It’s done. At long last, it’s finally done. After the last time that the Undying/Returns ET ran, I envisioned a way that I wanted to take him out the next time he came around that would, story-wise, ensure that it was permanent, but obviously he was never put back in play since then. But now, I did it, and the Arcade contract actually played into it as well, so I’m gonna describe both here.
For Arcade, obviously, I killed Faba with the pen to the eye. No mystery since it’s a requirement, but that’s what I was going to do anyway if the first Undying ET had been run, so it’s no big deal. Although, to deviate a bit here, the eyepatch could be explained by any number of assassination attempts. Being strangled causes blood vessels to burst in your eye, so being fiber wired could have caused Faba to lose the eye. Poisons can destroy all kinds of tissue, so poisoning him could have done it. Obviously, shooting him or throwing a knife at his face could have put out the eye, as well as dropping him from a great height, or dropping something on him, etc… You get it. The pen might be considered canonical, but really, anything that could damage the eye could count.
Anyway, moving onto the second and third tiers to the contract, I first used the android kill, although my impatience meant I did that one after disabling the security system, even though it’s supposed to be seen as an accident, so I actually defied the HPP on that one, but I’ll do it right in a later playthrough. The third tier, I had to knock out all the scientists and guards in the room and then I triggered the bomb on the table. So, all three methods in the room were used to kill Faba, and I counted tiers 2 and 3 as two different returns by Faba.
Then, I went and I did the actual Undying Returns ET, and it went exactly as I had envisioned for years. It was perfect. It was beyond perfect; it was glorious. And I made sure that, story-wise, he will not be coming back ever again.
I knocked out all the scientists and guards in the research room again, leaving Faba to himself. Then, I knocked out all the guards in the parking garage - the flamingo guy, the lady repairing the elevator, and the guy on his cell phone were all out of visual range of anything I was doing here, so there was no need to subdue them. I then went to the front security office and got the car bomb out of the safe. Then, I lured four NPCs from the area near the dolphin fountains down to the parking garage and subdued them: two guys who walk by the stairs leading down to it, and the security guard and the guy in the white shirt that hang around the garden area where the woodchipper is.
After all these people were knocked out and hidden, the bomb collected, and a brick picked up from inside the parking garage, I went back upstairs to the research room, and using coins I’d collected across the map during all this activity, I lured Faba downstairs to the parking garage, back out to where the dolphin fountains were, and into the garden area where the woodchipper is, turning the faucet on back here to make him turn it off again. This is when I struck.
After he turned off the faucet, I threw a coin on the ground to make him turn around in place, so that he was still standing in the water puddle formed by the faucet. I then pulled out my Silverballer and shot him once in the chest, right were the heart would be. As he clutched the wound, I then threw the brick at his head and he fell back on the ground, still in the water puddle. I then turned on the generator and electrocuted him as he lay there. Diana then gave the speech about him being dead and wiring the money, but I wasn’t done. You can probably guess where this is going, and you’re right: I placed the bomb against the wall near his head, stepped back and triggered it, blowing his body right over next to the woodchipper as I’d aimed for. I then dragged his body into the woodchipper and turned it on, mulching his body into bloody paste. I then calmly walked to the front gate of the raceway and exited.
Assuming the Undying isn’t using a body-double or cloning himself, this is how I made sure he’s gone for good. Years of fantasizing about it, and it went off without a hitch; even more than I’d envisioned, because using the car bomb was a recent development I added to the plan just a few days ago. And now it’s permanently on the record. Success!
