Ok, finally time for me to give my rundown of this long-awaited ET that I, at long last, managed to complete properly.
The first time he was around, I hadn’t picked up the game yet, so I missed him.
The first rerun of H1 targets, I tried to stick him with a poison syringe, but he did that little half-turn that causes you to punch the NPC while giving a status or having been spotted. I didn’t yet know about how the disconnect method works, and the SA status being preserved if only the target sees you and you kill them before they tell anyone hadn’t been introduced yet, so I had no choice at the time but to finish with my first non-SA ET by snapping his neck after my cover had been blown.
The next time he reappeared, during H2, I forgot that you can’t take out the courier until after he gets the diamonds, and insta-failed before I could restart.
This time , though, was finally gold. Started at the default spot, sigsuit with gloves of course, walked to the shop where you can go upstairs to find the chief of security for the embassy on a phone call, grabbing the two nearby coins before going up. Took the keycard on the table up here, then used the rooftop pathway to get down into the cafe bathroom, grabbing an emetic syringe from the hidden stash here. Got to the meeting just in time for the target and the courier to say goodbye, then followed the courier. Kept back pretty far, whipped out the camera and zoomed anytime he stopped. When he eventually made the pickup, I knew what path he would take, so I went to the trash bin he walks passed and placed both coins where he would see them and move out of view of the two guards on the steps nearby. Once he was out of view, I subdued him and took the diamonds.
Went to the embassy, climbed over the wall and went down to the parking garage. Snuck around the outer boundary of the garage to the keycard reader on the double doors going up into the embassy, behind a soldier and security guard talking. Went up the stairs into the janitor closet and took the janitor disguise up here. Went back down into the security room and disabled the cameras when the guard wasn’t looking, went to the room where you can get the key for the car exit, then went back upstairs and hid in the office adjacent to the room with Strandberg’s safe. Waited for Strandberg and the target to walk past one of the doors, then threw a coin to make Strandberg come in, hiding behind a desk so he wouldn’t see me. Once he and the target were in the room and facing away from me, I hit the command to shut the door they just entered, then stuck the target with the emetic syringe and hid behind the desk again while Strandberg left. Followed the target to the bathroom and waited for him to finish puking. Once he turned around, I pulled out the concealable knife I had started the mission with in my loadout, and stabbed him right in the heart. Hid his body, went back to the janitor room to change back into the sigsuit, snuck back down to the garage, around the outer wall, all the way to the car exit, and drove out.
Finally got silent assassin on this bastard. The anxiety that filled me as I was about to subdue the courier is beyond measure, because I just was t sure if I had truly done everything correctly or not, even though I had. But, once he was out and the mission didn’t fail, I knew I had it. And I finally did.
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