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The Pickup


The Pickup
Type Main Job
Giver Dexter DeShawn
Region Watson
Items Chaos
Previous The Ride
Next The Information, The Heist

The Pickup is the main job in which V and Jackie Welles buy the Flathead, a stolen Militech combat bot, from the Maelstrom gang at the All Foods Factory in Northside, Watson. It is one of the two jobs that follow The Ride, and both must be done before The Heist. It is the first job of the story with several very different endings, decided by who V trusts and how V pays.

Story

Maelstrom

Dexter DeShawn needs the Flathead for the job on Konpeki Plaza. The bot was stolen when Maelstrom ambushed a Militech convoy, and the gang, led by Royce, now holds it in the All Foods Factory on Talbot Place. Dex also gave V the number of Meredith Stout, a Militech internal affairs agent who wants the stolen gear back.

Jackie does not trust the gang. The journal says that ordinary gangers know what they like: money, sex, power or the blood of their enemies. Maelstrom are different. Behind their frightening chrome faces, nobody can tell what they are thinking, and business with them never ends well. Sometimes, though, there is no way around it.

Meredith Stout

V can call Meredith before going to the factory. She meets V in a storm channel under an overpass near the factory. One of her bodyguards jacks into V's link for a rough interrogation, and Meredith asks whether V is alone. She also asks whether her colleague Anthony Gilchrist leaked the convoy's route.

The journal explains her situation. A Militech officer has lost an arms shipment, and if she does not get it back, she is finished. For Militech it is not about the weapons, which mean nothing to the company. It is about principles, and someone will take the fall.

Meredith offers V a Militech credchip to pay for the bot. The chip carries a hidden virus. V can take it or refuse it, and a taken chip can be hacked to remove the virus. A cleaned chip also gives V the money on it later.

The All Foods Factory

Jackie waits at the factory gate. The pair speak to Dum Dum, a high ranking member of the gang, over the intercom and are let in to talk about the Flathead. Inside, they walk past switched off traps and through the meat processing floor, then take a lift up to meet Dum Dum face to face, and then Royce.

The meeting is tense. Jackie refuses to sit down, and Royce wants to know how V will pay. What happens next depends on the payment and on how calm V keeps the room.

After the Factory

Outside the factory, a Militech agent waits if V met Meredith earlier. Depending on how things went, it is either Meredith or Gilchrist. The journal sums up the corporate side: every corporation has a Gilchrist, who steals, lies, gets rid of witnesses, lets someone else take the blame and still gets promoted. Meredith, for her part, will do anything to stay in her company's good books, even if it costs her colleague his job, or more.

V then calls Dex to report that the Flathead is safe. Dex sends V on to meet Evelyn Parker at Lizzie's Bar, or to the Afterlife to prepare for the raid if The Information is already done.

The Pickup Map Location and Walkthrough

The Pickup map location:

Meredith Stout (optional)

  1. Call Meredith Stout if desired, and wait for her to call back.
  2. Meet her in the storm channel under the overpass near the All Foods Factory.
  3. Talk to her, answer her questions, and accept or refuse her credchip.
  4. If the chip was taken, breach it with the Breach Protocol to remove the virus, to copy it, or both.

The Factory

  1. Meet Jackie at the factory gate.
  2. Use the intercom to talk to Dum Dum and say that V is there for the Flathead.
  3. Follow Dum Dum's men through the factory past the switched off traps.
  4. Go through the meat processing area and take the lift up.
  5. Talk to Dum Dum, then to Royce.
  6. Ask Jackie to sit down when he refuses, unless a fight is wanted.
  7. Answer Royce quickly when he asks how V will pay, then pay with V's own money or with the Militech chip.

The Fight (if it comes)

  1. Fight Maelstrom, or help Maelstrom fight off Militech, depending on the path taken.
  2. Defeat Royce in the boss fight if he turns on V, and loot his Iconic pistol, Chaos.
  3. Find Brick's cell. Open the door with the Remote Deactivation quickhack on the terminal, or read the laptop in the room next to the cell for the code 9691.
  4. Disarm the trap on the cell by switching off the detonator on the table, then free Brick.

Leaving

  1. Leave the factory with the Flathead and Jackie.
  2. Talk to the Militech agent at the gate, if one is waiting.
  3. Call Dex.

Map credit by Map Genie.

Choices

A Peaceful Deal

Do not call Meredith. Inside the factory, do not threaten or attack anyone, ask Jackie to sit down, and pay Royce €$ 10,000 of V's own money. V gets the Flathead, and Dum Dum walks the pair out of the factory. A Streetkid V even gets his Black Lace inhaler. This is the only way to unlock Maelstrom Heat, a Maelstrom weapon vendor, after the job. It also keeps Dum Dum alive, so that he can be met again in the side job Second Conflict carrying his Iconic gun, Doom Doom.

A Fight with Militech

Call Meredith and take or refuse her chip. Then keep the peace, ask Jackie to sit down and pay Royce in a way that does not betray him: with the cleaned chip, with V's own money, or with the infected chip after a warning to Royce, which only a Corpo V can give. Militech troops then storm the factory, and V fights them at Maelstrom's side. Royce may die in the attack. After the fight, Anthony Gilchrist meets V outside and calls them even for saving each other's lives. He later has Meredith killed.

A Fight with Maelstrom

Paying with the infected chip, refusing to calm Jackie, or attacking anyone in the room turns Maelstrom against V. V fights through the factory, and Royce becomes a boss fight at the end. Knocking Royce out or shooting him during the talk ends that fight early. Either way, his Iconic pistol Chaos can be looted from him.

If V took Meredith's deal and the gang turned hostile after meeting Dum Dum, Meredith waits at the gate. She is impressed and suggests working together again, which starts the side job Venus in Furs later on. If V refused her deal, she is colder.

A Bad End

If V asks Jackie to sit down, starts no trouble, and then takes too long to answer when Royce asks how V will pay, Royce shoots V in the head and the game ends. Saving before the meeting is wise.

Brick

Brick, the former leader of Maelstrom, sits in a cell after Royce's coup. In the paths where the gang fights Militech or V, his cell can be found and opened. Freeing him only matters when Royce is dead, because Brick cannot take back the gang while Royce lives.

Rewards

Completing The Pickup pays €$ 3,000 to 13,000, 1,547 experience and 1,727 Street Cred. It also rewards Chaos (depending on choices) and Black Lace (depending on choices, Streetkid only).

The Flathead is always taken away for the heist. Royce's Iconic tech pistol, Chaos, can only be looted from him during this job, or bought later from Herold Lowe in Dogtown with Phantom Liberty.

Tips

A Nomad V can talk with Jackie about his bike before the job and, with Technical Ability 7 or more, tell him how to tune it. This later turns Jackie's ARCH into Jackie's Tuned ARCH in Heroes.

A Nomad V can also find a message from the mole to Maelstrom on a computer in a side room of the first large hall after the meeting room. Confronting Gilchrist with it at the end makes him buy V's silence, and a crate of Militech gear later appears in V's apartment.

Paying Royce with the infected Militech chip makes the fight against him easier.

Characters

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

Name Image
Dexter DeShawn Dexter DeShawn
Dum Dum -
Meredith Stout -
Anthony Gilchrist -
Jackie Welles Jackie Welles

Enemies

V fights these enemies during The Pickup.

Name Image
Maelstrom Maelstrom
Royce Royce
Dum Dum -
Militech Militech

Notes

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