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You decide to prove your worth to the Bureau by hunting down Pope Urban, rejecting the option of assembling a hardened band of mercenaries and/or seemingly burnt out cops you instead hunt him as a lone wolf. Tracking his trail of defiled numbers you hunt him through burnt out watchmakers and the ruins of destroyed calendar factories, always one step behind and haunted by the cryptic, mocking messages he leaves behind. You try to decipher them, grappling with what on earth ‘See you on the 134nd of Lilo’ or ‘Meet on the 19th Friday before the second leap month’ could mean, but you soon give it up realising that such studies would only lead to madness.
Finally a breakthrough, you discover Urban is heading to Belize as he wishes to study ancient Mayan ruins in an effort to ‘improve’ his calendar by incorporating his bizarre theories about the Mayan long count. You jet out to Belize and head into the jungle, finally catching up with your prey as they set up camp for the night in the ruins.
Do you,