KOLD MIRAGE

KOLD MIRAGE is a side job in.

Walkthrough
KOLD MIRAGE can be started in one of three different ways, but only after Ghost Town has been completed. First, if Spellbound has been completed it will trigger automatically, either within moments of leaving Afterlife if the Spellbook was decrypted, or after waiting several days for Nix to decrypt the Spellbook himself and text you. Second, if you pick up and read the shard Notice of Expiration found inside the Revere Courier Services building in Northside where Gig: Many Ways to Skin a Cat takes place (this method will not work if the shard is read any time before finishing Ghost Town). Both of these methods will provide coordinates to a location deep in the Municipal Landfill, down the road past Medeski Fuel Station. The third method is to skip the acquisition of the coordinates and travel directly to the destination site in the landfill.

The coordinates lead to an old freezer. Open it to find the corpse of Rache Bartmoss, and after a short dialogue with Johnny Silverhand, scan the freezer and pick up Bartmoss' Cyberdeck.

Head 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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