75 S

The Terran Knowledge Bank
Jump to: navigation, search
75_S
75 S.png
Production Privateer 2: The Darkening
Type Cinematic Mission
Series Uncle Kashumai/Alberto Fossa
Disc CD2
Run Time 1m34s
Choice A Why Not? Why ask questions? I Might as well
Choice B Nah! I want to drink and look at the artwork
Scenes 405-408
Locations Blessed Brew Bar


75_S is a cinematic mission cutscene from Privateer 2: The Darkening. It is part of Uncle Kashumai/Alberto Fossa. It is accessed by selecting Alberto Fossa at the Blessed Brew Bar on Bex after the player has looked up Reginald Arthur Bray and Ronald Henry Bray in the Commerce & Communications Network Public Records database. Alberto Fossa asks Lev Arris to bid on an auction on his behalf; the player must choose whether or not to accept.

Choice A: Why Not? Why ask questions? I Might as well
     
Choice B: Nah! I want to drink and look at the artwork
     

Transcript

ALBERTO FOSSA: Quite a place, isn't it?

LEV ARRIS: You have a gift for understatement, ser.

ALBERTO FOSSA: Fossa. Alberto Fossa.

LEV ARRIS: I feel like I've fallen into a keeprat's hole.

ALBERTO FOSSA: Yes, the Bex religious impulse has its collective side. As in collect anything and keep it whether you remember where it came from or not.

LEV ARRIS: And you, ser Fossa, what do you collect?

ALBERTO FOSSA: Opportunities. I've just come by a nice, shiny new one.

LEV ARRIS: Oh?

ALBERTO FOSSA: There's about to be a private auction of something rather special. A couple of business assosciates have just acquired a small peice of religious art, they're about to sell it off. I don't think they know how special it is and if I turned off at the auction it might tip them off.

LEV ARRIS: Well it sounds to me like you need someone to act for you, someone who doesn't usually turn up at auctions.

ALBERTO FOSSA: There would be more than adequate remuniation in it for the agent. Are you interested?

LEV ARRIS: How adequate?

ALBERTO FOSSA: 5,000 or so. All you would need to do is bid on my art.

Characters

Speaking

Translations

Privateer 2: The Darkening's cutscenes were dubbed for the French, German and Spanish releases.

French

Choice A: Pourquoi me poser des questions ? Je devrais accepter...
     
Choice B: Je préfère boire en voyant les oeuvres d'art de loin et les filles de près !
     

German

Choice A: Was soll ich da großartig Fragen stellen? Warum also nicht?
     
Choice B: Nein. Ich würde gern was trinken und mir dabei die Kunstwerke ansehen.
     

Spanish

Choice A: ¿Por qué no? ¿Mejor es no hacer preguntas? Eso creo
     
Choice B: ¡No! Quiero beber y contemplar las obras de arte Bueno...
     

25th Anniversary

On May 20, 2020, Privateer 2: The Darkening director Steve Hilliker released The Darkening 25th Anniversary Restoration which featured footage restored from Betacam tapes. The footage has been edited down into a cinema cut but where available it is of much higher quality than the game's files.

Script

A The Darkening Script Draft 7 used during the game's shooting has been provided by Erin Roberts.

(Continuation of stolen statue sequence. Player must go to
Blessed Bew Bar to discover necessary information.)


SC.405 INT. BLESSED BREW BAR, BEX

An odd sort of place: like the kind of pub that's built out
of bits of old churches. Religious relics, peculiar icons
and strange portraiture, all hung on the walls and ceiling
as if in a TGI Friday's: casual, cheerful and bizarre.

When the player clicks on ALBERTO FOSSA below:


SC.406 ON ARRIS

Nursing a drink and strolling among the antiquities, with a
look on his face like a man at the zoo. Quietly, in b.g.,
ALBERTO FOSSA comes up behind him.

FOSSA
Quite a place, isn't it?
ARRIS
You have a gift for under-
statement, ser --
FOSSA
Fossa. Alberto.
ARRIS
I feel like I've fallen into
a keeprat's hole.
FOSSA
Yes, the Bex religious impulse
has its...collective side. As
in, collect anything and keep
it...whether you remember where
it came from or not.


SC.407 ANOTHER ANGLE

As they wander through the place.

ARRIS
And you, ser Fossa, what do you
collect?
FOSSA
Opportunities.
(beat)
I've just come by a nice shiny
new one.
ARRIS
Oh?
FOSSA
There's about to be a private
auction of something rather...
special.
ARRIS
Oh?
FOSSA
A couple of business associates
have acquired a-small piece of
religious art. They're about to
sell it off. I don't think they
know how special it is...and if
I turned up at the auction, it
might tip them off.
ARRIS
Sounds like you need someone to
act for you. Someone who doesn't
usually turn up at auctions.


SC.408 ANOTHER ANGLE

As they walk together.

FOSSA
There would be more than adequate
remuneration in it for the agent.
Are you interested?...
ARRIS
How adequate?
FOSSA
Five thousand or so. All you
would need to do is bid on my
behalf.


CHOICE 1:
     ARRIS
      CHOICE 2:
     ARRIS
Why not? Why ask questions?
I might as well.
Naah. I want to drink and
look at the artwork. And
the pretty nuns.