Back in Beyond Good & Evil, I proceeded to the upper halls of the factory, where it turned primarily into a stealth mission. The stealth system isn’t too complex or precise; I could kick a guard in the back, have him see me running away, and then 30 seconds later he’d declare that it must have been a false alarm… But, it works well enough.

I investigated an area with conveyer belts carrying boxes, and an x-ray machine revealed that there were people inside. On the way out of there, Pey’j got captured by the guards. He had given me a disc that talked about a spaceship hidden away at the lighthouse that he had been working on, and a bit more about Jade’s childhood (he was raising her after losing her parents, somehow), but I still need some codes to get to the ship.

I met Double-H again, and we helped each other out a few times as we snuck around, and it was mainly just a matter of not getting caught until reaching the final room, where there was a boss fight. It was another fairly easy one though, as Double-H and I just had to hit the legs simultaneously to knock it down and then fire a disc at the inner chamber to damage it while it was down. I wasn’t able to catch Pey’j in time though, and he got loaded into a crate and sent off to the old slaughterhouses.

I then had to escort Double-H back to the resistance hideout within a time limit, but that was easy enough. After that I earned some more pearls by doing another hovercraft race, beating a shark-guy in some kind of shuffleboard game (which was really frustrating since it felt like it depended too much on luck, and took a good half-dozen tries), and by infiltrating an Alpha Sections warehouse in the city.

I had more than enough pearls now and bought the jump kit for the hovercraft, which it was implied will be necessary for getting into the slaughterhouse, as part of an off-course excursion during the third hovercraft race, and that’s where I left off for now.