Don't Cry for Me, Zion-tina

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1.Visiting the Twilight Police Department after attaining Level 7 will initiate this quest and give the following message to your journal:

"There's been trouble downtown, and you're just the hero to take that trouble and make lemonade. Metaphorically speaking that is. And metaphorically mixing, too."

2. Patrolling in the Downtown Area will yield the adventure:

Dead Women Don't Wear Plaid

You find yourself in the neighborhood where you first saw the jewel thief. On a whim you drift to the other side of the street and poke your head into the alley where you heard the shouting, and immediately you get a feeling that something isn't right. With a weighty sense of foreboding, you creep further down the alley. A horrific sight awaits you: the body of a young woman lies partially buried in a heap of trash bags. You grit your teeth and come close enough to verify that she's not still alive, and then go call the police.

The investigator assigned to the case, a woman named Christine Lind, takes your statement, and then, because she's friends with Rand and knows he trusts you, shares with you what she's been able to figure out. She says, "The cause of death was a blow to the head--the murder weapon was a rock or a brick or something like that. Blunt and heavy. The weird thing is the woman's clothes, or lack of them. She's only wearing a bra and underwear, with no sign of any other garments. But other than the blow to the head and a bruise on her wrist, she doesn't have any other injuries. She doesn't have any identification or a purse, but if it was a simple burglary it wouldn't make sense to take her clothes. Especially after the way she was killed, the shirt couldn't have been worth anything. That makes me think there must have been something incriminating about her outfit.

"Another possible clue is a tattoo on her hip. It's a teardrop, and looks a lot like the logo the Zion's Tears cultists use. I found some thread samples on her body, too. They're being sent to the lab for analysis, but they're coarse and brown, a lot like the normal Zion's Tears robes, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if that's a match."

You mull over those details for a minute. "So someone killed a Zion's Tears follower, and then wanted to cover up that she was part of the group? Why would someone do that?"

Lind shrugs. "I dunno. To avoid having attention drawn to the cult? But that would only make sense if someone connected to the cult killed her in the first place."

You nod. "Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Maybe I'd better learn a bit more about these people."

Patrol again at the streets of downtown Twilight

Or go back to downtown Twilight

Or go back to the main page.

This give you the quest journal entry: There's been trouble downtown, and it's up to you to sort things out. The dead woman you found appears to be a member of the Zion's Tears cult. You might want to research them a bit more.

2.a. Patrolling in the The streets of downtown Twilight will eventually yield the Two Paths Diverged in a Darkened Street adventure. Choose the "Investigate the shouting in the alley" option. This will lead to the To the Rescue adventure. Your journal will be updated with the following message:

"There's been trouble downtown, and it's up to you to sort things out. It looks like the Zion's Tears cult is at least part of the problem. You know where their headquarters are; maybe it's time to do a little snooping?"

This will open the Zion's Tears building area.

3.Adventuring in the Zion's Tears building will eventually yield the What the Hell?! adventure and the following message to your journal:

"Something truly strange is going on at the Zion's Tears cult headquarters. Besides possible murder, some of the followers might not even be human. You'd better get to the bottom of this mystery. If you could find the leader of these strange beings, maybe you can stop whatever they're up to."

4.Continuing the adventure in the Zion's Tears building will lead to the A Familiar Figure adventure but the journal will not update. Continue and you will eventually fight the Zion's Tears demiurge. This will provide you with the following message to the journal:

"You've scattered the Zion's Tears creatures and defeated their leader in combat. All that remains is to call in Rand and have him and Twilight P.D. clean up the rest of the mess."

5.Visiting the Twilight Police Department will conclude the quest and yield the following message to the journal:

"You've scattered the Zion's Tears creatures and defeated their leader in combat. The police have helped clean up the remainder of the offices, and their nearly complete dimensional gate is now in safe hands. There wasn't any other evidence connecting Michael Ace to the cult, but the possibility that the trillionaire might have been involved still worries you."

Quest Completed
The quest rewards are the items (always) dropped by the Zion's Tears demiurge: the forcegloves, a platinum necklace, and a class-specific talisman.

References

• The quest name is a reference to the song 'Don't Cry for me Argentina'.