Out of the Past

Amelia briefs you, Peter, and Frances Dempsey about the mission to Tunisia. You will need to infiltrate New Agadir, a city in the middle of the desert. She has arranged for a boat to take you there, but the captain wants the latest nautical charts for the voyage. For your mission today, you will be retrieving the necessary charts from the home of a famous investor, Mr Brewer, who had planned to escape Z-day on his luxury yacht.

You reach the street. It's full of luxurious but dilapidated buildings. There's no sign of V-types, but Peter says he has a one-man burn cube sewn into his chest as an anti-P-type measure. Amelia explains that the Death's Hand group you will be impersonating have been acting as hired guns since the apocalpyse. You reach the right house but there's a swarm of zombies outside the door. Frances suggests getting in from the roof of the next building over. Better run!

You manage to get in through the attic window and find a hallway full of antiques, including a pot from Tunisia. Amelia tells you to take it in case it's useful, but as soon as you lift it, an alarm starts drawing the attention of Mr Brewer's now-zombified bodyguards! Amelia tells you there's a master bedroom that you can lock them in, but you'll need to be quick.

This house is massive - it was originally five smaller houses. You enter a huge bedroom and hide behind the four-poster bed. When the zombies arrive, you should be able to circle around them and lock them in. You hear an ominous creaking sound and Frances worries that the house isn't in the best condition. The zombies enter and clamber over the bed to attack, but the weight proves too much, and sends the bed and one of the zombies crashing down to a lower floor. It sounds like the whole house is starting to collapse! Amelia tells you to head downstairs to where the basement and the vault are. That area is reinforced so you should be able to survive if the house collapses.

A chandelier falls as you head downstairs, narrowly missing you, and you have to edge around the hole it left in the stairs. You hear more zombies from outside trying to come into the house, but Amelia tells you to carry on downstairs because there are exits in the basement.

You reach the basement garage, which is full of expensive cars. Frances is fascinated by the way Peter's face heals up when he removes the glass shrapnel from the chandelier, recognising it as something that Van Ark did. Peter admits that he isn't looking forward to encountering Van Ark again, but he only just got Janine back and he doesn't want to lose her. Frances insists that she can help because Dearg was owned by Van Ark. She says that she can't stay at Abel. Too many people look at her and see Alice, her sister. That's why she came today - if people are going to look at her like she's a ghost, she might as well run like her sister did. But she doesn't want to be a ghost and she doesn't want to go back to Dearg. She wants to find where she fits in. Amelia warns you that there are more zombies reaching the basement, but it looks like you've found the vault!

You reach the vault door and blow it off. The vault is full of shelves with piles of gold and model yachts. You'll need to look for the navigational charts! Frances finds a file that looks useful and Peter finds the charts you need. You hear a noise and behind a shelf of tinned food you find Brewer himself! He must have hidden from the zombies, but was bitten, and took his wife and children with him. You need to get out of there and luckily Amelia can guide you to an exit!

It looks like you lost the zoms if the empty street is anything to go by. Now you have the charts, Amelia can organise sending a team to Tunisia in a few days. Peter says that Janine has already finalised the team and apologises that Frances isn't on it. She'll be safer in Abel. Frances has been looking through the folder she took from the vault and points out that it shows photos of a Roman mosaic from Tunisia that shows the endless circle symbol from Mor Island. The notes say that he sold the mosaic to Red Scorpion base in Tunisia. Whatever this place is, it's connected to the red fungus and they've known about it for much longer than you have.