Jock drops you and Nicolette off at the DuClare family Chateau to find clues left there about the whereabouts of Morgan Everett. Beth DuClare—Nicolette’s mother—has a secret computer room.
Nicolette no longer has a key, so stroll around to the back. Nicolette will follow, and not complain when you break the planks blocking the unlocked door at the rear of the property.
Nicolette suggests a good place to start would be her mother’s bedroom upstairs. It’s locked, so begin by hunting around downstairs, specifically through the door next to the piano.
Approach the PC and Nicolette reveals the login: nicolette/chad. Login for some background emails
before continuing to the adjoining room.
As you approach the fireplace Icarus calls your infolink to tell you that Beth DuClare has been dissected and placed in cryo-storage. Nice. A good search locates a key hidden behind the vase on top of the fireplace. It turns out to be the key to Beth’s bedroom.
Time to head upstairs, through the door to the South.
At the top of the stairs Tong radios to suggest that hiding a room on the upper floor would be very difficult. You might be better served looking for a basement. Nicolette says her mother often hid her roomkey behind a vase up here. Sure enough, it’s on a little table. Beth’s room is further round the corridor.
You’re awarded 100 skill points for entering Beth’s bedroom. Nicolette makes a point of remarking on the painting on the right. Note another nanokey in the small cabinet on the left—it’s for Nicolette’s room.
Hidden behind the painting is a credit chit worth 550c, a basement key, and a datacube with the
credentials bduclare/nico_angel.
Almost hidden behind the bed is another datacube. This one is a message for Nicolette and contains
the code 1784 for a suspension vault.
Go into the bathroom for a pepper spray and yet another message from Icarus, who seems to be watching your every move.
Nicolette’s room is at the far end of the corridor. Inside, "use" the skull on the mantlepiece to open another secret compartment containing a lockpick, thermoptic camoflage, and other goodies. Another lockpick is on the bedside table. Time to try to find the door corresponding to the basement key we discovered in Beth’s bedroom.
Find darts in the right hand wardrobe near the front door, then head through the door next to them through a dining room into the kitchen area.
Nicolette remarks she used to play in the dumbwaiter—it’s another way to access Beth DuClare’s bedroom. Your key opens the door down to the basement.
Tong radios in some wine-keeping tips. Grab a lockpick from the crate at the far end before using this very conspicuous candelabra on the wall to open another secret door.
You arrive in an underground bunker. In the top right of this shot you can just see the window of Beth DuClare’s hidden computer room. One way to access it is to climb the broken girder on the left to the vent (where you’ll find a lockpick) and then across a narrow ledge to break the window. Alternatively, smash through fallen wooden planks behind you in this position, and climb the stairs.
Inside, recharge at the repair bot, and use the code 1784 to access the Aggressive
Defense/Spy Drone augmentation canister and biocell in the suspension vault (you can also open it by
hacking a security console partway down the nearby stairs).
Around the corner from the suspension vault is this pc. Use the credentials
bduclare/nico_angel to access it and send a message via secret channel to Morgan Everett. Find an
accuracy weapon mod and a multitool on the nearby bench.
Morgan Everett contacts your infolink. He wants you to infiltrate a cathedral controlled by MJ12 in order to give him access to their networks and complete work on the Gray Death vaccine. It can be accessed via a nearby crypt to which Nicolette has a key. She hands it over. Head outside.
Leave the chateau the way you came in through the door to the West. Morgan Everett tells you the crypt is beyond the maze at the rear. Nicolette says she’ll stay and sort out her mother’s things. Head West into the maze.
Jock contacts you to say he’s picking up heat signatures in the sewers. Enhanced Vision shows 2 MJ12 commandos patrolling above, and a third apparently below ground ahead. The commano furthest away on ground level patrols the entrance to the crypt.
Evade the patrols and carefully descend the steps into the crypt for 150 skill points.
Just around the corner the 3rd commando lurks to the left. Activate your cloak and slip to the opening on the right.