He impresses upon the mercenaries the importance of stopping them and their leader, millionaire David Graves, which they do. Ultimately, he uncovers and explains the Brotherhood's mission, to retrieve the Spear of Destiny and use it to kill Jackie and become all-powerful. There, Johnny deciphers the various clues they find and guides them remotely on their assaults on the Brotherhood and their underlings. Unbeknownst to Johnny, Jackie would confirm both warnings firsthand by the end of the game.ĭuring the Vendettas campaign, Jackie hires the Darkness mercenaries to save Johnny from a group of thugs and bring him to the mansion. Johnny tells Jackie he can't let the Darkness nor the Brotherhood have the Siphon, or else "we are all fucked." The player also has the option of questioning Johnny further about the Siphon and Angelus, in which Jackie will come to understand that the Siphon could truly kill him and send him straight to Hell, and that "one day this broad’s gonna show up wantin' to kill him". But what worries him is that he could tell just by looking at the Prism that the Angelus never even touched it, which begged the question, "Where the fuck is she?"Īfter Jackie returns from the Brotherhood's attack on Sarah's funeral, he tells Johnny he's going to a place called Hellgate Field at the old Boardwalk in Astoria to stop the Brotherhood for good, despite agreeing with Johnny that it was a trap. He explains it was made by the Brotherhood to contain the Angelus as the Siphon could contain the Darkness, and was previously thought to be responsible for her disappearance during WWII. He also expresses particular concern over the last relic he finds, the Prism of the Brothers, which he is still somehow able to narrate despite Jackie being trapped in Hell when he found it. He takes particular interest in The Abysmal Maw, a Darkness cannon which he admits could send even Mother Teresa straight to Hell. Throughout the course of the game, Johnny will also provide exposition on the various Darkness relics Jackie finds. He's the first to tell Jackie his Aunt Sarah is dead. After discovering who set up the attack at the restaurant, Johnny then provides a lead to the Brotherhood's location at a nearby brothel. After Jackie heals his fatal wounds sustained from the Brotherhood attacking his home, he wakes back in the library of his home with Johnny explaining that he had been unconscious for four days, and that the Franchetti enforcers drove the Brotherhood off before they could make off with Jackie's body. Johnny explains that Jackie is being pursued by a secret society called the Brotherhood who seek the Darkness' powers for themselves using the Siphon, an object created to contain the Darkness by an entity known as the Angelus, which is the Darkness' female counterpart. Realizing this, he fled without Estacado's knowledge, and has been essentially homeless ever since.Įventually Jackie uses his men to find and bring Johnny to his penthouse suite. However, spending all this quality time with a bearer of The Darkness only worsened Johnny's affliction. Eventually, with Powell's help, Jackie was able the bottle up The Darkness, more or less. Johnny explained the role of Dark Essence, and how it could be harnessed from the relics. From there, his lifestyle degenerated from that of a promising (if obsessive) student to one of a muttering, semi-coherent junkie.ĭuring a period when he was still somewhat functional, Jackie Estacado sought Powell's assistance in dealing with his internal battle with The Darkness. The Essence that was left behind on the relics Johnny was studying proved to be something of a narcotic for him, and he quickly found himself addicted to it. The objects Johnny researched were tinged with Dark Essence, a substance that clings to objects and people who have come into contact with The Darkness. However, he ended up discovering that the mythology surrounding these artifacts was all true, and that they all pointed to The Darkness. He kept himself busy studying ancient relics that were shrouded in dark (and even fantastical) histories, and which were purportedly connected to some of the most infamous figures from antiquity. As a graduate student, Johnny Powell became an unparalleled expert on the world of mystical power and magic.
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