Date and Time: July 500 (3 months before the disappearance of District 23) 32 hours after assassination of Maximus Caesar; 01:00 local

Location: Grand Harbour

The Imperial capital, Grand Harbour. Not exactly the best place to be after assassinating the Monarch. Imperial Guards and police are out in force and the city is on lock down as well; no traffic is allowed in or out of the city, the train station and airport are closed, and all the canals now have nets and chains to restrict boat traffic. Getting out and into Vince City will not be easy. You've been holed up in the safehouse in Grand Harbour for the last day. Getting into Grand Harbour was easy enough with the "borrowed" police boat, but with the city cut off from the rest of the world, getting out will be tricky. Luckily, the authorities have absolutely no idea who they're looking for and are still questioning that sniper you framed the assassination on.

There are a few possible ways to get out of Grand Harbour. The first option involves swimming your way out by using the city's canals. Equipped with a re-breather and a diver propulsion vehicle, you just might be able to out fox the guards and police and slip out from Grand Harbour. However, it will be complicated with all the underwater nets and chains blocking your path. Also surface patrols have been doubled and will not hesitate to drop grenades on you and kill you on sight. To further complicate matters, as you're underwater most of the time and escaping will rely heavily on stealth, you will have no weapons of any kind but your knife. But with the cover of darkness you can make your way to the locks and get onto a waiting boat that will take you to Vince City.

The other option is to run the police and guard's blockade on foot. By using that stolen police uniform of yours, you might be able to give the police and possibly a few guards the slip before you get caught for suspicious activities. However, if you're careful and watch your steps, you can make it out to Vince City in one piece. Remember, the train station, airport, and canals are shut down and road traffic in and out of the city is now privy to the guards and police checkpoints. A car is available for your disposal and use.

A third option does exist: waiting it out. By allowing the search to wear out, you can make your escape easier once they reopen the boarders. You are confident that the search parties won't be able to find the safe house, and since they don't know who they're looking for, you can lie in wait at the safe house until the lockdown is lifted. But, there's a catch: by wasting valuable time waiting for the lockdown to end, the other 9 conspirators have a chance to go into seclusion themselves. Right now, 3 of the conspirator's locations are known but that can change at any moment. To make matters worse, they know that they're next and all of them might as well be packing up and moving to safe houses of their own.

There is an optional assassination. Felix Septimus; a known conspirator of the assassination of Quintus Caesar and leading member of the senate, is living in Grand Harbour in a small apartment not too far from the safe house. Killing him will do much to assist Antonius in his enthronement. Cold hearted, but a necessity as he is the one who instigated the lock down and search for you in the first place. His death will ease Antonius' own ascension to the throne as senate confirmation is needed to legally recognize Antonius' claim and ascension and Felix Septimus has been adamant against Antonius' claim. However, choosing this option will prevent you from escaping Grand Harbour and will not guarantee the lifting of the lock down, so you'll also be going back to waiting it out. Also, since the only way in and out of Felix's apartment is to scale it from the outside, the authorities will be closer to finding out who to look for now and you will be attracting a lot of attention just by scaling the apartment.

The choice is yours to make.