No.2 Inc: Mission One

By Nathan Herzog and Annalisa Parent

Kate Taylor is a protagonist assistant working at No.2 Inc. When her employer's equipment goes missing, it's Kate's mission to retrieve it. It reappears at a comic convention where the situation becomes far more complex. Kate reaches out to conference attendees to help her gather information about the location and people involved so she can plan her retrieval. But she also learns she's not the only one after this equipment, and nothing goes quite according to plan.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Apologue Co.
• Release date: Dec 4, 2014
• ISBN: 9780990459248

Nathan Herzog

Nathan Scott Herzog loves stories wherever he can find them. He's a storyteller of many varieties, the founder of Story|Hack Media and Apologue, and all around geek. He lives in Vermont.

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No.2 Inc: Mission One

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Nathan Scott Herzog

Annalisa Parent

Published by Apologue Co. at Smashwords

Copyright 2014 Nathan Scott Herzog

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Disclaimer

No.2 Inc: Mission One was produced by Apologue Co. as a live action, two day interactive story that was performed at the North East Comic-Con on December 6-7, 2014. That story was told using Twitter, live action cosplay, participating vendors, and of course, participating conference attendees. This story you are about to enjoy is about the same characters in the same universe, overlapping with the plot of that live action story. The characters portrayed in this story are entirely fictional and while they reference the original convention, any references to real people, businesses, events present during that convention are entirely coincidental.

Contents

License Notes

Disclaimer

Introduction

No.2 Inc: Mission One

Thanks

Credits

About

Introduction

I’ve heard this story before, you might think. It’s possible, although not this specific story and not as a book. Kate’s first mission was initially told at the North East Comic-Con on December 6th and 7th, 2014, the same convention that appears in this story. Assisted by conference attendees, venders, cosplayers and leaked predominately on Twitter, Kate’s first mission was created for the pleasure of the Con attendees. This story you’re about to enjoy refers to some of what happened there at the Con, but also the events that happened prior to and after that convention. If you missed the Con, you can find highlights of the live action story at http://apologue.co

No.2 Inc: Mission One

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So this is super hero work, Kate thought, then quickly corrected herself. Protagonist. Hero was sexist. Super was elitist. Work didn’t begin to describe it. It almost made her want her old job as executive assistant back. Those requests on her time at least made some kind of sense.

Almost. She scanned the crooked rooflines running down the empty alley for the one abandoned grappling cable. Supposedly the cable was within seventy feet of her location, or so her phone said. She slipped it from her pocket and checked the screen again. If the cable had been cut, the hook could be anywhere up there. She needed a way up to the roof. The nearest fire escape landing had its ladder retracted, a good twenty feet above her. She put her phone away and started mapping her route up the brick wall. Dumpster to doorframe. Doorframe to trim. Trim to window ledge. Shimmy the ledge around the edifice. Up the corner. Turn and grab the railing. Haul herself up on the landing. After that the trip to the roof was all stairs and ladders. Assuming she wasn’t seen.

She began the scramble up the wall, grateful her friend had talked her into joining the climbing gym all those months ago. She carried only a small backpack to stow