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As you go about preparing your gear and clothes, your Magifona rings softly and you pick it up. It's a message from Edgar, and you read it. "Come over to my workshop. I heard you're about to take a big mission and I could use your help with a few experiments of mine." You reply, telling him that you're just playing bodyguard and really don't need any mods for this trip.

"Good, then you'll be the perfect non-stress test subject for this set of experiments. They're for the most part non combat-oriented gear, and I want to see how they'll perform in a situation like this," he replies to your message. "Come now. I've already moved your suit to my workshop." Crap. You swear and set aside your packing before you head out to the workshop where Edgar normally does his work.

As you approach the workshop, there are a series of high-speed spinning and drilling sounds, as well as a soft female voice that catches your ear, and you break into a sprint, barging into the workshop. You're just in time to see Edgar opening your suit's panel and poking around the inner circuitry, as his tablet says, "…news, the Agartha National Museum has just recently acquired a set of unknown fragments that are…" He looks up and sees you approaching and he waves you over to him. "Oh good, you're here. Just wanted to point something out to you about how you maintain your suit."

You cut him off and ask him exactly why he has asked you to come to his workshop and what kind of experiments he wants you to do. He holds up his hand and wags his finger at you. "So impatient. It's almost as if you have something better to do than to help me with improving your suit," he says chidingly. You sigh and ask him what it is that he wants you to do exactly.

"Nothing particularly spectacular. I've come up with a series of mods that I'll need you to try out. He reaches out for his tablet and turns off the news, switching to his usual control panel, and then he hands you the tablet. The screen shows a set of four mods that are ready to be installed on your suit.

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