Zeroth Directive

Archive II

[Classified Log] We found a notebook belonging to Wiš'adel full of obscure symbols and strange codes laden with spelling errors. Also found within were several crude drawings resembling maps. As these notes were often accompanied by drawings of skulls and explosions, Rhodes Island's Security Department made the decision to investigate the matter and invited Hoederer and Ines to assist. Ines quickly flipped through the notebook before giving a smile of unclear significance and refusing to provide any further assistance. Finally, at Security's insistence, Hoederer explained to us the contents of the notebook: Plan No. 1, confirmed the positions of the directional explosives on the Shard's underground structural layer. Expected to blow the whole building and bury Theresis in one go. Explosives needed: Lots and lots. Can we just take over Theresis's munitions factories? Still wouldn't be enough. Plan abandoned. Plan No. 2, setting explosives at key points inside the Shard. Theresis's always hanging out at the top, so we blow it in half and let him fall to his death. Explosives needed: Lots, maybe actually doable though. Plan abandoned. Couldn't get inside the Shard. Plan No. 3, bring a bunch of drones, drop a bomb on his ass when he's taking in the view on the balcony. Explosives needed: One super big one. Will ask Closure later when I see her. Plan No. 4.... Hoederer points out that the next dozen pages are all pretty similar in content, but each plan has a slightly different course of action and manner in which the explosives are placed and set off. Ignoring the vulgar language directed at Theresis, most of the proposals are at least theoretically possible. Hoederer further told Security that the notes later go into dozens of plans to strike the Military Commission's camp, hundreds of ways to plant the explosives, and some other random things. After making a number of contingencies against attacks on the Doctor included in the notes, Security determined that the notebook posed no further threat and turned it over to Hoederer to be returned to its owner. However, he refused. 'To think she practiced signing her name as Wiš'adel for dozens of pages.' 'Heh, I wonder where she picked up the habit of jotting everything down.' —Hallway conversation

Archive III

Wiš'adel, leader of the mercenaries, and new hope of the Sarkaz. She seems to have changed quite a bit, and her every act appears backed by some kind of rationality. Of course, this is just a facade, Doctor. She is more Sarkaz than most Sarkaz, and cruelty and insanity are etched into her bones. Unlike the little lamb with her, she'd never talk reason. I saw no few people like her around Her Highness. At the time, aside from her outstanding combat prowess, there was nothing special about her. Even after she left Babel and swore to avenge Her Highness in Her Highness's name, I took her to be driven by a fury brewed from her emotions. You saw what happened afterward. W was too clear-headed, to the point that even Her Highness's return could not bring her down. Rather than delusional venting, her search has proven to be a series of carefully laid-out, rational plans. While she will never be able to set aside her hatred, she will no doubt do everything in her power to assimilate and make use of the Military Commission's legacy. For the same reasons, I doubt she will do anything to you, either. After all, she has long been confident that she has learned the truth, and she understands you and Rhodes Island's irreplaceable place in her plans for the future. I've met a number of mercenaries who have followed her for some time. None were from Babel, and she's never told them about Babel's ideals. It certainly makes sense: some things will only sound like a lie when told to others. But just by blowing open the steel walls before them and marching forward, those mercenaries' eyes have grown brighter and brighter. My belief is that she did in fact show others the light she once saw. A crazed mercenary who's killed so many becoming Her Highness's successor, the next Chairman of Babel? Ridiculous, right? But this is Kazdel. When you look at it that way, it's hardly absurd. —■■■ 'The Djall's gone? Not bad. Look at the direction she's heading. Perfect for checking how safe this building is—' A familiar Sarkaz appears at the end of the hallway. After a few seconds of silence, a dull noise comes, and she finally cracks a smile, satisfied. 'So, it's just you and me now, Doctor. Take a guess, how much of the Djall's evaluation of me—especially the part where I'm no threat to you—do you think is right?'

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