -
until she's agreed.
Simple enough rite, except not quite. What the synopsis doesn't tell you is that you also have to PRINT and pick up the papers.
Maybe the Five Eyes are going to distribute the papers to all of L.A. on their own or something.
Feels a bit rushed, but hey, that's the mission.
Here's the layout. No sniper spots. There's a third exit in the north-west corner, cops can also shoot through the windows so best to stay away from them.
I only deployed three bros for this: Helly, baud and Azira. The rest are in training or stuck in jail pending bail.
No get-away vehicle this time so our best bet is to grab the truck parked to the west or simply run for the western edge of the map.
The chutzpah of these people. This bitch ain't the editor, so we have to look around some more.
Yeah, don't worry, wouldn't want the gooey splatter to poz us up with GRID disease.
Obviously this isn't the editor either, meaning we missed her somewhere on the way in.
Cops arrive early on this mission, so we try to stall for time.
Going to need food to sway the editor anyway so that's what we ask for straight up.
Typical modern woman, sway her with unclean seafood.
Yeah yeah, we're on it, just gotta FIND her first...
Finally! Turns out she was hidden from Azira's line of sight.
After wasting some time Helly brings her up to the presses.
After supplying both a truthful tract and the manifesto she agrees to look at it, but nothing more for now.
Yeah cop boy, chop-chop! When the food arrives they drop it at the huge warehouse door.
Can't trust SWAT not to try to push some shit though so Azira heads out with an explosive charge.
And sure enough - assholes try to arrest him as soon as he pops his head out the door!
Furious clicking allows him to avoid that fate and retreat inside.
Cops advance but see the explosive and back off. Yeah buddy, not today!
For good measure Azira shouts at the cop to be reasonable.
After a brief standoff the food arrives, baud moves out to grab it without further incident.
Cops are sniffing around the other exits of course, spotted one at the northern door.
They're obviously planning something treacherous.
Asked Alvarez for a get-away vehicle to keep up the pretense.
Might split their forces too as Dante suggests assuming they actually provide one.
Editor devours the food and finally agrees to print the manifesto! Now we just have to wait forever for those papers.
Amusingly, civilians seem to be brought out of the newspaper warehouse one by one. Azira goes to have a look...
And sure enough, a sneaky SWAT sicko is spotted at the southern door.
Only a matter of time before they'll try to enter the room we're in and take us out.
Well hey, two can play that game - Azira rigs the door with a grenade, steps back...
And enjoys the fireworks!
One cop down, but of course...
That counts as a hostile act and they will now prepare to storm us.
Just in case, Azira rigs the northern door as well.
After waiting a full minute the papers are finally ready. Baud grabs them all and we make for the western warehouse door...
...which hilariously turns out to be unguarded!
Well that's a lucky break - we make for the van...
...and we're off!
One of the easier missions for sure.
Basho is pleased, although he did complain about not bringing captives. Ah well.
The final missions are coming up so we need all the bros we can muster in good shape.
Training session was most fruitful:
(yeah lightbane is now a hand-to-hand master, 100% skill, shame it's utterly useless
)
