text: [Themes: Science Fiction, science fiction]
  
  A rare moment of rest. Your mission to steal specifications of the MitKlein Encapsulation - the ID transponder embedded in every citizen's head, even yours - was successful, and you transmitted your report to Central early this morning. You expect a new assignment soon, even if it is only instructions to fall back into a cover identity, as you have been on the front lines of the underground struggle against Homeland Security nearly from the start. Giving up your birth identity and life, moving instead into the flickery half-existence of an underground operative, you've sabotaged, stolen, publicized, verified and fought for years now. Hopefully, this last mission means that a strategy to counter the government's ubiquitous tagging of citizens is being worked out at levels above your own head.
  
  For now, you have found yourself a small quiet park in a quiet corner of the City.
  
  Welcome to the future. Every citizen has been scanned, chipped, folded, spindled and mutilated - and it's enough to make you scream.
  
  [LINK]
  
  Primrose Street ends here in a small circular cul-de-sac. You're in a small green park to the north of this, bounded on its three other sides by high fences. A few trees rise over well-manicured grass. There is a curfew sign at the park's entrance.
  
  The Reserve Bank Spacescraper is visible in the distance, rising over the low skyline.
  
  You can go south from here.
  
  There is a Public Surveillance Notice here.
  
  [Author's Note: The creep of surveillance and control has continued unabated. Every citizen is required to have a chip implant which can definitively identify them to anyone with a scanner. You've spent years working with the underground as a hacker for hire, helping research and develop countermeasures to government surveillance. You've managed to steal information which will help the design of a cryptographic attack against the Mitsui-Klein Encapsulation that every citizen carries in their skull, which (if it works) will render the chip inoperative. Your own MitKlein signature was captured during your mission, however. Although you did your best to wipe all records of your MitKlein signature from all the databases you could find, if you let your chip be scanned by any system it is likely that Homeland Security will be after you immediately. Short term, you'll have to get off the street before curfew and figure out how to move around undetected - long term, you will have to bring the fight to Homeland Security itself.]
  
  > read the notice
  A mounted sign which reads: PUBLIC SURVEILLANCE AREA. ALL ACTIVITY MONITORED FOR HOMELAND SECURITY.
  
  > About yourself
  You're wearing basic clothing which is almost obsessively nondescript. You're average in nearly every physical respect - something which didn't win you many accolades growing up, but serves you well in your efforts to blend in with the conformist population through which you now move.
  
  You're wearing a backpack.
  You're carrying a multitool, a watch, and a phone.
  
  > open it
  That's already open.
  
  > examine the phone
  A standard candybar model with a nice screen. Although you've disabled its voice calling functionality to make it less distracting, the lock screen is still active and tells you it is 7:31 pm. The back is blank metal save for a tiny icon of a waterdrop with a slash across it.
  
  > get the notice
  That's firmly mounted in place, by law.
  
  > Go south
  This staid neighborhood intersection of Primrose Lane and Cedar Street fronts the local Transit station, Green Residential. The station entrance is to the west. Primrose Lane continues to the south, and Cedar Street continues to the east.
  
  The Reserve Bank Spacescraper is visible in the distance, rising over the low skyline.
  
  You can go north to Green Residential Park, south, east, and west from here.
  
  There is a Public Surveillance Notice here.
  
  > read Notice
  A mounted sign which reads: PUBLIC SURVEILLANCE AREA. ALL ACTIVITY MONITORED FOR HOMELAND SECURITY.
  
  > examine Spacescraper
  Visible in the distance above the surrounding buildings, the Reserve Bank Spacescraper is home to more than just the regional Reserve Bank. It is a two-hundred-level building containing all manner of businesses and government offices, as well as a hotel and several floors of extremely high-priced residential apartments. Centrally located Downtown, it boasts its own Transit station and a food court in its lower levels. Conventions and events are often held in its soaring Atrium, an open space within the building core which rises over fifty floors entirely indoors. It is several miles away.
  
  > Go north
  Primrose Street ends here in a small circular cul-de-sac. You're in a small green park to the north of this, bounded on its three other sides by high fences. A few trees rise over well-manicured grass. There is a curfew sign at the park's entrance.
  
  The Reserve Bank Spacescraper is visible in the distance, rising over the low skyline.
  
  You can go south to Primrose & Cedar from here.
  
  There is a Public Surveillance Notice here.
  
  There is a quiet tone from your phone and you feel a short vibration, indicating that an SMS message has arrived.
  
  > read the sign
  A metal sign on a metal pole, it reads "NOTE: PARK CLOSED DURING RESIDENTIAL AREA CURFEW - 8:00PM to 5:00 AM - NO LOITERING."
  
  > read the sms
  Message 1 reads: REPORT RECEIVED. MISSION SUCCESSFUL. ATTACK PROGRAM CREATED USING INFORMATION IN REPORT.
  
  > read the sms
  Message 2 reads: DANGER DANGER DANGER: OPERATIVE COMPROMISED DURING OPERATION. YOUR MITKLEIN CODE READ BY HOMELAND SECURITY. YOUR ID RECORDS DELETED BUT MITKLEIN CODE ALONE ENOUGH TO ID YOU AS
  TARGET.
  
  > read the sms
  Message 3 reads: NEW INSTRUCTIONS FOLLOW:
  
  > Examine watch
  A cheap digital, your watch reads 7:34 pm.
  
  The watch might be more useful if worn.
  
  > wear the watch
  You put on the watch.
  
  > read the sms
  Message 4 reads: - YOU MUST FIND A WAY TO DISABLE YOUR MITKLEIN USING ATTACK PROGRAM WHICH WILL BE DELIVERED
  
  > read the sms
  Message 5 reads: - YOU MUST NOT BE IN SURVEILLED AREA DURING CURFEW WITH ACTIVE MITKLEIN OR SECURITY SWEEPS WILL IDENTIFY YOU AS
  TARGET
  
  > read the sms
  Message 6 reads: - YOU MUST NOT BE ID-SCANNED UNTIL MITKLEIN IS DISABLED
  
  > read the sms
  Message 7 reads: - ONCE MITKLEIN IS DISABLED, RETRIEVE DROP MESSAGE FOR NEW INSTRUCTIONS. CONTACT WILL LEAVE DROP MESSAGE NEAR FOUNTAIN IN GREEN COMMERCIAL.
  
  > read the sms
  Message 8 reads: - ATTACK PROGRAM AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD BY NETBOOTING ANY COMPUTER WITH YOUR PHONE IN PROXIMITY
  
  > read the sms
  Message 9 reads: - THIS PHONE POSSIBLY COMPROMISED - IF IT ACQUIRES CELL SIGNAL IN ANOTHER AREA IT WILL BE LOCATABLE BY HOMELAND SECURITY - DISABLE ENTIRELY OR ABANDON BEFORE TRAVEL
  
  > read the sms
  Message 10 reads: GOOD LUCK. MESSAGE ENDS.