Classified // The Field Desk
The Directorate considers Agent 17 a "Strategic Asset." However, due to the agent's volatile genius, a "Pruning Protocol" is in place should they go rogue. This protocol involves a specialized counter-intelligence team trained specifically to anticipate Agent 17's methods.
The "Red Rose" modifier first appeared in obscure Eastern European gaming forums around 2018. Users on a now-defunct board dedicated to “abandoned spy thrillers” began posting fragments of a script titled S.I.N.: The Red Rose Directive . In this script, is a disavowed operative whose only contact method is leaving a single red rose at a dead drop.
The mission, simple in outline, felt dense as a page of small, cramped text. Deliver the rose to a safe house at dusk; do not draw attention; do not speak the code aloud. But missions are woven out of variables: a rainstorm that turns footsteps into drums, a guard who remembers a face, a child who tugs at a coat and refuses to let go. Agency taught contingency. He catalogued possibilities in the half-second before he stepped back into the alley.
Classified // The Field Desk
The Directorate considers Agent 17 a "Strategic Asset." However, due to the agent's volatile genius, a "Pruning Protocol" is in place should they go rogue. This protocol involves a specialized counter-intelligence team trained specifically to anticipate Agent 17's methods.
The "Red Rose" modifier first appeared in obscure Eastern European gaming forums around 2018. Users on a now-defunct board dedicated to “abandoned spy thrillers” began posting fragments of a script titled S.I.N.: The Red Rose Directive . In this script, is a disavowed operative whose only contact method is leaving a single red rose at a dead drop.
The mission, simple in outline, felt dense as a page of small, cramped text. Deliver the rose to a safe house at dusk; do not draw attention; do not speak the code aloud. But missions are woven out of variables: a rainstorm that turns footsteps into drums, a guard who remembers a face, a child who tugs at a coat and refuses to let go. Agency taught contingency. He catalogued possibilities in the half-second before he stepped back into the alley.