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|main character = [[Vienna Salvatori|Vienna]] | |main character = [[Vienna Salvatori|Vienna]] | ||
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Vienna forms an [[alliance]] with Malrick and they head to high ground to set up a base, sneaking up on the attacking [[Galaron Darvil]] on the way and causing him to accidentally swallow one of his own [[poison dart]]s. She tells Malrick how she broke into the [[Magisterial Palace]] on [[Kazbar]] and threatened a [[defence robot]] with mind-erasure to get it to take her to Crevo, who claimed that he did not know who she was and that he would have been too young thirty years ago to have attacked her parents. When he claimed to have proof of his innocence, she saved him from people attacking the palace so that she could kill him herself at a later date and they fled from the defence robots, whose [[loyalty circuit]]s had been reprogrammed, in a [[hover skimmer]]. She then performed a [[memory scan]] on Crevo, but he was shot and killed when the scan was only 85% complete. | Vienna forms an [[alliance]] with Malrick and they head to high ground to set up a base, sneaking up on the attacking [[Galaron Darvil]] on the way and causing him to accidentally swallow one of his own [[poison dart]]s. She tells Malrick how she broke into the [[Magisterial Palace]] on [[Kazbar]] and threatened a [[defence robot]] with mind-erasure to get it to take her to Crevo, who claimed that he did not know who she was and that he would have been too young thirty years ago to have attacked her parents. When he claimed to have proof of his innocence, she saved him from people attacking the palace so that she could kill him herself at a later date and they fled from the defence robots, whose [[loyalty circuit]]s had been reprogrammed, in a [[hover skimmer]]. She then performed a [[memory scan]] on Crevo, but he was shot and killed when the scan was only 85% complete. | ||
Exploring a cave with Malrick in the hopes of finding [[food]], Vienna kills an attacking sabre-toothed creature with a giant [[icicle]] and they eat it. She continues her story and tells | Exploring a cave with Malrick in the hopes of finding [[food]], Vienna kills an attacking sabre-toothed creature with a giant [[icicle]] and they eat it. She continues her story and tells Malrick how Crevo's memory scan revealed that he was not on [[Mercator (Deathworld)|Mercator]] on the day that Vienna's father was killed and that she feigned a crash as she left Kazbar to deceive an attacking ship. When the other pilot entered her ship, she held him in a [[stasis field]] and removed his mask, finding that it was Malrick and that he believed that she had killed his father on Mercator. She deduces that he has been given an altered version of her own memory to trick him into killing her and shoots him dead when the stasis field is lowered. Malrick starts to remember this encounter and wins the Tournament when Darvil shoots Vienna with a poison dart and he uses the opportunity to throw Darvil from a cliff. | ||
Shazarel presents Malrick as the Tournament's winner before the Assassin Academy, after which Malrick speaks with him in private and confronts him with the fact that they are in a simulation whilst the missions were in the real world. The real Malrick was killed by Vienna aboard her spaceship and this [[avatar]] of him transforms into Vienna, who has been using his avatar all along. She explains that she scanned Malrick's mind posthumously and found that he had been implanted with the false memory whilst in a training immersion pod on Mercator, leading her to travel there and discover [[Death Incorporated]]'s operation of turning [[orphan]]s and unwanted children into assassins. Shazarel reveals that Vienna's memories of childhood trauma are fake and that she was sent to kill Crevo at the request of one of his business rivals, the [[Vernagulos Empire]]. The [[money]] that she has been sending to Miracle 3 for her mother has actually been going into Death Incorporated's accounts. | |||
Shazarel demands to know who was controlling her avatar, to which she explains it was the artificial intelligence of her onboard computer. She also tells him that the computer's orders were to remind her of the [[Simulacrum]] and get her out. In the real world, Malrick's pod opens and Vienna gets out, welcomed by her computer. The computer scrambles their scanners as she makes her escape. Shazarel orders the activation of the assassins to aid in her capture. As she makes her way towards Shazarel's control room, she is stopped by the real Galaron Darvil. | Shazarel demands to know who was controlling her avatar, to which she explains it was the artificial intelligence of her onboard computer. She also tells him that the computer's orders were to remind her of the [[Simulacrum]] and get her out. In the real world, Malrick's pod opens and Vienna gets out, welcomed by her computer. The computer scrambles their scanners as she makes her escape. Shazarel orders the activation of the assassins to aid in her capture. As she makes her way towards Shazarel's control room, she is stopped by the real Galaron Darvil. |