Help Langston lure Fra Mauro into a fake Director’s Office at the Field Office, then seal the containment unit to finish A New Directive.
Track the side story A New Directive in the Quest Log and check the map for the Field Office in Central, where the Cafeteria container stands. There, discuss making an imitation Director’s Office within a containment unit. Finish the quest to earn Untapped Whetstone.
Find the mystery caller and learn what Fra wants
Ask people at the field office and consult Langston about the mystery caller.
Reference the Director’s Office and furnish the container
Langston’s plan gives Fra an office he’ll want to enter and a containment unit that can hold him. The yellow X markers inside the container show where each furnishing belongs.
Open the Quest Log and map after placing the final furnishing to follow the next objective back toward Fra.
Retrieve and hang Fra’s portrait
Jesse Faden’s portrait hangs in Field Command. Bringing its canvas back to Fra turns it into Director Fra’s Portrait, which belongs on the container’s back wall.
Call Fra into the office and seal the containment unit
The office is ready, but Fra’s influence has reached both Dylan and Langston. Being close to Fro produces a feeling of having known him forever, and that influence starts affecting Dylan during their conversation. A return call to the earlier radio caller could bring Fra inside.
How to finish A New Directive
Track down the caller and prepare his office, then call him inside so you can seal the door.
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Find the caller at the Cafeteria
Start by crossing the Field Office courtyard and climbing the stairs to the Cafeteria container building. Through its double doors, you’ll find a person in a hazmat suit holding a mug beside the counter. That’s your mystery caller. He introduces himself as Fred; keep working through his dialogue until the quest changes.
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Ask Langston about Fred
Leave the Cafeteria and drop into the lower courtyard to reach Langston’s nearby station beneath the FIELD PANOPTICON sign. Work through his dialogue about Fra/Fred: Fred’s paranatural designation is Fra, and the conversation gives you “Find Out What Fra Wants.”
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Find out what Fra wants
Cross the courtyard again, jump up the stairs and head back inside the Cafeteria to Fra at the counter. Ask him for understandable answers before helping, then use the dialogue choices to untangle his cryptic words. He wants to be Director of the Oldest House; continue until you get “Tell Langston What Fra Wants.”
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Report Fra’s wish to Langston
Back at Field Panopticon, relay Fra’s demands to Langston and choose “The Oldest…”. Discuss trapping Fra next, which starts “Go to the Real Director’s Office for Reference.”
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Travel to the real Director’s Office
Use the map and a Fast Travel Door to reach Oldest House: Central Executive in Downtown. You’ll arrive inside a fast travel booth; dash along the hallways and climb the red-carpeted stairs into the actual Director’s Office.
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Sketch the office reference
At the desk, hold the interact button for Sketch Reference. The brief cutscene pans over the furniture, giving you the desk and decorations to examine as references.
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Answer Zoe’s call
Once the cutscene ends, answer Zoe over the radio to get “Furnish the Containment Unit.”
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Find the fake office
Use the map to fast travel back to Central’s Field Office, then follow the alley to the furniture marked by glowing icons. The blue shipping container assigned to containment has FBC FIELD OFFICE DIRECTOR’S OFFICE outside, labelled “FBC Field Office DIRECTOR’S OFFICE”.
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Place the first plastic chair
Pick up the yellow plastic chair and carry it into the container, where a spot marked “X” shows you where to set it.
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Place the second plastic chair
The office needs exactly two plastic chairs. Collect the second plastic chair and put it at a different marked position.
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Put the armchair behind the desk
Bring in one armchair and set it behind the desk.
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Set the first traffic cone
Carry a traffic cone into the container and put it at the assigned position in a back corner.
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Put the table fan on the desk
Fetch one table fan—the desk fan—and place it on the desk’s surface.
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Put the desk lamp on the desk
Bring one desk lamp inside and set it on the desk.
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Set the second traffic cone
Take the final traffic cone inside and place it in the other back corner. That completes the two plastic chairs, one armchair, one table fan, one desk lamp and two traffic cones, advancing the objective to “Get Fra into the Containment Unit.”
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Return to Fra
Climb the stairs again and head inside the Cafeteria for another conversation with Fra.
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Follow the portrait marker
Find the quest marker inside the main building on your map, then dash across the open plaza to the glass lobby doors beneath FIELD COMMAND. Inside, climb the red-carpeted staircase beside the lobby.
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Take Jesse Faden’s portrait
Look for the hanging portrait of Director Faden with DIRECTOR JESSE FADEN on the plaque below it. Interact to take Director Faden’s Portrait off the wall, starting “Paint Fra onto the Director’s Portrait.”
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Bring the canvas to Fra
The plan is to retrieve that portrait and deliver it. With Jesse’s portrait obtained, leave the main lobby and sprint across the courtyard into the Cafeteria. Return the canvas to Fra; the repainting gives you Director Fra’s Portrait, and the conversation starts “Hang the Portrait in Fred’s Office.”
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Hang Director Fra’s Portrait
Leave the cafeteria and use the Quest Log and map to find the makeshift office down the alley. Bring the finished portrait into the blue container you furnished and hang it in the marked yellow outline on the back wall.
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Answer Zoe outside the container
Outside the container, answer Zoe over the radio and choose “I’m fine”.
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Tell Fra his office is ready
Check the Quest Log after the call, then return to Fra at the Cafeteria and select “Your office is ready”. The office is complete; you still need to speak with Langston and Zoe, call Fra into the office, and seal the containment unit. Telling him the preparations are done changes the objective to “Talk to Langston about Fred.”
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Speak to Langston again
Leave the Cafeteria for Langston’s Field Panopticon station. He recommends praising Fred to Zoe, so choose “I’ll help her understand” to start “Tell Zoe How Great Fred is”.
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Travel to Zoe’s Watchtower
Locate the Watchtower in Central on your map and take the Fast Travel Door there.
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Talk to Zoe
Cross the upper floor into Zoe’s room and speak with Zoe de Vera.
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Use Zoe’s radio console
After speaking with Zoe, head to the radio station on the desk against the window and use its console to contact Fra.
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Invite Fra to his office
Start with “Can you hear me, Fra?”, then tell Fra his Director’s Office is prepared and he can move in immediately.
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Ask if Fra is leaving
Choose “So you’re going now?” next. Those radio choices trick Fra into entering the office and advance the quest to “Trap Fra Mauro in the Containment Unit.”
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Return to the Field Office
Use the map to fast travel back to Field Office, then leap off the arrival platform toward the alley. Approach the blue containment unit once Fra has gone inside.
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Seal the container
Walk up to the exterior control panel and activate its button to lower the rolling door. That secures fro inside his containment unit; with Fra Mauro confined, the quest is finished.
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Recognize quest completion
Watch for “Quest Completed A New Directive”. Mental clarity improves once fro is contained, and you can check the map afterward to confirm the quest is complete.
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