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The Information


The Information
Type Main Job
Region Watson
Location Lizzie's Bar
Street Cred 130
Previous The Ride
Next The Pickup, The Heist

The Information is the main job in which V meets Evelyn Parker, the client behind the Konpeki Plaza job, at Lizzie's Bar in Kabuki, Watson. It is one of the two jobs that follow The Ride, and both must be done before The Heist. Judy Álvarez of the Mox runs V through a braindance of Yorinobu Arasaka's penthouse, the first braindance of the game.

Story

Lizzie's Bar

After the ride with Dexter DeShawn, V goes to Lizzie's Bar on the corner of Kennedy Avenue and Sutter Street to meet the client. The journal is impressed with Evelyn Parker before anyone has met her: she has the best information in town, a pile of money, or a very lucky star, maybe all three. If the meeting goes well, she will be a useful new contact, and in Night City nobody gets anywhere without contacts.

The bar only opens in the evening. The Mox bouncer Rita Wheeler offers braindances at the door and explains the house rules. Inside, V asks the bartender Mateo Thiago about Evelyn. Mateo will not say a word, but Evelyn is sitting at the bar, waiting for V. She introduces herself while Mateo pours the drinks and leads V to a private VIP room.

Evelyn's Story

In the VIP room, Evelyn asks about V's ties to Dex and then explains the job and its strings. The biochip called the Relic is hidden in the penthouse of Konpeki Plaza. The penthouse belongs to Yorinobu Arasaka, son and heir of Saburo Arasaka, who has just arrived in Night City. Yorinobu stole the chip from an Arasaka laboratory and plans to sell it to NetWatch. Evelyn has been in the penthouse herself, and she recorded a braindance of it.

Judy's Workshop

Evelyn takes V down to the basement, where Judy Álvarez is just finishing work on the braindance. Judy sits V in a chair, puts a braindance wreath on V's head and tunes the recording to V's senses. To get V used to braindance, she first plays a calibration recording. In it, V lives through the last minutes of a Scavenger who robbed a Cali Express shop and was shot by his own partner.

V comes out shaken and unsure about going on, but Evelyn reminds V how important the next recording is. V insists on bringing in T-Bug, so that the netrunner can study the hotel's security. Judy does not like the idea, but Evelyn promises that no harm will come to her.

The Penthouse Braindance

Together, V and T-Bug explore the recording of Yorinobu's suite. They find the high tech security systems and a temperature controlled safe that holds the Relic. T-Bug is sure she can beat the security, and she points out the gun Yorinobu keeps in the suite.

Afterwards, Judy wipes V's profile from her system. She is afraid that Arasaka will kill everyone involved if it finds out about the recording. V and Evelyn reassure her, and Judy lets V keep the braindance wreath.

Evelyn's Offer

Before V leaves, Evelyn wants a word. V can ask about the job and about her ties to Yorinobu. Then she asks V to do the job for her alone, without Dex. V warns that cheating a fixer will ruin them both, but Evelyn waves the worry away. The journal notes that Evelyn knows more than she lets on, and that the crew needs every scrap of her information. V leaves the bar and calls Dex to report.

The Information Map Location and Walkthrough

The Information map location:

Lizzie's Bar

  1. Go to Lizzie's Bar between 6:00 PM and 6:00 AM. Skip time if needed.
  2. Talk to the bouncers at the door. Rita Wheeler explains the house rules.
  3. Pick up the file on the history of the Mox at the front desk if desired. More files lie by a booth on the right and near the bar.
  4. Sit at the bar and ask Mateo about Evelyn Parker.
  5. Follow Evelyn to the VIP room and talk about the Relic.
  6. Follow Evelyn to Judy's braindance studio in the basement.

The Calibration Braindance

  1. Talk to Judy, sit in the chair and start the braindance.
  2. Watch the robbery once, then enter the editor when Judy explains the controls.
  3. Fast forward to 00:22, turn the camera until the gun is in view and scan it.
  4. Switch to the audio layer, find the sound source behind the robber and scan it.
  5. Switch back to the visual layer and scan the injured customer at 00:36.
  6. Fast forward to 00:51 to watch the robber die.
  7. Rewind to 00:48 and scan the security monitor on the counter to see who fired the shot.
  8. Exit the braindance.

The Penthouse Braindance

  1. Agree to bring T-Bug into the next braindance and calm Judy down.
  2. Watch the recording of the penthouse once in playback mode to learn the layout. Watching the whole recording from Evelyn's point of view is optional.
  3. Switch to the editor and the audio layer, move to 00:34 and scan Yorinobu's phone to hear his call.
  4. Scan the apartment's security systems on the visual layer if desired: the alarm, the motion camera by the entrance and the turret on the ceiling. Remember to check the ceiling.
  5. Scan the datapad on the nightstand in the bedroom at 02:45.
  6. Switch to the thermal layer and roll back to 00:46.
  7. Find the heat source under a floor panel in the corner near the counter where Evelyn pours drinks. This is the hidden safe.
  8. Exit the braindance.

Leaving

  1. Talk to Evelyn and Judy.
  2. Leave Judy's workshop and the bar.
  3. Call Dex to report.

Map credit by Map Genie.

Choices

Most of the conversations in this job change only the dialogue. Evelyn's offer at the end matters more. V can turn her down or say they will think about it. Either way the plan goes ahead, but telling Dex about her offer in The Heist gets V a bigger share of the pay. With enough Technical Ability, V can also chat with Judy about her braindance gear.

At the end, V can thank Judy or show an interest in seeing her again. Judy later becomes one of the main characters of the story.

Rewards

Completing The Information pays 1,532 experience and 130 Street Cred. It also rewards Braindance Wreath.

Tips

The Cali Express shop from the calibration braindance is a real food stand in the Glen, between the fast travel points Ventura and Skyline and Metro: Glen South. Its vendor mentions the smell of chlorine and some stains that would not come out, a nod to the robbery.

The braindance editor works the same way in later jobs. Each clue is found on one of three layers: visual, audio or thermal. The timeline shows where on each layer something can be scanned.

Characters

The characters who take part in The Information are listed below.

Name Image
Judy Álvarez Judy Álvarez
Evelyn Parker Evelyn Parker
Mateo Thiago -
T-Bug T-Bug

Notes

  • A shard on braindance concepts lies on the desk in Judy's basement studio.
  • Rita Wheeler, the bouncer, can also be seen at night near the vans of the radio station 89.7 Growl FM in Pacifica.

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