Murphy was thrilled to get his hands on the "Real Little Tyrant Learning Machine."
With this thing, the training period for new recruits in the Kadman People's Army would be drastically shortened. It could even save time training factory workers. And when Murphy learned that the Mechanical Church likely had more devices like it, he almost immediately assigned the players the first step in a quest chain called "Eliminate the Hidden Threat I."
The quest called for players to explore the sewers as thoroughly as possible and find more Mechanical Church hideouts. They would receive generous rewards based on how many they found and how intact each one was.
This immediately got the players fired up. The positions held by the Transian Expeditionary Force had already been reclaimed, leaving the little players with nothing to do. With all of Chardo Port's entertainment venues closed during wartime, nearly every player threw themselves into this lucrative quest, except for the few who had taken jobs from Madam Taylor and gone to enjoy themselves in the black market.
For a while, people could be seen crawling into every sewer entrance in Chardo Port in broad daylight. Players never bothered to hide when they did this, so the Transians had barely been in Chardo Port for two days before rumors that "they're really into the sewer scene" were flying everywhere.
Even with such high-tech knowledge infusion machinery in hand, Murphy still hadn't figured out what the Mechanical Church wanted with the Palien sisters. So interrogating the captured members of the Mechanical Church had become essential.
These people dressed like punks, and not just any punks—they had the full-on hardcore wasteland look.
Every one of them wore a tattered robe covered in grease stains and a mechanical mask that hid their face. Since they spent