KOLD MIRAGE

KOLD MIRAGE is a side job in.

Walkthrough
This side job can be started during the Gig: Many Ways to Skin a Cat with a Street Cred of 37, or after completing the Spellbound job for Nix, if you decrypted the shard from that quest, you'll automatically get this one after Spellbound finishes. Otherwise, you'll need to wait for Nix to do so and inform you about it.

Head out to the coordinates at the municipal landfill, south of the fast travel marker for Medeski Fuel Station, where you should find a freezer. Open it, and as you can see it contains the corpse of Rache Bartmoss, and after a short dialogue with Johnny Silverhand, scan the freezer and pick up the cyberdeck.

Head back to the Afterlife and show the deck to Nix who will tell you that Bartmoss was likely killed by NetWatch and offers to decrypt the data on it, either now or at a later time.

Nix starts decrypting the cyberdeck and encounters little resistance, but just as he says that he is disappointed that Bartmoss was so lax with securing his personal gear, he trips a hidden piece of malware and his cyberware begins overheating. Johnny reappears, recognizing the malware as a "brain broiler" and urging V to do something fast. There are two possible ways to save Nix. You can either override the power panel on the wall next to the door, or breach the cyberdeck yourself by jacking into the computer next to his desk. The latter option will allow Nix full access to the deck's data, and out of gratitude for saving his life he will reward V with five quickhacks he found: Memory Wipe (rare), Reboot Optics (rare), Short Circuit (rare), Sonic Shock (epic), and System Reset (epic).

Journal Entry

 * Always somethin' interesting to be found at the dump. Take a half-dead, half-brain merc with an experimental chip in their head for example. Or, in this case, a freezer from 2020... a glimpse into the past.

Objectives

 * See where the coordinates lead.
 * Open the freezer.
 * Talk to Johnny.
 * Scan the freezer.
 * Take the deck.
 * Go to the Afterlife and talk to Nix.
 * If you choose not to let Nix decrypt the data:
 * Talk to Nix if you change your mind. [Optional]
 * Place the deck on Nix's desk.
 * Wait for Nix to finish the decryption.
 * Find a way to save Nix.
 * Talk to Nix.

Trivia

 * The quest is named after KOLD MIRAGE, a number from the album REMNANT by Lorn.

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