Fallacy of Dawn Walkthrough By Natalie Charlesworth You are Delarion Yar. Like Case in Neuromancer, you were a brilliant hacker until some thugs caught up with you, knocked you out, scrambled inside your brain and left you alone in an urban wasteland. Today Yar’s working at FunTime Mall, in the arcade, and getting through a ree hangover. X games X Bomberman for a hint for later T mallrat (pick any number, I normally go for the polite option) X customer T customer when he talks to you My numbers: 2, 3. T customer when he starts kicking Mr Do! This will trigger an event. If you try to leave the arcade to get help, it will be too late. Now you know there’s a bomb in Crystal Castles and you need a saw. When you told the customer off for kicking Mr Do!, you mentioned you were fixing it. So, SEARCH Mr Do! Take the saw. X Castles- It’s locked at the top. Cut lock with saw Open Castles X Bomb- red and white wires (remember Bomberman) Cut white wire with saw Now Benji, your soon former-boss will arrive. T Benji No matter what you say, the git will fire you because he values the insurance money over the games and safety of his customers and staff. No need to be polite. N X poster if you like Go North until you reach Rygarr Avenue. W W Go North on Boggit Street, until you read ‘On the west is Sunrise Sushi’. Go west to meet your charming friend Porn and get some food. T Porn- Any number is fine, but I tend to use 1,3 or 4 as you’ll be asking 2 (Who’s Draper) the next time to you talk to him G EAT SUSHI You can try asking Porn ‘Who’s dealing?’ when thinking of ways to bring in an income, but you don’t have much time to T DEALER and EAT REE, especially as you put it in your pill case automatically and have to take your case, open your case, take ree and then eat it. Clara will show up. You don’t remember this girl, but you both have obvious chemistry. You can say anything you like to Clara, but I prefer to leave ‘You dealing?” out of the conversation. She’s a bit hurt that you can’t remember her, but knows you clearly like her anyway. Normally you pass out for a short time. T CLARA T PORN when he’s finished telling an irritating bugger named Glavine off, to go through all ways of earning an income in a city like New Haz. When Johnny Dapper arrives and announces his bounty on your head, talk to Porn or Clara immediately. No time for questions, focus on getting out of there. Clara will give you her house keys and distract Dapper. E to leave Sunrise Sushi. Go North until you read ‘To the east is a small townhouse complex’. This is Clara’s house. E You can look around the place and wait until you hear an awful noise from the intercom. Press blue button to let Clara in. T Clara: 1 is a good option. Z (Clara is off to have a shower) Z T Clara Be a gentleman. When it comes to sleeping arrangements, volunteer to sleep on the beanbag. So, 2 is best. You get rewarded by Clara waking you up later. Kiss her. You can do so again, the dialogue continues. When it stops, make love to Clara. When you both wake up, why not to talk her about the painting? Soon enough, two thugs will arrive and give you 24 hours to pay back another debt, not related to Dapper at all. You can’t attack them, you can only TALK TO LARGE THUG as he shoots his partner to make a point. How rude, Clara’s door and carpet are ruined. No matter what you say, he’s only there to warn you so you won’t be attacked. You’ll wait for Porn to arrive and Clara to get ready. I don’t know which verb makes you help Porn in trying to put the wrecked door back on the hinges, sadly. Going North, North, East to Pizza Zoo is only for you to eat a slice, hear Clara and Porn’s ideas for how to get started in making money and ask Porn what an upper-decker is if you really want to know. He’s a good friend, is Porn, but he has no taste. We’ll be stopping off at your place (Boggit Street, at the very top near the Copbot) and Porn’s apartment (the apartment on Main Street). I tried going to Porn’s place to pick up the honey jar before going to the pizza shop, but there’s no use. Pick up your backpack and credit card, as that’s where your earnings will be transferred. If you like you can go to the CopBot at the end of the road near Coffman, and E and N to Kim Street for the weapons store if you haven’t played before. You will soon know you need a weapon to enter the rest of New Haz and the price of the three guns available from the cheery people at the weapons store. Go down Boggit Street, Rygarr Avenue and Main Street to Academy Videos. Your friend Tericho is there, fuming about being ripped off by a rude guy named Adrian Bates inside. This is a long slog with a random generation of bargain games. Save before you go in, you may get on a loop of the same wonderful game and this will make progressing impossible. PUT ALL IN BACKPACK TAKE GAMES to as much as you can hold. X each game name will give Yar’s accurate review of it so you know which ones to GIVE TO CLERK so he can snigger himself to death. These are some of the bad ones that will make the uppity twerp eventually laugh himself into unconsciousness: Batman, Outpost, Night Trap, Reloaded, Tekwar, Tetris (relatively), Trespasser, Shadows of Cairn, Custer’s Revenge, E.T., Dominion, Madden ’97, Saied, Fork in the Tale, Sinister Six, World War II : On-Line, Crime Wave, Force Commander. To make things easier, put the good games in your backpack so you’re less likely to pick them up again from the bargain bin. They have no further use- selling is not an option as the pawn shop doesn’t have staff, and you won’t be able to play them. Drop them if you like after Bates is sprawled on the ground. Take Adrian Bates’ card and give it to Porn get the register money transferred to your card. You can’t give Tericho the money he was owed, but he’s satisfied with your revenge. Now, we have our money. Let’s go and get the electric pistol- the only weapon we can afford right now. Getting more deadly weapons is optional, but would probably make combat easier. Truth be told, only the electric pistol can be reloaded at the Ammobot, so no playing with bullets as you only get five. X PISTOL to get an idea if you need it reloaded. MAKING MONEY IN NEW HAZ MADE EASY Go to see Trotskie on Coffman Avenue. He’s running a D&D game with your other friends that Porn will rudely interrupt, but he’ll tell you that the morgue needs people to claim their corpses as there’s too many. Talk to your other friends too if you like. At the morgue, there is a Creepy Guy in a porcupine suit. Claim your ‘brother’, and go west to check. When you come back out, Glavine will be trying to ruin things for you. You can tell him off, and then continue talking to the Creepy Guy to get your money. As tempting as it is to hit Glavine, there’s no point. Clara gets an idea to retrieve a film for the museum curator on Konrad Street. The theatre on Holden Street stole the film, so let’s go there. No way to get in except: ATTACK WINDOW WITH PISTOL S (make sure the cop doesn’t see you) N ENTER WINDOW UP Now we’re in the projection booth and have three film rolls: grey, black and silver. The silver one is the missing film, but you need to watch it to know. You can take the other ones and watch them too, by PUT (COLOUR) IN PROJECTOR and TURN PROJECTOR ON. (I’ve tried going into the pawn shop in a replay to see if you could sell the film, but no staff are available, so there’s no ‘evil’ option) Go back to the museum and talk to the curator. You don’t even need to officially get the mission first to get the reward. Kill Hitler. You can even get $75 for it! In an alley near Loome Street amongst the twisty passages, there is a bar to the south that you will find him in. I only needed to attack twice. JUST FOR FUN Every place normally has a joke attached to it, or a certain backstory if you can’t go into it. Go everywhere as Yar’s clever enough not to go into dangerous places. The tea room is Cheers without Alcohol. Death punches you in an alleyway near Holden. Attack Death once and he’s gone. You can still die in this game from other battles though, but Clara will find you even hotter. There’s Bigby Burrito. Sometimes you will hear customers grumble in the never-moving queue, but you can hear some hints on what else can be done. The Hacker Hall of Shame is a museum with four exhibits. The Unitarian Hall plays a film after you go through a procedure. You can also play the Sega Saturn at Porn’s place after the same procedure. Still got it! COWBOY BEBOP The best freelance paycheque you can get is with four bounties. Dapper is listed, but not an option. Information on bounties is available at the Registrar’s Office (X WANTED POSTER and T INFOBOT) and they can be collected at the Post Office (T CLERK). The missing poster shows that one Monica Simmons is very similar to our described Post Office Clerk, but this seems to be an aborted arc so you can’t talk to her about it or take the posters. SCOREZ This available bounty is unpleasant, but you can do so at any time and no risk to yourself. At any bus station, ENTER BUS. If you don’t remember Scorez’s name from the Infobot, or got on the bus right away, Porn will see Scorez and point out how vile he is anyway. He needs to be stopped. You’re unlikely to win a fight against Admiral Scorez, but you can keep the little girl he’s trying to groom safe by talking to her. TALK TO THE LITTLE GIRL. Do this twice. Telling her not to talk to strangers, and reminding her of your local hero status on the news works best, so option 2 is what you go with in both cases. Now you have the little girl’s trust and you’re her designated acquaintance to help her home. Scorez will angrily get off the bus and stand in front of it. His telephone conversation shows something terrible may happen to the bus, and the driver’s furious. TALK TO THE DRIVER. Do this twice. Then you’ll convince him to do the right thing: run over Scorez. Don’t worry about the little girl after this as she lives near Konrad Street and will get off shortly. I think there was an option to take her to her doorstep, but it was a deleted arc, sadly. You don’t need to get on the bus again except for convenience. EXIT BUS at any stop you like. Go to the Post Office for your bounty. MCCORMICK This one’s dangerous, and it’s easy to make the mistake of wanting him gone now and miss out on a few areas. No difference game-wise and you still get your bounty though. Go to the Music Store to see your friend Vaughan. You’ll have to ATTACK MCCORMICK WITH PISTOL, move east, attack a few times before McCormick gives up and goes south. Vaughan is now safe, but make sure he’s okay. Go in, talk with him and get some money on your card and a hint to McCormick’s next location. Go to the condemned building on Duffy Street, which is actually a front for cock-fighting. McCormick will go upstairs with some company. If you have some ree and your health is low, take it. If not, go to the dealer near the pawn shop on Grotto Street. UP ATTACK MCCORMICK WITH PISTOL until he’s gone. You can take his stuff, but surprisingly there is no need for the defibrillator. If you like you can T PROSTITUTE and escort her to a nightclub you conveniently can’t enter because you have no ID. Go to the Post Office to get your bounty. FAILED ROMERO This one takes place in the robotics shop on Konrad Street. ENTER STORE. T WOMAN. Her name is Tera if you go for 1 first. AGAIN until you snap and find out the reason for her curt attitude. Failed Romero, her creation, is returning. Porn knows what to do. T PORN. You need to buy him some time. T TERA but this fails to save her. T ROMERO. Option 2. T ROMERO. Option 2. No need to attack, he will be shut down. EXIT STORE and return to the Post Office to collect your bounty. LEANDRA This starts with a few small-cash jobs that will eventually give you the starting clue to collect her bounty. You don’t have to do all this in one go. Lightspeed Couriers T CLERK. You need to get a handprint of the recipient on the scanner the clerk hands you to get paid and the package opened. Go to the address in Holden. This is the battered low-income multiple housing complex on the east, between Holden and Loome. There’s nothing in this dirty living room except a keg which doesn’t seem much cleaner, given the way Porn reacts to the beer inside it. Let’s go into the kitchen, our tenant may be here. ENTER and EXIT are your verbs for the kitchen. ENTER KITCHEN X BODY Well, that’s not helpful for us. We just needed a handprint. X LAPTOP (You can’t use it, but there’s a CD drive) EXIT KITCHEN X KEG OPEN KEG OPEN KEG OPEN KEG X BEER Now, you probably already know what the pink bits are, but to retrieve it, you’ll have to LOOK INSIDE KEG and then TAKE HAND. PUT HAND ON SCANNER. Now the package is open. TAKE CD. You can ENTER KITCHEN and PUT CD IN LAPTOP. There’s nowhere to sell the information as I can tell. Now we can return to the couriers and get a small amount of cash for our work. Unfortunately, you can’t sell the hand to the morgue after you’re done. Getting Borick’s Cheque Go to the tattoo parlour. Borick will be complaining to Jake about someone who owes him a cheque. So, TALK TO BORICK about it. He’ll give you a name and mention the guy’s a college student, though he won’t give you a tattoo. Look up the name on the Infobot. Do we know any students? Not very well, as he’s dead. Since Yar prints out a pre-decomposition photo of him, we have the basis of our identity theft. Go to the Living Mask store. Remember to take your credit card and have it in your hand when you ask the talented man to help you. Our guy will take a few turns to get the mask done, so you might as well do some of the other jobs and bounties before coming back. WEAR MASK Go to the Post Office. T CLERK to get the cheque. Being honest with your employer is the best policy, as it was with the film roll. Go back to the Tattoo Parlour. Give the cheque to Borick, and he’ll give you a pager and tell your trustworthy self about a goal of his: tattooing the hacker Leandra Jones in revenge. If you find her, page him and he’ll arrive in a few turns- and you’ll still get your bounty. Giving you Leandra’s full name is a valuable tip, so go to the Infobot for her last-known address. You can finally enter the townhouse on the very west point of Loome Street. Knock on the door and the sobbing guy will let you open it. The sobbing guy is Mitchell, Leandra’s ex-boyfriend. T MITCHELL. Ask ‘Where is she now?’ to hasten the process. Clara will slap some sense into him. Leandra’s moved to Pang Street, east of here. Remember that apartment we can’t get into? You can beat up Mitchell afterwards, but there’s no point. If you aren’t full on health, buying some Ree would be smart before you go any further. When you get to Pang Street, get your pistol out of your backpack. The door is to the north. KNOCK ON DOOR Oh great, another thug answers. ENTER APARTMENT UP UP You have to get rid of the thug before you can enter Leandra’s apartment anyway. ATTACK THUG WITH PISTOL and AGAIN until he’s gone. If you need to escape to take some Ree, go DOWN. ENTER APARTMENT As soon as you can see Leandra, ACTIVATE PAGER. Whatever you say won’t matter, but to keep Leandra in her apartment until Borick arrives, you may have to attack her a few times right after she rummages her drawer and removes another problem. Borick will show up, knock her out for you if you haven’t done so already, have his revenge and give you some cash. EXIT APARTMENT DOWN DOWN EXIT APARTMENT Go back to the Post Office to collect your bounty. Porn’s Donation Drive Go to the Medical Centre. The receptionist will take Porn to another room for his regular visit, so you might as well X MAGAZINE while you’re waiting and learn about neurosurgery. No more pussy-footing. If you can get your head fixed you can easily make the money you need and experience the joys of electronics. Porn will generously give you the $25 from his monthly donation and then you can TALK TO THE RECEPTIONIST. 1 will tell her all of your troubles and you’ll get a quote for the surgery to help you if you keep talking to her. If you’ve followed this walkthrough in the order of writing, this won’t be a problem. Internet Café Here you can put your skills to the test. One terminal is free. USE COMPUTER. You haven’t lost your touch. Soon after this, if you go back to this area again after a few turns, Johnny Dapper will appear and either take $2331 if you have it or the CD you copied if you don’t. You can’t shoot him or talk your way out of it. Porn will then suggest you either sell your CD of code (or intercept Dapper selling it) at the pawn shop. So, if you’re ready to end the conflict, head there. Reading time! TALK TO NEVE A guard will appear who seems like bad news, but is fulfilling a new contract from Porn. You now have a cable. PLUG CABLE INTO TERMINAL lets you see where Neve is now, and tells you of an upcoming guard. You’ll have to wait a few turns but now you know. You can ATTACK GUARD WITH CABLE to knock him out, but ATTACK GUARD is the only thing you need. Here, ENTER and EXIT are your verbs for all rooms. Outside of the cell, there is a darkened room with an energy pak, west has another storage room with your pistol, and a cafeteria with one guy who recognises you. TALK TO BILLY. Billy’s sympathetic and won’t hurt you. Talk to him about everything. PUT PAK INTO PISTOL. As far as attacking anyone with the pistol goes, remember you need one charge remaining before you go into the front hall. Go west to the stairwell. Upstairs first. Go to the lab at the west end. ATTACK NEVE WITH PISTOL. TAKE ALL. You can use her keypass to enter storage for some ree and horror when you remove the sheet. Downstairs: You can go into Neve’s office by unlocking the door with her keypass, but this is more for poignancy than for helping you escape. At the east end of the hall, use Neve’s pass to unlock the door to the doctor’s room. ATTACK PAD WITH PISTOL to survive. Then ATTACK DOCTOR WITH PISTOL until it’s over. If you have only one charge left, just ATTACK. TAKE ALL, as you need to unlock the reception door with the pass and free money will help with your trip. The ree’s nice too. When you go into reception after unlocking the door, SHOOT CHANDELIER. EXIT. W. UNLOCK GARAGE DOOR WITH PASS. ENTER GARAGE. This is it. This part of the garage houses the door to your escape from all of New Haz. X LOG BOOK- the doctor drives the Porsche. Your friends are now here. Porn will be warning you of the guards trying to shoot their way in, so get busy. T CLARA. Both will get the strongbox open, but 1 means she’ll go with you even though it hurts. It would hurt a lot more not to tell the truth and 1 saves you a turn. TAKE WIRELESS (the wireless key fob is for the Porsche). UNLOCK HIGHWAY DOOR WITH BANK CARD to pay off your fictional, final debt and open the door. PRESS WIRELESS to open the Porsche doors. Make sure you have taken the wireless as sometimes you can press the button without doing so, and then waste a few turns not realising why you can’t drive the car and having to get out to get the keys. ENTER PORSCHE DRIVE PORSCHE into your first dawn ever seen, with your girlfriend by your side and your mate cheering you on (who hopefully escapes later).