Estleback Corporation

[Lewwings]

Night of the War Dead

The Estleback Corporation can proudly announce the end of the war with Fulcrum, as well as the end of all Fulcrum activities in EvoCity as of today. 

This is a great achievement for our organization, especially after months of trouble and tension. This has all been brought to an end thanks to the strength and skill of our operatives, who are the backbone to the spreading of our message and of our work.

This saga of events began at the City Station, where our operatives assembled out of sight to avoid drawing any attention to ourselves. After being greeted by Director Noah Grayson and Deputy Director Matthew Jones, the team took an available train ride to Wilshire Boulevard, just across from the MTL, where Fulcrum were scheduled to be hosting a celebratory event known as 'Night of the War Dead' to symbolise the fall of Estleback. Arming up and prepared to storm the show for a final confrontation, our operatives moved in swiftly and decisively on the venue in order to maintain the element of surprise.

Upon our entry into the 'Night of the War Dead' however, we were greeted with a surprising sight: no guests, no Agents, just a rambling Marlowe drifting from topics such as our quadcopter, Grayson's space interests, and the failure of his COVID-22 plans. In the midst of his rant, he let slip that his superiors and international guests had suddenly gotten cold feet to the event once his position looked weak, and thus nobody showed up.

After successfully detaining the lone Philip Marlowe, another twist occurred. James Fegan, the former Deputy Director who had been presumed dead after a sniper attack, burst into the room and was tailed by the remains of the Agents. Fegan, clearly aware the alarm he had just created, played up the theatrics by making his way to a prominent place in the room before revealing that he had grown disillusioned with Estleback after its failure to properly live up to its hype, and seeing Fulcrum as less constrained, chose to jump ship. Furthermore, Fegan claimed responsibility for organizing the assassination of Louis Blackman, so that he could increase his influence within Estleback before staging his own assassination to cripple to organization's public image and ability to function.

However, in the midst of this explanation, Fegan boldly declared that he was taking over Fulcrum from Marlowe, causing an attack on Fegan by Mr Marlowe in a fit of rage. The Agents sided with Fegan, showing the unstable power dynamic within Fulcrum, before being forced out by our operatives. Following this, we fully arrested Philip Marlowe, however we could do the same to James Fegan, he bolted out the door and engaged in a gunfight with the operatives chasing him - this ultimately led to his actual death.

After this set of events, we began to transport Marlowe back to our city headquarters, but faced some setbacks along the way such as one of the Agents trying to assassinate Marlowe on behalf of Fulcrum and an interruption to our convoy by members of the Shmicki Family and Meron-Tai who took Marlowe from our team - which temporarily frustrated our mission. Despite this, we were able to discuss with members of the two aforementioned clans about their meddling with our work, and after noting some sort of grudge in relation to Fulcrum and Marlowe, in addition to requesting an Agent that we had also detained, we left Marlowe in their hands, followed shortly by the Agent - although whether or not they got to him or not is unknown, as he was dropped off by us at Cub Foods Parking and left to his own devices.

Concluding that eventful night, we conducted a joyous debriefing and are now working on what to do next as an organization. After almost nine years, this clan still has many promising plans in the works so stay tuned.

Spoiler: 'Night of the War Dead' Media