4 | | The year is 2021. Our protagonist is an investigative reporter in an unnamed city in the northern United States. A MYSTERIOUS TIPSTER (MT) calls and informs the player of a conspiracy undertaken by a local media conglomerate, the Harland Broadcast Corporation (HBC), and arranges a meeting in the building's underground parking lot. However, on arrival, they find only a van with a package containing cellular phone, a jumpsuit, and an employee ID. The phone rings. Looks like this meeting won't be face to face, or nearly as simple as it seemed... |
| 5 | = Floors = |
| 6 | Gameplay and story in ''403 Aurelius'' are broken up into different floors of the building. This list includes a very brief description of the floor's signifigance to the story as well as the player's goals on each floor. |
| 7 | ||'''Act I:''' First half of the mod, where stealth is the focus. |
| 8 | ||'''[wiki:aur_00 Apartment/Basement Parking Garage]:''' Prologue. Meet MT, retrieve disguise, enter lobby. |
| 9 | ||'''[wiki:aur_01 Floor 1 - Lobby]:''' Find mail rool, retrieve remaining equipment, access floor 20. |
| 10 | ||'''[wiki:aur_20 Floor 20 - IT Operations ]:''' Gameplay establisher. Install backdoor to HBC's main web server, bypass security, reach floor 19. |
| 11 | ||'''[wiki:aur_19 Floor 19 - Mechanical]:''' Reach elevator shaft. |
| 12 | ||'''[wiki:aur_25a Floors 25/26 - Food Court]:''' Backdoor floor server to unlock kitchen, use vent in kitchen to access floor 27. |
| 13 | ||'''[wiki:aur_27 Floor 27 - Animation & Rendering Farm]:''' Jif's done some shit. Backdoor floor server to unlock lead animator's office, steal keycard to floor 28. |
| 14 | ||'''[wiki:aur_28 Floors 28/29 - Copy Writing]:''' Lore-heavy. Backdoor floor server to unlock dept. manager's office, use vent in office to access next floor. |
| 15 | ||'''[wiki:aur_30 Floors 30/31 News Studios & Editing ]:''' Hope you brought nice sneakers. Steal keycard to floor 32 from sleeping dude. |
| 16 | ||'''[wiki:aur_32a Floor 32 - Accounting ]:''' Conspiracy reveal, floor seems small. Get evidence of HBC corruption. |
| 17 | ||'''[wiki:aur_33 Floors 33/34 - Executive Offices]:''' Find incriminating evidence against executives, find entrance to secret area. |
| 18 | ||'''[wiki:aur_32b Floor 32 - Caecus Operations]:''' WHAM FLOOR HOLY FUCK WHAT. Collect all of the evidence ever, find taser, gtfo |
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| 20 | ||'''Act II:''' Second half, with lots of firefights and dead things. |
| 21 | ||'''[wiki:aur_33b Floors 33/34 - Executive Offices Pt. II]:''' Action introduction. Fight baddies, don't eat baddie bullets, reach rooftop. |
| 22 | ||'''[wiki:aur_35 Rooftop]:''' Restore power, don't eat chopper bullets. |
| 23 | ||'''SKIPPING VAGUE FLOOR PROGESSION''' |
| 24 | ||'''[wiki:aur_25b Floors 25/26 - Food Court Pt. II]:''' Fend off baddies, acquire explosives, boom goes the dynamite, enter secret elevator. |
| 25 | ||'''[wiki:aur_01b Floor 1 - Loading Dock]:''' Escape building, fuck the police. |
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