遊戯中心店員Arcade Manager

Howdy! This yer first time here? This floor's the Arcade Centre, and the Cyber Centre's upstairs. The Kowloonet terminals upstairs're operational, albeit pretty torn up. We don't get nothing new here... That feng shui scope of yers is a new model. You know how it works?

Ain't it sweet how the new model can mark yer place on the map?

Okay, I'll give you the gist:

When exploring the hutongs, press the START button. That's "S-T-A-R-T"... Uhm. Anyhow, a floor map will pop up! Press the ○ button to load a cursor, and use the D-Pad to move it around. Press ○ again to mark a spot. You can make several marks on the map.

Or! You can hover over old marks and press the ○ button to erase them.

OR! Instead of removing the mark, you can press L1 or R1 to change that mark to one of FOUR colours! If you wanna colour-code all unopened doors to red, you can do just that!

The only catch is that the number of marks you can use is limited. Don't get too greedy using them. Using the feng shui scope from the Item Menu will also open the map.

At the end of the day, all that matters is, "Use it or lose it!"

You can't find new tech like yers here in Kowloon. Our stuff's old.

Uh-oh, someone that was just here must've dropped his access card. Can you hurry it back to him? As for "where", I don't track where my people come or go.

But Kowloon cityfolk are cautious on ominous days like this.

If people do go out, it's straight to errands and straighter to home!

Access cards can getcha online. There's a working Kowloonet terminal installed inside the Dragon Hotel.

Access cards can getcha online. There's a working Kowloonet terminal installed inside the Dragon Hotel.

Grr, all our games keep shutting off soon as I get them started up. Nothing feels like working today!

You must've made some money if you're waltzing in here.

Did you EARN that money, or did you... ... Sorry. Anyways, the store upstairs ain't open just yet. One of these days, though!

We received an official notice asking us not to do any flashy business today, not that I ever have...

I can't wait for the store upstairs to finally open, know what I mean?

It was so spacious up there, but once the twin registry expanded without permission, things here got real tight.

You haven't caught hide or hair of Zhang Ling around, have you?

... Nope? Haven't seen him? I guess that's just as well.

An old man with a silly hat came here looking for you.

... Huh? Where'd he go after? Sorry, I have no idea where he went.

Y'know, that weird old guy who came in earlier had this sorta feminine charm.

Eh, maybe he's at the Seafood Centre.

Zhang Lu's been missing for a while. Have you seen him around recently?

Last I saw him, he up and hobbled out of here to go who-knows-where. Poor guy, didn't quite look himself.

Hey, you ever hear the story about Zhang Ling's older brother?

He's "inside" one of our cabinets. Creepy, ain't it? I've never seen him, but Zhang Ling does when playing "Starbattle Arcadia" late at night. In the game, Zhang Ling's brother sends a distress signal to him from inside an enemy base on a small planet.

Course, Zhang Ling tries to save him, but each time, his poor brother gets surrounded and shot down by the enemy, all while screaming Zhang Ling's name.

... And that's game over. To this day, Zhang Ling has yet to save his brother.

D'ya think video game characters can pop out of their respective games?

Is that a thing that happens?

Maybe Zhang Ling's real problem is that he gets too "into" the game.

We don't have any games where his brother is a character.

The upstairs shop is opening soon, meanwhile my gaming cabinets are still acting up after some time... Makes me wonder if something outside is messing with them.

Guess what's finally open: the Cyber Centre upstairs!

You'd be their first customer if it weren't for today's business ban. The only shop running up there is the used terminal store, "Kowloon Circuit."

Like I said, it's used, so don't expect to run into anything top-of-the-line.

How'd it go? Did any of the terminals on the second floor stand out to you?

Their inventory's made up of preowned indoor terminals. Y'know, for home use.

People use indoor terminals to enter Hyper-Comm with an access card.

Did Zhang Ling come back? I didn't think he was acting himself when he walked outta here mid-game.

You ever try heading upstairs? If the magnetic field doesn't reach, their terminals should be safe to use.

The arcade cabinets work again! Everything's playable now.

I guess magnetic energy was to blame, but everything feels fine now.

The upstairs manager was making a real stir up there.

Dunno why. The magnetic energy around here's phased itself out!

What was all that hullabaloo?

... Ah, yeah. I've heard of Hyper-Comm randomly warping folks who overuse it. Don't play with fire, okay?

The Hongtou just came looking for you. I think they went to the Kowloon Hotel. There's a lot of noise around the Twin Centre too, so keep yer head low for a bit, or it won't be pretty.

You need to watch your back.

There're plent of folks around the Twin Centre who don't mean well by you.

You're working with the Hongtou? I see... but you're not on their task force or anything? Surely not.

The old Kowloon Circuit manager upstairs was looking for you. Maybe something went haywire again.

Weird how that guy couldn't log himself out of Hyper-Comm.

Nobody knows when the feature first cropped up on Kowloonet.

Hell, we don't even know who runs it, but it makes for a neat ghost story.

Did you see Grandpa Zong's brother?

His little brother was always addicted to computers, 'til he couldn't log out of Hyper-Comm. Both brothers're pretty weird, and then there's Grandpa's wife, who... Nevermind. That'd be rude.