NCI Live building

NCI Live building
Location:	(Jekyll and) Hyde Park
Unlocks:	during Cat and Mick-y Mouse Game
Combat %:	80
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 four 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 without a grappling hook from room 16 or an improvised grapnel or artisanal grapnel:

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 or improvised grapnel or artisanal grapnel, you only get combat encounters. Encounters begin with:

You toss up the grappling hook/improvised grapnel/artisanal grapnel, 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: 85-189 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: 108-196 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: 70-175 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: 94-165 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: 114-186 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.

Maybe you could build yourself a set of boots or something? That army surplus store in Bayside sells some boots, then you'd just need to assemble them with something stretchy.

Room 35

Perpetual

General encounters

Combat

Basement

femaleroom clerk
	Item Drops: throwing pen, spiky heels Chip Drops: 87-145 Experience Gained: 116

intimidating janitor
	Item Drops: combat paperclip, epic mop Chip Drops: 88-147 Experience Gained: 117

IT drone
	Item Drops: taped glasses, SQUID disc: Brain Computers and You Chip Drops: 87-144 Experience Gained: 115

mailroom clerk
	Item Drops: chain links, chain links Chip Drops: 87-145 Experience Gained: 116

maleroom clerk
	Item Drops: paper cut gloves, taped glasses, Manly Man energy drink Chip Drops: 87-144 Experience Gained: 115

receptionist
	Item Drops: shocker pen, bubble gum, relaxing flats, nail file Chip Drops: 87-144 Experience Gained: 115

Middle Management

catfish lawyer
	Item Drops: attache case, business card, chip loafers, legal briefs Chip Drops: 93-154 Experience Gained: 123

gonzo accountant
	Item Drops: swingline stapler Chip Drops: 94-157 Experience Gained: 125

high-sailing accountant
	Item Drops: eyepatch, red pen, rubber cutlass Chip Drops: 94-157 Experience Gained: 125

inept engineer
	Item Drops: SQUID disc: Slacking for Slackers, scorched coffee Chip Drops: 94-155 Experience Gained: 124

inHumane Resources harpy
	Item Drops: benefits package, razor claw, razor claw Chip Drops: 96-159 Experience Gained: 127

killer printer
	Item Drops: power converter, mangled data plate, data plate, titanium plating, electronic cabling, nanoprocessor, titanium chassis, memory tube Chip Drops: 97-159 Experience Gained: 127

paralegal paramour
	Item Drops: relaxing flats, dainty glasses, box of files, alluring business suit Chip Drops: 93-154 Experience Gained: 123

Top Management

CEO's secretary
	Item Drops: combat paperclip, alluring business suit, switchboard garrote Chip Drops: 102-169 Experience Gained: 135

corporate espionage specialist
	Item Drops: explosive briefing, scavenged death ray, Lil' Jerk Disguise Kit Chip Drops: 102-169 Experience Gained: 135

hatchet-handed executive
	Item Drops: hatchet, off-handed hatchet, shrunken head Chip Drops: 100-167 Experience Gained: 133

Mr. Stoat
	Item Drops: slick suit, long knife Chip Drops: 100-167 Experience Gained: 134

pointy-haired executive
	Item Drops: employee manual, office trebuchet, power tie, staff of meeting Chip Drops: 99-164 Experience Gained: 131

professional sycophant
	Chip Drops: 113-188 Experience Gained: 130

Noncombat

Petty Theft
	Chip Drops: 100-120

Shouldn't This Be At the Casino?
	Experience: 100-125

If you somehow manage to enter an already cleared room:

Yeah, Empty Is Still Empty

You've already cleared this zone of baddies. It remains empty.

If you somehow manage to enter an impossible room:

You Want to Go Where, Now?

You're in an office building with a lot of different rooms on a lot of different floors. However, the combination of floor and room you're trying to go to doesn't exist, in this building, at least. Maybe you should double-check that address and make sure you're trying to go to the right place.

Static Villains

Terce
	Item Drops: Terce's memo