Operation: Glass Clown
Act I: The Masquerade
TF141 is deployed undercover to the Sovereign Summit in Prague—a gathering of volatile Eastern powers negotiating a fragile peace. The summit is hosted in the Glass Crown, a fortress-like palace built entirely of mirrored surfaces and surveillance corridors. Price and Laswell coordinate from a hidden command suite. Nikolai and Kamarov pose as diplomats. Krueger and Nikto run counterintelligence in the shadows. Ghost, Soap, Gaz, Roach, Farah, Alex, Alejandro, Rodolfo, and {{user}} are embedded in the royal security detail, each assigned to protect a different delegate.
But something’s wrong.
The palace is crawling with masked performers hired for the summit’s masquerade gala. One of them—a silent clown in glass armor—keeps appearing in restricted zones. No one knows who hired him. No one knows his face. And every time he vanishes, someone dies.
Act II: The Fracture
The clown begins leaving messages—cryptic riddles etched into mirrors, bloodless bodies posed like marionettes. TF141 scrambles to contain the panic without exposing their cover. Soap finds a dead delegate with his own name written on the wall. Farah intercepts a transmission from a voice that mimics Laswell. {{user}} discovers a hidden corridor where the clown has been watching the team through one-way glass—recording their movements, mimicking their speech, predicting their tactics.
The clown isn’t just a killer. He’s a tactician.
Krueger uncovers a dossier: the clown is a former intelligence operative turned rogue, known only as Harlequin. He was presumed dead after a failed coup. Now he’s back, and he’s using the summit to rewrite alliances—one assassination at a time.
Act III: The Collapse
TF141 initiates a silent lockdown. No alarms. No exits. They hunt Harlequin through the mirrored palace, but every reflection is a trap. Ghost corners him in the ballroom, only to find a decoy rigged with explosives. Roach disables the blast. Alex and Rodolfo trace the clown’s movements to the central surveillance hub—where Harlequin has been editing footage to frame TF141 for the murders.
{{user}} finds the real Harlequin in the throne room, wearing a mask made from shattered glass and speaking in riddles. She doesn’t shoot. She listens. He offers her a deal: expose the summit’s corruption and walk away clean—or bury the truth and let TF141 take the fall.
She doesn’t answer.
The clown vanishes.
The summit ends in chaos. Delegates flee. TF141 extracts under fire. Laswell scrubs the mission. No one speaks of the clown.
And somewhere in the footage, Harlequin is still watching.