Part one: The purple beginning

Five minutes in this country and it's clear - things are about to go very bad. The UFLL and the APR are gearing up for open fighting. My mission is simple - to kill 'The Jackal' - the bastard that armed both sides.

So I take a taxi from the airport to get to a hotel. Pleasant enough ride, the nice views and driver's stories fill me in on the country's general mood. Except that in the very end I pass out from malaria.

I wake up in what might or migth not be my room in the hotel. The Jackal, the gun dealer I was sent to assassinate, is going through my stuff. Hands off, you little desert rat! Don't touch...*cough* Bloody sickness renders me helpless. My mark starts ranting about life and death. Just be silent and give me a gun if you dare, and we see who decides if you die or live. If I just could stand from this sickness... Hey, what do you know, a wall blows up, I'm not too good but I better find the strength to walk out of here or I'll be toast... The Jackal's gone, for some reason he spared me my life. Even left me with some hardware. Said something about me not being a threat... Bah! I never leave job unfinished. If a job is unfinished after me, it means I'm dead. I take a pistol and a machete my target left and wobble out of the room.

I figure I should get out and get some distance between me and the firefight, and find a place to lick my wounds. I'm in no condition to fight right now. I grab an abandoned assault rifle and jump out of a window in the backside of the building. There's noone here, great. I start advancing towards the way out of the town, but find out that a grassfire is blocking my way. I really don't want to start wandering around or go to the front side of the building where I can hear gunshots coming from. I decide to wait until the fire dies out from between me and the shortest way to safety.

Seconds feel like minutes. I'm all the time expecting someone to come and shoot me in the face. When I'm finally able to advance, I spot one hostile I hastily manage to nail. I hesitate a bit should I shoot or take cover from a second one, but figure that he only has a shotgun, it's not gonna be a problem from this distance so it should be safe to peek around the corner... except now he has at least two buddies. Maybe even more, I don't stay to find out but start running away. I get a feeling I'm gonna pass out soon again and stop to wait for it... Seems to take a bit long, I even have time to turn around and start shooting at this fellow following me from the village. Eventually I do indeed pass out again.

I wake up again in somewhere a bit darker and meet this dude who claims I owe him some errands because he lost underlings in the firefight. Duh, what did I ever do to get them killed. However, I figure it would not be too wise to start making more enemies than I absolutely need to, so I grit my teeth and do as I'm told.. for now. I arm myself and after a moment of searching find a car the lazy bum inside telss me to repair and set off to a mission he gave me.