NCI Live building

NCI Live building

Location:	(Jekyll and) Hyde Park
Unlocks:	during Cat and Mick-y Mouse Game
Combat %:	unknown
Foe XP range:
	ID: 55

The Mick is somewhere in here. Can you find him before it's too late?

NCI Live building opens as you approach Rand for the second time during Cat and Mick-y Mouse Game.
The location includes 35 rooms numbered from left to right, from top to bottom, skipping levels 6 and 7. See schematic below.
A room can be in one of three states:
- Accessible for visit. Once a certain number of foes are defeated, or non combats are encountered, the way is cleared and the room is no longer available. Marked with
- The room is not accessible yet. Marked with
- Accessible for perpetual visit. You can adventure in this room as much as you want. Marked with
- Room cleared. Marked as an empty square.
You start with only room 26 available.
In each of the rooms except special rooms, either a non-combat can occur (same non-combats for the entire building) or a combat. Combats belong to one of three groups, based on the floor.
- Floors 1,2,5 : top management foes
- Floors 6,7 : middle management foes
- Floors 8,9 : basement foes
Villains can be encountered as usual. Defeating a villain does not count as clearing the room.

Special Encounters

Room 1

What the $%&@^*

Room 2

The Mick

Item Drops: blue chip, the Mick's sketchy candy, the Mick's Thunderbolt, the Mick's gorilla vest

Experience Gained: scaling

Room 3

Return of the Understudy

Room 6

Attempting to enter this room before getting a grappling hook in room 16:

There's some kind of construction going on in the floors above you. Most of the area is walled off, but right here there's four floors of empty space up to the top level. It's way too high to climb, or even jump, and the space is too narrow to try flying. There's a lot of metal up at the top, though, if you had something you could hook over it and then climb up.

After getting a grappling hook, you only get combat encounters. Encounters begin with:

You toss up the grappling hook, latch it onto some cross-beams way up there, and shimmy your way on up the rope. Uh-oh, looks like someone's waiting for you at the top!

Room 8

Not-Okay Corral

office frontiersman

Item Drops: sharpshooter's rifle, buckskin coat

Chip Drops: some

Experience Gained: 135

Notes: Beating 6 enables David C. Rockett

David C. Rockett

Item Drops: sharpshooter's rifle, buckskin coat, Rockett's coonskin cap

Chip Drops: some

Experience Gained: 145

Big Adventure

Room 15

Perpetual

Room 16

A Swarm of Staples

Notes: Occurs without swingline stapler

A Duel to the Death! Well, to the Pain

Item Drops: grappling hook

Notes: Occurs with swingline stapler

Room 21

Perpetual

Room 23

Before Information Technology's Secret Weapon (with paperclip):

Gonna Let the Elevator Bring Us Down

Hm, the elevator doesn't seem to be working. That's gonna be a problem. They must have locked all the machinery down. You're going to have to find some stairs or figure out how to turn this thing back on.

Room 24

Attica Gets No Respect

Notes: Followed by office hoplite

office hoplite

Item Drops: hoplon, hoplite sword

Chip Drops: some

Experience Gained: 123

Notes: Defeat seven to open Betrayed By the One He Mocked

Betrayed By the One He Mocked

Notes: followed by Leon Idas

Leon Idas

Item Drops: hoplon, hoplite sword, Leon's beard

Chip Drops: some

Experience Gained: 130

Room 26

Corporate Insecurity

Notes:

Occurs if your vehicle isn't one of motorcycle, tri-cycle or vicious cycle
Followed by ultimate security guard

The Matrix Recoded

Notes:

Occurs if your vehicle is motorcycle, tri-cycle or vicious cycle
Cleans the room

ultimate security guard

Chip Drops: some

Experience Gained: 115

Notes: defeating four cleans the room

Room 31

Information Technology's Secret Weapon (without paperclip)

Notes: If you don't have combat paperclip in your inventory

Information Technology's Secret Weapon (with paperclip)

Experience: 200

Notes:

If you have combat paperclip in your inventory
Enables passing room 23

Room 34

Requires super jumping or you get:

Holy Floors with Holes in Them, <name>!

For about a quarter of a second you consider jumping through the hole in the floor here, but then decide that's a bad idea. For one thing, you don't know how to get back up. What if it's a trap? What if you starve to death down there?

Playing it safe isn't exactly your thing, but in this case you probably ought to be prepared with some super-jump option before going down there.