Meet Lenox Pierce
| SGS Murder | |||
| Sidequest | |||
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| Quest information | |||
| Location | South Gate Station | ||
| Given by | Jack Quicksilver | ||
| Rewards | ? classic XP / 1 oddity XP 400 Stygian Coin | ||
| Related quests | |||
| Everard's assignment Meet Ohad Xander | |||
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After meeting with Abram in Core City, Jack Quicksilver offers some work for you. This task is a murder investigation.
Objectives
- Meet Lenox Pierce in South Gate Station.
- Patrick Pierce, a mechanic who resided in SGS was found dead in his room some time ago. Cause of death is unknown, but Lenox, Pat's brother is not pleased with the response from SGS and wants you to investigate and learn how Pat died.
Quick Walkthrough
- Talk to Lenox twice to learn of Pat's past in Praetorian Security.
- Visit Core City and get information on Spectres. (Jon and Oskar or Lt. Stratford if playing for Praetorian Security.)
- Find out how Pat died. (Check SGS medical inventory logs and perform the autopsy yourself or have Pasquale do it after learning of Spectres.)
- Connect Mordre to Spectres. (Pickpocket his insignia and identify it or get his real name from SGS patient records.)
- Present the evidence to Lenox.
- Return to Jack for your reward.
Detailed Walkthrough
Clues in South Gate Station
Head back to your home station. You'll find Lenox in the cantina, at the same corner table where you first met Jack Quicksilver. He'll give you Patrick Pierce's Room Key. Go check his room in the private quarters level. You'll find a Morgue Keycard. Use it to enter the mortuary on medical level and check the console for patient and inventory records. You will learn useful details such as Mordre's full name Michael Mordington and one curiously missing surgical needle. You can also examine Pat's body in one of the morgue drawers and directly discover the cause of his death with 100 biology skill. Alternatively you can ask Pasquale to perform the autopsy again once you have a reasonable suspicion on how Pat died.
Praetorian Security and Spectres
Talk to people in SGS about Patrick and, after speaking with Lenox a second time, you will learn that he worked for Core City's Praetorian Security before coming to SGS. Head to Core City for more clues. Jon the Beautiful can help you, but he wants food as usual - a very expensive Jon's Special this time. Go to Moe near the lower level elevator, buy the special and give it to Jon for information. You'll learn about Spectres and Praetorian Security's Operation Banishment.
There are two ways to learn more:
- Ask Oskar, the ex-praetorian gun merchant, about Spectres. He has a document about them. You can either buy the information or persuade/intimidate (?Verify skill required) it out of him for free.
- Join Praetorian Security and become a senior enforcer to get info for free. You won't have enough authority to get these documents as an enforcer - you must complete jobs for Praetorian Security until Archibald Knight promotes you to senior enforcer.
Read the document and pay attention to the name list and the killing methods employed by the spectres, these will match with information you learnt at SGS morgue. You you didn't learn Mordre's real name from the patient records, you may also pickpocket him (91 skill required) for evidence, an Unknown Insignia which will be identified as Spectre Insignia when compared with the documents. (You must have the insignia in your possession when reading the documents.) As this point you may also ask Pasquale to do the autopsy again and look for signs of Spectre assassination, if you couldn't find out the cause of death earlier.
Presenting the evidence
Once you think you know who the murderer is, head back to Lenox and present your evidence to him.
- Mordre is the real murderer. At minimum, you need to prove that Pat was killed with Spectre methods and Mordre is a Spectre.
- You can frame Big Bret after picking up some false leads. Doing so will lead to Lenox attacking him. Bret will usually win the fight and kill him unless you intervene. This is, obviously, a bad outcome and you will lose the opportunity to progress in Jack's organization and eventually meet Azif.
You can also optionally confront Mordre directly before presenting the evidence to Lenox.
- At 95 Persuasion, you can make him confess and let him leave without a fight.
- 90 Persuasion is enough to make him confess, but he will attack you.
- Any less and he will refuse to talk to you again. If you initiate a fight against him, whole SGS will turn hostile. However, he can be assassinated with traps as Mushroom Cove is an uncontrolled zone.
Once Lenox has the answers he was seeking for, Mordre will be gone from Mushroom Cove and won't be heard of again. Head back to Jack Quicksilver in Core City for your monetary reward.
