Covert Operations
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Covert Operations
As you're about to talk to the agent, she notices your identification documents, and grabs them.
"Ah, Mr. Abercrombie," she says. "Welcome. Your travel arrangements have already been made. Here are your tickets -- you can board your ship at dock 94."
You go to the dock and board the ship -- a luxury liner. You're wined and dined for the bulk of the sea voyage, and as soon as you disembark you're shuttled into a stagecoach (or stagecoached into a shuttle, you're not sure which.)
After a long and bumpy ride, the stagecoach (or shuttle) deposits you into the center of a bustling bazaar. You look around to get your bearings, when you're suddenly grabbed by the shoulders and jerked into a darkened alleyway. A gruff, bearded man emerges from the shadows and speaks.
"I assume you've come for the diary. Well, here it is. I'm glad to be free of the cursed thing. It has already cost me half of my fingers, and I'm eager for it to become somebody else's problem."
He hands you the diary and fades back into the shadows before you can reply.
Then, for no reason, somebody hits you on the back of the head with something, knocking you unconscious. You wake up back in your campsite, muttering to yourself about how all of this cloak and dagger nonsense gives you a headache.
Occurs at The Shore with forged identification documents.
References
- Han Solo said "docking bay 94" was where the Millennium Falcon was waiting for Luke Skywalker when he and Obi-Wan Kenobi chartered the ship for transportation in the movie Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
- "I'm glad to be free of the cursed thing. It has already cost me half of my fingers, and I'm eager for it to become somebody else's problem" may be a reference to The Subtle Knife, the second book in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman, in which Æsahættr, the subtle knife, cuts off the pinky and ring finger of its bearer's left hand when the bearer receives the knife from the old bearer.
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