Snow Crash

You meet back up with Janine and Sam at the caves, where you can conceal yourselves. Janine believes the cave system was a Red Scorpion base before the apocalypse, but it has obviously been abandoned for a long time. It goes straight through the rocky hills to the other side, close to your extraction point in the Maghreb. Veronica thinks there might be a system installed that she can interface with.

Veronica connects to the computer system and puts herself on speakers while she searches for the central hub. Suddenly she and Sam scream in pain and the blast door closes over the entrance. Over the speakers you hear ANNIE, Valmont's rogue AI. Sam tells you that ANNIE did something to Veronica. The doors to adjacent rooms open, spilling forth zombies. You need to get Sam on his feet and get moving!

Sam and Veronica are both in extreme pain – Sam is barely conscious. ANNIE talks over the speakers about how delighted she is to kill you. Veronica believes that ANNIE knew you might come here, and possibly encouraged by taking control of the supersoldiers, although Janine doubts Red Scorpion knows about ANNIE. Sam tells you that this place got an ANNIE from Valmont before the apocalypse. They had a private line directly to Valmont. Valmont might be able to help!

Veronica guides you to an office, where you're able to get in touch with Valmont using his priority codes. Valmont answers, surprised to hear from you. ANNIE tries to cut off contact, but Valmont overrides her and accesses her logs. He shuts her down, but she causes some damage during the attempt. ANNIE disrupted the copy of Veronica in Sam's head and they will both die if you don't fix it. You see Red Scorpion soldiers arriving on the CCTV. Valmont tells you that there's a comm station where you could download Veronica onto a storage drive, save Sam, and halt Veronica's decay until you get home. You'll have to be quick because the soldiers are entering the base.

You make it to the comm station. Veronica and Valmont guide you through downloading her. You should be able to pull the hard drive from the machine and flee once she's downloaded but Veronica says that there isn't enough time – the soldiers will be there before the download finishes. She suggests that she could wipe herself from Sam's head – after all there is a copy of her in the UK. Sam tries to persuade her not to, but Veronica says that she must. She's loved being in Sam's head. She wipes herself and Sam collapses, but Valmont says he just needs rest. Valmont offers to seal the room while he recovers and make it look like it's full of zombies, then he'll send a team to get him later. You won't be able to stay though; the tracker will alert the soldiers to your presence. You have to leave Sam.

The comm station is well behind you and there's no sign of pursuit. You've lost Valmont's signal so it's just you and Janine. Now you have to make it over the border to the extraction point in time. You must honour Sam and everyone who has been left behind.