75 S

75_S
Production	Privateer 2: The Darkening
Type	Cinematic Missions
Series	Alberto Fossa
Disc	CD2
Run Time	1m34s
Choice A	Why Not? Why ask questions? I Might as well
Choice B	Maybe I can get a bargain...
Scenes	405-408

75_S is a cutscene from Privateer 2: The Darkening. It is part of Uncle Kashumai/Alberto Fossa. It is accessed by selecting Alberto Fossa at the Blessed Brew Bar on Bex after the player has looked up Reginald Arthur Bray and Ronald Henry Bray in the Commerce & Communications Network Public Records database. Alberto Fossa asks Lev Arris to bid on an auction on his behalf; the player must choose whether or not to accept.

• Download: 75_S.mp4

Choice A: Why Not? Why ask questions? I Might as well		Choice B: Nah! I want to drink and look at the artwork

Transcript

ALBERTO FOSSA: Quite a place, isn't it?

LEV ARRIS: You have a gift for understatement, ser.

ALBERTO FOSSA: Fossa. Alberto Fossa.

LEV ARRIS: I feel like I've fallen into a keeprat's hole.

ALBERTO FOSSA: Yes, the Bex religious impulse has its collective side. As in collect anything and keep it whether you remember where it came from or not.

LEV ARRIS: And you, ser Fossa, what do you collect?

ALBERTO FOSSA: Opportunities. I've just come by a nice, shiny new one.

LEV ARRIS: Oh?

ALBERTO FOSSA: There's about to be a private auction of something rather special. A couple of business assosciates have just acquired a small peice of religious art, they're about to sell it off. I don't think they know how special it is and if I turned off at the auction it might tip them off.

LEV ARRIS: Well it sounds to me like you need someone to act for you, someone who doesn't usually turn up at auctions.

ALBERTO FOSSA: There would be more than adequate remuniation in it for the agent. Are you interested?

LEV ARRIS: How adequate?

ALBERTO FOSSA: 5,000 or so. All you would need to do is bid on my art.

Characters

Speaking

• Lev Arris
• Alberto Fossa

25th Anniversary

On May 20, 2020, Privateer 2: The Darkening director Steve Hilliker released The Darkening 25th Anniversary Restoration which featured footage restored from Betacam tapes. The footage has been edited down into a cinema cut but where available it is of much higher quality than the game's files.

• Download: 75_S-P2_25th_ANNIVERSARY_Hilliker_Cut.mp4

Script

The The Darkening Script Draft 7 used during the game's shooting has been provided by Erin Roberts.

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(Continuation of stolen statue sequence. Player must go to
Blessed Bew Bar to discover necessary information.)

SC.405 INT. BLESSED BREW BAR, BEX

An odd sort of place: like the kind of pub that's built out
of bits of old churches. Religious relics, peculiar icons
and strange portraiture, all hung on the walls and ceiling
as if in a TGI Friday's: casual, cheerful and bizarre.

When the player clicks on ALBERTO FOSSA below:

SC.406 ON ARRIS

Nursing a drink and strolling among the antiquities, with a
look on his face like a man at the zoo. Quietly, in b.g.,
ALBERTO FOSSA comes up behind him.

FOSSA

Quite a place, isn't it?

ARRIS

You have a gift for under-

statement, ser --

FOSSA

Fossa. Alberto.

ARRIS

I feel like I've fallen into

a keeprat's hole.

FOSSA

Yes, the Bex religious impulse

has its...collective side. As

in, collect anything and keep

it...whether you remember where

it came from or not.

SC.407 ANOTHER ANGLE

As they wander through the place.

ARRIS

And you, ser Fossa, what do you

collect?

FOSSA

Opportunities.

(beat)

I've just come by a nice shiny

new one.

ARRIS

Oh?

FOSSA

There's about to be a private

auction of something rather...

special.

ARRIS

Oh?

FOSSA

A couple of business associates

have acquired a-small piece of

religious art. They're about to

sell it off. I don't think they

know how special it is...and if

I turned up at the auction, it

might tip them off.

ARRIS

Sounds like you need someone to

act for you. Someone who doesn't

usually turn up at auctions.

SC.408 ANOTHER ANGLE

As they walk together.

FOSSA

There would be more than adequate

remuneration in it for the agent.

Are you interested?...

ARRIS

How adequate?

FOSSA

Five thousand or so. All you

would need to do is bid on my

behalf.

CHOICE 1:      ARRIS		CHOICE 2:      ARRIS
Why not? Why ask questions? I might as well.		Naah. I want to drink and look at the artwork. And the pretty nuns.