Proceed to Excavation Site

The information lifted from the KPA computer indicates that the remaining American scientists are being held at the Excavation site by the North Koreans. I've loaded up my ammo and have polished off the lone soldier on my radar and am ready to head upland toward the Excavation site in order to see if I can locate the hostages.

With the sun setting behind me, I thought I would show you another picture of me ... well, another shadow that is. (Great soft shadow effects by the CryEngine 2 for those scoring at home.)



To give a quick re-cap. My name is Lt. Jake Dunn of the United States Army Delta Force. I am on this island to rescue American Scientists who sent out a call of distress shortly after reporting an "amazing discovery" on the island. The radio call indicated that the Korean People's Army (KPA) had invaded the island.

I was air dropped onto the island, along with four other Delta Force team members. Two of those team members, Aztec and Jester, are confirmed casualties of the mission. Another team member, Prophet, is missing after being taken by a some type of machine that I've never seen before in my life. That leaves me, who they call Nomad, and Psycho - who is currently with the first American scientist turned hostage that we rescued not too long ago.

I decided to take a KPA Hummer from the KPA base to the Excavation site, since that was the recommendation by Headquarters. Along the way, I ran into a few more KPA soldiers, who weren't too tough to eliminate. Their fort contained a bunch of ammo and some more rocket launchers. I decided to mark that location on my heads-up display, in case I need to stock up later.

Currently, I am carrying my USA SCAR, with ammo from Aztec, Jester and Prophet's guns. I also have a fully loaded FY-71, complete with grenades, silencer and scope. I have two fully loaded pistols on each hip and a rocket launcher over my back. My health is in very good shape, I am not hungry or thirsty - other than thirsty to rescue some more hostages. I left a high powered rifle at the KPA solder's fort mentioned above.

As I drove further along the trail, I heard a helicopter pass overhead. While it hovered down the road from me, I tried to take it down with a rocket from my rocket launcher.



I ended up not getting a good shot at the helicopter and it quickly left the area after a rocket was fired. Since it hovered for about 30 seconds, my guess is that more company will be waiting form me down the road.

So, I decided to leave the Hummer in it's current position and sneak through the hills, using the vegetation as my cover. Before getting on my way, I dropped the SCAR and picked up the high-powered sniper rifle - to potentially use in some long-range target practice. I will return for my SCAR later.

I continued to move between the trees and reached the edge of a hill that over looked a valley and some water below. I went prone against the tall grass and pulled out my binoculars. I found what the helicopter was doing and saw several soldiers in the valley below. I am guessing they are there to keep me from getting on the other side of "there."

These soldiers appeared to be carrying a different kind of weapon. As they ran with the weapon, I could see long red laser beams pushing off the edge of the barrel. Their guns were equipped with some type of laser pointer. Using the sniper rifle, I was able to get a fix on one of the soldiers. While I didn't hit him hard enough to take him down, I did get every one's attention.

They formed a pack and headed in the direction of the shot. I was on the other side of the water and up the side of the hill. They had not seen me yet. Knowing it would take a lot of time to eliminate them one by one, I grabbed the rocket launcher and placed two rockets in the middle of the group.

One soldier was missed, but the others were taken down. Moving quickly, I was able to get down the valley and locate and eliminate the lone soldier before he had a chance to realize I was even there. Perhaps he had lost his hearing from the two loud rocket blasts placed not even 20 feet from where he had hid.

I dropped the sniper rifle for now and picked up this new weapon being carried by the soldiers. It was a submachine gun, capable of carrying 50 rounds at a time ... and included a cool laser pointer. The gun also had a sniper scope, which I set as the default. With all the ammo laying around, I was able to max out on 300 bullets. So between the FY71 and this new gun, I am packing a tremendous amount of heat.

Using the two guns, I ended up having to head back up another hill which was guarded by two lookout towers and some more troops. The area had become more dense with trees, so I managed to get close by moving from tree to tree and not having to resort to going cloak as much as I had to earlier today.

At one point, I could not get a decent shot at the guard in the tower, so I decided to shoot my third rocket at the tower. I ended up wiping out the guard and the tower with one rocket. After dropping the rocket launcher, I headed back to a couple of homes near the water. The KPA soldiers had also left three rocket launchers on crates near the water. I grabbed another one, just in case.

Once I got past the two lookout points, I had to face off against a couple of guards at mounted machine guns. I realized I was getting close to the Excavation site, because I was met with several more troops. The grenades on my FY71 came in very handy as I launched them into small packs of soldiers. Thus, I ended up saving quite a bit of ammo.

Going cloak, I was able to sneak up to an unfortified side of the Excavation site, guarded only by a couple of soldiers. Quick, close range shots with the FY71 and silencer, made my path clear without warning two more mounted machine guns in the close distance.

Finally, I reached the outer perimeter of the Excavation site.

Well, when I saw the image on the KPA computer back at the base, I knew I would be seeing this dome building in the near future. I just didn't figure it would be this soon.

I am pretty sure that landscape around the dome was totally different a couple of weeks ago. I am betting there was only trees, grass and small animals. I believe it was after the KPA arrived that the dome became surrounded by standard military fodder.

If I were to guess, I am guessing the KPA want to know more about this amazing discovery. So they made the scientists come with them inside the dome to explain this "amazing discovery" in great detail. So, pretty much the party is probably inside this dome.

I hope they have room for one more guest, because my next stop is going to be inside that dome.

I will be back in touch soon.

Nomad ... signing out.

Infiltrate the Research Dome

I managed to sneak around to the far side of the research dome using the cloak feature of the Nanosuit. A few lone guards were left outside the facility, who were pretty easy to take care of - especially since their mounted guns would not rotate in my direction.



I jumped down into the ground below and entered the rear of the facility first, using cloak often. There was no one in the rear trailers of the facility. To avoid being surprised, I returned to my drop point and went to the front of the dome. Again, no KPA soldiers were found. There was also no sign of the hostages either.

So I made my way into the trailers that lead to the research dome. I found a keypad attached to a door that led inside the dome. It wasn't locked, because I was able to use it without any issues.

The door opened and I went cloak to enter unnoticed. What I saw was a large monitor in the top of the dome. Down below, was one of the American scientists. Actually, it was the lead American scientist, Dr. Rosenthal! He was still alive too!



He was operating a computer near something that kind of looked like the device that had taken at least two of my team members. Several sensors were connected to the metal machine laying on the ground. The difference between this machine, is that this one was laying dormant. This one didn't look near as big as the one that captured my team members, either. Of course, that could be the difference from one hoving above you trying to take your life vs sitting on the side of the dirt, powered off.

As I moved from cover to cover in order to get a closer view of Rosenthal, I could tell that he was surprised by the readings on the computer. His voice began to panic as he told those he was talking to on the monitor that we must abort at once. Something abnormal was happening at that very second!



They disconnected from their video conference and I jumped down in front of Rosenthal. He asked who I was, I told him I was US Delta Force. He told me that we needed to abort as soon as possible. My suit flashed blue. Crud, something bad normally happens when the suit turns blue ... because that's what happened right before Prophet was taken.

This time the dome turned to ice. In a second, Rosenthal was frozen to his death. His last words were to give me the location of the last two remaining scientists. They are both in the hands of the KPA leader, Commander Kyong. One of those two is his daughter, Helana.



There was no saving Rosenthal. His remains would be preserved for quite a while, given the fact that he is covered in several inches of ice. So, I focused on finding out where the KPA leader and the two American scientists are located.



Headquarters came through. The last two American scientists are being held by General Kyong in a mining complex in the mountains. The location appears to be downstream of the river I saw earlier ... looks like I am going to get to use that boat I saw earlier after all.

I need to get on my way. I will be back in touch soon.

Nomad ... signing out.